A dirty rotten scoundrel who is getting some justified comeuppance
Hat tip to Instapundit for this link to
a horrible story and the beginnings of a resolution:
Anti-Military Lawyer Damages Marine's Car on Eve of Deployment
This ought to make your blood boil. And this Marine should receive a commendation for not kicking the living crap out of the guy...seriously.
Marine Sgt Mike McNulty is on activation orders to Iraq (second tour). On December 1st, 2007, Mike went to visit a friend in Chicago before deploying to say goodbye. In order to get to his friend's residence, and keep in mind that Chicago is a myriad of diagonal and one-way streets, the front entrance (right way) to the one-way street was blocked. Mike, being a Marine, overcame and adapted by driving around the block to the other end of the street and backing up all the way to his friend's place.
While saying goodbye, at about 11am, he noticed a man leaning up against his car. Mike left his friend's apartment and caught the man keying his car on multiple sides.
After caught in the process, the man told Mike, "you think you can do whatever you want with Department of Defense license plates and tags". (In Illinois you can purchase veteran, Marine, or medal plates. Mike has Illinois Marine Corps license plates.) During the exchange, he made additional anti-military comments.
The story gets worse -- the damage to his car is enough to make this a Felony and the lawyer gets all slimy and tries to bargain and weasel out of it, knowing that Sgt. McNulty is shipping out soon.
Where the story turns good is in the comments section. Some people from Chicago are offering to follow through in a legal manner, the guys office info is posted online (and the website is offline). There are links to people like this:
Illinois Attorney Registration & Disciplinary Commission
and the Bar Association and other organizations.
That guy is toast and it couldn't happen to a nicer person. There is nothing wrong with expressing your opinions but to willfully cause damage in such a cowardly and harmful way is beneath contempt. This man is scum (and that is insulting a lot of really great scum!)
Posted by DaveH at December 30, 2007 8:58 PM