10-11-2009, 03:23 PM
Brasscheck via Treefrog:
It seems like in the years leading up
to whatever it was that happened
at Fort Hood on November 5, Maj.
Nidal Malik Hasan was one busy guy.
He made it a point to attend a mosque
run by a notorious, high profile imam
with an overly anti-American philosophy.
He encouraged soldiers to desert.
He was loud and outspoken about his
opposition to the war.
We're not some obscure immigrant
just off the boat working at a gas
station in Bayonne. NJ.
This was a freakin' major in the US army...
in wartime...who was given the job of providing
psychological counseling to troops.
Did the Army have a problem with any this?
No, not at all.
The Army is a liberal institution in the
best sense of that word and encourages
a wide diversity of opinion on its policies.
Live and let live. Every man is
entitled to his own opinion, right?
Any readers ever been in the armed forces?
How long do you think you'd have lasted
if you carried on this way?
For example, can you imagine a Marine
walking around base, spouting Marxism
and quoting Lenin at the height of the
Cold War being given a top security
clearance? Ridicu...
Ooops. I just described Lee Harvey
Oswald.
(Pay no attention to the foot high
stacks of documents the CIA *still*
refuses to release about him.)
But hey, that's all "conspiracy" stuff
and that's for kooks.
The US military has better things to
do while it protects the country than
keep tabs on a very publicly unbalanced
officer who is very publicly against the war.
...On the other hand, if you're a *civilian*
and not some nut in the making and
you're interested in peace, watch out.
The resources for keeping track of you
are boundless.
It seems like in the years leading up
to whatever it was that happened
at Fort Hood on November 5, Maj.
Nidal Malik Hasan was one busy guy.
He made it a point to attend a mosque
run by a notorious, high profile imam
with an overly anti-American philosophy.
He encouraged soldiers to desert.
He was loud and outspoken about his
opposition to the war.
We're not some obscure immigrant
just off the boat working at a gas
station in Bayonne. NJ.
This was a freakin' major in the US army...
in wartime...who was given the job of providing
psychological counseling to troops.
Did the Army have a problem with any this?
No, not at all.
The Army is a liberal institution in the
best sense of that word and encourages
a wide diversity of opinion on its policies.
Live and let live. Every man is
entitled to his own opinion, right?
Any readers ever been in the armed forces?
How long do you think you'd have lasted
if you carried on this way?
For example, can you imagine a Marine
walking around base, spouting Marxism
and quoting Lenin at the height of the
Cold War being given a top security
clearance? Ridicu...
Ooops. I just described Lee Harvey
Oswald.
(Pay no attention to the foot high
stacks of documents the CIA *still*
refuses to release about him.)
But hey, that's all "conspiracy" stuff
and that's for kooks.
The US military has better things to
do while it protects the country than
keep tabs on a very publicly unbalanced
officer who is very publicly against the war.
...On the other hand, if you're a *civilian*
and not some nut in the making and
you're interested in peace, watch out.
The resources for keeping track of you
are boundless.