How soon before obama steps in and says we should forgive him since he is a disturbed muslim. Before it is all over, I would be willing to bet, obama will make a plea for the American people to be understanding of what this man has endured. It may seem funny and ludacris now, but just wait.
And the worst part of this prediction is that many sheepish Americans will agree.
This is a cold-blooded muderer that should be shot in front of a wall and then the bullet riddled wall should become a reminder to what happens when you betray the United States military.
Instead, obama will plea to have him committed and he will outlive most of us in this thread in a mental institution while we pay for his medical care. Dont doubt it, you know it will probably happen.
Come on you all know he will get off with insanity and then we will have to revamp a mental institution so he can practice his religion. After that they will petition to have him released to an Islam country where he can train others how to pull the wool over the PC American public. Oh and by the way guess who gets to pay for all of this not including the education we already paid for (doctors, lawyers, court costs, police costs, mental institution and finally his trip to the middle east) and then of course the damage he has already done to this country and the future damage that will be done by copy cats. But remember we have to remain Political Correct and forget our Christian beliefs (like saying MERRY CHRISTMAS but be sure they get their prayer rooms and koran) so we don't offend anyone. The only ones we are offending are ourselves by giving up more and more freedoms to make them feel welcome. They sure don't do that in the Middle East for us.
It will take an executive order from the president himself to execute a member of the military, even if they find him guilty. So yes, obama and his beliefs are very relevant.
TomH in comment 9.1 found the information regarding this fact.
Why don't we just pull the plug now at the hospital,and save the tax payers money? We all know he is the shooter. He is guilty. No need for the government to say innocent till proven guilty. Military trial or not he is guilty.
I also think the media needs to remove further pictures of him in uniform. He is a disgrace to our country.
Obama and the bleeding-heart liberals will focus on how the West has treated the poor Muslim extremists. No doubt, they will justify his actions as they always have! They will point to water-boarding, Abu Ghraib, and detainees and Guantanamo Bay as his justifiable reasons to kill Americans.
Obama is but a cancer on our great nation.
Did you catch Michelle Obama laughing yesterday as they lay the wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier? She is despicable! Liberals embrace her behavior!
Does anybody care about Afghanistan as our ally in the future? We need a friend and not dictatorship run country which is what most of the afghanies want. HEre is how I see the development of the our relationships:
1) Let Afghanies take care of their own problems.
2) Stop sending them some help in the form of USA Army soldiers which Karzai could use stay in power
3) Let Afghanistan decide if they want Taliban run their country cause they don't like us any more anyway. (Hamas has blocked the elections same way GOP did in 2001) It's been 8 years of oppression with Blackwater shooting civilians and seeing Iraqis naked in a form of human pyramid with the hooked wires to the generators.
4) It's been a shame how we (USA) thought the war as if it was a Christian Crusade in the Muslim Countries.
5) Do not repeat the same mistakes from Iraq where Bush was trying to ran the country, lack of acomplished mission, lack of proper equipment with strong anti-Muslim propaganda from Bill O'Rally and Rash Limbagh
Men I can't believe the length these conservatives will go to to bad mouth Obama. Its hillarious and sad at the same time. Losers the whole bunch of you. Anyhow I say hold the guy responsible to the fullest extent of the law! I hate to say this because I usually am tolerant of other people's beliefs and culture but now the U.S. begins to see why our European partners are not as tolerant concerning Muslims as we have paraded ourselves to be...they have a longer history of dealing with similar scenarios but how we loved to talk s#@t about them before this happened.
He will never be charged for terrorism. I have read that it will be a criminal matter. Even our President has eluded to that when he was on the TV the other night.
This piece of chit NEEDS to be executed. He was a "trusted" member of our military and he attacked us from within. Premeditated and planned, he had full intentions of committing this heinous act for a while, he f-ing needs to die. A nice large dose of morphine in his IV would be just fine, or a nice slow painful death. But NOOOOO, we'll house, feed, provide and care for this d-bag for life. Just off his sorry azz and get it over with.
Why was this guy ever admitted to medical school in the first place? Like gmainco said, the American taxpayer paid for this man's education. He was supposed to reemburse the taxpayer by serving a specified period of time in the military. Wasn't he screened BEFORE being admitted to med school? There are plenty of psychiatrists in the military who deal with soldiers who have experienced the horrors of war who don't go off the deep end and begin shooting others. This man is a coward just like the rest of his Muslim terrorist friends. He knew there was the possibility of deployment when he started med school on the taxpayer's dime but didn't mind taking the free tuition. When he is finally facing deployment, he shows what a coward he really is at heart.
It's time for America to start looking out for No. 1. Other countries do. Political correctness has to go. We need to protect ourselves while there is still something to protect. This country was founded on religious freedom. Fine, but that also means that no one should impose his/her religion on others. Separation of state and religion should also mean that no one can use his/her religion to avoid serving and protecting this nation.
He killed 13 soldiers, let him be killed by 13 bullets. Starting at the extremeties, hands, feet, etc. slowly working towards the 13th shot being the coup de grace.
You liberals are a rather odd bunch. Can't make judgement on someone who is Muslim with expressed traditional Muslim views. We must embrace them. Accept them. Well how many people have been killed by Muslims who held these traditional, outdated, beliefs that support their killings? Go ahead put in a number _____.
However, take a religious christian who has a deep seated faith and every liberal says to immediately be afraid of them, they are the next terrorist group. This group should be judged immediately and not embraced or accepted. Go ahead and put in the number of killings by this group ____.
NOTE: If you have to respond with what about the crusades then please do not bother at all. We have current issues with current dangers - lets stay focused on today's world.
"Hamas has blocked the elections same way GOP did in 2001"
First off, Hamas doesn't operate in Afghanistan, secondly, the GOP didn't steal the elections. The United States is a republic not a democracy, go look it up they are very different systems of government. Gore did manage to win the popular vote with 48.5% to Bushs' 48%. But Bush took Florida, Gore was going to call to concede but retracted when the media began to report that Bushs lead was dwindling. By the end of the election Bushs margin in Florida was less than 2000 votes, state law requiring a recount in such a situation. Politics began to come into play when democrats demanded recounts in four heavily democratic counties. Ultimately it came to the Florida supreme court, which ruled that the state had to certify its election results, which in turn gave Florida to Bush. He won the electoral vote. It isn't the first, nor the last time, something like that will happen.
Give the families the justice their lost love one's deserve. The families of those that have suffered a great loss deserve our attention--not the fanatic that caused this disaster.
Do not give this religious fanatic any more publicity, he is not worthy of our attention aside what due process allows for.
Can't make a decision or take a stand. He is afraid to alienate his voter base. He will likely resort to plan B ... blame Bush, as usual.
Hasn't made a decision since taking office other than what tie to wear to the acceptance ceremony for the Nobel Prize for campaign promises.
Those that voted for Obama were simply uninformed and pulled into his web of double-talk.
Those that continue to support him are simply fools, underachievers, and socialists that need their lives controlled by the government because they can't look out for themselves.
The charged man is not a terrorist! He is a troubled sole who lost his way. He nedded counseling which nobody could offer in the army since it's a Christian Crusade everywhere USA goes. There are no muslim priests in the army.
I'm sick of the liberal press... not sure what his motive was. duh.. he;'s a freaking Musilim (religion of peace BS) that beleives that people that don;t beleive like me - should be destroyed. Pack up the religion of Peace off of the freaking planet and or give them a piece of sand where they can continue to go about blowing themselves up for fun. What a joke.
I vote that we get him healed, and then send him to Gitmo to see what kind of information they can waterboard out of him concerning his terrorist buddies and activities.
I say death by firing squad let all the injured victims and the families of all those he has killed be able to shoot him , just one huge blow out at the same time, and hopefully he will be ripped to shreds just like his victims lives are now.
Can't hang this Piece of Cr*p high enough... why even waste time with a trial? He did it and everyone knows it...there is NO DEFENSE in this matter.
Erm, he has to have a trial, because not giving him one would be agasint the consitutional rights; and if they did that for him, then they could do it for anyone whom they thought didn't need one. As disqusting as that may seem, it also protects you and everyone else. So while maybe distasteful, it is the right way to go.
I don't know about you, but I don't want some invisible person being judge jury and executioner.
Hang him or put him under a fire squad. This sicko didn't show any mercy for those he shot/killed on the base. Probably Obama would just slap in on the rist and show mercy because he don't want to offend is Muslim friends. This President needs to wake up and realize that these crazy religious people can't be reasoning with. If you don't follow their religion off with your head. HERE'S A MESSAGE TO ALL MUSLIMS IN THIS COUNTRY, IF DON'T WANT TO PUT THIS COUNTRY FIRST, THEN GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE!
This was a terrorist act and Obama and his views cant stick it!!!!!!!!!!
What we call a terrorist they call a hero. What we call a hero they call a crusader.
I say to hell with both religions. Yup get that crap out of The military and out of our Political arena. Saying God is ok but trying to enforce any views of one religion is NOT FREEDOM. I do not try to enforce my Native American Beliefs on any Christians or Muslims or Jews. But yet every time our military goes somewhere to fight we ask Jesus to follow along.
What kind of God protects one set of Humans to go kill another set. This is where the problem lies these two Organized religions and along with the Jewish faith have been fighting over God for thousands of years.
Get our Politics out of it. Get our troops out of it. And stand up for what we really are. A nation that is a melting pot full of different faiths. Even some who have the right to worship Satan or Pagan views. When we polarize some groups faith and demonize it.
What the hell do you think that does? It gives the movement behind the group power. They become the victims in many eyes. Not ours but in any anti Christian's faiths. So yes our TWO wars against Muslim nations does look like Crusades. When half of us do not even believe in your Jesus as our savior.
Plus did not your faith say turn the other cheek. Father forgive them for they know not what they do? Hypocrites for sure.
This guy took some reason which really does not matter. And used it to twist his mind into. Making it ok to go on a shooting spree. He is twisted for sure.And the penalty should be death. But not because he is a muslim. A christian doing this is just as bad.
He was part of a family our military. And when you join you give up civilian rights. And also take on the treason factor. Let the courts do the job they are set up to do. And if the death penalty gets handed down. So be it.
All Americans say it loud and clear. HASAN WAS AN ISLAMIC TERRORIST. He had communications from the Imam, and now they are looking into his connections with Al Qaeda.
Religion: Say it loud and clear: Islam, violent Estremist Islam. We are free in this country to say whatever is the TRUTH.
Obama doesn't want to believe the truth. Extremist? Everyone on this board is an Extremist is whatever they pursue. Extremist has many definitions.
Obama shows his weakness by not calling a "spade a spade". Americans will not tolerate a US President who is weak, and possibly a sympathizer with the Radical Terrorists. That is just my assumption. What is yours?
He may be of the Islam/Muslim religion. None of us know for sure.
"He Keeps His Cards Close to His Chest".. Secrets about his American Patriotism, Radicalism, War or revealing of his real personality and feelings.
These are not the qualifications for a US President. We are begging for Leadership, and Nancy Pelosi has taken charge.
What it is about Obama - he can do no wrong in your eyes:
When he decides not to go to Germany to celebrate the 20 year anniversary of the fall of the wall: Libs state he is too busy to go yet they sing his praises when he takes a short impromto trip to Denmark to win the bid for the Olympics, not to mention sending his wife on a separate plane greatly increasing the carbon footprint (but that's ok because it's Obama)
You blame Bush for ruining the economy the last 8 years by increasing the deficit but now that Obama has multiplied it by unseen numbers, that is wonderful and needed to fix the problems by evil Bush - so it is ok.
All the blame for the housing crisis is blamed on Bush but no lib will admit that Barney Frank, Chris Dobbs and other Dems played a big part in it and are mostly to blame.
All republicans are evil, greedy and stupid while every dem is caring and want the best for people
Hassan was a lone gun man and not matter what proof is brought forth that this was a terrorist attack the BHO admin will not admit it because it will make him look bad. Bush still gets the blame even though Hassan was in the military for 12 years.....
Almost all the the 10 states that are going broke are blue dates with heavy union and the highest tax rates.... But it is still Bush's fault....
Rich Dems in congress are ok but all other rich people who are republicans are evil and need to be punished....
Al Gore can buy a 100 foot house boat, live in a mansion and travel all over the world traveling in luxury and become a billionaire by carbon taxing others and that is wonderful but people who love to snowmobile, ATV, water ski and travel in a RV are evil and selfish and destroying the world and need to be stopped...
No matter how much the tax and cap bill and health care bill with hurt the energy indrusty and cost the loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs, the unions still support the democrats no matter what....
Now as a Conservative I freely admit that Bush did a terrible job in the last two years of office and with the bailout and growing the deficit. He was not a fiscal Conservative but this president has done more damage in the first 10 months that Bush did in 8 years!
Jim, Obama is going to step in and when he does he will be leading a firing squad.
I knew a bunch of you wing nuts would be on here slamming the president and saying it is his fault or Muslims' faults. What if this guy is an extreme Muslim hater and did this act to give Muslim's or the president a bad name? Let's not forget just because you are a well to do light skinned black man in this country doesn't mean you are a Muslim. Barrack is a Christian first off.
But this is not about religion by any means. Let's say that religion doesn't exist, there is no such thing, it never got created here on Earth. This wacko would have found another reason to do this crap. To me this is just another reason why need way stricter gun laws even on military bases. Especially military bases.
hawaii, they can only blow themselves up. it's an instant death. no pain. boom, 72 virgins...ha@!$%# would never cut himself, or shot himself, because there is no guarantee of instant death.
Hasan should face the ultimate punishment for his traitorous crimes. There needs to a full investigation into the hows and whys of how our intelligence agencies struck out (again) in preventing the attack of this loser.
The people who say Hasan is a terrorist on this forum are doing so absolutely out of fear, or some other patriotic emotional motive. You guys are being over emotional. I do not see any difference between what he did in that military base and what some psycologically disturbed high school kid does almost every year in somewhere in the US, by killing his fellow students and teachers by random shooting. This is an ordinary story that repeats itself all the time in this country. Except that when it comes to a men who is of muslim orgin, the story is of course being trumpeted in the media to unbeleivable degrees. Yes, obviously there were many things wrong with this guy, he was not fit to the hostile environment he worked in, and that's why he wrote petitions to higher rank army officers requesting transfer to other branches. None of them were taken seriously... The guy did everything he can to avoid the depression that his post created and that finally resulted in this terrible incidence. Those officers in the US army who did not act according to his petitions are responsible as well in this tragedy. The war itself is responsible.
In any case, he should be punished accordingly and justly and I hope that he will indeed be, taken into account all the factors that caused his depression. When it comes to a death sentence: this is an outdated, barbaric mean of punishment that does not serve more that creating hatred and that has already been abandoned in most of the civilized and developed countries who take human rights seriously. It is a shame that in some of the states in the US, it is still in use.
I think it is more important and urgent to think about what is happening in the country now: all these waves of hatred, disgust or unjustified fear towards the minorities of muslim origin. This is by far more dangerous than a single incidence with one crackpot killing 13 people. Reading all these posts in the forum I am very worried, in fact I am shocked! Is this your understanding of democracy and freedom? Hanging people without trial, without justification, just out of nationalistic and religious motives? If so, whatwould be the difference of this country than the Nazi Germany in the 30s and 40s?
Please keep your fascist prejudices away from public forums and do not try to disguise your obviously fascist, anti-humanist and unjust worldview behind some vauge notion of patritism.
Hassan is not a terrorist!!! He is a nutcase who obviously never got a proper "morality" review. If this is anybody's fault besides this guy just being a complete crackhead it is his commanding officers, there had to be tell, tell signs. Why was something done??? 13 dead and now we suspect "something" might be wrong with him. Those officers need demoted, that base needs shut down!!!
This needs to be a wake-up call for way stricter gun laws!!!
There is no excuse for this mans actions, he took 13 lives and should now forfeit his the only problem I have with this is We can't kill him 13 times .............I hope his death is a very slow one ......
The charged man is not a terrorist! He is a troubled sole who lost his way. He nedded counseling which nobody could offer in the army since it's a Christian Crusade everywhere USA goes. There are no muslim priests in the army.
This is exacty what is wrong with America and MSNBC and the Left in General.. They dont see terrorist. They see troubled souls and poor dirt farmers. Wake up America before a even bigger terrorist act hits this country..
