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Monday, April 07, 2014

'I think I'll be damned': Fort Hood gunman ranted on Facebook about being full of hatred in months leading up to attack

Social media posts vented about Sandy Hook gunman Adam Lanza
Ivan Lopez opened fire on the Texas army base on Wednesday afternoon, killing 3 soldiers and injuring 16 others
34-year-old married father who was battling mental illness, had served in Iraq but did he did not have any recorded combat experience
Father of one of his victims said Lopez had gone into a personnel building to collect a leave form but was told to return the next day
One victim, Sgt. First Class Danny Ferguson, sacrificed his life by blocking a door to keep the gunman out of a packed room, his fiancee said

PUBLISHED: 20:12 EST, 5 April 2014 | UPDATED: 08:40 EST, 6 April 2014

Rants about the Sandy Hook shooting and feelings of anger after a recent robbery and tour of duty in Iraq were posted on Facebook by Fort Hood gunman Ivan Lopez.

Details of his social media accounts were revealed as investigators try to piece together what caused the 34-year-old Iraq War veteran to shot dead three soldiers on the Texas army base on Wednesday.

The Iraq War veteran was being evaluated for post-traumatic stress disorder, and his posts appear to show he was struggling to deal with his feelings of anger and anxiety.

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Gunman: Army Spc. Ivan Lopez killed three people and wounded 16 others in a shooting at Fort Hood on Wednesday before killing himself. It followed a verbal altercation at a personnel office

Sunday, April 06, 2014

Robert Spencer in PJ Lifestyle: 5 Things You Should Know About the Latest Military Jihadist

Robert Spencer Apr 5, 2014 at 2:39pm American jihadis, converts to Islam, Jihad in the U.S. 36 Comments

In PJ Lifestyle today I draw five lessons from the strange case of Muhammad Abdullah Hassan, formerly John Thomas Booker, who recently wrote: “I am going to wage jihad and hopes that i die.”

The story was overshadowed by Wednesday’s shooting at Fort Hood, but last Monday Fox News revealed that the FBI and the U.S. military had issued an alert for a Muslim former Army recruit who was planning a “Fort Hood-inspired jihad against U.S. soldiers.” This was more than just an eerie foreshadowing of the Wednesday shooting, although the story almost immediately got murky: on Tuesday the FBI responded to the Fox story with more or less a full denial, declaring that there was no manhunt and that the Muslim recruit named in the alert was not a threat. Nonetheless, enough details emerged to reveal some key facts:

5. Conversion to Islam can make a military man into a traitor.

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/04/robert-spencer-in-pj-lifestyle-5-things-you-should-know-about-the-latest-military-jihadist

Friday, April 04, 2014

Acts of courage emerge in wake of deadly Fort Hood shooting massacre

Gripping accounts of heroism are emerging in the aftermath of Wednesday's Fort Hood shooting massacre, including the story of one soldier who died trying to hold a door shut, preventing the gunman from killing dozens of military personnel packed inside the room.

Army Sgt. Danny Ferguson, who had just returned from deployment in Afghanistan, was killed while trying to keep the shooter from entering the room, Ferguson's fiancee, Kristen Haley, told WTSP-TV.

Haley, also a soldier, told the station that Ferguson held the door shut "because it wouldn't lock."

"It seems the doors would be bulletproof, but apparently they're not. If he wasn't the one standing there holding those doors closed, that shooter would have been able to get through and shoot everyone else," said Haley, who was close by when gunman Ivan A. Lopez opened fire, killing three people and injuring 16 others before turning the gun on himself.

Lopez, 34, shot and killed himself after being confronted by a military police officer, Lt. Gen. Mark Milley, head of the Army's III Corps at Fort Hood, told reporters Thursday.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/04/04/acts-courage-emerge-in-wake-deadly-fort-hood-shooting-massacre/

Fort Hood Lesson is easy = just use your head!

