Generally bad sense of humor

This story (from the Associated Press via boston.com) sounds at first like a typical dumb e-mail joke running around the Net, and a nitwit state employee getting caught forwarding it to his buddies:

It opens with a flag burning ceremony, and moves on to events like a John Kerry "fake medal toss" and a "Free Saddam" pep rally.
On six different occasions, "Ted Kennedy proposes a toast."
This mock schedule for the upcoming Democratic National Convention was circulated among workers in the Massachusetts state government -- including the head of the National Guard -- one of the millions of crude Internet spoofs that clog e-mail accounts every day.

The guy getting in hot water for passing it along, though, is Major General George W. Keefe, Adjutant General of the Massachusetts National Guard.
An expletive-deleted two-star general!
Christ. I'd have thought that surely someone with that much time in would have at least half a clue. If nothing else, he might have heard about Article 88 of the UCMJ (10 USC 888), which states:

Any commissioned officer who uses contemptuous words against the President, the Vice President, Congress, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of a military department, the Secretary of Transportation, or the Governor or legislature of any State, Territory, Commonwealth, or possession in which he is on duty or present shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.

Not having seen the specific text of the email in question, I don't know if he managed to violate Article 88. But, ferchrissake, I'd think he'd know better than to risk it!

Generally bad sense of humor

This story (from the Associated Press via boston.com) sounds at first like a typical dumb e-mail joke running around the Net, and a nitwit state employee getting caught forwarding it to his buddies:

It opens with a flag burning ceremony, and moves on to events like a John Kerry "fake medal toss" and a "Free Saddam" pep rally.
On six different occasions, "Ted Kennedy proposes a toast."
This mock schedule for the upcoming Democratic National Convention was circulated among workers in the Massachusetts state government -- including the head of the National Guard -- one of the millions of crude Internet spoofs that clog e-mail accounts every day.

The guy getting in hot water for passing it along, though, is Major General George W. Keefe, Adjutant General of the Massachusetts National Guard.
An expletive-deleted two-star general!
Christ. I'd have thought that surely someone with that much time in would have at least half a clue. If nothing else, he might have heard about Article 88 of the UCMJ (10 USC 888), which states:

Any commissioned officer who uses contemptuous words against the President, the Vice President, Congress, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of a military department, the Secretary of Transportation, or the Governor or legislature of any State, Territory, Commonwealth, or possession in which he is on duty or present shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.

Not having seen the specific text of the email in question, I don't know if he managed to violate Article 88. But, ferchrissake, I'd think he'd know better than to risk it!