War veteran accused of defacing pro-Bush cars

[rick_reno]

Is this guy nuts? Anyone know what he painted on the cars?

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/12/16/bush.vandalism.ap/index.html

DENVER, Colorado (AP) -- The Air Force Reserve plans to discharge a lieutenant colonel accused of defacing cars that had pro-Bush bumper stickers, the military said Friday.

Lt. Col. Alexis Fecteau, a pilot with 500 combat hours in the first Persian Gulf war and the Balkans, is charged with criminal mischief for allegedly using paint stripper to write a profanity about President Bush in 18-inch-high letters on cars at Denver International Airport.

The cars had bumper stickers supporting President Bush and conservative talk-show host Rush Limbaugh.

Jim Miller, a spokesman for the Air Force Reserve Command at Robins Air Force Base in Georgia, said the command plans to begin the process of giving Fecteau an administrative discharge. He said Fecteau does not face any military punishment.

Neither Fecteau nor his lawyer, Patrick Mulligan, immediately returned calls. Mulligan has said Fecteau would plead not guilty.

Fecteau is charged with 13 counts of criminal mischief, five of them felonies because the damage to five vehicles was estimated at more than $500 each.

Police said the vehicles were damaged between January and July and a video camera recorded Fecteau damaging a vehicle.

 

[Standing Wolf]

The leftist extremists are big believers in freedom of speech—but only for themselves, of course.

 

[bjbarron]

Michelle Malkin is adding him to her book...Unhinged, Exposing Liberals Gone Wild. Along with assorted Coulter pie throwers, tire slashers, MOH memorial defacers, and the rest of their ilk.

Exerpt:

It’s not Republicans taking chainsaws to Democrat campaign signs and running down political opponents with their cars. It’s not conservatives burning Democrats in effigy, defacing war memorials, and supporting the fragging of American troops. And it’s not conservatives producing a bullet-riddled bumper crop of assassination-themed musicals, books and collectible stamps.

It’s not a Republican who invoked Pol Pot and Nazis and Soviet gulag operators when discussing American troops at Guantanamo Bay. That was Democrat Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois, who kept his Senate Minority Whip position and who continues to blame an “orchestrated right-wing attack” for what came out of his mouth.

It’s not Republicans who suggested that President Bush had advance knowledge of the September 11th attacks or that Osama bin Laden has already been captured. Those notions were advanced by former Secretary of State Madeline Albright and current Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean.

And it wasn’t a Republican who asserted that the war Iraq was “just as bad as six million Jews being killed.” That was Democrat Rep. Charlie Rangel, who has refused to apologize and whom no Democrat leader has denounced.

The views of unhinged liberals are no longer relegated to the private remarks of a few Democrat politicians or the bloviations of a few fringe figures on the far Left. The syndrome is far more pervasive, intense, and sanctimoniously self-delusional than anything on the Right.

 

[rwmorrisonjr]

My friend's jeep was sprayed by this guy (or an associate) while it was parked at DIA while my friend was on weekend drill duty. Obviously, the O5 in question is no longer an O5 in the USAF, and rightly so. He's lucky that he's only getting a discharge and nothing worse, though that dishonorable discharge will haunt him to his grave and severely limit his future employment opportunities.

There's a reason why the military is politically neutral: you're there to support the office of POTUS and the Constitution of the US, not debate the merits of the current administration or the current officeholder.

 

[Thin Black Line]

Can he cite "faulty intelligence" in defense of his actions?