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2011-04-03 Home Front: Culture Wars

False claims to valor are not victimless crimes

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Posted by 746 2011-04-03 09:58|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 According to the 9th circus, Soldiers are outcasts and dont really count anyway.

Posted by 49 Pan 2011-04-03 10:36|| 2011-04-03 10:36|| Front Page Top

#2 Remember at the next soiree to introduce yourself as a justice of the Ninth US Circuit. As long as it doesn't harm anyone, it's OK.

Posted by Procopius2k 2011-04-03 10:45|| 2011-04-03 10:45|| Front Page Top

#3 The same society now labels the unborn "non-humans." No surprises here. It is what Rome has become in these latter years.

Posted by Besoeker 2011-04-03 11:01|| 2011-04-03 11:01|| Front Page Top

#4 On July 16, 2010, a federal judge in Denver ruled the Stolen Valor Act is "facially unconstitutional" because it violates free speech and dismissed the criminal case against Strandlof who lied about being an Iraq war veteran.[19] Strandlof, 32, was charged with five misdemeanors related to violating the Act specifically, making false claims about receiving military decorations.

Well, I should be able to represent myself as a police officer, Federal judge, school teacher, lawyer, engineer, or physician with impunity because I am merely exercising my free speech. I think the court's ruling is based on flawed reasoning.

Posted by JohnQC 2011-04-03 11:02|| 2011-04-03 11:02|| Front Page Top

#5 I disagree that civil penalties are adequate for this offense.

There are only 85 living Medal of Honor recipients, out of a population of 313 million Americans.

85 living Medal of Honor recipients *for* 313 million Americans.

85 men whose lives are defined by the Medal of Honor they carry. Men, who I like to say, that even if they are elected President of the United States, their title should be "Medal of Honor recipient, President of the United States."

85 men who represent not just their personal honor, but the honor of their family, community, State and nation.

No person should ever be allowed to take that away, or diminish it, by pretending they are what they are not.

Even trying to do so means that they need at least a year in a federal penitentiary to contemplate what they have done. And justifiably, a year in solitary confinement.

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-04-03 11:12|| 2011-04-03 11:12|| Front Page Top

#6 Agreed Anonymoose, there should be stiff criminal penalties.

Posted by JohnQC 2011-04-03 11:17|| 2011-04-03 11:17|| Front Page Top

#7 Introducing myself as a justice on the 9th could be dangerous to my health!! NO WAY!!

Posted by 49 Pan 2011-04-03 11:40|| 2011-04-03 11:40|| Front Page Top

#8 #7 Introducing myself as a justice on the 9th could be dangerous to my health!! NO WAY!!
Posted by: 49 Pan

you could always say you were something more respectable, Pan, like a serial pedophile

Posted by Frank G 2011-04-03 12:15|| 2011-04-03 12:15|| Front Page Top

#9 Or ran a spamming operation.

Posted by Pappy 2011-04-03 14:14|| 2011-04-03 14:14|| Front Page Top

#10 I thought Grand Spamming carried the death penalty up in the 30th century.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2011-04-03 14:27|| 2011-04-03 14:27|| Front Page Top

#11 Will this go to the next level for review? The Ninth gets reversed an awful lot, I thought.

Posted by trailing wife 2011-04-03 23:34|| 2011-04-03 23:34|| Front Page Top

#12 This is a major problem, as the SCOTUS gets some 8,000 cases a year appealed to it from the Circuit Courts, of which it can only hear perhaps two or three dozen. The rest are turned down, which means the decision of the Circuit Court applies.

It has become so ridiculous that the SCOTUS just takes cases that it plans to overturn, because to affirm wastes a "slot" to overturn.

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-04-03 23:56|| 2011-04-03 23:56|| Front Page Top

#13 So what the 9th circus court is saying is that if I print out a bunch of checks with Bill Gates name and address, write myself a bunch of checks, go down to the bank and cash them, its ok?

Yes you have the right to free speech. You also have the (progressives - please pardon my foul language here) responsibility of that speech.

Posted by CrazyFool 2011-04-04 00:03|| 2011-04-04 00:03|| Front Page Top

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