Emails Reveal Nidal Malik Hasan’s Pageant of Red Flags

An indication of how deeply moonbattery has eaten into our society is the degree of inadequacy even the military will put up with in the name of diversity:

Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, charged in the Fort Hood shootings, was too fat and “chronically” unprofessional during his psychiatric training, according to internal e-mails exchanged by his superiors.

The communications are the latest in a series of early signs that showed officers had reason to suspend Maj. Hasan’s training, and perhaps re-evaluate his suitability as a military physician, but failed to do so.

Yet, his bosses at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington allowed him to complete his residency in 2007, enter an advanced fellowship program, win promotion to major and transfer to Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009.

It was there on Nov. 5, while shouting “God is great,” Maj. Hasan fatally shot 13 Army colleagues, according to witnesses.

Hasan’s other shortcomings include his enthusiasm for Islam:

The e-mails highlight another point at which the U.S. military government could have intervened to stop Maj. Hasan’s career before the shooting. The FBI and other intelligence agencies learned that Maj. Hasan had sent e-mail messages to Anwar al-Awlaki, an al Qaeda-affiliated radical imam in Yemen who urged followers to join the terrorist group and kill Americans.

Hasan hadn’t put in sufficient months in a psychiatric clinic to complete his residency. But Army bureaucrats — no doubt terrified of being accused of “racism” against a Muslim — pushed him through anyway.

Then came Maj. Hasan’s research project that was required for completing the residency. Walter Reed calls the practice, “Psychiatry Scholarly Activity Oral Presentation at the Psychiatry Regularly Scheduled Conference.” Maj. Hasan chose not a psychiatric topic, per se, but one titled, “Koranic World View as it Relates to Muslims in the U.S. Military.” The slide presentation promoted Islamic law over the U.S. Constitution.

That is, the Constitution he was sworn to uphold. Army brass had found just the guy to serve as a psychiatrist, counseling soldiers returning from battle with terrorists who share Hasan’s ideology.

Predictably, the Affirmative Action mentality that led to Hasan being shuffled forward as if he were qualified didn’t turn out so well. Even Army Chief of Staff General George Casey was alarmed at the outcome:

“It would be a shame — as great a tragedy as this was — it would be a shame if our diversity became a casualty as well.”

Not to worry, liberals: the Army resolved to double down on the head-in-the-sand political correctness that put Hasan in a position to pull off his terrorist killing spree.

On a tip from Edward. Cross-posted at Moonbattery.

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ACLU Sues Government Over Use Of Drones In War Zones

ACLU. American Civil Liberties Union. Really? Because it sure appears that they are (still) doing everything possible to not only protect Islamic jihadis, but, to make sure they have the information necessary in order to not be captured and killed by the US government. In my mind, this would be the very definition of “giving aid and comfort to the enemy”

The American Civil Liberties Union sued the federal government Tuesday to learn the use of unmanned drones for targeted killings by the military and CIA.

“In particular, the lawsuit asks for information on when, where and against whom drone strikes can be authorized, the number and rate of civilian casualties and other basic information essential for assessing the wisdom and legality of using armed drones to conduct targeted killings,” the ACLU said in a statement, announcing its action.

Why does it seem that almost every liberal group out there wants to provide information to the enemy? Personally, I think the fact that Obama has increased the use of drone strikes is a way of putting a check on the positive box. I do actually hate opposing the president on everything, you know.

“The government’s use of drones to conduct targeted killings raises complicated questions – not only legal questions, but policy and moral questions as well,” said Jameel Jaffer, director of the ACLU National Security Project. “These kinds of questions ought to be discussed and debated publicly, not resolved secretly behind closed doors. While the Obama administration may legitimately withhold intelligence information as well as sensitive information about military strategy, it should disclose basic information about the scope of the drone program, the legal basis for the program and the civilian casualties that have resulted from the program.”

The scope? To kill Islamists. Legal basis? War zone. Constitution. Civilian casualties? The ACLU has never been concerned about the use of civilians as human shields by Islamists. The US military does everything possible to avoid civilian casualties. Unfortunately, there is that “war zone” issue. And Islamists who use civilians as human shields. Oh, and the fact that this is occurring in other countries, ones which are not American. How about just butting out, ACLU. Go bug some school because they had an evil Santa figurine.

