Walting - Criminal Offence Petition

This petition is raised following the ongoing serious concerns of many service personnel and their families, who have their integrity, honour and pride repeatedly brought into disrepute on a daily basis by those who seek to impersonate such Military Armed Forces and Emergency Services personnel for their own personal gratification and gain. These people live a Walter Mitty lifestyle stealing the valour of our heroes and defrauding the very charities that are set up to support HM Forces, based on such fantasies. Despite efforts to name and shame these fake heroes there is no formal redress for their actions, unlike the USA who have the Stolen Valour Act, which affords the veterans some legal redress those involved in this shameful lifestyle. Here in the UK there is no such law, which prevents these people operating in this way and is a shameful indictment on the UK politicians to allow this to continue to happen, when our true heroes are all too often asked to give their life in the ultimate sacrifice for the freedom, and service of our country. In return they and their families ask for nothing more than the respect that they deserve.

The service community see’s on a daily bases at least two Walter Mitty characters everyday that are in the public domain. Despite these Walts being exposed they either continue "to Walt" or are replaced by many more.The government needs to act to preserve the integrity and dignity of our members of the armed forces, and prevent the further abuse of our men and women who have laid down their lives in many cases, only to be impersonated by "a Walt" who has never served, and sought only to gain reward or recognition.

Most of the efforts made by these fake people result in not just talk to impress by misrepresentation but by the wearing of medals which have not been earned, and premeditated actions that have seen misappropriation of valuable funds generated by the wonderful work of our service charities - which always causes loss to those that need help most.

With our Army, Navy and Air Force being involved in conflicts for many years it has been up until now easy to emulate our brave men without fear of redress, however this unscrupulous conduct is even more evident now days and has taken this shameful behavior to a new unprecedented level of disrespect. We the under signed strongly request that the British Government immediately formulates and imposes laws to eradicate this behavior and immediately stop and prosecute these fake service men and women involved in the despicable act of stolen valour against our brave service men and women, Security Services, and Emergency Services personnel. Read More and sign petition  HERE