I think theyre unAmerican. Its clear this is about way more than just stolen valor, the comedian Ian Fidance, who has made a series of parody stolen-valor videos, told me. What year is it?) Last summer, Bart saw something odd at a nearby house. He was a darn good deputy, Terry Joy, who had been the sheriff of Callahan County since 2013, told me. After Leroy Foleys lies about his military service were exposed, Rick Jowers seemed certain to win the Republican primary and therefore become Callahan Countys next sheriff, since no one was running as a Democrat. But the States Attorneys and District Attorneys across the nation/state who wont prosecute and let criminals walk arent?? It doesnt make sense.. Illinois needs a new Director at DCFS. I am not a veteran. In the period after 9/11, ninety-one per cent of Americans were proud of U.S. troops, according to a Pew survey, and the military was the most trusted institution in the nation. Msg&Data rates may apply. Privacy Policy. D for the ad because the message wont move the needle positively for Sullivan. They would send them harassing e-mails, or theyd get a phone number and post that up on YouTube, and people would be calling it really late.. I guess its good that they managed to avoid repeating the stolen valor charge, but if the race becomes about Sullivans resume, Irvin is plenty happy with that. That began to change in 2004, after an Arizona man was featured in a local newspaper as a highly decorated veteran who had, among other improbable exploits, assisted in the capture of Saddam Hussein. Jowers released a statement, apologizing for misleading the community and claiming that he had distorted his record because he had been upset and angry at a certain personpresumably Foley. An Iraq War veteran was jumped and had his leg broken outside a Sacramento bar by two men who thought he was lying about being a marine. Schimpf was initially reluctant to say anything about Sullivan, but eventually issued this response: Although Jesse Sullivan, who is not a veteran and has never been on active duty, should be commended for having worked in Afghanistan as a civilian contractor, his claim to have led combat patrols flies in the face of Department of Defense regulations and established practices. - Rudys teeth - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 1:35 pm: Since Jesse spent time in Afghanistan, he should have no problem riding the Red Line from 95th Street to Rogers Park to meet and greet the voters. - Paddyrollingstone - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 12:09 pm: Getting some Jack! Firing people who are not willing to get the vaccine, those frontline workers who have been taking on the burden of this crisis, and then youre going to fire them? he was a civilian contractor, never active duty, and not a veteran. Ask an ISP officer from downstate in a couple of months how they like being rotated in and out of Chicago. For his work abroad, Sullivan received the Secretary of Defense Medal for the Global War on Terrorism, and the Department of the Army Commanders Award for Civilian Service. - Downstate Dem - Tuesday, Mar 29, 22 @ 10:14 am: From the 2022 Illinois Candidates Guide: INFLUENCING VOTERS WITH PUBLIC FUNDS Sullivan was part of what was known as the Armys Human Terrain System, which recruited civilians with social science backgrounds to help military commanders understand the local populations. Stolen Valor Valor Thieves' Gallery. - Big Mike - Tuesday, Mar 29, 22 @ 11:02 am: - Cheryl44 - Tuesday, Mar 29, 22 @ 11:05 am: Im a white person in my mid 60s and I dont 2ant to see cops in political ads. I am hoping Pritzker is patient enough to let the gop nominee get into the small government shtick and then pound them into dust over the recent gop big government intrusion moves. Then she decided to try to get the legislation passed. As soon as I watched that video of the debate, the Web sites administrator told me, I was, like, Lets FOIA both these guys.. Jesse Sullivan said he would "absolutely" use the National Guard to hunt down violent criminals, calls pandemic mandates "unAmerican" Thursday, Jan 27, 2022 - Posted by Rich Miller * WGN. I could be misreading the Statute though. You cant use law enforcement officers in their uniforms, in their cars, in a political campaign ad. Is that right? People lie about their service in YouTube clips, Facebook posts, and text messages; researchers have exposed a man who claimed on a dating site to have been on the SEAL team that took out Osama bin Laden, and another who posted photographs of himself wearing a Green Beret uniform on his wedding day. He lied till the end, Shumway said. It wasnt illegal to lie about a medalit was only when you pinned it on your lapel that you broke the law. Id have to check the laws, but it certainly seems like Mr. Government Ethics is using local government resources for political purposes. He was just a good old country boy who wanted to help you. If the