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Here’s one from Reddit user 0311kilo33:

Marines Storm Reddit After Occupy Oakland Shooting of Scott Olsen - FishbowlLA

As God is my witness. I will fight tooth and nail to restore the decency this country was founded upon. The politicians, banks and large corporations have ruined this country. I find it difficult to notice any sense of politeness on the streets anymore. But it goes farther. As a Marine and a citizen I am outraged. I am sick to death of the world my children are being raised in.

So I ask all of you, can you too sense the tipping point? When will enough be enough? If not now, when? I feel the problem is that the average Joe citizen is ignorant and comfortable. These, in addition to selfishness have become the standard for the majority of the population. As long as people are comfortable they remain silent. Well, I’m really ****ing uncomfortable and I’m sick of seeing this sort of **** happening. The Occupy protests that are going on are our first glimmer of hope. If we can take this and move it further, get every lazy ass off their rocker and open their eyes; then maybe, just maybe we have a chance.

Semper Fi brothers, and remember who you are. Protectors of a great nation, not politicians or wealthy money grubbing bankers and the like. When it comes time, I know we’ll stand strong.
Would the LEOs really take on the retired US Marines?

If online reaction is any indication, it’s not a stretch to think Olsen’s injury could be the start of something very big. We have a lot of military combat veterans in this country who haven’t been treated very well since they left the service. No job prospects. Inadequate medical coverage. If they take their anger offline and into the streets, the OWS movement will become an extremely potent, and WELL TRAINED force.

This puts a lot of bite into the OWS protest.
 
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Scott Olsen Exposed
Scott Olsen is the Marine Corps veteran critically injured at Occupy Oakland Tuesday night, during a confrontation between the protesters and the police. The latest news is good: his condition has been upgraded from critical to fair and he is apparently conscious and able to respond to doctors and family members. I sincerely wish him a full recovery, and I also hope that a proper investigation is conducted to determine whether police misconduct is responsible for his injuries.

But I ran across something this evening that may add a new dimension to this story. It has been widely reported that Olsen is a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War. But apparently his opposition to the U.S. military and the Marine Corps in which he served runs a little deeper.

The site is no longer live, but Olsen was the founder of IHateTheMarineCorps.com, a private user forum apparently dedicated to bashing the Marine Corps.

A Scott Olsen is listed as the registered owner of this domain, and I was able to confirm that this is indeed the same Scott Olsen based on a user profile on the fundraising site pledgie.com.

Compare the image above to Olsen’s profile on Facebook – it’s definitely him.

Using this information, I also uncovered a comment from Olsen on the Yahoo Answers site from last year where he is highly critical of the Marine Corps:

If all this is true, I doubt some backstabber will be supported by the USMC brotherhood, after all it is "SEMPER FIDELIS" not "semper odiosa"
 
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Would the LEOs really take on the retired US Marines? This puts a lot of bite into the OWS protest.

Retired maries are not going to take on LEOs, Mickey Shane. If they do, they will be dealt with just like any other threat to law enforcement.
 
Marines should stick to killing folks and stay away from threatening law enforcement. Everyone's just trying to do their jobs.
 
Retired maries are not going to take on LEOs, Mickey Shane. If they do, they will be dealt with just like any other threat to law enforcement.
All they need to do is be present. They don't have to do anything. Their reputation proceeds them.
 
Marines should stick to killing folks and stay away from threatening law enforcement. Everyone's just trying to do their jobs.
That canister fire from the Cops was just plain bad luck. When you hurt one Marine, you hurt them all.
 
Have you READ the posts to that site? Thats just some comical stuff right there. You should just swell with pride.

'This' didnt happen to a 'marine'. It happened to a protester...a snot nosed little **** that refused to follow the orders the police were given (by the mayor) who happened to at one time have enlisted in the marine corps. He certainly isnt an active duty marine (huh...you'd think of all people 'marines' would understand that concept).

I got news for you...military folks...active duty and retired...are subject to the same rules and laws as your average everyday citizen. Beinf a non-active marine doesnt make you immune to the rule of law (and apparently it doesnt make you immune to blunt force trauma as well).

