Mick Strider has some explaining to do.

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Bohica2u said:
I am just pointing out copy that is very recent, even past the date of the lawsuit in which he admitted to lying about his prior "service".

By the way, a real reporter or writer will check the background of the subject they are writing about.

Sorry, attacking me won't work. I see certain names here that show up on other forums during internet searches on E-1 Mick. AND those same people were attacking posters who were questioning Mick's dealings and lies. You know who you are because you like to post the same info about yourselves each and every time.

Here's one (or two):

www.professionalsoldiers.com/forums/showthread.php?p=128926


FrankEcast: is this yours?.........>>>>

http://s6.invisionfree.com/SocomII/ar/t182.htm

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http://navyseals.com/community/registry/index.cfm?list=F&scan=181
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LOL at those last two. If it's him, he's definitely in that 98% or so of the SKI demographic.
 
Sorry, claims were being made as of last week.

Striderettes make me tired and sleepy....................TTFN
 
NousDefions said:
"Mick Strider was sued for libel and defamation by Chris Osman of Tactical Assault Gear on 08/09/2005"

Perhaps I'm mistaken but I believe 2005 is AFTER 2002.
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Ouch. I wasn't paying attention. Apologies.

Has he claimed it since? I dunno. He does leave the impression from the past out there uncorrected, so in a manner of speaking, yes, he is still claiming it by not disclaiming it as required.
 
jackreacher said:
The only person who needs to post in this thread now is Mick Strider to answer some questions. You all know, that is never going to happen. I think the rest of you guys are just beating a dead horse beyond death! :yawn:
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He has already posted here, through someone else many pages back. It was a very long quote of his, off of a different forum, addressing this very thread. It did nothing to clarify any of the information presented here. I doubt he will offer up any further comment...
 
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There are loads of experts here who have a great handle on this. time for me to bow out.

Maybe I am really old but we have worked with recruiters to get property offenses to go away contingent on entering the Service. I guess I am now guilty of something and I was armed when I did it!!!

The rest of this hunt is now up to you specialists, I have had it and it is time to shop for a new shotgun and a new Microtech!!!!!

Good luck and may the truthful side prevail.................................
 
STR said:
Spark I have to ask this. It has been mentioned before that your true motives have been in question behind this thread. I think someone asked, "why break this news with this thread now?" if I'm not mistaken. I know part of your answer from what you said then but my additional question is:

1) Is there anything between you and Strider or you and Mick that came up in the past that would lead one to believe or wonder if you perhaps held a grudge and were waiting for your revenge and just the right moment?

2) Is it possible that a relationships with an approved distributor with a distribution agreement with the store could have been viewed by Strider as a bad thing that caused bad blood between you back when they were such a dealer? Oh I don't know. Maybe someone like Cold Steel maybe???

I ask this trusting your fairness. I they are valid questions but I realize if I asked something of this nature on other forums I'd probably get black listed PDQ from the membership. So, at the risk of my own peril from these forums I await your reply.

STR
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Very fair questions. Is there anything between myself and Mick? Sure, read the Strider Knives forum, especially the last posts. Notice how I handled myself there, and compare that to Mick's behavior. I will make no bones about it, Mick Strider lost any and all respect I had for him through his own laziness, whining, lying, blame shifting, attacking me, and general lack of inclination to actually take any responsibility for how he was having problems with this site. For someone that signs almost every post with "RTLW" he certainly forgot the part of the Ranger creed that goes " I will shoulder more than my share of the task whatever it may be. One-hundred-percent and then some."

Mick Strider directly lied about me, my site, and did everything in his power to drive people away from here. Do I hold that against him? Sure. That doesn't negate that he's the one who lied about getting sentenced to Somalia, being a combat vet, and whatever else. Furthermore, this isn't exactly a shocking departure of behavior for him, as seen in 2005, 2006, and now. His behavior hasn't changed one iota.

Regarding my relationship with Cold Steel - 1SKS is a Cold Steel dealer, yes. 1SKS does not wholesale their product. Past that, if anyone wants to make a claim that I'm receiving a monetary incentive for this, I will illustrate the following: Strider Knives approached me in 1999 for a forum here, I still have the email from Cormac. I told them yes at a Blade Show. I waited a full year after there was an issue with a dealer refusing to follow BFC rules before approaching Strider Knives for a dealership. Even after they cut me off as a dealer, I still hosted their forum here, no problem, no complaints for another year +. So please, before you make statements that I'm doing this for pay, my past actions speak for themselves. Mick Strider got a dedicated area to promote himself here, at my expense, for a long time, with no monetary gain on my end. Same as Spyderco, Busse, Swamp Rat, Buck, HI, SOG and other companies I don't do direct business with. In addition, you will notice that I do not use BFC as a sales tool for my seperate business. I'll challenge you to find any favoritism or rules bending that I've done at the expense of other dealers, to promote 1SKS. Compare and contrast that to the behavior exhibited elsewhere.

