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Not a great recruitment photo for the armed forces. Join the military, go to war, receive no support when you get back. One of the big problems with our country now is that we don’t feel the pain when the country goes to war. A small percentage have their lives turned upside down. But everyone else sticks a flag or yellow ribbon magnet on their SUV and heads to the mall thinking they are a patriot. (By the way, if you don’t know the difference between patriotism and nationalism, please figure it out).
I don’t know this man. Perhaps he had mental problems before he joined the Marines. Perhaps it was his experience in the Marines that caused some sort of break. Either way, if the 70% that doesn’t vote every election would just spend a few minutes of each day trying to give a shit about what’s going on in the country, maybe we wouldn’t constantly be at war and maybe the veterans who return from combat get the help they need and deserve.
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Over at Salon, he’s their man of the year.
Prosecutors won’t seek the death penalty, but will ask for a sentence of life in prison without parole if Routh’s convicted.
This, coming from prosecutors in the state that demanded the death penalty for Andrea Yates and then insisted on retrying her after her conviction was overturned on appeal. How very clement of them.
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When Texas prosecutors won’t seek the death penalty, you know it’s not a capital case.
And some people object to the notion that mentally ill people should not be around guns.
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Just another soldier sent to fight the oil wars and came home a broken man after shooting innocent people in a foreign land. For Kyle to have taken this broken man to a shooting range was the height of stupidity. This former marine needs professional help not Texas Prison.
A possible death penalty would likely disqualify more of the jury pool is my guess.
Kill by stealth, die by stealth.
In Texas?