Posted on 11/06/2019 4:52:16 AM PST by Kaslin
Vice President Mike Pence deserves praise for not only remembering the national horror but also personally showing up and speaking out at Fort Hood, Texas, the scene of the Nov. 5, 2009, terrorist massacre that killed 13 American soldiers and citizens.
It has been a decade since that terrorist attack on U.S. soil by a self-identified Islamic terrorist and American traitor. Ten years on and only a damnable trickle of mainstream media bother to reflect on this horror. In terms of mainstream printers, TV images and internet pixels, this savage outrage has been ... briefly mentioned, barely touched.
For the record, the terrorist who perpetrated the massacre is still alive, on death row in the Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, military prison.
We return to the VP's remarks. Pence began his Oct. 29 speech by thanking the military crowd, overwhelmingly composed of active duty personnel, for its service and applauding the Fort Hood-headquartered U.S. Army III Corps for its "critical role in the global war on terror." He commended the recent elimination of Islamic State group terrorist commander Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and stated what is obvious to all but the most politically, morally and propaganda-benighted humans on our planet: The fight against terrorism continues.
Honest souls will acknowledge Pence's intro remarks were apt given the moment, the venue and the young Americans in uniform who put their life at risk on behalf of other Americans.
Pence then confronted the horror: "(T)he heroes of Fort Hood have ... paid the last full measure of devotion on foreign fields of battle. And as the nation will pause to remember next week, 10 years ago, on November 5, terror struck at the heart of this base when a former Army psychiatrist opened fire inside the Soldier Readiness Center, claiming the lives of 13 extraordinary Americans. When I arrived last night, I ... paid my respects at the Fort Hood November 5 Memorial. I walked by the columns dedicated ... to the 13 men and women who fell that day. And I was deeply moved -- moved by the tributes to all of those that were lost."
Former Army major and psychiatrist Nidal Malik Hasan made Fort Hood a domestic battlefield. He killed 13 people and wounded over 30 more before a policeman wounded him. Fourteen dead is arguably a more accurate toll, since the unborn child of a pregnant victim died when she died. This is a forensic fact.
What spurred Hasan's treason? From the get-go, non-benighted humans identified Islamic jihadi ideology as the psycho-political insanity guiding his crime. Hasan had known contact with terrorist recruiter Anwar al-Awlaki. But the FBI did not investigate the warnings signaling Hasan's Islamic conversion. An official who recommended the FBI investigate was told an interview was "politically sensitive."
Really? Sensitive to whom?
Answer: the boss of the FBI, then-President Barack Obama. Obama initially called the Fort Hood attack "tragic events" and "violence in the workplace." Words matter. Obama insistently ignored evidence indicating that violent Islamic dogma spurred Hasan. It took Obama six years -- till 2015, well after the 2012 election -- to call the massacre a terrorist attack on U.S. soil.
Obama decided his political survival trumped the welfare of the soldiers he commanded.
Harsh? Deserved historical judgment. In 2011, the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs called Fort Hood "the deadliest terrorist attack within the United States since September 11, 2001."
In 2017, Hasan wrote that everyone opposing the Afghan Taliban's establishment of "Sharia (God's) Law" as supreme law and seeking to replace it with something "like a democracy that doesn't rule by God's law" were "the enemies of God" and worth killing.
The global war on terror isn't over. Obama declared in 2009 that the war on terror had become a "contingency operation." What a fraud. President Trump despises endless wars, but wars aren't over until the enemy is defeated.
Pence's praise for American military members is so pertinent. "(T)he truth is," he told Fort Hood's soldiers, "you've stepped forward in a calling where you've decided to count our lives as more important than your own."
That's guidance for a thankful prayer on Veterans Day, Nov. 11.
Absurd that on an army post nobody had a gun handy to stop the shooter.
That's because safety is their number one job.
Actually, 14 were killed cause one female soldier was pregnant. The baby died. But they never mention this little KIA, since unborn babies are not classified as humans.
