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Aug. 5th, 2011
Sergeant Major Rob Dickerson retired from the U.S. Army, having suffered combat wounds in 2007 while serving in Iraq. He should have received the Purple Heart, like all other military who are wounded in combat. But paperwork got messed up, and he had to spend two years convincing the Army that he'd gotten blown up.
So they sent him his Purple Heart.
By FedEx.
With $21 due.
This is how we treat our veterans? This is how we treat those who lay down their lives for service to their country?
And, to add insult to injury, the Army refunded the Sergeant Major the $21 with an apology and a money order.
Made out to the wrong name.
So they sent him his Purple Heart.
By FedEx.
With $21 due.
This is how we treat our veterans? This is how we treat those who lay down their lives for service to their country?
And, to add insult to injury, the Army refunded the Sergeant Major the $21 with an apology and a money order.
Made out to the wrong name.
The city and its police department are trying to criminally charge an anonymous online cartoonist for making fun of the police department.
Worse, there are no names named in the animated cartoons - cartoons which discuss inappropriate relationships by police officers, officers having sex on the job, officers sleeping on the job (possibly related to officers having sex on the job?), etc.
The cartoons have been posted anonymously, and the Renton police are attempting to breach the anonymity by charging the cartoonist with cyberstalking - of the police department. The television station that broke the story wrote:
Worse, there are no names named in the animated cartoons - cartoons which discuss inappropriate relationships by police officers, officers having sex on the job, officers sleeping on the job (possibly related to officers having sex on the job?), etc.
The cartoons have been posted anonymously, and the Renton police are attempting to breach the anonymity by charging the cartoonist with cyberstalking - of the police department. The television station that broke the story wrote:
“The cyberstalking angle doesn't pass the laugh test," [Venkat] Balasubramani told KIRO-TV. "It's a serious stretch and I'd be surprised if somebody looked at it and realistically thought these acts actually fit the statute and we could make somebody criminally liable."The courts better come down hard, fast, and nasty on this.
When we asked about the more likely scenario, Balasubramani said, "I think they were trying to get at the speaker and they looked around for a statute that shoehorned their conduct into and sent that to Google and said ‘turn over the information.”