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To: FoxInSocks
"An element of fraud is knowingly and intentionally making false representations."

I'm in favor of the Stolen Valor Act, but it needs to be differentiated from simple fraud, which is where I think a lot of people make their arguments against it. Fraud normally has to be perpetrated in order to obtain something of (usually monetary) value, and some dumbass running around with a CIB, MOH, or SF tab can simply claim he wasn't trying to profit from it. The problem as I see it, is that not all things of value can be expressed in monetary terms...i.e. honor and valor. That this law has been struck down (by this judge, anyways) is a simple indicator that our society no longer places value on these things as it once did.

24 posted on 07/16/2010 11:41:44 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Joe 6-pack

The “value” was a donation in kind.....he represented himslef as a decorated member of the armed forces...then used that persona to attack a political target from a position of “moral authority” IE: a “decorated veteran”...

this is just another case of the libtatrds twisting anything they can....

You can now be imprisoned for daring to write your representaive a letter...if you are NOT a libtard....

And yet you can LIE LIE LIE and they think it’s free speech....so long as you ARE a libtard...

It’s animal farm on a grand scale....

We’re all equal...some are just a little more equal...

It’s days like these that I actually look forward to a mad max world....


35 posted on 07/16/2010 11:57:34 AM PDT by Crim (The Obama Doctrine : A doctrine based on complete ignorance,applied with extreme incompetence..)
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