Marc Hall (aka Marc Watercus) jailed because of a rap song about "stoploss". // Army Specialist Marc Hall has been incarcerated in the Liberty County Jail near Fort Stewart, GA since December 11, 2009 for recording a rap song. The Iraq War combat veteran has been charged with fve separate violations of Article 134 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, claiming that he "communicated a threat" when he recently recorded a hip hop song expressing anger over the Armys stop-loss policy. Marc recorded the song entitled "Stop-loss" and mailed a copy to the Pentagon after the Army involuntarily extended his active duty contract in order to send him back to Iraq for another year. Marc explains, "My frst sergeant called me into his offce to discuss the songs nature. I explained to him that the hardcore rap song was a free expression of how people feel about the Army and its stop-loss policy. I explained that the song was neither a physical threat nor any threat whatsoever. I told him it was just hip-hop." Marc goes on to say, "My frst sergeant said he actually liked the song and that he did not take it as a threat. He and my commander at the time just recommended me for mental counseling and evaluation." Over the next few months Hall continued expressing uncomfortable feelings to his chain of command about his upcoming Iraq deployment. When Hall returned from two weeks leave on Dec. 7, 2009 he informed his chain of command that he could not in good conscience deploy again to Iraq ...
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