TEXAS: The Home of Magic Bullets Part 2
Monday, November 9th, 2009Author Linda Brady Traynham
The on-going saga is so completely politically correct and nonsensical that the Whiskey Redan rings with indignant eruptions of “That cannot possibly be true!” And that is putting it very politely.
Once upon a time, like yesterday, there was a vast military post 87 miles from where I am sitting. (The Army has Posts while the Navy and Air Force have Bases.) As your non-roving reporter stated yesterday, the valiant, competent, highly-admired Homeland Security forces had taken responsibility for base security. (Remember that I use words very precisely when I am not being snide. In this case “taken” is the important word; the adjectives are tongue in cheek.) It is impossible to get on Post without being stopped by guards of both sexes wearing sidearms, and I do seem to recall others lurking in the background with fully automatic rifles. However, I’m an old lady with poor eyesight, so perhaps I no longer recognize military weapons when I see them.
Over in the deployment center stalwart young warriors are getting their final checks for fitness to serve in combat. My supposition is that some of those have played in the sand with the nice Iraquis before, since turn around time is short, but let’s suppose kindly that they are all raw recruits who have not been instructed on sensible actions when under fire.
In comes the clean-cut (he is or was in the Army, after all) unhappy Muslim who has been quoted as saying he was “mortified” to be deployed. “Mortified?” What an odd word choice. He whips out a revolver and a semiautomatic pistol (see previous report from the “field.” Hey, I can write battle reports in the comfort of my home as easily as any major news outfit) and begins firing into a crowd of several hundred men and women, according to reports on building occupancy.
We have already discussed the probable ammunition at his disposal, and questioned why those several hundred did nothing to stop the carnage. Yeah, he had two handguns. So? He cannot possibly shoot all of them before he is overpowered, despite the feeling that the victims lined up as peasants did when Genghis Khan rode into a village to account for how Hassan killed or wounded 33 with two pistols–and that allows time for reloading each weapon once. My previous analysis indicates that even if we allow Major Nigal Malik Hassan the luxury of reloading each gun once, he still would not have had more than 32 rounds at his disposal.
So, Major Hassan is shooting happily, presumably without regard for race, color, creed, or religious or sexual orientation (unless he is committing a “hate crime” against sexual deviants? I wonder how Sonia Sotomayor would sort that one out.)
Horror stalks the medical deployment facility! Or efficiency. The troops don’t even have to go to an “overseas contingency” area to get shot.
But wait! In comes a woman to the rescue of all those helpless men! Hallelujah, and praise be to the diety of your choice that modern enlightened thought insists that women must serve as soldiers, police, and firefighters. She draws her trusty 9 mm (that is almost certainly what she carried; it’s a police mentality thing) and proceeds to shoot Major Hassan four times–without killing him–while he injures her. This demonstrates what the old West certainly knew: being shot does not automatically mean you will be killed. It is also lousy shooting.
Lieutenant General Cone, mumbling through his muzzle, praises the police officer for her rapid response time of three minutes.
Hey, I guess so! She must be Wonder Woman to have gotten to the scene in three minutes.
Weren’t you paying attention? She isn’t a soldier. She isn’t an MP. She isn’t cited as being part of Homeland Security. She is civilian police. Even if she were cruising nearby how did she get through the gate and find the deployment center in three minutes, far less inside and engaged in a gun battle?
One howl of anguish was precipitated by the “Commander in Chief” saying that the flag would be flown at half mast as a “modest” tribute. We all know that I am sentimental and patriotic, and I do not consider dipping our flag to be a “modest” tribute. Neither would I describe a bunch of sheep who allowed themselves and others to be shot as “valiant” soldiers.
The usual players are lining up, including all those who say they would never have suspected Nigal Malik Hassan would do such a thing (apparently he posted what cannot be regarded as terrorist comments and literature on the net, because…some folks still have freedom of speech? Only whites show racism, right? Only Christians are terrorists? Muslims are misunderstood and we mustn’t blame one or a thousand of them for what they do.) He was just being picturesque when he shouted “Alahu Akhbar,” as reports now state.
Imans warn gravely that Muslims must be prepared for a religious backlash. Hmmm…we can’t suppose that others hold animus against us because of our paucity of pigmentation or our religious peruasions, but it is just “common sense” when Muslims do it? All this is bound to be Bush’s fault somehow.
It’s enough to make one feel that Buddhism is a good choice in America today. Nobody seems to hate Buddhists, and vice versa.
I don’t hate Muslims, Jews, Agnostics, or any other religious practice, although I have a natural disinclination to dislike those who use fire, sword, bombs, and guns as means to convert others to their theological persuasion.
I despise being told idiotic fairy tales.
Linda Brady Traynham
Robin Neal says:
November 10th, 2009
7:25 am
Apparently you are unaware of the slaughter of Buddist in Thailand by Muslims on a regular basis.
Carol Gonzales says:
November 10th, 2009
8:23 am
LBT:
Because I can trust you to do your homework when you write an article, and because the info from Fort Hood was political lies from the beginning to the end, I believe your account.
I know some of the nurses from the hospital where “the shooter” was taken for emergency surgery…they were not aware of this patient’s identity until after he was sent to San Antonio. Oh yeah, by the way that was the Fort Hood shooter.
I’m wondering if the Army felt the shooter’s life would be in jeapordy during surgery if his identity was known?? More deception and lies.
To all you naysayers out there, goodness and decency cannot be turned on and off like a water spigot. Hassan was not a good, decent man, he pretended to fit the environment which was alien to him. The body count has not been totaled until all the wounded are stableized and out of danger. I would say Hassan completed his mission.
Mark my words, he will be considered not fit for prosecution; Fort Hood’s reports are laced heavily with lies; and the lying goes all the way up the political ladder.
The obvious questions are “What’s with the lies?” and “Why are our leaders afraid of the truth?”
linda brady traynham says:
November 19th, 2009
10:14 pm
Carol…what a great reply, and thank you for the compliment. These two articles were my early reports, and sooner or later the one two days later when a lot more facts were available will show up. Yestercay I learned that Hassan is–possibly not even “was!”–a part of Homeland Security! If anyone asks I’ll publish the documentation; he is listed on page 29 of a roster of “assets.” The person who sent the website to me asked naively, “Do you suppose that is why Obama said we mustn’t be too quick to judge?” No, dear sweet friend, I don’t think Obama had a clue that Hassan was on the HS team; I suppose he judged on his own personal values.
Most are not aware that two of the highest-ranking people at HS–Obama appointees, of course–are fit, younger Muslims. They will not shoot up any military bases or Congress, in all probability, but what ELSE might they do?
There are reports that Hassan, a Major who made $90,000 taxpayer dollars a year, sent money overseas frequently. Yes, you are correct in dark suppositions of to whom he sent it. He cleaned out his bank account a couple of days before his Jihad. I wasn’t at all surprised to learn this; I’ve been around military men all my life, and the first thought that crossed my mind when I saw footage of his apartment complex was an Elitist Scum, “MAJORS do not live in places like that.” A single man, with rent of $300/mo, as we know now, could spare a great deal to support terrorism. The only question I have remaining is why he did not have a bomb strapped under his baggy fatigues so that he could take out the rest of the room when/if he ran out of ammo.
Reports indicate NOT that he was pursuing someone he had wounded, but that he had hopes of reaching his POV (privately owned vehicle) and escaping. I suspect the man of being a sniveling coward, when we get to how he respondes under the tutelage of the doubtless very expensive attorney he retained.
Snicker…what do you suppose Hassan’s “dream team” will look like?!
Diversity is diviseness; it is not strength.
Thanks for the comment and please write again. Cordially, LBT