On Lovefraud’s Is he or she military? page, we state that 11,000 soldiers actually completed Navy SEAL training, but fraud busters have found more than 35,000 fake SEALs. Now that Navy SEALs have taken out Osama Bin Laden, there are even more frauds, including a pastor from central Pennsylvania. Don Shipley, a real ex-SEAL who exposes the fakes, says it’s not unusual to find members of the clergy pretending to be former SEALs:
“It’s something with these guys who are in a position of trust that causes a lot of them to do it,” he said. “The fact that they are in a position where whatever comes out of their mouth is believed — I think that causes some of them to take advantage.”
Shipley has the cause-and-effect backwards — these frauds are in positions of trust because they can convince people to believe their lies.
Read After Bin Laden raid, fake Navy SEALs are ‘Coming out of the woodwork,’ says watchdog on ABCNews.go.com.
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Donna, your comment about Shipley having the cause-effect BACKWARDS is right on the target….these people who are fakes and liars gain their positions of trust because they are GOOD at being fakes and liars and especially in religious organizations, it is assumed that anyone who enters the pulpit is there for a “good purpose” not to defraud people.
This man had KNOWINGLY lied for over 5 years—and knowingly sat down and told stories that were lies to the newspaper—-and then he stands up and tries to make it look like he didn’t lie, he just let “people assume” he had been a SEAL. DUH?????
What ya wanna bet he is “forgiven” by his church and continues to preach and draw a salary? It was only a lie after all….and he’s such a good man when he isn’t telling lies. Yea, RIGHT!
LOL!
I just read the article about the “reverend” right before it appeared here.
He’s been lying for 5 years, this has nothing to do with Osama! He’s just a liar. When will people see this as a personality disorder and not just a “wittle white lie”? PUKE! PUKE! PUKE!
BTW, are there going to be any consequences or is the freedom of speech going to protect him? The reason I ask is because I WAS A NAVY SEAL!! YES!!
I WAS a member of a special elite unit of SECRET FEMALE navy seals. Yeah, that’s the ticket!
Nobody knew about us because we were stationed in … umm…. like… antarctica! yep! that’s right! we were in Antarctica! doing espionage.
Everyone knows women can take cold water temperatures longer than men, so we patrolled the cold Antarctic waters wearing our scuba gear and um disguised um as…. PENGUINS!!! That’s the ticket, yeah, pinguins. which explains my affinity for black and white… any ways, I digress, yes, I was attacked by a REAL SEAL the animal mammal type… but ACTUALLY it wasn’t a SEAL at all. It was, like, a member of AL quaida? (sp?) DISGUISED as a seal!! uh huh, yep. Seals always attack penguins, so this um terrorist alqueda, was like, a female alquaida and she was, like, disguised as a seal? but she was wearing a BURQUA too, that’s how I recognized her and got away. But not before she stabbed me and so anyway that’s how I got my purple heart.
ALL TRUE!
Skylar – too funny!
Skylar, 🙂
skylar,
Thanks for the story – love it.
Dear Sky,
Darling you win the award for the “liar’s contest” this week! LOL TOOO FUNNY ROTFLMAO
In my living history group we do “tall tale telling” and we call it the “liar’s contest” and I have been very successful (believe it or not!) in winning these contests consistently. hee hee imagine that, but I take my HAT OFF TO YOU GIRL, YOU WIN THIS ONE!
Last time I entered I got beaten by an old man I had never heard tell stories before. He was tooooo funny. He was wearing a bear skin coat and carrying an ax, and his story was how he got the coat….and how he was out chopping wood and got attacked by the bear and hacked his way inside the skin (thus the coat!) and the crowd loved it and voted him the winner. I had used one of my VERY best stories, and he beat me hands down. He was just toooooo cute.
I’m so glad that you were a REAL SEAL…er, ah Penguin…LOL but recognizing the fake SEAL by the burka was really good! Smart, proves that only a REAL PENGUIN/SEAL is really the genuine article! LOL ROTFLMAO You win the prize girlfriend! 🙂
Thumbs UP for the REAL SEALS that rearranged osama’s life.
Oxy,
I should have known you would call me a liar!! 🙁
Why don’t you believe me? LOL!
or as my spath put it:
“When did you stop respecting me?”
AUDACIOUS!
That’s it Sky…Righteos indignation. Turn that table. Keep up the good work!
Thanks Kim,
I knew YOU would believe me. So now it’s 2 against 1 so it MUST BE TRUE! Oxy’s a liar!