Arrest Me
The sticker in question.
Afishionados,
While driving home from a bookstore today, a red Pontiac Grand Prix raced up beside me and wanted me to roll down the window.
After doing so, a man with a shaved head asks:
“Are you in the military?”
“Yea, what of it?”
“Do you realize that you’re breaking the law?”, he says.
“Ummm… no?” I wasn’t speeding. All my tail lights worked. My registration on my plates was current. What was this guy talking about?
Baldy replies, “That sticker on your car. You can’t have it on your car. Are you in the military?”
I thought we had gone over this? Did you not hear me the first time? And then I saw it. An Army sticker. Clearly I was dealing with a moron.
“Well if he wasn’t such an asshole maybe I wouldn’t have to put stickers like that on my car.”
“You better pray that your commander doesn’t ever see it,” he threatens.
Laughing at him, I reply, “Yea, thanks, I’ll pray. Fuck you.”
My only regret is that he couldn’t drive behind me longer, so that he could read my other sticker, too.
March 4th, 2007 at 6:43 pm
Let yer cmmander see it.
Th punishment cant be no werse than it woud be for, say, havin a jelly donut in yer footlockr.
March 4th, 2007 at 9:30 pm
If you’d been wearing your TCA - The Movie t-shirt, he would’ve thought twice about mouthing off.
March 4th, 2007 at 9:50 pm
Ok…I don’t get it. I’m not American. What does the sticker mean? And why would he care?
March 4th, 2007 at 10:41 pm
Is it ‘Join the Armed Forces, See the World, Give Up your Right to Free Speech’? Kinda catchy.
March 5th, 2007 at 8:05 am
I didn’t realize that you weren’t allowed to form your own opinion once you joined the military. They never mention that in the commercials.
March 6th, 2007 at 5:12 pm
Let me break out my trusty MAA cap for a minute and educate:
He was truly a moron. Art. 88 of the UCMJ is what he was getting at and last time I checked, you weren’t commissioned. The wording explicitly states that a “..commissioned officer makes disparaging remarks against an elected official.” I had this argument out with a chief one time and it did not reassure me that he was trusted with such important decisions. Someone might try and stick you with Art. 134, in which case I would ask for JAG representative at your DRB so everyone in your chain would look like a complete fucking idiot.
In other words, don’t publicly talk shit about a superior in your chain. Yay! You’re not going to the brig!
March 6th, 2007 at 6:31 pm
U some damn commie? PB (pussy bush)is the CIC. what the f* dude. be in US in a week. To the aussie, W with slash means f* Bush
March 7th, 2007 at 10:29 am
You give up freedom of speech when you join the military? Great gads of mole testicles!!!!
What the fuck are you fighting for?
I can dance naked on the street while screaming “Bush is clusterfuck” but some poor marine in Iraq can’t yell “Bush is cunt?”
I need to call my congressman.
This is wrong
March 8th, 2007 at 7:41 am
I think you should be hanged for your dirty, traitorous sticker! I *heart* Bush!
March 10th, 2007 at 12:42 pm
That scathing sticker is an affront to perfectly nice letter W’s everywhere. How dare you impugn the reputation of letter W. I’m sending out my XYZ force to kick your ass and defend W’s honour.
March 24th, 2007 at 12:08 pm
Gives the letter W a bad name. I like that.
I think the way it works is that you can voice your opinion as long as you aren’t doing it as from your position in the service (ie: as RC21 WCS on CVN-72). Even ET2 Billybob is fine, just not your job title, whatever it may be. At least that’s what they put out at NAVLEAD. It kind of applies more toward written stuff, so I’m not sure how they’d enforce it for speech anyway.
Should have asked the idiot what his asvab score was.
May 26th, 2007 at 10:53 pm
If you can’t have that on your car, what are you fighting for in the first place?
I’m trying to make some kind of joke about my civil rights and such, but this depresses me too much too much to think of a good one..