Posted on 02/15/2015 6:22:33 AM PST by Kaslin
As most of you know, the trial for Eddie Routh, the confessed killer of Chris Kyle and his Navy SEAL mate, Chad Littlefield, began last week.
Buried in this ghastly murder trial is a massive, whopping lesson for all of us to learn: especially, those of us who have to be around the likes of a Routh at work, or church, or in our own home.
This week we discovered
· That Routh shot Kyle five times in the back and once in the head.
· In addition, it was revealed that Routh affirmed to cops that hed taken a couple of souls and had more to take.
· Routh also rambled on to the police about voodoo, hell, the apocalypse and how anarchy has been killing the world and he wondered aloud to cops, I dont know if Im going insane.
· Aside from all of the aforementioned asininities, it also surfaced during the trial that two hours after he killed Chris and Chad he drove to Taco Bell, in Kyles stolen truck, and ordered two burritos.
· Lastly, we found out that Kyle and Littlefield knew he was dangerous.
Yep, divulged during this past weeks proceedings were the text messages between Kyle and his friend Littlefield as they drove to the gun-range while Routh rode in the back seat of Kyles pickup. Kyle texted Littlefield the following about the dipstick in the backseat: This dude is straight up nuts. Littlefield replied in a text, Hes sitting right behind me. Watch my six -- which is military-speak for watch my back.
As you can imagine, Rouths defense lawyer, Tom Moore, is going to use all of the above crap to prove that poor, Taco-Bell-loving Eddie didnt know that executing Kyle and Littlefield, two men who were trying to help him, was bad.
Regardless of the outcome, in which I hope hes found guilty of first-degree murder and gets the death penalty, theres a big lesson tucked within this tawdry act, which is trust your BS detector.
For whatever reason, and Im guessing it was from pure benevolent motives, Kyle and Littlefield decided to continue on to the gun-range after acknowledging to each other, via texts, that the clown in the backseat was an evil clown. Yep, their BS Detector alerted Chris and Chad to the fact that malevolence was in their midst. This in no way faults Kyle or Littlefield who, with good intent, decided to continue on and try to unscramble Eddies eggs by spending time with him as they had successfully done with many others.
So what is your BS Detector?
Well, your BS Detector is that little voice inside your head telling you to listen to the little voice inside your head. Its an internal salvific alarm alerting you to the fact that youre in the presence of danger or evil or something twisted that has not your best interests at heart.
Your BS Detector is your friend. It can keep you from buying a crappy car or dating Kanye or voting for a Kenyan communist or from being scammed in a business deal and/or it could save your life. Security expert Gavin de Becker called it, The Gift of Fear.
For example, several years ago a buddy and I went hunting wild boar on the Kissimmee River in central Florida. The trip was to be an afternoon and morning hunt with an overnight stay at the ranch in the double-wide they had for their hunters. Not five-star accommodations, but great boar hunting.
Prior to our arrival, our regular guide was called away from guiding us and they had some local Deliverance twenty-something oversee our hunt.
Initially, we didnt know he was weird-as-hell, but after the hunt and as the evening wore on and this kook started getting wasted and talking about killing people, we decided at midnight to make the 3 ½ hour trek back home because this bastard was several bubbles off-level.
Now, mind you, Im not some backward-looking, fearful, timid tit-mouse. I used to be a drug dealer, preached for years in jails to violent dudes, took Taekwondo for many years, went through insane hell when my daughter brought down ACORN, and I carry a gun
everywhere I go. This wasnt my first rodeo. My buddy Glenn is a fit, 66, 50-year-old badass, who has been there and done that thirty times over and yet this little freak freaked both of us out to such an extent that we made up a lie not to startle the midget mutant, just to get the heck out of Dodge. Who knows what wouldve happened? But what Glenn and I did know is that little SOB pinged our BS Detector.
All of us have been hardwired with a BS Detector. It doesnt mean that we live a paranoid existence, but it does mean that we should pay attention to it when its telling us to abort whatever situation were in even though it goes against our senses and/or our benevolent desires.
My son is a Marine, yet I feel the need to keep harping on him about “situational awareness.” I never feel at ease.
“I think the chance of not guilty due to insanity is very much a possibility”
I don’t think so. But I do think Routh is severely mentally ill. One thing going against him, is that he looks ‘normal’ in court. My guess is he’s on the right meds now. I think he’ll get a life sentence.
