Saturday, May 25, 2013

Remember Ft. Hood Heroes


REMEMBER OUR FT HOOD HEROES
Fort Hood Shooter Paid $278,000
While Victims, Families Struggle
STILL NO 'TERRORISM' DESIGNATION!
THIS MEMORIAL DAY
DEMAND CONGRESS PASS H.R. 704 and 705
URGENT ACTION ALERT: Fort Hood murderer – make that Fort Hood Islamist terrorist – Major Nidal Hassan has been paid MORE THAN $278,000 since his infamous Nov. 5, 2009 jihadist shooting spree that left 13 dead and 32 injured.
Meanwhile, the survivors of this ruthless attack are eating RAMEN NOODLES and moving in with family members to scrape along! Because of this TERROR ATTACK's wholly FALSE designation as "workplace violence" victims' families and surviving wounded soldiers are struggling to pay their bills without receiving the same pay and medical benefits given to those wounded in combat overseas.
As the horrific recent London beheading of soldier Lee Rigby has so tragically and undeniably confirmed, the battle against Islamist extremism, against those who want to kill us for either our Christian faith or Western ways, is not limited to remote areas of the Middle East and Eurasia!
It is right here on our streets and in our communities just as it was at Fort Hood nearly FOUR years ago…
YET THE BRUTAL FACTS HAVEN'T PROMPTED JOHN BOEHNER TO PICK UP THE FORT HOOD FIGHT – MAYBE YOUR UNRELENTING PRESSURE WILL!
This Memorial Day weekend as we grill, relax with family and shop – let us be mindful of the PURPOSE of Memorial Day and keep it sacred.
Memorial Day is a day of remembering the men and women who died while serving in the United States Armed Forces. Formerly known as Decoration Day, it originated after the American Civil War to commemorate both Union and Confederate soldiers lost in that terrible conflict. By the 20th century, Memorial Day had been extended to honor all Americans who have died in military service.
Today, remind Congress what this holiday is about – remembering and HONORING the sacrifice of our soldiers who have made the ultimate sacrifice confronting the barbarous violence of Islamic jihad.
Whether in Fort Hood or Fallujah – it does not matter – they were slain defending America and liberty against a global jihad that seeks our destruction. Our military men and women are our bulwark of freedom and deserve deathless honor.
Retired Army Spc. Logan Burnett was a soon-to-be-deployed reservist when he was shot three times by Nidal Hassan.
"I honestly thought I was going to die in that building," said Burnett. "Just blood everywhere and then the thought of – that's my blood everywhere."
Burnet nearly died in the name of 'Allah.'
He's had more than a dozen surgeries since the shooting and post-traumatic stress still keeps him up at night.
"There have been times when my wife and I cannot afford groceries. We cannot afford gas in our car," Burnett told Dallas-Fort Worth's NBC 5 Investigates. "Literally, times where we ate Ramen noodles for weeks on end. [That Hasan is still earning a paycheck] makes me sick to my stomach," said Burnett.
He and his wife have been forced to move to Arkansas to live with family.
But this doesn't seem to bother House Speaker John Boehner, who STILL REFUSES TO MOVE FORWARD THE BILL TO RIGHTLY DESIGNATE THE FORT HOOD SHOOTING AS A TERRORIST ATTACK!

"WORKPLACE VIOLENCE" – IT IS ENOUGH TO MAKE ANY RED-BLOODED AMERICAN SICK.
While a lawyer who previously represented Hasan claimed that his poor client couldn't find a bank willing to deposit his Army paychecks (GOD BLESS TEXAS), a Fort Hood spokesman has made it clear that the issue has since been resolved…
And apparently, the Army IN THEORYcould get some money back from Hasan by demanding reimbursement for the cost of medical treatment for the wounds he sustained when a police officer shot him to stop his vicious, murderous attack.
We haven't heard of any plans by the Army to do that.
So, Hasan has been receiving deferential treatment to respect his "faith" – like permission to grow the Muslim beard he couldn't while he was an active duty Army medical officer – and has been GETTING PAID. Meanwhile, his victims struggle in medical rehab and can't work, and along with the families of those MURDERED IN COLD BLOOD by this terrorist they are reduced to eating ramen noodles to try to make ends meet!
"We're giving the defendant in this case every benefit of the doubt. But yet we're not giving the benefits to the victims," said Rep. Thomas Rooney (R) Florida.
NBC5 Investigates reports Rooney, a former prosecutor at Fort Hood, recently signed a bipartisan letter urging defense secretary Chuck Hagel to "…reclassify the victims' deaths and injuries as 'combat related'…"
The letter said the current situation has "…resulted in an embarrassing lack of care and treatment for the victims and their families."
"What happened here is not a case of workplace violence. What happened here was an attack on our military by a terrorist element specifically targeting our military, which just so happened to be in the United States of America," said Rooney.
For months, we've been in direct contact with Congressman Judge John Carter's office of Texas – the Representative for Fort Hood's District – to move TWO of his bills forward and address some of the massacre aftermath.