blackout lasts into the regular season, Comcast subscribers also wouldnt have access to NFL Red Zone. - Retired and Still in Illinois - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 11:48 am: The idea of using the NG in this manner is ludicrous. Sullivan on governor's race: 'It's not about left vs right, this race They can do anything, including tracking down violent criminals better than the police who are trained. When Walter Washington Williams, thought to be the last surviving veteran of the Confederate Army, died, in 1959, President Eisenhower called for a national day of mourning. It has since been revealed that during his time as a student at St. Louis University back in 2006, he founded the magazine One World. Congress passed an amended statute, which made it illegal to fraudulently wear medals, embellish rank, or make false claims of service in order to obtain money or some other tangible benefit, making stolen valor an issue of fraud rather than of speech. Republican gubernatorial candidate Paul Schimpf has mostly followed Ronald Reagans 11th Commandment and avoided speaking ill of his Republican opponents. After more than two decades with the Navy, he worked as a contractor for Blackwater in Afghanistan and Pakistan, then ran Extreme SEAL Experience, a camp where civilians paid more than two thousand dollars for a week of simulated SEAL training. I sent Schimpf everything I had from the Sullivan campaign along with my own self-directed research. In-depth political coverage, sports analysis, entertainment reviews and cultural commentary. Mr. Sullivans words are those of a person who fundamentally does not understand democratic governments and basic civil rights. If you cant answer Did you serve? When I joined the military decades ago, I was required to get a regimen of vaccines, more when deploying overseas. The role of patient is well defined in our society, he said. - Brr Cold - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 3:26 pm: LOL. My military doesnt have nothing to do with what Im doing for the county right now, he said. Sullivan was recruited to be in the Army's Human Terrain System, which. The Kendricks did a little digging and discovered that Foley lived fifty-five miles away, in another county, which under Texas law made him ineligible for the position. A Fire Started in Waco. - The Dude Abides - Monday, May 9, 22 @ 12:32 pm: @47th Ward The Pro Life message will help him in the Primary but hurt him in the Federal should he secure the nomination. Instead, the campaign claimed, Sullivan led a small team consisting usually of another human terrain analyst, possibly a social scientist depending on the mission, and an interpreter, which would, embed with a military unit. Sullivan, was responsible for translating military objectives into collection priorities, executing the collection mission, reporting back, and advising the military decision-making process.. - Excitable Boy - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 1:28 pm: - commercial being on the civilian intelligence side over in Afghanistan, you see the power of our military and their abilities. Sullivan, a businessman from Petersburg, is spending nearly $90,000 to air his latest commercial on cable TV for two weeks, industry reports show. 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He was disheartened by the community response, but his wife was energized. Support Renewable Energy Credits. Slaughter character or even Remus, frankly being a valor thief at his peak, when kayfabe was still strong, past a few mid-1980s Marines. Same can be said for his extensive experience in public health and mental health. Stupid and illegal. It was a venting session that at times became very loud, earnest, and hard to ignore, Sterner wrote in Restoring Valor: One Couples Mission to Expose Fraudulent War Heroes and Protect Americas Military Awards System. His vehemence at first irritated Pam, who had gone back to school to study political science and had an assignment due the next day; then it inspired her. We were so focussed on Foley, we didnt even think about Jowers, Bart said. But, six years later, in United States v. Alvarez, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Xavier Alvarez, a water-district official in Southern California, who had been convicted of lying about receiving the Medal of Honor. Its mandatory. But, in his majority opinion in Alvarez, Justice Anthony Kennedy had suggested another way forward. He once again omitted details about his defense of violent criminals, his own record of tax hikes, and big-government expansion in Aurora. At the time, wearing an unearned military medal was against the law, but there was no particular consideration given to lies about military service; the same chapter of the federal statute also made it illegal to proffer a fake police badge, pretend to be a member of 4-H, or misuse the likeness of Smokey Bear. And he said, There are places out there that will research things like this., On January 13th, Amber filled out a form on Military Phonies, one of a number of Web sites dedicated to exposing people who invent or inflate their military service. A decade ago, Shipley began posting YouTube videos debunking false SEAL claims. All rights reserved. This ad, tho, this ad is definitely better than the Irvin ad, if only because it actually does capture your attention. I felt I was doing something really pretty dirtyleading this woman on to help her incriminate her husband so the F.B.I. