{"id":14827,"date":"2009-10-03T17:39:20","date_gmt":"2009-10-03T22:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=14827"},"modified":"2009-10-03T18:16:06","modified_gmt":"2009-10-03T23:16:06","slug":"strandlof-still-at-large","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=14827","title":{"rendered":"Strandlof still at large"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As TSO wrote yesterday, Richard Strandlof aka Rick Duncan, our favorite VoteVets, IVAW member, is about to be arrested, but he remains at large. But all of the local news sources are putting his face out there. The feds shouldn&#8217;t have let him go, then they wouldn&#8217;t have to look for his goofy ass.<\/p>\n<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/news\/ci_13475253?source=rss\">Denver Post<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Strandlof will be charged with one count of making false claims about receipt of military decorations or medals, a misdemeanor punishable by a year in jail and a $250,000 fine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cbs4denver.com\/local\/Authorities.issue.arrest.2.1224760.html\">CBS Channel 4<\/a> finds a World Can&#8217;t Wait connection;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Besides Duncan, Strandlof also used the alias of Rick Pierson, according to the arrest affidavit. Strandloff was a war protester in Reno, Nev., and coordinator for the anti-war group the World Can&#8217;t Wait. While in Reno, Slater was part of an effort to bring a Grand Prix race there, according to the arrest affidavit.<\/p>\n<p>A woman who answered a phone for a number listed for Strandlof in Incline Village, Nev., near Reno said it was a wrong number. No number was listed in Colorado Springs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/article\/20091003\/NEWS\/910039990\/-1\/rss11\">The Vail Daily<\/a> writes that at least as an imposter he was worried about appearances;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When asked at one fundraiser why he wasn&#8217;t wearing his medals, Strandlof said wearing them &#8220;would appear egotistical,&#8221; according to the affidavit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gazette.com\/news\/rick-63179-strandlof-.html\">Colorado Springs Gazette<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.krdo.com\/Global\/story.asp?S=11250125\">KRDO Channel 13<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our friends at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kktv.com\/home\/headlines\/63325692.html#\">KKTV Channel 11<\/a> have a video up of the story (but I can&#8217;t embed it here)<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a picture of Strandlof from that video. I want the image burned into the brains of some of our Strandlof deniers;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/strandlof-winter-soldier1a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14832 aligncenter\" title=\"strandlof-winter-soldier1a\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/strandlof-winter-soldier1a.jpg\" alt=\"strandlof-winter-soldier1a\" width=\"490\" height=\"434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/strandlof-winter-soldier1a.jpg 580w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/strandlof-winter-soldier1a-300x265.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, you might have joined after Jesse MacBeth, but you didn&#8217;t join after Rick Duncan.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe they can get James Branum to defend him with the fake-but-accurate defense. Or maybe he can blame the Marine Corps for not giving classes on how to be a fake Marine with a reattached finger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As TSO wrote yesterday, Richard Strandlof aka Rick Duncan, our favorite VoteVets, IVAW member, is about &hellip; <a title=\"Strandlof still at large\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=14827\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Strandlof still at large<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,37,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiwar-crowd","category-ivaw","category-phony-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}