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This guy is a veteran?!! What a shame, that someone sworn to protect Americans now cowers behind semantics and loopholes to exploit their trust!! Clearly riders

This guy is a veteran?!! What a shame, that someone sworn to protect Americans now cowers behind semantics and loopholes to exploit their trust!! Clearly ridership dropped on notifying them of the streaming, no excuse can hide the truth here - he wants to exploit their trust! For shame! And unlike the proud, honest veterans who actually care for Americans! Edit: any lawyers here? Can this become a federal wiretapping case, as twitch streams across state lines? Like gambling online relies on meaningless semantics of being within a state that allows for such?

zajd 8y ago
> someone sworn to protect Americans now cowers behind semantics and loopholes to exploit their trust This is pretty American if you ask me
jdavis703 8y ago
I'm not a veteran, but I did take the oath of office. To me, the oath that I swore to uphold is to defend American government institutions (and particularly the agency I worked for) against foreign and domestic enemies. My oath doesn't mean I have any special commitments to individual American citizens acting in an individual capacity.
- writepub 8y ago
  Indeed, semantics. Wherever Americans specifically call out their gratitude for veteran's service, they're not thanking them for their allegiance to government institutions that may or may not be on their side. They specifically perceive veterans to be selflessly protecting 'the people'
- UncleEntity 8y ago
  I think, perhaps, you didn't interpret the oath as was intended... It's supposed to be to The People through the agency of the Constitution and not pledging allegiance to whomever cuts your paycheck.
DoreenMichele 8y ago
http://nchv.org/index.php/news/media/background_and_statistics/ http://nchv.org/index.php/news/media/background_and_statisti... About 11% of the adult homeless population are veterans. Perhaps if we want veterans to act honorably, we should treat them respectfully. Veterans are often kind of thrown away by the country after it has maimed them for its benefit.
bdowling 8y ago
I'm not a lawyer, but here's the federal wiretapping statute for reference[0]. [0]https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2511 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2511 As you point out, it seems like the interstate commerce hook would be established by his use of the phone network and/or internet.

zajd 8y ago

> someone sworn to protect Americans now cowers behind semantics and loopholes to exploit their trust This is pretty American if you ask me

jdavis703 8y ago

I'm not a veteran, but I did take the oath of office. To me, the oath that I swore to uphold is to defend American government institutions (and particularly the agency I worked for) against foreign and domestic enemies. My oath doesn't mean I have any special commitments to individual American citizens acting in an individual capacity.

writepub 8y ago
Indeed, semantics. Wherever Americans specifically call out their gratitude for veteran's service, they're not thanking them for their allegiance to government institutions that may or may not be on their side. They specifically perceive veterans to be selflessly protecting 'the people'
UncleEntity 8y ago
I think, perhaps, you didn't interpret the oath as was intended... It's supposed to be to The People through the agency of the Constitution and not pledging allegiance to whomever cuts your paycheck.

DoreenMichele 8y ago

http://nchv.org/index.php/news/media/background_and_statistics/ http://nchv.org/index.php/news/media/background_and_statisti... About 11% of the adult homeless population are veterans. Perhaps if we want veterans to act honorably, we should treat them respectfully. Veterans are often kind of thrown away by the country after it has maimed them for its benefit.

bdowling 8y ago

I'm not a lawyer, but here's the federal wiretapping statute for reference[0]. [0]https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2511 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2511 As you point out, it seems like the interstate commerce hook would be established by his use of the phone network and/or internet.