[Poohoppesmase]

Gribbler's been chomping at the bit since MikeH PWNT himself. Don't you have something better to do?

Adults are trying to have a discussion.

MikeH wrote something incorrect about crocodiles, I corrected it without being rude, then you came along over a day later and made some obnoxious remarks about it. Gee, maybe people would be nicer to you if you weren't such an ass.

[OgrGlgHu]

Gee, maybe people would be nicer to you if you weren't such an ass. Given the thread title mocked americans for their education, the irony is delicious. Apparently, ignorance of evolution doesn't end at the American border.

[scemHeish]

Pretty sure the law considers it fraud for non-doctors to provide medical advice, non-lawyers to provide legal advice, etc. Licensing agencies take that very seriously. Then you have con artists who actually work as a teacher, drive buses, wear a collar, fake a badge.
Even if there is no economic motive, it's still fraud.

Nope not fraud, in the first examples, the offense against the state would be called something like "Unlicensed practice of ...", if they took money or value from the client, that would be fraud, sans the value, it would be malpractice (and if the fake doctor touches the person during an 'exam' it would be battery). As for the ones working a job unlicensed, again their is the jb, the economic value, but even then, it would likely be prosecuted as something other than fraud,

[mplawssix]

Nope not fraud, in the first examples, the offense against the state would be called something like "Unlicensed practice of ...", if they took money or value from the client, that would be fraud, sans the value, it would be malpractice (and if the fake doctor touches the person during an 'exam' it would be battery). As for the ones working a job unlicensed, again their is the jb, the economic value, but even then, it would likely be prosecuted as something other than fraud, So if the MOH recipients received a stipend and someone falsified documents to receive the stipend that would be charged as fraud?

Interesting, I didn't know that there had to be some economic benefit associated with it in order to be considered fraud. Misrepresentation alone wasn't all it entailed. Thank you Lefty.

[SpecialOFFER]

I haven't seen mention of it. According to the Supreme Court, it's OK to claim to be a Medal Of Honor recipient. Lying is now protected under free speech.
Does no one finding this disgusting? The ultimate lying on your resume, and it's OK?

Dude, we allow KKK rallies under free speech protection for fvck's sake.

[Bugamerka]

Stuff like this is a problem. Faker was in Iraq Veterans Against the War and talks about atrocities, executions of women and children, etc.



"When we were doing the night raids in the houses, we would pull people out and have them all on their knees and zip-tied. We would ask the man of the house questions. If he didn't answer the way we liked, we would shoot his youngest kid in the head. We would keep going, this was our interrogation. He could be innocent. He could be just an average Joe trying to support his family. If he didn't give us a satisfactory answer, we'd start killing off his family until he told us something. If he didn't know anything, I guess he was SOL." His uniform is out of regulations but people still ate up his claims.

[KignPeeseeamn]

You might want to ask yourself why people were so ready to believe claims like this. I think that might point to a slightly bigger problem than fake soldiers.

Yeah. Ready to believe claims like this because they're stupid and watched too much Platoon.

Or maybe the fact that they need to go to fakes to find these stories...

[crestorinfo]

I was thinking more of Haditha, Abu Ghraib etc.

And **** completely hits the fan when stuff like that happens. They need fakes to act like stuff is happening all the time in secret.


Here's a forum where people post fakes. It happens so much:

http://www.professionalsoldiers.com/...play.php?f=117

[BPitt]

Another video on this:

[vintsqyuid]

Thank you. If we wanted their oil, we'd have taken over and stayed.

[Ngwkgczx]

We're not occupying either.

[Sttim]

Yes. The fact that we have nutjobs who believe that Iraq was invaded for oil profits.

Yes, sensible people believe you invaded to cause a huge rise in military spending and the channeling of money to war profiting corporations tied closely to the administration of the time.

Come on now, you're not really naive enough to believe it was about terrorists are you?

[prmnwoks]

Yes, George Bush, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Tony Blair, et al. created an international conspiracy to generate artificial profit for defense contractors, as opposed to the far more plausible (not to mention widely known to be true) explanation that they thought Iraq had nuclear weapons and turned out to be wrong.

So we've upgraded it to nuclear weapons now?

Give you poor mutts another 10 years and it'll be that we had to go to war to destroy their planet busting space station.

Given that we now know they were being flooded with intelligence showing that there really wasn't a good reason to go to war, there are only a few reasonable explanations for why they did: Stupidity to the point of imbicility, Mentally disturbed, or corrupt. Of the three I'd call corrupt the more likely. As for why Blair went along, I still have no idea. The most likely appears to be that that government was completely in thrall to the US to a degree that was frankly sickening to the UK people and will hopefully never be repeated.

There's a list this forum provides me to put conspiracy theorists on. Welcome to it.

[TeNuaTe]

How about we just say it was all due to sheer bigotry and / or revenge?

[addyta.org]

It don't bother me.
I wear my medals and badges with pride because I know I earned them.

[Rqqneujr]

Someone should have exercised their free speech and shot him.

Wait... Have I got that right?