Suspended National Guardsman: "I was JOKING about woman-bashing, Hitler & racism!"

[Bluebear]

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 23 — The personal assistant of the top general in the California National Guard has been placed on leave after revelations that the aide’s personal Web site contained derogatory statements about women, jokes about black Jamaicans as “cannibals,” and violent references.

The assistant, Senior Airman Travis Gruber, who acted as the driver to Maj. General William H. Wade II, the guard’s adjutant general, maintained the Web site www.howtokillpeople.com. The suspension was first reported in The Contra Costa Times. Lt. Col. Jon Siepmann, a spokesman for the Guard, said that Airman Gruber, 27, had been placed on paid administrative leave on Wednesday, pending an investigation. He added that Airman Gruber had been warned about his Web site last summer. “He was counseled on the impact of perceptions and the potential negative perceptions from posting these things,” Colonel Siepmann said.

The site includes off-color commentary and postings like the 50 worst comic book characters. (Airman Gruber is not fond of Superman). But the site sometimes dips into more offensive territory. “Everyone on earth needs to die,” reads a satirical letter addressed to the singer Sheryl Crow. “That’s really the only option. If you think about it Hitler probably wasn’t a genocidal maniac. He was probably a staunch conservationist who realized that people were the greatest threat to our world — not terrorism or the erosion of civil liberties.”

In a section about his honeymoon in Jamaica, there is a picture of a man carrying a rifle pointed at three black men in tribal attire. “You cannibals won’t be ruining my honeymoon,” the caption reads. In another post, Mr. Gruber, a state employee, insults Maria Shriver, wife of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, calling her mouth a “gaping maw.”

On the Web site on Thursday, Airman Gruber apologized for embarrassing the guard, saying his postings were meant to be funny. “In no way, shape or form do I condone acts of violence or aggression,” he wrote. Reached by e-mail, Airman Gruber said: “The opinions and views, including those that are controversial (i.e. woman bashing, over the top violence et. al.), are meant to be so satirical and over the top that one would be hard pressed to take them seriously. It’s meant to be funny and sarcastic and a forum to vent.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/24/us/24guard.html?ref=us

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

1. Translation:

"I am a complete moron with the social skills of an amoeba, only worse."

"Oh, and I fight terrorism by driving lardbutt Generals around and brown-nosing them. The General taught me every thing I know."

[Squatch]

4. I don't think this TAG is a lardbutt...

(TAG=The Adjutant General...highest ranking NG person in any given state)



General Wade’s federal awards and decorations include the Legion of Merit (with 1 Bronze Oak Leaf Cluster), Meritorious Service Medal (with 3 Bronze Oak Leaf Clusters), Army Commendation Medal (with 1 Silver Oak Leaf Cluster and 1 Bronze Oak Leaf Cluster), Army Achievement Medal (with 3 Bronze Oak Leaf Clusters), Army Reserve Components Achievement Medal (with 1 Silver and 3 Bronze Oak Leaf Clusters), National Defense Service Medal (with 2 Bronze Stars), Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal, Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, Korean Defense Service Medal, Kosovo Campaign Medal, Humanitarian Service Medal (with 1 Silver Star), Military Outstanding Volunteer Service Medal, Armed Forces Reserve Medal (with 2 Hourglasses and M2 device), Army Service Ribbon, Army Reserve Components Overseas Training Ribbon (with Numeral “3”), Army National Guard Master Recruiter Badge.

General Wade’s foreign decorations include the Italian Ministry of Defense Peacekeeping Cross, the French Ministry of Defense Ex-Yugoslavia Peacekeeping Medal, the NATO Medal, and the Silver Award of the German Schutzenschnur Badge.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

2. Lighten Up!!

Another Mitt/Rush/Coulter defense.

"Just funnin!"

"I'm only an entertainer"

Bottom line for you Travis: YOUR ASS GOT CAUGHT.

You just figured you were untouchable. Which, knowing your Corruptor-In-Chief, may be the case.

[Kadie]

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[Bluebear]

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[ComerPerro]

6. in his defense, it does seem like very poorly written satire

that isn't to say that this guy is perfectly fine. His views are completely skewed and extremely fucked up. But they are pretty typical of a RW jackass, especially the "conservationists are Hitler" part.

He sounds more like a dumbass anti-liberal type than anything else. Maybe he can get a job writing for South Park