People continue to post because they are interested, funny how people are like that. We used to hang around the barber shops of small town America and talk about whatever seemed to be going on, now its just done on a much bigger scale on the internet within forums.
There have been plenty of big legal cases that started off as talk around the barber shop so writing this off just because its people posting back and forth about their points of view and some of their conclusions based on the information thats available may not "End with a whimper" as was posted early on.
I have already been warned about trolling if you notice the red marks on some of my posts and that was not my intention but fair enough. Evidently Duane Dwyer by his own account has lawyers dealing with this subject matter but lawyers can be offensive or defensive in nature depending on the case. Most of the people reading this jumped to the conclusion that SNI was preparing to file some kind of lawsuit but I never saw it that way, as one poster pointed out already, they would have taken immediate action against POW Network and had that information removed from their website, but again that never happened.
The term used was "litigating" and that basically means going to court, legal proceedings, cutting deals with prosecutors, settling out of court, and any number of court actions. It could very well be that some other parties have already taken some form of legal action or they are making a case for legal action but it is not currently a matter of record or public information, translated to Duane Dwyer might be the one going to court but as a defendant, it is common that defendants get "Lawyered Up." I don't want to speculate to far beyond that but I'm certain there are parties both receiving transcripts of this information and some who are logged in and are reading this who are legal types looking into the legal aspects of this situation.
The fair business practices laws of California are a very interesting subject and I'm sure some attorney will get to look into that aspect of this situation at some point and because of all the bragging about NSN numbers and such its possible that may come up as part of a court case. Its easy to see how that could happen, knife company A is awarded military contract based on them being subject matter experts while company B is not awarded a contract because they are not Special Operations. Years later company B finds out that company A was not a subject matter expert, was not Special Operations, and now seeks a legal remedy based on fraud committed by company A to get the original contracts, pretty cut and dried situation.
The Marine Corps has already been screwed over by Gary Lakis and his false military claims and now it appears that another individual who was a holdover from that incident has now surfaced in this situation and there may be more yet. It is a documented fact that Gary Lakis was at one time a vice president of the Scout Sniper Association and was having events out at the base. It is also a documented fact that SNI was a part of those events but what is unclear is if Duane Dwyer was a member of the Scout Sniper Association back then and just like Gary Lakis, has now been removed from the books for one simple reason, just like Gary Lakis, Duane Dwyer never qualified to be a member of the Scout Sniper Association but back then nobody was doing background checks through DOD, that is no longer the case now.
That would account for people saying they new he was a member and would be a plausible explanation and a alternative to those that Luke Mcghillie had posted as speculation. You do not need to be a lawyer to read the following and come to the conclusion the Duane Dwyer may have been a member but now is not, in some ways it reminds me of the whole "Mick in Somalia" affair where the lawyer responded with a alternative version of events that did in no way reflect the story given to the general public by anyone from Camp Strider.
