Comments on: What Happened Yesterday?

By: Warren

Warren — Tue, 27 Aug 2013 20:32:33 +0000

In reply to david blakeslee. Thanks for the update...

By: david blakeslee

david blakeslee — Tue, 27 Aug 2013 19:12:29 +0000

“A group of more than 100 Fort Hood victims and victims’ relatives has filed suit claiming that the government’s “gross negligence” and “reckless disregard” for the lives of Fort Hood residents and staff paved the way for the tragedy. “The attack should not have happened,” says Lisa Bahr Pfund, whose daughter, a Fort Hood victim and a plaintiff in the case, took a bullet to the back and suffers from pain so severe that she can’t sit for more than a half hour at a stretch. “It would not have happened if that information was handled properly.”

The damning paper trail laid out in the Webster report should give the plaintiffs ample ammunition.”

From Mother Jones: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/08/nidal-hasan-anwar-awlaki-emails-fbi-fort-hood

By: david blakeslee

david blakeslee — Thu, 08 Aug 2013 16:07:25 +0000

Lets keep our eye on the ball:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-fort-hood-attack-was-terrorism-the-army-should-call-it-that/2013/08/07/cfe62210-feb1-11e2-bd97-676ec24f1f3f_story.html

By: David Blakeslee

David Blakeslee — Thu, 02 May 2013 01:19:14 +0000

By: David Blakeslee

David Blakeslee — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 19:01:43 +0000

On a possibly related event:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/details-emerge-on-suspected-boston-bombers/2013/04/19/ef2c2566-a8e4-11e2-a8e2-5b98cb59187f_story.html

By: David Blakeslee

David Blakeslee — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 16:32:05 +0000

Just a reminder, that this was a terrorist attack, but is being treated as workplace violence…Wow.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/03/30/defense-department-says-giving-purple-heart-to-fort-hood-survivors-would-hurt/#ixzz2P0NfMkq3

By: David Blakeslee

David Blakeslee — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 14:36:06 +0000

Now…an american counterpart in Afganistan. Articles theorize, but the fact is the victims’ story will never be told with the same interest.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/seeking-roots-u-soldiers-shooting-rampage-004248437.html

By: David Blakeslee

David Blakeslee — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 19:08:13 +0000

Rough justice for the Imam who counseled and inspired the Fort Hood murderer

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2011/09/30/va_mosque_has_mixed_reaction_to_al_awlakis_death_1317400842/

I wish he would have returned to the states to stand trial for being a co-conspirator; but he preferred to wage jihad from afar.

By: David Blakeslee

David Blakeslee — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 20:05:12 +0000

Ken…

Behavior like Jone’s is meant to provoke, one way or the other is fine…that is the point.

Commenting on it beyond saying he is absurd just feeds the narrative further…gives him and those who wish to react to him more oxygen.

There seems to be a demand that bad behavior needs to be condemned first before any other responses can be made.

I think that puts people into boxes. Say what you want…respectfully.

By: ken

ken — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 18:14:09 +0000

David Blakeslee# ~ Apr 6, 2011 at 1:02 pm

“I don’t agree that one needs to predicate comments with condemnation of Jones.”

If you don’t want to be misunderstood as agreeing with what Jones did, then you should. You seriously can’t see how your statements could easily be construed as supporting Jones, rather than simply disagreeing with the hyperbole about what Jones did?

which btw, you still haven’t clarified your opinion about what Jones did.

“Free speech is a right, no matter how absurdly carried out; condemning it makes no sense.”

It makes perfect sense. While I support Jones’ right to do what he did, I do not support his actions, in fact I condemn them. And recognizing that a lot of people have a hard time understanding that distinction (esp. with statements like the one you made about it), clarifying the issue makes sense to me.

Further, YOU were just complaining in another thread about how christians are misrepresented. Well, when christians don’t stand up and say “Jones does not represent my religious beliefs” then people like Jones end up being the only “voices of christianity” that the world hears.