Rob Clark; stolen valor in New Zealand
The New Zealand Herald tells the story of Rob Clark who pretended to be a Special Air Services (SAS) veteran. According to the article, he spent a few years in the New Zealand Defense Forces but that he had never deployed outside of New Zealand, but you wouldn’t know it from the awards that he wore, including the US Navy Presidential Unit Citation, which he wore upside down.
He said the term “trooper” was one people associated with NZSAS soldiers and he had done nothing to clear up the confusion “over the years”.
“I’ve never lied about my service. People have just gained an assumption. You say you’re a ‘trooper’ and people go away and that’s when the Chinese whispers start.”
He said the medals showing his service had cost around $700 and he had bought them from NZ Medals Ltd, which trades in real and replica medals including offering a service to have them correctly mounted.
Clark claimed he presented himself as a NZSAS soldier as part of an elaborate scheme to expose what he called profiteering from the sale of medals and military equipment online
He said he had eventually intended to write a book about it.
He went secret squirrel as recently as this past weekend when he told a Herald reporter that he wasn’t “at liberty” to discuss his military service, and the New Zealand Defense Forces records were wrong. However, he tries to make the act of wearing false awards some sort of sacrifice he made to restore honor;
Yesterday, though, he said he was so upset at the medals trade he decided to appear at the parade wearing them and possibly write a book about it in the future.
However, he admitted he had never tried to address the issue by making a complaint to NZDF, the RSA or any other organisation.
“Some people will judge what I’ve done as being wrong, but sometimes you have to stand up and take some hits on the chin to prove there are others out there that don’t have moral fibre in them.”
What a hero! I’m sure he can find a medal to award himself for this selfless act.
Category: Phony soldiers, Valor Vultures
“Some people will judge what I’ve done as being wrong, but sometimes you have to stand up and take some hits on the chin to prove there are others out there that don’t have moral fibre in them.”
Pot meet Kettle.
“Take some hits on the chin”… with someone’s balls.
ROB CLARK – KIWI FELCHING, COCKSUCKING ASS HAMSTER!
Runs the same BS story once caught… that he “just” mentioned the basics and others “walked away” thinking otherwise, and started to “spread” false information. Then he goes on to claim a good cause for his stolen valor, like how he was trying to raise awareness of how easy it is to do what he’s doing, implying that it’s the wrong thing to do, implying that he was actually doing a service… Like those who claim that their phoniness was to “honor someone”. Then the “not at liberty to discuss” and “the official records are wrong”…
It’s like these phonies are sharing the same play book. 🙄
I’m trying to understand this: he thought he could out fakers by faking it?
Uh… what?
“Chinese whispers” – on behalf of those I know of Chinese ancestry I am going to be upset. Kinda like the guy who lost his Borg license plate ASIML8 in Canada because the indigenous cultures were ‘assimilated’ and two people complained that they were offended on their behalf.
Now if it had been here, Teddy Kennedy and Bill Clinton would have been saying “what dues -imilate mean? I know what ass is”
Another fat turd from down under and over there.
Bloody poofter.
Shit stain.
The hot new excuse of posers everywhere: “…I was just pretending to be a war hero so that I can expose all the other fake war heroes…”
Reminds me years ago of a congressman arrested trolling a d.c. park men’s room (well before it became ok by today’s standards). he claimed he heard there was a problem and wanted to investigate..guffaw!!!
Maybe we can send him an honorary National Defense Medal to recognize his bravery in the face of… something.
The excuses of “I was just…” and “But others do it too…” remind me of the response that a college ROTC Professor (Vietnam Veteran with a long tab) gave back when he heard that. He’d reply “So if everyone else ate a bowl of fresh dogshit would you do it too?”.
AS TO Rob Clark, WHAT A bleedin’ lily-livered pickle-licking scrotum-sniffing pus-nuts doongi bum bandit of a WANKER he is!
In New Zealand, Australia, and the UK, the posers almost always claim to be in the SAS.
— sigh —
What?? No variety? How boring!
Well, don’t you just love this fat fucks picture? This is so refreshing to see a phony ass hamster from down under, he looks like he has spent his life down under, if you know what I mean? I say this rotund fat fucker is indeed ready to receive the infamous wall of insults. Do I have a second? Poser in the open down under, you are cleared hot! Make a double pass to make sure you eliminate the entire LARGE target!!!
Sort of like the pedophile who gets arrested after driving 300 miles to a supposed 14 yr old’s “empty” home just so he could talk to her about how dangerous it is for young girls to talk on chat lines with strangers…oh yeah ! CAPT Bones