Ballduster McManus news
Thursday, I posted Michael McManus’ military records (known around these parts as Ballduster McSoulpatch) and now, strangely enough there’s news from Houston on him.
Now, as he faces the prospect of again wearing a prison uniform, McManus, 44, argues he never intended to suggest at the mayor’s party that he was a true war hero.
Instead, his dress at the 2009 gathering at George R. Brown Convention Center for the city’s first openly gay mayor was a political statement, he contends in documents filed in federal court this week.
McManus was recognizing a triumph for gay rights as well as making a commentary about the military’s policy on gays, including his own personal battle while in the service, he argues in a motion filed by his lawyer, James Fallon.
“Mr. McManus wore an Army uniform and medals to the mayor’s victory party in order to protest both his discharge from the Army and the continuing exclusion of (lesbian gay, bisexual and transgender) Americans from the military under Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.”
Then explain all of the crap he spread out all over the internet about “personal security details” and being a General and getting booted for DADT? Was that to celebrate an openly gay mayor, too? In fact TSO spent most of the afternoon transcribing all of his lies from various sources.
This veteran probably sums up the opinion at TAH pretty well.
He was again arrested earlier this year after military bloggers dedicated to rooting out imposters pinned him down.
“Wanted for Stolen Valor,” read an Old West-style wanted poster that showed a photo of McManus, who attended the mayor’s party while wearing a goatee and hipster glasses with the uniform.
He struck a nerve.
“Stolen Valor is one of the most insulting crimes to veterans,” said blogger Mark Seavey, who served in Afghanistan and was among several people who tracked McManus. “Granted there are far worse, but this (crime) is based on stealing something that many of us earned.”
Photographed at partyMcManus did not just wear the uniform but assumed the character on Facebook and elsewhere, Seavey contends.
“You might get away with telling war stories in the bars, but when you start trying to use fake accomplishments to make political statements, or to bulk up your reputation in the community, there are hundreds of military bloggers out there, and one of them will find you and put you right,” he said.
Thanks to TSO and another reader (sorry that I forgot your username but it’s hard to match your real names with your screen names sometimes) who sent links to this article.
Category: Phony soldiers
He left the army in 1987. DADT didn’t come about until 1993. Lies upon lies. And no “political statement” excuses his posturing on LinkedIn. Fuck this guy; gay people who served honorably should be outraged that this puke purports to represent them.
He is an attention whore that uses his gheyness and military lies to promote a political agenda, same as Stradloff. It’s that simple. Of course, the many leftist groups are more than willing to use the myth in order to provide gravitas to their own pet causes, which seem to be a few examples out of the hundreds of thousands that have served, but they make every effort to try and tell us these few examples are the norm.
no,no,no. They military/veteran gays are not claiming this fool, he needs to stop claiming us.
People who comment on DADT do so with their own awards. It’s called lying, not DADT protest, when you wear medals you never earned. Anyone who cares about ending DADT would never do what this asswipe did.
About DADT:
I was in a discussion with a retired O7 at another site and his opinion was the the vast majority of DADT had nothing to do with one’s gayness or lesbianess….
In his observation it had turned into a “magic phrase” that instantly got people out of something they did not want to do, like deploy or complete your service obligation after the Academy or avoid NJP, etc. I think he said that out of the eight to nine cases he had to personally deal with, he thought only one was truly gay.
Once you said the magic phrase, the services hands were tied and you were out.
So, if I understand his reasoning, because he is a cocksucker, he decided he had the right to impersonate a commissioned officer, specifically a General Officer?
And is it not a crime even to impersonate a commissioned officer in the US Armed Forces still?
Interesting WikiLinks article:
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/wikileaks-defector-daniel-domscheit-berg-reveals-julian-assanges-siege-mentality/story-e6frg6so-1225930625424
This is just more proof that nasty toxic packers are unstable. They do not belong in our military and that is the law. Ask the Catholics if they are happy with the packer priests who molest their sons. We don’t want them on post lurking in housing areas, schools, PX, etc. We don’t want them in our hospitals sucking up scarce medical funds. Health Risks: Fisting and other Homosexual Practices.