OT: Create Your Own Military Unit!!!

[dragoon500ly]

Originally Posted by Legbreaker

Let them read I say. Anyone low enough to try profiting in this way from those fighting and dying without putting their own lives on the line doesn't deserve any respect at all.
Wearing medals that don't belong to you or your direct ancestors, impersonating a serviceman (current or ex), starting up a private army and passing it off as legitimate are all examples of behaviour which should be severely punished in my book.

And the Ninth (Short)Circuit Court of (Mis)Appeals considers it to be Free Speech and thus protected by the 1st Admendment.

I know that for the 1st Admendment to work, it has to apply to all. But I also feel that this kind of action/speech is not what the founding fathers intended. These people are not protesting government action, they are simply taking advantage of people. It is nothing more than fraud, outright theft, lying in order to steal...hmmm isn't that against the law or do I misunderstand?

If you take the recent appeal, you have the right to proclaim your graduation from SEAL training, your multiple awards of the Medal of Honor, you can promote yourself from Private to General of The Army, adward yourself a knighthood and a few titles of nobility and while you are busy at the ole computer why not run off a few copies of your new letterhead, proclaiming yourself to be President of the United States. Ah, that's right! If I proclaim myself to be President of the United States and I didn't win the election, then I can be arrested and sent to Federal Prison. The ole Double-Standard!!!

Ah well! This is General of the Army, Sir Dragoon500ly, Prince of Reeses Pieces, Duke of Nothingness, Count Chocolate, winner of the Excellence in Warfare Medal and the I Forget to Duck During Incoming Fire Adward signing off!