Hey! All of you psychics that know the President is going to free Hassan, maybe you can tell me what numbers to pick in the California lottery since you all know everything.
was harassed by fellow soldiers because of his religion.
I like the way these " Journalists" Spout unsubstantiated facts! As far as I know the only ones claiming this is his Muslim Family.
From my ecperience in the Military I find it hard to believe this was actually going on. This is especially true since he was an Officer. Why do these Journalist just make up stories to fit what they want to write?
"A military official familiar with discussions about Hasan during his training period said he was belligerent, defensive and argumentative in his frequent discussions of his Muslim faith, The Associated Press and NPR News reported. Hasan also had a reputation for being a mediocre student and lazy worker"
So why was he given a promotion to Major in May of this year?
This is "Political Correctness" gone wild, and now 13 brave Americans have bee murdered.
As for his being distressed about counseling soldiers, I understand that he counseled them BEFORE they went overseas, not when they came back, so the media trying to find fault with the "system" don't wash.
He is a radical Islamist terrorist, and this is the first significant terrorist attack on American soil since 9/11, and attempts to call it anything else defies logic. Bush kept us safe for over 7 years with his policies, but Obama is just trying to divert his failure to protect Americans with his policies.
You live in a dream world. There hasn't been a harsh sentence for anyone from 9/11 so why would things change here? Our government is too worried about POLITICAL CORRECTNESS and protecting their rights too do any normal punishment let alone the extreme death sentence!!!!!
A bullet to the head of this whack-job radical Muslim is too good for him! Although he deserves nothing less than death legally, I'd almost rather see the military put him in a hard-core military prison and hard miserable labor for the rest of his life!!
He should suffer miserably for his entire life!! He's only 40 - the military could make him wish he was dead for another 40!
If they charge him with the murder of the unborn child the dems would actually be admitting that it is in fact an unborn child, not some primordial mass of worthless tissue and fluids which allows them to feel warm and fuzzy about killing unborn children.
Hence they prefer to stick their head in the sand and refuse to acknowledge the lady was pregnant.
First thing tomorrow morning take out a full page ad for a week in your local newspaper professing you dislike of guns. Be sure to give your address (preferably with clear directions) and state that you have absolutely no guns in your home.
Next, put out a sign in your front yard stating that you have no guns in your home.
Finally add me to your will.
You have to be the biggest fool on earth! ... along with Obama and his bitsch.
This also should fall under the new law "hate crimes" ... it goes both ways. Also, when they execute him, they should shoot him with a bullet that has pig blood on it so he will be denied his 72 virgins because he is unclean. Terrorists should be dealt with like the enemy of the state that they are.
I live in Texas and we have the death penalty and we carry it out with perserverance and dedication....sooo, if the military doesn't want to try him as a Muslim terrorist murderer...let the people of Texas take it over. His justice will be swift and the penalty will fit the crime...death to the terrorist.
Pound4abrown: You say: Erm, he has to have a trial, because not giving him one would be agasint the consitutional rights; and if they did that for him, then they could do it for anyone whom they thought didn't need one. As disqusting as that may seem, it also protects you and everyone else. So while maybe distasteful, it is the right way to go. I don't know about you, but I don't want some invisible person being judge jury and executioner.
It's bleeding hearts like you who perpetuate this garbage. They get a trail, then they say the jury pool was tainted, then the lawyer was incompetent and so on and so on when everyone in this case KNOWS he did it. He lost his rights.
Have a "trial" and say, "You were an officer, but no gentleman. You were a born American, yet you chose to become an extremist; you were a ranking officer in your countries military, you were to use the education we paid for to help your fellow countrymen, and you failed in every way. You will have your choice on the way you will die, firing squad by your fellow soldiers, hanging yourself, or sending yourself to allah in a ball of flames. Your choice."
That's the best Idea I've read here, and put him into the general population can you imagine what this POS would have to go through every day, he would be Mrs. Hasan .....
He should be placed in front of a firing squad and have all the service men and women who were wounded by him take shots at him until he is dead! Even that is too good for this ANIMAL (and that's putting it mildly)...... I will not have my tax dollars go to keep this animal in prison more than one day more than is necessary!!!!
He should also be charged with Hate Crimes...but we all know that won't happen. They should definately add the 14th murder charge for the baby. This will be the first of many examples of Obama siding with the Muslims when the political climate changes....as he stated in his book. Dirtbags- both the shooter and the president. Both of them should be shot for treason.
EP13- Don't lump all conservatives in your statement. I am definitely not an Obama fan but I certaintly don't think this is his fault nor do I think he will make excuses for this guy. However, I thought his speech after it happened left a lot to be desired.
There should not even be a trial. When are we going to realize that our constitution is just a outline for getting around our laws. The raghead is guilty and we should treat him like his other terrorist animals treat our soldiers put him on national TV and chop off his head. That is the only way these people will ever understand that we are serious. If they want to stay in their own area and kill eachother like they have since the beginning on time let them, but we need to get each and every one of these dirty, smelly, terrorist out of our country. If is not worth the sorting of a million of them to find the one or two that actually have a since of right and wrong.
EP13- Don't lump all conservatives in your statement. I am definitely not an Obama fan but I certaintly don't think this is his fault nor do I think he will make excuses for this guy. However, I thought his speech after it happened left a lot to be desired.
Let's see a U.S. Army Officer espouses views that run contrary to our mission, is in contact with a radical Muslim Imam who has ties with 2 of the 9/11 TERRORISTS , purchases 2 high power hand guns, plots and carries out a deadly attack on his fellow soldiers telling a neighbor he's "going to do great things for God" and finally screams "Alluha Akbar" as he begins to kill 13 unarmed people and I'm a racist if I call him a TERRORIST? HOW ABOUT ANY ONE WHO TRIES TO EXCUSE THIS ACT AS NOT A RADICAL MUSLIM TERRORIST ATTACK IS A MORON? Trying to come up with other excuses to keep the world of Kumbaya and multiculturalism intact doesn't fly!! Pvt. Hasan did the deed it was in accordance with his twisted beliefs and that makes him a TERRORIST. Sorry to have to break it down it down that way but that's the bottom line.
He killed 14, one on the women that was killed was pregant, THAT'S 14! But I guess we have to be politically correct again and not offend pro-abortionist.
Let the spin begin as the leftwing media at the will of OBAMA cast him as a crazy loon. This MUSLIM TERRORIST is just that, plain and simple! But lets not offend the muslims (obama won't even mention the words, MUSLIM TERRORIST)
But, the leftwing scum had no problem calling the old folks (teabaggers) rightwing radicals! and terrorist! I will call a spade a spade when I see it. And I see it! Its time to kick them out along with the other 20 millions illegals
No crazy card, no explaining it away. 13 (14) dead are dead no matter what the excuse. The bleeding hearts need to stay out of this and let the Military take care of this. (And don't take years to get this done!)
The only thing that needs to be investigated is why "Political Correctness" is more important than human lives. This needs to stop. The warning signs were many, but no one did anything about it. The man should not have been in the military.
Jim 755017, Obama is irrelevant. Its up the military courts. I doubt they'll spare his life.
This has nothing to do with Obama. And he will not step in on a Military matter. Stop the stupidity.
hahaha you people crack me up! At least us stupid people know that Obama is this little thing called the Commander in Chief of the United States armed forces. Therefore, he is not irrelevant in a military matter. Better yet, y'all are the people that voted him into that title & don't even know it!
Fred G. from N.C...."There needs to a full investigation into the hows and whys of how our intelligence agencies struck out (again) in preventing the attack of this loser."
Fred it's simple, because guys like you are in the military. When it comes to intelligence there just does not seem to be any.
The guy may be Islamic and, for certain, is a murderer. His actions have affected many.
But, the Catholic and Jew Psychiatrists have ruined far more lives than this guy. Scum from the git-go. Political puke. Too, check out the pukes from the school in Fairfield, IA. Little maggots.
You could be right. The US Military is going to be Trying Hasan, not Obama. Obama may have some influence on the Military's decision to not seek the Death Penalty. O is the Commander who I have a "beef" with. Chief.
If O steps in, surely he influence the jury and Military that it is a case of insanity.
We live with one scary President. He the Passivist, no decisions.
The US Military must be furious with O, the intruder on justice.
This will be an interesting outcome. He should be executed by a hand gun in the head. Will Obama pick up the hand gun and fire away?
This country has gone to h----------in a handbasket. Another OJ case. The President's Sympathy for the Extremist.
Why even charge him. Just set him up in the middle of Fort Hood and set his Islamic ass on fire. Burn him alive!!!! But no, we'll have pity and he'll live in jail the rest of his life getting more privaleges than we do. They are all pieces of s%&#.
Abdul Hakeem guess what? The fact you think Pvt. Hasan was protecting his religion goes further in proving the fact he is a TERRORIST than anything I can say. Thank you and have a nice day!! Oh yeah and one more thing the intelligence agencies I refer to include the FBI and any other Federal agency that took a look at this time bomb and failed to act.
The anger on this board with this Terrorist is AMAZING. Good, finally Americans "get" it.
We will not tolerate Terrorist infiltrators into our US Military Bases. This is a free place and haven for our beloved Military People.
The next infiltrator or infiltraitors are in the Intelligence Agencies. They know it, Obama knows it, we do not.. Who is overseeing the Security Intelligence Agencies over the Security Intelligence agencies? We live in dangerous times.
Does Obama care. No. He just wants what he wants. Flitting off to Asia, then maybe some Hollywood celeb parties, and forcing that darn HCRB down our throats. That's all that matters to him.
He doesn't give a "r-t a'z" about Terrorism. Look how devastated he looks after the crime on America? He's happy as a lark, just living like a king with no responsibilites.
Isn't someone like that called "A Free Spirit"; perfect definition. No responsibility to the people or our country.
Put the Islamic white Outfit on him, Holding the Koran, and torture him to death, like he did to the soldiers. Everyone gets a piece of this cr-------p. Toss him into a fire pit. Obama could be the Executioner (excuse me, the Extremist) who personally does the "job" by gunfire, just like the Iranian President Ahdinemadjad.
Yes, right now, we need a leader more like that for this firing squad.
Hasan, the Extremist. Maybe they'll send him on a shopping trip, and feed him his favorite meal before he meets Allah. The Americans are much to good to EVIL.
Murder is not the appropriate charge for this man under the UCMJ - he is an enemy combatant - a terrorist and after the extensive "background check" - a traitor. A traitor during wartime is punishable by immediate death.
A murder charge will allow Hasan an opportunity to martyr himself in public and around the world; emboldening Muslims to commit more acts of terrorism.
Obama will not interfere - because this is a military matter. Also, because of the very fact that Americans are already suspicious of his religion and his personal beliefs. Because Americans look at his name and for some reason identify his name with the worst that Muslims have to offer. Obama will allow this process to take it's natural course - Hasan's eventual conviction and future death by lethal injection.
If Obama wasn't in office and it were a republican - the incumbent republican would have responded to the Ft. Hood Terrorist Act in the very same fashion. Allow for law enforcement to piece everything together - to get all of the facts before committing to a specific course of action.
But here is the most intriguing thing, Hasan was identified as problematic a year and a half ago - while Bush was in office. After 8 years of the "War on Terror" to protect the "homeland"...we're still not any safer...The system that was supposed to protect us failed and it failed our troops.
Apparently the lot of you are ignorant reactionaries who do not process FACT VERY EFFICIENTLY. Yesterday, NPR investigative reporter Mike Goldfield had reported that even in HIS RESIDENCY, Hasan demonstrated paranoid tendencies as well as rapid mood swings and instructors struggled with THEIR OWN possible prejudices toward his Nationality and faith.
If there is ANYONE to blame in this it is the BUSH ADMINISTRATION YOU IDIOTS! HIS SERVICE BEGAN BEFORE PRESIDENT OBAMA TOOK OFFICE! OBAMA HAS NOT BEEN IN OFFICE THAT LONG...DO YOU PEOPLE HAVE A THINKING BRAIN AMONG YOU????
The man is 39 years old, they pushed him upward in status and training because there are less than 400 trained Psychiatrists serving in the military who can Treat PTSD ASAP! Psychiatry is NOT a Popular profession even in the Mainstream of Medicine!
Could he be a Terrorist? He certainly was leaning that direction, but lacked the mental organization to follow through. His murderous acts alone at Ft. Hood proved that.
Why don't you people read other periodicals and listen to the BBC to obtain other reliable sources of information? listen to unbiased News Radio who often obtain information in a more complete format since they have research teams already dispatched where News is occurring?
Many of you are the reason newspapers are going out of business.
All the degrees in the world won't change the fact that Nidal Malik Hasan just committed a TERRORIST ACT on our home soil. Shouting "Allaha Akbar" before mowing down unarmed people is an act of terror and mass murder just like the sorry little bast*rd at Virginia Tech a couple of years ago. Too bad no one was armed to smoke one of these a$$holes before they mowed down dozens of people. It's also too bad that one of his fellow Doctors didn't speak out a little more forcefully and demand a full investigation on this creep. I hope that haunts them the rest of their lives as well as any "intelligence" officer who passed on a chance to pull Pvt. Hasan in for a face to face. It might not have stopped this cowardly act but we'll never know now will we?
this New Age is bizarre, even educated smart Crazy Men should face their Day Of Reckoning..humanity is in for some ghastly surprises, who can you Trust ??..the fact of the matter is; NO ONE !!........
But remember we have to remain Political Correct and forget our Christian beliefs (like saying MERRY CHRISTMAS but be sure they get their prayer rooms and koran) so we don't offend anyone.
I know this is off-topic, but where in the fifty states can you not say 'Merry Christmas'?
It was only a matter of time before someone would shift the focus from an inside terrorist job to promoting "strict gun regulations" and the typical anti-gun mentality. I enjoyed Chris speaking about how weapon restrictions should be increased even on military post in his words, "especially military locations"? The issue was not that the post had weak regulations on weapons, ammunition, or the storage of arms. It was a matter of a uniformed Officer approaching the main gates at the normal peek time hours. He had a Defense Department sticker which granted him access on post, he was in his normal duty uniform, and had a valid picture military ID. What else was the guard suppose to do? Not every vehicle can be thoroughly searched for most major post. 1 out of 10 may get searched and most of those are vehicles without DOD stickers or the person is not in the military and does not hold a valid military ID.
The person used the weapon was the criminal. What is more alarming is the fact that people like Chris are attempting to shift also public opinion and refuse to use the word, "terrorist" and rather make up any term or excuse for this person except what it is, "home grown terrorism." This guy may have snapped, lost it, went postal, whatever, but his actions were based on a specific change in his religious beliefs. He is a terrorist just like Timothy McVeigh was a home grown terrorist. One believed in Islam the other was a so called Christian.
For those who are not use to the workings or standard operating procedures of a military post, let me explain that you usually do not have a large contingent of Soldiers walking around post with loaded weapons at any given time. Soldiers are not free to walk into their unit's arms room and take a weapon out of the rack. It is a very strict procedure and usually ammo is not stored within the arms room except for a small amount for the protection during opening, movement, or security requirements. The first responders would have been the contracted armed security firm or Post Military Police. You do not normally have a Base Protection Force at the ready unless advance notice was published or if the entire military locations across the world had their defense posture raised to a higher level that would mean increased armed security.
This Major knew what he was doing and this was a planned assault. This was not a random act of violence but a pre-determined act with limited planning and observation involved. He sold his personal property (most of it), handed out several copies of the Quran in English translation (the investigators should review those versions of the Quran to see why style, writing, and or Islamic sect translated them, like an example could be a Wahhabist version Quran may focus more of extreme islam or use of accepted violence against non-believers).
He fired into a large staging area where Soldiers getting ready to deploy overseas receive their medical checks and screening. Packed tightly, standing in lines, and unarmed, this Major knew where to strike. He didnt seek out the rifle range during a live fire event, he choose the area where he knew these Soldiers were going to deploy to countries that are more Muslim then anything else.
Cut through the Politically Correct BS and just deal with the obvious, this guy choose the perverse beliefs of radical Islam and wanted to become a "martyr" for his own cause. Which means that this was an attack by a terrorist. Stop calling it something else. Wake up people.
