Fort Hood — an Act of Treason

I was dri­ving home from work when I first heard of the shoot­ings at Fort Hood.  I was lis­ten­ing to the Schnitt Show when the name of the shooter was announced.  Before Schnitt announced the name, I was think­ing to myself, “Who would shoot his fel­low sol­diers?   Could this be a ter­ror­ist attack?  Could it be an Islamic extrem­ist?”  Then I heard Schnitt say, “The shooter’s name was…Oh wow…just wow.  His name was Major Nidal Malik Hasan.”

I nearly drove off the side of the road.  For some rea­son I had a gut feel­ing that it was a Mus­lim.  That may be a bad thing to say or think, but I believe it is a result of all of the ter­ror­ist attacks against this coun­try, with 99% of them being car­ried out by Islamist extrem­ists.  Recently I’ve been think­ing a lot about this hor­rific act, and how it will define us from now on.  This was an act of ter­ror­ism and trea­son, with­out a doubt.  For any­one to say oth­er­wise is to capit­u­late to the enemy.  Then I remem­bered this quote:

A nation can sur­vive its fools, and even the ambi­tious. But it can­not sur­vive trea­son from within. An enemy at the gates is less for­mi­da­ble, for he is known and car­ries his ban­ner openly. But the trai­tor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whis­pers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of gov­ern­ment itself. For the trai­tor appears not a trai­tor; he speaks in accents famil­iar to his vic­tims, and he wears their face and their argu­ments, he appeals to the base­ness that lies deep in the hearts of all men.  He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to under­mine the pil­lars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A mur­derer is less to fear. The trai­tor is the plague.

– Mar­cus Tul­lius Cicero

Nidal Hasan is no mur­derer.  He is a trai­tor and a ter­ror­ist.  As such, he should be tried and con­victed to the fullest extent of the Uni­form Code of Mil­i­tary Jus­tice and the United States Con­sti­tu­tion.  We are at war.   And accord­ing to the UCMJ, he should be dis­hon­or­ably dis­charged from the U.S. Armed Forces and tried for the fol­low­ing offenses:

Sub­chap­ter X — Puni­tive Articles:

• 894.94 — Mutiny, pun­ish­able by death
• 904.104 - Aid­ing the Enemy, pun­ish­able by death
• 918.118 — Mur­der, pun­ish­able by death
• 924.124 — Maiming
• 928.128 — Assault
• 933.133 — Con­duct Unbe­com­ing an Officer

Any­thing less than this would be itself trea­so­nous and impeach­able.

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