{"id":75778,"date":"2017-11-05T08:05:23","date_gmt":"2017-11-05T13:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=75778"},"modified":"2022-01-13T20:34:52","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T01:34:52","slug":"clifford-currie-the-man-who-set-army-nurse-on-fire-has-been-sentenced-to-20-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=75778","title":{"rendered":"Clifford Currie, the man who set Army Nurse Katie Blanchard on fire, has been sentenced to 20 years."},"content":{"rendered":"

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In August we reported on the horrific case<\/a> of Army nurse Katie Blanchard who was attacked by Clifford Currie and set ablaze with gasoline.\u00a0 \u00a0This past week the\u00a0Kansas City Star<\/a>\u00a0reports that Currie was sentenced to 20 years in prison after being found guilty of\u00a0assault with the intent to kill.<\/p>\n

According to court documents and trial testimony, Blanchard was in her office when Currie doused her with gasoline and ignited it with a match.<\/p>\n

Currie also tried to attack her with a razor and a pair of scissors. He also tried to stomp on her neck before other employees were able to intervene and subdue him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Lt. Blanchard had filed numerous reports through her command about her concerns that Currie was dangerous.\u00a0 It seems that the\u00a0American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) does not have much to say about the incident.\u00a0 However, it has been widely reported that Audrey Harris,\u00a0 who was President of the Unions Local 738 at the time,\u00a0 made statements to several people that Lt. Blanchard got what she deserved.<\/p>\n

From what Google Fu I have conducted, it appears Audrey Harris still is the President of Local 738.\u00a0 I can’t seem to find anything online about her being disciplined or the AFGE denying that one of their Local Presidents condoned setting an active duty\u00a0 Army Officer on fire.\u00a0 Surely, The\u00a0American Federation of Government Employees must be outraged that something like that was reported about one of their Presidents.\u00a0 If it is indeed true, maybe they have taken some kind of disciplinary action with Ms Harris that they are keeping very, very quiet.<\/p>\n

I wouldn’t want to upset anyone with the AFL-CIO over a little thing like people being set on fire.\u00a0 I am sure they have much more important things to worry about.\u00a0 The AFGE must be too overwhelmed\u00a0 trying to carry out their mission to respond.<\/p>\n

AFGE takes seriously its responsibility to help provide good government services while ensuring that government workers are treated fairly and with dignity. The union supports a meaningful transformation of the federal workplace to improve the way services and benefits are delivered to the American public.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ahh, what the hell…you can read all about the AFGE, AFL-CIO and some other Alphabet Soup organizations missions\u00a0HERE<\/a>.\u00a0 I hope\u00a0National President J. David Cox\u00a0 doesn’t get his panties in a bind over any of this.\u00a0 \u00a0It might appear to Cox that I am being a Richard but between us Davids…I just don’t give a damn.\u00a0 Harris might need Cox, but I just don’t swing that way.<\/p>\n

Lt. Blanchard has my utmost respect and best regards.<\/p>\n

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Clifford Currie can rot in hell for all I care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In August we reported on the horrific case of Army nurse Katie Blanchard who was attacked by Clifford Currie and set ablaze with gasoline.\u00a0 \u00a0This past week the\u00a0Kansas City Star\u00a0reports that Currie was sentenced to 20 years in prison after being found guilty of\u00a0assault with the intent to kill. According to court documents and trial […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":667,"featured_media":73945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,118,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-veterans-issues","category-veterans-affairs-department"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/screen-shot-2017-06-30-at-12-44-36-am.png?fit=504%2C638&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-jIe","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/667"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/73945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}