[Hot Tabasco]

I have to agree with the ruling. With that being said, he needs to pursued legally by every organization that fell for his fraud and he needs to be publicly ridiculed on the front page of every newspaper in the area where he lives.......

[William Tell]

Hot Tabasco said: "I have to agree with the ruling."

I do too. The burden is on the government to prove that the infringement is necessary.

The government simply needs to create a registry of award recipients so that the public can verify such claims.

Any funds needed to create and maintain such a registry can easily be obtained by shutting down the BATFE and its infringing registries of various arms.

[muawiyah]

The ruling misses the whole point of the awards. The compelling public interest is that their legitimacy be maintained. If you have frauds going about misrepresenting their status, or if you have other frauds attacking veterans who hold such awards legitimately, that the frauds can get away with their lies disestablishes the legitimacy of the awards.

If the awards are delegitimized, no one will bother to do that which results in their being awarded.

What that means is is some pretty serious stuff.

The federal judge in this case is probably a senile old drooler who failed to enlist when he had the chance. He should simply be removed from the bench by any lawful means.

This is not a free speech issue ~

[rabidralph]

How is this not fraud? I think impersonating a government official is a crime. And whatever claims of fraud are used for that law would be applicable here.