{"id":48303,"date":"2014-05-21T09:02:28","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T13:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=48303"},"modified":"2014-05-21T09:02:28","modified_gmt":"2014-05-21T13:02:28","slug":"south-carolinas-stolen-valor-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=48303","title":{"rendered":"South Carolina&#8217;s Stolen Valor law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Carolina governor, Nikki Haley, signed that state&#8217;s new stolen valor act into law yesterday, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.therepublic.com\/view\/story\/c070c395fb5947599575dc3a16a114e8\/SC--Stolen-Valor-SC\">The Republic<\/a>. Considering that the state subsidizes a large number of phoney POWs there, prosecutors should be pretty busy enforcing the law;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The law signed by Gov. Nikki Haley makes the lie a misdemeanor, with the punishment depending on the lie. In a conviction, anyone pretending to be decorated war veteran could be sentenced to up to a year in jail and a $5,000 fine.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>[Rep. Stephen Goldfinch, R-Murrells Inlet]&#8217;s bill specifies that the lie becomes a crime when someone uses it to get a military benefit, seek a job or promotion, affect a court case, or secure votes for public office. The lie can be either verbal or written, including in a resume.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As we&#8217;ve seen, having a law and prosecuting a criminal are two different things. We&#8217;ve also seen how prosecuting people for stolen valor could prevent other crimes &#8211; stolen valor criminals are also criminals in other regards. So, I challenge South Carolina&#8217;s prosecutors to enforce the laws. Trust me when I say that SC is a target rich environmant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Carolina governor, Nikki Haley, signed that state&#8217;s new stolen valor act into law yesterday, according &hellip; <a title=\"South Carolina&#8217;s Stolen Valor law\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=48303\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">South Carolina&#8217;s Stolen Valor law<\/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-48303","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\/48303","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=48303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}