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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
You can drive a truck through the difference between wearing a medal and impersonating a medal-winner. For one example, that law criminalizes portraying a medal winner on stage.
And the First Amendment does not protect only speech making what you seem to think is a "political point."
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Basically this is one of the laws where the government tries to legislate morality and it gets absurd. Of course you are a jerk to wear medals you didn't earn, but there is no law against being a jerk. As there should be no law against wearing these medals.
The impersonating a police officer or active duty soldier is a whole other issue, but this law is way out of bounds. Let’s get all the child molesters of the streets before we start using tax payer dollars to prosecute people because they are wearing medals they are not supposed to.
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