National Guardsman suspended over personal website The personal assistant to California National Guard's commanding officer was "placed on leave" on Wednesday pending a probe into the content of his personal website howtokillpeople.com. According to the Contra Costa Times, Senior Airman Travis Gruber of Sacramento - who's been Major Gen. William Wade's aide for a year - didn't …
So a journalist misrepresents someones comments and makes a news story out of it. Same old same old.
Was a really good website, very funny.
Sad that the more and more of this that happens, the more and more the web becomes this homogeneous 'safe place' and you get the feeling like walking around the supermarket after it has driven all the corner shops and boutiques out of business.
In the article it quotes him saying:
"I, honestly, would like nothing more than to assist in the wholesale slaughter of every idiot on the face of the planet."
Perhaps for efficiency he could start with himself, after all its important to be thorough and why travel to foreign climes when he's clearly got important business in his own house / trailer.
Guys like this who have guns make me want to have guns as well! I think this explains why the septics (tanks - yanks) have so many guns. Its got nothing to do with crime they just all want to have more guns the neighbourhood looney.
It is a known fact that irony, satirical humour and wit is lost on most Americans. Perhaps this is one American whose sense of humour has gone over the heads of the humourless Puritanical Bible-bashers fueled by an equally humourless or hungry journo out to make a scoop. Ironical but not funny...
It would be nice if the internet were an anonymous place where people could exchange views frankly, with humour, and without censorship. Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to be the case and I;, for one, am becoming increasingly worried about facing problems in real life because of things posted "anonymously" on the internet.
*wonders what the helicopter is doing overhead and why those ropes have appeared outside the window*
The description of the site in the article makes it sound like a hate pamphlet... but reading the archive.org mirror of the site it seems like the guy was just trying to do some over-the-top Maddox/Tucker Max style humour writing.
Rather than WHOIS, I'd imagine they found him from his own passing around of the URL to friends at work, and it eventually filtered up the ranks to one of those people who gets offended at everything and decided to make a complaint.
... misunderstand what 'irony' is, what 'satire' is and tend to consider puerile slapstick to be the entirety of humour. This combined with a huge chip-on-the-shoulder about their country or themselves being laughed at is what causes those of us outside the USA to laugh all the harder and repeat the old "Yanks have no sense of humour" line ;¬)
P.S. Germans used to do a nice line in much the same vein but seem to have lightened up in recent decades.
How dare someone state an opinion that is critical of or contrary to that of the authorities! And to use humour and creative prose! Shame shame shame!
Speaking one's mind is unamerican and should result in prison time, a stiff fine, and as much violence and personal harm as is necessary to enforce conformity to state propaganda and media limits on public discussion.
One wonders why the media is so strongly opposed to the free expression of citizens that one of its hack writers takes pain to create a story to harm someone using their First Amendment rights of expression. Should citizens only be permitted to express views agreeable to the media entertainment companies?
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