PAT TILLMAN - ATHEIST ATHLETE, WARRIOR
PAT TILLMAN
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Patrick Daniel Tillman (November 6, 1976 – April 22, 2004) was an American football player who left his professional sports career and enlisted in the United States Army in May 2002[1]. He served in Iraq and later in Afghanistan, where he was killed. Reports in the media of his death and the background of his sacrifice symbolized a heroic image in the minds of many Americans.
Subsequently, Tillman's death became a national controversy after the Pentagon disclosed to the Tillman family over a month after his death, on May 28, 2004, that he died as a result of a friendly fire incident. The family and other critics allege that the Pentagon delayed the disclosure for weeks after Tillman's memorial service out of a desire to protect the image of the U.S. armed forces.
From: CelebAtheists
Tillman's youngest brother, Rich, wore a rumpled white T-shirt, no jacket, no tie, no collar, and immediately swore into the microphone. He hadn't written anything, he said, and with the starkest honesty, he asked mourners to hold their spiritual bromides.
"Pat isn't with God, he said. "He's f -- ing dead. He wasn't religious. So thank you for your thoughts, but he's f -- ing dead.
Pat Tillman died for nothing because he was an atheist and believed in nothing says Commander.
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This is unfucking-forgivable. The despicable discrimination against the nonreligious that has stained our democracy at all levels of government and the military must be exposed and eliminated. The founders of this country would be very disappointed in the state of our nation. I just watch this video clip where Pats mom describes how commanding officer Kauzlarich told here that they would never be satisfied because they are not Christians and they just wanted to be a pain in the ass. Also read the comments by this same commander made on ESPN. These types of prejudicial statements are unacceptable and should be thoroughly scrutinized.
I also would like to encourage you all to watch this moving testimony by Kevin Tillman.
Kevin Tillman testifies about Pat Tillman's death: "Fraud–deliberate and calculated lies."
By: John Amato @ 12:13 PM - PDT
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Kevin Tillman testified in front of Waxman's hearing today. This is a sad testimony that reaches into your heart and rips it out, The propaganda and lies to cover up his death is unconscionable. Kevin was moved to tears as he told us how his brother was used to shift the focus off of Abu Ghraib…Will the right wing blame low level soldiers for this horrific chapter in this ugly war? He recounted other stories of soldiers that have been killed and the truth was substituted for propaganda…CNN has more
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"We believe this narrative was intended to deceive the family but more importantly the American public," Kevin Tillman told a House Government Reform and Oversight Committee hearing. "Pat's death was clearly the result of fratricide," he said, contending that the military's misstatements amounted to "fraud."—"Revealing that Pat's death was a fratricide would have been yet another political disaster in a month of political disasters … so the truth needed to be suppressed,"…read on
Can we believe anything that this administration says, ever? The Pat Tillman case reaches to the top ranks of the military and as Pat's mother says:
Pat Tillman's mother, Mary Tillman, said she believed former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld must have known. "The fact that he would have died by friendly fire and no one told Rumsfeld is ludicrous,"
This is unfucking-forgivable. The despicable discrimination against the nonreligious that has stained our democracy at all levels of government and the military must be exposed and eliminated. The founders of this country would be very disappointed in the state of our nation. I just watch this video clip where Pats mom describes how commanding officer Kauzlarich told here that they would never be satisfied because they are not Christians and they just wanted to be a pain in the ass. Also read the comments by this same commander made on ESPN. These types of prejudicial statements are unacceptable and should be thoroughly scrutinized.
His commander said"Pat Tillman died for nothing because he was an Atheist and believed in nothing"
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This is horrific. You sad, sick people that masquerade as human beings in the name of America. Watch this clip and then tell me how you feel about Pat Tilllman and the way the military treated him. And don't forget to dash in a perverted sense of Christianity to top it off.
ESPN:
Kauzlarich, now a battalion commanding officer at Fort Riley in Kansas, further suggested the Tillman family's unhappiness with the findings of past investigations might be because of the absence of a Christian faith in their lives.
In an interview with ESPN.com, Kauzlarich said: "When you die, I mean, there is supposedly a better life, right? Well, if you are an atheist and you don't believe in anything, if you die, what is there to go to? Nothing. You are worm dirt. So for their son to die for nothing, and now he is no more — that is pretty hard to get your head around that. So I don't know how an atheist thinks. I can only imagine that that would be pretty tough."
Asked by ESPN.com whether the Tillmans' religious beliefs are a factor in the ongoing investigation, Kauzlarich said, "I think so. There is not a whole lot of trust in the system or faith in the system [by the Tillmans]. So that is my personal opinion, knowing what I know."
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Are the States worth the life of one good man? I used to believe it once.
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