The Ft. Hood Killer - Guilty But Not Evil

Psychology Today ^ | November 7, 2009 | Mark Goulston

[Zman516]

"...to understand how and why and when Major Hasan did what he did and what if anything we can learn to prevent this from ever happening again."

No mystery here. Hasan did it because he is a radical Islamist terrorist, and proud to let everyone know it. We prevent it from happening again by killing radical Islamist terrorists wherever we find them.

Am I going too fast for you, Goulston?

[pacpam]

If religious fanaticism can make you a sick person, then I agree - he was sick.

[maine-iac7]

I can't conceive how anyone would think anything else if they have held a newborn baby.

Amen.

I've held a lot, including 5 of my own and 15 grandchildren...

[potlatch]

It will go as the government wants it to go I think. Texas would do a better job!

[john in springfield]

What an absolute pantload. Post-traumatic stress disorder in someone who was never even deployed? Who sat in a freakin' office? Give me a freakin' break. And he supposedly "avoided retraumatization" by taking a gun, shooting more than 40 people and subjecting himself to being filled full of lead himself? That's got to be just about the stupidest damn thing I've ever read.

See my tagline for more.

[ColdWater]

I've held a lot, including 5 of my own and 15 grandchildren...

Oh my goodness!

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

Fort Hood and 13 families have a boo-boo. And poor Hasan is unfairly maligned.

The world has turned upside down. They are not focusing on the fallen or their families. They are not focusing on the toll this will take for all who were at Fort Hood that day. Everytime a tragedy such as this happens, the MSM spends a considerable amount of time on the victims. Other than releasing their names with a short blurb, they have ignored them.

They are focusing on the POS Islamic Terrorist.

I have read 1 article concerning the reaction of 2 families. Besides grief, they expressed anger. Anger that deserves to be recognized.

The media does not want to go there. They have and will continue to avoid going there. My guess is it will be the local outlets that speak the truth about how the families feel.

[potlatch]

Did you see my reply to you?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2381853/posts?page=88#88

[Sergeant Tim]

“But he was a very sick person who did a terrible thing.”

That is a definitive statement lacking evidence to support it.

I submit there certifiably sane people in this world who do evil things, just as there are mentally ill people who do evil things; both are dangerous towards civil society yet the latter lack willful intent.

[Stayfree]

Major Nidal Malik Hasan was not a bad person. He was even possibly a good person. But he was a very sick person who did a terrible thing.

Yeah, right and Islam is good because it reduces world strife by killing off anyone who opposes it...a little harsh by modern standards, but effective by dark age standards. In contrast, Christianity teaches peace, loving and forgiveness, and even believes in saving atheists from themselves rather than killing them.

[Stayfree]

Major Nidal Malik Hasan was not a bad person. He was even possibly a good person. But he was a very sick person who did a terrible thing.

Yeah, right and Islam is good because it reduces world strife by killing off anyone who opposes it...a little harsh by modern standards, but effective by dark age standards. In contrast, Christianity teaches peace, loving and forgiveness, and even believes in saving atheists from themselves rather than killing them.

[airborne]

This should have a “projectile vomiting barf alert” warning on it!

[Parmy]

This psychiatrist is ‘loosy goosy’. Psychology is ‘loosy goosy’. I speak as one who is just short of a major in psychology. As far as this shooter is concerned, his motivation doesn’t matter, just his actions.

[LouD]

Yes, I'm sure Major Hasan saw lots of combat as a member of the fightin' psychiatric corps... Resulting in the first ever case of PRE-Traumatic Stress Disorder.

[maine-iac7]

yes = just damn

[doug from upland]

I told it like it is here. We are at war with Islam, which is evil.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2381656/posts

[Post Toasties]

In his ‘defense’, the author of this piece probably would have insisted that Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin weren’t evil either - just emotionally damaged products of their environments.

[TeleStraightShooter]

I concur.

I doubt the author of this barf alert even realized that by extension, he is in fact labeling militant Islam as a sickness.

[sanjoaquinvalley]

One psychiatrist (the writer) covering the rear of another psychiatrist (the shooter).

[Boucheau]

Sometimes I think that the best thing that could happen to us is to be attacked by a foreign enemy.

But I’m sure they have caught on that their cousins, democRATS, are doing just fine without them.

If they pass this health care bill and/or cap ‘n trade, and Americans don’t take to the streets, I’m done with the whole mess.

I cannot take the false starts, the aching to fight while watching Americans DO F**KING NOTHING!

If they aren’t going to fight this then I will mourn the loss of my country to the hard-left and withdraw to tending to my family ONLY.

I will view Democrats as my sworn enemies until I die and will not pass up an opportunity to undermine any one of them, in business, or in my personal life. They are CLEARLY out to do harm to me, and more importantly, my family. They are not my equal, and they are no longer Americans in my book.

If Americans don’t fight like their lives depend on it then there is no more hope for the founders’ ideas.

At that point, Americans will get what they deserve.