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Cond Nast. Doesnt seem legal to me. - Roadrager - Monday, May 9, 22 @ 11:44 am: Oh, Jesse, I dont thing you want to try playing this one up against the big boys. This was pre-social media, and it started going kind of viral, Whitley said. They need to distinguish themselves, otherwise the campaign messages blend into each other for the GOP primary voter. It went big really kinda quick, he said. Upon being shot at there was always someone back from Overseas who immediately opened up. Im laughing because it happened a lot, he said. (Other patterns Shipley has noticed: there is a disproportionate number of phonies in Georgia, liars tend to be junior enlisted men, and stolen valor is primarily a white problem.). We do have some military police in the Illinois National Guard. Dude, you should have spent some of that early money on message and media training. More than a quarter of Pontiac's inmates are seriously mentally ill, Mississippi River flooding continues in Northwest Illinois, Pritzker says he doesn't expect major movement on Mayor-elect Johnson's tax ideas, *** UPDATED x1 *** Elections have consequences, *** UPDATED x1 *** Full Danville City Council votes Tuesday on ordinance to outlaw abortion medication, instruments. I dont want anyone near any levers of power who refuses to protect their citizens during a pandemic. When a relative unknown named Jesse Sullivan jumped into the race earlier this month with a nearly $11 million out-of-state-funded campaign war chest, state Sen. Darren Bailey and businessperson Gary Rabine both called him a member of the San Francisco/Silicon Valley elite because thats where his business was located and where much of his campaign money came from. If something strikes him as wrong, he feels obligated to fix it. Culture shapes lies, too. They would track down the guys family, his mother, his wife. So what sets these two apart on crime? Sullivan denies charges of signature fraud on primary petitions At least Sullie is talkin as opposed to Team Riffie & RichieRich. My father served 30 years in the Air Force and I have regard for servicemen. This is awful. Like Burkett, Sterner verged on the obsessive. Has anyone looked into Chief Deputy Rick Jowers past? someone asked on Facebook. northwest crackdown on fake veterans in "operation stolen valor" Phony Vets Scam more than $1.4 Million and Damage Image of Honorable Veterans U.S. Attorney Jeffrey C. Sullivan today announced some of the results of "Operation Stolen Valor," a year long effort to investigate and prosecute those who lie about their military service for financial gain or other reasons. According to DOD records, Sullivan was a Human Terrain Analyst under US Army TRADOC G2, who led. John Williams: You, on your website, use the National Guard a lot. Ill look around to see if its elsewhere. I am 100% Pro Life and I will be the strongest Pro Life governor in Illinois history. - Three Dimensional Checkers - Tuesday, Mar 29, 22 @ 9:55 am: ===You cant use law enforcement officers in their uniforms, in their cars, in a political campaign ad.===. - Proud Papa Bear - Tuesday, Mar 29, 22 @ 9:17 am: C. Its hard to spice up bland. Fire up the bluesmobile, Jake. Can you identify this man for me? Sterner peered at the image. In 1998, Burkett self-published Stolen Valor: How the Vietnam Generation Was Robbed of Its Heroes and Its History, which he wrote with the investigative journalist Glenna Whitley. Researching potential phonies was once a lonely enterprise; now there are a dozen Web sites, message boards, and Facebook groups that provide instruction and crowdsource the work. Thats why Republicans are fighting for the chance to finish second in the general election, and why 47ths proposed ad for Jesse is the right call. Other than showing that 6 sheriffs from counties most Illinoisans have never heard of support him, dont know what the point of this commercial is. =And then also the kids in schools and keeping them out of school= Adding Welp, they removed the ad. The only winner in this ad is the media folks making cash off of Sullivan. You always want to put a pretty young lady in a video if you can swing it. He started telephoning suspected liars, baiting them into telling ridiculous stories, and exposing them. Jesse Sullivan was an Army civilian, deployed by the Department of Defense to Afghanistan. Between Sullivan's mission in Iraq and Irvin's calling in the Guard, the stolen valor primary is officially underway. Theyve got your back, but whos got your video? On Reddit, civilians share stories of getting called out for wearing military-themed hoodies, and worry about whether theyre stealing valor by wearing camouflage pants. - LakeCo - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 1:24 pm: =Theyre hurting our children.