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Keep in mind, the jury is ten women and two men.
That shifts the odds from 50/50 to about 60/40 for not guilty/insane.
“Maybe they didnt get close enough to smell the whiskey.”
He was sitting right behind them in the pickup, so he would have been kinda breathing on them.
Anyways, you don’t take a “nut” out shooting.
Tragic & fatal error in judgement on both Kyle & Littlefield’s parts.
I read Gavin DeBeckers book and its really great. I have always listened to my BS detector and its kept me alive.
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I escaped a close encounter that was headed for rape at a minimum because I “listened” and ACTED on those warnings, so I’m a “believer”, big time.
And women jurors wear crying when Kyle’s wife testified.
The insanity plea rarely works. I don’t think they’ll be able to show that he didn’t know that he was doing was wrong. Routh told police that he killed them because they wouldn’t talk to him when they were riding in the truck. So, he was angry and shot them.
Yes I have exited stage left from a few bad situations. The trick to it is to listen to that voice, never question and act immediately. Don’t worry about what anyone else says or thinks.
Amen.
Since these are small-town Texas women, I think the chances of this evil POS getting off is significantly lower than if the trial were being held elsewhere.
I did not know that Islam was in the shooter’s background. Thanks for the info. If he killed Kyle (a famous sniper) for Islam, he’s a real war hero to them.
The trick to it is to listen to that voice, never question and act immediately. Dont worry about what anyone else says or thinks.
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Absolutely. Criminals often get close by taking advantage of people raised to be polite, not raise a ruckus, avoid embarrassment .... by the time these folks realize they’re in a bad fix with someone evil, they have few, if any, options left to get out of it.
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Thank you.
One of the peices of advice for parents to give their children from Gavin DeBecker’s book is, it you are lost, choose a woman to ask for help. He admits it is not PC, but that is what he says. He says the men will say things like the manager’s desk is right there, or some other “I’m too busy” line, or worse.
I saw a little girl, maybe 8 or so, in the grocery store, near the checkout registers as I was just about to finish buying something. I noticed her looking around, then walking, then almost dashing back and forth & as she got more frantic, the look of fear on her face increased and she started crying. It was obvious to me that she had lost her parent. People just walked right on by and ignored her obvious distress.
I grabbed my bag and caught up with her and said “it looks to me like you’ve gotten separated from your mom or dad?” Obviously, she’d been taught not to talk to strangers ... she just looked at me and sort of nodded, afraid to talk, then said “my mom”. I told her “let’s just stand here a few minutes ... I’ll stay with you so you’re not alone & we’ll see if your mom shows up .... if she doesn’t in a few minutes, I’ll go with you to the manager’s desk and we’ll have her paged, ok?” She looked a little less scared and nodded ‘yes’. She didn’t get too close, but definitely calmed down a lot while we waited. I don’t think we were there more three minutes or so when she saw her mom approaching the checkout lines and ran off to her.
It was a happy moment for me to see her reunited and I felt some satisfaction that perhaps I eased her fear a little and made sure no one took advantage of her situation.
If Routh was insane, he wouldn't have known to backshoot both of them - ESPECIALLY if they were on guard.
The act displayed the cunning of a sociopath.
Hey now! - grandfathers are NEVER too busy to help a small child.
In my heart I have a feeling that the Mom and Dad did not bother to burden Chris Kyle with their son’s previous psycho behavior when they asked him for help. They probably just said he had PTSD.
Reading between the lines of the text messages between Kyle and LIttlefield coupled with the Routh’s admission that he was angered that the two would not chat with him in the truck I’m going to speculate wildly. He was probably sitting back there and started some crazytown talk and they were stunned into silence. Maybe so as not to escalate him. So they started texting each other. Their mistake was in proceeding on to the range. Maybe they thought they would disarm him there and never got the chance. The whole thing is so strange.
Having been involved in several life/death situations over the years, where people who should have died didn’t & people who should have survived but for a turn of ‘fate’ or a mistake that cascaded into something more did not, I have come to the firm belief that when it’s your day to die, it’s your day to die .... when it’s not, it’s not. That day was Kyle’s day, strange and horrible as it was.
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