{"id":40568,"date":"2014-03-23T06:00:36","date_gmt":"2014-03-23T10:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=40568"},"modified":"2014-03-22T22:15:07","modified_gmt":"2014-03-23T02:15:07","slug":"why-we-cant-get-stolen-valor-prosecuted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=40568","title":{"rendered":"Why we can&#8217;t get stolen valor prosecuted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Folks have been sending me <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/stories\/2014\/03\/22\/the-civilian-who-provoked-outrage-after-wearing-a-military-uniform-speaks-out-and-what-you-learn-might-change-your-opinion-of-him\/\">this link from The Blaze<\/a> all weekend, about how we should feel sorry for Joseph Matthew Scott, the fellow at San Joachin Delta College who was busted as a phony last week by two real veterans. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The California civilian who provoked outrage after donning a military uniform on a college campus explained Friday that he did not intend to offend anyone by doing so \u2014 in fact, he says his intentions were just the opposite.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was just supporting my cousins and my family in the military. And to those who I upset and made mad, I do apologize,\u201d Joseph Scott told KXTV.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had people tell me in email that he has the mind of a 12-year-old and we shouldn&#8217;t be picking on him &#8211; that the two veterans who confronted him were bullies. His grandfather says that Scott was dropped on his head at three years old and suffers from PTS &#8211; what a crock. <\/p>\n<p>Like I&#8217;ve said before, weeks before this incident, someone sent his name to Mary saying that he was claiming four Purple Hearts, that he was an MP and then he&#8217;s walking around with Master Sergeant rank and a Ranger tab telling people who confronted him that he left his ID card at home instead of admitting that he was wearing the uniform to &#8220;supporting my cousins and my family in the military&#8221;, yeah, sorry but all of y&#8217;all are just full of sh#t.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the FOIA request Mary sent about the 3rd of March;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=40569\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-40569\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Joseph-Matthew-Scott-FOIA-request-300x237.jpg\" alt=\"Joseph Matthew Scott FOIA request\" width=\"300\" height=\"237\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-40569\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Joseph-Matthew-Scott-FOIA-request-300x237.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Joseph-Matthew-Scott-FOIA-request-421x333.jpg 421w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Joseph-Matthew-Scott-FOIA-request.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The letter they sent to Mary was dated the 13th of March, the same day as the incident. He was already on our radar when those vets busted him on campus.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s a lying piece of shit and he&#8217;s no more suffering from PTS than any of the other phonies we busted. Yeah, he failed the ASVAB, but he didn&#8217;t finish high school either. There are tons of MFers out there who can&#8217;t pass the ASVAB, but they&#8217;re not out there trying to pass themselves off as a Ranger MP. This guy was using his uniform to make him into something he&#8217;s not.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When he was confronted, Scott says he didn\u2019t know how to react.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe guys who did confront me, I don\u2019t believe they really did it in a manner that they should have if they were true soldiers and true veterans,\u201d he said. \u201cI just really wish that they would have, you know, talked to me instead of judge me the way they did. But I do apologize for whoever I hurt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, he still wishes he could serve his country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d serve today,\u201d he told KXTV. \u201cOne phone call and I\u2019d be gone.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He was busted cold and he couldn&#8217;t talk himself out of it. Period. he was a shithead before he was busted and we&#8217;ve all seen those phonies say they were wearing it to honor someone, and that&#8217;s bullshit. They&#8217;re wearing it honor themselves for things they didn&#8217;t do. If I started going around representing myself as a judge or a prosecutor, they&#8217;d be up my ass.<\/p>\n<p>And mainly that&#8217;s why we can&#8217;t get people jailed for stolen valor &#8211; how many times have we here seen people make excuses for the phonies? Wives, girlfriends, sons and daughters. They always tell us how they have mental problems, or they were honoring some-damn-body. Screw &#8217;em, screw &#8217;em all.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re no different than the morons who defend the Boston Marathon Bombers or any of the other criminals who have cult worshipers.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court even made excuses for Xavier Alvarez when they overturned the first Stolen Valor Act. All of them should come out and say what they mean &#8211; they just don&#8217;t give a flying f**k about stolen valor. it was just another law that prosecutors and law enforcement backed to make themselves feel good, not that they ever had any intention to enforce it.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s all part of that divide between the sheep and the sheepdogs. When the herd feels safe again, screw those who made them safe. I stand fully behind those two veterans, because they put the teeth in our issue and screw civilians if they want to feel sorry for the retard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Folks have been sending me this link from The Blaze all weekend, about how we should &hellip; <a title=\"Why we can&#8217;t get stolen valor prosecuted\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=40568\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why we can&#8217;t get stolen valor prosecuted<\/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":[183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stolen-valor-act"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40568","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=40568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}