Girl got death threats, fired, for questioning national religion in facebook comment

[vacuum]

LINK (https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=547862298601727&set=a.270760379645255.77938.270251833029443&type=1&theater)





Manhattan Woman Threatened And Fired For Comments On Facebook

by Shawn Wheat (http://www.wibwnewsnow.com/author/shawn-wheat/) on September 26, 2013 at 2:30 pm

A Manhattan woman says she is standing by her comments she made on Facebook, even though she has received death threats and was fired from her job.
Meagan May posted on her Facebook page on September 23rd, a comment saying:
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Now May says that comment has generated over 10,000 comments on her page, been shared over 2,800 times, she’s received phone calls and even death threats. But she says she will not take down the post.
“I’m gonna let people know that I can post what I want on my Facebook. That’s the entire point of Facebook, and if they don’t like it, they don’t have to look at it. I’m not hurting anybody and I guess what I said may have been rude and that wasn’t my intention but I’m not doing anything wrong by posting on my Facebook.”
May tells WIBW NewsNow that she made the comment because she believes that soldiers received too much special treatment, especially at her former job at Carmike Cinemas.
Now that comment generated so much reaction, she says Carmike Cinemas fired her. They even posted on her original comment:
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May says she was a manager at the theater and was promoted to that position only a week before her termination.
Aside from being fired from her job, some of the comments made on her page include death threats, what she calls lies about her personal life, and even comments about her daughter.
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—-NEW Comments To Her Page —–
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“She’s a baby, and they’re words. Hopefully by the time she’s older this whole thing will have blown over or she won’t be held responsible for what I said.”
Some have gone as far as to call her cell phone, but overall she says she doesn’t care what people think of her.
“The world’s opinion of me is nothing, and I guess that’s another point I’ve been trying to make to everybody. This whole thing is hilarious that they think I care that they call me mean names.”
Some have even come to her defense:
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May says she will continue to post her opinion on her Facebook page.

Posted in Manhattan (http://www.wibwnewsnow.com/category/headlines/manhattan-local-news/)

[Norweger]

Dumbest thing i see is when people tell others to thank their relative for being a marine etc. "Thank him for his service from me", Bumper stickers that say "support our troops" and that sort.

No other country in the world is as blind in their worship of their soldiers as America.

Yes, thank your relative for taking part in the criminal activity that the US military is conducting all over the world.

[iOWNme]

So there is actually 1 person on Facebook who hasnt had their brains completely sucked out of them? Amazing!

[osoab]

So there is actually 1 person on Facebook who hasnt had their brains completely sucked out of them? Amazing!




She probably watches "Honey Boo Boo" religiously.

[Twisted Titan]

War is when the government tells you who the enemy is.

Revolution is when you figure it out for yourself.

[madfranks]

Questioning the national religion is exactly right! Her only mistake was expecting anything less than what she got.

"Protecting our great freedoms", what a load of horse manure.

[mick silver]

one need to watch what they say anymore , time is closing the door on what one can say .

[mamboni]

War is when the government tells you who the enemy is.

Revolution is when you figure it out for yourself.

I nominate this for Quote of the Month. Ponce is going to be green with envy when he reads this. LOL

[gunny highway]

She is exactly right. That's what I've been wanting to say for a long time but feared the backlash that obviously comes with it. Facebook is rife with mindless troop supporters, constantly flapping their gums as if they're in a contest to see who is the most supportive. The ironic thing is the most they've every done in support of the troops is open their ignorant mouths and paste bumper stickers on their cars. Two of the most overused empty gestures I know of. I have a hard time describing the feeling I get when I hear or read someone "supporting the troops", especially like the ones in the OP. It's a combination of nausea, butterflies, uneasiness and disgust. There's probably a few other sensations in there but I haven't determined what they are. They are as unquestioning of the "troops" (read as foreign policy) as they are of the god they worship. Nobody thinks anymore. What amounts to thinking nowadays is a combination of reaction and regurgitation.

[Serpo]

Time to............... STOP SUPPORTING THE TROOPS

[ximmy]

Stop supporting the war pigs and the troops will stay home.

I see them marching off to war,
They're looking so heroic
I'm told they won't be gone for long,
But that's a lie and they know it
Ten thousand gone, they won't return,
Never to be seen again
Strategic games are all we learn,
In the ends, well they say...

Don't you worry about the situation,
(A message from the telephone)
They're out there fighting for the state of the nation,
(And waiting for the chance to come home)
They're always off to fight the allied nation,
(And realise they're fighting alone)

When nights smear memories fade to dust,
We'll get back on our feet again
This war has nothing to do with us,
But somehow we're so involved in it


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noS1viHX6zA

[Spectrism]

War is when the government tells you who the enemy is.

Revolution is when you figure it out for yourself.


That is VERY good. Di you originate that?

[VX1]

5412

Hell, that's my permanent FB avator.

[BrewTech]

As for this guy "Robert" that supposedly came to her defense (yeah right)...

In other countries I've been to they would have publicly executed (sic)
Sounds to me like all these facebook assholes would be totally OK with this girl's public execution, and I doubt it stops at facebook. So tell me again, Robert, how Amurika so different?

Gotta love irony, and the hypocrisy of the typical American coward.

[goldleaf]

Everyone that pays taxes is supporting the troops wether they like it or not.