The Government \u2026has not shown, and cannot show, why counterspeech, such as the ridicule respondent received online and in the press, would not suffice to achieve its interest.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Justice Kennedy continues in US v. Alvarez;<\/p>\n
The remedy for speech that is false is speech that is true. This is the ordinary course in a free society. The response to the unreasoned is the rational; to the uninformed, the enlightened; to the straight-out lie, the simpletruth.<\/p>\n
[…]<\/p>\n
Society has the right and civic duty to engage in open, dynamic, rational discourse.<\/p>\n
[…]<\/p>\n
The American people do not need the assistance of a government prosecution to express their high regard for the special place that military heroes hold in our tradition. Only a weak society needs government protection or intervention before it pursues its resolve to preserve the truth. Truth needs neither handcuffs nor a badge for its vindication.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
We\u2019re not violating your first amendment protections, mostly because only the government can do that, since the Bill of Rights was written to protect us from the government, not from each other.<\/p>\n
Don\u2019t send your wife, girlfriend, partner to the blog to defend you. It only makes you look like the giant pussy you are, hiding behind those skirts of your love interest. In the end, we\u2019re going to win, and you will have to explain to the person to whom you lied why you\u2019re surrendering. And it makes them look gullible and stupid. It\u2019s not their fight; it\u2019s not their place to extract you from the morass that you\u2019ve created for yourself.<\/p>\n
We also know that your identity wasn\u2019t stolen when we have pictures of you wearing a uniform, unless the identity thief also stole your face. If we check to see if you\u2019ve filed a police report on the theft of your identity and you haven\u2019t, it makes you look less than truthful.<\/p>\n
Yes, we\u2019ve had people dug up after they died because they lied about their service to get a spot in a veterans\u2019 cemetery when they weren\u2019t authorized. So the family\u2019s last memory of their dearly departed was as a lying POS. We\u2019ve also had headstones altered when their Stolen Valor made it to that venue. Come clean with your family before you pass.<\/p>\n
Once you\u2019re busted, you should stop pretending. Once you\u2019re on our radar, we\u2019re still watching, and when you put that shit back on your clothes, we\u2019re going to catch you again, more quickly and then we have to go through all of that shit again. So just stop it. We can make arrangements with someone who lives near you willing to take possession of your phony finery to satisfy our own mistrust of your claims to stop being a lying POS.<\/p>\n
If you\u2019re emailing or commenting to threaten us with legal repercussions, you\u2019ll be better off first getting a competent attorney of your own and being honest with them because you\u2019re only going to be further humiliated if you do it in the public forum. To save you some typing, charging us with libel or slander is charging us with making false statements. So unless you\u2019re prepared to prove that our statements about you are false in court, please refrain from using those terms.<\/p>\n
Section 230 of Title 47 of the United States Code (47 USC \u00a7 230)\u00a0 says that “No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.” This federal law preempts any state laws to the contrary: “[n]o cause of action may be brought and no liability may be imposed under any State or local law that is inconsistent with this section.” The courts have repeatedly rejected attempts to limit the reach of Section 230 to “traditional” Internet service providers, instead, treating many diverse entities as “interactive computer service providers.”\u00a0 The comments, posts written by guest bloggers, tips sent by email, and information provided to us through an RSS feed are all considered information provided by another content provider. We can not be held liable for defamatory statements contained therein.<\/p>\n
You should also refrain from death and\/or physical threats. We’ve watched as folks who made threats to us frog-marched out of the courtroom while we giggled uncontrollably.<\/p>\n
We\u2019re not ever taking down our posts about you unless you can prove that we made a mistake. We\u2019re pretty good at identifying forged DD214s, too. Even if we were so inclined, there\u2019s a thing called an \u201cinternet cache\u201d over which we have no control. The post that we wrote about you will remain on the internet forever. So begging us to take it down would have no effect even if we felt mercy for you. But that\u2019s not likely anyway. So don\u2019t ask.<\/p>\n
The best way to avoid the wrath of public opinion is to not start in the first place. We\u2019re going to catch you eventually, so you\u2019ll always be looking over your shoulder. If you served, be proud that you did what few Americans would, if you didn\u2019t serve, but you want to wear that which others have given their lives and their youth to earn, go sign on the line. Three years of honorary military service is going to be a lot easier than hiding from the pitchfork brigade for a lifetime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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