Now consider this: have you ever been inside of a Police Station? All of the Officers are armed, with guns in their holsters and they are loaded. This is normal and what we expect. Would you expect the Police, who we pay to protect us against criminals to be un-armed? Of course not.

So WHY do we expect our soliders, who are paid to do an often far-more-dangerous job, to go un-armed when on their own bases, where they train (to use those guns), relax and are housed?

For the same reason that we NOW expect our soldiers to deal with their problems with psychotropic drugs, which are "a chemical substance that crosses the blood–brain barrier and acts primarily upon the central nervous system where it affects brain function, resulting in alterations in perception,mood, consciousness, cognition, and behavior.^[1] These substances may be usedrecreationally, to purposefully alter one's consciousness, or as entheogens, for ritual, spiritual, or shamanic purposes, as a tool for studying or augmenting the mind. Many psychoactive drugs have therapeutic utility, e.g., as anesthetics, analgesics, or for the treatment of psychiatric disorders."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychoactive_drug

When did this begin and what was the impetus?

It seems that many WWII soldiers, sailors and marines saw the horrors of war and experienced PTSD type symptoms, but they simply manned up and dealt with it.

The same was true of the Korean vet. By the time Viet Nam rolled around, medical personnal had already found that writng a prescription for some drug was an easy way to deal with problem, though many vets turned out quite well and had no effects at all.

To return to the point - why do we expect our military personnel to be sitting ducks, waiting for the next nut with a gun (or even worse) to slaughter them?

Don't our brave men and women deserve the RIGHT to be able to defend themselves?

We ask them to risk their lives to defend us, so how about letting them defend them own?

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FBI, military hunt ex-Army recruit suspected of plotting 'Ft. Hood-inspired jihad'

By Jana Winter

Published April 01, 2014

EXCLUSIVE: The FBI is searching for a recent Army recruit believed to be planning a "Fort Hood-inspired jihad against U.S. soldiers," FoxNews.com has learned.

The alert, whose legitimacy was confirmed by military and law enforcement officials, stated that a man identified as Booker had told friends of his "intention to commit jihad." Booker, who is also known as Muhammad Abdullah Hassan, was recruited by the U.S. Army in Kansas City, Mo., in February 2014 and was scheduled to report for basic training on April 7. But he was discharged last week, apparently after law enforcement authorities learned of his alleged plan.

Both the FBI and the 902d Military Intelligence Group at Fort Leavenworth are involved in the hunt.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/04/01/military-hunts-one-time-recruit-planning-ft-hood-style-jihad/

Fort Hood shooting repeat renews calls for ending gun restrictions on base

The fatal shooting Wednesday at Fort Hood, the second in less than five years, has renewed calls for Congress and the Defense Department to end restrictions on servicemembers carrying weapons on post.

According to the Army, the gunman in Wednesday's shooting was carrying a handgun that was not registered at Fort Hood. He was able to kill three before killing himself, and wound 16.

Lawmakers, as well as survivors of the 2009 shooting, claim he could have been stopped sooner if others on base had their weapons by their side.

"When our soldiers are unarmed, they will find themselves in a situation like yesterday and in 2009," Sgt. Howard Ray, a survivor of the 2009 mass shooting in which 13 people were killed, told Fox News.

One source who was at the scene when the Fort Hood lockdown was ordered Wednesday also raised concerns about current DOD policy.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/04/03/fort-hood-shooting-repeat-renews-calls-for-ending-gun-restrictions-on-base/

HOW'S MILITARY GUN BAN WORKING OUT?

Exclusive: Joseph Farah points out 'insanity of disarming U.S. soldiers' on base

Published: 14 hours ago

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“Four dead in Ohio.”

That was the familiar musical refrain by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young in 1970 in response to the killing of four students at Kent State.

My guess is there will be no songs sung about another four dead and 16 wounded at Fort Hood in Texas yesterday.

There should be.