= GOP governor candidate Jesse Sullivan should stop digging holes hell eventually have to fill himself. - Mcin33 - Wednesday, May 18, 22 @ 9:31 pm: My lord. Great agenda, have the guard do something theyre not trained to do and let Americans die during a pandemic. I have entire National Guard units that spend their weekends watching my videos on a big screen in an auditorium, seeing what Don is doing, Shipley said. Spencer Sullivan. No other GOP candidates were mentioned. Nice Irish ballot name, good hair and a nice jawline. Joey Gibson. Follow up question: How are vaccines hurting our children, Mr. Sullivan? He has outlined the actions of a dictator. Adding The final version of the TV spot is here. John Howard. That means he doesnt really want there to be a United States., Adding Sullivans problem is that he hasnt addressed this line from his announcement speech. Thanks for telling us who you are Jesse. - Pot calling kettle - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 2:18 pm: Come on down to Sullivans. Now, with just days to go, he's trying anything he can to grab voters' attention in a last-minute hail mary. The Oddballs and Odysseys of Charles Portis. Its very weird that Baileys home-grown true believers and Sullivans glitzy national consultants have both decided to let Irvin define the issues in this race. And these top-down mandates from Governor Pritzker who thinks he knows best. So I guess he could get rid of those. 2019 valor thieves; Ken Woerheide . Operation Stolen Valor | Northeastshooters.com Forums Sorry, comments for this post are now closed. - northsider (the original) - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 12:01 pm: - Excitable Boy - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 12:02 pm: If Sullivan wants to play soldier so bad why doesnt he just join the military and spare us the theatrics? I think he just got caught up in the moment, Sheriff Joy said. Stolen Valor : This ain't Hell, but you can see it from here He struck me as sincere, Shumway said. Yeah, I was wondering about that. I find it scary. Be sure to wear a mask on public transportation. But one thing I learned from that experience was that many if not most are also civilian police. Sullivan: Absolutely not. - JS Mill - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 11:35 am: He is against it and would likely go Missouri on us. In reality, hes an honorably discharged military veteran, Robert Dalton, the Clyde police chief, told me. He often points to his business background as an example of his leadership, but one of his nonprofits owed money to the state of California and another waslisted as delinquent., And those are just the highlights.With days to go, Jesse Sullivan is bending over backwards to rewrite history. What Mr. Sullivan is describing is treating the City of Chicago a foreign country to be occupied by military forces under the direct control of his administration. - Flyin' Elvis'-Utah Chapter - Tuesday, Mar 29, 22 @ 9:22 am: Only one of you guys get to play Clint Eastwood. Over a 3 month +/- period Fire Control never worked. Sullivan is woefully unqualified to be Governor. We are back with Illinois Republican gubernatorial candidate Jesse Sullivan. No public funds shall be used to urge any elector to vote for or against any candidate or proposition, or be appropriated Theres been some CW that Sullivan in the race hurts Bailey had helps Irvin, but I think youre right that it threatens to go the other way. . - Dotnonymous - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 2:18 pm: Jesse Sullivan declares American cities War Zones requiring National Guard soldiers to hunt down criminals. The hard part, Shipley said, is that nobody believes anybody anymore.. Is the New York I used to know gone for good? The first one claimed he served in the unit from Band of Brothers and also stormed the beach at Normandyit just didnt make any sense.. - Micky Finn - Friday, Jan 28, 22 @ 9:13 am: I used to think Rezin was a moderate. Foley repeatedly invoked his time in the Army. The lies that people tell shift with the appetites of the era. - Grandson of Man - Tuesday, Mar 29, 22 @ 9:12 am: Rated A- And then also the kids in schools and keeping them out of school, they put all the focus and energy on COVID. Speak much Jesse? Some of the so-called valor thieves busted by Shipley and others fit Tom Cottones descriptiontheir lies about their military service are part of a larger pattern of deception. After The Hunt for Red October, everyone was a submariner, Don Shipley, who investigates