December 23rd, 2012
I bumped this post to the top because guess who thinks that he can sic a copyright lawyer on us nearly three years after we’ve posted on him. Mr. E. Dale Buxton II, Esq., this is how TAH rolls. Their complaint is that these photos are copyrighted. TSO will be posting more on this next week.
How many of you have seen a Ranger with this much stored energy (body fat)?
This portly commando is Justin Weiss. He’s a resident of Montreal, Quebec, but he claims he’s also lived in Columbus, GA and Fayetteville, NC, coincidentally the homes of Rangers and paratroopers respectively. In the above picture, he’s wearing a Distinguished Service Cross, but he’s not listed at the Home of Heroes list of DSC recipients.
Weiss claims there’s a good excuse for that;
My ex girlfriend and her ex boyfriend have been fuelling alot of crap about me on the net and making threats through emails to people on my email contact list. They were able to do so after hackin my email account and facebook and so on. No i had pipctures up at one time on a website from a company called “Cold Blue” a movie company that provided guns, gear, and skilled extras and coordinators for the movie industry. I was part of this group and we did various photo shoots for a demo page for clients. I never intended to portray to be an Army Ranger nor do I now. I have the utmost respect for those men…
Yeah, he fell down in a pile of medals, the DSC stuck to his uniform and just as he stood up, his ex-girlfriend took a picture of him. It’s all perfectly natural. Can’t you see how he’s a victim in all of this?
He never intended to portray an Army Ranger. Well, except when he’s out on the town boozing it up;
Clearly we’ve misinterpreted his intentions, since in the above photo, he’s modeling combat gear for a movie outfitting company.
Anyway, he’s been busted on several discussion forums (by real veterans) but he still keeps up the act. He even works as a bouncer in Quebec based on his fantasies. But our friends at POW Net have him on the run. They sent me an email from Weiss in which he utilizes the last bastion of a scoundrel – threats of a lawsuit;
Okay what do you guys need to take my personal pictures that were obtained illegally via my email and that of my ex girlfriend( And John) off your site not to mention my personal info?
A legal letter? Personal witnesses from my job that will attest to the fact I do not go around saying that stuff?
I do not mind getting that for you but I would like a response from you and not to be ignored as I find this behavior unacceptable and childish…You have a website and you put people info up without actually verifying the source or how the items are obtained. This does not make sense to me.
So I will be waiting for a proper response and clarification on your end without delay.
As I mentioned before I have a police file open about the incident and if need be I will get lawyers involved…
Regards,
Justin Weiss
I don’t know what type of lawsuit he could bring against them, since everything on the page is from publicly available sources. All of the pictures are pictures of him proudly wearing things he didn’t earn. What’s he going to tell the judge? “I’m suing them for catching me acting like a fool?”
Yeah, we at TAH have been threatened with law suits, too. Usually by real phonies.
If anyone has the opportunity to catch Weiss playing heavydrop Ranger, please catch it on video so we can put an abrupt end to his tomfoolery. In the meantime, here’s what POW Net has assembled on Justin Weiss.
PART II:
Yesterday, I wrote about phony soldier Justin Weiss who wants us to believe that his exgirlfriend is culpable for the spread of his phony soldier lies. An enterprising Frankly Opinionated decided to contact the portly commando and get him to explain himself. Part of his emailed response to Frankly reads;
The other pic of me in the class A’s is actually from the set of the movie, Sum of All Fears” that was filmed in part here in montreal. I playes a soldier at a “special dinner” and then i also played a football player in the “doomed” super bowl…i have the pix for that part as well if you’d like.
He’s talking about this picture;
The problem with his explanation is that, according to Wikipedia, Sum of All Fears completed filming in June, 2001 and the Rangers’ tan beret wasn’t worn by Rangers until their ceremony on June 14, 2001. I’m sure that Jason was counting on us not looking up that fact and hoped we could only remember that the film was released in 2002. Sorry, Justin – the internet is not the friend of phony soldiers. And although Sum of All Fears was a completely forgettable movie, I don’t remember any scenes in which they would require extras as Rangers in Class A uniforms, portly or otherwise.
His explanation for wearing this T-shirt is that a friend supposedly gave it to him. That friend, Benjamin Dillon, was then killed in Afghanistan according to Weiss. Except that Benjamin Dillon, who was in the 3/75th, was killed in Mosul, Iraq, not Afghanistan. You’d think a friend would know that, wouldn’t you?
And, oh, the exgirlfriend’s boyfriend also died after he spread all of these nasty lies about poor Justin. So there’s no forthcoming testimony about that either. I suspect that next he’ll be claiming that Al Haig gave him the ACUs with the Ranger Tab in a secret ceremony with Teddy Kennedy and John Murtha as witnesses.
Added for Old Trooper;
UPDATED: Here’s a .pdf of what they used to have at POW Network.