Mattis Poster Causes VA Workers to Run In Fear and Panic
This is so stupid I don’t even know where to begin:
Local United States Department of Veterans Affairs staffers were left horrified after a coworker put up a “Make Killing Great Again” poster on his office door.
It all played out earlier this month at a VA office building on Clairmont road in DeKalb County.
After a source inside the agency sent Channel 2 Investigative Reporter Aaron Diamant a picture of that disturbing poster Thursday night, he spent this afternoon working to find out what the agency is doing to ease workers fears and hold the staffer who put it up accountable.
“I’m afraid. I’m truly afraid,” a VA staffer, who spotted the poster and asked not to be identified, told Diamant.
The long-time VA employee, who asked not to be identified, told Diamant she’s terrified every time she returns to work at the building that houses the Healthcare Eligibility Center.
The poster on a 3rd-floor office door contained an image of Secretary of Defense James Mattis and the words, “Make Killing Great Again.”
“I thought that he would come in there any day and at any time and start shooting the office up,” the employee said. [WSB-TV Atlanta]
You can read more at the link, but this poster is clearly a parody of President Trump’s “Making America Great Again” tagline that anyone with a sense of humor would understand. The fact the media is calling the poster “disturbing” and someone working at the VA is “truly afraid” of the poster I think says more about them then the person who put the poster up in their cubicle.
With that all said the work place should be a professional environment which the poster clearly does not contribute to. When asked to take the poster down by the union the worker took the poster down. Yet people going running to the media hoping to blow this up and want the guy investigated, for what?
This is unacceptable.
If the military focuses too much on killing the enemy, it will take both attention and resources away from the Deputy Assistant Director’s Office of the Cisgender Sexual Assault Prevention and Restroom Choice Crisis Management Coordinator’s Rapid Action Response Unit.
I’m wondering if this is a DuffleBlog article that got picked up as legit.
I sure as hell don’t want THIS person handling MY VA compensation claims. It is bad enough already, without some liberal left wing person stating their preference. I served 3 years in the Infantry from 1967-70 and had my share of firefights. I say only man the VA with veterans, with preference given to combat veterans. They need good paying jobs too, and the VA can train them to do these overpaid jobs!!!
More media hysteria over anything to do with President Trump! I, for one, am getting really sick and tired of all this cock-blocking action that’s being pursued by the mainstream media in the U.S.
As for the employee that was “Truly afraid” of the poster, perhaps they should seek psychological care. For one thing, Mattis is in charge of the Defense Department NOT the VA Department so why would he have any reason to come around shooting VA employees?? I wonder what the reaction would have been to them putting up a Hitler poster with the same slogan?? (besides the Jews protesting it of course which is understandable).
@Dennis – I agree, 100%!
All non-medical staff at the VA are veterans. As for physicians and nurses, there aren’t enough of veteran physicians or nurses to fill those spots, so they have to hire non-veteran physicians and nurses.