Degenerates Kill Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell's Dog

[babylonsister]

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Degenerates Kill Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell's Dog
by: Brandon Friedman
Mon Apr 06, 2009 at 21:39:40 PM EDT


Punks joyriding around killing dogs in rural Texas murdered Navy SEAL and Lone Survivor author Marcus Luttrell's dog last week. The dog's name was Dasy and it was the therapy dog given to him when he returned from his ordeal in Afghanistan. Marcus went on Glenn Beck to tell the story:

Video at link~

The maximum sentence these slugs will get is two years, which is unfortunate because they deserve to spend the rest of their lives in an 8 X 8 ft. cage. I'd like to use some more colorful and angry language, but I'm just gonna leave it. Our thoughts are with Marcus.

If you can't view the video, a summary is below. . . .


Here's a summary of the story from LiveLeak:

You see it seems some dumb-ass punks were driving the Texas countryside, summarily executing dogs.

Marcus was at home, it was late at night and he was awake. He heard a gunshot outside, told his mom to stay inside, and when he went outside he saw a group of punks standing around his yellow lab therapy dog named "Dasy," lying dead in the ditch. These punks had shot Daisy with a .357 and killed her. Dasy was very special to Marcus, because she served not only as his therapy dog, but her very name was an acronym for the members of his SEAL team who fought and died in Afghanistan -- Danny, Axe, Southern Boy (Marcus) and Yankee.

Marcus chased these punks over four counties, and he nearly shot the driver. Finally the Rangers caught up with these punks in Huntsville, TX and the idiots in handcuffs were laughing about it. They said they would also kill Marcus. Do these douchebags not know about Marcus?

Dickhead Alfonso Hernandez was charged with Cruelty to Animals and is facing up to two years in prison, and dickhead #2, Michael Edmonds, is currently on the run.

If you have any information on Edmonds, please contact Sgt. Steven Jeter at the Huntsville, TX Ranger station at 936-435-0152.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Luttrell

On June 28, 2005, Luttrell and SEAL Team 10 were assigned to a mission to kill or capture Ahmad Shah (nom de guerre Mohammad Ismail), a high-ranking Taliban leader responsible for killings in eastern Afghanistan and the Hindu-Kush mountains.<5> The SEAL team was made up of Luttrell, Michael P. Murphy, Danny Dietz and Matthew Axelson.<5> Luttrell and Axelson were the team's snipers; Dietz was in charge of communications and Murphy the team leader.

The four SEALs stumbled upon a small group of goat herders whom they considered to be Taliban sympathizers, but the SEALs were unable to verify any hostile intent.<6> Luttrell claims that Murphy, the officer in charge of the SEAL team, put the fate of the goat herders to a vote. Axelson voted to kill the Afghanis, and Dietz abstained. Murphy told Luttrell that he would vote the same as him so with his vote it was decided to free the herders.<5>

This account is emphatically denied by Murphy’s father, Daniel Murphy. He claims that his son would have never have put such a decision to a vote and that Luttrell told him a different account when he spoke to him, "He said that Michael was adamant that the civilians were going to be released, that he wasn’t going to kill innocent people," said the elder Murphy, "Michael wouldn’t put that up for committee. People who knew Michael know that he was decisive and that he makes decisions."<5> The herders were subsequently released and disappeared over the mountain ridge. Luttrell believed they immediately betrayed the team's location to local Taliban forces and within an hour, the SEALs were engaged in an intense gun battle against a force of more than 150 enemy fighters.<7>

In the ensuing battle, the rest of Luttrell's SEAL team were killed. Team leader Michael P. Murphy was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions in the battle.

A MH-47 Chinook helicopter was dispatched with a force consisting of SEALs and 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment "Nightstalkers" to rescue the team, but the helicopter was shot down by an RPG. All 16 men on the Chinook were killed.<8>

Luttrell was the only survivor of the SEAL team. Badly wounded, he managed to walk and crawl seven miles to evade capture. He was given shelter by an Afghan tribe,<9> who alerted the Americans of his presence, and he was finally rescued by American forces six days after the gun battle.<8>

[YOY]

1. Degenerates indeed.

What kind of asshole shoots a friendly lab let alone a harmless animal?

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. I don't understand the joy in killing a goggy.

:cry:

[WilliamPitt]

3. Beck's gonna say it was Al Gore or something.

[berni_mccoy]

6. We should give every Dog a gun and then this won't be a problem anymore.

:sarcasm:

[undeterred]

4. More compassion from an Afghan tribe than Texas assholes.

These men are disgusting.

[Orsino]

5. Our animals always seem to be subject to our worst failings.

I wonder whether Luttrell ever summarily executed anyone in his career?

[lies and propaganda]

7. if i had a gun...

i would not think twice about shooting some fucking asshole who just killed my animal in my own yard.