Keep on with this rise up bull****. Its going to end SO WELL. Oakland...San Diego...Denver...hey...the president WANTED class warfarfe...look how well it is all turning out.
 
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Have you READ the posts to that site? Thats just some comical stuff right there. You should just swell with pride.

'This' didnt happen to a 'marine'. It happened to a protester...a snot nosed little **** that refused to follow the orders the police were given by the mayor who happened to at one time have enlisted in the marine corps. He certainly isnt an active duty marine (huh...you'd think of all people 'marines' would understand that concept).

I got news for you...military folks...active duty and retired...are subject to the same rules and laws as your average everyday citizen. Beinf a non-active marine doesnt make you immune to the rule of law (and apparently it doesnt make you immune to blunt force trauma as well).

Keep on with this rise up bull****. Its going to end SO WELL. Oakland...San Diego...Denver...hey...the president WANTED class warfarfe...look how well it is all turning out.

Maybe I'm wrong, but I think you're confusing one mayor for another. Just nitpicking though.
 
That's a different guy with the name Scott Olsen. There are many men with that name.

See:"Right wing Launcher a smear campaign against Scott Olsen" at: The Right Launches A Smear Campaign Against Occupy Oakland’s Scott Olsen - Democratic Underground

Swift Boating at it's finest!
Do you know it is a different Scott Olsen? Sure...there are many different Scott Olsens. And it may not even be a real site although the dates of the sites creation cant be too hard to determine. So...is it or isnt it...or are you are as blinded in your insistence that it isnt (based on what you want to believe) as those you accuse? If you can say for sure it isnt then that should clear it all up.
 
Have you READ the posts to that site? Thats just some comical stuff right there. You should just swell with pride.

'This' didnt happen to a 'marine'. It happened to a protester...a snot nosed little **** that refused to follow the orders the police were given by the mayor who happened to at one time have enlisted in the marine corps. He certainly isnt an active duty marine (huh...you'd think of all people 'marines' would understand that concept).

I got news for you...military folks...active duty and retired...are subject to the same rules and laws as your average everyday citizen. Beinf a non-active marine doesnt make you immune to the rule of law (and apparently it doesnt make you immune to blunt force trauma as well).

Keep on with this rise up bull****. Its going to end SO WELL. Oakland...San Diego...Denver...hey...the president WANTED class warfarfe...look how well it is all turning out.

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Maybe I'm wrong, but I think you're confusing one mayor for another. Just nitpicking though.
Good catch. By the mayor should have been in parenthesis...it just needs to be stated very clearly that the police in Oakland and across the country arent out there arbitrarily shutting camp sites down.
 
Scared? Hmmm...no...Im not scared. Repulsed? Sure. And do I think the morons that are filling those protest sites might pull a London? You bet. But scared? No.
 

Of Marines? You've got to be kidding. No more honorable a bunch of guys on the face of the earth. And, just as important, they're not stupid.

How did you make that post without doing 123456789?
 
Scared? Hmmm...no...Im not scared. Repulsed? Sure. And do I think the morons that are filling those protest sites might pull a London? You bet. But scared? No.
Well good! If you're part of the 99% you will have nothing to worry about.
 
That canister fire from the Cops was just plain bad luck. When you hurt one Marine, you hurt them all.

I'm getting a lil pissed off a people, including other Marines, exploiting veteran status , or military affiliation ,for political reasons.

are you a Marine?
 
Of Marines? You've got to be kidding. No more honorable a bunch of guys on the face of the earth. And, just as important, they're not stupid.

How did you make that post without doing 123456789?
I guess it all depends upon which side they take.

The picture url is longer than 1234567890
 
I'm getting a lil pissed off a people, including other Marines, exploiting veteran status , or military affiliation ,for political reasons.

are you a Marine?
No, I just know quite a few Marine Corp Vets.
 
Professional protesters...what are they going on about? Why haven't the police CS'd this problem away?
You weren't alive yet to see Chicago in '68. There are precedents.
 
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