>>Nope that crazy little woman is right - its you who just displayed ignorance - oh noes. Go to google read the law - basically you need to fraudulently claim having received a valor award specified in the act. Did the Senator asshat do that? I don’t think he did.
I also asked a JAG officer about this directly pertaining to Senator asshat - they said the same thing as - well its in the law.<<
Dude, yours is a losing argument and quite beside the point. People accusing Danang Dick of stolen valor don’t give a hoot about the legal meaning of that term. What we do give a hoot about is that this “Senator” is actually a charlatan who lied multiple times about service in combat in a war where those who actually were in combat put their lives at risk on behalf of their country. We consider that deception the equivalent of stolen valor, and no appeal to the legal terminology matters to us.
Interesting the law is besides the point when discussing the law.
We were discussing a point law (bout the legal meaning of that term) - not the morality, opinion,public sentiment or how you feel. You can consider anything to be anything you want it doesn't make the law. He can't be charged under the statue if he didn't claim any of the valor listed in the law. Is he a liar - absolutely is that illegal - in this case probably not.
But you don't care about the law and the context of the discussion, are more interesting in conflating things - so string him up even though he was popularly elected - that a liar was elected to high office OMG!
To claim “He never claimed a medal...” is bullshit. Every soldier who set foot in Viet Nam received at least one medal for doing so. So to claim to have been there is, indeed, claiming a medal. Even REMFs who just tended bar at the O Club.