Major Hassan's OER (Officer Evaluation Report) has not been thorougly discussed or shown on the various media outlets. OERs are usually given to the Officer in question every year or within a change in duty station, or rater for the evaluation. He would have had a Officer or equal or higher rank (he recently was promoted to Major so likely his last rater was a Major or LTC), a senior rater (LTC or COL) and a final reviewer (Colonel or above depending on his immediate chain of command or command structure of his last unit).
It gives the results or observations from his next in command (his boss) with comments on if this Officer rates things like a promotion, conduct, work relations, etc. Is the Officer capable of increased responsibility? What type of remarks were given from his last duty station?
There has been a lot of discussion from the media and people who have not served with the idea or comment: Why didnt we just kick him out of the service? Well, it is not a cut and dry type approach. A service member must be given some form of official notice of he/she failures and at least a method and time to improve any short comings. Questionable action must go through several routes as to determine whether a service member should be removed from active duty. There are many questions that are still unanswered and may never really be fully answered but the idea that Major Hassan could say something to the effect to promote Jihad and then automatically get kicked out of the US Army would not likely happen. Poor OER evaluations, poor work habits, visual anger or disagreement with standard US DOD policy, etc. The most likely course of action would be a formal request from his higher authority to resign his military commission, remove from active duty service, and remove from the inactive ready reserve listing.
But somewhere he fell through the cracks and ended up shooting his fellow Soldiers the same people he had sworn to protect, and serve, and medically treat.
To me this is just another reason why need way stricter gun laws even on military bases. Especially military bases.
Wasn't there some Radical Islamic American soldier deployed overseas a few years ago (Akbar or something) who set off a bunch of grenades to kill his fellow American soldiers? You must be joking...stricter gun laws...on an Army base...where none of the slaughtered soldiers were armed? Guns don't kill...it's the Major murderer behind the gun who killed these service men and women. If anything, we could draw the opposite conclusion...had some of the officers who were present in that building been carrying their own gun, this fanatic may not have been able to harm as many...maybe the coward wouldn't have even tried it if he knew he might be gunned down before he even got a round off into the soldiers he was supposed to be serving. Please don't try to twist this into anything other than what it is...mass murder planned and executed by a Betraying Traitor and a COWARD.
Gun control laws on military bases are some of the toughest I have ever seen. All weapons will be registered with military police/provost marshals office, appropriately stored and can not be concealed. So no - our rules concerning weapons on military bases are just fine the way we are.
Also, leave the military alone and stop trying to change our way of life - if you don't serve, haven't served or never plan to serve, I ask that you keep what you think about our rules and way of life to yourselves. Because for many of you out there, you have no military experience to base any judgement on.
Leave the management of our military to the generals and politicians who write the laws and pay the bills, theService Secretary's, and the President. I mean - hell, democrats and republicans have managed to screw the military up - and I mean monumentally screwed it up. Democrats and Republicans think the military is their personal little guinnea pig - a test bed for a multitude of things and those personal "social" tests are damaging the fabric of culture (defending the U.S. and it's citizens) and crap. We have enough to worry about - you know - like we're fighting in two countries 10,000 miles away! HELLO! So we don't need your help screwing it up any more.
Hassan is a terrorist and we should all be warned--our country has been attacked, and our govt failed to heed the warnings something was seriously wrong with this guy...any of us could be next
could`nt agree with you more,this scum bag is a terrorist simple & plan , our military has been attacked on u. s. soil and our NEW GOVERMENT is brushing it under the rug. this time it`s on obama`s watch!
Is he to be brought before a military tribunal? If so, can he be fairly tried? I think he needs to be provided a public defender and tried in the civilian court system, just like the Gitmo folks.
This is all about TERRORISM in our own US Military. He should be getting the attention of our President and our Military. He was a Traitor, a Terrorist, a killer, and an Islamic devotee.
Yes, he should get all this attention.
Americans are fired up about how could this happen in our own Military on base? He is THE subject. Don't just gloss this one over. Your comments are very weak.
Of course, we all are traumatized by the deaths of these young US soldiers, and one unborn baby who protected our country exactly in the countries Hasan was fighting against. No he was not fighting against, but was one of the real Terrorists who infiltrated himself into a uncommon place, getting Top Secret Information, and spreading it to our enemy.
We are all very, very sad and our sympathies go out to the families of the dead, and the wounded. They made true sacrifices for us, and here they land upon US soil, getting killed by a comrade of theirs, because he is a piece of sh---------t.
You are much too passive. Passivity will get one into more trouble. Watch the nuke fly by Barn---it could be you.
The Death Penalty should be implemented, immediately, not the kind he thinks he's going to get with Allah. Kill him before he gets out of that hospital bed.
Our government is too busy appologising for our ways to notice this behavior. This is the way our current government wants us to act. We are a joke to the world and this will be an example. Obama will pardon him sit and have a few beers and send him back to ragheadville where he will be a hero. When people as where we are from americans are start to lie and say they are canadian, that is how bad this country is getting.
Alex when are you going get out of la la land and face reality? If Bush killed 5000 for "black gold" why are we still paying nearly $3.00 a gallon? By the way, if you are one of the 10.2% out of a job, I hear GMC (Government Motors) are looking for crash dummies in their test cars.
Well if all of you who seem to be open Obama Haters and openly accuse him of being of Islam, you all should be considered Terrorists as well and should be shot or hanged (its worse...a slooow choking suffering death.) making such availed threats to the President of the United States. Would that make you feel better? You are asking an eye for an eye. In most Middle Eastern Countries the population can't express the disgusting and bogus lies you all have about our Pres., in fact most of them treasonous statements on this website, about their Country's Leader. They would disappear and never be seen again.
The Absolute Hatred that I see written here about Pres. Obama, the First Lady and their Family, I was never even brought up to think about let alone write it publicly.
It is clear that our Country has spun backward way before WWI in expression of Hatred about difference and intolerance. Dumbing Down has worked since the Generations after the Vietnam War. It will take more than & 7 day/week school sessions to restore the IQ of America.
I am both Blessed and Thankful that when I was growing up, around the Dinner table we watched the breakthroughs of this Society. It has made my Generation more Intelligent, Compassionate, able to think with my entire brain because we only had three channels. We discussed the news as a family. We watched the First Rocket Launch into Space in School. We had the day off when Pres. JFK's Caisson was broadcast. We were eating Dinner when MLK,Jr. was shot; likewise when RFK was shot. We discussed these issues in class at school. No subject was forbidden. I am a better person for what I saw, discussed, learned about and that Religion, Color of Skin didn't make the person forbidden. Many of my Professional Colleagues are of the Muslim Faith and they and their families are kind and gentle people. In College I was Invited to a Mosque to pray with a friend. I visited a Carmelite Sanctuary to Pray. I have been Invited to a Shaker Chuch to Worship.
It takes Respect to be reciprocated. Those of you who criticize Barak Obama Clearly know NOTHING about him. He has read Sir Thomas Merton, Hildegaard VonBingen, Kalil Gibran, Siddhartha, Tecumseh, Read the King James version of the Bible three times, the Torah, the Kabbalah, and other great Spiritual Works for two years while in College. Can the same be said for any of you? Do ANY of you Know that Buddah, Jesus, and Muhammad ALL WALKED the SAME DIRT ROAD in PERSIA that is now called Iran that was known in the Bilble as Sumaria?
Do any of you know your History or do any of you even bother to take a look online at Religious History before you react and go off half cocked like terrorists yourselves? You think you really are no better than terrorists yourselves when you make these malicious hateful statements about our President like him or not. It makes you sound like gangland leaders and leaders of Hate Groups.
I earned my education on my own and have taken care of myself my entire adult life and take responsibility for my opinions. That's what responsible adults do. Most of you sound like you need to be placed behind bars yourselves and not even allowed out until you learn to behave like Human Beings.
Because he is intelligent, follows the Constitution of the United Stated to the letter of the Law, you all criticize him. First Lady Michelle Obama "Laughing and Smiling" at the placement of the Wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown? I don't think so. Where do you come up with this bogus information? If I published a Research Paper with such lies I would lose my License and be disgraced among the Health Care Community!
Excellent idea, and sadly ya, that idiot Obumma will probably side with him somehow since they are BOTH muslims, time for both of em to go. Hasan to executed somehow and Obumma impeached. I agree, there should be NO chance of an insanity plea, and with him being a head shrinker he can fool the docs unless he starts ranting about death to Americans or something, he deserves NO special treatment, just a time for his execution.
Jack, unfortunately this guy survived, so it will cost American taxpayers millions of dollars and years to convict him, and if he gets the death sentence, years more to go through till it's carried out. That's the sad part, we have to make sure his "rights" are not taken from him. It doesn't seem to matter about the victims rights anymore, does it.
I agree with you, he should be taken out and shot, preferably with bullets soaked in pig grease. Then bury him in a grave with pig guts, maybe that would make the next a**hole who wants to do this think twice.
The beauty of the UCMJ is it's simplicity all that has to be proved is that he pulled the trigger and killed the soldiers and civilian. He's a done deal and thanks to the efficiency of a court martial at a fraction of the cost of a civilian trial. Also a service member is not subject to the rules of "double jeapordy" so in the unlikely event a courts martial fails to get a conviction he can be tried in the great state of Texas. They love frying dirtbags so it's a win-win!!
this morning on Today it was reported that all these people who worked with hasan had concerns but didn't say anything, fearing they would be discriminating. too bad he wasn't a white male christian, he would've been washed out long ago.
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this morning on Today it was reported that all these people who worked with hasan had concerns but didn't say anything, fearing they would be discriminating. too bad he wasn't a white male christian, he would've been washed out long ago.
Seriously? Did you just type that?
If he was "White" & "Christian" he'd have been washed out?
Well, then why would he have been killing folks? I thought everyone on Newsvine was under the impression this was all about him being a Muslim, and a terrorist?
Good god, make up your minds.
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Why in the world would you assume President Obama would NOT approve of this man's execution? He most certainly ordered snipers to kill the Somali pirates.
When I retired in 1980 after 20 years in the Army, the death penalty was by hanging. However I can't think of the last military member to be executed. Let's hope this guy is hanged and his trial be short. However, I will almost bet that he will get years to appeal and become a hero to radical muslim terrorists. This guy was a terrorist and I don't give a damn what Obama says, this was a terrorist act. He knew exactly what he was doing and why.
This idiot will become a symbol to the muslim people and obama will not order the execution. obama is a muslim first, American second. He already stated that in his book, Audacity of hope. Look it up before you start ripping on me for ripping on your messiah.
JIM, when Obama signs the execution papers, you'll be convinced that it's just him covering up being Muslim. The point is, nothing Obama does will please you, so why even bother writing about it?
If obama signs the execution papers he will most certainly gain favor in my opinion.
amfh,
What are you stating that has been debunked? There is a quote in his own book that states very clearly "if the political winds in this country change I will stand on the side of the muslims". Debunk that please.
Read the whole thing, but here's the answer to your specific lie:
A second false quote has Obama saying he would "stand with the Muslims," words that don't appear in his book. What he actually said is that he would stand with American immigrants from Pakistan or Arab countries should they be faced with something like the forced detention of Japanese-American families in World War II:
Obama did not say he would side with "the Muslims," which could easily be read as meaning he would side with the world's Muslim population even if it meant working outside the best interests of the United States. He said he would side with "them," referring back to his mention of immigrant communities and specifically to "Arab and Pakistani Americans." Furthermore, he was speaking of an "ugly direction" like the mass internment of Japanese Americans.
This false quote goes hand in hand with the equally false rumor that Obama is a Muslim.
Why in the world would you assume President Obama would NOT approve of this man's execution......... Because they are BOTH muslims and Obumma is a pu$$y and doesn't have the ballz to order an execution.
Fact check dot org. was set up by the liberals to twist the realities of our new leftist government. They can't even get the facts on obamas speech to the combined congress and senate on his new health reform. I listened to what obama said and he lied 4 times and they only counted one.
I don't give a rat's ass what Louis Farrakan has to say and I doubt President Obama does, either.
Oprah was quoting from the Diary of Miss Jean Pittman who asked "Are you the one?" regarding who would free her from slavery.
Singing "hymns"? No, singing campaign songs.
Alpha/Omega? Those boys were telling how Obama inspired them to become professionals and get an education. the religious conotation is YOURs.
My sister "fainted" at a Ricky Nelson concert in the late 1950's, too, lol.
Obama was giving an aspiration speech about how the US *could* rise up and help the world be a better place (LOL at that one!)
Evan Thomas was referring to the fact that the world is looking to Obama to make better decisions as the leader of the most powerful nation on earth and the choice of words was HIS, in a metaphorical sense!
never mind, you people are incapable of comprehending verbal nuances....<sigh>
Again, YOU guys are assigning "messiah" status wherever and with whatever weak "logic" you can dredge up.
Good bye, and best luck to you that you will one day be able to think critically and with a modicum of common sense.
Obama was born a Muslim. He went to a Muslim Mosque for education when he was a child. When did he convert? What did he convert to?
I really do not care if he is a Muslim by the way. I care more about the need to deceive and hide the truth. Obama claims to be religious. A religious person is always willing to say what they believe and what their faith is. They don't hide it. So what is the big deal - just say what you are. It is his own actions that cause all the rumors.
ToldYouSo: I should have known that was coming, your trying to discredit Fact check.org.
In FACT, the site is supported by the Walter Annenberg foundation.
Annenberg and his wife were close personal friends of Ronald and Nancy Reagan and served under both Richard Nixon and again in Reagan's administration. Read about him here:
When I retired in 1980 after 20 years in the Army, the death penalty was by hanging. However I can't think of the last military member to be executed.
The last military execution was 13 Apr 1961 - John A. Bennet for Rape and Attempted premeditated murder. President Eisenhower signed the execute order in 1957.
In July 2008, President Bush signed the execution of Ronald A. Gray for rape and murder. Execution was to take place in December 2008, but a Federal Judge signed a stay of execution to allow time for the appeal process. (He was convicted in 1987, the crimes took place in 1986 -1987).
In addition to Gray there are another 8 personnel on Death Row, 4 of which are waiting re-trial, re-sentence, or where court order reversal is pending. All 9 were convicted of premeditated murder or felony murder.
the image of our men and woman in uniform should not be tainted any further by pictures of hasan in uniform...the press needs to find an official picture of him as he truly is....a terrorist in his civilian clothes or muslim garb...
Whatever the outcome don't make a martyr of him with a firing squad or hanging...terrorists love death.
There is an security camera that captured Hasan in muslim garb the morning of the shooting. Also, a number of people have stated he often dressed in the muslim garb.
Yes Sir. I like it for a man who screams "Allah Allah Akbar' as he is murdering my countryman while a member of the same United States Armed Forces. I sure do. He was living his life by it Salmann or do have a better excuse?
The general said this was "a kick in the gut." What is really a "kick in the gut" is knowing tax-payer money is being spent to keep him alive...and then kill him. He HAS to die for what he has done so why are we wasting money to put him up in a hospital??? That extra money could be more wisely spent...oh yeah, this is the government we're talking about!
Actually, its upholding the consitution.
Everyone has the right to a trial, no matter how vile the person may be.
We really don't want to start tampering with that.
I do not believe the rumor that Obama has suggested a "beer summit " with Hasan and Ms. Hundley - the police officer that shot Hasan and prevented greater carnage.
I wish that anyone who defends this guy would pack up and leave our country. I go to a liberal university (UNM) and I too often have to listen to people who defend this sort of person. They preach forgiveness and understanding when it comes to crimes committed against Americans, even when 45 people get shot, but when it comes to crimes committed by white males..... whoooooo doggy, that's a different story.
It's funny, I can look around today and know who would spit on soldiers where this still the Vietnam era. I know who would stand in front of returning troops and scream "baby killer". I have no respect for those people. NONE. If you did that back in the sixties, I wish you weren't around today. But some of them are, and some of them will undoubtedly post here in defense of this pig.
Let's flip this insanity around and see how it sounds another way.
You know who I feel sorry for? Those poor kids that killed Matthew Sheppard. How bad did the system have to fail them for them to take their out their fear and frustration on someone like that. Sure I feel sorry for the kid that died, but why were so many signs ignored, why didn't we get them the help they needed?
What a stupid argument. And when you defend Maj. Pig, that's exactly how you sound.
Anyone who tries to say this guy was insane and refuses to admit he is a terrorist is defending him; and there are plenty who are, including the media.
