Comments on: NYT: Lawmakers Call Hasan ‘Terrorist’!

By: MinnesotaRush

MinnesotaRush — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:15:14 +0000

“WASHINGTON — A Senate committee on Thursday opened the first public hearings into the Fort Hood shootings, with several legislators asserting that the incident in which 13 people were killed was a terrorist attack by a homegrown extremist who may have slipped past law enforcement and military authorities.”

Oh, oh! The o-blah-blah ain’t gonna be happy!

By: canary

canary — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:54:09 +0000

Why aren’t they focusing on Hasan ongoing doing work for Obama’s Homeland Security since January 2009.

And now we have an ‘interpreter’ on earlier 9/11 trail going to prison. Did the interpreter misquote the terrorist, and is this still going on?

Obama appointed quite a few muslims to be on the Dept Homeland Security.

We never hear how Kundra is doing as Obama’s personal W.H. created czar, though we know charges were only filed against Kundra’s former co-workers. hush ssshhh.

By: proreason

proreason — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:35:31 +0000

It wouldn’t have mattered if the military had a machine that could have identified terrorists with 100% accuracy.

They were ordered by the president to not pursue.

It came from the very top.

Elections have consequences.

By: johnbyrnes

johnbyrnes — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:08:13 +0000

LEARN HOW TO PREVENT FUTURE NIDAL HASANS

The dilemma caused by the shooting at Fort Hood by Major Hasan exemplifies how each of our programs have failed us. When supervisors, counselors and task forces members rely on subjective references of culture and mental illness, observers miss the signs specific to aggression referenced in post analysis. When observers focus specifically on aggressive behavior, the objective and culturally neutral signs of “aggression” standout, providing the opportunity to prevent these violent encounters.

Major Hasan was under surveillance by two Terrorist Task Forces, one with Department of Defense oversight and the other with FBI oversight. So why wasn’t he stopped?

The use of subjective/qualitative indicators, prone to stereotype individuals by culture or religion; versus quantitative indicators and the use of mental health references know to mislead and misconstrue, fails us repeatedly in our attempts to prevent acts of violence. Only when we use the specificity of “aggression” and its objective, culturally neutral indicators can we get-out-in-front of these acts of aggression and prevent them. Why are current systems uses on campus failing us?

The answer is quite simple – The military does not have an objective and culturally neutral system that collects information and evaluates it to determine the degree (or level) of aggression an individual is displaying, nor has it people who have a clear responsibility to observe and report this information. Learn more about the problem and the solution by reading our Blog: http://Blog.AggressionManagement.com

By: Rusty Shackleford

Rusty Shackleford — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:38:06 +0000

On the one hand, Hasan’s being paralized is some sort of justice in its own right since the playing out of this whole thing will be ridiculous and farcical. It is truly one time where I find no shame in admitting that his discomfiture gives me satisfaction, except for the fact that others have to tend to him and that takes valuable resources away from soldiers who need care and attention.

Odd twist, that.

Not calling him a terrorist is like saying the airliners that flew into the WTC towers were “slightly off-course”.

Frankly, I’m sick of the uber-left mindset to create a whole society from scratch and re-invent everything and that just by saying a thing is so, somehow makes it so.

And I also cannot believe that there are that many millions of people who have never been faced with “dreams vs. reality” in their own daily lives.