It is not hard to impress hippies.
Yes seems that once again people flock to street theater as some how showing up “the Man”. In out lates one shows a guy claiming to be a Marine Sgt with two tours in Iraq braving shouting at Police nearby.
United States Marine Corps. Sgt. Shamar Thomas from Roosevelt, NY went toe to toe with the New York Police Department. An activist in the Occupy Wall Street movement, Thomas voiced his opinions of the NYPD police brutality that had and has been plaguing the #OWS movement.
Thomas is a 24-year-old Marine Veteran (2 tours in Iraq), he currently plays amateur football and is in college.
Thomas comes from a long line of people who sacrifice for their country: Mother, Army Veteran (Iraq), Step father, Army, active duty (Afghanistan), Grand father, Air Force veteran (Vietnam), Great Grand Father Navy veteran (World War II).
Yea cause I am sure that the Police were not simply acting professional and not falling for you antics at trying to be a martyr for the cause. Nothing like a Rodney King incident to fill the coffers for the protest. I guess that this was the back up plan since the original one failed.
Here is a screen shot in case the video disappears. It shows a CAR so that should qualify for Stolen Valor. Is there anyone in the Marine Community that can check to see if this guy is a poser?
Category: Antiwar crowd, I hate hippies
I will wager a beer next time any of you are in the DC area for anyone who wants to take the bet that this dude actually went to Iraq! How many of those Cops are Vets I wonder…..
I was skeptical at first too, and I think his age has been misreported. Earlier today, I found where he had commented below one of the videos of him claiming that he got his CAR in Fallujah in 2004, which would have made him 17 at the time (the comment and the account have since been deleted; I saved a screenshot on my work computer). I was ready to run up the bullshit flag, until I found this, from May of 2005.
http://192.156.19.109/marinelink/image1.nsf/Lookup/2005512182236?opendocument
If this is the same guy (it was taken in NYC) then he seems legit. It says he was in 3rd LAR, and they were indeed part of Phantom Fury.
The only other thing that gives me pause is that it kind of looks like he’s wearing the POW ribbon on the top row, right side of his stack. Could just be the light though; I can’t find a good shot of it in any of the videos.
Either that, or he’s someone else entirely and he’s just full of shit.
Scott the Hi Res pic at the bottom gives a better view.
Yeah, I know. I meant in the video it looks like he’s wearing the POW ribbon. Poor phrasing.
I like how at one point he seems to forget where he was deployed and almost says Afghanistan when he originally said Iraq, and I can’t guarantee it, but im pretty sure no self respecting former marine would disgrace his uniform by wearing it all fucked up like that
I wonder what he was smoking/huffing? And, looking at the video and the pic, even the high res one, I can’t say for sure it’s the same guy.
Screenshot from Marine Online:
http://i.imgur.com/mjQuf.jpg
His MOS is 3051, which is a Warehouse Clerk… aka Supply… probably a lying POS Fobbit who never got shot at.
Withdraw the NYPD, call up the Ohio National Guard and deploy them to Wall Street. Problem solved.
That’s right because if people don’t 100% buy into you’re idealogy they couldn’t possibly be vets. This guy has sacrificed more for this country than 99% of the regular posters on this site but since he does something you dissaprove of his service is insulted and dismissed.
This site makes me ashamed to have served in the same uniform as some of you.
I guess his military bearing has worn off since he is wearing a uniform with the US Marine tape still on it, along with putting his ribbon rack on fatigues ala John f-ing Kerry. Why didn’t he go home and get his dress blues and parade around in them, instead?
I’m guessing that NYPD Lieutenant in the background is himself a veteran, judging by the pure look of disgust on his face.
Nobody said he WASN’T a vet, OG. However, there is a question as to his bona fides–you know, people who claim they’re high-speed, low-drag ODA types when in reality they never served, kinda like your boyfriend?
OB
When you link yourself to groups like VFP that has had a real problem with people lying about their military service yours can be put into question. Also actively trying to pick a fight with the police in uniform is the reason why people will question you.
Oh and you know what each of us has done or what he has done? Because I would really like to know how you know this.
Also I feel like a owe you a apology. Because some how you were led to believe that we care what you think about us. We do not. So I apologize for any misconceptions that you had until now.
Judging from the comments and the photographic evidence, this dude is either the second coming of Jesse Macbeth, or seriously misrepresented his service to his country!! That is it, pure and simple!! OG, screw him, and screw you, for your seriously ignorant attitude. Just because someone does not agree with you does not make them a non veteran, talk about ignorance, and you call us the ignorant pigs, you fat, man looking, disgrace for a human being
More regulars on this site lie about their service than Veterans for Peace which I am proud to say I am a member and proud to say that I took part in a occupy wall street protest after my gender studies class the other day 🙂
@14 Somebody obviously can’t read. That’s you by the way Lucky I know you’re not the brightest bulb in the box :-p
Obama girl, I am meeting more and more females who served. You, ma’am do not have to come to this site. U r probably an over weight desert queen (those who have been there know the meaning) who is angry because u r back in the states where selection of a mate is easier and you aren’t getting any action. Go find a pecker flavored Lilly-pop and stay off this f’ng site if you don’t like what everyone has to say you communist piece of uniform disgrace. It’s shitholes like you who preach about having your say then cry when u hear or read something you don’t like that makes eugenics worth another try. If u need this explained further you dumb arctic tundra pig, let me know and we can converse just a little bit more. By the way ……I served in Iraq…came home and one of the 99% percent gave me job as an aircraft mechanic. I worked my butt off to get federally licensed. If I can do it anyone can, you overbloated mongoloidic syphalitic sea cow.
