Anti-Obama Benghazi Meme Gets Censored for 'Violating Facebook's Statement of Rights and Responsibilities

Facebook reportedly took down an image, or a meme, posted by the Special Operations Speaks PAC (SOS) that was critical of President Barack Obama's handling of the terrorist attack on the U.S. compound in Benghazi. You may have actually seen it before it was taken down -- it had earned roughly 24,000 "likes."

The meme, which can be seen below, shows both Obama and deceased al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden with the following message: "Obama called the SEALs and THEY got bin Laden. When the SEALs called Obama, THEY GOT DENIED."

(Source: Breitbart.com)

It was first taken down and the account was issued a warning. The account was later suspended for 24 hours for defying the warning and re-posting the image -- with the warning above it.

The message is based on reports that indicate CIA operatives in Benghazi were told to "stand down" rather than help after Americans on the ground in Libya attempted to call out for help. Reports also suggest that the White House situation room had access to a live feed of the chaos at the U.S. compound as well as real-time email updates from within State Department.

Breitbart.com's Awr Hawkins reportedly spoke with Larry Ward, president of Political Media, Inc., the company responsible for the SOS Facebook account.

"We created and posted this meme on Saturday after news broke that Obama had known and denied SEALs the backup they requested," Ward told Breitbart.com.

He continued: "Once the meme was up it garnered 30,000 shares, approx. 24,000 likes, and was read by hundreds of thousands of people -- all within 24 hrs. On Sunday, I went into the SOS Facebook page to post something else and found a warning from Facebook that we had violated Facebook's Statement of Rights and Responsibilities with our meme. So I copied the warning, put it on the meme as as caption, and re-posted the meme to the Facebook page."

(source: Breitbart.com)

The re-posted meme was removed within 8 hours before Facebook suspended the SOS PAC's account for 24 hours.

Is this a violation of free speech or did SOS violate Facebook policy?