So, if you are going to make specific allegations that I'm doing this for monetary gain, please show me where I'm profitting; as I see it, I've opened myself up to a huge libel suit if I'm wrong, and no real money if I'm right.
 
NousDefions said:
You have evidence that, after the lawsuit, Mr. Strider claimed combat experience?
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I have evidence that Mick Strider hasn't corrected the claims by others that he has combat experience after the lawsuit, see Tom Mayo's posts, then re-read the section of the settlement. Furthermore, he doesn't get any credit from me for being forced to stop by a lawsuit, instead of using his own sense of honor or integrity. Let's get it straight - I've documented repeated claims by him. I've documented his friends echoing these claims. Nobody can take responsibility for that, other than him - I didn't force him to lie about switching everyone over to 7.62, then going back to 5.56.

So, Mr NousDefions, are you actually saying that he's learned his lesson? That he's learned that lying isn't a good thing to do?
 
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Thank you.

No accusations or allegations intended on my part. Just curiousity because much of that relationship between the two of you took place before I even owned a computer or knew what the internet was and because I'm sure others have thought what I asked but perhaps didn't ask for whatever reasons.

STR
 
As far as offering enlistment instead of jail, Army Regulation 601-210, paragraph 4-32a

4–32. Rules governing processing of moral waivers
a. All offenses, despite their outcome, or place of offense (includes crimes committed outside the United States) will
be listed on SF 86. A person arrested, cited, charged, or held for an offense or offenses and allowed to plead guilty to a
lesser offense will list the original charges and also the lesser offense to which a plea of guilty was entered. (For
example, a person arrested for grand larceny and 2 counts of criminal possession of stolen property pled guilty to 2
counts of criminal possession of stolen property, value of less than $500.) In this case, the person requires a
misdemeanor waiver. However, waiver is not needed if an arrest or questioning does not result in referral of charges, or
if charges are dismissed without a conviction or other adverse disposition. Incident must be listed on SF 86. Waiver is
not authorized if a criminal or juvenile court charge is pending or if such a charge was dismissed or dropped at any
stage of the court proceedings on condition that the offender enlists in a military service.

http://usmilitary.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www.usapa.army.mil/pdffiles/r601%5F210.pdf

“It isn’t a new regulation. Not taking jailbirds has been our policy for decades,” http://stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=33904&archive=true
 
Spark said:
I have evidence that Mick Strider hasn't corrected the claims by others that he has combat experience after the lawsuit, see Tom Mayo's posts, then re-read the section of the settlement. Furthermore, he doesn't get any credit from me for being forced to stop by a lawsuit, instead of using his own sense of honor or integrity. Let's get it straight - I've documented repeated claims by him. I've documented his friends echoing these claims. Nobody can take responsibility for that, other than him - I didn't force him to lie about switching everyone over to 7.62, then going back to 5.56.
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I don't get it. If I were to go to another forum, and post that Mr. Strider had combat experience, he is under order to find that post and present a correction? That's the comparison you make regarding Mr. Mayo.

Second, after going back to the archives of this board and reading the events surrounding Mr. Strider's departure from this board, I got the same sense from those threads that I get from this one: a battle of egos. A lot of childish, sophomoric attitudes... from both parties.

Third, and again, the famous "7.62 vs. 5.56" post (a SINGLE internet post, I might add), was written in March of 2002. FIVE YEARS AGO. The whole thing has a very Mark Furman vibe to it.

Spark said:
So, Mr NousDefions, are you actually saying that he's learned his lesson? That he's learned that lying isn't a good thing to do?
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Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying.
 
wolfmann601 said:
And therefore every armed carjacking in California goes to the Fed court and never the State court and those convicted go to Fed prison and never State prison?

This is an honest question, where I come from armed car jackings are rare.
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I don't know the absolute answer, was trying to provide a little info regarding Feds, and how they "might" get involved. Like you, I can't believe they get involved in ALL. that just doesn't make sense.

I was actually agreeing with your basic premise, if it was just a "slide over the hump and take the car" situation, would it get that much scrutiny, especially by Feds?
Which leads to conjecture on our part, but, does make one wonder what someone has to do to bring FBI/Fed charges down upon ones self?
Probably something fairly serious?

As if jacking a car isn't serious enough.

Again, only using an example and not making an accusation, another way feds might be involved in a case like this if it were already tied into an ongoing investigation, lets say.... oh.... items being stolen from a military base, that kind of thing. Purely an example only, of how Feds get tied into what appear to be basically simple crimes.

Again, no accusation made or intended, just putting some framework around the issue of Feds being involved,and the various ways they become involved in things.
 
SkunkWerX said:
I don't know the absolute answer, was trying to provide a little info regarding Feds, and how they "might" get involved. Like you, I can't believe they get involved in ALL. that just doesn't make sense.

