Phil Taylor gives a critical review of the warmongering new film, American Sniper, a Clint Eastwood film staring Bradley Cooper as the "legendary" sniper hero, killer Chris Kyle.
Taylor shows (1) The film reflects political and military decadence and (2) It's all about business --Kyle's and his business partners owned a security firm which was built on Kyle's reputation for using his high-power rifle to kill the "enemy," who were often women and children.
Kyle fed the media with lies to enhance his "legendary" reputation for killing humans and bringing in the money for his business. Kyle claimed: (1) to have shot dead 30 threatening people in New Orleans after Katrina (no bodies with guns found) (2) to have killed two men who wanted his car at a gas station (no one, including the sheriffs of two counties, had any record of this, no bodies found) and (3) to have decked Jesse Ventura for badmouthing the Navy Seals (Ventura said it never happened, sued and won $1.8 million).
Ironically, Kyle was killed in February of 2013 by a veteran with P.T.S.D whom Kyle was trying to help through a program he developed: Taking traumatized veterans to a rifle range and hunting. Because he was the famous âsniper,â no one thought to ask if this made any sense.
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