Check the true facts. Matthew was killed in a robbery, not because of someone's fear and frustration for gays! Stop perpetuating lies. Did you want to help them learn how to rob without killing?
Evan, read the post two threads below this one. And if you haven't heard people defending him in the media and on the streets, as well right here on newsvine. I don't know what to tell you.
Sandy, the point is, cutting Matthew Sheppard's killers any slack, or defending them in any fashion is as absurd as attempting to defend Maj. Pig. I don't care why the murdered him, they are murderers who should be drowned in cat urine, just like Maj. Pig.
Yes. I'm saying that they are purposly avoiding the word TERRIORIST in defense of this TERRIORIST, themselves (for their lack of action), and the president - because he can't have a terror attack on his watch.
Evan, you're being silly. Besides, we both know what you call the tea party participants in real life. (Besides bible thumper, gun nut, and racist; not that I blame you for hating the other side. I won't even bother to post what I call libs when I'm with my friends. If I did that, newsvine would delete my comment in a heartbeat.) By the way, I can't speak for anyone else on the matter, but what "just my thoughts" said, I would say to a uniformed service member myself.
When I wore the uniform on a daily basis, I had discussions with my coworkers on a daily basis about the reaon for the war, the importance of forgiveness, tgays in the military, foreign poilicy, and so on. Not everyone in the military agrees with one another, but I never saw a fist fight. At least I never saw military members strike one another, that is; striking idiot civilians is another story. I would say those things to someone in the military in a second, because I am on their side.
I served, I fulfilled my civic duty to the country I love, and I'm not afraid to speak my mind, even though it runs in direct contravention to what the media says much of the time.
Sundown, I'm right of center, fiscally conservative and socially liberal. I used to call myself a Republican until the Conservative party "reared its ugly head." Now I'm just independent.
Anyone who equates calling Hasan a "murderer" as "defending him" shoudn't even be given a serious thought. I know (as does everyone) that this guy is over and done with and likely to be executed. What makes me sick are the people like you, JustmyThoughts and AMFH trying to score political points over the bodies of dead soldiers. You should be ashamed of yourself.
Well Evan, that puts us in pretty much in the same boat politically I guess. You must realize that Hasan is unlikely to be executed as Obama would basically have to pull the trigger himself, and I think he is extremely unlikely to do so. Btw, the guy I quoted called him insane, not a murderer. I realize that the military is going to try him for murder, and that is the right thing to due. I believe in due process and true justice.
And, I'm not trying to score political points. If you were in front of me, I would have this conversation with you face to face, audience or not. I'm stating what I believe, behind this blanket of anonymity, just like you. Don't tell me to be ashamed of myself, I have nothing to be ashamed of.
Would it make any difference to you if I posted links of people defending him and/or blaming the American military for not stopping Maj. Pig?
I'm nuts, but the head of the army said that although this is a tragic event, the REAL TRAGEDY would be if we lost diversity in the armed forces.
Hmmm...diversity more important than human life.
Yeah, I'm nuts.
Furthermore - I didn't make this political. It was politics that created this entire situation. If we didn't have to be so damn politically correct, this guy would have been dishonorably discharged.
Did you know that the recently executed D.C. Sniper had been charged with striking an officer and going AWOL while serving in the LA National Guard, served time in the brig, and received an honorable discharge in 1985?
Cut the PC crap, call a spade a spade and go cry to your mother if you can't handle it. Our government and society are enabling people like this by letting them get away with more than the normal white guy because of their race, religion, etc. and it's bull. And you say I should be ashamed of myself?
I absolutely 100% support our men and women in uniform. It's the ones in charge that I am questioning and by doing so I am protecting AND supporting them. Your path of, just call him a murderer, does just the opposite.
Evan Gilchrest - I had NO intention of "scoring political points" with my posts.
Would you prefer no one respond to obvious lies and misinformation?
BTW, I, too, am a fiscal conservative and social liberal. I am also one who will not tolerate the continuing egregious lies spewed by the likes of some posters on this site.
the military executes by lethal injection. Few sentenced to death by military have been executed, however. This guy isn't a terrorist - if he were, he'd face federal charges not military charges. He's just insane and the military was in such dire need of bodies doing the job he supposedly did that they did not want to wash him out.
Not MY opinion, but the military's. They have concluded he acted alone
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Authorities would have had more reason to take the case to federal court if they had found evidence Hasan acted with the support or training of a terrorist group, but investigators believe he acted alone, without outside direction.
Unfortunately, this monster will probably not get the death penalty. No one has been executed by the military for almost 50 years--the last was 1961. And, as commander in chief, the president would have to approve...how likely is that considering left wingers don't believe in the death penalty and Obama has already shown he is a Muslim sympathizer?
macaddict, you don't think our military could fight their way out of a paper bag?? I think you should go find some guys in uniform and tell them that. I would like to help mop the results off the floor.
macaddict I'd have loved to hear you pop off with that garbage in Mooresville, N.C. yesterday. You'd have gotten an a$$ whooping from three generations of veterans. Ever get your a$$ whooped by an 83 year old man? It would have happened there. Of course there would've been nothing left for us young 'un's by the time the 'Nam vets got done. You might want to start with the Coast Guard and work your way up. I'm betting you would be doing well to make it past them.
I know that Texas civilian laws would be seeking the death penalty..
Does military law work the same way, where the state it is in determines if the death penalty apples or not?
Does the PotUS have any say so when he is found guilty as to if he is put to death or not? I think I read it somewhere that the only way you can be put to death in the Military is by the PotUS go ahead, but im not sure.
By MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press Writer Mark Sherman, Associated Press Writer – Wed Nov 11, 6:09 pm ET
WASHINGTON – Though the suspect in the shooting rampage at Fort Hood could face the death penalty, he will be prosecuted in a military justice system where no one has been executed in nearly a half-century.
Maj. Nidal Hasan, the Army psychiatrist alleged to have killed 13 people at the massive Army installation in Texas last week, might also benefit from protections the military provides defendants that are greater than those offered in civilian federal courts.
"Our military justice system is not bloodthirsty. That's clear," said Eugene R. Fidell, who teaches military law at Yale.
Much about Hasan's case will be decided by a senior Army officer — perhaps Lt. Gen. Robert Cone, Fort Hood's commander — including whether to seek the death penalty and, in the event Hasan is convicted of capital murder, whether to commute a possible death sentence to life in prison.
Before a military execution can be carried out, the president must personally approve.
George W. Bush signed an execution order last year for a former Army cook who was convicted of multiple rapes and murders in the 1980s, but a federal judge has stayed that order to allow for a new round of appeals in federal court. There hasn't been a military execution since 1961, though five men sit on the military's death row at Fort Leavenworth, Kan.
Federal civilian executions also are rare. Three men, including Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, have been killed by lethal injection in federal cases since 2001. Death penalties carried out by states are more common — Tuesday night's execution of John Allen Muhammad in the Washington, D.C., sniper case was Virginia's second of the year.
In the Fort Hood case, Hasan's family has hired a private attorney, John Galligan, although the military also will provide a lawyer at no charge. Galligan said that he and Maj. Christopher E. Martin, Fort Hood's senior defense attorney, spoke with Hasan on Monday and that Hasan had requested a lawyer when first approached by investigators.
Experts in the military justice system said the decision to prosecute Hasan in military court, revealed Monday by officials involved in the investigation, appears clear cut.
The shootings took place on an Army base. The suspect is an Army officer and all but one of those killed also were officers or enlisted personnel. The other person who was killed worked at Fort Hood.
Authorities would have had more reason to take the case to federal court if they had found evidence Hasan acted with the support or training of a terrorist group, but investigators believe he acted alone, without outside direction.
The military system operates under rules that are similar to those in civilian courts. The differences generally give military defendants more rights than their civilian counterparts.
I don't think Obama will intervene in a death penalty case like this. He said at Fort Hood that Hasan will find justice in this world and the next. I don't think BHO is against the death penalty in mass murder cases. He has, in fact, gone on record about being kind of tough about this kind of thing. Obama haters can rant and rave and act like fools all they want but this Hasan is already a dead man walking.
If the fetus could still be terminated legally, not sure why it would count in the murder count. Even with 1 less, there's still enough for executing him (barring complete incompetence from the prosecution).
It should count in the overall murder count out of respect to the family. By all accounts, they were excited about the baby, so in their minds, the baby was part of the family already. It's the respectful thing to do.
Maybe it varies by state, but there are cases in which the killing of a pregnant woman and her child resulted in two murder charges. Agree that the law (in this case the Uniform Code of Military Justice) will determine what happens here.
Given the low respect for life in our society, recognizing the killing of the unborn baby would be a simple yet decent thing to do.
I agree he should be charged with 2 deaths in the case of the pregnant woman but 1 is good to get him the juice. He's got a dozen more. The only possible way I see him surviving is by the President commuting his sentence to life at the end of his term. I see that as highly unlikely. He made the President look bad and that's not something you really want to do to a Chicago politician. I see him frying in about 5 or 6 years.
I think you are all jumping to conclusions. Isn't it really society's fault that this man was distraut and caused him to take these actions? Didn't John Roberts say on CNN that he has heard many stories of Muslims being made fun of by their peers in the military? I think we should focus less on punishing him than rehabilitating society. Let's have a national debate on inclusiveness (Obama can call a summit for a teachable moment). Also, was it really fair for the military to subject him to the grueling task of having to listen to the plights of other soldiers who have returned from a war zone? How can all of you blame him without understanding his hardships????
That is a shallow argument that avoids personal responsibility! Just because people give you a hard time in no way gives you no right to kill 13 people. This man is a premeditated terrorist that had numerous red flags but do to our PC attitude was allowed to continue to serve in the greatest military in the world. He needs to be made an example of!
Yes the army did act stupidly by shooting at him. They could have killed him. Not sure I want him dead. Perhaps working and playing with the general prison population in a max security prison may be a better result, if you know what I mean. (problem is there are reports of these types converting prisoners to Islam)
Of course it's sarcasm. But I think it says a lot about newsvine that someone could post something like this as an obvious joke, and there are enough legitimate similar threads to warrant a second look.
"Allaha Akbar" screamed at the start of his massacre (is how I can blame him). Of course maybe there was ham or pepperoni on his last pizza delivered??
I would first start by shoving a fire hose up his a$$ and giving him a ginormus enima. Then maybe tie a rope around his nads and attach it to a horse and say giddy up! And that is just the beginning.
The real story is why Obama is covering up the fact that US intelligence under Obama's orders let this terrorist communicate with Al-Qaida and plan his attack.
We need a Nixon-style investigation of Obama’s roll in this.
Under Obama's orders to let this person communicate with Al-Qaida? Really? Investigate Obama's role in this? What is your source of information? Twitter? Facebook? The republican inquirer? Please provide your source so I can research it and educate myself.
I think that much of his government training was under Bush's administration, so who should we blame, Obama? This guy was passed up for investigation for years.
George, "The real story is why Obama is covering up the fact that US intelligence under Obama's orders let this terrorist communicate with Al-Qaida and plan his attack."
If so, a smart reporter will find the facts! Hopefully soon!
Hang the terrorist!!!!!!!!
Hanging is too good for him. Gut shoot him and leave him out in the sun to die.
How soon before obama steps in and says we should forgive him since he is a disturbed muslim. Before it is all over, I would be willing to bet, obama will make a plea for the American people to be understanding of what this man has endured. It may seem funny and ludacris now, but just wait.
And the worst part of this prediction is that many sheepish Americans will agree.
This is a cold-blooded muderer that should be shot in front of a wall and then the bullet riddled wall should become a reminder to what happens when you betray the United States military.
Instead, obama will plea to have him committed and he will outlive most of us in this thread in a mental institution while we pay for his medical care. Dont doubt it, you know it will probably happen.
Jim, I can't disagree with your predictions regarding obama, who is probably a closet muslin!
Come on you all know he will get off with insanity and then we will have to revamp a mental institution so he can practice his religion. After that they will petition to have him released to an Islam country where he can train others how to pull the wool over the PC American public. Oh and by the way guess who gets to pay for all of this not including the education we already paid for (doctors, lawyers, court costs, police costs, mental institution and finally his trip to the middle east) and then of course the damage he has already done to this country and the future damage that will be done by copy cats. But remember we have to remain Political Correct and forget our Christian beliefs (like saying MERRY CHRISTMAS but be sure they get their prayer rooms and koran) so we don't offend anyone. The only ones we are offending are ourselves by giving up more and more freedoms to make them feel welcome. They sure don't do that in the Middle East for us.
Jim 755017, Obama is irrelevant. Its up the military courts. I doubt they'll spare his life.
This has nothing to do with Obama. And he will not step in on a Military matter. Stop the stupidity.
Evan,
It will take an executive order from the president himself to execute a member of the military, even if they find him guilty. So yes, obama and his beliefs are very relevant.
TomH in comment 9.1 found the information regarding this fact.
ummm.yes it does involve Obama. The military needs his approval to take this guy out.
Why don't we just pull the plug now at the hospital,and save the tax payers money? We all know he is the shooter. He is guilty. No need for the government to say innocent till proven guilty. Military trial or not he is guilty.
I also think the media needs to remove further pictures of him in uniform. He is a disgrace to our country.
Why isn't he being charged with treason??????
Can't hang this Piece of Cr*p high enough... why even waste time with a trial? He did it and everyone knows it...there is NO DEFENSE in this matter.
You sound confident but are dead wrong. As usual, most Obama supporters are wrong, after all, they voted for that guy.
Obama and the bleeding-heart liberals will focus on how the West has treated the poor Muslim extremists. No doubt, they will justify his actions as they always have! They will point to water-boarding, Abu Ghraib, and detainees and Guantanamo Bay as his justifiable reasons to kill Americans.
Obama is but a cancer on our great nation.
Did you catch Michelle Obama laughing yesterday as they lay the wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier? She is despicable! Liberals embrace her behavior!
Does anybody care about Afghanistan as our ally in the future? We need a friend and not dictatorship run country which is what most of the afghanies want. HEre is how I see the development of the our relationships:
1) Let Afghanies take care of their own problems.
2) Stop sending them some help in the form of USA Army soldiers which Karzai could use stay in power
3) Let Afghanistan decide if they want Taliban run their country cause they don't like us any more anyway. (Hamas has blocked the elections same way GOP did in 2001) It's been 8 years of oppression with Blackwater shooting civilians and seeing Iraqis naked in a form of human pyramid with the hooked wires to the generators.
4) It's been a shame how we (USA) thought the war as if it was a Christian Crusade in the Muslim Countries.
5) Do not repeat the same mistakes from Iraq where Bush was trying to ran the country, lack of acomplished mission, lack of proper equipment with strong anti-Muslim propaganda from Bill O'Rally and Rash Limbagh
BRING OUR SOLDIERS BACK!!!!!!!!!!!
Men I can't believe the length these conservatives will go to to bad mouth Obama. Its hillarious and sad at the same time. Losers the whole bunch of you. Anyhow I say hold the guy responsible to the fullest extent of the law! I hate to say this because I usually am tolerant of other people's beliefs and culture but now the U.S. begins to see why our European partners are not as tolerant concerning Muslims as we have paraded ourselves to be...they have a longer history of dealing with similar scenarios but how we loved to talk s#@t about them before this happened.
He will never be charged for terrorism. I have read that it will be a criminal matter. Even our President has eluded to that when he was on the TV the other night.
Don't waste our tax dollars or time with him he is quilty KILL this Muslin right now NOW
This piece of chit NEEDS to be executed. He was a "trusted" member of our military and he attacked us from within. Premeditated and planned, he had full intentions of committing this heinous act for a while, he f-ing needs to die. A nice large dose of morphine in his IV would be just fine, or a nice slow painful death. But NOOOOO, we'll house, feed, provide and care for this d-bag for life. Just off his sorry azz and get it over with.
Why was this guy ever admitted to medical school in the first place? Like gmainco said, the American taxpayer paid for this man's education. He was supposed to reemburse the taxpayer by serving a specified period of time in the military. Wasn't he screened BEFORE being admitted to med school? There are plenty of psychiatrists in the military who deal with soldiers who have experienced the horrors of war who don't go off the deep end and begin shooting others. This man is a coward just like the rest of his Muslim terrorist friends. He knew there was the possibility of deployment when he started med school on the taxpayer's dime but didn't mind taking the free tuition. When he is finally facing deployment, he shows what a coward he really is at heart.
