From The Political Commentator

Did They Shoot Up Their Bases And Kill Their Tormentors?

Is Hasan A Victim Or A Perpetrator? 


During World War II, as well as most other times in recent history, both blacks and Jews faced a degree of torment during basic training or after being deployed. 


(Forward) Jerome Minkow graduated from high school in the Bronx on January 30, 1945 and entered the army on January 31. When he reached basic training at Camp Blanding down South he couldn’t understand how he could be such an oddity for his fellow GIs. One of them even asked him to sign a piece of paper to show the folks back home what a Jew’s signature looked like. Minkow was flabbergasted, and stunned by the animus that surrounded him. He regularly found himself in fights. Eventually Minkow earned respect in the boxing ring.


(Daily Progress) When Frank C. Brown showed up to serve his country in World War II, he got beatings and an insult.
It wasn’t just the normal treatment Marine recruits get, either. It was because he was black. In 1943, Brown, who now lives in Kents Store in Fluvanna County, enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps in Washington.


How did these soldiers deal with the mistreatment that was based solely on who they were or what they believed? No pulling of weapons. No killings. No national apologies or attention to the problem to help the Jewish or black soldiers deal with the situation. If it was dealt with at all, it was mano y mano with fists.


Some in the news and elsewhere seem to be attempting to blame the murder committed at Fort Hood on the treatment that Major Hasan had reportedly received as it concerned his Muslin faith from some of his fellow soldiers. Is this a Columbine situation where the man was an abused outsider driven to kill? In a politically correct world where the truth is manipulated in order to make the committer of the act the victim of his own actions, that seems to be the attempt by many. On a certain level it has been made to sound as if the United States should apologize for putting Hasan in the position where he was left no choice but to commit mass murder.


I say that this position is wrong. Very wrong. As discussed before, groups through out time have been on the receiving end of taunts from their comrades due to either religious, ethnic or racial factors. That did not drive them to shoot up their base, killing or wounding many while allegedly screaming words indicating that this was a pre-planned act carried out for very specific reasons. A fight with the tormentor most likely, but not gunfire.


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Not to go through all of the factors that may very well lead to the conclusion that this was in fact an act of domestic terrorism, but we as a nation need to take a step back and end the process of being apologists  for ourselves when it comes to conflicts at home and around the world. 


All those on the left and the ACLU groupies who seem to take pleasure in the picking apart of acts of violence, inevitably coming to the conclusion that the perpetrators had their hands forced by some wrong inflicted by the United States. Perhaps they need to understand more completely that there are in fact groups of people who hate us and our way of life in a way and to a depth that is difficult to comprehend, and that no level of appeasement or apology is going to change that.


We can look to alter ourselves all that we want, but it will not change the reality of the world that we are living in. Political correctness is all well and good at a prep school, but not in the real world! Not when people want to eradicate you!