[DanMiller]

We may have to wait a long time for Major Hasan to be convicted and sentenced, and then for the appeals to end. If justice prevails, the wait will have been worth it. If it does not, there is something seriously wrong with the manner in which a very good system of justice is now administered.

[Vendome]

He gets to keep his beard?

Why doesn’t he get to keep his hair?

Either way I’d be satisfied to see his head on fence post....

[Nachum]

Shave his face with a laser.

[snowstorm12]

They should’ve just shot many more times to make sure he didn’t live.

[satan]

Is it any wonder that we can no longer win a war?

[null and void]

Obama gets to keep his beard as well...

[Robe]

Now you know why Shakespear said (from the play Henry lV) “ First thing we do, is kill all the lawyers. “

[bigbob]

keep the beard, lose the pulse - works for me

[Future Snake Eater]

I’m trying to figure out if the military “justice” system is this easily played by any mass murderer or only if the murderer’s a haji?

[DesertRhino]

I’m cool with it. Use his refusal to shave as evidence of his devotion to the most radical sect of Islam. Use the stupid beard as evidence to help execute him.

[factoryrat]

Close off all access to Ft. Hood, drop Mr. Hasan in the middle of Ft. Hood with the stipulation that if he can escape, he gets to live. That's judgment by ones peers.

[mass55th]

Hasan’s playing the system...and winning. I hope he chokes to death and saves the taxpayers a whole lot of money and time.

[I want the USA back]

The beard is a distraction. The gov is all too happy to delay this travesty. The longer they delay, the more people forget what the bearded savage did.

[cruise_missile]

The fact that they are trying him on “Work Place Violence” pretty much means his punishment will be less than if they tried him on a domestic terrorist charge. Such as what Timothy McVeigh was tried on.

Keep the beard. It makes him look more like a terrorist jihadist.

[I want the USA back]

Bearded savages are lower than bacteria that eat dead dung beetles.

[chainsaw]

The important thing is to give him a fair trial where all of the relevant and clearly admissible evidence is considered, for the court to decide on his guilt or innocence and, if found guilty, to impose appropriate punishment.

But, how can that be? I suspect a ruling will come down that a military court has no authority over him because he is muslim, and therefor not subject to the UCMJ.

[hattend]

I can’t believe somebody hasn’t laced this asshole’s catheter with something lethal.

[waredbird]

Perhaps I have been retired from the military too long but in my day Hasan would have been counseled by his CO that he was in violation of regulation grooming standards. If he didn’t conform then there would ensue a escalating set of punishments including forfeiture of pay, Article 15 punishments, Court Marshall, and dismissal from the Army.

The only reason I can think of this not happening is that this course of action was taken away from the Court Marshall convening authority, the commanding general at Ft Hood. Guesses?

[M Kehoe]

Hasan, like many (i.e. Nasrallah, al-Sadr, Rachman...), aren't dead yet. Nor is Bradley Manning, the Walkers, and Pollard to name a few.

We have the means, but not the will. And the SCM (state controlled media) blames the "gun culture," or "machismo." Add public school education for the masses, our national debt, and we're done, toast.

5.56mm

[Above My Pay Grade]

I like the idea of him keeping his beard. I think it is important that rather than him being viewed as a member of the U.S. Military who snapped and was a “victim of our gun culture”, the beard will help demonstrate that he committed his murders in the name of the “religion of peace and tolerance”.

[Menehune56]

Why can’t Hasan’s refusal to obey a military order just be added to the charges against him?