Lejeune worker sues over car ban
Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 9:53 pm
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Lejeune worker sues over car ban
By Trista Talton - Staff writer
Posted : Wednesday Nov 19, 2008 8:46:21 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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