Aside from security men at arms is up to the base commander. Only recently troops who obtained a CCW permit are allowed to carry on base, but not civilians.
When is his death sentence going to be carried out?
That is what I want to know too. He should have been facing Satan long ago.
Thanks for the post.
He came, He killed, He’s ALIVE.
In military cases, there are several mandatory appeal stages and a military death sentence requires final approval by the president, as commander in chief.
Despite the expected delays, survivors of the shooting welcomed the verdict. According to news reports, Kathy Platoni, an Army reservist, said: “From the bottom of my heart — he doesn’t deserve to live. I don’t know how long it takes for a death sentence to be carried out, but the world will be a better place without him.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nidal_Hasan
What say you dubya, Cruz, Gohmert? Yeah, that’s what I thought.
OOPS did someone say justice?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otpyDFCPozo
The military hasn't executed anyone since 1961, and most likely will not execute Hassan.
Hassan called for his own execution, and he was sentenced to death, but that would make a martyr of him and that is what he wants.
Better to let him rot in jail humiliated for the rest of his life with Bubba the Gay Nurse having to clean him up every day.
Bubba also forcibly shaves off Hasan’s Islamic beard every day.
How can we forget General George Casey? From Reuters:
General George Casey, the Army’s top officer, is concerned that diversity will become a casualty of the Fort Hood tragedy.
TEXAS-SHOOTING/The religious beliefs of suspect Major Nidal Malik Hasan, a Muslim Army psychiatrist, have led to speculation about motive in the shooting rampage that killed 13 people.
“I’m concerned that this increased speculation could cause a backlash against some of our Muslim soldiers. And I’ve asked our Army leaders to be on the lookout for that,” Casey told CNN’s “State of the Union.”
Asked on NBC’s “Meet the Press” whether Muslim soldiers are conflicted in fighting wars in Muslim countries like Afghanistan and Iraq, Casey said: “I think that’s something that we have to look at on an individual basis. But I think we as an Army have to be broad enough to bring in people from all walks of life.”
The bottom line is the military benefits from diversity, he said.
“Our diversity, not only in our Army, but in our country, is a strength. And: AS HORRIFIC AS THIS TRAGEDY WAS, IF OUR DIVERSITY BECOMES A CASUALTY, I THINK THAT’S WORSE(A Tragedy)” Casey said.
Get that. “Diversity” is worth MORE to Casey than 13 Dead(12 Soldiers and one civilian) and 30 wounded soldiers.
General Casey is/was an ABSOLUTE disgrace in this situation. He is/was your typical DC Swamp Soldier. Totally disconnected from REAL soldiers.
When will
Hasan be EXECUTED?
About the same time they execute Khalil Sheikh Muhammad.
Meanwhile, let ‘em rot.
Right after the IG report.
This situation that happened at Fort Hood should have been resolved a long time ago, but certain politicians have been so busily occupied with trying to remove a legally elected president & other trivia....they just haven’t had the time. Of course, the major media is no help either.
A measure of how far we’ve lost the republic. Who stands for the murderers of innocent life?
This was the comment that sparked that meme....
“Our diversity, not only in our Army, but in our country, is a strength. And as horrific as this tragedy was, if our diversity becomes a casualty, I think that’s worse.”
Gen. George Casey
Comments BUMP!
Administer justice “government”.
List of grievances:
1) War (especially undeclared)
2) Debt slavery https://usdebtclock.org
3) Aiding and abetting invaders who harm our citizens...
4) Allowing a stealth jihadi to murder American service members at Ft. Hood and not administer justice.
5) POS anti-American politicians
100) (Your list may vary)
That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Disgusting
“that would make a martyr of him.”
That’s the same faulty logic that kept Bush from killing Muqtada al-Sadr in Iraq when he wanted to. Al Sadr is still causing trouble to this day. Better to kill them & not let anyone know what happened to their body.
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