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  • Ranger that called the fake soldier out gets arrested immediately after the confrontation

    03/18/2014 5:58:00 PM PDT · by servo1969 · 48 replies
    RTBA News ^ | 3-18-2014 | Kristopher Vieira
    The man behind the footage of calling a fraud soldier out for wearing Ranger, E.O.D., and 101st Airborne Tab was arrested immediately after the video by the campus authorities. The reason? He was charged with disturbing the peace and making threats against a phony soldier who was pretending to serve and die for our country. The police reported that Vieira, the man confronting the fake soldier, approached him on several occasions and verbally assaulted the fraud! Well there’s a pretty valid reason behind the so-called unnecessary assault. Vieira, who uploaded video of the confrontation to YouTube, was later arrested by...
  • Supreme Court Strikes Down 'Stolen Valor' Law

    06/28/2012 11:26:32 AM PDT · by BIGLOOK · 55 replies
    Wall Street Journa;l ^ | June 28, 2012 | Evan Perez
    WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court cited First Amendment rights to free speech in striking down a law that made it a federal crime to falsely claim to have been awarded military-honor medals. The 6-3 majority opinion upheld a Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision that had declared unconstitutional the Stolen Valor Act, a 2006 statute Congress passed "to protect the reputation and meaning" of military honors.
  • AP Headline: 'Crash the Tea Party' organizer is threatened (media found their talking point)

    04/14/2010 10:10:26 AM PDT · by a fool in paradise · 81 replies · 2,753+ views
    AP ^ | April 14, 2010 11:25 AM ET | no byline
    ...Beaverton Middle School teacher Jason Levin's group wants to infiltrate the Tea Party to discredit the organization. But since Levin's name has been associated with the "Crash the Tea Party" Web site, he has been harassed by people who say they belong to that group. Levin told KATU-TV that his phone has been ringing around the clock and his answering machine is recording threats...
  • Should Lying About Military Service Be A Crime?

    02/08/2010 8:46:03 AM PST · by lbryce · 98 replies · 1,644+ views
    Business Insider: Law Review ^ | February 8, 2010 | Lauren Streib
    When does bragging become illegal? Federal courts in California and Colorado will soon hear two cases that struggle with the question of whether lying about military service is a criminal offense. In California, Xavier Alvarez said during a public meeting that he received the Medal of Honor for his time in the Marines. Alvarez never served in the military and pleaded guilty to misrepresenting himself on the condition that he could appeal on the basis of the First Amendment. In Colorado, Rick Strandlof said he was a former Marine with a Purple Heart and Silver Star, claims which he used...
  • Odd Challenge: Lying, is it constitutionally protected?

    02/04/2010 1:16:04 PM PST · by AstroTurf _Queen · 92 replies · 1,385+ views
    One News Now ^ | 2/4/2010 | Chad Groening
    An organization dedicated to honoring the nation's prisoners of war and missing in action service members is outraged that a federal law against lying about military medals is facing First Amendment challenges. Lawyers in California and Colorado cases have made similar arguments against the "Stolen Valor Act," saying that lying is protected by the First Amendment unless it does real harm.
  • Dems red-faced over veteran imposter

    05/16/2009 11:15:41 AM PDT · by Mount Athos · 44 replies · 2,997+ views
    denver post ^ | 05/15/2009 | Michael Riley
    Rick Strandlof, executive director of the Colorado Veterans Alliance and the man most colleagues knew as Rick Duncan, was front and center during the 2008 political campaigns in Colorado. He spoke at a Barack Obama veterans rally in front of the Capitol in July, co-hosted several events with then- congressional candidate Jared Polis and attacked Republican Senate candidate Bob Schaffer in a TV ad paid for by the national group Votevets.org. And the mostly Democratic candidates he supported — looking for credibility on veterans issues and the war — lapped it up appreciatively. Now, politicians are dealing with news that...
  • War Resistor Successfully Challenges 'Misconduct' Charge

    04/22/2009 2:22:04 AM PDT · by FreeAndEqual · 26 replies · 938+ views
    DigitalJournal Magazine ^ | April 21/2009 | Stephen Dohnberg
    War Resistor Sgt Chiroux successfully challenged his misconduct hearing, facing down the U.S. Army and offering a potential "green light" for other soldiers challenging the legality of U.S. action in Iraq and Afghanistan.
  • Slidell man sentenced for illegally wearing military uniform, medals