It's time for America to start looking out for No. 1. Other countries do. Political correctness has to go. We need to protect ourselves while there is still something to protect. This country was founded on religious freedom. Fine, but that also means that no one should impose his/her religion on others. Separation of state and religion should also mean that no one can use his/her religion to avoid serving and protecting this nation.
Agreed, firing squad on national TV and let the whole world know what happens to Muslim terrorists.
He killed 13 soldiers, let him be killed by 13 bullets. Starting at the extremeties, hands, feet, etc. slowly working towards the 13th shot being the coup de grace.
You liberals are a rather odd bunch. Can't make judgement on someone who is Muslim with expressed traditional Muslim views. We must embrace them. Accept them. Well how many people have been killed by Muslims who held these traditional, outdated, beliefs that support their killings? Go ahead put in a number _____.
However, take a religious christian who has a deep seated faith and every liberal says to immediately be afraid of them, they are the next terrorist group. This group should be judged immediately and not embraced or accepted. Go ahead and put in the number of killings by this group ____.
NOTE: If you have to respond with what about the crusades then please do not bother at all. We have current issues with current dangers - lets stay focused on today's world.
Speaking of terrorist, why isn't this man being charged as with an act of terrorism? It's pretty clear writing on the wall.
He'll kill himself first, becoming a Martyr to Allah. He is an Islamist. (can I say the word?)
They better hurry up with the trial.
BTW: Are they counting the baby that was killed. Most news anchors are considering the baby as a death, by the Islamist Terrorist.
This is the first Terrorist Act on American soil since 9/11--the sentence better be harsh.
Death upon leaving the courtroom.
Add hate crimes, treason, etc. He should be executed with bullets soaked in pig grease.
"Hamas has blocked the elections same way GOP did in 2001"
First off, Hamas doesn't operate in Afghanistan, secondly, the GOP didn't steal the elections. The United States is a republic not a democracy, go look it up they are very different systems of government. Gore did manage to win the popular vote with 48.5% to Bushs' 48%. But Bush took Florida, Gore was going to call to concede but retracted when the media began to report that Bushs lead was dwindling. By the end of the election Bushs margin in Florida was less than 2000 votes, state law requiring a recount in such a situation. Politics began to come into play when democrats demanded recounts in four heavily democratic counties. Ultimately it came to the Florida supreme court, which ruled that the state had to certify its election results, which in turn gave Florida to Bush. He won the electoral vote. It isn't the first, nor the last time, something like that will happen.
Our President still won't admit this was a terrosrist act, I don't know who he's trying to protect (Muslims maybe?) but it sure doesn't seem to be us.
And the media is perpetrating this, they won't call it that either. Is it because they think it'll make our rock star President look bad?
Give the families the justice their lost love one's deserve. The families of those that have suffered a great loss deserve our attention--not the fanatic that caused this disaster.
Do not give this religious fanatic any more publicity, he is not worthy of our attention aside what due process allows for.
Obama sticks his head in the sand, as usual.
Can't make a decision or take a stand. He is afraid to alienate his voter base.
He will likely resort to plan B ... blame Bush, as usual.
Hasn't made a decision since taking office other than what tie to wear to the acceptance ceremony for the Nobel Prize for campaign promises.
Those that voted for Obama were simply uninformed and pulled into his web of double-talk.
Those that continue to support him are simply fools, underachievers, and socialists that need their lives controlled by the government because they can't look out for themselves.
The charged man is not a terrorist! He is a troubled sole who lost his way. He nedded counseling which nobody could offer in the army since it's a Christian Crusade everywhere USA goes. There are no muslim priests in the army.
I'm sick of the liberal press... not sure what his motive was. duh.. he;'s a freaking Musilim (religion of peace BS) that beleives that people that don;t beleive like me - should be destroyed. Pack up the religion of Peace off of the freaking planet and or give them a piece of sand where they can continue to go about blowing themselves up for fun. What a joke.
Alex, He's a troubled fish???
Agreed this president sure seems very wimpy.
Don't worry, Obama will sit down with him over a beer and straighten everything out. No doubt it was simply a misunderstanding in Obama's mind.
I vote that we get him healed, and then send him to Gitmo to see what kind of information they can waterboard out of him concerning his terrorist buddies and activities.
Yep, heal him with holy water.
I say death by firing squad let all the injured victims and the families of all those he has killed be able to shoot him , just one huge blow out at the same time, and hopefully he will be ripped to shreds just like his victims lives are now.
Erm, he has to have a trial, because not giving him one would be agasint the consitutional rights; and if they did that for him, then they could do it for anyone whom they thought didn't need one. As disqusting as that may seem, it also protects you and everyone else. So while maybe distasteful, it is the right way to go.
I don't know about you, but I don't want some invisible person being judge jury and executioner.
Hang him or put him under a fire squad. This sicko didn't show any mercy for those he shot/killed on the base. Probably Obama would just slap in on the rist and show mercy because he don't want to offend is Muslim friends. This President needs to wake up and realize that these crazy religious people can't be reasoning with. If you don't follow their religion off with your head. HERE'S A MESSAGE TO ALL MUSLIMS IN THIS COUNTRY, IF DON'T WANT TO PUT THIS COUNTRY FIRST, THEN GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE!
This was a terrorist act and Obama and his views cant stick it!!!!!!!!!!
CNN's headline is "Suspect to be charged with murder."
Well yeah, that's a given. In other news, the sun will set tomorrow.
(MSNBC at least adds "on all 13 counts.")
What we call a terrorist they call a hero. What we call a hero they call a crusader.
I say to hell with both religions. Yup get that crap out of The military and out of our Political arena. Saying God is ok but trying to enforce any views of one religion is NOT FREEDOM. I do not try to enforce my Native American Beliefs on any Christians or Muslims or Jews. But yet every time our military goes somewhere to fight we ask Jesus to follow along.
What kind of God protects one set of Humans to go kill another set. This is where the problem lies these two Organized religions and along with the Jewish faith have been fighting over God for thousands of years.
Get our Politics out of it. Get our troops out of it. And stand up for what we really are. A nation that is a melting pot full of different faiths. Even some who have the right to worship Satan or Pagan views. When we polarize some groups faith and demonize it.
What the hell do you think that does? It gives the movement behind the group power. They become the victims in many eyes. Not ours but in any anti Christian's faiths. So yes our TWO wars against Muslim nations does look like Crusades. When half of us do not even believe in your Jesus as our savior.
Plus did not your faith say turn the other cheek. Father forgive them for they know not what they do? Hypocrites for sure.
This guy took some reason which really does not matter. And used it to twist his mind into. Making it ok to go on a shooting spree. He is twisted for sure.And the penalty should be death. But not because he is a muslim. A christian doing this is just as bad.
He was part of a family our military. And when you join you give up civilian rights. And also take on the treason factor. Let the courts do the job they are set up to do. And if the death penalty gets handed down. So be it.
Skiddy:
All Americans say it loud and clear. HASAN WAS AN ISLAMIC TERRORIST. He had communications from the Imam, and now they are looking into his connections with Al Qaeda.
Religion: Say it loud and clear: Islam, violent Estremist Islam. We are free in this country to say whatever is the TRUTH.
Obama doesn't want to believe the truth. Extremist? Everyone on this board is an Extremist is whatever they pursue. Extremist has many definitions.
Obama shows his weakness by not calling a "spade a spade". Americans will not tolerate a US President who is weak, and possibly a sympathizer with the Radical Terrorists. That is just my assumption. What is yours?
He may be of the Islam/Muslim religion. None of us know for sure.
"He Keeps His Cards Close to His Chest".. Secrets about his American Patriotism, Radicalism, War or revealing of his real personality and feelings.
These are not the qualifications for a US President. We are begging for Leadership, and Nancy Pelosi has taken charge.
President Nancy Pelosi. Who voted for her?
pound,
Who needs a trial? Everyone that was there saw him do it, and he does not deny doing it.
What is a trial going to prove aside from the fact that our government can was millions of dollars on a trial, where we all know the outcome?
EP13 - and other libs:
What it is about Obama - he can do no wrong in your eyes:
Now as a Conservative I freely admit that Bush did a terrible job in the last two years of office and with the bailout and growing the deficit. He was not a fiscal Conservative but this president has done more damage in the first 10 months that Bush did in 8 years!
http://www.nomorevictims.org/
Jim, Obama is going to step in and when he does he will be leading a firing squad.
I knew a bunch of you wing nuts would be on here slamming the president and saying it is his fault or Muslims' faults. What if this guy is an extreme Muslim hater and did this act to give Muslim's or the president a bad name? Let's not forget just because you are a well to do light skinned black man in this country doesn't mean you are a Muslim. Barrack is a Christian first off.
But this is not about religion by any means. Let's say that religion doesn't exist, there is no such thing, it never got created here on Earth. This wacko would have found another reason to do this crap. To me this is just another reason why need way stricter gun laws even on military bases. Especially military bases.
Today Health Care, tomorrow gun laws!!!
hawaii, they can only blow themselves up. it's an instant death. no pain. boom, 72 virgins...ha@!$%# would never cut himself, or shot himself, because there is no guarantee of instant death.
Hasan should face the ultimate punishment for his traitorous crimes. There needs to a full investigation into the hows and whys of how our intelligence agencies struck out (again) in preventing the attack of this loser.
The people who say Hasan is a terrorist on this forum are doing so absolutely out of fear, or some other patriotic emotional motive. You guys are being over emotional. I do not see any difference between what he did in that military base and what some psycologically disturbed high school kid does almost every year in somewhere in the US, by killing his fellow students and teachers by random shooting. This is an ordinary story that repeats itself all the time in this country. Except that when it comes to a men who is of muslim orgin, the story is of course being trumpeted in the media to unbeleivable degrees. Yes, obviously there were many things wrong with this guy, he was not fit to the hostile environment he worked in, and that's why he wrote petitions to higher rank army officers requesting transfer to other branches. None of them were taken seriously... The guy did everything he can to avoid the depression that his post created and that finally resulted in this terrible incidence. Those officers in the US army who did not act according to his petitions are responsible as well in this tragedy. The war itself is responsible.
In any case, he should be punished accordingly and justly and I hope that he will indeed be, taken into account all the factors that caused his depression. When it comes to a death sentence: this is an outdated, barbaric mean of punishment that does not serve more that creating hatred and that has already been abandoned in most of the civilized and developed countries who take human rights seriously. It is a shame that in some of the states in the US, it is still in use.
I think it is more important and urgent to think about what is happening in the country now: all these waves of hatred, disgust or unjustified fear towards the minorities of muslim origin. This is by far more dangerous than a single incidence with one crackpot killing 13 people. Reading all these posts in the forum I am very worried, in fact I am shocked! Is this your understanding of democracy and freedom? Hanging people without trial, without justification, just out of nationalistic and religious motives? If so, whatwould be the difference of this country than the Nazi Germany in the 30s and 40s?
Please keep your fascist prejudices away from public forums and do not try to disguise your obviously fascist, anti-humanist and unjust worldview behind some vauge notion of patritism.
than what will to this guy
Hassan is not a terrorist!!! He is a nutcase who obviously never got a proper "morality" review. If this is anybody's fault besides this guy just being a complete crackhead it is his commanding officers, there had to be tell, tell signs. Why was something done??? 13 dead and now we suspect "something" might be wrong with him. Those officers need demoted, that base needs shut down!!!
This needs to be a wake-up call for way stricter gun laws!!!
Terrorist!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Why isn't he being charged with 14 murders? Wasn 't one of the young women pregnant? That is another life the terrorist took.
There is no excuse for this mans actions, he took 13 lives and should now forfeit his the only problem I have with this is We can't kill him 13 times .............I hope his death is a very slow one ......
Alex M.-539592
The charged man is not a terrorist! He is a troubled sole who lost his way. He nedded counseling which nobody could offer in the army since it's a Christian Crusade everywhere USA goes. There are no muslim priests in the army.
This is exacty what is wrong with America and MSNBC and the Left in General.. They dont see terrorist. They see troubled souls and poor dirt farmers. Wake up America before a even bigger terrorist act hits this country..
Hey! All of you psychics that know the President is going to free Hassan, maybe you can tell me what numbers to pick in the California lottery since you all know everything.
Gunny,
Semper Fi
Why isn't this guy being charged with Treason?
I like the way these " Journalists" Spout unsubstantiated facts! As far as I know the only ones claiming this is his Muslim Family.
From my ecperience in the Military I find it hard to believe this was actually going on. This is especially true since he was an Officer. Why do these Journalist just make up stories to fit what they want to write?
"A military official familiar with discussions about Hasan during his training period said he was belligerent, defensive and argumentative in his frequent discussions of his Muslim faith, The Associated Press and NPR News reported. Hasan also had a reputation for being a mediocre student and lazy worker"
So why was he given a promotion to Major in May of this year?
This is "Political Correctness" gone wild, and now 13 brave Americans have bee murdered.
As for his being distressed about counseling soldiers, I understand that he counseled them BEFORE they went overseas, not when they came back, so the media trying to find fault with the "system" don't wash.
He is a radical Islamist terrorist, and this is the first significant terrorist attack on American soil since 9/11, and attempts to call it anything else defies logic. Bush kept us safe for over 7 years with his policies, but Obama is just trying to divert his failure to protect Americans with his policies.
Hawaii2
This is the first Terrorist Act on American soil since 9/11--the sentence better be harsh.
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You live in a dream world. There hasn't been a harsh sentence for anyone from 9/11 so why would things change here? Our government is too worried about POLITICAL CORRECTNESS and protecting their rights too do any normal punishment let alone the extreme death sentence!!!!!
A bullet to the head of this whack-job radical Muslim is too good for him! Although he deserves nothing less than death legally, I'd almost rather see the military put him in a hard-core military prison and hard miserable labor for the rest of his life!!
He should suffer miserably for his entire life!! He's only 40 - the military could make him wish he was dead for another 40!
If they charge him with the murder of the unborn child the dems would actually be admitting that it is in fact an unborn child, not some primordial mass of worthless tissue and fluids which allows them to feel warm and fuzzy about killing unborn children.
Hence they prefer to stick their head in the sand and refuse to acknowledge the lady was pregnant.
Chris,
First thing tomorrow morning take out a full page ad for a week in your local newspaper professing you dislike of guns. Be sure to give your address (preferably with clear directions) and state that you have absolutely no guns in your home.
Next, put out a sign in your front yard stating that you have no guns in your home.
Finally add me to your will.
You have to be the biggest fool on earth! ... along with Obama and his bitsch.
This also should fall under the new law "hate crimes" ... it goes both ways. Also, when they execute him, they should shoot him with a bullet that has pig blood on it so he will be denied his 72 virgins because he is unclean. Terrorists should be dealt with like the enemy of the state that they are.
I live in Texas and we have the death penalty and we carry it out with perserverance and dedication....sooo, if the military doesn't want to try him as a Muslim terrorist murderer...let the people of Texas take it over. His justice will be swift and the penalty will fit the crime...death to the terrorist.
Pound4abrown: You say: Erm, he has to have a trial, because not giving him one would be agasint the consitutional rights; and if they did that for him, then they could do it for anyone whom they thought didn't need one. As disqusting as that may seem, it also protects you and everyone else. So while maybe distasteful, it is the right way to go. I don't know about you, but I don't want some invisible person being judge jury and executioner.
It's bleeding hearts like you who perpetuate this garbage. They get a trail, then they say the jury pool was tainted, then the lawyer was incompetent and so on and so on when everyone in this case KNOWS he did it. He lost his rights.
Have a "trial" and say, "You were an officer, but no gentleman. You were a born American, yet you chose to become an extremist; you were a ranking officer in your countries military, you were to use the education we paid for to help your fellow countrymen, and you failed in every way. You will have your choice on the way you will die, firing squad by your fellow soldiers, hanging yourself, or sending yourself to allah in a ball of flames. Your choice."
Hopeful American
That's the best Idea I've read here, and put him into the general population can you imagine what this POS would have to go through every day, he would be Mrs. Hasan .....
He should be placed in front of a firing squad and have all the service men and women who were wounded by him take shots at him until he is dead! Even that is too good for this ANIMAL (and that's putting it mildly)...... I will not have my tax dollars go to keep this animal in prison more than one day more than is necessary!!!!
