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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThis is NOT cosplay. These people really think they're protecting a Marine recruitment center.
http://wonkette.com/591956/military-recruiters-not-thrilled-with-militia-protecting-them-by-accidentally-shooting-stuff
Response to RandySF (Original post)
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marym625
(17,997 posts)herding cats
(19,569 posts)Just because they deny it, doesn't make it not so. Just because it's bad, doesn't make it not so. That's people wearing costumes to play a character. Just because the character is from their imagination and not a movie, comic book or video game doesn't make it not cosplay.
signed, a veteran at cosplay.
Beartracks
(12,822 posts)For example, ALL the responsible army babes in B movies wear body armor with bikini bottoms. Maybe the woman in the photo actually thinks that's how military women go into combat.
This is definitely cosplay.
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CTyankee
(63,914 posts)JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,375 posts)... like handing her an AK47, putting on your best camo-kilt or flag-pajamas, and spending the day in the hot sun outside a recruiting office in a strip mall.
Barry White, take a lesson!
villager
(26,001 posts)Only, unlike at Comic Con, say, no one's around to check weapons.
beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)Saw it on the local news.
The ones above are just the most...interesting.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)fashion flare! A stars and stripes PJs, combat boots, we think, and an AR-15 while on an electric wheelchair.
That looks like well, any hardened combat superhero you have ever seen.
for those who will surely need it.
Oh and the other two, one escaped from Braveheart. He should have painted his face... and the young lady... well, that bulletproof vest looks so spiffy. She probably does not realize why people wear full BDUs... you think she is Marine Material?
ThoughtCriminal
(14,050 posts)Somebody needs to get him a mask and Gadsden Flag cape!
KentuckyWoman
(6,697 posts)Someone has to keep our military save from the asphalt.....
csziggy
(34,139 posts)by USMC Life
AR-15
Lancaster police confiscated Christopher Reeds AR-15 after he accidentally shot it in front of a military recruiting center.
LANCASTER, OH: Many military leaders seemed like they knew this would happen. A armed man stepped up, volunteering to guard a U.S. Armed Forces Recruiting Center on Thursday. He fired a shot accidentally from his weapon just after noon, according to Lancaster police.
<SNIP>
Reed stated in an interview with the paper, I was out here and was talking to a guy who wanted to look at my AR-15. I was trying to clear the weapon and hand it over to him when it went off. I thought it was empty and must have missed it.
The article also stated he was pointing the weapon at the ground when the shot was fired, and according to the police report, the only damage done was a hole in the pavement.
Listen, it was a mistake. No one was injured and I owned up to it immediately with the police, Reed said. Im glad no one was hurt. I am willing to take the punishment, the newspaper reported.
More: http://usmclife.com/2015/07/civilian-guarding-military-recruitment-center-accidentally-fired-his-gun-while-showing-it-off/
neverforget
(9,437 posts)and sign some papers.
Control-Z
(15,682 posts)Response to neverforget (Reply #7)
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Scuba
(53,475 posts)renegade000
(2,301 posts)If they were really serious about wanting to protect the military, they'd all be signing up to try to be MPs.
truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)Or I hope they do.
valerief
(53,235 posts)C Moon
(12,225 posts)than to be sitting idle with those nuts.
Tom_Foolery
(4,691 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)SidDithers
(44,228 posts)Sid
MisterP
(23,730 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)What a friggen crazy place we have become.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)You can get a rifle without a background check......thus pointing out even more of the problem.
kristopher
(29,798 posts)Talk about literally trying to "wrap yourself in the flag"....
This is from a Congressional Research Service (CRS) report on the "The United States Flag: Federal Law Relating to Display and Associated Questions" published in 2008. It covers both custom and law with references and analysis.
Pg CRS13-14
Use of the Flag in Jewelry, Commercial Products, Wearing Apparel, and Advertising
The Flag Code addresses the impropriety of using the flag as an article of personal adornment, a design on items of temporary use, and item of clothing.48 The evident purpose of these suggested restraints is to limit the commercial or common usage of the flag and, thus, maintain its dignity. The 1976 amendments to the Code recognized the wearing of a flag patch or pin on the left side (near the heart) of uniforms of military personnel, firemen, policemen, and members of patriotic organizations.49 The Code also states that the flag should never be used for advertising purposes in any manner whatsoever.50
While wearing the colors may be in poor taste and offensive to many, it is important to remember that the Flag Code is intended as a guide to be followed on a purely voluntary basis to insure proper respect for the flag. It is, at least, questionable whether statutes placing civil or criminal penalties on the wearing of clothing bearing or resembling a flag could be constitutionally enforced in light of Supreme Court decisions in the area of flag desecration.51
In the past, the Supreme Court has held that states may restrict use of pictures of the flag on commercial products.52 There is a federal criminal prohibition on the use of the flag for advertising purposes in the District of Columbia.53 While commercial speech does not receive the full protection of the First Amendment,54 the status of these statutes and cases can not be taken for granted in light of Eichman and Johnson.
http://www.senate.gov/reference/resources/pdf/RL30243.pdf
Their view of patriotism is one I have never and will comprehend. I think we need to mandate universal service, if only for the basic civics lessons that go along with it.
lovemydog
(11,833 posts)'I'm smarter than these morons!'