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Boeing kills American jobs

Boeing finally won a ten-year battle to build tankers for the US Air Force after their competitor, Northrop Grumman, dropped out complaining that the selection process was unfair, and thus Northrop won’t be providing 48,000 American jobs.

Northrop Grumman won the deal in 2008, but Boeing protested to the Government Accountability Office that the military had unfairly changed the specifications to favor Northrop Grumman. Before the 2008 deal was made, then-Washington governor Chris Gregoire said that Congress should investigate if Boeing lost.

Gregoire said that her protests against Boeing losing weren’t about politics, but that she thought politicians should get involved if Boeing lost.

“I just think we win if it’s done absolutely without politics… …If we don’t win, then I think there’ll be a lot of questions… …how could they not have gotten this?”

Indeed, a number of Senators and representatives, including those from Washington State, but none who had experience as military buyers, did complain when the American company Northrop Grumman won. 39 representatives sent a letter to Obama last year supporting Boeing.

Apparently those Senators were angry about the 48,000 jobs that the contract would have created had it stood.

Boeing’s lobbying website says that we need to support Boeing, because it will create American jobs, even though their victory will kill 48,000 American jobs that would have been provided by the American company Northrop Grumman. I say “kill” just because Boeing is pushing a strange bit of moral self-righteousness by saying that they will create American jobs when in fact both companies will.

Not that American jobs are what’s important about a tanker, anyway. And speaking as an American, I’m kind of confused about how basing a contract solely on American jobs, not on quality or cost, will help the American taxpayer.

Boeing originally won the tanker contract way back in 2001, but their contract was later canceled after a collusion investigation that resulted in a former-Boeing executive being sentenced to jail.

The EU has complained about the bidding process.

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JihadJane To Face Terrorism Charges

Yes, the War on Terrorism is real and still matters

A petite, blond-haired, blue-eyed high school dropout who allegedly used the nickname JihadJane was identified Tuesday as an alleged terrorist intent on recruiting others to her cause, as federal prosecutors unsealed criminal charges that could send her to prison for life.

Colleen Renee LaRose, 46, has been quietly held in U.S. custody since October on suspicions that she provided material support to terrorists and traveled to Sweden to launch an attack, according to federal officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the case is continuing to unfold.

LaRose, who lived in suburban Philadelphia, allegedly recruited men and women in the United States, Europe and South Asia to “wage violent jihad,” according to an indictment issued in Pennsylvania. She fueled her interests on the Internet over the past few years and used Web sites such as YouTube to post increasingly agitated messages, the court papers said.

A few thoughts. First, this is the type of case that does belong in civilian court, as she is an American citizen. Second, this is, at first appearance, the exact type of case that should be tried as treason, and as a capital case, which doesn’t seem to be in the works. Third, our so-called by liberals/Bush haters “domestic surveillance” works

Across the ocean Tuesday, Irish police conducted morning raids in Cork and Waterford, arresting four men and three women who had been under electronic surveillance by U.S. and Swedish authorities. The seven were suspected of plotting with LaRose to attack a Swedish artist, Lars Vilks, whose 2007 drawing of the prophet Muhammad with the body of a dog enraged Muslims, according to Irish news accounts.

Fourth, how soon till the Lefties rally to her side?

She is being charged with “conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists, conspiracy to kill in a foreign country, making false statements to a government official and attempted identity theft.”

If there is one post you MUST read about this, it is the one at The Jawa Report, which has kept up with her comings and goings for quite some time, and would seemingly be the first to make the connection between JihadJane and the plot against Vilks.

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LEAN, MEAN & “GREEN”: Takedown of America

Part Two – By Sharon Sebastian – Website: DarwinsRacists.com

A radical environmentalist of the 1700s wrote in the Temple of Nature that man should eye with tenderness all living forms, including…his brother-ants and sister-worms. That man was Erasmus Darwin, a virulent anti-Christian Pantheist who was grandfather to Charles Darwin. As revealed in the book, Darwin’s Racists – Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (DarwinsRacists.com) — influenced by his grandfather’s writings, Darwin conceived the theory of evolution. It is a “theory” that replaces God as Creator and worships the god of nature or natural selection. It is hardcore environmentalism and is being taught in schools across America today.