    09/30/2008 12:33:48 PM PDT · by rvoitier · 51 replies · 2,715+ views
    WWL-TV ^ | Tuesday, September 30, 2008 | Mike Sanders
    A New Orleans federal judge has sentenced a Slidell man in connection with a case where the man illegally wore a Navy uniform, complete with medals, at a wedding, according to U. S. Attorney Jim Letten.
  • Fake Soldiers Used In RNC Video (Barf Alert)

    09/04/2008 12:17:25 PM PDT · by Yo-Yo · 35 replies · 508+ views
    CBS News ^ | Sept. 4, 2008 | Michael Rey
    It was a video that was supposed to elicit soaring patriotism and real emotions about the Pledge of Allegiance. But to do that, it used fake soldiers and a staged military funeral instead of the real thing. On Tuesday night, 15-year-old Victoria Blackstone, a sophomore at the St. Agnes School in St. Paul, led the crowd at the Xcel Energy Center in the Pledge of Allegiance. The audience heard her 434-word essay, “Pledging myself to the Flag of the United States of America,” an essay she’d entered it in the “Wave the Stars & Stripes” essay contest and won. The...
  • 'War Stories' Have Some Facing Prison

    08/18/2008 2:51:29 PM PDT · by Interesting Times · 100 replies · 471+ views
    The Oklahoman (via Military.com) ^ | August 18, 2008 | unsigned
    John Smith said he was a Navy SEAL who was imprisoned in Vietnam after his helicopter was shot down. Troy Brodrick spoke in schools about his 30-year military career in which he earned three Purple Hearts and flew President Eisenhower as an Air Force One pilot. William Whitely, a former University of Oklahoma professor, told stories of his career as a Navy SEAL while he served as a mentor to Naval ROTC students who wanted to follow in his footsteps. Trouble is, they were lying. Smith, Brodrick and Whitely are among a growing nest of military imposters, people who make...
  • Military donations favor Obama over McCain

    08/15/2008 6:09:54 AM PDT · by driftdiver · 40 replies · 119+ views
    Yahoo/AP ^ | Aug 14, 2008 | AP
    Troops donate more campaign money to Obama than McCain, despite McCain's military record WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. soldiers have donated more presidential campaign money to Democrat Barack Obama than to Republican John McCain, a reversal of previous campaigns in which military donations tended to favor GOP White House hopefuls, a nonpartisan group reported Thursday. Troops serving abroad have given nearly six times as much money to Obama's presidential campaign as they have to McCain's, the Center for Responsive Politics said. .... "Obama will work tirelessly to uphold this nation's sacred trust with its veterans, to ensure they are not forgotten...
  • Pre-Teens in Combat

    06/21/2008 9:10:09 AM PDT · by joeystoy · 7 replies · 91+ views
    Give N' Go ^ | 06/21/2008 | J. Martini
    In a dramatic report, the New York Times has uncovered a conspiracy by the United States military to conscript children. Posing as male nannies, bow-tie wearing Republicans wisk away infants as their single mothers fulfill their dreams in exciting careers away from the drudgery of traditional home-based chores. They then force these babies into combat zones and cover up their misdeeds with the complicity of the right-wing hate media. This conspiracy came to light in today's Times. Buried deep inside a front page story detailing how George W. Bush has personally foreclosed on millions of American homeowners in order to...
  • Obama Talks of Family's Military Service (Family liberated Auschwitz...Yeahhhhh)

    05/27/2008 11:48:44 AM PDT · by PA Engineer · 189 replies · 492+ views
    Cbs News ^ | May 26, 2008 | Maria Gavrilovic
    “My grandfather marched in Patton’s army, but I cannot know what it is to walk into battle like so many of you,” he told a small group of veterans here Obama also spoke about his uncle, who was part of the American brigade that helped to liberate Auschwitz.
  • It's the Law: Medal liars face new sanctions

    12/27/2007 7:44:51 AM PST · by SmithL · 80 replies · 531+ views
    Sacramento Bee ^ | 12/27/7 | Peter Hecht
    State law enforcement may now cite those who falsify their war exploits. The new director of the Three Valleys Municipal Water District in Claremont introduced himself with tales so harrowing, so seemingly courageous, that people took notice.Fellow board member Dan Horan said Xavier Alvarez told him he saved a U.S. ambassador – and the American flag – while wounded by gunfire during a daring rooftop helicopter rescue in Lebanon. Horan said he was puzzled when Alvarez, a board member elected in 2006, later changed his story to say it happened in Iran. And he was skeptical when his colleague also...
  • Fog of War (TNR admits Beauchamp lied -- my title)

