Five Years Since the Fort Hood Massacre

Nidal HasanOn November 5, 2009, at Ford Hood, Texas, U.S. soldiers were getting their final medical checkups before deploying to Afghanistan. Major Nidal Malik Hasan, an Army psychiatrist began gunning down the soldiers. His victims, all unarmed, included Francheska Velez, a 21-year-old private from Chicago who pleaded for the life of her unborn child. The Muslim major killed two other women that day along with 10 men, more than twice as many victims as the first attack on the World Trade Center in 1993.

Hasan also wounded 33 others, including Sergeant Alonzo Lunsford, who played dead then fled the building. Major Hasan chased down Lunsford, an African-American, and shot him seven times, including one bullet in the back. Firing a high-capacity handgun fitted with laser sights, Major Hasan shot Sergeant Shawn Manning in the chest and pumped four rounds into Sgt. Patrick Zeigler. Hasan would have killed and wounded more if civilian police officer Kim Munley had not wounded the assailant, who yelled “Allahu akbar,” as he killed. That familiar cry was hardly the only indicator of Hasan’s motives.

Hasan had been emailing terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki about the prospect of killing infidel American soldiers, and the “Soldier of Allah,” as he called himself, did everything but take out an ad on the Super Bowl to announce his jihadist intentions. The U.S. security establishment was well aware of the communications but did nothing to stop Hasan, who claimed to be acting on behalf of the Taliban. Anwar al-Awlaki was orgasmic with joy that Hasan had done his duty.

President Barack Obama’s first response to Hasan’s mass murder was brief, low key, and failed to ascribe any responsibility to Islamic terrorism. “We cannot fully know what leads a man to do such a thing,” the president said. Such breathtaking denial soon became official policy. The Obama administration’s Department of Defense issued Protecting the Force: Lessons from Fort Hood, which contains not a single reference to jihad or jihadists. Its only mention of “Islamic” is an endnote reference to “Countering Violent Islamic Extremism,” a 2007 FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin.

The United States Army and federal government did not call Hasan’s attack terrorism or even gun violence. Major Hasan killed African Americans, hispanics and non-Muslims, but the government did not call the attack a hate crime. Rather, the government proclaimed the murder spree a case of “workplace violence,” an absurdity for the ages with consequences for the Hasan’s victims. The refused to classify Hasan’s attack as terrorism rendered victims ineligible for medals and other benefits related to combat.

Hasan remained in the Army, retained his rank of major, and the Army continued to pay his full salary. The Army also took care of the paralyzing injuries Hasan sustained, but Alonzo Lunsford told reporters the army refused to cover an operation to remove a bullet still in his body, and docked his pay when he was undergoing treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder. “We don’t get passes the way Major Hasan got passes,” Lunsford told the New York Times. “Each one of us has gotten a raw deal somewhere down the line.” In April, the White House declined Alonzo Lunsford’s request to meet with the president and explain how the government mistreated victims of the 2009 attack.

In August of 2013, a panel of 13 military officers handed down a death sentence for Major Hasan, but the sentence may never be carried out. The U.S. military has not executed an active-duty soldier since 1961, a span of more than half a century. The appeal process is lengthy and the final call goes to the President of the United States. The current incumbent is Barack Obama and Major Hasan showcases the opportunities for “Soldiers of Allah” under the Obama administration.

They can join the U.S. Army and still get promoted. They can correspond freely with the most bloodthirsty foreign terrorists, and those conducting the surveillance will do nothing to stop them from killing 13 American soldiers on a U.S. Army base. The Army, government, and president will provide cover by calling this workplace violence instead of terrorism. So the Soldier of Allah escapes with his own life and in prison continues to inspire other jihadists.

The month before Major Hasan’s trial, Rudy Giuliani said, “you can’t fight an enemy you don’t acknowledge.” The next president, who will also be Commander in Chief, will have an opportunity to acknowledge the enemy, recognize Major Hasan’s massacre as terrorism, and execute the terrorist on day one. As one of his victims said, he doesn’t deserve to live.

Lloyd Billingsley is the author of Exceptional Depravity, a new crime book, and Hollywood Party: Stalinist Adventures in the American Movie Industry. He has written for City Journal California, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal and many other publications.

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  • JacksonPearson

    A fitting ending for this Muhammadan…..

    • Stinky

      But wrap him in bacon first.

    • nomoretraitors

      No, a fitting end would be crucifixion, upside down

    • Softly Bob

      I can also see Obama’s face there too.

  • David Gray

    A commander in chief that makes a mockery of the very troops that protect him is reminiscent of the Roman ruler Caligula. Any wonder why Obama puts military veterans at the top of his domestic terrorism list! Pathetic

  • Stinky

    EXECUTE THIS PIG, NOW! Give his “pay” to the homeless Veterans.

  • steve b

    SLIT HIS THROAT AND LET HIM DIE SLOWLY IN PAIN. I WILL VOLUNTEER TO DO THE JOB – WITH COURT APPROVAL, OF COURSE
    THERE WERE PLENTY OF WITNESSES, THIS IS NOT A CASE OF HAVING TO PROVE SOMEONE DID THIS.