Indoctrination by environmentalists in America’s schools is girded by Darwin’s “theory” of nature, which continues today to lack empirical scientific data to support it as fact. Yet, as with global warming, advocates like to insist that the debate is over. Though man-made global warming is heavily tainted with fraud, the United Nations and radical environmentalists are now desperate to discredit the scandal that discredited their “scientific data” as a scam. But, the word is out making it a hard sale even to the most gullible. Nonetheless, hundreds of millions of dollars, donated to the U.N., are funneled into school systems to indoctrinate students in support of Climate Change. Persuading or frightening young minds is vital, because much is as stake.

The U.N.’s Green Charter, based on a radical environmental agenda reliant on “global panic,” seeks to transfer world power to a world body, such as the U.N. It sets out to “redistribute global wealth” from the wealthier nations, such as America, to less developed nations. It advocates creating “green jobs” through abandoning coal, oil and gas in favor of renewable energy sources such as wind and solar. It seeks to elevate the rights and protections of animals, fish and insects in their natural habitat above that of humans. It seeks to nationalize lands and seize personal property, including farmlands.

The strategy to take down America, as we know it, is spelled out in the U.N.’s Green Charter. Crucial to the Green Charter’s goal to accommodate underdeveloped countries is to overhaul, to effect a “change,” to America’s system of government and economic prominence. In short, Americans’ hard work, innovation, creativity and initiative undermine countries that have not kept up. Those who support the U.N.’s Green Charter seek to dissolve individual rights through health care regulations, to control and allocate energy resources to individuals through government control via mechanisms like Cap-and-Trade, to control individual ownership and rights to property through processes like imminent domain, and take control of middle class lifestyles involving food intake, health decisions, size of families, use of appliances, use of air conditioning at home and at work, and restrict single family housing in favor of a stack-and-pack plan.

The Green Charter warns that America’s “refusal to act now on global warming would represent a crime against present and future generations.” In other words, America would be considered a criminal enterprise if it did not respond to the threat of man-made global warming. The ecological fly in that ointment, however, is the damning revelation of climate-gate’s bogus data. It should be noted that the U.N.’s Green Charter as drafted at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992 was a guideline for Al Gore’s documentary film, “An Inconvenient Truth.” The Rio Earth Summit demanded that industrialized nations must ante up 600 billion dollars to underdeveloped countries as penance for their sin against nature and the environment. If history is any indication, accountability for and application of the $600 billion may easily disappear through the sieve of the U.N.’s notoriously inbred corruption. World power is the bottom line, a Teutonic shift to take down America as a dominant economic leader to a nation answerable to the demands of concentrated global control in the hands of an elite few. That the U.N.’s Green Charter consists of an almost identical blueprint as Barack Obama’s Health Care and Cap-and-Trade plans is undeniable and highly problematical.

Consider that members of Congress may need to be bribed or promised sought-out committee appointments or comfortable ambassadorships to accomplish the deconstructing of America. The President has taken action that weakens both Congress and his Cabinet’s relevance vis-à-vis his power-laden Czars. That he already “ignores” the very Constitution he swore to uphold, seems to be lost on members of Congress as they jostle for bones being tossed by the White House. The success of the U.N.’s Green Charter (available online) is based on Climate Change, control of energy resources and control of health care. It diminishes America’s power and surrenders it to global interests.

Every one of us is an environmentalist who wants cleaner air and cleaner water for all people who share the globe. But, Americans recognize a scam, even one of global proportions, especially when they are the primary target. That our multi-national companies and leaders in the upper echelons of our government are positioning themselves to cash-in at the expense of American liberty and sovereignty is a crime against this great nation and the people who have worked and died to build and protect it. America did not elect a president to oversee its decline.

Sharon Sebastian DarwinsRacists.com is an author, writer and contributor for various forms of media including broadcast, print and online websites. Her second book, Darwin’s Racists – Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, addresses the global “evolution vs. creation” debate highlighting both the impact of Social Darwinism on America’s culture today and its influence on current policy coming out of Washington.

Website: DarwinsRacists.com

Part One: LEAN, MEAN & “GREEN”: The Smoking Gun by Sharon Sebastian

Part Two: LEAN, MEAN & “GREEN”: Takedown of America by Sharon Sebastian

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