Scott Olsen: I hate the Marine Corps
Yesterday, we discussed IVAW and Veterans For Peace member, Scott Olsen, who had his head busted by some police “projectile” in Oakland the other night. Our buddy, Gateway Pundit sent us a link to his post today about how Olsen was the founder of the “I Hate The Marine Corps” blog.
Gateway Pundit quotes from Verum Serum who discovered the original story;
The Marine Corps thrives on its image. They convince young men and women that they’re joining a professional military organization. But that’s not the case at all, every Marine knows it, and most have no problem downplaying the bullshit to outsiders so they can protect their “beloved corps”. I noticed some of the other posters have told you not to pay any attention to my site because we’re just a bunch of ********* who couldn’t hack it, right? Maybe not hacking it means we saw through the bullshit and don’t want to take it. Maybe the brainwashing didn’t work on us. I’m not here to tell you if you should join or not. I’m here to advise you to take the people who visit my website just as seriously as anybody who tries to sell you the MC as a good thing.
My site is anonymous, these people don’t have to worry about hiding from the MC, or protecting the MC’s image or anything. It is unfiltered truth.
No, he still didn’t deserve a fractured skull, but I think it’s a little bit odd that he hates the Marine Corps…until it gives him and his fellow hippies a measure of moral authority.
Update Sporkmaster: For someone who did not like the Marines, they are actively trying to portray the opposite. Here is a screen capture of of his comment that he was being separated for drug use.
Category: I hate hippies, Iraq Veterans Against the War
@35
I’m not sure I’d count “I Dream of Jeannie” as Air Force… it was NASA. I’m not sure, but wasn’t Major Healey in the Army?
The USAF did, of course, have “Stargate SG-1” (which also had some Marines assigned), and a I guess a case could be made for “Hogan’s Heroes”.
Besides “McHale’s Navy”, the Navy had shows such as “CPO Sharkey” and “Operation Petticoat”.
Have you seen his flcker account…? Dude looks like a wonderful productive member of society/…Multiple pictures of stages of marijuana growth, kegger kickstands, and a bong in the shape of a penis.. Oh and to be fair, he has kept a pet gerbil alive…
GI JANE. After reading your posts, I would not –repeat not–mess with you, In fact, I apologize for whatever there is to apologize to you for. Twice.
@#51
… yeah so? Whaddaya mean? 🙂
@53 Yes, but for what purpose did he keep the gerbil alive, hmmmm?
@52 Hogan’s Heroes. Dag. Good one. “I see nothing. Noth=iiinnnggg.” How could I have missed that? What did Sharkey last, a week? Two? Never heard of the TV show Op Petticoat. I guess I was deprived.
@55 Now that was a funny response. Your fellow Marines, however, won’t get it! Arrrgggghhhh.
@56 Richard Gere –Ice pick to the brain, Ice pick, Ice pick, Ice pick..
Off Topic.. Have you heard that New Hampshire is set to vote to legalize civil unions for everyone INCLUDING SIBLINGS…now who didn’t see that coming?
http://dailycaller.com/2011/10/27/new-hampshire-may-legalize-civil-unions-for-all-including-siblings/
@ 58- Melle….You are just chockful of good news from the leftist front tonight….lol!
From what I’ve seen that wasn’t his website. It was registered to a Scott Olsen in Illinois. Can we get some confirmation?
John Lilyea,
Scott was in Iraq in 2009, and he’s from Wisconsin. Check yourself, you’re in the big leagues.
Maybe Scott should have scored higher on the ASVAB and he could have entered the Air Force. Quit bitching you little ingrate and grow up.
Joseph, check the link. http://pledgie.com/accounts/solsen230 Sure seems to be the same Scott Olsen. Nice try, though. Then, compare the pic in the pledgie link to Olsen’s FB page, here. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Scott-Olsen/191248674286220
So, from what I can see, it is his website.
@56
Never heard of the TV show Op Petticoat. I guess I was deprived.
Submarine crew picks up a few nurses as passengers, paints the boat pink. Short-lived series in the 1970s based on the Cary Grant/ Tony Curtis film of the same name. 🙂
@49 HH6,
I remember those dragon and sword commercials. Awesome!
BohicaTwentyTwo Says:
I have three predictions:
1. We will soon find out that Olsen’s discharge and characterization of service was less than honorable. Most likely, it involved drug use.
2. When this information comes to light, his supporters will blame his problems on PTSD from his two tours in a combat zone.
3. Soon thereafter, we will learn that he spent his two tours in Iraq as an orderly room clerk, fetching coffee for XO.
Just wait…
Right on, Brother. Semper Fi!
Air Cav, Yes. . . sadly their blues look the best. And making our blues the main uniform was Nucking Futs.
So he was a lance for HOW LONG exactly? Correct me if I’m wrong but at somepoint don’t you kinda get CPL if your even mildly squared away?
