{"id":29401,"date":"2012-04-06T09:45:15","date_gmt":"2012-04-06T13:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=29401"},"modified":"2012-04-06T09:45:15","modified_gmt":"2012-04-06T13:45:15","slug":"soldier-impersonating-billionaire-is-not-free-speech-apparently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29401","title":{"rendered":"Soldier impersonating billionaire is not free speech, apparently"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d never heard this before, but I guess Brandon Lee Price was AWOL from Fort Polk, LA (if ever there was a place where an AWOL should be excused, it&#8217;s Fort Polk) when he impersonated billionaire Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen with a debit card. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pittsburghlive.com\/x\/pittsburghtrib\/news\/pittsburgh\/s_789934.html#ixzz1rGeLCgsx\">Pittsburgh Live<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The FBI affidavit accompanying his arrest said Brandon Lee Price, 28, was absent without leave from Fort Polk, La., in January when he persuaded a Citibank customer service representative to change the mailing address for an unspecified Allen account from Seattle to Price&#8217;s Station Street address and, three days later, persuaded another representative to send him a new debit card.<\/p>\n<p>Price was arrested March 6 and posted a $10,000 unsecured bond, but U.S. Magistrate Judge Cynthia Reed Eddy ordered federal marshals to hold him until Monday to give the Army time to decide whether to charge him with desertion. The U.S. Marshals Service didn&#8217;t return a call seeking comment, but the U.S. Attorney&#8217;s Office confirmed Price was turned over to the Army last week.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And, being a typical private, he used his phony bank card at Gamestop and the Dollar Store. The Dollar Store? Really? <\/p>\n<p>I guess civilians get more upset when we impersonate them than they do when they impersonate us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d never heard this before, but I guess Brandon Lee Price was AWOL from Fort Polk, &hellip; <a title=\"Soldier impersonating billionaire is not free speech, apparently\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29401\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Soldier impersonating billionaire is not free speech, apparently<\/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-29401","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\/29401","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=29401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}