{"id":58195,"date":"2015-02-11T13:09:41","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T18:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=58195"},"modified":"2015-02-11T13:09:41","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T18:09:41","slug":"florida-congressmen-want-to-crack-down-on-stolen-valor-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=58195","title":{"rendered":"Florida Congressmen want to crack down on stolen valor sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunshinestatenews.com\/story\/florida-congressmen-want-eric-holder-crack-down-fake-military-medals\">Sunshine State News<\/a>, comes an article about Florida Congressmen Ted Yoho, R-Fla., and U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy, D-Fla. who want the Justice Department to crack down on Chinese manufacturers of US military insignias; <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe ask the attorney general to conduct an investigation and request that Alibaba [a Chinese company selling replicas of American military medals] stop providing the marketplace for the sale of these sacred medals,\u201d Yoho added. \u201cAnyone producing replicas of these hard-earned medals and decorations is showing disrespect to the true value and meaning of these honors. We ask the Justice Department, respectfully, to do all it can to shut this practice down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis activity is utterly disrespectful and an insult to the brave men and women of the armed forces and their families whose sacrifices these awards represent,\u201d said Murphy. \u201cI look forward to working with Rep. Yoho and the Department of Justice to address this issue.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I can appreciate their passion on this subject, but it will probably work as well as the &#8220;War on Drugs&#8221;. How has it worked making the import of drugs illegal? The solution is to force prosecutors to take phonies to court and make stolen valor a crime, not the manufacture of their phony finery. You can write laws all day long, but people who are engaged in illegal behavior don&#8217;t care much if they&#8217;re not being punished for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Sunshine State News, comes an article about Florida Congressmen Ted Yoho, R-Fla., and U.S. Rep. &hellip; <a title=\"Florida Congressmen want to crack down on stolen valor sales\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=58195\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Florida Congressmen want to crack down on stolen valor sales<\/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-58195","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\/58195","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=58195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}