He should also be charged with Hate Crimes...but we all know that won't happen. They should definately add the 14th murder charge for the baby. This will be the first of many examples of Obama siding with the Muslims when the political climate changes....as he stated in his book. Dirtbags- both the shooter and the president. Both of them should be shot for treason.
EP13- Don't lump all conservatives in your statement. I am definitely not an Obama fan but I certaintly don't think this is his fault nor do I think he will make excuses for this guy. However, I thought his speech after it happened left a lot to be desired.
There should not even be a trial. When are we going to realize that our constitution is just a outline for getting around our laws. The raghead is guilty and we should treat him like his other terrorist animals treat our soldiers put him on national TV and chop off his head. That is the only way these people will ever understand that we are serious. If they want to stay in their own area and kill eachother like they have since the beginning on time let them, but we need to get each and every one of these dirty, smelly, terrorist out of our country. If is not worth the sorting of a million of them to find the one or two that actually have a since of right and wrong.
EP13- Don't lump all conservatives in your statement. I am definitely not an Obama fan but I certaintly don't think this is his fault nor do I think he will make excuses for this guy. However, I thought his speech after it happened left a lot to be desired.
Let's see a U.S. Army Officer espouses views that run contrary to our mission, is in contact with a radical Muslim Imam who has ties with 2 of the 9/11 TERRORISTS , purchases 2 high power hand guns, plots and carries out a deadly attack on his fellow soldiers telling a neighbor he's "going to do great things for God" and finally screams "Alluha Akbar" as he begins to kill 13 unarmed people and I'm a racist if I call him a TERRORIST? HOW ABOUT ANY ONE WHO TRIES TO EXCUSE THIS ACT AS NOT A RADICAL MUSLIM TERRORIST ATTACK IS A MORON? Trying to come up with other excuses to keep the world of Kumbaya and multiculturalism intact doesn't fly!! Pvt. Hasan did the deed it was in accordance with his twisted beliefs and that makes him a TERRORIST. Sorry to have to break it down it down that way but that's the bottom line.
Bush is a terrorist!!!
Let's crucify him!!
Proof? 5000 killed in Iraq for Black Gold.
Rash Limbach is a terrorist by calling Skin Heads on Obama.
When will the right wing learn to LOVE? When their pockets are full!
he will be protected by the muslim in the oval office
Jim 755017: I think you are whacked on on drugs. Your post is absurd and your hatred of the President is evident.
He killed 14, one on the women that was killed was pregant, THAT'S 14! But I guess we have to be politically correct again and not offend pro-abortionist.
Let the spin begin as the leftwing media at the will of OBAMA cast him as a crazy loon. This MUSLIM TERRORIST is just that, plain and simple! But lets not offend the muslims (obama won't even mention the words, MUSLIM TERRORIST)
But, the leftwing scum had no problem calling the old folks (teabaggers) rightwing radicals! and terrorist! I will call a spade a spade when I see it. And I see it! Its time to kick them out along with the other 20 millions illegals
Prediction:
Some one is going to get Hasan before he leaves the hospital. Meaning death.
It could be an inside job at the hospital, or someone who sneaks in posing as a Military person or personnel.
Assuredly, this Hasan will not live to see a trial.
Too many angry Terrorists haters out there. The American "mob" entire population is furious, he is not considered a Terrorist.
Waiting for Obama's apology after this happens.
No crazy card, no explaining it away. 13 (14) dead are dead no matter what the excuse. The bleeding hearts need to stay out of this and let the Military take care of this. (And don't take years to get this done!)
The only thing that needs to be investigated is why "Political Correctness" is more important than human lives. This needs to stop. The warning signs were many, but no one did anything about it. The man should not have been in the military.
I'm sick of that "family man" photo of Hasan.
Surely they can come up with a photo more befitting a man of his credentials.
hahaha you people crack me up! At least us stupid people know that Obama is this little thing called the Commander in Chief of the United States armed forces. Therefore, he is not irrelevant in a military matter. Better yet, y'all are the people that voted him into that title & don't even know it!
Fred G. from N.C...."There needs to a full investigation into the hows and whys of how our intelligence agencies struck out (again) in preventing the attack of this loser."
Fred it's simple, because guys like you are in the military. When it comes to intelligence there just does not seem to be any.
The guy may be Islamic and, for certain, is a murderer. His actions have affected many.
But, the Catholic and Jew Psychiatrists have ruined far more lives than this guy. Scum from the git-go. Political puke. Too, check out the pukes from the school in Fairfield, IA. Little maggots.
gmainco:
You could be right. The US Military is going to be Trying Hasan, not Obama. Obama may have some influence on the Military's decision to not seek the Death Penalty. O is the Commander who I have a "beef" with. Chief.
If O steps in, surely he influence the jury and Military that it is a case of insanity.
We live with one scary President. He the Passivist, no decisions.
The US Military must be furious with O, the intruder on justice.
This will be an interesting outcome. He should be executed by a hand gun in the head. Will Obama pick up the hand gun and fire away?
This country has gone to h----------in a handbasket. Another OJ case. The President's Sympathy for the Extremist.
Lori:
With all the Liberals and their concepts, about when is a baby a human, maybe they haven't counted the baby as a person. Did O step in?
I did hear on one channel that the baby will be among the murdered. What a shame.
Why even charge him. Just set him up in the middle of Fort Hood and set his Islamic ass on fire. Burn him alive!!!! But no, we'll have pity and he'll live in jail the rest of his life getting more privaleges than we do. They are all pieces of s%&#.
Abdul Hakeem guess what? The fact you think Pvt. Hasan was protecting his religion goes further in proving the fact he is a TERRORIST than anything I can say. Thank you and have a nice day!! Oh yeah and one more thing the intelligence agencies I refer to include the FBI and any other Federal agency that took a look at this time bomb and failed to act.
Uhh Chris.....Do I even need to call you an idiot or will you freely admit it??
And Christians do not change their names for their religion, unlike Barry did when he became Barack Obama.....
The anger on this board with this Terrorist is AMAZING. Good, finally Americans "get" it.
We will not tolerate Terrorist infiltrators into our US Military Bases. This is a free place and haven for our beloved Military People.
The next infiltrator or infiltraitors are in the Intelligence Agencies. They know it, Obama knows it, we do not.. Who is overseeing the Security Intelligence Agencies over the Security Intelligence agencies? We live in dangerous times.
Does Obama care. No. He just wants what he wants. Flitting off to Asia, then maybe some Hollywood celeb parties, and forcing that darn HCRB down our throats. That's all that matters to him.
He doesn't give a "r-t a'z" about Terrorism. Look how devastated he looks after the crime on America? He's happy as a lark, just living like a king with no responsibilites.
Isn't someone like that called "A Free Spirit"; perfect definition. No responsibility to the people or our country.
Put the Islamic white Outfit on him, Holding the Koran, and torture him to death, like he did to the soldiers. Everyone gets a piece of this cr-------p. Toss him into a fire pit. Obama could be the Executioner (excuse me, the Extremist) who personally does the "job" by gunfire, just like the Iranian President Ahdinemadjad.
Yes, right now, we need a leader more like that for this firing squad.
Hasan, the Extremist. Maybe they'll send him on a shopping trip, and feed him his favorite meal before he meets Allah. The Americans are much to good to EVIL.
Why are people like him so protected?!
Murder is not the appropriate charge for this man under the UCMJ - he is an enemy combatant - a terrorist and after the extensive "background check" - a traitor. A traitor during wartime is punishable by immediate death.
A murder charge will allow Hasan an opportunity to martyr himself in public and around the world; emboldening Muslims to commit more acts of terrorism.
Obama will not interfere - because this is a military matter. Also, because of the very fact that Americans are already suspicious of his religion and his personal beliefs. Because Americans look at his name and for some reason identify his name with the worst that Muslims have to offer. Obama will allow this process to take it's natural course - Hasan's eventual conviction and future death by lethal injection.
If Obama wasn't in office and it were a republican - the incumbent republican would have responded to the Ft. Hood Terrorist Act in the very same fashion. Allow for law enforcement to piece everything together - to get all of the facts before committing to a specific course of action.
But here is the most intriguing thing, Hasan was identified as problematic a year and a half ago - while Bush was in office. After 8 years of the "War on Terror" to protect the "homeland"...we're still not any safer...The system that was supposed to protect us failed and it failed our troops.
Apparently the lot of you are ignorant reactionaries who do not process FACT VERY EFFICIENTLY. Yesterday, NPR investigative reporter Mike Goldfield had reported that even in HIS RESIDENCY, Hasan demonstrated paranoid tendencies as well as rapid mood swings and instructors struggled with THEIR OWN possible prejudices toward his Nationality and faith.
If there is ANYONE to blame in this it is the BUSH ADMINISTRATION YOU IDIOTS! HIS SERVICE BEGAN BEFORE PRESIDENT OBAMA TOOK OFFICE! OBAMA HAS NOT BEEN IN OFFICE THAT LONG...DO YOU PEOPLE HAVE A THINKING BRAIN AMONG YOU????
The man is 39 years old, they pushed him upward in status and training because there are less than 400 trained Psychiatrists serving in the military who can Treat PTSD ASAP! Psychiatry is NOT a Popular profession even in the Mainstream of Medicine!
Could he be a Terrorist? He certainly was leaning that direction, but lacked the mental organization to follow through. His murderous acts alone at Ft. Hood proved that.
Why don't you people read other periodicals and listen to the BBC to obtain other reliable sources of information? listen to unbiased News Radio who often obtain information in a more complete format since they have research teams already dispatched where News is occurring?
Many of you are the reason newspapers are going out of business.
D.Varner, RN,BSN,PHN,CCM,CLCP
All the degrees in the world won't change the fact that Nidal Malik Hasan just committed a TERRORIST ACT on our home soil. Shouting "Allaha Akbar" before mowing down unarmed people is an act of terror and mass murder just like the sorry little bast*rd at Virginia Tech a couple of years ago. Too bad no one was armed to smoke one of these a$$holes before they mowed down dozens of people. It's also too bad that one of his fellow Doctors didn't speak out a little more forcefully and demand a full investigation on this creep. I hope that haunts them the rest of their lives as well as any "intelligence" officer who passed on a chance to pull Pvt. Hasan in for a face to face. It might not have stopped this cowardly act but we'll never know now will we?
this New Age is bizarre, even educated smart Crazy Men should face their Day Of Reckoning..humanity is in for some ghastly surprises, who can you Trust ??..the fact of the matter is; NO ONE !!........
1.2, 1.4 restored, although:
I know this is off-topic, but where in the fifty states can you not say 'Merry Christmas'?
It was only a matter of time before someone would shift the focus from an inside terrorist job to promoting "strict gun regulations" and the typical anti-gun mentality. I enjoyed Chris speaking about how weapon restrictions should be increased even on military post in his words, "especially military locations"? The issue was not that the post had weak regulations on weapons, ammunition, or the storage of arms. It was a matter of a uniformed Officer approaching the main gates at the normal peek time hours. He had a Defense Department sticker which granted him access on post, he was in his normal duty uniform, and had a valid picture military ID. What else was the guard suppose to do? Not every vehicle can be thoroughly searched for most major post. 1 out of 10 may get searched and most of those are vehicles without DOD stickers or the person is not in the military and does not hold a valid military ID.
The person used the weapon was the criminal. What is more alarming is the fact that people like Chris are attempting to shift also public opinion and refuse to use the word, "terrorist" and rather make up any term or excuse for this person except what it is, "home grown terrorism." This guy may have snapped, lost it, went postal, whatever, but his actions were based on a specific change in his religious beliefs. He is a terrorist just like Timothy McVeigh was a home grown terrorist. One believed in Islam the other was a so called Christian.
For those who are not use to the workings or standard operating procedures of a military post, let me explain that you usually do not have a large contingent of Soldiers walking around post with loaded weapons at any given time. Soldiers are not free to walk into their unit's arms room and take a weapon out of the rack. It is a very strict procedure and usually ammo is not stored within the arms room except for a small amount for the protection during opening, movement, or security requirements. The first responders would have been the contracted armed security firm or Post Military Police. You do not normally have a Base Protection Force at the ready unless advance notice was published or if the entire military locations across the world had their defense posture raised to a higher level that would mean increased armed security.
This Major knew what he was doing and this was a planned assault. This was not a random act of violence but a pre-determined act with limited planning and observation involved. He sold his personal property (most of it), handed out several copies of the Quran in English translation (the investigators should review those versions of the Quran to see why style, writing, and or Islamic sect translated them, like an example could be a Wahhabist version Quran may focus more of extreme islam or use of accepted violence against non-believers).
He fired into a large staging area where Soldiers getting ready to deploy overseas receive their medical checks and screening. Packed tightly, standing in lines, and unarmed, this Major knew where to strike. He didnt seek out the rifle range during a live fire event, he choose the area where he knew these Soldiers were going to deploy to countries that are more Muslim then anything else.
Cut through the Politically Correct BS and just deal with the obvious, this guy choose the perverse beliefs of radical Islam and wanted to become a "martyr" for his own cause. Which means that this was an attack by a terrorist. Stop calling it something else. Wake up people.
Major Hassan's OER (Officer Evaluation Report) has not been thorougly discussed or shown on the various media outlets. OERs are usually given to the Officer in question every year or within a change in duty station, or rater for the evaluation. He would have had a Officer or equal or higher rank (he recently was promoted to Major so likely his last rater was a Major or LTC), a senior rater (LTC or COL) and a final reviewer (Colonel or above depending on his immediate chain of command or command structure of his last unit).
It gives the results or observations from his next in command (his boss) with comments on if this Officer rates things like a promotion, conduct, work relations, etc. Is the Officer capable of increased responsibility? What type of remarks were given from his last duty station?
There has been a lot of discussion from the media and people who have not served with the idea or comment: Why didnt we just kick him out of the service? Well, it is not a cut and dry type approach. A service member must be given some form of official notice of he/she failures and at least a method and time to improve any short comings. Questionable action must go through several routes as to determine whether a service member should be removed from active duty. There are many questions that are still unanswered and may never really be fully answered but the idea that Major Hassan could say something to the effect to promote Jihad and then automatically get kicked out of the US Army would not likely happen. Poor OER evaluations, poor work habits, visual anger or disagreement with standard US DOD policy, etc. The most likely course of action would be a formal request from his higher authority to resign his military commission, remove from active duty service, and remove from the inactive ready reserve listing.
But somewhere he fell through the cracks and ended up shooting his fellow Soldiers the same people he had sworn to protect, and serve, and medically treat.
Chris...concerning comment,
Wasn't there some Radical Islamic American soldier deployed overseas a few years ago (Akbar or something) who set off a bunch of grenades to kill his fellow American soldiers? You must be joking...stricter gun laws...on an Army base...where none of the slaughtered soldiers were armed? Guns don't kill...it's the Major murderer behind the gun who killed these service men and women. If anything, we could draw the opposite conclusion...had some of the officers who were present in that building been carrying their own gun, this fanatic may not have been able to harm as many...maybe the coward wouldn't have even tried it if he knew he might be gunned down before he even got a round off into the soldiers he was supposed to be serving. Please don't try to twist this into anything other than what it is...mass murder planned and executed by a Betraying Traitor and a COWARD.
Why put him on trial? Lets prop him up in his bed and shoot him point blank!
Gun control laws on military bases are some of the toughest I have ever seen. All weapons will be registered with military police/provost marshals office, appropriately stored and can not be concealed. So no - our rules concerning weapons on military bases are just fine the way we are.
Also, leave the military alone and stop trying to change our way of life - if you don't serve, haven't served or never plan to serve, I ask that you keep what you think about our rules and way of life to yourselves. Because for many of you out there, you have no military experience to base any judgement on.
Leave the management of our military to the generals and politicians who write the laws and pay the bills, theService Secretary's, and the President. I mean - hell, democrats and republicans have managed to screw the military up - and I mean monumentally screwed it up. Democrats and Republicans think the military is their personal little guinnea pig - a test bed for a multitude of things and those personal "social" tests are damaging the fabric of culture (defending the U.S. and it's citizens) and crap. We have enough to worry about - you know - like we're fighting in two countries 10,000 miles away! HELLO! So we don't need your help screwing it up any more.