BUT WE NEED YOUR HELP TO BULLWHIP BOEHNER TO PICK UP THIS BILL AND HONOR THE SACRIFICES OF OUR FORT HOOD SOLDIERS!
H.R. 704 and H.R. 705 respectively will protect military whistleblowers (such as those who TRIED IN VAIN for years to report Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hassan's Islamist extremism – only to be silenced by political correctness) and REDESIGNATE THE FORT HOOD MASSACRE AS A TERROR ATTACK so that survivors and the families of victims receive the SAME BENEFITS as those attacked overseas.
Now it's up to YOU to demand the Boehner-led Congress to throw its full support behind these bills and protect our soldiers – with plenty of Democrats in Veteran-heavy districts up for re-election there is no reason H.R. 704 AND 705 shouldn't sail the whole way through the House and Senate straight to Obama's desk!
Inquiring minds want to know from Speaker Boehner – Why have these bills been bottled up for nearly four solid years? Why is Republican "leadership" in the House AWOL on this vital issue?
YOUR support for properly designating the Nov. 5, 2009 massacre at Fort Hood in Killeen, Texas as an act of TERRORISM rather than Obama's pitiful politically correct designation as 'workplace violence' is THE ONLY WAY we will move this fight forward among the craven politicos on Capitol Hill!
Right now, Rep. Carter needs your help to get MORE CO-SPONSORS from the Capitol Hill cowards unwilling thus far to take a stand on this issue to support our soldiers who survived the shooting and assist the families of those who did not.
And MAKE NO MISTAKE: If we get these desperately needed bills out of committee, there is NO REASON they will NOT pass through Congress as long as we hold our elected officials' feet to the fire!
The same old excuse for inaction that we're hearing – that properly re-designating the Fort Hood shootings an act of terror will somehow adversely affect the trial, when Maj. Nidal Hassan yelled "Allahu Akbar!" and shot down his unarmed fellow soldiers – is WORN OUT and UNACCEPTABLE!
On Mar. 29, the U.S. Army decided NOT to award Purple Heart medals to the victims, claiming that giving them medals would somehow damage Hasan's "ability to receive a fair trial"! The Army "position paper" further said the medal "would set the stage for a formal declaration that Major Hassan is a terrorist" as the Purple Heart is awarded to those "wounded or killed in any action against an enemy of the United States."
IN OTHER WORDS, THE ARMY IS FIGHTING FOR NIDAL HASAN, TERRORIST, RATHER THAN HIS VICTIMS! Hasan NEVER had any right to a "fair" trial for "workplace violence" as some sort of disgruntled employee once he joined the Army! Military justice dictates when you take up arms with the enemy, you become an enemy combatant! And when he took up arms against his fellow soldiers at the encouragement of terrorist mentors and made his jihad against his Army comrades, shouting "Allahu Akbar!" he BECAME a murdering terrorist. Opening fire and massacring in cold blood 13 and wounding 32 who are now being ignored and left bereft of benefits by gutless bureaucrats and politicians more concerned about rocking the boat than about justice!
HASSAN GAVE UP ANY "FAIR TRIAL" RIGHTS FOR "WORKPLACE VIOLENCE" WHEN HE MADE CONTACT WITH SINCE-EXECUTED TERRORIST AND 9/11 PLOTTER ANWAR AL-AWLAKI!
Neal Sher, an attorney representing Fort Hood victims, says the Army's excuse for denying the Purple Hearts is "rubbish," adding: "This is a cynical travesty. The only thing the government has done is guarantee anything done to help the victims will effectively impair and prevent Hasan's prosecution."
Just like the bureaucrats' politically correct prerogatives GUARANTEED ALL WARNING SIGNS of Hasan's fanaticism would be IGNORED!
Remember, a two-year long independent review of the Fort Hood attack BY FORMER FBI DIRECTOR WILLIAM WEBSTER at the request of FBI Director Robert Mueller revealed that the FBI was too concerned about political correctness to launch an investigation of Maj. Nidal Hasan despite all the red flags, including a series of emails to terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki about making jihad and the permissibility in Islam of killing those known to you! Al-Awlaki, who was already the subject of a terrorism-related FBI investigation himself, gave Hasan favorable indicators about killing, and encouraged Hasan to stay in touch!
The emails, which began in December 2008, and which were seen by TWO FBI ANTI-TERRORISM TASK FORCES – were IGNORED just like every other warning sign because the FBI was concerned with the P.R. fall-out of investigating an American Muslim in the military…Hasan's bosses at the Defense Department, who we later learned could have revealed ALARMING details about Hasan's loyalties and extremism, were never contacted.
You see, Nidal Malik Hasan was described by his classmates as a "ticking time bomb" BEFORE he went on a killing rampage.
In a 2009 report by TIME, Hasan's fellow students (speaking privately because they were ordered not to speak publicly) said they were angry that political correctness led their superiors to IGNORE THE WARNING SIGNS witnessed while Hasan was a student at the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences in Bethesda, MD during the 2007-2008 attack BEFORE Hasan ever made it to Fort Hood. (Yes, YOU paid for his affirmative action medical training.)
