Posted on 11/07/2009 5:27:53 AM PST by gusopol3
President Obama says "we cannot fully know" what led Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan to kill 13 people and wound 38 others at Fort Hood, Texas Thursday.
Hasan reportedly shouted "Allahu Akbar!" before the killings, wrote Internet postings justifying Muslim suicide bombings, considered U.S. forces the enemy, and opposed American involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan as wars on Islam. His rampage at Ft. Hood has the markings of an act of Islamic terrorism.
But in his weekly address, Obama says, "We cannot fully know what leads a man to do such a thing."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
has anyone seen a list of the wounded/kia? rumor has it he was targeting women specifically? anyone know any scuttlebutt on that?
That picture literally makes me sick to my stomach. That nausea is only enhanced by his recent words about the tragedy.
Gee, I miss Clinton even.
It is time to apply Acham’s Razor.
Don’t take common sense and turn it into nonsense.
Ah, yes, BO and the MSM, among the ususal PC suspects, are of the belief that America’s collective tongue wasn’t far enough up the shooter’s rectum. That’s the ticket.
The real American men and women of the armed services need to rise up as one and say NO F*****ING MORE of this BS.
I wish to God I ran the show—I’d post a sentry in Dr. Malik Hasan Scumbag’s hospital room and order the guard to switch his ventilator on and off all night 30 seconds on-1 min. off. In the morning, I’d cram a pound of sliced deli ham down Hasan’s throat and beat him with a bat. Then I’d wrap his carcass in bacon and dump it off in the parking lot of the nearest mosque.
The sick in soul insist that it is humanity that is sick, and they are the surgeons to operate on it. They want to turn the world into a sickroom. And once they get humanity strapped to the operating table, they operate on it with an ax.
People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a "have" type of self. It says: leave me alone and I shall grow, learn, and realize my capacities. The desire for power is basically an attribute of a "have not" type of self.
The real "haves" are they who can acquire freedom, self-confidence, and even riches without depriving others of them. They acquire all of these by developing and applying their potentialities. On the other hand, the real "have nots" are they who cannot have aught except by depriving others of it. They can feel free only by diminishing the freedom of others, self-confident by spreading fear and dependence among others, and rich by making others poor.
I doubt if the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and for power -- power to oppress others. The oppressed want above all to imitate their oppressors; they want to retaliate.
To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth. Though it is held before our eyes, pushed under our noses, rammed down our throats -- we know it not.
Those who lack the capacity to achieve much in an atmosphere of freedom will clamor for power.
Unless a man has talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden. Of what avail is freedom to choose if the self be ineffectual? We join a mass movement to escape individual responsibility, or, in the words of the ardent young Nazi, "to be free from freedom".
To some, freedom means the opportunity to do what they want to do; to most it means not to do what they do not want to do. It is perhaps true that those who can grow will feel free under any condition.
Sure we can.........ISLAM!
That photo infuriates me too, and it is a microcosm of the lying usurper’s term as muzlim in chief.
What, exactly, is the purpose of this statement, other than to whitewash the fact that Hasan was a dedicated jihadist.
What I do fully know is that I’m tired of the PC police lying to me.
If I wasn’t totally disgusted with this nonsense, I’d laugh out loud.
The longshoreman philosopher; do you have a link by any chance ?
Islam is as Islam does.....
Excellent analysis. With one sentence, you summed it up perfectly.
I think it's very instructive that he wanted/needed to make this particular point overtly--got to quell any bad thoughts about Islam. A truly presidential person would have taken the opportunity to comfort and inspire. Just avoid any comment about Hasan's motivation and confine remarks to condemning the action, honoring the fallen, praising the heroes, and extending sympathy to the bereaved. But Obama doesn't have that in him to lead by example.
There's always the ever-present judgmental tone. Everything is always punctuated with some sort of knuckle-smacking. So typical of persons whose self-worth lies only in the constant demonstration of how others fall short.
Actually, I put together several different quotes from different sources for an old post and just re-posted it.
Here’s a few good sources:
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/e/eric_hoffer.html
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Eric_Hoffer/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Hoffer
My own favorite Hoffer books are The True Believer and Between the Devil and the Dragon-a compilation of his writings. They should be especially mandatory reading in this day and age.
Here is the FR post from last night
Lt Col Peters speaks the truth w/o reservation...
Had the shooter yelled “Go to hell you N*gger” or “Die you jew b*stard”, finally “Go live in hell you f&ggot” we would have known “fully” what the motive was. But since it was a muslim, yelling a familiar phrase that suicide terrorists yell, or head lopping off terrorists, some how it’s a mystery.
I might get flamed for this; but here I go.
There is much about George W. Bush to be admired. I thank God that he won the office twice; and neither Gore nor Kerry succeeded in stealing the election.
However (you knew that was coming), he stood up before the American people and called Islam “The Religion of Peace.”
When articles about Islamofacists appear on FR, one popular key word is “ROP.” It began as a mocking reference to the “Religion of Peace” speech.
Alright, fire at will.
Thanks! I thought it was him...given his history on FNC.
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