{"id":3459,"date":"2006-11-30T03:10:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-30T03:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3459"},"modified":"2017-12-12T13:38:05","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T19:38:05","slug":"feds-get-their-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/30\/feds-get-their-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Feds Get Their Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/stories.nsf\/stlouiscitycounty\/story\/BA2B3ACC2990A2AD862572350072E17A?OpenDocument\" target=\"_new\">Kirkwood man charged with impersonating a Marine<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The FBI has arrested a Kirkwood man accused of impersonating a U.S. Marine and wearing a Navy Cross and other medals he did not earn.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Gerald Weilbacher, 48, of the 200 block of Horseshoe Drive was arrested by FBI agents last night, the U.S. Attorney&#8217;s office said today. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So a guy puts on a uniform and goes to a ball to meet the chicks, and suddenly he&#8217;s in Leavenworth?<\/p>\n<p>Pardon me for being a chickenhawk child of two Marines, brother to only one, but <i>damn<\/i>, doesn&#8217;t our federal law enforcement force (and its enabling Congress) have better priorities than to chase down false braggarts?<\/p>\n<p>Well, our society has functionally eliminated shame as a deterrent\/retributive factor (Michael Gerald Weilbacher, you&#8217;re a lying sissy), so some groups think its necessary to protect the sensitive feelings our former soldiers by incarcerating some nitwit.<\/p>\n<p>Pardon me if I suspect that perhaps this stems from some symbolic gesture sop thrown to our veterans in place of actual, you know, <i>respect<\/i> for those who served.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kirkwood man charged with impersonating a Marine: The FBI has arrested a Kirkwood man accused of impersonating a U.S. Marine and wearing a Navy Cross and other medals he did not earn. Michael Gerald Weilbacher, 48, of the 200 block of Horseshoe Drive was arrested by FBI agents last night, the U.S. Attorney&#8217;s office said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18413,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3459\/revisions\/18413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}