{"id":3402,"date":"2013-08-29T12:16:06","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T12:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/?p=3402"},"modified":"2013-08-29T12:16:06","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T12:16:06","slug":"too-bad-hasan-got-his-wish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=3402","title":{"rendered":"Too bad Hasan got his wish"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Nidal Hasan got his wish.<\/p>\n<p>A military court has sentenced the Fort Hood mass murderer to death by lethal injection. The one-time U.S. Army major and Muslim extremist who killed 13 people in that horrific Fort Hood massacre in 2009, wants to go out as a martyr, which is what he perceives his faith entitles him. <\/p>\n<p>Hasan acted as his own attorney during the trial. He didn&#8217;t question witnesses. He didn&#8217;t object to a single point the federal government made. He admitted to shooting those helpless victims because, as he said, he opposed U.S. war policy in Afghanistan &#8212; where the Army was about to send him before the shooting occurred.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I guess he&#8217;ll get that chance if the Army ever carries out the sentence.<\/p>\n<p>I wish the court had given him life in prison with zero possibility for parole.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not that Hasan doesn&#8217;t deserve to die. It&#8217;s simply that the U.S. military has given Islamic extremists all over the world a reason to cheer the day the Army psychiatrist leaves this world for wherever he&#8217;s headed.<\/p>\n<p>Now that the court has ruled, maybe the Pentagon brass can come up with a way to execute Hasan and then dispose of his remains in a manner that won&#8217;t create some kind of shrine that attracts religious perverts.<\/p>\n<p>I keep thinking of the way the U.S. Navy took care of Osama bin Laden&#8217;s remains after the SEALs killed him in that daring May 2011 raid. They wrapped him up and threw him into the Indian Ocean. Isn&#8217;t there a similar option available for Nidal Hasan?<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nidal Hasan got his wish. A military court has sentenced the Fort Hood mass murderer to death by lethal injection. The one-time U.S. Army major and Muslim extremist who killed 13 people in that horrific Fort Hood massacre in 2009, wants to go out as a martyr, which is what he perceives his faith entitles &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=3402\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Too bad Hasan got his wish<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1771,3309,3458,4158,4944,4972],"class_list":["post-3402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fort-hood","tag-nidal-hasan","tag-osama-bin-laden","tag-seals","tag-u-s-army","tag-u-s-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}