"We asked him pointedly, 'Nidal, do you consider Shari'a law to transcend the Constitution of the United States?' And he said, 'Yes,' " a classmate told TIME in 2009. "We asked him if homicidal bombers were rewarded for their acts with 72 virgins in heaven and he responded, 'I've done the research – yes.' Those are comments he made in front of the class." No inquiry was triggered. "I was astounded and went to multiple faculty and asked why he was even in the Army," the officer said. "Political correctness squelched any opportunity to confront him."
"He wore his rigid Islam ideology on his sleeve and weaved it throughout his coursework," said another officer. "He would be standing there in uniform pledging allegiance to the Koran."  Another classmate reported that Hasan would regularly interrupt the entire class by leaving early for prayer.
"There's a lot of evidence that would lead reasonable people to believe that this was potentially an act of terrorism," Representative Peter Hoekstra of Michigan, senior GOP member of the House Intelligence Committee, said just days after the attack.
"As more and more facts surrounding the Fort Hood attack surface," Republican Senator John Cornyn said in a letter shortly after the attack, "it looks increasingly probable that the alleged attacker, Major Nidal Hasan, heeded [Internet-based] terrorist calls to violence, compelled by a fanatical religious ideology."
Cornyn also stressed that comments like those allegedly made by Hasan in class should be investigated "regardless of whose particular sensitivities might be offended."
Yet, only Michael Burgess (R-TX) and Frank Wolf (R-VA) have co-sponsored both H.R. 704 and 705 and Bill Flores (R-TX), Michael McCall (R-TX), Tim Griffin (R-AR), Lynn Westmoreland (R-GA), Roger Williams (R-TX), Ron DeSantis (R-FL) and Brad Wenstrup (R-OH) are still the only co-sponsors of H.R. 705 to re-designate Fort Hood a terror attack!
Still employed with your tax dollars, Rep. Hoekstra – and every other Member of Congress whose sponsorship is MISSING – MUST HEAR FROM YOU!
ALL KINDS of people at Fort Hood saw Hasan coming, tried to report him, and WERE SUPPRESSED and THREATENED WITH PROFESSIONAL REPRISALS IF THEY PRESSED REPORTS AND COMPLAINTS!
This MUST NOT be allowed to continue in our military and government, and if we have to treat decent accountability as "whistleblowing" and protect it – then so be it!
Instead of honoring the SOLDIERS' lives lost, and supporting survivors of the shooting and their friends and family with needed combat benefits and recognition of their valor, the petty Campaigner-in-Chief Obama has chosen to ignore them in one of the ugliest political maneuvers of his remarkably selfish tenure in the Oval Office.
Obama appears to have issued a secret administration directive to prevent the Department of Defense from ever declaring the Fort Hood massacre of our soldiers by an Islamist traitor a terrorist attack as logical reasoning – if not HONOR – would otherwise compel DOD leadership to do so.
But it's not too late…
Last fall, Reps. John Carter and Michael McCaul (R-TX) wrote a letter to Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and Secretary of the Army John McHugh asked for the Purple Heart designation for our soldiers murdered or wounded by Hasan.
"Based on all the facts, it is inconceivable to us that the DoD and Army continue to label this attack, 'workplace violence' in spite of all the evidence that clearly proves the Fort Hood shooting was an act of terror," they wrote.
It is time for the administration to recognize the Fort Hood shooting for what it is – an act of terrorism," wrote McCaul, the chair of the House Homeland Security Committee, wrote in a separate letter to colleagues that was co-signed by Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA).
PLEASE HELP US DEMAND that the WHOLE Congress stand up with these few Members to buttress and if necessary ENFORCE our soldiers' fight for truth and justice! We MUST DELIVER OUR DEMAND to Capitol Hill to get behind our soldiers or get out of office!
Because right now, the Department of Defense is FIGHTING the injured and the families' lawsuit and Barack Obama is saying NOTHING about this PRE-MEDITATED MURDER OF OUR SOLDIERS IN THE NAME OF "HOLY JIHAD." As Investors Business Daily points out, had Nidal Hasan gone AWOL and fled to Yemen to convene with his terrorist buddy al-Awlaki in person, would he have ended up on Barack Obama's oversight-free drone kill list?
AMERICA, OBAMA MUST NOT GET AWAY WITH BRUSHING THE FORT HOOD TERROR ATTACK OFF AS 'WORKPLACE VIOLENCE' WHILE THE ISLAMISTS EMBOLDENED BY NO MEANINGFUL CONDEMNATION SLOWLY TAKEOVER AT HOME AND ABROAD.
Defend our soldiers and defend our freedom by STOPPING the P.C. crisis wreaking havoc on our military might and national security! Stop this administration's Islamist-coddling lies that murderous Muslim killers shouting "Allahu Akbar" are NOT trying to exterminate and conquer us!
And this Memorial Day weekend – FOUR years later – remember our military men and women of Fort Hood who were wounded and who even made the ultimate sacrifice for American freedom confronting a hate-filled, murderous jihadist… and DEMAND that Obama, the Congress and the Pentagon finally honor them and care properly for their families.

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