Beware when anyone tells you they’re an anti-war, pro-peace protester. He might just kill you with an axe.
The suspect, Carlos Hartmann, 41, of Tecumseh, Mich., has confessed to the Sept. 8 killing on a train platform in the southern city of Roosendaal, defence lawyer Peter Gremmen said.
Gremmen said Hartmann wanted to punish the Netherlands for its support of the war in Iraq…
“He hates soldiers, and says that the army kills people, so it would be legitimate if he were also to kill someone . . . from the American military – or from its NATO allies,” Gremmen said in a telephone interview.
When he failed to find a soldier at the Roosendaal train station, “he got such a crazy, disturbed idea that he killed a civilian,” Gremmen said…
BN/De Stem quoted a witness who asked to remain anonymous as describing Hartmann as striking the victim in the back of the head with the axe. It also quoted an unidentified family member from the United States as saying Hartmann has suffered from emotional problems since his early 20s.
He hates the Army because it kills terrorists, so he decides to go kill an innocent civilian. Do these people realize the nuance? They’re angry because we retaliated with force after 9/11, so they retaliate for our decision by killing people. Maybe he can work for the “Department of Peace and Non-Violence”.
by Stephan Tawney on Tue, Sep 11, 2007