Is the military at the point of a witch hunt for harassment?

I do not think this type of thing is just limited to the military. I think this sort of thing is being seen more and more throughout the country and the world. It is nothing new to see a group of people walk over another group of people, just look in your history books for examples of that. However, I do feel that people are becoming more and more scared to cause a scene or to be brought up on charges that they rather sink back into their hole rather than to stand up for what is right.

A personal example of this happened to me a few years ago during the Occupy Movement. During that time, a group of people set up "housing" in what was once one of the public parks downtown. While the space still remains to be a park, it is no longer accessible to the public. Anyways, people saw this as some sort of freedom of speech activity which it was; however harassment is not freedom of speech. While working downtown during this time, I saw these people walk up to others as we tried to make our way to work. One day, as I made my to work carrying my assault pack with my computer and other things in it, a group from Veterans for Peace came up to me. I excused myself as I was running late for work. Later that day, while making my way back home, this same group of people came up to me and tried to yet again talk to me. I stood there and let them talk but after a few minutes I had to excuse myself so I could get home. This interaction continued for 2 more days until the third end when things got a little crazy. After having this run in on back to back days, I was getting a little more than ticked off but I was willing to listen. Willing that is until one of the groups members challenged my service. I did not take to kindly to that. I'm proud of my service. I did not ask to go to war but I signed up to follow the orders of those over me and they told me to go to war. As we had our heated discussion I noticed others were harassing other people and that is when I said I had enough.

Yes practice your right to say what you want but we should not be afraid to disagree with you.

I stated my thoughts on said discussion. Troops who come here for advice need to understand that we are all sea lawyers, they are probably fitting the facts to suit their narrative and that the very vast overriding majority of us have limited legal experience. They need to talk to their chain of command. I believe that there is not a fine line between harassment and leadership, that line is in fact quite broad. There are many different leadership styles and if you don't like your Sergeants style, boo-f*cking-hoo. This is not Burger King, you don't get your way. The service member acted out of line and the Sergeant responded in kind. If the service member is really that great then they will get promoted, but for some reason they did not.

Mark my words, at some point, some ass is going to toss out their version of the story and some well meaning vet or service member is going to give them bum scoop, like going to see the EO or IG for Gods sake, and the original poster is going to get screwed, with little to no lube, and answer "that is what they told me to on Rallypoint".

The only expectable answer for that inquiry was "GO TALK TO YOUR CHAIN OF COMMAND". In my opinion, anyone who answered other than that was irresponsible.

I retired in 2014, so my opinion is somewhat dated.
But yes, at that time I felt the accuser was being afforded an automatic assumption of innocence and correctness, and the accused left to defend themselves against an automatic assumption of guilt.

It seemed leaders at all levels felt the need to do this in order to not be looked at as being part of the problem.