SHALL BE PUNISHABLE

by an unrealistic public discussion of the threats.

Already we’ve see news reporters throw out more red herrings than a Cuban shark-fisherman, tripping all over themselves to avoid telling the truth and to censor themselves. The FBI says there’s no obvious connection to terrorism. No, of course not. And roll out the “tragedy”-wagon. “Tragedies” trump “outrages”… because outrages demand action.

Bob McCarty writes:

‘…Hasan served on the Homeland Security Policy Institute’s presidential transition task force between April 2008 and January 2009 when Barack Obama was inaugurated…’

The Homeland Security Policy Institute is a bi-partisan think tank with conservatives and liberals at Geo. Washington U. It’s not a jihadist front organization like some others.

One of its stated goals is to have a

realistic public discussion of the threats the nation faces and constructive engagement of the American public in preparedness and response efforts.

I agree, so let’s get started.

When a Muslim serviceman says Muslims have the right and duty to kill other service members, he should court-martialed. When an officer starts calling enlisted soldiers murderers, he should court-martialed. When a military doctor says his patients are the enemy, he should be court-martialed.

If Hasan had said women should be raped, blacks should be enslaved and gays should be killed, he would have rightly been brought up on charges immediately. But because he “only” said that Muslims are justified in killing American soldiers, he was not charged.

That’s because a large portion of the Democrat Party agrees with him. The president’s pals Bill Ayers and Jeremiah Wright surely do, for example.

This is also the ultimate logical extension of the divide-and-conquer Grievance Group/Identity Politics of the Left:

On a form filled out by those seeking spouses through a program at the mosque, Hasan listed his birthplace as Arlington, Va., but his nationality as Palestinian, Khan said.

“I don’t know why he listed Palestinian,” Khan said, “He was not born in Palestine.”

And also because Political Correctness has made it all but impossible to remove murderous traitors. Hasan committed punishable offenses long before he pulled the trigger but was given a pass. Can you imagine the grief any CO would have gotten for trying to remove him? That CO would be branded a troublemaker and would put a blot on his own career.

So instead we settle for the grief of those families whom he robbed of a loved one. We’re willing to endure that grief, but not the grief of preventing this outrage in the first place.

Political Correctness kills. Because, ostrich-like, it blinds. It is also fundamentally un- and anti-American, because it poses two sets of standards instead of “Equal Justice Under Law”. It’s almost fitting that the president squeezed in his mention of Ft. Hood at a conference focused on American Indian issues. Nothing against Indians, but the president seemed very engaged by the Group Politics and His Precious Bureaucracy, while enemy action at Ft. Hood was treated as a mere afterthought.

All this certainly gives credence to those who say the Rules of Engagement overseas are endangering American troops.

Because the Rules of Engagement here at home certainly are.

(Via Ace’s)