American Sniper Killer - Eddie Ray Routh - GUILTY of first degree murder

From NBC:

A Texas jury has found Eddie Ray Routh guilty of murder in the killings of "American Sniper" Chris Kyle and Kyle's friend, Chad Littlefield. The jury announced its verdict at around 9:20 p.m. local time (10:20 p.m. E.T.) at a Stephenville courthouse. 

They were given the case at 6:36 p.m. local time (7:36 p.m. E.T.). Prosecutors did not seek the death penalty, and Routh was sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole. 

"We just want to say that we've waited two years for God to get justice for us on behalf of our son and as always God has proved to be faithful, and we're so thrilled that we have the verdict that we have tonight," Littlefield's mother, Judy Littlefield, told reporters after the verdict was read. 

Routh, 27, admitted to killing both men at the shooting range of Rough Creek Lodge and Resort, southwest of Dallas, on Feb. 2, 2013. Routh pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to capital murder. 

His attorneys have said Routh, a former Marine corporal who served in Iraq but not in a combat role, was in the grip of a medically diagnosed psychosis at the time of the killings. 

Prosecutors said that Routh was drinking and smoking marijuana on the morning of the crime. They argued that he was paranoid because he was high, and that he was angry about living with his parents, relationship problems, money and his job — then exploded after he believed Kyle and Littlefield snubbed him. 

Experts for the prosecution have testified that Routh knew what he was doing was wrong when he killed the two men. 

Earlier Tuesday, jurors heard a recording in which Routh told a reporter nearly four months after the killings that, "It tore my (expletive) heart out what I did. I don't know why I did it, but I did it." 

Routh, speaking to a reporter from The New Yorker magazine on May 31, 2013, also said, "I feel so (expletive) about it. I guess you live and learn, you know."

Unless you are Chris Kyle, I guess.

Was Chris Kyle's Killer a Converted Muslim --- He Claimed to Have PTSD, But Never Saw Combat, Never Even Left The Base ... EVER?

Hmm ...

From Young Conservatives:

New information is surfacing about the man who killed former SEAL Chris Kyle. As the story goes, Chris Kyle took Marine Eddie Ray Routh, who was allegedly suffering from post traumatic stress disorder, to a Texas gun range where he turned the gun on Kyle. 

But according to documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, Routh was never in combat, so it’s unlikely he was suffering from PTSD. 

On their Facebook page, The Warfighter Foundation, wrote that “he NEVER SAW COMBAT or any aspect of traumatic events associated with a combat deployment (i.e. incoming mortar or rocket fire). He never left the base, EVER.” 

Now people are taking a closer look at Routh, and it’s speculated that he might have been an Islamic sympathizer. 

From Truth Revolt: 

What is known. however, is that Routh, while never serving in combat, did work at the Bilad Airbase prison, guarding Muslim terrorists. 

Walid Shoebat, a former radicalized Muslim terrorist and member of the PLO who has since converted to Christianity, believes that because of his past and credentials, he is confident in his deduction that Eddie Routh was in fact becoming a radical Muslim, although there is no proof yet of the conversion.  

Shoebat brings as one proof a phone call Routh had with his father where he expressed sympathy for the detainees he was guarding. 

“During a phone call with his father, Routh expressed sympathy for the detainees and discontent over how the US was conducting the war as well as his reluctance to engage in combat” and “While working as a guard at Balad Air Base, Routh laments his [Muslim] prisoners’ poor living conditions.” 

He continues, “It is a known fact that Routh’s family contacted Kyle about their son’s diminishing mental health. Routh was admitted to inpatient psychiatric treatment prior to the events at Rough Creek Ranch, according to a report from the Daily Mail. 

Routh had been taken to a mental hospital twice in the past five months and told authorities that he was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, police records show.”

From Allen West:

The Warfighter Foundation is a non-profit organization that used the Freedom of Information act to learn more about Routh’s history. “[Routh] held a non-combat arms occupation of 2111 (Small Arms Repairer/ Technician or more commonly referred to as an Armorer),” the group reported. 

“Balad Air Base had a Pizza Hut, 24 hour Burger King, Subway, Popeye’s, Baskin Robbins, movie theater, and even a miniature golf course. It even had a strictly enforced 10 mile per hour speed limit!” 

Shoebat says, “Routh had been taken to a mental hospital twice in the past five months and told authorities that he was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, police records show.” 

However, just saying you have PTSD is also different than actually being diagnosed. 

While Routh may indeed suffered mental problems, PTSD may not have been one of them. 

Nonetheless, the media will continue to focus on PTSD, which further casts doubt on our veterans and weakens our resolve for battle. 

But the last thing the media would ever consider is that Routh could have been a convert to Islam. It’s an interesting and discomfiting theory. 

And then there’s the matter of his beard with trimmed moustache. Of course we can’t engage in profiling, but…

Hollywood's Jihad Against American Sniper

From Daniel Greenfield:

American Sniper is the movie that should not have existed. Even though the book was a bestseller, nobody in Hollywood wanted the rights. 

And why would they? 

The Iraq War already had an official narrative in Hollywood. It was bad and wrong. Its veterans were crippled, dysfunctional and dangerous. Before American Sniper, Warner Brothers had gone with anti-war flicks like Body of Lies and In the Valley of Elah. It had lost a fortune on Body of Lies; but losing money had never stopped Hollywood from making anti-war movies that no one wanted to watch. 

Even the Hurt Locker had opened with a quote from leftist terrorist supporter Chris Hedges. An Iraq War movie was supposed to be an anti-war movie. There was no other way to tell the story. 

Spielberg’s own interest in American Sniper was focused on “humanizing” the other side. When he left and Clint Eastwood, coming off a series of failed films, took the helm, it was assumed that American Sniper would briefly show up in theaters and then go off to die quietly in what was left of the DVD aisle. 

And then American Sniper broke box office records that had been set by blockbusters like Avatar, Passion and Hangover Part II by refusing to demonize American soldiers or to spin conspiracy tales about the war. Instead of pandering to coastal progressives, it aimed at the patriotic heartland. 

In a sentence you no longer expected to hear from a Hollywood exec, the Warner Brothers distribution chief said, “This is about patriotism and all the things people say the country is lacking these days.” 

The backlash to that patriotism and the things the country is lacking these days didn’t take very long to form and it goes a lot deeper than snide tweets from Michael Moore and Seth Rogen. 

Academy members were reportedly passing around an article from the New Republic, whose author had not actually seen the movie, but still denounced it for not showing Chris Kyle as a bigoted murderer. 

Hollywood progressives are both threatened and angered by American Sniper. And with good reason. 

The most basic reason is the bottom line. Between Lone Survivor, Unbroken and American Sniper, the patriotic war movie is back. Hollywood could only keep making anti-war movies no one would watch as long as that seemed to be the only way to tackle the subject. 

Now there’s a clear model for making successful and respectful war movies based around the biographies and accounts of actual veterans. 

Hollywood studios had been pressured by left-wing stars into wasting fortunes on failed anti-war conspiracy movies. Matt Damon had managed to get $150 million sunk into his Green Zone failed anti-war movie before stomping away from Universal in a huff. 

Body of Lies with Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe had a real budget estimated at around $120 million, but had opened third after Beverly Hills Chihuahua whose titular tiny dog audiences preferred to either star and their political critiques. 

But why spend over a hundred million on anti-war movies no one wants when American Sniper has already made over $120 million on a budget only half that much? 

Hollywood progressives don’t look forward to having to write, direct and star in patriotic pictures and if they can’t destroy American Sniper at the box office, they can taint it enough that no major star or director will want to be associated with anything like it.  

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