"Matthew Livelsberger, a 37-year-old Green Beret from Colorado Springs, Colorado, also wrote in the note that he needed to "cleanse my mind" of the lives lost of people he knew and "the burden of the lives I took."
"Livelsberger apparently harbored no ill will toward President-elect Donald Trump, Clark County sheriff's officials said.
"Although this incident is more public and more sensational than usual, it ultimately appears to be a tragic case of suicide involving a heavily decorated combat veteran who was struggling with PTSD and other issues," FBI Special Agent In Charge Spencer Evans said at a news conference."
This explains why a Green Beret set off a bomb in a containment vessel that caused no deaths. I suspect the collapse of his marriage took him over the edge into suicide. One soldier committing suicide over PTSD would have been a couple lines in a local paper. This was worldwide news.
War is brutal. A girlfriend's father had a serious drinking problem. One evening, he explained that his job during World War 2 was sniper: killing people hundreds of yards a way who were no threat to him. That has to be twisting to anyone who grew up in a society that says that killing others, even in self-defense, is an evil best avoided.
UPDATE: More from 1/4/25 New York Times:
"Alicia Arritt spent years as an Army nurse working with combat veterans with brain injuries. And when she started a relationship with Matthew Livelsberger in 2018, long before he shot himself and blew up a Cybertruck in Las Vegas this week, she recognized many of the symptoms in her new boyfriend that she had seen in her patients.
"A master sergeant in the Army’s 10th Special Forces Group, he was forgetting words, losing his train of thought midsentence and struggling with insomnia. He had headaches and depressive moods that sometimes kept him shut away for days. In a text exchange after they started dating, he mentioned having been deployed three times in three years. She asked if he had been hurt. “Just some concussions,” he responded.""
There are a lot of veterans who came back okay. Some came back very not okay. A friend's son never even saw combat. Demolition training did a lot of damage. He is disabled in his 20s.
1/4/25 NBC News:
"A U.S. Army veteran from Texas who drove to Louisiana and deliberately plowed into New Year’s revelers in New Orleans recorded videos during the drive addressed to his family, in which he talked about plans to kill them and told them he had joined ISIS.
“I wanted to record this message for my family,” Shamsud-Din Jabbar said in the videos. “I wanted you to know that I joined ISIS earlier this year.”
He then added: “I don’t want you to think I spared you willingly.”
He told his family that he had first wanted to organize a “celebration” for them and make everyone “witness the killing of the apostates,” an apparent reference to killing them."
Apparently, he came our of a mixed Muslim Christian family and considered them as having compromised too much.
I have seen a few theories of this event, and some of them seem like they have the ring of truth. The theory that is espoused the most seems to be that there was a lot more to this so called suicide than has been discussed in the media.
ReplyDeleteWhile I tend to be wary of conspiracy theories, I also do not put anything past the FBI, or any other 3 letter agencies of the corrupt U.S. Government. There is no doubt that we will never hear the truth of this thing, but I don't think that this "highly decorated" Army soldier committed suicide. When things are added up quickly by the government, I tend to think that they are arranged in advance.