I do not see a need to apology. It works both ways, it was a joke about invading area 51 because the military cannot stop them all, and there was a joke about bombing them to stop the invasion.
The joke would have worked better as an immediate reply to the event on Facebook. Only replying with it after it's obvious a non-trivial number of people are taking it seriously is... not in very good taste.
Lack of humor has done to this society what no fascist regime ever could. We now police ourselves for dissenting thoughts to an extent that the Stasi could only *dream* of.
If a few tens of thousands had shown up, the military would've been on a humanitarian mission trying to provide water and sanitary & medical facilities to all the morons who showed up thinking they could make a quick dash through the desert only to find that they were in a desert marathon.
I do not see a need to apology. It works both ways, it was a joke about invading area 51 because the military cannot stop them all, and there was a joke about bombing them to stop the invasion.
The joke would have worked better as an immediate reply to the event on Facebook. Only replying with it after it's obvious a non-trivial number of people are taking it seriously is ... not in very good taste.
If a few tens of thousands had shown up, the military would've been on a humanitarian mission trying to provide water and sanitary & medical facilities to all the morons who showed up thinking they could make a quick dash through the desert only to find that they were in a desert marathon.