February 2nd, Chris Kyle day in Texas

[boomerhc9]

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politi...NrtG?ocid=iehp





Texas Governor Greg Abbott said on Friday he would officially declare Feb. 2 "Chris Kyle Day" in the state, in honor of the late Navy Seal sharpshooter portrayed in the film "American Sniper."The movie, starring Bradley Cooper as Kyle who was killed by a disgruntled U.S. veteran on a Texas gun range in 2013, has been a box office hit as well as a flashpoint of debate between liberals and conservatives.
Abbott, a Republican, made the announcement during a speech at the Texans Veterans of Foreign Affairs Mid-Winter Convention in Austin, according to a statement from the governor's office.
"In honor of a Texas son, a Navy SEAL and an American hero – a man who defended his brothers and sisters in arms on and off the battlefield – I am declaring February 2nd Chris Kyle Day in Texas," Abbott said during the speech, according to the statement.
The film has been nominated for six Academy Awards, including best picture. It led a Reuters/IPSOS poll of roughly 2,400 Americans who were asked which film should win the top Oscar.
At the same time, critics have said the film glorifies war and sanitizes Kyle, who called Muslims "savages" in his memoir.
An Arab-American civil rights organization also asked director Clint Eastwood and actor Bradley Cooper to denounce hateful language directed at U.S. Arabs and Muslims after the release of the film.
"It is our opinion that you could play a significant role in assisting us in alleviating the danger we are facing," said the letter penned by the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee.
The ADC said it was working with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and police to assess the threats.
Jack Horner, a spokesman for Warner Bros., the studio releasing the film, said in a statement that the company, a unit of Time Warner Co, "denounces any violent, anti-Muslim rhetoric, including that which has been attributed to viewers" of the film.
(Reporting by Curtis Skinner in San Francisco; Editing by Jeremy Laurence)

[Doc45]

Damn, wish I could get there.

[DAL357]

Here we go again (I'm referring to the call to denounce anti-Muslim rhetoric). Where do I start? If I say what I really think, I'll probably get banned from this board.

Boo-hoo! So Kyle called the enemies he was facing savages. That's what happens in war, the boots on the ground end up loathing and dehumanizing each other, at least for duration of hostilities, and it has been that way since wars began. Get over it.

Did you ever wonder why it's always the non-Muslim world that has to change their thinking, but never the poor, misunderstood Muslims themselves? THEIR intransigence towards others is never pointed out, much less questioned, by the PC powers that be. No, it is always the West that is intolerant (so much so that the West has allowed mass immigration of Muslims into its countries--SO very intolerant) and needs to reset its thinking.

All I can say is this: don't accept unearned guilt; you as a Westerner, have nothing to apologize for, at least culture-wise. The two cultures, as they are now, are incompatible and will never be able to co-exist in the same country. Stand fast and don't let a loudly-chattering vocal minority, aided and abbetted by principl-less powers that be and a sycophant media, wear you down by sowing the seeds of self-doubt and self-loathing about your culture and, ultimately, you as a productive member of the West. We've had enough of that tact in other areas used on us successfully and to our detriment; NO MORE!

[Zombie Steve]

I'd say taking a drill to a little boy is savage.

[sniper7]

Muslims need to denounce their terrorist ways first.

hopefully the movie wins every award it has been nominated for.

[bogie]

On a related note, qnd from a similar story, there is a White House petition for a nomination for a MOH for Kyle.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015...cmp=latestnews

WH petition:

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/pet...-kyle/M8PZc3CM

[ColoWyo]

I just watched the movie today and happen to realize that it was the same day that his life was taken.