“From what I’ve seen…” That’s where everyone should have stopped reading Joey’s comment @60.
I believe it was Shakespeare who once said that genius and madness are nearly the same thing, and if any organization ever proved it, it is our own Marine Corps. Yes, they do play a game emotionally (what he really means by the image thing, he’s just trying to say it in the most self-advantageous manner possible, sort of like Job against God) and yes, it is tough to get through and yes they do sometimes “put you through some bullcrap.” And BTW, I wouldn’t criticize someone for deciding to step aside precisely because of that. But all of that “bullcrap” is the reason they’re the most successful of all of Americas military organization and one of the finest assemblies of man ever created.
You’re not a Marine if you step aside because of that, but then again, how many are? Marines are not soldiers – they’re something far more unique, and powerful. Not everyone is capable of being one. Desiring to serve your country is good enough to be a soldier. For a Marine it is necessary but not sufficient.
The only thing Scott Olsen is guilty of here is letting his ego and desire to be right get in the way of the truth, and the only thing the Marine Corps is guilty of is doing what is necessary to be that damn good. Frankly people, stop pointing fingers and walk away. Realize that this is just a very hurt and stubborn man. Pray for him and his troubled soul, but don’t try to talk him yourself – it won’t go anywhere. Lastly, I’m not surprised the Occupy Wall Street attracts people this damaged.
Semper Fidelis – Always Faithful.
“The only thing Scott Olsen is guilty of here is letting his ego and desire to be right get in the way of the truth, and the only thing the Marine Corps is guilty of is doing what is necessary to be that damn good.”
Ah. Playing both sides of the fence, are you JJ? Nice work.
Um…..Its two different Scott Olsens….The Scott Olsen who was shot is from Onalaska, Wisconsin. The one who runs the site you are reffering to is from Illinois. Great investigative reporting scum bag…
Sean, Scott Olsen lists the ihatethemarinecorps.com site in both his Twitter and YouTube profiles.
http://twitter.com/solsen230?_escaped_fragment_=/solsen230#!/solsen230
http://www.youtube.com/user/solsen230
It’s the same cokeheaded anti-semitic douchebag.
Some of the leftists are desperately trying to cover this information up, but they can’t scrub fast enough to hide the truth.
Listen, I can’t even re call your name, but do you have a job, how can you write so much bull shit, about (some of the shit I read) about the Marine Corps? Yeah I was in, but it was a long time ago, I never even talk about it. Dude you gota get a fucking job, I was a cop for 25 years, and I don’t talk about that shit eather, you want to write about a fucked up org. write about the PEACE CORPS, NOW THERE IS A FUCKED UP JOB, I was in Bangladesh, and there were 5 young girls ganged raped, by 13 14 year old Muslim boys, now thats fucked….. get a life who ever you are
Sean, where did you get this “shot in the head” story? OWS propaganda?
http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_19199894
In 2010, the Marines issued Olsen an “administrative discharge.” Maj. Shawn Haney, a Marines spokesman based in Quantico, Va., declined to discuss Olsen’s discharge, but said his departure could have been for anything from a medical condition to a punitive measure.
@71 this site routinely falsifies information to better their argument
Then by all means, please point out anything that you think should be challenged.
@76 and you routinely make charges on this site that you NEVER back up sugar britches.. So buck up or shut up honey!
Um, if you guys are surprised that Marines often say they “hate” the Marine Corps, or *gasp* even worse things, make sure you keep your sheltered little eyes away from the Terminal Lance message boards.
A lot of us severely dislike the Marine Corps’ bureaucracy, even if we have very close friends, cherished experiences, and pride in our own accomplishments. The culture and the institution aren’t necessarily the same thing.
Melle Please tell your husband he is freaking lucky. I wish some of the wives I’ve dealt with fought as hard as you. God blees you.
OG STFU. Seriously the updates are to allow furthering and redefinition of information. you don’t bitch when NYT fucks up (which it does regularly). WaPo corrects itself all the time, and in sometimes in HUGE maters. I have seen John throw out Mae culpas when he knows he’s wrong. Thus far I have never even heard of you King or richter, even coming close to admitting your wrong.
>Melle Please tell your husband he is freaking lucky. I wish some of the wives I’ve dealt with fought as hard as you. God blees you.
Doc, Thank you….I spend my days with Dora The Explorer and a four year old. My husband is spending his last year of the military finishing a degree and working. He does not have the time or the patience for my political rantings. So you and all of TAH get my pearls of wisdom 🙂 And I get to debate, brush up on my YOUR Mama jokes and get some wicked photoshop ideas!