OG must be a fakin’ troll. Nobody actualy takes a gender studies class.
Really? Can you prove that OG? Name any one person here you have evidence to suggest that any one of us has been lying? Go for it, give it your best shot.
Here we go!! You guys can’t make a decent argument to debate me so you resort to name calling well you’re not going to ruin my great day!! B-)
bobgirl said: “More regulars on this site lie about their service than Veterans for Peace which I am proud to say I am a member and proud to say that I took part in a occupy wall street protest after my gender studies class the other day”
Why do you need a “gender studies class”? Are you confused about yours? Are you going to be another one of those people that get a degree in basket weaving and then bitch about not being able to find a job?
Which regulars lie about their service?
Nobody who wants a job outside Starbucks or the janitorial staff of a porn theater, anyway.
Jester, I think you’re holding back, man. Why don’t you tell OG what is REALLY on your mind?
Which regulars lie about their service?
I can think of at least one, who didn’t show up in MN a while back.
And I’ve yet to see any evidence of OG’s bona-fides.
Spark, I have never hit a woman…….but…..I’m not sure OG truly qualifies. All she ever does is talk smack. I want to see her service records. I’ll let John…you…TSO have my info to check my records. Yall can post them here and she can print them, shape them into a phallus and let a real American hero pleasure her. Unlike her bf, communist liberal college friends or her stank hippie freaks.
OG
Your dodging. Name the people here who have lied about their military service and post anything as to why you think so.
If your serious about having a debate you will answer my question, if not we will know your just trolling.
Your call.
ComE on OG…..LET’S BOTH PUT’EM ON THE TABLE! PUT UP OR FUCKIN SHUT UP!
wanna hear something that will pods OG off guys. I just got a cousin rug, 2 axis deer rugs. I am buying kutu horn mounts this weekend and I ate Whataburger for supper. I drive a v-8 truck. I’m white. I’m male. I make good money and I am middle management. Plus OG. I work a 50 k a year job. I own my house, my vehicles and my Harley-Davidson. Plus I love to hunt. I also work overtime at my job to make more money when I want more toys. Plus, it makes THE MAN happy. Go suck on it you communist libby trash.
Cow skin…not cousin. Angry typing….lol
I can’t speak for anyone else, Obama Girl, but I got a DD214 that I had to scan and send to OpsNCO to qualify for membership at ArmyParatrooper.org Wanna compare DD214’s?
Two enlistments, 57 months active duty, finished in Vicenza, Italy, B 1/509th Airborne Infantry. No combat, though it was a near thing in the fall of ’73 in the Yom Kippur war.
Your words remind me of a little pearl of wisdom I received many years ago. “A thief will always believe he is being robbed by an acquaintance, because it’s what the thief would do.”
Your kind always likes to throw out accusations of poseur, racist, running dog imperialist lackey (a favorite of your kind in the 60’s) … did I miss any?
Because like the thief, it’s what you would do.
But I have to say having a cousin skin rug would make family reunions a lot more interesting.
I have a ERB ready with all the supporting documents to go along with it.
SporKmaster…..I’m from Arkansas. Stuffed cousin=sex toy. LOL
>Why do you need a “gender studies class”? Are you confused about yours? Are you going to be another one of those people that get a degree in basket weaving and then bitch about not being able to find a job?
Of course she is.. She is going to have a Masters degree in basket weaving and blame the “Wall Street greed” as the reason she is poor and can’t pay her student loans.
I still have the scan, Obama Girl. SSN photoshopped out, but everything else is there.
Put up, or shut up.
Where ya at OG? Looking up the big words in a dictionary?
“Gender studies” is just the $30K a year way of saying the line from Kindergarten Cop:
“Boys have a penis. Girls have a vagina.”
Melle…at least she will have a nice basket for you to not put change in.
Where ya at OG? Looking up the big words in a dictionary?
Give the girl a break. After all, it’s Happy Hour at the truckstop and she’s got to earn a living somehow.
Whoa….give the truckers more credit than that…..lol….SPORKMASTER. next time u r in Texas and can make it to beeville, let’s have a beer at the V.
I will gladly put up, with my DD214, and the biography I have from the VFW post I belong to that is writing a book, complete with my CAB from 2005, my two tours, to Afghanistan and Iraq respectively, where I went on close to 300 missions, as PSD, and a 240B gunner, as a CA Soldier too, so eat it you miserable excuse for a women’s lib r-tard! Do you seriously feel morally upstanding for whining and complaining about nothing in particular, otherwise known as OWS? I mean, if you are going to be proud about something, at least make sure that something has a unified message! And VFP is such an upstanding organization, right guys?
Sporkmaster, what was your fucking GT score? You’re completely incapable of forming a sentence without making an error that you should have learned to avoid somewhere between 2nd and 3rd grades. See what I did there? “Your” is used for establishing possession while “you’re” is a contraction of you are.
OG leaves, King shows up. Amazing, isn’t it?
Wow, we are grammar Nazi’s now, huh King? Or is it OG in drag?
King
I must have missed something, I believe it the part were you think I care about perfect grammar.
King, are you a sad lil desert queen as well? Go eat a bowl of dicks the wash it all down with a glass of bleach right before your nice, relaxing acid bath. Douche. That’s shower in French, homme.
Oh, and as long as we’re comparing ASVAB line scores, I’ll dance with ya, dickweed. Gonna have to pull them out since the only thing I remember off the top of my head is AFQT of 99.
Jester, he did, and thats why King hates Thursdays………..
SPORKMASTER…..Come to beeville the next time you are in TX and ill buy you a round or two.
No where near on topic……but….I hate the N.Y. Jets.