Source: www.wnd.com - Sunday, February 01, 2015
‘American Sniper’ Chris Kyle The late “American Sniper” hero Chris Kyle – a former Navy SEAL who served multiple tours in Iraq and saved countless American lives – is no different than deranged serial killer Adam Lanza, who murdered 20 children and six adults in cold blood at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, on Dec. 14, 2012. That’s according to Vice President Sheldon Richman of The Future of Freedom Foundation, a libertarian who authored a Jan. 28 article posted on at the organization’s website titled “The American sniper was no hero.” Sandy Hook shooter Adam Lanza “I have trouble seeing an essential difference between what Kyle did in Iraq and what Adam Lanza did at Sandy Hook Elementary School,” Richman wrote. “It certainly was not heroism.” He also linked Kyle to the Nazis, writing: “The only reason Kyle went to Iraq was that Bush/Cheney & Co launched a war of aggression against the Iraqi people. Wars of aggression, let’s remember, are illegal under international law. Nazis were executed at Nuremberg for waging wars of aggression. With this perspective, we can ask if Kyle was a hero.” Richman argued in his piece that Kyle only saved the “lives of American military personnel who invaded other people’s country, one that was no threat to them or their fellow Americans back home.” “If an invader kills someone who is trying to resist the invasion, that does not count as heroic self-defense. The invader is the
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‘American Sniper’ Chris Kyle The late “American Sniper” hero Chris Kyle – a former Navy SEAL who served multiple tours in Iraq and saved countless American lives – is no different than deranged serial killer Adam Lanza, who murdered 20 children and six adults in cold blood at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, on Dec. 14, 2012. That’s according to Vice President Sheldon Richman of The Future of Freedom Foundation, a libertarian who authored a Jan. 28 article posted on at the organization’s website titled “The American sniper was no hero.” Sandy Hook shooter Adam Lanza “I have trouble seeing an essential difference between what Kyle did in Iraq and what Adam Lanza did at Sandy Hook Elementary School,” Richman wrote. “It certainly was not heroism.” He also linked Kyle to the Nazis, writing: “The only reason Kyle went to Iraq was that Bush/Cheney & Co launched a war of aggression against the Iraqi people. Wars of aggression, let’s remember, are illegal under international law. Nazis were executed at Nuremberg for waging wars of aggression. With this perspective, we can ask if Kyle was a hero.” Richman argued in his piece that Kyle only saved the “lives of American military personnel who invaded other people’s country, one that was no threat to them or their fellow Americans back home.” “If an invader kills someone who is trying to resist the invasion, that does not count as heroic self-defense. The invader is thefrom Top News on RSS Feeds http://ift.tt/1wSyOAc
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