How is this even possible? I keep hearing that this new slaughter will be a “wake-up call” to the U.S. military. About what? About the problem of post-traumatic stress disorder. Shouldn’t it be a wake-up call to the insanity of disarming U.S. soldiers and other servicemen on military bases? Shouldn’t that wake-up call have come in 2009 when Maj. Nidal Hasan, an Allahu akbar-shouting jihadi psychiatrist, killed 14, including an unborn baby, and wounded 29 others?

Thursday, April 03, 2014

Fort Hood attack: My son, our soldiers, are defenseless, sitting ducks

The Obama administration hasn’t learned anything from the massacres at Fort Hood in 2009 or the Washington Navy Yard last year.

For all my research on how to stop or prevent mass public shootings and all the victims at these attacks that I have talked to over the years, the attack this week at Fort Hood was different.

My son Ryan, who is stationed at Fort Hood and recently back from a tour in Afghanistan, was just two blocks from the attack and could hear the shots.

Ironically, my son is a concealed handgun permit holder. He can carry a concealed handgun whenever he is off the Fort Hood base so that he can protect himself and others. But on the base he and his fellow soldiers are defenseless.

He could see people fleeing from the scene.

However, as was true in the 2009 attack at Fort Hood by Major Nidal Malik Hasan, soldiers, like my son, are banned from having weapons on base unless they have “a credible and specific threat against [military] personnel [exists] in that region.”

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2014/04/03/fort-hood-attack-my-son-our-soldiers-are-defenseless-sitting-ducks/

FORT HOOD SHOOTING LEAVES 4 DEAD INCLUDING SHOOTER, 16 INJURED

By: John Hayward
4/3/2014 07:48 AM

RESIZE:AAA

Another shooting rampage occurred at Fort Hood in Texas on Wednesday afternoon, perpetrated this time by a soldier who was undergoing treatment for “behavioral and mental health issues.” According to reports, Spc. Ivan Lopez killed three other military personnel and wounded 16 before taking his own life. Three of the injured were still in critical condition as of Thursday morning. Early reports of multiple shooters appear to have been inaccurate.

To get the politically-charged details out of the way: Fort Hood remains a “gun-free zone” where soldiers are not permitted to carry firearms, although legislation to lift this 1993 ban was introduced by House Republicans in September; strict gun registration laws are enforced, but the shooter ignored them when he purchased the weapon used in the attack; he used a simple .45 handgun, not an “assault weapon”; and his rampage was ended by a good guy with a gun – actually a good gal with a gun, as he reportedly shot himself after running into a female military police officer.

http://www.humanevents.com/2014/04/03/fort-hood-shooting-leaves-3-dead-16-injured/

The Fort Hood shooter who killed three and injured 16 as it is revealed he was devastated over his mother's death, was being treated for depression and was taking Ambien

Ivan Lopez has been identified as the shooter who brought terror to the Texas army base on Wednesday afternoon
Lopez, a 34-year-old married father, had served one tour in Iraq in 2011 but did he did not have any recorded combat experience
Was upset about his mother and grandfather's deaths and had disagreements with base authorities about getting leave for their funerals
He started shooting from inside the medical building where he was seeking treatment for 'self-reported' brain injuries
Was prescribed Ambien to help deal with sleeping problems
Reportedly suffered from anxiety, depression and post traumatic stress disorder but had not been formally diagnosed at the time of the shooting
Killed three others and injured 16 people, some of whom are in critical condition
Bought his gun at the same store where Nidal Hasan bought his weapon ahead of the 2009 attack on the same base

By MEGHAN KENEALLY and MIA DE GRAAF

PUBLISHED: 09:39 EST, 3 April 2014 | UPDATED: 15:09 EST, 3 April 2014

Obama Promises to Get to the Bottom of the Ft. Hood Shooting -- Just Like He Got to the Bottom of Benghazi

April 03, 2014

Windows Media

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RUSH: Well, President Obama says he's gonna get to the bottom of the Fort Hood shooting, just like he got to the bottom of what happened in Benghazi. He's gonna get to the bottom of what happened at the Fort Hood shooting. Don't worry. Obama will protect us all. Obama is gonna get to the bottom of what happened, when he finishes this fundraiser, and then the next fundraiser, where he's gonna complain and moan about Republican money in campaigns. He's not gonna be worried, though, about Ron Burkle money or David Geffen money or George Soros money. He's only gonna be worried about Koch brother money.

