Comments on: The Gun Wasn’t Smoking Until Hasan Pulled the Trigger http://blog.kirkpetersen.net/2009/11/the-gun-wasnt-smoking-until-hasan-pulled-the-trigger.html ... for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:53:48 -0400 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Faisal Shahzad: The Terrorist Next Door | All That Is Necessary... http://blog.kirkpetersen.net/2009/11/the-gun-wasnt-smoking-until-hasan-pulled-the-trigger.html/comment-page-1#comment-2336 Faisal Shahzad: The Terrorist Next Door | All That Is Necessary... Mon, 17 May 2010 02:15:34 +0000 http://blog.kirkpetersen.net/?p=1362#comment-2336 [...] can’t rely on  incompetence — the Christmas panty-bomber also failed, but jihadi-Major Nadal Hasan took far too many casualties. We can’t arrest every middle-class family man who expresses [...] [...] can’t rely on  incompetence — the Christmas panty-bomber also failed, but jihadi-Major Nadal Hasan took far too many casualties. We can’t arrest every middle-class family man who expresses [...]

]]> By: Steve http://blog.kirkpetersen.net/2009/11/the-gun-wasnt-smoking-until-hasan-pulled-the-trigger.html/comment-page-1#comment-1208 Steve Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:05:12 +0000 http://blog.kirkpetersen.net/?p=1362#comment-1208 As a former Marine, one has to understand the culture of the Military to know why it is significant that these signs were overlooked. When President Clinton was elected and was pushing for "Don't Ask Don't Tell", we were forced to attend sensitivity classes in which we were instructed not to refer to the President as anything other than "Mr. President, Commander in Chief, or The Honorable Mr. Clinton" due to the insulting names he was being called. After the policy was enacted we had to attend new classes to deal with the anti gay rhetoric that was being openly used. It is important to understand that the Military is not like civilian society. In this environment, things like that should be noted and dealt with. Furthermore, he was an officer. This should have made it even more urgent. Am I saying anyone should have known what he was about to do? No. Should action have been taken simply on the basis of what he was saying? Absolutely. .-= Steve´s last blog ..<a href="http://theaxisofstevilshow.com/blog/judging-a-book-by-its-cover/197-girls-of-summer.html" rel="nofollow">Girls Of Summer; Judging A Book By Its Cover</a> =-. As a former Marine, one has to understand the culture of the Military to know why it is significant that these signs were overlooked. When President Clinton was elected and was pushing for “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell”, we were forced to attend sensitivity classes in which we were instructed not to refer to the President as anything other than “Mr. President, Commander in Chief, or The Honorable Mr. Clinton” due to the insulting names he was being called.

After the policy was enacted we had to attend new classes to deal with the anti gay rhetoric that was being openly used.

It is important to understand that the Military is not like civilian society. In this environment, things like that should be noted and dealt with. Furthermore, he was an officer. This should have made it even more urgent.

Am I saying anyone should have known what he was about to do? No. Should action have been taken simply on the basis of what he was saying? Absolutely.
.-= Steve´s last blog ..Girls Of Summer; Judging A Book By Its Cover =-.

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