Heavily Armed Oregon Patriots Lied about Actual Military Combat Service
Camouflaged, Gun-Toting Oregon “Militia” Exposed as Faking their True U.S. Military Service
The heavily armed protestors strutting around dressed in military camouflage in Oregon have one thing in common: many have lied about their service in the U.S. military, falsified combat duty service in Iraq and Afghanistan, and lied about being captured, held as POW’s, and being wounded in battle, according to official U.S. military documents and veteran groups who investigate false military service.
Oregon ‘Militia’ member Reitzheimer expresses himself
The “Patriots” and “Militia” members routinely refer to their status as combat war veterans and invoke rhetoric of defending the Constitution in the American homeland but are, in truth, a rag tag group of military wannabees who are largely fraudulent “internet warriors” who never served in the U.S. armed Forces.
“These guys don’t question one another because they would expose each other as the frauds and liars they are,” said Mary Schantag , chairwoman of the POWNetwork.org. “The real veterans would leave as soon as they heard these guys ridiculous stories.” Schantag runs an organization of military veterans devoted to exposing frauds and perpetrators of “Stolen Valor”.
The occupation of a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon is led by three sons of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, who in 2014 gained national media attention for resisting Bureau of Land Management efforts to restrict his families use of federal land to graze their cattle.
Ryan, Mel, and Aamon Bundy and a handful of militiamen from other states arrived last month in Burns, Oregon intent on gathering media attention for their political and religious agenda. They are surrounded by about two-dozen armed self-styled “Citizen Militia” and “Patriots” who converged in Oregon to serve as Bundy’s “security” team.
Fake military wannabee Brian 'Booda' Cavalier, head of security for the Bundy's in Oregon before he fled in shame after being exposed for falsifying a career in the U.S. Marine Corp
Fake military wannabee Brian ‘Booda’ Cavalier, head of security for the Bundys in Oregon before he fled in shame after being exposed for falsifying a career in the U.S. Marine Corps
These core “leaders” who pose in militarized uniforms and carry automatic weapons include Ryan Payne of Montana, Blaine Cooper of Arizona, Brian “Buddha” Cavalier of Arizona, Joseph Rice of Oregon, and Jeffrey Edward Prosen of Texas.
All have lied claiming to be combat veterans of the U.S. armed Forces, according to official U.S. government documents.
They were all present at the Bundy Ranch confrontation in 2014 and are all high-profile armed participants of the current occupation of federal property in Oregon. All of them were previously affiliated with the Oath Keepers, a group of largely former U.S. military and law enforcement who espouse anti-federal government politics, but a rift within that organization, which began during the Bundy Ranch occupation, resulted in the Oath Keepers national leadership disavowing any connection to the Oregon siege.
Blaine Cooper says he is a “militia adviser” to the Bundy’s and “head of security.” Cooper also says he is a U.S. Marine Corps combat veteran.
He never was.
Blaine Cooper aka Stanley Blaine Hicks, who fraudulently claimed to have been a combat U.S. Marine Corps veteran
Cooper did sign up for the U.S. Marine “Delayed Entry Program,” but never appeared at boot camp in 2006.
Cooper is a member of the Arizona State Militia, and has been a prominent figure in the Bundy Ranch confrontation, the current Oregon occupation, anti-Muslim demonstrations, and anti-immigrant armed militia patrols. In a YouTube video, Cooper is seen rubbing bacon on the Koran before setting it on fire and shooting the holy book as a “message to Muslim extremists”.
Cooper publicly called for the arrest of U.S. senator and Vietnam War POW John McCain for being “guilty of treason”.
But, in fact, Blaine Cooper is not his real name. His real name is Stanley Blaine Hicks, and he changed it to Blaine Cooper in 2006–the Hollywood screen name of Jesse Ventura’s character in the 1987 movie “Predator.” It was that same year that Stanley Blaine Hicks failed to show up for his signed agreement to serve in the U.S. Marine Corps and changed his name to Blaine Cooper.