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RUSH: Now, let's delve into the Fort Hood shooting. We also want sound bite 22 at the end of this, Mike. I just got that one. We're gonna start here with General John McHugh. This morning in Washington on Capitol Hill during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the 2015 Army budget request, the Army General John McHugh testified and had this to say, his opening remarks, about the Fort Hood shooter, Specialist Ivan Lopez.

MCHUGH: He was undergoing a variety of treatment and diagnoses for mental health conditions ranging from depression to anxiety to some sleep disturbance. He was prescribed a number of drugs to address those, including Ambien.

RUSH: Sounds like a Kennedy, in a way. I mean, what was it, Patrick Kennedy, Ambien, driving down the median late at night after a session of Congress. You know what I find one of the most ironic things is that on an Army base, Army, folks, they don't allow people to run around armed. Army base! I mean, there you have the life lesson. It happened again. The original Fort Hood shooter, jihad, although not stated, but it was. Allahu Akbar, you had jihad going on. Nobody was able to stop the original shooter 'til somebody showed up that was armed. One of the reasons it happened in the first place, the shooter knew that nobody else was armed. It's classic. The assumption being if you put guns in the place, they're all gonna be fired, because everybody's a rotgut when you give 'em a gun.

Here's another example. The only guy with a gun was the bad guy, on an Army base. Well, I mean, it's a clear illustration of how political correctness on the left totally distort common sense and reality everywhere in our culture. Here's Carol Costello. You should have seen the coverage on CNN this morning. They're just beside themselves. How can this happen? There weren't any guns. What can we do about it? It's horrible, it's horrible, every shooting we talk about mental illness and they don't pass any laws. Well, we used to have plenty, Carol, we used to have plenty of laws on mental illness, but they were deemed discriminatory against the mentally ill, so we had to get rid of 'em.

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2014/04/03/obama_promises_to_get_to_the_bottom_of_the_ft_hood_shooting_just_like_he_got_to_the_bottom_of_benghazi

Fort Hood Shooter Ivan Lopez

https://twitter.com/DailyMailUS/status/451735616041275393/photo/1

Rep. Mike McCaul said Wednesday’s tragedy at Fort Hood is another reminder that members of the military should be able to carry concealed weapons on base.

“I personally think, if you’re trained for combat, you ought to be able to carry a weapon,” the Texas Republican said on Fox News’s “The Kelly File” on Wednesday night in the wake of the shooting that left four dead and more than a dozen injure at the Texas military base.

A bill to that effect has been introduced in Congress but has not gone anywhere. The legislation was inspired in part by the previous tragic shooting at Fort Hood, by Army Maj. Nidal Hassan in 2009, as well as an attack at Washington’s Navy Yard last year

(PHOTOS: Fort Hood shooting)

SELF-DEFENSE DEBATE ROILED BY FT. HOOD SHOOTING

Even as Americans were still learning the horrible details of a shooting at Texas’ Ft. Hood (stay with Fox News for the latest updates) the endless political struggle over firearms was already reasserting itself. But this time, there’s a new wrinkle. Billionaire former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s gun-control group quickly produced statements on the shooting that asserted its agenda, with one saying “While we don’t know all of the facts, we do know that preventable gun deaths are a public health epidemic…” But the well-funded efforts for and against general gun control measures won’t likely advance very far on the news of the Texas tragedy. The issue that’s sure to become a focal point is the military policy requiring troops to be unarmed on base.

[WaPo provides details the rules on carrying firearms on Fort Hood.]