This poor guy is probably going to have some serious PTSD inducing events from this.. what scumbags

[gratuitous]

8. And what did you go into the desert to see?

Wait, what’s so “degenerate” about these so-called “punks”? They seem to have internalized the lessons of living in the United States very well. We believe in the power of violence to redeem any situation. We believe in it so fervently, it’s almost unnoticeable anymore. Every problem should have violence applied to it until it is resolved. If the problem seems resistant to violence, the answer is not to try something else, but to apply more violence. The actions we take in furtherance of our faith in violence shames the most fervent Christian, Moslem, Hindu or Buddhist. Sure, they may subscribe to that whole “love your neighbor as yourself” ethic, but steal a parking space in a crowded lot, and it will be a rare American who doesn’t experience at least a fleeting thought of retributive, redemptive violence.

Our federal budget devotes more than a dollar out of every two spent to “defense,” purchasing weapons and ammunition, recruiting, training, and deploying military personnel all over the globe, and inflicting violence wherever we go. Our popular entertainments, from the youngest age, demonstrate the awesome redemptive power of violence. By contrast, people who seek peaceful resolutions and cooperative answers to problems are ridiculed and impugned. Don’t believe it? Just read some of the responses that surely will follow this post.

What problem were these young men addressing? Blood lust? Boredom? Thrill-seeking? It doesn’t matter; the answer they’ve been carefully taught is that violence will take care of it. Oh, aren’t we scandalized that when apprehended, they merely laughed at their lawful captors?

It’s hard to take the anger directed at these young men seriously when we’ve spent so much time, money and energy training them and inuring them to violence. But we seem to have hit on the answer to these “degenerate” “punks”: We’ll inflict some violence on them to show them the error of their ways.

Then we’ll all feel better. And then it will all happen again.

[babylonsister]

9. Simple question. You've been subjected to the same

'lessons' as these degenerates. Would you go out and shoot someone else's dog?

I live here, too, and I'd never even consider that. I do not think that violence solves everything and don't think that's the 'lesson' that's out there for everyone to learn.

[onenote]

10. exactly what "situation" were these jackasses redeeming by shooting a dog?

Did you read your post before you sent it? Did you think it actually made sense?

[DS1]

11. And here's the obligatory "It's not their fault" horseshit

Glad someone got it out of the way :eyes:

[Name removed]

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[gratuitous]

13. The short answer for the comprehension impaired

I'm not absolving these guys of anything. I'm not making excuses for them. I'm not saying they should be let off the hook.

The longer answer, which will not be addressed: I am saying that in a society like ours, drenched in violence and awash in the instruments of violence, it's completely foreseeable, predictable, and virtually inevitable that these episodes are going to happen. Yes, it's even going to happen to animals owned by deeply traumatized veterans of the armed forces.

These young men will be tried, probably found guilty, and considering the circumstances, punished to the full extent of the law. They will also be subject to an incredible amount of public vitriol, which will angrily and vehemently overlook, elide, minimize and ignore that role played in this crime by the society that spawned it. For proof of that last statement, I need do nothing except point to the responses already posted. The anger, the denial, the rationalization is all there, as if someone had impugned someone's most deeply held, personal religious beliefs. And so it is.

[Tim01]

18. Feel better sweety?

Poor thing, life is so hard for you.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

14. As much as I regret to say it, I would have killed them all.

Having recently lost an 8 month old puppy I don't think I would have been able to restrain myself. That is very much why I built a privacy fence for my dogs. I figured it was less expensive than a lawyer when I gut stomped or killed someone hurting one of my dogs. So sorry for this fine man and his additional loss, thanks to these pieces of shit.

David

[Tim01]

19. I would regret going to jail for killing them. My family would understand.

[northernlights]

22. I'm so sorry for your loss

:hug:

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

24. Thanks, we knew she didn't have long just wish it was longer.

[fishnfla]

15. I am sorry about his dog, truly

but this guy hates liberals. If you read his book he blames the ambush& all sorts of lesser self percieved problems on the Liberal Press.

I'd bet he blames Liberals for these jackasses who shot his dog

[babylonsister]

21. I truly don't care about his politics.

He didn't deserve for this to happen after all the other crap he's gone through. No One deserves to have their dog killed just for the fun of it, and these young maggots deserve the harshest of punishment.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

16. I wish he just shot those fuckers

That's what they deserve.

[mitchum]

17. I would have shot everyone of those motherfuckers dead; it would be no great loss

[rcrush]

20. So one guy is still on the run?

And he has a severly pissed off Navy Seal after him? This will make a great movie. Actually there was a similiar one recently called Red? I think. Where Brian Cox goes after the kid that kills his dog.

Anyways I look forward to hearing about this guy was hunted down by a Seal that he pissed off.

[xchrom]

23. if i could -- i would set their collective asses on fire.

and i don't usually feel that way about much -- but this i do.

[ddeclue]

25. What kind of morans would fuck with a Navy SEAL?

He probably knows 47 ways to kill them silently with nothing but a roll of toilet paper.

:hide:

:wow:

:nuke: