Purple Hearts and Those Who Have No Hearts

Like many other normal Americans, I have been outraged at the Obama Administration's decision to not award Purple Hearts to the victims of the Fort Hood Massacre which took place on November 5, 2009 here in Texas.

This despicable and cowardly act was the work of Army Captain,  Nidal Malik Hasan, who supposedly acted as a devotee of  Anwar al-Awlaki, an American imam from Virginia who became radicalized by the Muslim terrorists. Because of his efforts to recruit other American citizens for the Muslim terrorists, al-Awlaki was killed by an American drone strike, one of the few things the Obama Administration has done right in this whole sordid affair.

From the beginning, the Obama Administration refused to label Hasan's shooting rampage as an act of terror. Instead the attempted to convince the American Public that it was an act of work place violence. Few Americans bought it.

Apparently, even the Obama Administration itself tried to have it both ways. They were sure enough that it was an act of terror rooted in the recruitment activities of al-Awlaki that they put him on the "kill list" and successfully took him out. But, at the same time they executed al-Awlaki's death warrant, they still insisted to the public that Capt. Hasan was just another man who had gone off the deep end and carried out an act of work place violence. Go figure!

The latest indignity to the 13 killed and the 30 wounded at
Nasan's hand came last week when the Defense Department announced that Purple Hearts would NOT be awarded to the causalities of Nasan's attack because to do so would jeopardize Nasan's right to a fair trial.

You don't say! Killing al-Awlaki didn't jeopardize Nasan's rights, but awarding a few people a little piece of metal and ribbon will?

Another reason offered was that awarding the medals would make the prosecution's burden of proving Nasan's guilt more difficult.

Really? A crime witnessed by hundreds of people, 13 of whom were shot by Nasan and survived and proving him guilty will somehow be difficult? I understand that Attorney General, Eric Holder has been one of the most incompetent Attorneys General in modern history, but any first  year law student could secure Nasan's conviction. The fact is, HE DID IT.  Hist trial is simply his due process, keeping in mind that he disabused 43 of his military colleagues of their rights to due process.

The Obama Administration has been in left field on this case from the beginning. A few months ago, they removed the presiding judge in the case because he insisted that Hasan, a United States Army Captain, follow military protocol and shave for his hearings in the case. If ever there was an act of bias in this case, that was an act of bias against the prosecution and a clear warning to everyone in the prosecution that Hasan was not only protected by his "rights," but also protected by the "Political Correctness Ideals" of Eric Holder's Justice Department and the Obama Administration.

Just once, it would be nice to see the Obama Administration come down on the side of justice and common decency accorded to ordinary American citizens

Americans Murdered by Hasan

who are not terrorists,  not necessarily minorities and not dependent upon the government dole. The Administration made much of its heart felt feelings for the American underclass during the recent election. Its too bad the Administration has no heart at all for the 43 Americans and their families who were so maliciously assaulted by a Muslim terrorist at Fort Hood.

I don't think the Obama Administration has any real idea at all that Christians of various sorts are convicted of crimes in our courts every day. And the conviction of these Christians of crimes against the state or against their fellow citizens does not in any way whatsoever impugn other Christians or Christianity. But obviously, the Administration very definitely feels that to hold one Muslim accountable for his crimes could impugn all Muslims. Thus, they go overboard in their Political Correctness in dealing with Hasan.