{"id":57687,"date":"2015-01-15T09:00:57","date_gmt":"2015-01-15T14:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=57687"},"modified":"2015-01-14T18:35:36","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T23:35:36","slug":"stolen-valor-laws-in-the-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=57687","title":{"rendered":"Stolen Valor laws in the states"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chip sends us a link to Maine’s proposed Stolen Valor Act<\/a> that will make false claims of any military service that results in monetary gain greater than $10 or a false claim of service in a war or wearing\/claiming verbally an award or decoration that the wearer didn’t earn a “Class E crime”.<\/p>\n

A person is guilty of a false claim of military service status if, with the intent to solicit aid, sell or attempt to sell property or otherwise solicit an amount of more than $10, the person falsely claims to be a veteran or member of the Armed Forces of the United States or a state military force, falsely claims to have served in any war or conflict in which the United States was engaged or orally, in writing or by wearing a military decoration or rank, falsely claims to have been awarded the military decoration or rank.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Also we get a peek at the Arkansas stolen valor law as it is being written from Stu;<\/p>\n

[I]t will cover wearing in person or in a photograph or social media posting, publicly displaying as their own, or claiming to have received
\n in an application for employment,
\n to obtain a benefit including a purchase discount,
\n to promote a business, charity or endeavor,
\nany uniformed services uniform to represent one\u2019s self as a current for former service member, award or qualification not documented on a DD Form 214, or if received after the DD Form 214 was issued, on an original signed, numbered orders issued by the appropriated issuing authority identified thereon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A violation of the Arkansas Law with be a Class A Misdemeanor and comes with a $1000 fine for the first incident that is doubled for subsequent violations.<\/p>\n

Since the feds don’t think enforcement of their laws is sexy enough to pursue criminals, maybe the states can get the job done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chip sends us a link to Maine’s proposed Stolen Valor Act that will make false claims … Stolen Valor laws in the states<\/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-57687","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\/57687","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=57687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}