Navy Veteran is Fired from Hotel Job and Called a “Terrorist” for Posting Pictures of DHS Vehicles on Facebook

Screen Shot 2014-11-24 at 2.12.21 PMYou probably haven’t heard of Mark Paffrath, the 28-year-old Navy veteran, and former employee of the Drury hotel chain, who was fired from his job and called a “terrorist” for taking pictures of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) vehicles and posting them to his personal Facebook page.

The story of his recent job termination is further proof of fascism’s relentless bull market within these United States. What happened to Mr. Paffrath could easily happen to any of us, and it’s imperative that we support him and reject the type of backwards fear-mongering being perpetrated by his control-freak employer.

Just two weeks ago, we saw a 90-year-old vet threatened with jail for feeding homeless people in Florida. Now this.

TechDirt reports that:

Mark says that on Thursday after work he snapped 2 photographs and a short video of several dozen Homeland Security vehicles in the parking garage. He then uploaded them to his Facebook page. In his post he writes “why are all the cop cars here…I wonder if it has anything to do with Ferguson”, he also included the hashtags #Ferguson #NoJusticeNoPeace.

On Friday, shortly after arriving to work at the Drury Plaza Hotel, Mark stated that he was called to the office of Jeff Baker, the General Manager. Upon arriving Mr. Baker advised Mark that he needed to remove the photos and video from Facebook. Mark immediately complied and removed the post. Mark then continued and finished his shift.

That should be the end of it, but of course it’s not…

Saturday, Mark stated after being at work no more than 30 minutes, he was again called to the General Manager’s office. Waiting for him was Jim Bohnert, Director of Security for Drury Hotels Company, LLC. Mark told ASN that Mr. Bohnert advised him that his Facebook posts almost cost the company a $150,000 contract with the Department of Homeland Security and because of this he was being terminated.

Jim Bohnert — formerly of the Secret Service and the St. Louis Police Department — had more to say on the matter. He called the former military member a “terrorist” and told him he had “dishonorably served his country” by posting pictures of vehicles parked in a garage where any guest or employee of the hotel could have seen them. In fact, any member of the public could have seen them simply by entering the garage, which is not secured. Argus Streaming News writers were able to see “over 100” DHS vehicles in the garage while driving through it on their way to speak to the hotel’s manager. 

Bohnert also threatened Paffrath with arrest if the photos were reposted (presumably by someone with more power than Director of Security for Drury Hotels, Bohnert’s current position).

Specifically, this is what Bohnert supposedly said:

Mark stated that Mr. Bohnert ended the conversation with “if you repost the photos and video you will have the federal government knocking on your door and you will be incarcerated”.

We must all support Mr. Paffrath, and let Drury Hotels know that it is their behavior that is unacceptable, not Mark Paffrath’s. It’s perfectly representative of the addled, insane society we live in that the hotel’s security director had the nerve to call a U.S. veteran a “terrorist” for posting pictures to Facebook. I think we all know who’s actually behaving like a terrorist in this case. The time for getting outraged has long since passed.

As such, I tweeted the following:

For more articles that prove there exists one stringent set of laws for average citizens, and no laws whatsoever for the rich and powerful, see:

Video of the Day – Watch as 8 Police Officers Fire 46 Shots and Kill a Homeless Man in Broad Daylight

In 33 U.S. Cities, Feeding the Homeless Has Been Criminalized

Couple Fined $746 for the Crime of Feeding Homeless People in Florida Park

The Homeless in NYC Are Now Living in Tiny Spaces in the Frame of the Manhattan Bridge

Illinois Church Told by City Officials It Can No Longer Provide Homeless People Shelter

South Carolina City Implements Law that Requires a $120 Permit to Feed Homeless People

In Liberty,
Michael Krieger

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3 thoughts on “Navy Veteran is Fired from Hotel Job and Called a “Terrorist” for Posting Pictures of DHS Vehicles on Facebook”

  1. Reminds me of: OBEY, CONSUME, and shut up !

    Or maybe they think they should stop the roots for a new Snowden …

    Would be interesting how the “news” went from FB to the managers… do they monitor it, or did the secret service (or another 3-letter-organisation) saw that there needed to be a reaction to this ?

    Anyway, FB/social media sucks … but people learn only by this kind of response that they should not post what they think. Especially not in the land of the free 😉

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  2. Great article thanks for your courage Michael!

    Excerpt;

    Inners and Outers — we are not talking belly buttons here…

    A major result of the corporate hijacking of America is that the corporate sociopaths now have control of almost all media. They use that media to lie to us with baloneyspeak and tell us that they are responsive to our wishes, while in reality they ignore the concerns of we the people. This allows them to steal us all blind, intentionally eliminate us, and still say that we the people have free speech. That is also a lie. If any citizens do use their ‘free speech’ to dispute and organize peaceful demonstrations against the corporate gangsters now in control of government, they sick their goon squad swat team cops on us. Most people now realize that cops in America work for the pay check of their corporate masters and not for the rest of us. Most people in America also realize that we now have a two tier scam ‘Rule of Law’ that is selectively enforced by these sell out cops and that people on the bottom have severely limited access, or no access at all, to that scam ‘Rule of Law’. Most people in America realize too that the electoral process is a scam used only to validate and legitimize the sociopaths corruption.

    Because these corruptions have increased incrementally over time, the realizations of the corruption by the public have also increased incrementally over time. As the hijacking of our government has grown more enormous in size, more and more of us have opted out in disgust and boycotted the farce voting process. This incremental hijacking of government is the driving force in the formation of a new political boycott block in America. The Outers!

    The Outers are the fed up people in America who recognize the farce of our hijacked government and see clearly how they have been disenfranchised. They now form a majority boycott the vote block of roughly 43% of Americans and they are rapidly understanding how they have been deceived and waking up to their real power. Contrast that huge block of Outer boycott voters with the relatively small group of still brainwashed Inner voters — the 29% that elected Obama — and you will see the trend and where the real power is! You will also understand why the Ferguson protests are now national. The corporate oppression, rooted in Xtrevilism, is not limited to color. It affects all of us regardless of color, gender, sexual persuasion, religion, etc.

    The Inners, of course, are those who are still fearfully on their knees voting and have not yet figured out that they are being used to validate and legitimize with their good names the crooked — hijacked by corporatism — government.

    More here…

    http://fountainofbaloney.com/truthorbaloney/truthorbaloney.html

    Deception is the strongest political force on the planet.

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