Disarmed - As details of the shooting came in Wednesday, Homeland security chairman Rep. Mike McCaul, R-Texas, told Megyn Kelly he thinks soldiers should be able to carrying arms on base. “The problem here, and with Fort Hood, the prior Nidal Hasan case, is that they couldn’t defend themselves because they were not allowed to carry weapons” McCaul said, adding he thinks lawmaker need to revisit the current restrictions. In Hawaii, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel was asked about the safety and security of military posts and bases. “When we have these kinds of tragedies on our bases, something’s not working,” Hagel said. When the Army, especially the combat-ready brigades at Ft. Hood, need to call 911 to deal with a lone gunman, Americans might be understandably perplexed.

[Speaking at a fundraiser shortly after the killings became public knowledge,President Obama told donors he was “heartbroken” and promised to get answers as to the cause.]

Lingering discussion - After this second shooting at Ft. Hood, the September massacre at Washington’s Navy Yard and other on-base incidents, the idea of re-arming at least some of the uniformed personnel other than MPs is gaining momentum. It will soon visit Capitol and select races across the country.

http://www.foxnews.com/

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And slay them wherever you come upon them, and expel them from where they expelled you; persecution is more grievous than slaying. But fight them not by the Holy Mosque until they should fight you there; then, if they fight you, slay them — such is the recompense of unbelievers, but if they give over, surely Allah is All-forgiving, All-compassionate. Fight them, till there is no persecution and the religion is Allah’s; then if they give over, there shall be no enmity save for evildoers. (Quran 2:191-193)

Men are the managers of the affairs of women for that Allah has preferred in bounty one of them over another, and for that they have expended of their property. Righteous women are therefore obedient, guarding the secret for Allah’s guarding. And those you fear may be rebellious admonish; banish them to their couches, and beat them. (Quran 4:34)

They wish that you should disbelieve as they disbelieve, and then you would be equal; therefore take not to yourselves friends of them, until they emigrate in the way of Allah; then, if they turn their backs, take them, and slay them wherever you find them; take not to yourselves any one of them as friend or helper. (Quran 4:89)

This is the recompense of those who fight against Allah and His Messenger, and hasten about the earth, to do corruption there: they shall be slaughtered, or crucified, or their hands and feet shall alternately be struck off; or they shall be banished from the land. That is a degradation for them in this world; and in the world to come awaits them a mighty chastisement. (Quran 5:33)

When thy Lord was revealing to the angels, ˜I am with you; so confirm the believers. I shall cast into the unbelievers’ hearts terror; so smite above the necks, and smite every finger of them! (Quran 8:12)

Make ready for them whatever force and strings of horses you can, to strike terror in the enemy of Allah and your enemy, and others besides them that you know not; Allah knows them. And whatsoever you expend in the way of Allah shall be repaid you in full; you will not be wronged. (Quran 8:60)

Then, when the sacred months are drawn away, slay the idolaters wherever you find them, and take them, and confine them, and lie in wait for them at every place of ambush. But if they repent, and perform the prayer, and pay the alms, then let them go their way; Allah is All-forgiving, All-compassionate. (Quran 9:5)

Fight those who believe not in Allah and the Last Day and do not forbid what Allah and His Messenger have forbidden — such men as practise not the religion of truth, being of those who have been given the Book — until they pay the tribute out of hand and have been humbled. (Quran 9:29)

Allah has bought from the believers their selves and their possessions against the gift of Paradise; they fight in the way of Allah; they kill, and are killed; that is a promise binding upon Allah in the Torah, and the Gospel, and the Koran; and who fulfils his covenant truer than Allah? So rejoice in the bargain you have made with Him; that is the mighty triumph. (Quran 9:111)

O believers, fight the unbelievers who are near to you; and let them find in you a harshness; and know that Allah is with the godfearing. (Quran 9:123)

When you meet the unbelievers, smite their necks, then, when you have made wide slaughter among them, tie fast the bonds; then set them free, either by grace or ransom, till the war lays down its loads. So it shall be; and if Allah had willed, He would have avenged Himself upon them; but that He may try some of you by means of others. And those who are slain in the way of Allah, He will not send their works astray. (Quran 47:4)

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