{"id":19259,"date":"2010-05-27T06:56:48","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T11:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=19259"},"modified":"2010-05-27T06:56:48","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T11:56:48","slug":"the-blumenthal-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19259","title":{"rendered":"The “Blumenthal Law”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Doug Sterner sent us this link from the Deseret News<\/a> last night about orin hatch’s proposed bill that would add an amendment to the so-called Stolen Valor Law which would make it illegal to claim that an individual served in the armed services in combat.<\/p>\n

The Stolen Valor Act makes it illegal to falsely wear military decorations and medals. In proposing his amendment, Hatch said, “It is a crime to dishonor the sacrifice of so many by falsely representing combat service for the purposes of self-promotion or benefit. My amendment would deter those who would falsely prop themselves up in order to appear worthy of the award and title of ‘combat veteran.’<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, the solution to Congress is always more legislation – when you’re a hammer, everything looks like a nail. I happen to agree with Mr. Sterner in this instance – we don’t need a law to make speech criminal, we need to build a national database. The availability of information coupled with the access that already exists would put an end to all of the phonies.<\/p>\n

A braggart in a bar would have his lies capped when his military record can be checked on the spot from a cell phone. people like Blumenthal would think twice if their service records were available while he was giving his campaign speech. Military.com used to have such a database in rudimentary form but they’ve let it deteriorate over the past year or so. <\/p>\n

All that isneeded is the money from Congress, and we can avoid all of the legal wrangling that a bill to curb 1st Amendment speech would cause. <\/p>\n

Mr Sterner tells me he’s back before Congress with HR 666 (you can see the bill at the search function here<\/a>) a bill which would require the services and the Department of Homeland Security, the Transportation Department, and the merchant marines to establish a database;<\/p>\n

`(c) Public Availability- The Military Valor Roll of Honor shall be a searchable database and available for public inspection.’.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It might stem the recent spate of phonies. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Doug Sterner sent us this link from the Deseret News last night about orin hatch’s proposed … The “Blumenthal Law”<\/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":[84,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues","category-phony-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19259","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=19259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}