fake Navy SEALs, told me. Lets go save Illinois. Its like cancelling someone onlineyou cant fix the bigger problem, so you just attack this stranger., Shipley partly blames himself for seeding these confrontations. My guard unit was about half civilian police officers and the other half was largely college students using the guard to afford college (aged 18-21). While Sterner and other early stolen-valor researchers worked largely behind the scenes, Shipleys videos were as much about his life as about the men he exposed. He made one little mistake and look what happened. But when Shumways wife, Marcia, Googled Jowerss siblings, she discovered that they had died more than a decade after his military service. Basically, there were three of usmyself, Jug Burkett, and a couple out of Missouri, Doug Sterner, who calls himself an accidental stolen-valor researcher, told me. If you want to keep peoples attention, you start cursing., When the phone calls became routine, he and Diane travelled to a half-dozen states, sometimes staking out phonies houses and confronting them on camera. When a liars story starts to spin wildly out of control, Shipley cocks an eyebrow. As for the mask mandates, just add him to the long list of Republicans who are pro-COVID. He said, A Silver Starthats, like, never given out, Amber told me. On day one, I would end those. I am pretty confident that Sullivan will carry Menard County. Meh. A tall man with a square jaw and closely cropped hair, he touted his eleven years as a member of the 75th Ranger Regiment, an lite special-operations Army unit. Theyve got our backs. They amass millions of views and are re-aired on Fox News and on the program Tosh.0. They tend to follow a standard template: the accuser confronts a suspicious stranger in uniform in a big-box store or a mall food court, barraging him (or, rarely, her) with questions about where and when he served. More than a quarter of Pontiac's inmates are seriously mentally ill, Mississippi River flooding continues in Northwest Illinois, Pritzker says he doesn't expect major movement on Mayor-elect Johnson's tax ideas, *** UPDATED x1 *** Elections have consequences, *** UPDATED x1 *** Full Danville City Council votes Tuesday on ordinance to outlaw abortion medication, instruments. If you bought season tickets to see a team and thought that the team would make your dreams come true because of your investment or that the players would be there forever, sorry. He kept having odd interactions with strangers. - Steve - Tuesday, Jan 25, 22 @ 9:03 am: C-. - 47th Ward - Monday, May 9, 22 @ 1:41 pm: ===an attack like this from an opponent with the credentials to make it.===. These are just as good as, if not better than, jelly beans., Dear Deborah, Ive lost my phone and we need to talk., Stolen Valor: How the Vietnam Generation Was Robbed of Its Heroes and Its History, Restoring Valor: One Couples Mission to Expose Fraudulent War Heroes and Protect Americas Military Awards System. - Ron Burgundy - Monday, May 9, 22 @ 1:33 pm: To add, of course Sullivans attempt to introduce himself - and overplaying it - left him wide open for an attack like this from an opponent with the credentials to make it. Richard Irvin wont say where he stands on this issue. - Demoralized - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 11:18 am: Correction - We do have mandates for certain state workers in congregate care settings. To Bart, it seemed obvious that Foley didnt live there but was merely using it as a place to switch out his vehicle after work. The phrase originated with B. G. (Jug) Burkett, a Texas stockbroker and a Vietnam veteran, whose attempts, in the nineteen-eighties, to raise funds for a memorial to Vietnam veterans from Texas were made difficult, he wrote, by the stereotype that soldiers who returned from the war were losers, bums, drug addicts, drunks, derelictssocietal offal who had come back from the war plagued by nightmares and flashbacks that left them with the potential to go berserk at any moment. In 1988, Burkett read a story in the Dallas Times Herald about Carl Dudley Williams, a homeless man who had shot and killed a police officer. The only differentiation is outsider. More than a quarter of Pontiac's inmates are seriously mentally ill, Mississippi River flooding continues in Northwest Illinois, Pritzker says he doesn't expect major movement on Mayor-elect Johnson's tax ideas, *** UPDATED x1 *** Elections have consequences, *** UPDATED x1 *** Full Danville City Council votes Tuesday on ordinance to outlaw abortion medication, instruments. Seems like we need an honest debate on which side of American best suits our group survival. Kevin Prohaska. In fact, according to the Civil War historian William Marvel, every one of the last dozen recognized Confederates was bogus. But its only recently that lying about military service has been considered a particularly heinous form of lying, one with its own name: stolen valor.