{"id":30561,"date":"2012-06-28T11:53:12","date_gmt":"2012-06-28T15:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=30561"},"modified":"2012-06-28T11:54:27","modified_gmt":"2012-06-28T15:54:27","slug":"it-aint-over-quite-yet-or-looking-for-a-silver-lining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30561","title":{"rendered":"It Ain&#8217;t Over Quite Yet &#8211; Or Looking For A Silver Lining?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As TSO points <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30557&amp;cpage=1#comment-639807\" target=\"_blank\">out here<\/a> there IS <a href=\"http:\/\/www.govtrack.us\/congress\/bills\/112\/hr1775\" target=\"_blank\">a bill pending<\/a> that may actually be a better option for dealing with Stolen Valor anyway.<\/p>\n<p>The Summary:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Stolen Valor Act of 2011 &#8211; Amends the federal criminal code to subject an individual who, with intent to obtain anything of value, knowingly makes a misrepresentiation regarding his or her military service to: (1) a fine, one year&#8217;s imprisonment, or both if the misrepresentation is that such individual served in a combat zone or in a special operations force or was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor; and (2) a fine, six months&#8217; imprisonment, or both, in any other case. Provides that: (1) this Act shall not apply to a misrepresentation that an individual did not serve in the Armed Forces, and (2) it is a defense to prosecution that the thing of value is de minimis.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Time to shake off this set back and get to work!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As TSO points out here there IS a bill pending that may actually be a better &hellip; <a title=\"It Ain&#8217;t Over Quite Yet &#8211; Or Looking For A Silver Lining?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30561\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It Ain&#8217;t Over Quite Yet &#8211; Or Looking For A Silver Lining?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geezer-alert","category-stolen-valor-act"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30561","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\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}