{"id":17510,"date":"2012-04-27T00:30:34","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T03:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=17510"},"modified":"2012-04-27T00:14:59","modified_gmt":"2012-04-27T03:14:59","slug":"facebook-marine-expresses-regret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/27\/facebook-marine-expresses-regret\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Marine Expresses Regret"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US Marine Sgt Gary Stein, who <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/26\/marine-to-be-discharged-over-facebook-posts\/\">will be\u00a0discharged<\/a> for his Facebook comments about the President, has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/marine-discharged-for-calling-obama-an-enemy-admits-regret-73931\/\">expressed regret<\/a>.\u00a0 While maintaining he&#8217;s being used as an example and treated unfairly, he also says he wished he&#8217;d phrased things differently:\u00a0 <!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In light of the discharge, Stein has admitted that he would have worded his statements on President Obama differently.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People ask me, &#8216;Would you go back and change those words?&#8217; I would most definitely,&#8221; Stein shared with MSNBC. &#8220;I would articulate my point better.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The ChristianPost notes that &#8220;analysts&#8221; say he was &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/USA\/Military\/2012\/0426\/Marine-sergeant-discharged-for-criticizing-Obama-Was-that-fair\">warned repeatedly<\/a>,&#8221; and that doomed his case.\u00a0 To date, that appears to be unsubstantiated.\u00a0 Sgt Stein has said only that the Marines <a href=\"http:\/\/usnews.msnbc.msn.com\/_news\/2012\/04\/25\/11396769-marine-who-criticized-obama-on-facebook-i-wish-i-could-take-it-back\">told him to add a disclaimer<\/a> when they reviewed his activities two years ago.\u00a0 In fact, the <em>lack <\/em>of warning was one of his points of defense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Marine Sgt Gary Stein, who will be\u00a0discharged for his Facebook comments about the President, has expressed regret.\u00a0 While maintaining he&#8217;s being used as an example and treated unfairly, he also says he wished he&#8217;d phrased things differently:\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[82,3193,1476,3063,19,149,2,3192],"class_list":["post-17510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-constitution","tag-discharge","tag-facebook","tag-gary-stein","tag-government","tag-marines","tag-military","tag-other-than-honorable"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}