{"id":19933,"date":"2010-07-30T12:18:29","date_gmt":"2010-07-30T16:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=19933"},"modified":"2010-07-30T12:18:29","modified_gmt":"2010-07-30T16:18:29","slug":"exercising-his-first-amendment-right-to-defraud-a-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19933","title":{"rendered":"Exercising his first amendment right to defraud a community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wfaa.com\/news\/local\/Attorney-general-investigating-Fallen-Heroes-Foundation-99600034.html\">TSO sent me this link<\/a> about a Walter Coleman who pretended to be a veteran to start a foundation to raise money for a Fallen Heroes monument in Texas<\/p>\n<p><object height=\"288\" width=\"470\"><param name=\"movie\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" value=\"http:\/\/www.wfaa.com\/v\/?i=99600034\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"AllowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wfaa.com\/v\/?i=99600034\" AllowFullScreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" height=\"288\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"470\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Walter Coleman said the United States Fallen Heroes Foundation was a non-profit agency \u2014 but it wasn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Coleman used two names, and he represented himself as a veteran when he is not.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it&#8217;s sick that someone would essentially try to fraudulently raise money in the name of men and women who have given their lives for their country,&#8221; said State Rep. Chris Turner (D-Kennedale).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hey! The fuckwad was just exercising his First Amendment right to pretend he&#8217;s a veteran. So what if he ripped off a few rubes&#8230;his freedom of speech is more important that the damage he did to the community, the foundation and the reputation of veterans, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>It was a television station that busted Coleman &#8211; he couldn&#8217;t have been doing anything wrong, because the State or the Feds would have busted him, right? This is just a witch hunt against a good American workin&#8217; his Bill of Rights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TSO sent me this link about a Walter Coleman who pretended to be a veteran to &hellip; <a title=\"Exercising his first amendment right to defraud a community\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19933\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Exercising his first amendment right to defraud a community<\/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":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phony-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19933","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=19933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}