Douglas Dietrich Plagiarizes Author and Decorated Former U.S. Marine Officer Elliot Ackerman

Beginning at 10:45:25 to 11:24: 20 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWbkGWxZ8-M&t=41109s

Dietrich read verbatim from an October 10, 2019 article by Elliot Ackerman:

"Why Bringing Back the Draft Could Stop America's Forever Wars", later published in the October 21, 2019 issue of Time Magazine. 

https://time.com/5696950/bring-back-the-draft/

Photo: Time Magazine

What Dietrich then proceeded to do is not just an act of overt plagiarism. He actually hijacked Ackerman's article and used it as the framework to insert his own bizarre, angry narrative.  This isn't simply a failure to acknowledge someone else's work, it is essentially theft.

It is my opinion that Dietrich's actions do not meet the standard of fair use and violate both Google Terms of Service and YouTube policy with regard to Copyright Protected Work.  In fact, I find this example to be particularly egregious.

Here is the best part:  

I doubt Dietrich realizes who he is actually stealing from. Ackerman is also a former U.S. Marine Infantry and Special Operations Officer (Captain), and a total badass. 

He was in Navy ROTC while attending Tufts University when he opted into a dual Bachelors's/Masters's program in 5 instead of 6 years, delaying his commission in the USMC by a year. 

With the summer following his junior year free, he had superiors and others pull strings to attend U.S. Army Basic Parachutist School, Combat Diver School, and Amphibious Reconnaissance School.

At graduation (2003), Ackerman not only held two degrees but was basically MARSOC qualified when he was commissioned. For his actions as an Infantry Platoon Leader (2nd Lt) in the 2004 Second Battle of Falluja, he was awarded the Silver Star and Purple Heart. 

https://web.archive.org/web/20160305012556/http://www.tufts.edu/alumni/magazine/spring2007/features/fear.html

This is Ackerman's Silver Star Citation 

https://valor.militarytimes.com/hero/3696

He later served with MARSOC as a Marine Raider in Afghanistan and briefly as a Paramilitary Officer with the C.I.A.

This is an interview of Elliot Ackerman (CPT, USMC, Ret) by the Library of Congress, Veterans History Project: 

https://www.loc.gov/item/afc2001001.108527/

A recent interview with the American Veteran's Center:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEdPvbjPGYs&t=1s

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