District court judge rules in favor of phony war heroes
 

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...hose-surplus-/

Despicable. I hope that this thing is appealed. What a slap in the face to true war heroes.

This is the kind of crap you get when you stock the courts with liberal activists.

:stare:

WTF!?!?! Can't you EVER turn it off???

I've never come across this in the UK but it wouldn't suprise me if it went on here :nope:

He was a Bush appointee.

I guess doing 30 seconds of homework isn't going to stand in the way of SteamWake's knee-jerk partisanship.

He was appointed by W.

It's a legitimate question to ask what interest the government has. I'd need to know more to have a real opinion. Sometimes freedom has unexpected consequences we have to put up with.

The government issued the medals. I guess you could take the approach that you're falsifying a government "document" or something along those lines. Free speech isn't unlimited and I think speech that's meant to defraud or deceive should be limited.

I like the counterfeiting analogy they made in the article:

Well that's disheartening.......

Well you could always ask to see a copy of the persons DD214. If they say they don't have one/never got one/"what's that?" they're a fraud. You can also request a copy of a persons DD214 from the National Archives, not sure how much it costs though. There's also mundane questions you can ask them like "what unit were you in in boot camp?", if that comes up with no answer of a sketchy one they could be a fraud.

Regardless of the other ways mentioned above there does need to be some form of punishment for crap like this. Life as a Trident sailor was boring and uneventful, but I don't feel the need to make crap up about my service. If you served, be proud that you served and did your job, not someone else's.

I think the guys doing this are indeed disgusting scumbags, don't get me wrong. I'm just not sure about with what basis a reasonable charge could be made.

It's sorta like burning a flag. I think it's a disgusting thing to do, but I also don't think it's the government's business if that's how some jackass wants to "express himself."

I think it would probably be illegal to impersonate an active member of the military, but claiming past service? Isn't it enough that the bulk of the US population would be disgusted with them if they were exposed?

personally i think the "Stolen Valor" act needs re-addressing.

Yes... it should prohibit your local neighborhood 40 year old GI Joe wanna be from purchasing uniforms and medals to decorate himself as a veteran just for grins.

but it shoulndt prohibit people like me...

what I hoped to do is build my grandfather a flag case, inside this flag case would be a folded flag, and a Bronze Star, ww2 service medal and a few other things... but not now :shifty:

They should be given the choice of 10 years in prison, or a tour of duty.