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Good to hear it.
Now, for those who realize he was invoking the name of Allah as he killed people and had previously expressed solidarity with Islamist terrorism, this intransigent, knee jerk position that lacks anything resembling analysis might be slightly less comforting.
If he said Jesus H Christ as he mowed down a ton of people would he be a Christian terrorist?
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If he had a history of supporting Christian groups involved in terrosm, used Christianity as the basis for his actions and invoked the name of Jesus while doing so, it wouldn't be considered terrorism as I have already outlined above, but that is only because of the targets chosen. Were the targets civilian, then yes, without a doubt.
Detectives have already stated this was NOT a terrorist act.
Even if it was, he failed miserable.
Horrible terrorist is horrible.
Well, I don't know. It was pretty terrifying.
Don't be afraid. They can smell fear...just as you can smell their B.O.
If your child were stationed at a US military base when this occurred, as mine is, you would be afraid too.
One imagines there is more security than this, on military bases.
One also hopes that if a soldier exhibits signs of mental illness, he or she will receive help.
It hardly inspires confidence when the very people who are supposed to be doing the diagnosing and treating are going on shooting rampages.
Understandable worries, maybe we need to raise the bar for who we let into the Service?
Haha.
If they "raised the bar", my kid wouldn't be in it, and then I'd have even more worries.
:lol:
I'm sure Major Hasan, American-born and with impressive educational credentials, would still get in no matter how high they raised the bar.
All raising the bar would do, would be to keep the uneducated working-class young people who are the backbone of our fighting forces out.
Ahhhh. Okay, I see where you were coming from (I think), but I don't know how many average Joes are aware of just what the Patriot Act entails. Most Americans are so busy just getting by and trying to have a good life that they don't pay attention to details, especially when it sounds like a patriotic thing going on in DC. In all honesty, I suspect "we aint seen nothing yet".
Many of the tribal religions of days gone by were nothing about control from what I can tell, but more about reverence, luck, meaningfulness and celebration or rites of passage. Mass religion has tended to make it about control, but after many years of questioning the validity of religion or even the need for it, I currently think there may be a necessity for it in some aspects regarding maintaining civility in large populations. I'm not 100% convinced yet, but I do tend to value its importance more than I did, say, 30 years ago.
Good to hear it.
Now, for those who realize he was invoking the name of Allah as he killed people and had previously expressed solidarity with Islamist terrorism, this intransigent, knee jerk position that lacks anything resembling analysis might be slightly less comforting.
But isn't mans law enough? Why do we really need religion? I think a lot of weak people need religion to use as a crutch. It gives em something to believe in and makes em feel important.
Has religion done more bad than good? Think about all the people who have been killed in the name of religion.
Detectives have already stated this was NOT a terrorist plot.
I been reading about how he told other doctors that non-believers should be beheaded and have boiling water poured down their throats. If true? It did have something to do with his religion in his messed up mind.
What we need to do is not worry about isolated incidences of violence at a military base.
In the end you are more likely to die in a car accident.
Of course people should worry about this considering that the FBI and our so called good government failed the families of these victims and if we do not worry and look into it? This could happen again. I mean he was on the FBI watch list for **** sake!
One imagines there is more security than this, on military bases.
One also hopes that if a soldier exhibits signs of mental illness, he or she will receive help.
It hardly inspires confidence when the very people who are supposed to be doing the diagnosing and treating are going on shooting rampages.
If your child were stationed at a US military base when this occurred, as mine is, you would be afraid too.
One imagines there is more security than this, on military bases.
One also hopes that if a soldier exhibits signs of mental illness, he or she will receive help.
It hardly inspires confidence when the very people who are supposed to be doing the diagnosing and treating are going on shooting rampages.
Of course people should worry about this considering that the FBI and our so called good government failed the families of these victims and if we do not worry and look into it? This could happen again. I mean he was on the FBI watch list for **** sake!
Yep. We can't afford to pass **** off as "maybe" anymore. That ended in 2001.
Thought crime again! Go for it, start arresting peopel or detaining them for thinking about terrorism or being on a watch list.
O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain.....
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