Ethics

Media Covers Jeremy Hall Case

By Ed Brayton

Jeremy Hall is the Army specialist who has filed suit against the Pentagon claiming that a superior officer violated his rights by threatening him with retaliation for forming a group of atheists in his unit (with permission from the chaplain, one might add). CNN has a story about Hall that has some new details, including some about the harassment he faced after this incident took place:

Hall was in Qatar when the lawsuit was filed on September 18 in federal court in Kansas City, Kansas. Other soldiers learned of it and he feared for his own safety. Once, Hall said, a group of soldiers followed him, harassing him, but no one did anything to make it stop.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on April 28, 2008 (boomark / email).