Father of Cole victim sues over Lejeune car ban

[unhappycamper]

Retired Marine Gunnery Sgt. Jesse Nieto stands beside his car in Jacksonville, N.C. Citing an order prohibiting vehicles with inflamatory decals, officials at Camp Lejeune told Nieto, a civilian employee at the base, to remove his stickers. He refused and now is suing the base commander and magistrate.


Father of Cole victim sues over Lejeune car ban
By Trista Talton - Staff writer
Posted : Tuesday Nov 18, 2008 13:57:48 EST

JACKSONVILLE, N.C. — Jesse Nieto doesn’t wear his emotions on his sleeve.

Instead, the retired gunnery sergeant uses car decals to express his contempt for the terrorists who killed his son, Engineman 2nd Class Marc Ian Nieto, along with 16 other sailors in the Oct. 12, 2000, attack on the destroyer Cole in Yemen.

But the stickers maligning Islamic terrorism, which have adorned Nieto’s car for more than seven years, were recently deemed “offensive material” under a base order at Camp Lejeune, N.C., where he has worked in the Electrical Distribution Shop since 1994.

Military police removed some of the stickers in August, before the base magistrate ordered Nieto to remove the rest. The former infantryman, who served two tours in Vietnam, refused and now he is contesting the order’s legality in federal court.

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The base order prohibits vehicles from displaying extremist, indecent, sexist or racist messages. Nieto’s ride, which sports a North Carolina license plate reading “USS-COLE,” featured some doozies: “Islam = Terrorism,” “Disgrace my country’s flag and I will sh-- on your Quran,” and an image of the popular cartoon character Calvin urinating on a Muslim.


Rest of article at: http://www.navytimes.com/news/2008/11/marine_islam_protest_111808n/%2e

[frylock]

1. sorry for your loss..

but you're still an asshole.