I object to your extra u. SPEAK AMERICAN.
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11/9/09 at 1:35pm
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It's not just that...the article I linked to quotes an Imam (I think) at a local Mosque who stated that the shooter had many discussions with him about the morality of sending Muslims to kill Muslims (ignoring the many many wars going on right now where that very thing is happening with a conspicuous lack of reluctance). In fact the Imam said he would have reported these conversations to the Base authorities but assumed they were aware!
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| It's the combination of 1) His public "anti-American rants" to members of the military 2) his Blog postings 3) the conversations with people around him (I doubt the Imam was the only person he discussed this with) |
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Shut up, Nachos, DaveB is still active on the boards. I'm not saying he's part of the Illuminati but I'm not saying he's not, knowwhati'msayin.
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And, when he's in super-secret meetings that have NOTHING WHATSOEVER TO DO WITH CONTROLLING HOLLYWOOD, his wife reads the boards on his behalf.
Scanning the room for disbelievers. I'm compensated fairly for my work. |
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OK. If you actually think that people being less "politically correct" could have somehow stopped this attack or predicted its outcome, you are politely invited to suck my balls.
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You've just described every right-wing blogger active during the Bush Administration. They ranted about anti-Americanism, wished death on their political opponents on their blots, and probably discussed equally odious revenge fantasies with people around them. Ann Coulter has expressed more than once her desire to see the New York Times destroyed, for instance. |
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See, I think that those people need to be watched too. Those people used fear and intimidation to steam roller this country into two disastrous wars and turned the public discourse into a joke.
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| Bringing it back to the Ft Hood shootings, I disagree that Maj Malik's actions could not have possibly been foreseen. He clearly made numerous statements against the wars and against the US. Again (again with the again!) I am not saying that he should have been locked up, I'm saying he should not have been at that post, and most certainly should not have been posted in a War Zone. |
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This warrants surveillance?
There's a big difference between this and suggesting Coulter and Hannity be watched because they spread disinformation and lies. Their existence shouldn't be a mystery to the SS, but any watching should be restricted to the swill they make public. If it turns out that Hannity wrote his Bishop 10 or 20 times last year, telling him how he wanted to kill Michael Moore or something, then yeah, I can see keeping a closer eye on him. |
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This guy wasn't ever deployed in Afghanistan or Iraw. He was, as least I can judge based on what I've read, the guy who was supposed to be helping those guys coming back cope with it.
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Originally Posted by Ludwig
I imagine dealing with the returning walking wounded is almost as stressful as actually being in the war.
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But Anne Coulter wrote a book called Treason. Arguing that Liberals=Traitors. If that's not actively inciting violence it's damn close.
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| Hannity I know nothing about. |
| If people are actively promoting the violent overthrow of the government, of course they should be monitored. This is common sense. |
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See, I think that those people need to be watched too. Those people used fear and intimidation to steam roller this country into two disastrous wars and turned the public discourse into a joke.
The crazies have always been out there. What is different now is that they have been mainstreamed. Anne Coulter should not be a best selling author. The GOP should not be welcoming Tea Baggers into the halls of Congress And that asshole who wore a gun to a Healthcare Town hall last summer? He should have been surrounded by Secret Service men the entire time. |
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Did you or have you started threads saying the same thing in the past? Coz, y'know, this kind of comes off as hollow as "I'm not a racist, but..." when the incident that FINALLY gets you to take a stand against extremism is the muslim guy going crazy on an army base.
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It annoys the shit out of me when someone shoots a bunch of people, gets caught, and all the while they're waiting for trial, they have to keep sticking the word "alleged" in front of "shooter". There was a guy that escaped from the courthouse here in Atlanta, shot a couple of cops, and went on the run. After they captured him, the TV stations kept using the word "alleged" as you watched video from the courthouse cameras of him hitting cops and shooting at them as he was escaping.
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This type of public shaming of offensive language is sometime referred to as (OMG!) Political Correctness, which some posters here have blithely assumed I am against.
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| So here we have a US Army Officer, who attended seminars on Terrorism and the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and stated publicly that they were wars against Islam, who posted on his blog that Suicide bombers were justified (in terms of being effective at least), and who complained to everyone around him that the wars are wrong, Islam is being threatened, and who made "Anti-American rants". So my question is, have we as a nation become too Politically Correct, to the point where a man who has a position treating soldiers at a major US base can go on for years in a way to make one suspect he is gearing up to do something horrible? |
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I think its only fair to ban muslims from the military for a few years.
After all we did the same thing for white guys who sympathized with the militia movement after McVeigh from 95-99. |
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Plus, you used the conservative bugaboo phrase of Politically Correct which is usually lobbed at the left as a dismissive. Are you honestly surprised that we assumed what we assumed?
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| So it's politically correct to tolerate political incorrectness. So does that mean if our culture were appropriately "politically incorrect" that we would have pre-emptively punished this guy for being politically incorrect? This is ridiculously circular and shows the inherent flaw in making "political correctness" an all-purpose bogeyman. |
| Wrong. This case looks like (and yes the facts are still emerging) the Military authorities ignoring real danger signs from a person who was known to have mental stability issues. |
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To say nothing of the fact that he's blithely assuming that we've blithely made assumptions. I was the first poster to respond negatively to the concept of political correctness getting tied up in this business, and I wrote:
I was criticizing the idea of bringing PC-ness into it at all. I don't care if Cylon Baby subscribes to the theory - he originated it in the thread and further hinted that he subscribes to the idea in his response to me: Note that he doesn't say anything about PC-ness in that post, but his "wrong" shows he's unequivocally disagreeing with my post, which was solely about the logic of the PC argument. Of course, he does a terrible job of it because military authorities ignoring danger signs has absolutely jack and shit to do with political correctness. So I'll attempt to clarify this again - does the more politically correct nation condemn someone for saying something politically incorrect (as Malik was clearly doing) or not condemn someone for saying something politically incorrect? It seems to me that a nation overly concerned with politically correct speech might tend toward the latter, not the former, but it's arguable, because the term can be tweaked to mean just about anything. I wasn't responding to whether there were enough warning signs to pre-empt the shootings (although I encourage people to look at the link kungfumonkeymike posted on the first page); I just don't think it has anything whatsoever to do with the concept of political correctness. |
| Was it George W. Bush’s megaphone-amplified rallying cry on the ruins of the World Trade Center? Bill Clinton’s shared grief and call for restraint after the Oklahoma City bombing? Ronald Reagan’s wrenching tribute to the Challenger crew? President Barack Obama’s salute to the 13 dead from a shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, was largely unemotional. The most personal part of the speech at today’s memorial service at Fort Hood was a series of anecdotes describing the families and aspirations of each of the victims. |