Adventures in Facebook Privacy: Marine Claims He Humiliated Afghani Prisoner

Adventures in Facebook Privacy: Marine Claims He Humiliated Afghani Prisoner

Aren’t Facebook’s new “privacy” settings grand? So many Facebook profiles, now all publicly available. (Thanks, Mark Zuckerberg!) For example, here you can see Lionel Garcia’s Facebook page. Garcia, a 2007 graduate of Pasco Senior High in Washington State, has been in Afghanistan since February. Right before he left for overseas, the Marine posted to Facebook that “I’m gonna go illegally drive without my liscence.” [sic] But now that he’s in Afghanistan (all this is by his own report, of course), he’s found new fun things to do. The other day he “officially made an afghani hold up a sign that says ‘I’m A Faggot’ while I took a picture of him.” According to other recent status updates, he’ll be back to his base in California at Twentynine Palms in a week or so. How did his friends like this? Michael Fisher wrote: “That is awsome… You make emerica proud son…”