Omygosh! John Kinosh

 

The man on the left is a fucking idiot.  US Marines Gunnery Sergeant John Kinosh (though in court they refered to him as 'Adam').   This cab driver was going to save him some money by picking up another fare going the same way.  John was drunk and stupid and in the heat of his own paranoid delusion of what was transpiring literally smashed the cab drivers face in.  The misperception being that the cab driver was trying to scam John out of his money.  Unaware that he was being recorded on tape until 6 days after the fact.  A week after the fact he checked himself into a (unnamed) 'Mental Health Treatment Facility'.   'Oooo...looks like I'm in trouble ... I better go pretend to get help for my being a total fucking retard'.  (oh...nice tattoos)

What beats my ass are all the people who say how he was a combat veteran and that we should be compassionate.   Okay...if he was a combat veteran then he would know how to stay cool under preassure.  The mark of a soldier is being able to think even though someone is trying to blow your head off.  Either all he REALLY wanted to do was to hurt this meek cab driver (Hawkesworth) to get his rocks off or he's a loose fucking cannon that shouldn't be ANYWHERE NEAR a combat situation. 

Hawkesworth had two titanium plates inserted into his cheekbone and under his eye socket on Sept. 13.  - Jacksonville Daily News

I've been exposed to the military long enough to know that there are two types that go for this kind of life; The noble and the bullies (same with cops).  I don't have a problem with the noble.  When they get home the struggle is more internal and I fully support rehabilitation.  The bullies nurture their new, more viscious, selves.  In past wars, former combat soldiers would return home and be a terror.  Rates of murders and suicides involving ex-servicemen would drastically increase.  It's really fucking hard to go from Hero (with bullets flying everywhere) to Zero (Run of the Mill everyday life).  I get it.  Take up Skydiving.  Take up Boxing.  Take up Spelunking.  You can get your adrenaline fix without having to hurt other people...unless...UNLESS...you want to.   If you want to hurt people then you are no different than anyone else that wants to hurt people...a criminal.  

Seriously...this is 'Aggravated Assault'.  2 Titanium plates ... in his FACE?  There's no excuse for it. 
 
I saw a video clip earlier of John (or Adam) Kinosh running away from reporters with his lawyer.  Tried to do a search on it and found this picture instead:

Claudia Sampedro

 

My verbal rampage was diverted by a clever Marine diversionary tactic.  Or at least that's my story and I'm sticking to it.  Have a good one Everybody! :)