Congressional Candidate Busted For Stolen Valor Lie Drops Out Of Race

"Under Arkansas law, the Democratic Party is unable to field a replacement candidate for Aden and no Democrat will appear on the November ballot."

@JackMurphyRGR nice

This get's so much better:

Press Release 12 July 2012 Subject: Fake Green Beret Sues Military Heroes to Silence Their Criticism. On June 11th 2012 a Colorado man, John Giduck, filed a SLAPP lawsuit in an effort to censor, intimidate and silence veterans by burdening them with the cost of a legal defense until they abandon their criticism of him. (SLAPP: "Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation."). Ironically, Mr. Giduck is suing some of the same veterans who exposed congressional candidate Ken Aden (Arkansas, 3d District) for his false claims as a Special Forces Soldier (http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/congressional-candidate-drops-special-forces-fib/story?id=16749085#.T_9KOXCXJUU). The veterans, several of whom are decorated special operations personnel, questioned Mr. Giduck's claims to be a "Green Beret" and a "former Army Ranger." Mr. Giduck has made such false claims repeatedly in promotional materials for law enforcement and military seminars. This link has a timeline of Mr. Giduck's various activities and examples of his false biographical information uncovered on the web: http://www.socnet.com/showthread.php?t=108706. In these seminars, Mr Giduck advocates tactics, techniques and procedures that the veterans find to be fundamentally unsound and dangerous. Among them are: --Installing knock-out gas delivery systems in public schools; --Deploying armed teams of former Special Operations personnel in public schools as opposed to local law enforcement; --Employing fire hoses to neutralize heavily-armed terrorists holding student hostages. Mr. Giduck previously threatened veterans that he perceived as threats to his credibility, and he resorted to bullying legal tactics. As a response to Mr. Giduck's bullying, veterans investigated his background and learned the following: 1. Mr. Giduck has been a practicing attorney in Colorado. One of his clients was Mrs. Donna Yaklich, a woman accused--and later convicted--of murdering her husband, a Pueblo PD Police Officer. Mr. Giduck had an affair with her after her husband’s death, and enjoyed a Caribbean holiday with her that was subsidized by her husband's death benefits. Mr. Giduck's legal fees were also paid from Dennis Yaklich's death benefits. After the Pueblo PD issued a warrant for her arrest, Mrs. Yaklich returned, turned herself in, and retained better counsel after Mr. Giduck was forced to recuse himself from the case. 2. Despite multiple instances where Mr. Giduck claims a background in "Special Forces" or as an "Army Ranger," Mr. Giduck never served in the military. He actually enlisted in the Army and failed out of basic training after 58 days; yet, over the course of years, allowed claims of him being a Special Forces Soldier to be publicly posted on advertising material and his very own website. Further, Mr. Giduck's credentials as a "terrorism expert" are thin. Mr. Giduck has no practical experience or formal training in counter-terrorism aside from a recent PhD. earned from a reputable university. Mr. Giduck's books have been derided by academic reviewers and genuine specialists in counter-terrorism. 3. Mr. Giduck publicly claims that he trained with the Russian Special Forces, known as Spetsnaz, and that he has connections to the FSB. The Russian FSB is the successor to the KGB from the Soviet era. Spetsnaz is a branch of the Russian GRU, the equivalent of our Defense Intelligence Agency. This claim alarmed those veterans who are still in government service. Personnel with active security clearances are required to report contact with such persons to their security and counter-intelligence sections. This obligation is mandatory, not optional. Additional information is available: http://www.socnet.com/showthread.php?t=107621 http://thetruthaboutsocnetlies.wordpress.com/

This Ain't Hell outed this douche a few months back.  The fakers that never served, the SEAL/Ranger/Space Shuttle Door Gunner types that live in their mom's basement... you sort of 2% feel sorry for them because they're just sad.

The people that actually wore a uniform and then decided to add a few medals, tabs, berets, thinking no one would notice?  Those fuckers are scum.