    12/01/2007 1:49:32 PM PST · by Talking_Mouse · 54 replies · 325+ views
    The New Republic ^ | 12/10/2007 | Franklin Foer
    For months, our magazine has been subject to accusations that stories we published by an American soldier then serving in Iraq were fabricated. When these accusations first arose, we promised our readers a full account of our investigation. We spent the last four-and-a-half months re-reporting his stories. These are our findings. ::very big snip:: In retrospect, we never should have put Beauchamp in this situation. He was a young soldier in a war zone, an untried writer without journalistic training. We published his accounts of sensitive events while granting him the shield of anonymity--which, in the wrong hands, can become...
  • URGENT: Iraq Veterans Against The War To Smear Military as Babykillers (Winter Soldier II)

    11/15/2007 7:06:55 PM PST · by Doctor Raoul · 136 replies · 1,507+ views
    As I said at the GOE rally, the Iraq Veterans Against The War are out to smear this generation of military as "babykillers" the way their mentors the Vietnam Veterans Against the War did during the Vietnam era. But I never expected that they'd give away their intent by calling it "Winter Soldier" just like their mentors. Winter Soldier was a series of 109 interviews that were turned into a book and film. According to B.G. Burkett's investigation of Winter Soldier in his book Stolen Valor, many were phony soldiers that never served, others like VVAW leader Al Hubbard served...
  • The Myth of the Anti-War Warrior

    11/12/2007 2:52:53 PM PST · by Richard Poe · 15 replies · 73+ views
    Poe.com ^ | November 12, 2007 | Richard Lawrence Poe
    by Richard Lawrence Poe Monday, November 12, 2007 Permanent LinkMore Columns "HE WAS a war hero who hated the war." So intones the narrator of a classic film. Some readers may remember it. Who was this war hero who hated the war? Was it Senator John Kerry, who turned to anti-war activism after earning a Bronze Star, a Silver Star and three Purple Hearts in Vietnam? Was it Congressman John Murtha, a former Marine intelligence officer in Vietnam, who now demands that we cut and run from Iraq? Or was it perhaps Norman Mailer, who died this past Saturday?...
  • Kerry Spokesman Sets Limbaugh Straight on Swiftboat Smears (Classy mouthpiece, Jean-Francois)

    11/12/2007 9:09:43 AM PST · by Sub-Driver · 348 replies · 3,819+ views
    11/09/2007 Kerry Spokesman Sets Limbaugh Straight on Swiftboat Smears WASHINGTON D.C. – Kerry spokesman David Wade issued the following statement today in response to Rush Limbaugh, who said on his radio show that Kerry’s Swift Boat attackers in 2004, “were right on the money and nobody has disproven anything they claimed in any of their ads, statements, written commentaries, or anything of the sort.” “At first I thought, that’s not Rush, that’s just the OxyContin talking. Nonetheless, this is a despicable but unsurprising new lie from a man whose closest brush with combat came when customs officials tried to take...
  • Congressman Stark Berated ‘Dissenting’ Veteran on Answering Machine

    10/23/2007 7:18:04 PM PDT · by Iam1ru1-2 · 48 replies · 141+ views
    Breitbart.tv ^ | Breitbart.tv
    Here's a dispicable comment that Stark said to a Veteran on his answering machine: Stark's comments to a veteran
  • Orson Scott Card: Phony Soldiers and Patriotism

    10/23/2007 11:57:55 AM PDT · by Tolik · 60 replies · 477+ views
    The Ornery American ^ | October 7, 2007 | Orson Scott Card
    It was quite a spectacle. Democratic Congressmen and Senators standing there denouncing Rush Limbaugh for attacking American soldiers by calling them "phony." We already know how much they hate Limbaugh and other conservative radio talk show personalities. Talk radio is the only part of the American media that the Left does not already control, one way or another; that's why they're trying to reintroduce the "fairness" doctrine (equal time for all points of view) only for talk radio, while the media the Left controls remains "unfair." But if they can make Rush Limbaugh look unAmerican, unpatriotic, well -- then all...