Posted on 04/03/2014 8:25:09 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
They already do. At least Kelly’s explaining her reasoning and the principles behind her decision.
I read that he was in a special brigade at Ft. Hood for “transitioning” soldiers either into civilian life, or back into active service. That sounded to me like it was a special unit for those with PTSD or similar issues.
It matters to the next nutjob seeing the publicity and imagining his own name in lights.
Probably doesn’t want to upset Muslims
BS She’s tough on muslims.
“A free people must have a free press.”
We’ve got one. If you want to start your own news show blaring the shooter’s name, you are free to do so.
“Are you talking about Ivan Lopez or the thousands of black teens accross the country playing the knockout game?”
The big difference there is that the black teens are not committing those crimes seeking fame and public recognition. In fact, that’s probably the last thing they want. So, not naming those criminals does nothing to reduce the possibility of any future attacks.
In the case of mass killers, it very well might.
I don’t blame her one bit...Its her show, she has made a decision on this particular issue, and her logic is sound...
SHE IS NOT THE STORY!!!
The story is the murders committed by this coward who decided, very concisely, to take those lives, and when he was confronted, he took the cowards way out...
I have ZERO sympathy for him...
I do not care what the manufactured excuse is...This guy couldn’t handle whatever it was in the service to this country for whatever reason...He made the decision to deal with it in a cowardly manner...
What people need to know is there are more just like him right now in our armed forces...They may not be clinically diagnosed with this PTSD tag...And that is what makes them more dangerous...
What are the solutions???
Obviously the measures taken after the first shooting at Ft. Hood were implemented, didn’t work worth a damn...And since then we have had a few more in other facilities...
How’s all that PC crap working out for this issue???
Not too good if you ask me...
It used to be we took care of our own...And only gave them enough responsibility to maintain a little functionality in the unit or command until they improved, or by evaluation discharged, or not recommended for retention...
It used to be a lot easier back in the day...
Now, due to the social engineering practices by the civilian authority and political expediencies of the moment, the armed services are subjected to all sorts of distractions and policies that are detrimental to unit cohesion and morale...
This is a prime example of political correctness gone amok...And it cost lives, again...
I do not buy into this new definition and jump to conclusions made by the mental health community that is way too quick to slap a label on combat or service related stress, and medicate it into submission...
That IS another cop out that has been way too widely accepted by our population, and it needs to be reigned in and less liberally applied in these cases...
That is not to say there are not serious problems incurred by some service members...
The VA, and the mental health community are not doing due diligence on this issue, and they should be held accountable and begin to immediately re-evaluate their diagnosis procedures, and methods of treatment instead of prescribing these psychotropic drugs that some who understand what they do to people, in some cases making the mild cases much worse and more dangerous to the public, than conventional therapy, and direct peer support and understanding...
This is just my opinion...And I am unapologetic about my position...
Very well put, stevie_d_64!
Depends on when you are driving a truck.
My son drove his 12-1/2 ton truck, loaded with bridging equipment, 750 miles from Kuwait to Balad Air Force base in March/early April, 2003 as part of the 3rd ID 100 mile long invasion column.
While he was not attacked, other trucks were by Iraqi fedeyeen forces (and were slaughtered by our guys who were wearing night vision goggles). This took place during one of the worst sandstorms of the century which turned everything blood red and black.
My son had to stand guard on top of his truck for many hours, trying to spot attacking infiltrators, all the while being scoured by the massive sandstorm that lasted for days.
Then he had to unload his equipment at the Euphrates River, control a briding boat (that holds the Ribbon Bridge units in place against a downflowing river), while under enemy fire. The 299th Army (Reserve) MRB Company of Ft. Belvoir, Va. earned a Presidential Unit Citation for their combined assault on Iraqi positions (with the 54th Ordance Company) on the eastern banks of the Euphrates as well as for putting up the first Ribbon Bridge in combat.
Then my son got back into his truck, took it across the river, dismounted, and conducted checkpoint operations, sniper suppression counterfire (M249 SAW), helped to capture hundreds of Iraqi Regular troops/disarm them, and take them back for processing, and then seize major arms caches which contained chemical warfare suits.
After that little rest, he got back into his truck and drove up to Balad Air Force base about 45 miles NW of Baghdad where is did supply runs until his truck broke down in Kuwait.
The remaining trucks in his company pulled out of Iraq in July 2003, heading back to Kuwait. They got hit by one of the early IEDs, sustaining damage but no casualties.
Driving a truck in Iraq was dangerous. Just ask Pvt. Lynch, one of the few, or only survivor of an Army truck convoy that got ambushed early in the war, with some being killed in the ambush and others shot afterwards.
I remember us going about 80 MPH on a 1/4 Ton Truck throughout parts of SVN during the war (I was a journalist). We went through “Ambush Gap” outside of Pleikeu without any problems but a Christian missionary and his station wagon took a direct RPG hit there a few weeks later. He didn’t make it.
So much for ‘we report, you decide’, eh Meg?
BS She’s very good, overall.
what bothers me is when they include the asshats name in with those his killed.
Should be: Three kill not including the shooter.
They seem to be catching on to that idea...It took a day or so...But you’ll notice no other network is really doing that where anyone really has noticed yet...
But I am not going to hold my breath...
Its all designed, pre-ordained to fit within a reporting template that all you need to do is plug in the facts, draw your pre-meditated assumptions, deliver them to the mind numbed idiots sponging this stuff in, and voilla, you have a sustainable anti-military, anti-war, anti-gun agenda supporting story...
When Hassan murdered all those troops 4 years ago...There were 13 reported “victims”...Never mind that one of the murdered was pregnant at the time and that that life was never really counted...By ANY news source...
This is another example of something that does not fit within the template of the liberal biased media...I do not even think the FauxNews folks picked up on that fact...
Something I have not herd yet, did Hassan go to the State death row??? Or the Federal death row facility where they popped McVey on the fast track to a DOE???
I thinking how stupid..and yes thought it was funny..
Check out the Drudge Report, big picture of the killer front and center basking posthumously in his fame or infamy.
The next killer is soaking it all up.
In there a difference between fame and imfamy in the society? (You tell me.)
And now we’ll spend the next few days examining the background of the killer and doing amateur psychoanalysis. (Good ratings there in.)
The next mass killer is watching.
When the coverage peters out will we know anything more substantive then we know now. No not likely. So, what do we know already? The killer was a coward seeking fame (infamy) and the next guy is most certainly taking notes -count on it.
If you can avoid contributing to that imfamy you should, that was the decision Megan Kelly made.
Weak argument, laplata, even if that was true.
The point is she sees fit to arbitrarily withhold relevant information on a major news story. What's more, she specifically tells the viewers to look elsewhere for that information.
Put it this way: the next time something happens (and it will), many of us will not bother to turn to the kelly file for information.
You’re the one with weak argument. You refer to one instance when overall, she is very good.
Don’t watch her, then.
Weak argument, laplata, even if that was true.
If an argument is true, it isn’t weak.
3 definitely 3.
PC is now the dominant religion in America.
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