One judge who might oppose the Stolen Valor Act
Someone sent us a link to an article about 90-year-old John Phillips from Georgis who has served on the bench for 64 years and brags about his military career;
He says his tour of duty involved fighting in World War II and the Korean War.
“In the Marine Corps, the boats would leave, and the Navy would take them away. We had no where to go but in. We went in or got killed, one of the two.”
For his service Phillips received two Purple Hearts and the Navy Cross. Phillips says with everything he does in life, the goal is always for good and to help someone.
Yeah, tough business. Except that the person who sent this to me, noted that hs name wasn’t in the Home of Heroes registry for the Navy Cross, Doug Sterner verified that for us. So POW Network filed for a FOIA on the honorable judge and got this reply from the National Personnel Records Center;
So I’m just guessing here, but I’m pretty sure that he thinks that the Stolen Valor Act is a violation of his freedom to make shit up.
Category: Phony soldiers
Got contact information? Let’s go get him. Only when they are facing “us” do they finally cop to their wrongdoing. How about an area of jurisdiction, or whatever will bring him to us?
So I guess Newt wanting to go after Judges is a good thing afterall (no sarcasm intended)
FO,
This might be the guy –
Judge Profile:J. Taylor Phillips
J. Taylor Phillips
Sr. State Ct. J.; State Ct. Bibb Co. Courthouse
Courthouse, P.O. Box 6242
Macon, Georgia
(Bibb & Jones Cos.)
http://www.martindale.com/J-Taylor-Phillips/881470-lawyer.htm
… and here
P.O Box 6242
Macon, Georgia 31208
Phone: 478-621-6676 or
478-621-6326
E-Mail: tphillips@co.bibb.ga.us
Perhaps someone with better eyes than mine can read the card on his desk in the vid from the first link Jonn posted.
Just sent an e-mail to the reporter asking if she seen a DD214. Depending on the response, I may e-mail or call the Judge himself.
I am in florida for the holiday and so I just called macon using the contact number from another post. He had just gone home for the day, but the woman I spoke to said he has medals and everything and has been a judge for a long time. I told her I would call back tomorrow
@#3,#4:
Thanx, Toothless Dawg. I will check on him tomorrow.
What? No “special operations” attached to this fairy tale? Not even an “Edson’s Raiders” line? Whadda gyp!
@Joe #7 – as we all know, getting “medals and everything” is meaningless. I can hit the AAFES tonight and be the proud owner of a DSC, a NC, a SS, and an LOM, all with a few oak leaf clusters thrown on for extra bling. I seem to recall another judge falsely claiming an MOH, so the position in society doesn’t mean that he isn’t above claiming stuff he didn’t earn.
I wonder how he’d feel if I claimed to really be the oldest judge in Georgia. I can print the law degree, appointment papers, birth certificate, and everything.
His brother, CPT Walter Dixon Phillips (KIA), was awarded the Navy Cross for his actions at Chosin.
http://www.leatherneck.com/forums/showthread.php?t=85012
http://www.macon.com/2009/05/26/727100/middle-georgians-honor-fallen.html
Most of us are here because a soldier died for us,” keynote speaker Bibb State Court Senior Judge J. Taylor Phillips said. “We should be grateful and never forget.”Phillips, who served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II, came to pay his respects to his brother Capt. Walter Phillips, who was killed at Chosin Reservoir, along with about 300 in his unit, during the Korean War.
As of last month he was 90 so he was born in 1921. He says he was in the USMC for 10 years and that he lied to join enlist. Okay, let’s make him 16 when he signed up. That’s 1936. Depending on his month of birth the year may be off by one. So, he’s been in 5 years or so when Pearl Harbor is attacked, and the war in the Pacific ends in August 1945. Then he serves in Korea…One could make an argument that he could have done it, depending upon the disposition of service as a result of his wounds for which he claims two Purple Hearts, but that’s too many ‘ifs’ for me. (An aside: Fingerprints were first taken of all enlistees by the Army in 1905, the Navy in 1907, and the Marines in 1908.)
@11. I honestly wondered whether he hadn’t adopted a brother’s story, at least in part.
Much as I hate to encourage anyone to go after an old coot, this one IS a sitting judge. His claims make him a target. Should they be false or embellished, he placed the target on himself.
This was one of my two “Veterans Day” discoveries. The other was Tubby Bob Duft, which John described in the “Beer For My Horses” post. As we discussed back on November 13th, the math just doesn’t add up with the judges story. There is no way he would have lied to join underage “after” Pearl Harbor. As 2-17 Air Cav noted back in November, the judge would have had to be serving in Korea while attending law school in Georgia simultaneously in order to be admitted to the Georgia Bar in 1954. I also noted like OWB did that we can’t just pass this off as a guy’s memory getting lapse in his old age….he is a SITTING JUDGE! If he gets confused that he actually earned his brother’s Navy Cross, then he shouldn’t be on the bench!
@14. OWB: I know what you mean but then I recall that some of the 80 and 90-somethings that are caught lying were lying when they were 20-30-40-5-60 and 70 something! In other words, they were caught late, not lying late. Remember Ghengis Gunny? What was he, 85 or so? Was lying since the 50s, if I recall correctly.
@AC Concur absolutely. I get a little soft thinking about old coots, then I remember my father who served honorably from 1931 to 1956. And all the other fathers who served during that time frame, some who did not make it back.
Somehow, the age of the liar doesn’t really seem relevant. Maybe this one will thank us for reliving him of the guilt he feels for all those decades of lying?
(Not gonna hold myh breath.)
This isn’t tough. He’s a judge. He knows about bald claims that are not backed up with documentary or testimonial evidence. He should welcome the opportunity to present whatever he has in support of his claims. After 10 years with the USMC and combat service in one or two wars, he’s probably got more documents, photos, and references to support his claims that he can fill a room with them.
I would just like to start off ny saying that I love my smile.
Men nor women can resist it.
As I was sitting in the VAT office today pretending like I actually belonged in such a place I was reading that the military will get smaller but the number of Generals will increase. Shouldn’t someone be giving the Generals a golden shower for stolen valor? People are now claiming that they deserve to get paid a generals salary when they do less than what a LTC did in the 1940s. Shit they probably do less than a LTC did even in the 1960s.
Of course I am just a pathetic stunted moral cripple in a wheel chair so what do I know.
You want to see my ID card? Sorry but military regs prevent me from making a copy of it.
I wonder if members of the military have to report that they have had contact with an alien agent whenever they are in a room alone with me. Do they have to give a debriefing to Intel Analyists how scrutinize every word and every look that was passed. For example if I coyly rubbed the stubble on my chin and batted my eyelashes at a SGM would that be placed in an evidence file used for alien psychoanalysis?
Evidence files……those lead to trails. What I wanted to say about trails is that no trail is a valid trail unless jury nullification rules are in effect. You know what that means right? That every aspect of a trail can be judged by a jury.