I was actually agreeing with your basic premise, if it was just a "slide over the hump and take the car" situation, would it get that much scrutiny, especially by Feds?
Which leads to conjecture on our part, but, does make one wonder what someone has to do to bring FBI/Fed charges down upon ones self?
Probably something fairly serious?

As if jacking a car isn't serious enough.

Again, only using an example and not making an accusation, another way feds might be involved in a case like this if it were already tied into an ongoing investigation, lets say.... oh.... items being stolen from a military base, that kind of thing. Purely an example only, of how Feds get tied into what appear to be basically simple crimes.

Again, no accusation made or intended, just putting some framework around the issue of Feds being involved,and the various ways they become involved in things.
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Ultimately, does it matter? The question is the truthfulness that the pros offered him a deal to go to Somalia for a year- Mick has admitted that he did it (carjack), plead guilty to it, and served time for it. Are some of you now seriously arguing that he didn't do it?
 
HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM, isnt this forum for posting the experiance we have had with others here related to purchases THE GOOD, BAD UGLY!!!!!!! This whole thread has become very UGLY:barf:
 
NousDefions said:
I don't get it. If I were to go to another forum, and post that Mr. Strider had combat experience, he is under order to find that post and present a correction? That's the comparison you make regarding Mr. Mayo.
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Actually yes, he is under order to correct it. He doesn't have to find it, but it is his duty to correct it. If he's not correcting his friends, what makes you think he's going to step up and correct anyone else?

Second, if his very close friends are under this impression, what does that say about his truthfullness as a whole?

NousDefions said:
Third, and again, the famous "7.62 vs. 5.56" post (a SINGLE internet post, I might add), was written in March of 2002. FIVE YEARS AGO. The whole thing has a very Mark Furman vibe to it.
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Haha, what? So you are saying that the only times he's ever made these statements is only in those three threads? Never anywhere else? How very interesting, I'm wondering how all this talk about him being decorated and the real deal got spread around then. There must be a full time PR disinformation machine following him around.

NousDefions said:
Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying.
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So how do you reconcile that with his claims of being sentenced to Somalia just one week ago? People have posted in this very thread how that's not possible per sentencing guidelines. Please, by all means, tell me why I should believe a convicted felon with truth issues over law school text?
 
Bohica2u said:
Sorry, claims were being made as of last week.

Striderettes make me tired and sleepy....................TTFN
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To be fair, he now only implies that he is a veteran of various scrapes.

SNIIPED A BUNCH OF EVASION

Back in the day, I worked with a group of hard hitting fuckers….no doubt. We did a lot of work. Some good, some less than.

One of the group was arrested by the FBI. Not sure if any of you have ever dealt with the Federal Justice System….but it works like this:

“Tell me every thing you know, about everyone you know….or your going away forever.” This guy started spilling. Luckily, we only worked together a few times so he didn’t have much on me. What he DID have was a car theft.

I know a lot of you out there… I like those that I know…and I know your wondering….so here it is…

In the case in question:
We needed a vehicle. Getting it was one of my tasks.
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Love that "tasking" language. I wonder if he had waypoints to meet?

SNIPPED GLOSSING OVER OF MAJOR FELONY

In fact….there are rumors by those present that I may have told the lead guy, that if he wanted anything out of me he was gonna have to suck it out through my dick to get it.
Too bad, in my opinion, more folks don’t hold their mud…..Informants are the lowest form of life on this planet….well….informants and their minions…
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Mick is a self-confessed veteran of verbal combat with the FBI.:D

In the end…it was decided that I would serve for a year in Somalia, this service would act as my “cooperation” that the Feds are so fond of. I would then forfeit any money earned that year as a fine. In addition I would have a term of probation upon my return to the US.

While in the courtroom, during my sentencing…when the prosecutor was supposed to be saying “Your Honor, we recommend Mr. Strider be sentenced to one year service in Somalia…” what came out of his mouth was “we changed our mind…”

So rather than go to Somalia, I went to prison for 5 years. Luckily I only had to do 59.5 months of that five years….
Yes by the way….that was in mid 1993. I DO feel the deaths of my Ranger buddies, that I failed by sitting in jail during their fight, VERY heavily.

REMAINDER SNIPPED
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Maybe it's just me, but this claim, made just last week, strongly implies that Mr. Strider was in possession of some sort of capability that someone in Somalia would want. Combat experience? Spook capabilities? He leaves it to the reader to decide, which is a definite refinement over his old baldfaced lying.
 
FRANKeCAST said:
Bro,I'm sorry but you are wrong. If you complete RIP and get assigned to a battalion you ARE a RANGER. I don't know where you guys are getting this stuff.

Frank
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Ok , sorry. This was driving me nuts, so I had to check it out. Lot's of guys do RIP, you're only a ranger if you do RIP and go to a ranger battalion. Once you're there you are a ranger. Once you go to ranger school then you are a ranger qualified ranger, which means you get your tab and tan beret.
 
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