does age give this guy a pass for threatening to shoot anti-trump protestors?

[Demovictory9]

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[Haggis for Breakfast]

1. How sad that he forgot one of the things he fought for

was Freedom of Speech.

[Ferrets are Cool]

3. Or that others fought and died for

he may have sat behind a desk for the entire war.

[Farmer-Rick]

2. As a Navy Veteran of the cold war he does not speak for me.

I joined fully expecting to have to fight Russians. We never did, but in Russia they never had freedom of speech.

If Putin, the little short mobster, had not taken control of Russia they may have gotten that freedom.

We in the US have it today and I'll be damn if some old man can't get his act together enough to understand the importance of that freedom.

It wasn't for wannabe mobster that most Vets signed up to fight for.

[llmart]

4. Assholes come in all ages...

and all walks of life. Not all veterans are worthy of being honored. Wasn't Timothy McVeigh a veteran? I can think of many others who are/were assholes also.

[Mopar151]

5. He needs an intervention

By a large cop. Time to check for weapons, and a few counts of misdemeanor assault. Right after a nice little "72 hour psych hold" to get his attention....

[Shrike47]

11. Assault? Did he touch someone? In my state, it doesn't even rise to the height of harassment.

[Mopar151]

13. Touch is "battery"

In NH, sufficient threats seem to do it! And judges here take "Criminal Threatening" seriously enough that misdemeanor assault is a minor charge.

[BBG]

6. Plenty of his peers shared his thinking...

... about the Viet Nam protests. Same authoritarian deference that many in the military are trained to embrace.

[BlueStater]

21. Anyone who wants to murder another human being for using their FOS is a disgrace to this country.

They should go live in North Korea. They'd feel far more at home there.

[Midnight Writer]

7. The pisser is that Donald Trump Jr. retweeted this. Stirring up the Trump crazies.

The Trump family won't be happy unless blood is spilled on their behalf.

[JDC]

8. I totally agree

He wants violence. He's pushing for it.

[bdamomma]

10. I saw the

title of Jr's book

Triggered: How the Left Thrives on Hate and Wants to Silence Us
2019


I think they are delusional aren't they talking about themselves???? Fuck them, they are inciting violence.

[Skittles]

9. I'm a veteran

and I DESPISE veterans who use their status as an excuse to trash protesters

FUCK that, and age is IRRELEVANT

[VOX]

14. Thanks, Skittles, for everything you do.

For for every deserving ass-kicking you dole out, and for electing to your time in a career of military service to this country.

[Skittles]

22. well, I did not make it a career

I served four years, but since I was a GI brat I moved constantly while growing up.....mention a year and I have to think about where I was, although a song can take me back instantly

[VOX]

32. Not sure how I came to think it was a career.

I think it was YEARS ago when DUers posted their photos online (how times have changed), and yours was taken when you were in the service. Somehow I thought you were still active.

Funny how a song has such power in our memories. Just ONE song can bring a flood of images from another time, down to recalling the very street you were driving on when it first played on your car radio.

It all goes by too fast.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

12. Nope. No pass.

Threatening to murder people is not okay.

[TomSlick]

15. There's something odd about this guy.

He's wearing tech corporal rank (a WWII rank - now obsolete) and enlisted disks above the notch on the blouse collar BUT infantry officer brass below the notch. These things do not belong together. Similarly, a T-corporal ought not have officer's braid on his blouse cuff.

The above makes me skeptical of the Combat Infantry Badge and other awards. I'd like to see his discharge documents.

[912gdm]

18. Stolen valor?

AKA thrift shopping LARPer?

[TomSlick]

28. I make it a point not to come to such conclusions absent more definitive proof,

at least not in writing - even under a DU nom de plume.

Let's just say that I'm curious about his uniform and would like to see his discharge documents.

[David__77]

23. Plus, he doesn't look over 90 to me.

There for surrender of Japan? I guess it could be true. If so he aged well.

[flotsam]

24. Thanks

I knew the guy was hinky, and now I know just how nuts. I had to look up his unit patch which is real folk but fully understand the difference between what we called "specialists" and hard stripers....he was a pogue which in my experience meant a non-combat type...

[TomSlick]

31. I have some of the same thoughts about the technician rank.

From my limited research, technicians could be assigned to combat units during WWII - just like specialists can now. A T-Corporal would almost certainly not have been an infantry soldier but at various times in the past, the criterion for the CIB were less clear than now. The newer, stricter rules are the reason the Army adopted the Combat Action Badge, for non-infantry or SF soldiers who were engaged in combat. I have seen the CAB on the uniforms of all manner of folks - including JAG officers (usually JAGs assigned to brigade combat teams).

As a retired Army JAG, I will try not to take exception at the reference to "pogue." I prefer "desk-borne ranger."

[NCLefty]

16. Ten bucks says he thinks Obama was a Kenyan Muslim and should have been impeached/arrested/deported.

[912gdm]

17. Sorry, no.

his service was to the totality of the constitution. Not just the parts he agrees with.


He fought so those people could be there calling out 'his guy'.. If he doesn't like it, he can go on a 72 month VA Medical strike.

[Progressive Jones]

19. I'd lock him up right now. Clearly, he's a menace to the human race. nt

[BlueStater]

20. Threatening to murder people for expressing their Constitutional rights.

I think this asshole fought for the wrong side during the war.

[Demovictory9]

25. it's odd that he's so angry that he wants to kill. They aren't protesting the military.

they are protesting Trump policies.

[onethatcares]

26. wonder which rock they found him under

or what barstool in the VFW he crawled out from under.

As someone posted, "he's aged very well to be at the surrender of Japan" and to have served with MacArthur.

[Thomas Hurt]

27. He should be ashamed he did that in his uniform.

[raccoon]

29. I voted No since there wasn't Hell no available. Nt

[Maru Kitteh]

30. Other: Depends on whether he's been diagnosed with dementia/ALZ.

[LuvNewcastle]

33. That's what I'm thinking.

Did he sneak out of the nursing home that day?