Jesse Ventura wins $1.8m defamation suit against Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle

Jesse Ventura is a piece of FUCKING SHIT!

I'm thinking he won't be too popular at the next SEALS reunion.

He would actually show up, he's that arrogant.

Honest question:

Why would this make him less popular with other SEALS?

The court case was filled prior to Mr. Kyle's death. The defendant is Mr. Kyle's corporation that Mrs. Kyle took over upon Mr. Kyle's death. It is that corporation that will be paying the damages, not Mrs. Kyle.

Also, wouldn't the SEALS be just as disappointed with Mr. Kyle (and his estate) for lying in the first place?

Marc Luttrell (the Navy Seal who wrote Lone Survivor) posted this on his twitter account.

"I don't want to formally say anything because I don't want to get sued but this about sums it up..."

I think this boils down to what you are suing over. Are you suing because you have legitimately been wronged and are looking for recourse (someone ran you over and now you are a million dollars in debt); or, are you suing as a way of getting back at someone (so and so said this about me and it was embarrassing).

In the first case, it makes sense for me to sue the estate. someone did something, intentionally or unintentionally, that has costed you and they should be on the hook for it because it was their fault. In this case, he just wanted to get back at the guy by suing is corporation. It was already exposed as made up, so there is no more personal foul here. He wanted to hurt the man who wronged him, but can't because the guy died. I would have been satisfied with that. But no, he keeps pushing and fighting to take what was now rightfully the widowed family's estate. I don't think that's cool, and a far greater injustice than making up some story about what a guy said.

Because part of what maintains unit cohesion for elite units is the notion that the other guys will look out for your family if you die. And you're expected to do the same (not that you should even need to be asked).

Ventura is taking money away from a widow and her kids.

If he has any sense he'll not only avoid reunions he'll move around a lot so he can get some sleep. He knows what kind of men he just tweaked and it's the kind who know how to make murder look like an accident or suicide.

Okay, that I understand, but why does the same not hold true for Mr. Kyle? Would not lying about other SEALS be just as damaging to unit cohesion? I won't be to eager to protect somebody that is willing to lie for profit about it later...at my expense.

Venture gave Mr. Kyle, and Mrs. Kyle after Mr. Kyle's murder, the opportunity to remove that passage from the book, and a dropping of the lawsuit.

Mr. Kyle refused before his death, and Mrs. Kyle refused after.

That would have been the easiest and simplest solution, and would have made the book copies already released significantly more valuable..win win.

Okay, that I understand, but why does the same not hold true for Mr. Kyle? Would not lying about other SEALS be just as damaging to unit cohesion? I won't be to eager to protect somebody that is willing to lie for profit about it later...at my expense.

I suspect Kyle may have embellished about his meeting with Ventura but I doubt that he lied. And while Kyle's estate is unable to prove this happened - especially after Kyle's death - and that meets a legal standard, the fact remains that Ventura is a 'roided-up hot-head and a litigious crybaby who probably did need a whack from Kyle.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Vent ... w_incident

He's also NWO, chemtrail shithouse rat crazy....

For a second I thought Thanos had written this!

I wasn't going to say anything at all but it is true. Ventura's a full-blown Area51/Bilderburg/911/moon landing/JFK/reptilian/chemtrail nutcase. With that goddamn conspiracy show they gave him all Ventura does is provide a soapbox for his scum buddies like Alex Jones to get onto TV with.