Rarely in the course of human events has a report issued by any government agency been so cowardly and delusional. It's so inept, it doesn't even rise to cover-up level.
"Protecting the Force: Lessons From Fort Hood" never mentions Islamist terror. Its 86 mind-numbing pages treat "the alleged perpetrator," Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, as just another workplace shooter (guess they're still looking for the pickup truck with the gun rack).
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Unquestionably, the officers who let Hasan slide, despite his well-known wackiness and hatred of America, bear plenty of blame. But this disgraceful pretense of a report never asks why they didn't stop Hasan's career in its tracks.
The answer is straightforward: Hasan's superiors feared -- correctly -- that any attempt to call attention to his radicalism or to prevent his promotion would backfire on them, destroying their careers, not his.
Hasan was a protected-species minority. Under the PC tyranny of today's armed services, no non-minority officer was going to take him on.
h/t nick
We are witnessing the end of that grand experiment called individual freedom. When you can not longer stand up and call a spade a spade without being destroyed for it ... it is indeed over.
Even if the USA rebels and tosses off the political correctness that paralyzes it, the rest of the world will not. The rest of the world is happy to not have to deal with individual freedom and it's partner, individual responsibility.
I will always be grateful to have lived between 1943 and 20?? ... in a free country (sort of). The future belongs to elite control freaks and their police officials.
> Hasan was a protected-species minority. Under the PC tyranny of today's armed services, no non-minority officer was going to take him on.
Just what I said a couple of pages back.
Cowards them all - all law enforcement and military personnel in the West - all serving one god: pension.
The enemy cast a lure - political correctness - and we swallowed. And these people in positions of power all gradually filtered thru the new set of filters, only cowards surviving the career masher.
All too attached to nice houses, nice cars, electronics, appliances, benefits and having no courage to quit the job or sacrifice something for a right cause.
All of us should read Marx - he explained it in no uncertain terms that it is impossible to understand a system from within. Western society is oblivious to its weaknesses exactly for that reason, and is pathologically incapable of listening to the outsiders, considering them either fools or crooks.
Well he is a bit light skinned for an Arab and he speaks without a noticeable Middle Eastern accent, except when he want to.
Barry understands.
Political correctness, multiculturalism and affirmative action, which are all synonyms for the same postmodern (post WWI/II) desire to reject the concept of 'otherness' are all starting to unravel as authoritative ideologies.
Equally, the refusal to recognize the reality of differences, the refusal to evaluate these differences on some scale of approval, is also starting to unravel.
It takes time; you don't overturn a generation of brainwashing in the flick of a light switch.
But, five, even two years ago, we would never have seen the public and outspoken rejection of the moral/cultural relativism of the Human Rights (sic) Commissions. Or the public rejection of attempts to smooth over the reality of Islamic fascism. Or the new rules for immigrants put together by the Conservative government that reject beliefs/behaviour that are counter to Canadian values (eg gender equality).
In the US, I think we are seeing a threshold blip, a bubbling up of this relativism, which is being openly rejected by the American people.
In Europe, we are seeing more public renouncing of multiculturalism and relativism.
It takes time as I said; you can't overturn a generation's educational mindset in an instant, but, reality and truth have a way of showing that they are stronger than our imaginary worlds that we create and hide within.
Sad but true.
However, it should be understood that the enlisted men and junior officers are solid.
Higher ranking members of the officer corps have, in fact, been infected by political correctness. This probably began when politicians supported a feminist agenda for career women officers.
In the US it is clear that ultimately these politically correct movements have degraded the standards and made US forces less capable than in previous eras.
Still, the conservative movement in the United States is very powerful and very viable. And as a consequence we could see a strong swing back from the precipice.
I have had conversations with some high ranking military officers, and I was not encouraged.
So I caught a rerun of the satirical movie " An American Carol" with my daughter this weekend and two things jumped out.
First, my daughter asked if this movie is "brand new" because in the movie they find an "underwear bomber". Seriously, an underwear bomber, the freaken NAILED IT!
Second, the terrorists needed a press pass to commit their crime and terrorist #1 asked "why would they give us one of those?" and the other two terrorists answered in concert "it's America" and they all laughed.
I recommend watching this show again, for some laughs, and an eerie reminder of today’s world.
When the former Commander in Chief sets the tone by whitewashing the enemy as the Religion of Peace and his successor is only a few opinion polls away from reverting on command from his Chicago bosses, the chain of command is rather confused to say the least.
Drives a truck?
O's Most Wanted Man:
"Scott Brown: "I'm from Wrentham, I drive a truck and I'm asking for your vote.”"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2431239/posts
A coloured cop ( white is a color) arrests an uncooperative, racist black man at a residence to which he is called to as a possible break and enter. Barack Hussien Obama is all over that INSTANTLY! A terrorist an avowed Jihad Muslim shoots and kills over a dozen fellow soldiers, the search for root causes continues, O J is enlisted to provide hints on where to look for the "real killer"
Greg in Dallas: "Higher ranking members of the officer corps have, in fact, been infected by political correctness."
Exhibit A - General Casey: "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."
Bubba,
Apparently BO got involved when a firnd of Gates called Michelle Obama, and she wound him up to say soemthing.
BO's mistake, but he wouldnt have said anything otherwise. It was out of character for a number of reasons....that Obama would care about about someone other than himself, that he would engage himself in a local matter etc etc.
Related: Here's Marc A. Thiessen today on Powerline:
RTWT
Abe @ 11:02, don't give up fighting until you no longer can. We have to consider ET's comment @ 11:35 as going somewhere. For our descendant's sake.
