http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/10/fort_hood_and_the_election.html
My liberal friends and family often ask what’s the source of my passion to see Mitt Romney defeat Barack Obama. They never like the answer.
Pvt. Francheska Velez.
Pvt. Francheska Velez, 21, an Army bomb disposal specialist who served in Iraq was three months pregnant when Major Nidal Hasan deliberately shot her in the abdomen during the murderous rampage at Ft. Hood. Screaming in agony, her final words were “My baby, my baby.”
Witnesses in the Article 32 hearing in 2010 testified that a man in an Army combat uniform stood by a front counter, shouted “Allahu Akbar!”(“God is great!”) and started shooting. Major Hasan also had 20 “email communications with senior al-Qaeda recruiter and Yemen-based cleric Anwar al-Awlaki.”
It has been 153 weeks, or almost three years, since the Ft. Hood murders on November 5, 2009 and Major Hasan’s court-martial has still not begun. Justice for the victims and their families has not only been criminally delayed, but the integrity of the UCMJ (Uniform Code of Military Justice) and its processes have been damaged. Don’t expect any MSM coverage on the three-year anniversary of the shootings, a day before the presidential election.
(Did Major Hasan specifically choose November 5th, 2009 to memorialize terrorism just prior to the 2012 election? Remember the Madrid bombings?)
From Time magazine, November 13, 2009,
From the moment Major Nidal Malik Hasan was recognized as the alleged assailant in the killings of 13 soldiers at Fort Hood, Texas, a complex, keenly balanced legal process kicked in: the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ). The code demands both speed and balance, experts say, and sets up the process for a court-martial that would have the 39-year-old Army psychiatrist judged by a jury of his fellow officers not for what motivated him but simply for what he did.
Justice is likely to be speedy. The UCMJ has no provision for bail and the prosecution is required to bring its case to trial in 120 days. Hasan has probably already been notified of his rights under Article 12 of the UCMJ, which is similar to the Miranda warning given to civilians. Article 12, however, preceded Miranda by 11 years and is more restrictive.
Obviously, just weeks after the shooting Time had not yet gotten the memo telling the Obama media, Democrats with a byline, to bury the story, ignore the delays and frivolous appeals, and continue to fill their pages with Kim Kardashian photos and “American Idol” results. Any admitted incidents of domestic (Islamic) terrorism were a non-starter if Obama was to be re-elected in 2012.
From PJ Media, in a terrific article by Bridget Johnson:
Before leaving for the Memorial Day [2012] recess, the House set up a showdown with President Obama and the Senate with Friday’s passage of the National Defense Authorization Act.
Three days before the $642.5 billion spending bill passed 299-120, the Office of Management and Budget released a statement of administration policy on the bill, threatening a veto if numerous provisions remained in the legislation.
“If the cumulative effects of the bill impede the ability of the Administration to execute the new defense strategy and to properly direct scarce resources, the President’s senior advisors would recommend to the President that he veto the bill,” the OMB warned, stressing this with underlined text.
The statement then outlined some of “a number” of “concerns” — 32, to be exact — including limitations on nuclear force reduction and a provision to block repatriated Guantanamo detainees from traveling to the U.S. No. 26 on the list of veto-worthy offenses is objection to awarding Purple Hearts to the victims of the Fort Hood and Little Rock shootings.
“The Administration objects to section 552, which would grant Purple Hearts to the victims of the shooting incidents in Fort Hood, Texas, and Little Rock, Arkansas,” the veto threat states. “The criminal acts that occurred in Little Rock were tried by the State of Arkansas as violations of the State criminal code rather than as acts of terrorism; as a result, this provision could create appellate issues.”
On June 1, 2009, Muslim convert Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, who had spent time in Yemen and was an avowed jihadist, killed one soldier and wounded another in a drive-by shooting on a military recruiting office in Little Rock. He pleaded guilty to murder, avoiding trial and the death penalty, and was sentenced to life in prison.
What utter rubbish! We can clearly see the deceitful politics coming from this allegedly caring Administration. How delightfully charming that B.H. Obama is so concerned about upholding some unspecified law regarding appellate issues in a lethal terrorist… er… “man-caused disaster.”
From Truth Before Dishonor:
….the Secretary of the Army has the authority, upon written evaluation, to determine that the attack at Fort Hood meets the criteria for an “international terrorist attack.” He has not yet done so.
The victims of the Fort Hood massacre are not eligible for the Purple Heart, because the attack is not considered to have been made by the enemy, or an “international terrorist attack.” The Department of Defense seemingly does not want to consider Major Nidal Malik Hasan as acting as part of the enemy, because that might bring all Muslim soldiers under suspicion of being considered the enemy.
……. “In the wake of the brutal September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States, the Federal Government set a historical precedent when it awarded the victims of those attacks who were members of the Armed Forces with the Purple Heart medal and the victims of those attacks who were civilian employees of the Department of Defense with the Secretary of Defense Medal for the Defense of Freedom.” [Emphasis added] But, thus far, the Department of Defense has not classified the Fort Hood massacre as enemy action which would qualify the dead and wounded for the Purple Heart. (maybe they’re still trying to figure out if Major Hasan, who was wounded by security personnel, is eligible.)
Not an enemy action? Really? Unbelievable, that military victims of 9/11 got Purple Hearts and the soldiers at Ft. Hood didn’t.