  • Libertas Aut Letum

    This is obamas home-boy. He promised to “stand with the muslims” if things “get ugly”. Well, theyre pretty damn ugly and its quite clear who Obama stands with.

    • nomoretraitors

      I wouldn’t be surprised if he gets a pardon from Obama on his way out of the Oval Office (If he doesn’t decide to declare himself president for life. That’s what they do in Africa)

      • JayWye

        if he tried that,it would be a short life.

      • WhiteHunter

        I actually worry about that, too. Given how much Ebolabama hates America and especially hates our troops, I’ll bet the thought has crossed his mind more than once.

        As incredible an outrage as it would be for him to pardon this terrorist, his record shows that it’s exactly the kind of thing he’d love to do, as one final “Eff you!” to us–the final official one of many. I can see him grinning and raising both hands in the “V for victory” sign, Nixon style, as he boards Air Force One on the afternoon of Jan. 20, 2017, smirking that he got away with everything.

        One big difference, of course, is that Nixon didn’t hate America, and his “offense” pales into total insignificance compared to the many crimes of Ebolabama and the Clinton organized crime syndicate.

  • kiwi41

    I cannot understand why the military ( and for that matter , the public ) do not protest their treatment by this P-O-S C-in-C

    • cree

      We’re trying. And you just did in our sort of underground press. There are millions in protest. The legacy of this administration is going on the record every day. It’s all in our cloud archives. Posterity needs to know.

  • nomoretraitors

    “His victims, all unarmed, included Francheska Velez, a 21-year-old private from Chicago who pleaded for the life of her unborn child”
    He’s probably up for an award from Planned Parenthood

  • nomoretraitors

    “We don’t get passes the way Major Hasan got passes,” Lunsford told the New York Times”
    So Sgt., how do you like our first “black” president?

  • nomoretraitors

    “Major Hasan killed African Americans, hispanics and non-Muslims, but the government did not call the attack a hate crime”
    Of course. It would only be a hate crime if he called on the name of Jesus

    • http://www.facebook.com/aemoreira81 aemoreira81

      Unless a crime needs to be called such for purposes of the death penalty, murder has never been called a hate crime.

  • nomoretraitors

    “They can join the U.S. Army and still get promoted”
    As much as I disdain the current “administration,” let us not forget Hassan’s rise in the military while expressing jihadi leanings occurred during the Bush years

    • WhiteHunter

      That’s true, but I never give the Obammunists the opening to use, “Well, Bush did it too!” as an excuse or “defense.”

      I just read a very important book–a must-read for all Americans: “Infiltration,” by Paul Sperry. It was published during the mid-Bush years, and lays out, in well-documented detail, the frightening penetration of our entire government by jihadists and their enablers. Check out the scene where the FBI’s Arab translators cheered and celebrated in jubilation at the news of 9/11. And these are the people we depend on to tell us what their coreligionists are planning for us!

      I never realized just how dangerous a snake Karl Rove was (and is), and how much damage he’s done to us, until I read Sperry’s expose of his role in embedding so many dangerous enemies in the heart of our policy-making and national security structure–at the behest of his close friend, the execrable Grover Norquist, who evidently took leave of his senses, along with his loyalty, when he married that pro-jihad Palestinian.

      Check the book out of the library. You’ll be as horrified as I was.

  • Colt

    This piece of crap is still breathing. What a disgrace. Thanks Obama.

  • ADM64

    No argument with the article, but Kim Munley, the woman police officer initially given credit for taking down Hasan, actually came upon him while he was reloading, somehow fumbled the moment, and got shot instead by him. It was her partner, a male police officer, who ended the situation. I mention this because PC censorship and spin take many forms, not just those related to Islam.

    • WhiteHunter

      Whoever it was, they should have finished him off, right there on the floor.

      • ADM64

        You got that right!

  • JayWye

    Comrade Obama IS the muslim Manchurian Candidate.

    There’s a reason why,post-college,Comrade Hussein traveled to Pakistan,of all places. it’s not because he was a Christian. There’s a reason why Comrade Hussein was aided in getting into college by Saudi money and influence.

    It’s all part of his efforts to weaken the US economically,politically,and militarily.
    “once is accidental,twice is coincidence,three times is enemy action.”

    “The Obama Doctrine can be described in just nine words: Embolden our enemies, undermine our friends, diminish our country.” Frank J. Gaffney Jr.

  • Newspaniard

    Elect an islamist or islamist sympathizing president and you get what you deserve.

  • http://www.facebook.com/aemoreira81 aemoreira81

    All of what happened here can be traced to…the legislative branch. They knew or should have known that:

    1. Hasan could delay the process.
    2. The federal definition of terrorism does not cover the UCMJ’s territory
    3. Hasan had no intent of going quietly into the night.

    Every problem here requires a solution that the executive branch cannot offer.

  • texasmom1943

    This piece of excretement, Hasan, will probably get a pardon from the piece of excretement that presently sits in the White House.