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2013-08-05 Home Front: WoT

Ft. Hood Victims Sue Gov't 'Cause Army Failed To Tackle Maj. Hasan's Radicalisation

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Posted by trailing wife 2013-08-05 00:39|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top
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#1 Classify it as an enemy action (i.e. terrorist event), and you'd not have this issue. Damned PC Perfumed Princes of the Pentagon strike again. I thought we learned all about Courtney Massengale years ago. Seems this generation of flag officers forgot or deliberately ignored those hard learned lessons.

Posted by OldSpook 2013-08-05 01:23|| 2013-08-05 01:23|| Front Page Top

#2 I hope MAJ Hasan's OER raters and senior raters are continuing to sleep well.

Posted by Besoeker 2013-08-05 04:32|| 2013-08-05 04:32|| Front Page Top

#3 Not counting Hasan, would the count now be 5599.

Posted by Besoeker 2013-08-05 08:50|| 2013-08-05 08:50|| Front Page Top

#4 In other news: Six west coast residents killed by balloons from... who knows where.

Posted by Besoeker 2013-08-05 08:54|| 2013-08-05 08:54|| Front Page Top

#5 Three incidents which strategically were huge battle losses for the United States in this war have been caused by poor junior officer leadership in non-combat units. Abu Graibh, Bradley Manning, and this asshole are failures of direct leadership. The first two should have been stopped at the E-8/O-3 level. Hasan's bosses failed as military officers let alone doctor's who specialize in identifying crazy people.

Posted by Penguin 2013-08-05 09:12|| 2013-08-05 09:12|| Front Page Top

#6 Its going to be difficult to actually approve negligence. You will have to identify individuals. Then you will have to identify actions that they were required to take (not just actions that rational people would have taken) and show that they didn't take those actions. Also, the shooting was in 2009 and there is a procedure with statutory limits regarding filing claims and filing lawsuits for negligence.

Posted by lord garth 2013-08-05 15:06|| 2013-08-05 15:06|| Front Page Top

#7 What negligence? The word from on high was "Muslims are good, there is just a small group of extremists etc..."

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2013-08-05 15:22|| 2013-08-05 15:22|| Front Page Top

#8 No active-duty U.S. soldier has been executed since 1961.

Yeah well...if this doesn't rise to the penalty then just get rid of the damn law.

Posted by DepotGuy 2013-08-05 19:41|| 2013-08-05 19:41|| Front Page Top

#9 and wipe his own bottom

Left-handily, of course.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2013-08-05 21:41|| 2013-08-05 21:41|| Front Page Top

#10 IIUC, the basic argument of the victims' + survivors' families is that MAJOR HASAN became radicalized unto Radical Islamism while in Army service, + that the latter "knew or should've known" that it wouldn't end well, but failed to do something substantive or decisive to stop it.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2013-08-05 22:29|| 2013-08-05 22:29|| Front Page Top

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