Posted on 02/13/2015 9:01:26 AM PST by Rusty0604
In a post on their site titled “Eddie Routh: The Untold Story,” Warfighter News details their comprehensive investigation involving interviews with three Marines who served directly with Routh, and several inconsistencies with the defense.
“We reached out to experts and did our own homework,” Spencer Walker, Board Chairman and CEO of Warfighter News, told The Daily Caller News Foundation. “The defense is trying to claim Routh had PTSD, but our analysis shows that it’s extremely unlikely. According to Dr. C. Alan Hopewell, former Senior Neuropsychologist for the Department of the Army, Routh’s actions indicate paranoid schizophrenia. PTSD has been endlessly ripped out of its context. Our organization is essentially the only one looking at it from this angle.”
The Marines failed, Veterans Affairs (VA) failed, and his parents failed to look into Routh’s dark past and detect a dangerous pattern of drug abuse, deadly violence, and a misdiagnosis of PTSD, Walker said — adding that the choice of Routh’s defense attorneys to blame his actions on PTSD essentially implies that every veteran suffering from PTSD is dangerous and potentially a murderer.
“Routh was never near any incoming. Where he was located on the camp, he was rather safe and cozy,” said Cpl. Ryker Pawloski, a Marine who served with Routh in Iraq in the 8th Combat Logistics Battalion.
“If you go to a doctor and say I have anxiety, they’ll treat you for anxiety,” Walker continued. “If you’re a veteran and you go to the VA, they’ll say you have PTSD right off the bat. PTSD is one of the most over-diagnosed conditions in the veteran community and the VA hospital that Routh had gone to was one of the worst in the nation, but the VA does have a great public affairs office.”
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I read that Kyle texted, “This guy is badsh*t crazy” to a friend just before he was murdered.
So why did the CIA have this guy kill Chris Kyle in the first place? What did he know? What did they not want known?
full stock of tin foil.
Sounds to me like this dude should’ve never been allowed in any branch of military service.
IIRC, the PTSD claimed was from relief work in Haiti when the tsunami hit, no?
I recall right after the Ft. Hood shooting when the left was trying to claim it wasn’t an act of terrorism by pushing the explaination that the shooter suffered PRE tramatic stress disorder. He had never been out of the States but supposedly just by being around other soldiers that would be going to fight he suffered from PTSD.
I think the guy was a whackjob and just shot Kyle so he could say he shot the baddest a$$ sniper there ever was. Nutcases don’t need a real reason to engage in stupidity.
Soon if a person just walks into a recruitment station to get information that would qualify them for PTSD.
They will be drugged and disarmed.
Story in the article about him attacking and injuring two fellow soldiers for no reason.
It’s secondhand PTSD. Almost as bad as smoking—soon vets will be relegated to not having contact with POGs...
Routh had become a Muslim fundamentalist while a prison guard at Balad Air Base in Iraq, according to multiple sources.
That’s the entire story.
He was crazy. It’ll never make sense why. As for PTSD, I don’t like hearing people get too weird about that. Some guys go through the worst combat imaginable and come through fine. Some lose the sanity of the weirdest minor things.
He’s gonna go to jail for life, its not even a question.
I think that’s why Texas says its a capital murder case, but that they aren’t going for death. That puts life without parole on the table in Texas.
relief work in Haiti when the tsunami hit
PTSD is negligently and systemically overdosed. Why?
Because it gets the soldier a nice, quick discharge. Plus, and this is a big plus, a check. For life.
Analyzing a nut is pointless. He had a history of violently attacking people he thought were making him the butt of a joke. My guess is that someone made a goodnatured joke like vets do,, and he started shooting. And he supposedly was very paranoid.
Out there in the middle of nowhere, for no reason we can know, he might have decided he was going to be killed and shot them first.
Might as well try to understand Son of Sam and his talking dog, or Hinkley shooting Reagan to impress Jodi Foster.
O’bummer changed the criteria for PTSD so that combat exposure is no longer required. This is why the VA has had the huge back log in approvals for disability.
You can now get PTSD from sexual harassment. Or because your commander spoke to you in a rough tone of voice!!!!
PTSD is the new ADD or ADHD.
Also conveniently PTSD diagnosis makes you ineligible to buy a gun when VA reports you to the database. That’s already been an issue. And they give those diagnosis’s out like candy.
That is what I think too. Seeking attention by killing a hero.
I believe you are correct. The guy is quite apparently unstable to put it mildly.
I agree. You don’t need a CAR or CAB, and I also disagree with the authors insinuation that the VA is too quick to diagnose PTSD. Their are a lot of Vets who find out that the real problem is that once the VA designates you with a mental illness, that’s what you have and everything else is secondary even if that primary diagnoses is wrong. That being said it is obvious this guy is not right and probably does have Paranoid Schizophrenia or something else. I am also in the camp that something more sinister is involved, and because I hate Jesse Ventura I am blaming it on him. I wouldn’t be surprised to find he was a huge fan of Ventura and did it for him.
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