Hassan is a terrorist and we should all be warned--our country has been attacked, and our govt failed to heed the warnings something was seriously wrong with this guy...any of us could be next
Homeland Security is an oxymoron!
could`nt agree with you more,this scum bag is a terrorist simple & plan , our military has been attacked on u. s. soil and our NEW GOVERMENT is brushing it under the rug. this time it`s on obama`s watch!
This is the M.O. of Obama's watch. It's written in his book.
Military intelligence is an oxymoron.
They knew what he was and what he was doing, and did nothing about it.
No wonder the US hasn't finished a war they were in since WWII.
Is he to be brought before a military tribunal? If so, can he be fairly tried? I think he needs to be provided a public defender and tried in the civilian court system, just like the Gitmo folks.
Barn: Now I don't see your name on this board.
This is all about TERRORISM in our own US Military. He should be getting the attention of our President and our Military. He was a Traitor, a Terrorist, a killer, and an Islamic devotee.
Yes, he should get all this attention.
Americans are fired up about how could this happen in our own Military on base? He is THE subject. Don't just gloss this one over. Your comments are very weak.
Of course, we all are traumatized by the deaths of these young US soldiers, and one unborn baby who protected our country exactly in the countries Hasan was fighting against. No he was not fighting against, but was one of the real Terrorists who infiltrated himself into a uncommon place, getting Top Secret Information, and spreading it to our enemy.
We are all very, very sad and our sympathies go out to the families of the dead, and the wounded. They made true sacrifices for us, and here they land upon US soil, getting killed by a comrade of theirs, because he is a piece of sh---------t.
You are much too passive. Passivity will get one into more trouble. Watch the nuke fly by Barn---it could be you.
The Death Penalty should be implemented, immediately, not the kind he thinks he's going to get with Allah. Kill him before he gets out of that hospital bed.
Bush is a terrorist!!!
Let's crucify him!!
Proof? 5000 killed in Iraq for Black Gold.
Rash Limbach is a terrorist by calling Skin Heads on Obama.
When will the right wing learn to LOVE THY NEIGHBOR? When their pockets are full!
GOP=NAZI
Our government is too busy appologising for our ways to notice this behavior. This is the way our current government wants us to act. We are a joke to the world and this will be an example. Obama will pardon him sit and have a few beers and send him back to ragheadville where he will be a hero. When people as where we are from americans are start to lie and say they are canadian, that is how bad this country is getting.
Alex when are you going get out of la la land and face reality? If Bush killed 5000 for "black gold" why are we still paying nearly $3.00 a gallon? By the way, if you are one of the 10.2% out of a job, I hear GMC (Government Motors) are looking for crash dummies in their test cars.
We, the board of commentors agree Hasan is an Islamic Terrorist.
Extremist? Went out and bought 50 cartons of orange juice this morning. Is that an Extremist?
Is a stripper an extremist for being a prostitute?
floyd-335513
Why?
Because Bush, Cheney, Rush Limbagh, Palin and McCain like USA Black Gold companies and did everything possible to raise the price of oil to $150 pbo.
remember XOM was making 6 bln /quater?
Well if all of you who seem to be open Obama Haters and openly accuse him of being of Islam, you all should be considered Terrorists as well and should be shot or hanged (its worse...a slooow choking suffering death.) making such availed threats to the President of the United States. Would that make you feel better? You are asking an eye for an eye. In most Middle Eastern Countries the population can't express the disgusting and bogus lies you all have about our Pres., in fact most of them treasonous statements on this website, about their Country's Leader. They would disappear and never be seen again.
The Absolute Hatred that I see written here about Pres. Obama, the First Lady and their Family, I was never even brought up to think about let alone write it publicly.
It is clear that our Country has spun backward way before WWI in expression of Hatred about difference and intolerance. Dumbing Down has worked since the Generations after the Vietnam War. It will take more than & 7 day/week school sessions to restore the IQ of America.
I am both Blessed and Thankful that when I was growing up, around the Dinner table we watched the breakthroughs of this Society. It has made my Generation more Intelligent, Compassionate, able to think with my entire brain because we only had three channels. We discussed the news as a family. We watched the First Rocket Launch into Space in School. We had the day off when Pres. JFK's Caisson was broadcast. We were eating Dinner when MLK,Jr. was shot; likewise when RFK was shot. We discussed these issues in class at school. No subject was forbidden. I am a better person for what I saw, discussed, learned about and that Religion, Color of Skin didn't make the person forbidden. Many of my Professional Colleagues are of the Muslim Faith and they and their families are kind and gentle people. In College I was Invited to a Mosque to pray with a friend. I visited a Carmelite Sanctuary to Pray. I have been Invited to a Shaker Chuch to Worship.
It takes Respect to be reciprocated. Those of you who criticize Barak Obama Clearly know NOTHING about him. He has read Sir Thomas Merton, Hildegaard VonBingen, Kalil Gibran, Siddhartha, Tecumseh, Read the King James version of the Bible three times, the Torah, the Kabbalah, and other great Spiritual Works for two years while in College. Can the same be said for any of you? Do ANY of you Know that Buddah, Jesus, and Muhammad ALL WALKED the SAME DIRT ROAD in PERSIA that is now called Iran that was known in the Bilble as Sumaria?
Do any of you know your History or do any of you even bother to take a look online at Religious History before you react and go off half cocked like terrorists yourselves? You think you really are no better than terrorists yourselves when you make these malicious hateful statements about our President like him or not. It makes you sound like gangland leaders and leaders of Hate Groups.
I earned my education on my own and have taken care of myself my entire adult life and take responsibility for my opinions. That's what responsible adults do. Most of you sound like you need to be placed behind bars yourselves and not even allowed out until you learn to behave like Human Beings.
Because he is intelligent, follows the Constitution of the United Stated to the letter of the Law, you all criticize him. First Lady Michelle Obama "Laughing and Smiling" at the placement of the Wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown? I don't think so. Where do you come up with this bogus information? If I published a Research Paper with such lies I would lose my License and be disgraced among the Health Care Community!
Umm....
How about the additional 30 counts of attempted murder, conspiracy to commit murder, treason, terrorism, etc.........
No "insanity" plea......Take him back to Ft. Hood, and let the soldiers deal with him at the shooting range.
I say, let him run the Gauntlet...with the whole 42,000 in the line.
Umm...............
How about we get the count correct. There were 14 murders NOT 13. One of the women was pregnant.
Excellent idea, and sadly ya, that idiot Obumma will probably side with him somehow since they are BOTH muslims, time for both of em to go. Hasan to executed somehow and Obumma impeached. I agree, there should be NO chance of an insanity plea, and with him being a head shrinker he can fool the docs unless he starts ranting about death to Americans or something, he deserves NO special treatment, just a time for his execution.
Jack, unfortunately this guy survived, so it will cost American taxpayers millions of dollars and years to convict him, and if he gets the death sentence, years more to go through till it's carried out. That's the sad part, we have to make sure his "rights" are not taken from him. It doesn't seem to matter about the victims rights anymore, does it.
I agree with you, he should be taken out and shot, preferably with bullets soaked in pig grease. Then bury him in a grave with pig guts, maybe that would make the next a**hole who wants to do this think twice.
Didn't anyone read the damn article?
They said "more counts could be coming."
This is not over; now, everyone, reach down and unbunch those panties.
The beauty of the UCMJ is it's simplicity all that has to be proved is that he pulled the trigger and killed the soldiers and civilian. He's a done deal and thanks to the efficiency of a court martial at a fraction of the cost of a civilian trial. Also a service member is not subject to the rules of "double jeapordy" so in the unlikely event a courts martial fails to get a conviction he can be tried in the great state of Texas. They love frying dirtbags so it's a win-win!!
Oh my goodness...I certainly hope we are not too "harsh" on him!! ....Hang the bastard !!
Peaceful ticking bomb
Yup!! I think the same thing just hang him. He's clearly the shooter no need for trial.
Too bad the consitution disagrees with you.
What's the difference, our government has been raping the constitution for years.
this morning on Today it was reported that all these people who worked with hasan had concerns but didn't say anything, fearing they would be discriminating. too bad he wasn't a white male christian, he would've been washed out long ago.
If he had yelled "Jesus Christ" before shooting, the ACLU would be all over him!
Speaking of the ACLU, I would not be surprised if they get in on the defence of this scum bag.
David, that would be par for the course!
Seriously? Did you just type that?
If he was "White" & "Christian" he'd have been washed out?
Well, then why would he have been killing folks? I thought everyone on Newsvine was under the impression this was all about him being a Muslim, and a terrorist?
Good god, make up your minds.
Onward Christian soldier.
John Jay
First Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court
Unto Him who is the author and giver of all good, I render sincere and humble thanks for His manifold and unmerited blessings, and especially for our redemption and salvation by His beloved son. He has been pleased to bless me with excellent parents, with a virtuous wife, and with worthy children. His protection has companied me through many eventful years, faithfully employed in the service of my country; His providence has not only conducted me to this tranquil situation but also given me abundant reason to be contented and thankful. Blessed be His holy name!
Will of John Jay
That's a nice unibrow. They should do really horrible things to this guy.
Anyone know the Army's protocol? Will they hang or execute Hasan by firing squad? By the way, both are too good for him.
It's available on-line. I searched under US Army Execution Protocol and found the instruction. Bad news.
Only the President of the US can order the execution and it's done by lethal injection.
Do I hear life sentence? (or less)
Maybe he will be sent to Gitmo for life...oh wait...
Why in the world would you assume President Obama would NOT approve of this man's execution? He most certainly ordered snipers to kill the Somali pirates.
Don't be ridiculous.
When I retired in 1980 after 20 years in the Army, the death penalty was by hanging. However I can't think of the last military member to be executed. Let's hope this guy is hanged and his trial be short. However, I will almost bet that he will get years to appeal and become a hero to radical muslim terrorists. This guy was a terrorist and I don't give a damn what Obama says, this was a terrorist act. He knew exactly what he was doing and why.
amfh,
This idiot will become a symbol to the muslim people and obama will not order the execution. obama is a muslim first, American second. He already stated that in his book, Audacity of hope. Look it up before you start ripping on me for ripping on your messiah.
JIM, now YOU are being ridiculous. That crap has been debunked over and over and over and over....http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/muslim.asp
And NO ONE calls the man a "messiah" except you rightwingnuts, mister.
JIM, when Obama signs the execution papers, you'll be convinced that it's just him covering up being Muslim. The point is, nothing Obama does will please you, so why even bother writing about it?
Jim, "obama is a muslim first, American second"
I'm not so sure about the "American second" part!
Evan,
If obama signs the execution papers he will most certainly gain favor in my opinion.
amfh,
What are you stating that has been debunked? There is a quote in his own book that states very clearly "if the political winds in this country change I will stand on the side of the muslims". Debunk that please.
amfh,
We weren't the ones that started attaching religious terms to Obama; it was your side.
Farrakhan calls Obama messiah:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9cRpS5mSq0
Oprah calls Obama The One:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYjyU25bW3Y
Children sing hymns about Obama:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTBq_ybkBmI&feature=related
Teenagers march and call Obama "Alpha and Omega"--Christ's title in the book of Revelation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2SmfJ_zIFM&feature=related
Women faint at Obama rallies:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=db3EdMk1AN4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3J4b-NWKYA&feature=related
Electing Obama will cause our oceans to stop rising and our planet to heal:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbbIQFcEhcQ
Saved the best for last--Evan Thomas of Newsweek says Obama is "sort of God":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37B_nOdRTAA
Glad to help educate you, Jim - here you go:
http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/did_obama_write_that_he_would_stand.html
Read the whole thing, but here's the answer to your specific lie:
A second false quote has Obama saying he would "stand with the Muslims," words that don't appear in his book. What he actually said is that he would stand with American immigrants from Pakistan or Arab countries should they be faced with something like the forced detention of Japanese-American families in World War II:
Obama did not say he would side with "the Muslims," which could easily be read as meaning he would side with the world's Muslim population even if it meant working outside the best interests of the United States. He said he would side with "them," referring back to his mention of immigrant communities and specifically to "Arab and Pakistani Americans." Furthermore, he was speaking of an "ugly direction" like the mass internment of Japanese Americans.
This false quote goes hand in hand with the equally false rumor that Obama is a Muslim.
Why in the world would you assume President Obama would NOT approve of this man's execution......... Because they are BOTH muslims and Obumma is a pu$$y and doesn't have the ballz to order an execution.
Fact check dot org. was set up by the liberals to twist the realities of our new leftist government. They can't even get the facts on obamas speech to the combined congress and senate on his new health reform. I listened to what obama said and he lied 4 times and they only counted one.
LOL, sickofit!!!
I don't give a rat's ass what Louis Farrakan has to say and I doubt President Obama does, either.
Oprah was quoting from the Diary of Miss Jean Pittman who asked "Are you the one?" regarding who would free her from slavery.
Singing "hymns"? No, singing campaign songs.
Alpha/Omega? Those boys were telling how Obama inspired them to become professionals and get an education. the religious conotation is YOURs.
My sister "fainted" at a Ricky Nelson concert in the late 1950's, too, lol.
Obama was giving an aspiration speech about how the US *could* rise up and help the world be a better place (LOL at that one!)
Evan Thomas was referring to the fact that the world is looking to Obama to make better decisions as the leader of the most powerful nation on earth and the choice of words was HIS, in a metaphorical sense!
never mind, you people are incapable of comprehending verbal nuances....<sigh>
Again, YOU guys are assigning "messiah" status wherever and with whatever weak "logic" you can dredge up.
Good bye, and best luck to you that you will one day be able to think critically and with a modicum of common sense.
Obama was born a Muslim. He went to a Muslim Mosque for education when he was a child. When did he convert? What did he convert to?
I really do not care if he is a Muslim by the way. I care more about the need to deceive and hide the truth. Obama claims to be religious. A religious person is always willing to say what they believe and what their faith is. They don't hide it. So what is the big deal - just say what you are. It is his own actions that cause all the rumors.
ToldYouSo: I should have known that was coming, your trying to discredit Fact check.org.
In FACT, the site is supported by the Walter Annenberg foundation.
Annenberg and his wife were close personal friends of Ronald and Nancy Reagan and served under both Richard Nixon and again in Reagan's administration. Read about him here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Annenberg
No, the FACT is that Fact Check.org calls lies lies, and truth truth for BOTH political parties.
Thank you for correcting him amfh, I was about to. Glad you did. If anything the Annenbergs were staunch conservatives.
The last military execution was 13 Apr 1961 - John A. Bennet for Rape and Attempted premeditated murder. President Eisenhower signed the execute order in 1957.
In July 2008, President Bush signed the execution of Ronald A. Gray for rape and murder. Execution was to take place in December 2008, but a Federal Judge signed a stay of execution to allow time for the appeal process. (He was convicted in 1987, the crimes took place in 1986 -1987).
In addition to Gray there are another 8 personnel on Death Row, 4 of which are waiting re-trial, re-sentence, or where court order reversal is pending. All 9 were convicted of premeditated murder or felony murder.
the image of our men and woman in uniform should not be tainted any further by pictures of hasan in uniform...the press needs to find an official picture of him as he truly is....a terrorist in his civilian clothes or muslim garb...
Whatever the outcome don't make a martyr of him with a firing squad or hanging...terrorists love death.
Yes, please no more pictures. The media is helping him become a martyr.
I'm sure someone can photoshop him into a sheet and a turban.
There is an security camera that captured Hasan in muslim garb the morning of the shooting. Also, a number of people have stated he often dressed in the muslim garb.
A sentence with Sharia Law in mind- Off with his Head. The government doesn't need to spend $20 million dollars on this. Use that for the survivors.
and now you like sharia
"and now you like sharia" by Salmann
Yes Sir. I like it for a man who screams "Allah Allah Akbar' as he is murdering my countryman while a member of the same United States Armed Forces. I sure do. He was living his life by it Salmann or do have a better excuse?
It should be 14 counts of murder, not 13. Let us not forget that one of the people he murdered was coming home because she was PREGNANT.
The general said this was "a kick in the gut." What is really a "kick in the gut" is knowing tax-payer money is being spent to keep him alive...and then kill him. He HAS to die for what he has done so why are we wasting money to put him up in a hospital??? That extra money could be more wisely spent...oh yeah, this is the government we're talking about!
Actually, its upholding the consitution.
Everyone has the right to a trial, no matter how vile the person may be.
We really don't want to start tampering with that.
