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Journalist in Ukraine ponders a Libertarian’s thoughts
Editing by Carolyn Bennett
Caught in maniacal web
America commits violent acts when it chooses, George Green
writes today at Pravda Ru, and denounces others when they commit the same acts.
Nowhere does this play out more clearly and more tragically than in theater commanded
to kill over there and in society where soldiers come home.
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erving the American government in no way justified the
murder of Chris Kyle,” Green writes. “Yet serving foreign governments is today
a justification used by the United States government to murder people ─ even
American citizens ─ without due process.”
Due process contemplates an exercise
of the powers of government as the law permits, and sanctions under recognized safeguards for the protection of individual
rights.
Sniper soldier Kyle
The most lethal sniper in American military history,
Christopher Scott (Chris) Kyle (b. April 8, 1974, d. February 2, 2013) was a
United States Navy SEAL, a sniper whose killing statistics reportedly have not been
released by the U.S. Department of Defense.
His deadly track record while deployed in Al-Ramādī (central Iraq on the Euphrates River) led insurgents
to call him “Shaitan Ar-Ramadi (The Devil of Ramadi).” They put a “$20,000
bounty on his head [later] increased to $80,000.”
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he United States government awarded sniper soldier Kyle Bronze
and Silver Star medals more than once. U.S. publishers published his
autobiography American Sniper. In
2009, Kyle left the U.S. Navy with an
honorable discharge. In the United States state of Texas on February 2, 2013,
another former soldier killed Kyle.
Lethal subjectivity:
Killings applauded, Killings censured
Killers mourned, Killers condemned
George Green continues: “While Kyle served his duty
honorably, he was in fact a weapon wielded by the United States government,
which has continually used people like Kyle to carry out its objectives in open
defiance to the rules of war.
America mourns the slayer they so
jubilantly taught to slay at far less than a moment’s notice.
America promotes a subjective
worldview wherein even murdering unsuspecting countrymen is sometimes justified
─ as long as those killed are disliked by the commander-in-chief.
America lauded the 160 deaths the
man they trained to kill caused, and cries for the one death caused by another whom
America trained to kill.
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“Two men of the sword died by another of the sword but the
weapons were not the guns in their hands.
“The weapon is an ideology instilled
in them by a maniacal government bent on subjective justice that caused one of
the three to turn on the rest.
“…One should deeply consider that had Christopher Kyle’s
fellow soldier murdered him [by Presidential decree] he might well have
received awards for the killing.”
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Worth pondering
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yle “commercialized on the concepts of killing unsuspecting
individuals in his book American Sniper,”
Green concludes. “He was not killed for his actions serving his country; he was
killed by a disturbed fellow soldier.”
America today “believes people should die for their ideas or
actions supporting pretty much anyone the government disagrees with.”
Sources and notes
“Life by The Sword: Ron Paul and the ‘American Sniper’” (by
George Green), February 5, 2013,
http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/05-02-2013/123681-ron_paul_american_sniper-0/
George Green III
Journalist George Edward Green III has written for several
Technology, Financial, and Libertarian Publications. He is a regular
contributor for Pravda.ru, and editor at ThirdRome.com. He lives near L'viv
Ukraine. http://thirdrome.com/
Copyright © 1999-2013, «PRAVDA.Ru». When reproducing our
materials in whole or in part, hyperlink to PRAVDA.Ru should be made. The
opinions and views of the authors do not always coincide with the point of view
of PRAVDA.Ru's editors.
Christopher Kyle, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Kyle
Commander-in-chief
As a practical term, commander-in-chief refers to the
military competencies that reside in a nation-state’s executive, Head of State
and/or Head of Government. Often, a given country's commander-in-chief need not
be or have been a commissioned officer or even a veteran, and it is by this
legal statute that civilian control of the military is realized in states where
it is constitutionally required. A commander-in-chief is the person exercising
supreme command authority of a nation’s military forces or significant element
of those forces. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commander-in-chief
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