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)"Where's PETA when you need them?"
MrModerate
(9,753 posts)"Are you yanks crazy?"
I've generally said, "no, only some of us."
However, these days, that answer just isn't working anymore.
I may go back to identifying myself as Canadian, like I did during the Bush years.
Violet_Crumble
(35,980 posts)And then he got doubly offended when I told him they all sound the same to me and spent the rest of the drive from Hamilton to Auckland with him making jokes about Australians...
Hey, do you get to vote in the primaries or just in the big one? Do you have to go to a consulate to vote or do you get to mail it or something?
MrModerate
(9,753 posts)And it depends on how they put the ballot together whether I can vote in (what was previously) my local jurisdiction or just for statewide/federal offices.
However, my last US address was Texas, and given the preponderance of left-of-center voters among expatriates, I'm far from sure that the election board doesn't just shred my absentee ballot.
Or open it, read it, and then bin it.
I keep sending 'em in, though I haven't missed an election in the last 40 years, even though I've been out of the country for two-thirds of that time.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)But these people are just stupid, and apparently have nothing to do with themselves all day.
Curious as to why the military is allowing this.
Violet_Crumble
(35,980 posts)Are those guns real? If so, holy fuck! If that was here, they'd get arrested...
Ilsa
(61,709 posts)Dressing up as a favorite character, frequently Sci-fi.
Takket
(21,657 posts)cwydro
(51,308 posts)I'm so behind the times lol.
druidity33
(6,450 posts)NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)Now when he bends over, you can see his....
B Calm
(28,762 posts)wcmagumba
(2,892 posts)Last edited Sat Jul 25, 2015, 12:48 PM - Edit history (1)
B Calm
(28,762 posts)MineralMan
(146,341 posts)The Marines would give them real war weapons and teach them how to use them. Buncha morons!
The only effect that they have on that office is to keep people from going in to inquire about enlisting. I wouldn't go anywhere near that bunch of wackos.
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)petronius
(26,607 posts)(The video plays, but for me at least an ad ran over it at first, I had to pause until the ad completed.)
Seems to be Bellevue, WA...
truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)I thought the military needed to be defended against, not defended. You know, Jade Helm 15 and all.
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It is all so confusing. I can't keep up.
Is that a kilt?
Tom_Foolery
(4,691 posts)LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)She's sitting in an office chair.
Tom_Foolery
(4,691 posts)LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)malaise
(269,239 posts)In fact I'd tell them to sign up or get the fugg off the property
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)is Braveheart meets Beetle Bailey, the one in the middle is Nappy Time for Uncle Sam (on a motorized wheelchair???) and the woman is nekkid Ninja Turtle. The dog is waiting for rescue.
Edit: Actually this could surprisingly be very shrewd thinking on their part. The terrorists will die laughing.
CTyankee
(63,914 posts)onethatcares
(16,204 posts)If you ever get around to taking away the guns, please start with these loonies.
Sincerely,
Onethatcares
Logical
(22,457 posts)Charles de Gaudless
(102 posts)gademocrat7
(10,679 posts)Poor dog...trapped with gun nuts.
Ernesto
(5,077 posts)when I was in Vietnam?
Generic Brad
(14,276 posts)That's because there are apparently so very few. This crew certainly doesn't qualify.
Beartracks
(12,822 posts)That would make it interesting.
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hifiguy
(33,688 posts)This kind of abject, brain-dead, cement-headed stupidity is something the earth has never seen before.
That guy in the middle should be immediately institutionalized on the basis of his attire alone.
ladyVet
(1,587 posts)Those of us who actually signed up and put our asses on the line are being mocked by bozos in clown suits. Why doesn't a Marine run these morans off? This is seriously fucked up shit.
KentuckyWoman
(6,697 posts)Someone needs to hammer into their stupid egotistical noggins that this is rude and insulting. We point at laugh but you are absolutely correct.
Even so, I think they intend the insult not to the soldiers but only to the Commander in Chief (aka that illegal Kenyan terrorist just waiting to grab their guns and turn them gay).
suffragette
(12,232 posts)protest in Seattle with his weapon.
Seems like he's seeking out media attention whenever he can.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=6606147