There are screw-ups and losers in all branches of the military service. They are known by those with whom they serve, without regard to what ultimately appears on their DD-214. I would love to hear from some of the men who served with Olsen to learn whether he was someone who could be relied upon, who could be trusted, and who did his job well. I suspect that I know the answer but I do not know with certainty. Some make him out now as a martyr of sorts, a hero for the Occupy Here and There mob. Others want to vilify him for taking his hatred of the Marine Corps public. I am in the latter camp. What he did post service was not the equivalent of the usual grumbling and complaining of active military people. FTA was a common expression when I was in the Army. Creating a website to publicly bash a service and encourage others to express hatred for that service is quite a different thing. One is expressed among ‘family’ members; the other is bad mouthing that family to strangers.
@79-Everyone who has served has expressed their displeasure with their branch of service to their peers. When they continue to bash their branch of service after leaving, claiming it as a mistake, or saying that they were one of the select few who weren’t “brainwashed”, then it becomes something more than venting discontent.
The kid is playing both sides of the fence. He hated the marines, and did everything he could do to get out. He badmouthed the corps until a time where claiming to be a marine could serve his interests. Then, miraculously, he was squared away, and had served honorably. Bullshit.
Sean@71, um, no it isn’t. If you’d bother to read any of the posts and click on the links provided, you’d know that, and you wouldn’t have made an ass of yourself, much like OG does every time it sits down to type.
You guys should have tried to cover up all of his bullshit before you tried to make him a poster boy for the occuturds.
@ Teddy996 – Likewise, almost every guy that I knew during the Nam era ( except Mad Dog Shriver and his famous quote, “Just one good deal after another!” ) cursed the Army, the VC, Vietnam in general, the food, the climate, the PC_bullshit brass who issued PC bullshit ROE that changed weekly – and FTA / FTW were common sights. But NONE of the guys who came back, that I knew, ever doubted that they would go back in a heartbeat if asked… for their country and moreover, for their brothers in arms. the loyalty toward your brothers far exceeded whatever gripes and moans you had about government policy, etc. All the philosophical crap about our ‘policy’ goes down the toilet when you are counting on the guy next to you to keep your ass from being shot dead, and you know he is counting on you to do the same. You don’t come home then talk crap about the unit you were with or the guys still there, or whatever.
I would agree that the Corps today is run, like every other branch, by PC brassholes who think not of the men but only of their own careers, getting a few stars, and making good political contacts. Like court-martialing a Marine or a SEAL for killing bad guys or bitch-slapping a terrorist… but that is the brass, NOT the branch of the service!
So, this bastard trying to get his glory from attacking the Corps? Piss on him and the whore he rode in on.
PS- is OG really a tranny living on welfare? Just wondering. Sure writes like it.
lilyea never admits to being wrong, he really doesn’t have to when people like you take everything he says as gospel
whenever I challenge something my comment is blocked so nobody can see it. This blog isn’t down with different viewpoints
@78 Melle instead of posting your mindless comments on this blog I think you would be much better served hitting the stair climber. PM me if you need more of an explanation.
#88, “my comment is blocked so nobody can see it”. And yet, here you are, in 3 straight comments. You get more freedom here than any poster from here would get at DU, Kos, and the other sewers you hang out in.
You’d be better served if you took a class in comprehension, but I doubt you’d comprehend it.
@90 Don’t make me laugh I have been restricted from day 1 the only posts that I make that do make it through are general ones, if I get into details they are blocked it is really frustrating perhaps you people don’t deserve me on this site
Blocked, OG? Care to back that up? Just so’s ya know, I get to see the inner workings and the only posts that are blocked or deleted are spambot comments.
Sparky, when you are as wedded to pushing the big lie as much as OG and her ilk (paid to come here and troll honey?), the little lies come easy — and help make the big lie easier to swallow.
everyone of my comments is moderated and some of them don’t make it through
And I bet they edit the posts that they do allow through to make you seem like an idiot! The nerve of this site’s moderators!
#94
If indeed such is the case, I surmise that it would be the inane ones?
>@78 Melle instead of posting your mindless comments on this blog I think you would be much better served hitting the stair climber. PM me if you need more of an explanation.
OG- Call me when you don’t have to go to a class to learn how to be a woman..
OG’s at it again. Personally i’d expect more from a grad student, you know, like the ability to think and put a realtively cognisant thought together, instead of spewing ideas and indoctrination she gets force fed to her in the lecture hall. Such a disappointment.
@98 well at least I am “spewing” something I heard in an institution of higher learning you just spew whatever you heard on last nights hannity..
I don’t watch hannity. Nice try though, but not really. Still not impressed. But that’s your problem, you’re spewing what you’ve heard instead of finding out what’s really going on for yourself. Most people drink the kool aid. Seems like you’re guzzling it.
Women, melle, look over OG’s posts. NO way those inane thoughts originated in one vapid mind, OG is a collaborative effort from the Occuturds.
“perhaps you people don’t deserve me on this site”. Stop, please, sides hurt from laughing, comedy gold, girls.