Yeah, because we know the government hasn't tampered with the constitution yet. (insert sarcasm)
Now we are going to waste tons of money on a trial. Tie him to a stake in the middle of the desert and let him rot to death.
Next thing we will hear is we do not understand him or Muslims.
I understand clearly, they aree murdering cowards !
I do not believe the rumor that Obama has suggested a "beer summit " with Hasan and Ms. Hundley - the police officer that shot Hasan and prevented greater carnage.
No beer, because 'peaceful' muslims only drink non-alcoholic such as sweet tea and so on.
I wish that anyone who defends this guy would pack up and leave our country. I go to a liberal university (UNM) and I too often have to listen to people who defend this sort of person. They preach forgiveness and understanding when it comes to crimes committed against Americans, even when 45 people get shot, but when it comes to crimes committed by white males..... whoooooo doggy, that's a different story.
It's funny, I can look around today and know who would spit on soldiers where this still the Vietnam era. I know who would stand in front of returning troops and scream "baby killer". I have no respect for those people. NONE. If you did that back in the sixties, I wish you weren't around today. But some of them are, and some of them will undoubtedly post here in defense of this pig.
Let's flip this insanity around and see how it sounds another way.
You know who I feel sorry for? Those poor kids that killed Matthew Sheppard. How bad did the system have to fail them for them to take their out their fear and frustration on someone like that. Sure I feel sorry for the kid that died, but why were so many signs ignored, why didn't we get them the help they needed?
What a stupid argument. And when you defend Maj. Pig, that's exactly how you sound.
Earth to Admiral Sundown, NO ONE is defending this guy.
This is Ground Control to Admiral Sundown, you've really lost your head....
Hah. Funny.
Evan - no one?
Anyone who tries to say this guy was insane and refuses to admit he is a terrorist is defending him; and there are plenty who are, including the media.
Check the true facts. Matthew was killed in a robbery, not because of someone's fear and frustration for gays! Stop perpetuating lies. Did you want to help them learn how to rob without killing?
Evan, read the post two threads below this one. And if you haven't heard people defending him in the media and on the streets, as well right here on newsvine. I don't know what to tell you.
Sandy, the point is, cutting Matthew Sheppard's killers any slack, or defending them in any fashion is as absurd as attempting to defend Maj. Pig. I don't care why the murdered him, they are murderers who should be drowned in cat urine, just like Maj. Pig.
Sundown and Just My Thoughts,
Right now, the US Military is charging him with murder and calling him a murderer. Are you saying that they're "defending him?"
Yes. I'm saying that they are purposly avoiding the word TERRIORIST in defense of this TERRIORIST, themselves (for their lack of action), and the president - because he can't have a terror attack on his watch.
You sir, are completely nuts. But I know you're smart enough NEVER to say what you just said to someone in uniform.
Here's an idea. Why don't you stage a Tea Party outside Fort Hood. Let the US Military know how you REALLY feel.
Evan, you're being silly. Besides, we both know what you call the tea party participants in real life. (Besides bible thumper, gun nut, and racist; not that I blame you for hating the other side. I won't even bother to post what I call libs when I'm with my friends. If I did that, newsvine would delete my comment in a heartbeat.) By the way, I can't speak for anyone else on the matter, but what "just my thoughts" said, I would say to a uniformed service member myself.
When I wore the uniform on a daily basis, I had discussions with my coworkers on a daily basis about the reaon for the war, the importance of forgiveness, tgays in the military, foreign poilicy, and so on. Not everyone in the military agrees with one another, but I never saw a fist fight. At least I never saw military members strike one another, that is; striking idiot civilians is another story. I would say those things to someone in the military in a second, because I am on their side.
I served, I fulfilled my civic duty to the country I love, and I'm not afraid to speak my mind, even though it runs in direct contravention to what the media says much of the time.
Sundown, I'm right of center, fiscally conservative and socially liberal. I used to call myself a Republican until the Conservative party "reared its ugly head." Now I'm just independent.
Anyone who equates calling Hasan a "murderer" as "defending him" shoudn't even be given a serious thought. I know (as does everyone) that this guy is over and done with and likely to be executed. What makes me sick are the people like you, JustmyThoughts and AMFH trying to score political points over the bodies of dead soldiers. You should be ashamed of yourself.
Well Evan, that puts us in pretty much in the same boat politically I guess. You must realize that Hasan is unlikely to be executed as Obama would basically have to pull the trigger himself, and I think he is extremely unlikely to do so. Btw, the guy I quoted called him insane, not a murderer. I realize that the military is going to try him for murder, and that is the right thing to due. I believe in due process and true justice.
And, I'm not trying to score political points. If you were in front of me, I would have this conversation with you face to face, audience or not. I'm stating what I believe, behind this blanket of anonymity, just like you. Don't tell me to be ashamed of myself, I have nothing to be ashamed of.
Would it make any difference to you if I posted links of people defending him and/or blaming the American military for not stopping Maj. Pig?
I'm nuts, but the head of the army said that although this is a tragic event, the REAL TRAGEDY would be if we lost diversity in the armed forces.
Hmmm...diversity more important than human life.
Yeah, I'm nuts.
Furthermore - I didn't make this political. It was politics that created this entire situation. If we didn't have to be so damn politically correct, this guy would have been dishonorably discharged.
Did you know that the recently executed D.C. Sniper had been charged with striking an officer and going AWOL while serving in the LA National Guard, served time in the brig, and received an honorable discharge in 1985?
Cut the PC crap, call a spade a spade and go cry to your mother if you can't handle it. Our government and society are enabling people like this by letting them get away with more than the normal white guy because of their race, religion, etc. and it's bull. And you say I should be ashamed of myself?
I absolutely 100% support our men and women in uniform. It's the ones in charge that I am questioning and by doing so I am protecting AND supporting them. Your path of, just call him a murderer, does just the opposite.
Evan Gilchrest - I had NO intention of "scoring political points" with my posts.
Would you prefer no one respond to obvious lies and misinformation?
BTW, I, too, am a fiscal conservative and social liberal. I am also one who will not tolerate the continuing egregious lies spewed by the likes of some posters on this site.
Firing squad with bullets coated in lard, after his castration.
the military executes by lethal injection. Few sentenced to death by military have been executed, however. This guy isn't a terrorist - if he were, he'd face federal charges not military charges. He's just insane and the military was in such dire need of bodies doing the job he supposedly did that they did not want to wash him out.
Not a terrorist? Really? Seriously?
Is that what you have deduced from listening to the media?
amfh You are sooo wrong. This pig IS a terrorist ! He deserves the worst possible death, and immediately. No sympathy, no forgiveness, no life !!
Not MY opinion, but the military's. They have concluded he acted alone
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Authorities would have had more reason to take the case to federal court if they had found evidence Hasan acted with the support or training of a terrorist group, but investigators believe he acted alone, without outside direction.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091111/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_fort_hood_military_justice
Unfortunately, this monster will probably not get the death penalty. No one has been executed by the military for almost 50 years--the last was 1961. And, as commander in chief, the president would have to approve...how likely is that considering left wingers don't believe in the death penalty and Obama has already shown he is a Muslim sympathizer?
http://www.ksl.com/?nid=127&sid=8634183
This guy is a 100% pure certfied terrorist. He killed in the name of his religion. Same crap as 9/11. Anyone want to argue that fact?
amfh, you're trying to tell all of us that you have to be a part of an organized group to be a terrorist? That is a very naive point of view.
No, G. Rock, *I* am not trying to tell you anything. I did try to educate you as to what the MILITARY's opinion is at this point in time.
Argue with them about it if you wish.
amfh
Not MY opinion, but the military's. They have concluded he acted alone
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Yeah, like the military is holy grail of decision making.
I don't think our military could fight their way out of a paper bag if they were given a chain saw.
macaddict, you don't think our military could fight their way out of a paper bag?? I think you should go find some guys in uniform and tell them that. I would like to help mop the results off the floor.
macaddict I'd have loved to hear you pop off with that garbage in Mooresville, N.C. yesterday. You'd have gotten an a$$ whooping from three generations of veterans. Ever get your a$$ whooped by an 83 year old man? It would have happened there. Of course there would've been nothing left for us young 'un's by the time the 'Nam vets got done. You might want to start with the Coast Guard and work your way up. I'm betting you would be doing well to make it past them.
Just go ahead and give him a good dose of potassium chloride. As your pushing the drug into his IV drip, wrap him in bacon.
Don, that would be a waste of good bacon, but an IV drip of pigs blood would be perfect to send him on his way.
A few questions for those who might know..
I know that Texas civilian laws would be seeking the death penalty..
Does military law work the same way, where the state it is in determines if the death penalty apples or not?
Does the PotUS have any say so when he is found guilty as to if he is put to death or not? I think I read it somewhere that the only way you can be put to death in the Military is by the PotUS go ahead, but im not sure.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091111/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_fort_hood_military_justice
excerpt:
By MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press Writer Mark Sherman, Associated Press Writer – Wed Nov 11, 6:09 pm ET
WASHINGTON – Though the suspect in the shooting rampage at Fort Hood could face the death penalty, he will be prosecuted in a military justice system where no one has been executed in nearly a half-century.
Maj. Nidal Hasan, the Army psychiatrist alleged to have killed 13 people at the massive Army installation in Texas last week, might also benefit from protections the military provides defendants that are greater than those offered in civilian federal courts.
"Our military justice system is not bloodthirsty. That's clear," said Eugene R. Fidell, who teaches military law at Yale.
Much about Hasan's case will be decided by a senior Army officer — perhaps Lt. Gen. Robert Cone, Fort Hood's commander — including whether to seek the death penalty and, in the event Hasan is convicted of capital murder, whether to commute a possible death sentence to life in prison.
Before a military execution can be carried out, the president must personally approve.
George W. Bush signed an execution order last year for a former Army cook who was convicted of multiple rapes and murders in the 1980s, but a federal judge has stayed that order to allow for a new round of appeals in federal court. There hasn't been a military execution since 1961, though five men sit on the military's death row at Fort Leavenworth, Kan.
Federal civilian executions also are rare. Three men, including Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, have been killed by lethal injection in federal cases since 2001. Death penalties carried out by states are more common — Tuesday night's execution of John Allen Muhammad in the Washington, D.C., sniper case was Virginia's second of the year.
In the Fort Hood case, Hasan's family has hired a private attorney, John Galligan, although the military also will provide a lawyer at no charge. Galligan said that he and Maj. Christopher E. Martin, Fort Hood's senior defense attorney, spoke with Hasan on Monday and that Hasan had requested a lawyer when first approached by investigators.
Experts in the military justice system said the decision to prosecute Hasan in military court, revealed Monday by officials involved in the investigation, appears clear cut.
The shootings took place on an Army base. The suspect is an Army officer and all but one of those killed also were officers or enlisted personnel. The other person who was killed worked at Fort Hood.
Authorities would have had more reason to take the case to federal court if they had found evidence Hasan acted with the support or training of a terrorist group, but investigators believe he acted alone, without outside direction.
The military system operates under rules that are similar to those in civilian courts. The differences generally give military defendants more rights than their civilian counterparts.
I don't think Obama will intervene in a death penalty case like this. He said at Fort Hood that Hasan will find justice in this world and the next. I don't think BHO is against the death penalty in mass murder cases. He has, in fact, gone on record about being kind of tough about this kind of thing. Obama haters can rant and rave and act like fools all they want but this Hasan is already a dead man walking.
One can hope that Obama will sign off on the death order when he is found guilty.
That will be 2 things I can give the man credit for. The 1st giving the order to shoot the pirates to save Cptn whats his name.
The rest of what the man has done in office greatly disappoints me.
Wasn't one of the victims "with child"? That would mean 14 murders, not 13.
Good point.
Depends on pro-choice or pro-life perspective, but that shouldn't matter here.
I would imagine that the woman wanted to keep her child.
If the fetus could still be terminated legally, not sure why it would count in the murder count. Even with 1 less, there's still enough for executing him (barring complete incompetence from the prosecution).
It should count in the overall murder count out of respect to the family. By all accounts, they were excited about the baby, so in their minds, the baby was part of the family already. It's the respectful thing to do.
fetus = scientific
child=human
However respectful it may be, it's not consistent. Consistency in application of the law is a good thing no matter how much it hurts.
Maybe it varies by state, but there are cases in which the killing of a pregnant woman and her child resulted in two murder charges. Agree that the law (in this case the Uniform Code of Military Justice) will determine what happens here.
Given the low respect for life in our society, recognizing the killing of the unborn baby would be a simple yet decent thing to do.
I agree he should be charged with 2 deaths in the case of the pregnant woman but 1 is good to get him the juice. He's got a dozen more. The only possible way I see him surviving is by the President commuting his sentence to life at the end of his term. I see that as highly unlikely. He made the President look bad and that's not something you really want to do to a Chicago politician. I see him frying in about 5 or 6 years.
I think you are all jumping to conclusions. Isn't it really society's fault that this man was distraut and caused him to take these actions? Didn't John Roberts say on CNN that he has heard many stories of Muslims being made fun of by their peers in the military? I think we should focus less on punishing him than rehabilitating society. Let's have a national debate on inclusiveness (Obama can call a summit for a teachable moment). Also, was it really fair for the military to subject him to the grueling task of having to listen to the plights of other soldiers who have returned from a war zone? How can all of you blame him without understanding his hardships????
LOL
Yes, the army "acted stupidly" by shooting back at this guy.
I hope you are being sarcastic
That is a shallow argument that avoids personal responsibility! Just because people give you a hard time in no way gives you no right to kill 13 people. This man is a premeditated terrorist that had numerous red flags but do to our PC attitude was allowed to continue to serve in the greatest military in the world. He needs to be made an example of!
Out,
Yes the army did act stupidly by shooting at him. They could have killed him. Not sure I want him dead. Perhaps working and playing with the general prison population in a max security prison may be a better result, if you know what I mean. (problem is there are reports of these types converting prisoners to Islam)
sarcasm correct ?? if not please un-plug the pc.
Of course it's sarcasm. But I think it says a lot about newsvine that someone could post something like this as an obvious joke, and there are enough legitimate similar threads to warrant a second look.
Don't be too hard on the newsviners who can't detect sarcasm. It's guys like the above who make trolling this site so damn easy.
There are a lot of conflicted people who don't go out and blow 13 people away and wound 30 others. Mental distress is not a reason for killing.
Ron..are you for real?
Karen,
I agree, mental illness should never be used as a defense for murder.
If you are that ill, you need to be locked away for the rest of your life.
I agree. If mental illness or retardation was a valid defense in Texas, no texan would ever be executed.
Welfare--
and im sure most Texas would say the same thing about whatever state you are in.
"Allaha Akbar" screamed at the start of his massacre (is how I can blame him). Of course maybe there was ham or pepperoni on his last pizza delivered??
I would first start by shoving a fire hose up his a$$ and giving him a ginormus enima. Then maybe tie a rope around his nads and attach it to a horse and say giddy up! And that is just the beginning.
Of course this was premeditated!!! It was premeditated a couple thousand years ago or so.
The real story is why Obama is covering up the fact that US intelligence under Obama's orders let this terrorist communicate with Al-Qaida and plan his attack.
We need a Nixon-style investigation of Obama’s roll in this.
another born again idiot birther who is begging for a teagaging
Under Obama's orders to let this person communicate with Al-Qaida? Really? Investigate Obama's role in this? What is your source of information? Twitter? Facebook? The republican inquirer? Please provide your source so I can research it and educate myself.
I think that much of his government training was under Bush's administration, so who should we blame, Obama? This guy was passed up for investigation for years.
In case you idiots don't know it
1. US intelligence and the military work for Obama
2. Obama now says “Let’s don’t jump to conclusions about any terrorist issues”
3. This terrorist was heard by witnesses to shout “God is Great” – same as the 9/11 terrorist
4. Obama has officially said “there is no war with terrorist”
Maybe you idiots are also terroritsts
Steve C - whatever your opion, I'd appreciate you not slamming "born again"s. Don't lump us all together please.
George, "The real story is why Obama is covering up the fact that US intelligence under Obama's orders let this terrorist communicate with Al-Qaida and plan his attack."
If so, a smart reporter will find the facts! Hopefully soon!
Honest - Most of the US media is in bed with the terrorists.
and the 2 of you are in bed with idiocy.
what roll - roll of what - roll of of what