I wouldn't get too hung up on the re-labeling that Liberals try to engage in. The reason they are constantly changing their label from "Democrat" to "Liberal" to "Progressive" to "Pragmatic" to "Common Sense" to "Progressive Democrat" ad nauseum is that they don't really want you to know what they really stand for. Their lable means whatever they want it to mean and it's also a cover to duck out from whatever you think they might be. Generally and politically speaking, a "Progressive" was won who believed in the progressive march of history towards a perfected Socialism for mankind. They believe that experiments in Socialism will be tried and most will fail. The lessons of those failures will be reapplied to new forms of socialism until a perfect form is attained. If you ever wonder why liberals always seem to favor statist, socialist programs when the past failures of such policies are so obvious, there's your answer. Liberals cannot 'learn' that socialism doesn't work because these failures aren't true socialism because if it were then it would work perfectly. That's why they can't see the systemic problems with social programs and instead just propose throwing more money at them. The answer is always "More Cowbell." As for the lies about his military service, don't be surprised. It's characteristic of the breed that a lie told to serve a noble end(his own election in this case) is excusable. The ends justifies the means as the saying goes. The Left waved away the massacres and purges of Stalin by famously saying "You gotta break some eggs to make an omelette." His whole interview was full of lies and half truths. Did you catch the part about a DOE study saying that windmills could provide Arkansas with 1/3 of its electric power? At what cost per kilowatt? That's the big lie of "Green Energy," It's four times as expensive to generate the same power as coal or oil after a huge outlay in infrastructure. You could power Arkasas completely with hydro power if you built enough hugely expensive dams, your electric bill would be 5-6 times what it is right now. You could use diamonds to generate electricity if you really wanted to, you just couldn't afford to turn on a light. I also liked his idea about bringing jobs to Arkansas by aligning himself against the very corporations that provide jobs to people in Arkansas. You could tell he really thought hard on that one. Everytime the government passes a new regulation against businesses and corporations the cost of complying with that regulation is money out of YOUR salary, profit sharing or hourly wage if you work for them, and it raises the cost of goods produced if you are their customer. It is said that the cost of compliance with government regulation is $1.6 trillion a year right now. About ten percent of our entire GDP. Wait til they get a hold of healthcare.

Brandon Webb for President.

Further proof that all or most politicians are liars.

Actually....

A "Progressive Democrat" in the American political vernacular is one who picked up the mantle of the the Progressive Movement which began in the late 19th and early 20th Century.  These folks believe in advancing every social and economic concept contrary to conservative ideology.  The movement sprung forth from residents tenet housing and settlements who were indeed greatly disadvantaged by the Industrial Revolution.  Basically, they were the "have nots" who wanted to re-distribute wealth rather than work to obtain and create wealth.

The Irish and other European Progressives were off-shoots of the movement.

Last year, while still on Fox News at 5PM, Glen Beck devoted a week to the history of the Progressive Movement.  It was very enlightening.  And, I think Glen Beck tends to get way off on a tangent at times, but, this production was excellent.

So he withdrew because the questions being posed to him caused a........"Tremendous Distraction"?  The arrogance that Mr. Aden has in thinking that SOME reporter out there would not search for this information doesn't surprise me anymore.......and so goes the BS freight train as it rolls down the tracks.

Well, good thing the truth came out before hand. The guy sounds good platform wise, and would've had my vote most likely if I lived in that district after some more research. That's the kind of representation we need except someone who don't tell freaking lies every other statement coming out of their mouth. Of course, there aren't that many vets who would want to run for office nowadays anyway. Hell, I won't.

Here's an idea. @BrandonWebb , Jack M., Chris Kyle, and all the editors on here run for an office! haha

The Progressive Democrats (Irish: An Páirtí Daonlathach, lit.: The Democratic Party), commonly known as the PDs, was a pro-free market liberal[1][2] political party in the Republic of Ireland.(...)The Progressive Democrats' economic policies were based on economic liberalism. They supported a free private enterprise and low-tax policy base. They generally favoured privatisationhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_Democrats

did he ever join the army?

The older I get--and I'm 45--the smarter my dad becomes. He used to say, "you know, Steve, Good things happen to good people".

There goes another India Delta 10 Tango.

He and David Oh should run a used car dealership together.