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.
Well put.
The CNN interview where he spouts one lie after another did it for me.
F this guy. He’s actively trying to destroy the lives of these teens.
“... it’s young Native American men.”
Correction. Make that “young native American males.”
A real fast burner, that one!
This retired navy SEAL did some research on Nathan Phillips:
Not a Vietnam Vet – He Was a Mechanic Who Went AWOL THREE TIMES
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/01/retired-seal-nathan-phillips-not-a-vietnam-vet-he-was-a-refrigerator-mechanic-who-went-awol-three-times/?omhide=true
I’m a refrigeration recon ranger too. I regularly check the refrigerator for tasty leftovers and to make sure there is plenty of beer on hand.
I think he spent most of his life in foster care.
The racial grievance industry is also an integral part of Cultural Marxism. This ideology is the central basis of Identity Politics.
I learned Phillips is a part of the Native Youth Leadership Alliance (NYLA) which is funding Phillips. The NYLA is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and the Social Justice Fund Northwest. These leftist organizations are motivated by the Marxist ideology which embraces Cultural Marxism. Shouldn’t these left-wing operations be blasted with protests for funding this grifter?
“Fonda was also a Vietnam vet, she played for the opposing team.” 
In the early 60's, the Marine Corps Reserves was 6 months active service (boot camp included) and then one weekend a month thereafter.
Not sure how it changed after that.
>>A lot of Native American kids were raised by white parents in an attempt to make integration easier. People were taken away from their families and sent to school, then adopted. It is a painful part of American history, but overall, Native Americans (except for the ones still on the reservation) have been very successful integrating into American society. Lemonade out of lemons.<<
Yeah, that did happen. Phillips claims he was forcibly removed from his mother when he was 5. I’m not so sure that was the case however since he is such a damned liar. There were eleven children in his family, his father was charged with not supporting them at one point but the charges were suspended. So if dad had left and mom had 11 kids, she might have willingly gave him up.
In the Marines:
1) Pay grade E-1 = Private = no stripe
2) Pay grade E-2 = Private First Class = one stripe
3) Pay grade E-3 = Lance Corporal = one stripe with rocker
>>I wonder what the actual tribe he is a member of is feeling about all this crap coming out? <<
They don’t seem to think a whole lot of him, but kind of feel sorry for him. He camped out in a teepee on the National Mall about 10 years ago. The WaPo did a story on him and a local Nebraska paper asked the tribe about him, this is what they said...
>Back in Nebraska, Omaha tribal Chairman Elmer Blackbird did not return calls seeking comment about Phillips’ vigil.
Privately, another tribal leader said Phillips is regarded back in Nebraska as a well-intentioned brother struggling to cope with a troubled childhood. The leader said the Omaha Tribe generally avoids the type of activism Phillips prefers.
“He’s just trying to find his way,” the leader said. “Let him find it.”<
I find it interesting that so many people have no idea what a corrosive and far left organization the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation is. Nearly every single cause it gives money to is anathema to conservatives.
And they give a LOT of money.
Which means...Microsoft is giving a lot of money, because if employees donate to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, they match the funds at I think 2:1.
So, by proxy, Microsoft gives a huge amount of real money to things we absolutely despise. I would choose not to use their products, but in my line of work, I have no choice.
As a reservist he would not normally have been full-time after early training. He might have had duty one weekend per month or something like that. There were 3 AWOL episodes reported, so those may have been times when he was “unavailable” to show up for scheduled reservist duties...???
I want to see what race he’s listed at in his military paperwork.
Why not? Senator Lieawatha Warren is an Indian, too!
Can't these Leftists ever simply tell the truth?
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