Posted on 01/23/2019 6:11:37 PM PST by TigerClaws
Nathan Phillips, the Native American activist who falsely accused Covington Catholic High School students of blocking him during a confrontation he initiated, has a criminal record — including assault and escape from jail — and appears to have misrepresented his military service.
Phillips, 63, suggested high school junior Nick Sandmann, the teenager at the center of the viral encounter after separate D.C. rallies, face expulsion for failing to "accept any responsibility” or apologize to Phillips publicly.
In his own teenage years and early 20s, Phillips, using his adoptive name Nathaniel R. Stanard, was charged with escaping from prison, assault, and several alcohol-related crimes, according to local news reports at the time from his hometown of Lincoln, Neb.
Phillips, who was 19 at the time, was “charged with escaping from the Nebraska Penal Complex where he was confined May 3,” according to a May 9, 1974, article in the Lincoln Star. The court approved a bond of $500 and set a preliminary hearing for May 14.
He pleaded guilty to assault on June 19, 1974, and was fined $200. In addition, he was charged with underage possession of alcohol in 1972, 1973, and 1975, as well as negligent driving. A destruction of property charge against him was dropped in August 1973, but Phillips was sentenced to one year probation for a related charge of alcohol possession by a minor. In December 1978, he was charged with driving without a license.
Phillips also appears to have misrepresented his military service in the U.S. Marines. In April, he was quoted by Vogue as saying: "You know, I’m from Vietnam times. I’m what they call a recon ranger. That was my role."
In fact, Phillips spent most of his time in the Marines as a refrigerator technician after initially being an anti-tank missileman for four months. Phillips, then named “Stanard,” was not deployed outside the U.S. and never saw combat, according to the Marine Corps. Military records provided to the Washington Examiner show that Phillips served in the Marine Corps Reserve between 1972 to 1976 and reached the rank of private, E-1, on April 18, 1975.
The Lakota People’s Law Project, some of whose members participated in the Indigenous Peoples' March with Phillips and later encountered the Covington students who had taken part in the March for Life, described Phillips as a Vietnam veteran.
That was incorrect, but Phillips himself appeared not to have claimed he was in Vietnam, repeatedly describing himself in interviews as a “Vietnam times veteran." In 2000, however, he described himself to the Washington Post as having been "a Marine Corps infantryman," without mentioning that for the vast majority of his service he had been a refrigerator technician.
Phillips did not respond to questions about his military record discrepancies or his criminal record.
n an interview on Sunday with Rewire News, Phillips criticized the Covington Catholic students for their behavior, saying Native American children would not be allowed to act that way.
“We’re indigenous. We’re different than that. When we see our youth going the wrong way, we will go up and say, 'You are doing the wrong thing there nephew, or grandson,'" he said. “This is just the wrong way. I tell them, 'This is the way you have to behave. This is wrong, this is right. You gotta do it a certain way. We have protocols.'”
“You know, if [the Covington Catholic student] was my child, I would not be happy with the school officials right now to allow my child to behave that way. I don’t care if my child is that way,” added Phillips. “When he’s out in public, he’d better behave.”
Phillips has described being forcibly taken from his birth family at the age of 5 and struggling with alcoholism as a young man before becoming sober. He has also spent much of his life agitating for Native American causes and seeking his own identity as a member of the Omaha Tribe.
He told CNN this week: "I was raised away from my family. I was put in foster care and so I didn't have a traditional indigenous upbringing. I was brought up just like these young guys were brought up. Well, maybe I wasn't Catholic school, but I was public school.
Some social services dept of foster care could probably give permission.
His jail record is in NEBRASKA!
This article claims that he is 63, yet ALL of the previous articles say that he is 64.
His entire life story has more holes in it and contradictions, to boot, to give one a headache and we still don't know HOW his supposed "wife", who has bone cancer ( which was said NINE YEARS AGO ! ), is still alive and in the hospital, still with "bone cancer, yet he has the time and money to go to D.C. to harass the Covington boys and try to invade and disrupt a Catholic mass, in the Basilica.
NONSENSE!
Probably his date of rank after his last bust.
I’m sure. LOL!
In his excellent video at: Nathan Phillips, AKA Nathan Stanard, Native American Drummer Dude was NOT a Vietnam Vet
Heh, in the great video, Shipley says to Philips as he faces the camera: “Don’t go AWOL in the Marine Corps. They don’t like that s**t.”
Looks like they camp out at the Lincoln Memorial. Notice the date and the rhetoric about “Native Americans”.
Chief Lying Sack-O-Shit!
Years ago a judge would give you an option to join the military or jail.
Hes a Kenmore Kommando.
CC
I’m 2004 3 offenses in az speeding, no insurance, failure to show financial responsibility. Failure to appear.
The radical loon would make the perfect house guest for Box of Rocks Piglosi or her new protege Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, don’t ya think?
Yeah, that (unlike Mr. Phillips) is pretty straightforward.
There is a photo of Phillips protrsting with his stupid drum in from of Trumps hotel in dc in 2017.
There is a photo of Phillips protrsting with his stupid drum in from of Trumps hotel in dc in 2017.
Felon, drunk, serial liar, provocateur, marine reserve, not in combat, refrigeration tech and nothing else of consequence.
The important question though is what does he do for a living? Where does he get his money to do all this galavanting about the country protesting? Who is paying his way?
Tribal Elder
Tribal Elder
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In the violent acts committed against Native women, Native American women are more likely to have injuries that require medical attention than crimes committed against other races. They are also more likely to face an armed assailant than female victims of violent acts of other races.
On a number of Native American reservations Native Women are murdered at a rate representing ten times the national average.
Violent crime rates over all on Native American reservations are 2.5 times the national average while some individual reservations reach 20 times the national average of violent crime."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Americans_and_reservation_inequality#Violence_against_Native_women
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And who is committing these crimes? Why, it's young Native American men. He really opened a can of worms.
I am not particularly fond of making fun or overly criticizing someone who has a drug or alcohol issue, or someone who is mentally unsound.
I usually want to let that dog lie, because I figure they have enough problems being who they are. Weak people often evoke in me the sentiment “Boy, I am glad I am not that person.” None of us is without fault and there are people who do unpalatable things not out of a focus of evil, but out of a focus of weakness.
But this guy engenders none of that forbearance. People like him are a cancer on society and deserve to be pilloried, ridiculed, and run out of society on a rail.
He is actively and maliciously involved in the racial grievance industry, and just attempted to ruin the lives (for his own political purposes and self-aggrandizement) of some unfortunate teenagers. That rat should be outed and his ability to do this again should be obliterated. It won’t, because the racial grievance industry is an integral part of the left, what they use to pit one segment of society against another.
So this guy Philips will be embraced and accepted in many parts of the left as an aggrieved cultural warrior instead of the morally decrepit, corrosive lying piece of crap that he is.
And that says a lot about the Left.
But supposedly he was ALREADY a RESERVIST, when he was sent to jail, several times over!
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