{"id":55223,"date":"2014-09-16T09:59:43","date_gmt":"2014-09-16T13:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=55223"},"modified":"2014-09-16T12:35:06","modified_gmt":"2014-09-16T16:35:06","slug":"alito-congress-should-protect-valor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=55223","title":{"rendered":"Alito; Congress should protect valor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=55224\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-55224\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Samuel-Alito-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"Samuel Alito\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-55224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Samuel-Alito-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Samuel-Alito-266x333.jpg 266w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Samuel-Alito.jpg 384w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/law\/2014\/09\/15\/justice-alito-urges-congress-to-protect-nations-military-honors-system\/\">Wall Street Journal<\/a> reports that Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito spoke to the 2014 Congressional Medal of Honor Society Awards gala in Knoxville, TN the other day. As one of the minority of the USSC who voted in favor of the Stolen Valor Act of 2004, Alito urged Congress to strengthen Stolen Valor Laws;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI fervently wish that we find a way, that Congress will find a way to protect the integrity of our country\u2019s system of military honors,\u201d Justice Alito said, making a comparison to laws cracking down on counterfeit luxury goods. \u201cIf there is no First Amendment right to buy a fake Rolex, why should there be a First Amendment right to wear a fake Medal of Honor?\u201d he said at the ceremony.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While I agree with the Supreme Court&#8217;s decision that the Stolen Valor Act could probably be used to squelch free speech, and while I agree that &#8220;the remedy for speech that is false is speech that is true&#8221;, I&#8217;ve also seen that there are no protections for the people who do the &#8220;speech that is true&#8221; thing. Several of the people reading this right now are victims of the litigious creature in Oregon who thinks that he can sue us into making him a Chief Petty Officer.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, we were victimized by another creature who hired a hitman for $14,000\/month to get this blog removed from the internet so he could be a phony SEAL and a phony Indian. As many of you heard in the recording of my conversation with the State Police, there are no protections for our own free speech. Prosecutors are less willing to prosecute valor thieves than they are willing to prosecute those of us who speak the truth based on lies and fabrications.<\/p>\n<p>The old POW Network was litigated into obscurity, not because anything Mary and Chuck Schantag put on that website was false, but because they were victimized by a litigious phony with a law degree. Phonies can post websites jam-packed with lies about us, but let us tell the absolute truth about them, their own actions, their own false stories and we&#8217;re victimized by the police, prosecutors and judges. <\/p>\n<p>What we do only has value to the veteran community, because the cretins who claim valor that they didn&#8217;t earn make us look bad, usually because they are guilty of other crimes besides just stealing valor and they use their pretend experiences in the military as an excuse for their bad behavior. But, the fact remains that we&#8217;re not able to enforce our community&#8217;s standards alone and in this case we need some sort of government intervention, since we can&#8217;t get the support of our local law enforcement community. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Added;<\/strong> Some guy at <a href=\"http:\/\/burnpit.us\/2014\/09\/justice-alito-talks-stolen-valor-and-problems-we-face-exposing-phonies\">The Burn Pit<\/a> agrees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wall Street Journal reports that Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito spoke to the 2014 Congressional &hellip; <a title=\"Alito; Congress should protect valor\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=55223\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Alito; Congress should protect valor<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stolen-valor-act"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55223","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=55223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/55224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}