It starts early. Our public school boards are run just the same way: minority kids—the worst ones—rule the roost. Their playing the “whatever” card and their lies overrule the authority (what’s that?) of the adult, professional teachers—yes, there are some!—in the blink of an eye. This lunacy hasn't ended in too many deaths—yet.
lookout: +1
After pulling one after another my two sons out of public education system I am loosing sight of that monster, but it's still there.
Who has established that the school boards are corporations is the one responsible for the travesty that education has become. This is the most crucial point in the whole mess.
It disconnects responsibility from funding in that the ministry of education in the province must supply funding to the boards, but the boards are under no obligation to report to the ministry, and the ministry has no means of controlling the boards.
The only recourse parents have is to the courts.
The laws and policies are carefully crafted to include verbiage to the effect that the school officials 'may' while the students and parents 'must'. Whoever adopted those laws is either stupid, or spineless or evil.
Students in Canada need a pass issued to them to go to the washroom!
Wake up, Canadians, you were betrayed and robbed of your future.
Abe Froman - I've taken issue with some of your comments, but I agree 100% with your lead off comment here. Spot on.
Related:
"Toronto 18 conspirator sentenced to 12 years"
That will teach him not to plot bombing the parliament, CSIS, TSE and other buildings!
They spent more than 3 years behind bars, which counts for 2x, so in 5-6 years he will be out if not paroled earlier. Huh???
I am sure as hell Crown appeals, but what an insult to intelligence and honesty...
Related again:
"Inside the demolition of the Brown Chatwell house"
http://caledoniawakeupcall.wordpress.com/2010/01/18/inside-the-demolition-of-the-brown-chatwell-house/
Read it all. It provides the view at the same problem, just from the different angle.
I've also heard - via milblogs - that if you give an officer under you a low rating, you generate all sorts of paperwork and letters from your boss. It's just easier to let these guys slide through. Eventually they get to be 50-year-old Captains and are allowed to resign. Or Majors, if they're in a specialty, like medicine or psychiatry.
Erik and Abe - I disagree with the assertion that the 'grand experiment of individual freedom' is over.
Our species, homo sapiens, has always and will always exist in the uncomfortable situation of existing within two polarities: the necessity and reality of the communal; and the necessity and reality of the individual. Sometimes one or the other dominates; at other times we manage to find a reasonable balance between the two. But both realities will always exist.
That's because we are the only species whose knowledge base is not primarily genetic but is created by us - and stored within our community. It is stored not within our individual selves; but within our community.
However, the actual knowledge is always and only a creation of the individual! The individual reasons, questions, dissents, explores and comes up with new knowledge...which the community may or may not readily accept.
Right there - is a basic conflict between habitual knowledge and new knowledge, each th domain of a different aspect of our species: the communal and the individual.
The communal, the realm of the normative and habitual, is a comforting realm. There's rarely a need to question its dictums; they relate the future to the past and provide us with a sense of security and continuity.
The individual, the realm of the doubter and questioner, is a most uncomfortable realm, filled with dissent, objections, questions, uncertainty and all the fickleness of finite matter. We can hardly live completely in this realm.
As for this 'great experiment in individualism' since 1943 - you seem to have forgotten the communal agenda of communism - a force that took up a great deal of time and effort in the post WWII period. And what about postmodernism, a perspective that rejects individualism as merely a subjective act of perception? The tribalism of the Middle East - that's all about communalism.
My view is that BOTH realms of knowledge processing, the communal and the individual, have their legitimate role in human society. The trick is to enable both without the one smothering the other.
And I have faith in the capacity of human reason to achieve this balance - difficult though it can be.
some times people get emotionless or tearless when tehy hear repeated story over and over in certain area not to think they are forgot or ingnore those crime when you feel discussting or expecting this from human mind in hate but also
people ask why? this happend again
more than interest to know detail what or how it happend
I think why this happend :
blame to
politician to increase hate crime cause lower self confidence to some citizen and increase to other peopel automaticlay feel they are guilty not doing any sin but the born muslim among group of racist nonmuslim
this discrimination and hate crime speech must change like climate change or lead to more delama
court systme in law makring to prevent this happend too much bad internation politic and war
2) blame to board of education to not teach moral and relgion in school while some atheist saying we do not like relgion while relgion teach how to be good to yourself first to your neiborn to your parents to friend board of education in US and Canada may good in scine but spoil kids in ethic here
3) blame to unblance wealth to poor and rich
what cause moer crime link to financial people work in place like Hassan did while he hated his job and his cologue he did only for salary of it
4) to personal him or her
mental ill
5) blame to his freinds he or she hang around most of time
6) blame to media not help this not happen again
7) blame to parents for neglect work so much and spend less time for children
"They spent more than 3 years behind bars, which counts for 2x, so in 5-6 years he will be out if not paroled earlier. Huh???" Yeah, but did they get double Airmiles too?
"Develop a risk-assessment tool for commanders." \\Like, watch the fanatical muslims.
"Nobody wanted to know what Hasan was up to."
Seems to me they ( government , Military) still Don't. The black out cover up continues.
JMO
Unremarked in the case of the major and the Xmas bomber is that those who came in contact with them as part of their normal daily work routine in the army or airport security could have easily formed the impression that these two were either real intelligence assets being groomed for future very important double agent defection missions or harmless, plodding, idiots being tracked by FBI/MI-5 etc to see what contacts they might make in their travels.
In such a situation once your concerns have been firmly rebuffed by superiors, the last thing you would choose is to continue to raise a stink with the career limiting possibility of wrecking something you know nothing about.
As a wet behind the ears teen I could see this right here was what the Army was all about. Got enough money to buy my first motorcycle and got the hell out.
I can't imagine why anyone is surprised at this report. This is SOP, this is The Way.
This is why military leadership is so celebrated and treasured. Its really, really RARE.
It is also likely that Barry told them to do it this way. Approaching 100% likely.