Waking up to deadly diversity
A new Rasmussen poll confirms the blindingly obvious about the deadly nature of blind diversity. It’s good to see the American public waking up to reality. But it’s a damned shame it keeps taking new rounds of jihadi eruptions to jolt them to the truth:
Sixty-three percent (63%) of U.S. voters say political correctness prevented the military from responding to warning signs from Major Nidal Malik Hasan that could have prevented the Fort Hood shootings from taking place.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that just 16% disagree and do not believe political correctness kept military authorities from possibly stopping the killing of 13 people and the wounding of many others in the November 5 incident. Twenty-one percent (21%) are not sure.
Voters also have very mixed feelings about how President Obama and the Army responded to the Fort Hood incident.
Older Americans are more suspicious of political correctness than voters under 40. Whites were more likely than African-Americans to think political correctness kept the military from responding to warning signs from Hasan.
Republicans and voters not affiliated with either major political party overwhelmingly believe political correctness held the military back. That view is shared by 49% of Democrats while 23% of those in the president’s party disagree.
Meanwhile:
Voter confidence in America’s conduct of the War on Terror has fallen to its lowest level since the first week of January in 2007.
Fifty-one percent (51%) of voters oppose the Obama administration’s decision to try the confessed chief planner of the 9/11 attacks and other suspected terrorists in a civilian court in New York City. Opposition is even higher among residents of New York State.
Related: A new threat to our soldiers on American soil. Will military leaders put their safety over political correctness this time – or is it still diversity uber alles?
A box of hollow-point bullets and an anonymous note threatening an incident like the one at Fort Hood, Texas, were discovered Thursday at Fort Benning, Ga., sparking a criminal investigation and greater police presence, a witness told Army Times.
According to a witness at the scene, a box of 20 hollow-point shells and a handwritten note were found in the motor pool area between 1st Battalion and 2nd Battalion, 29th Infantry, under the 197th Infantry Training Brigade.
“The note said ‘tell the commanding general to call off all charges or there will be a re-enactment of Fort Hood,’ ” the witness told Army Times. He spoke on condition he wouldn’t be identified.
After the discovery, he said, military police arrived with dogs, cordoned off a 20-foot perimeter around the box and began dusting for fingerprints and questioning people.
“They’re talking with anyone with a pending [Uniform Code of Military Justice] charge and people who are getting chaptered out to see if they can find out who it is,” the witness said.
An official at Fort Benning would not comment on the details offered by the witness except to acknowledge “an ongoing investigation into a general threat at Fort Benning.”
“A suspicious package and note were found,” post spokeswoman Elsie Jackson said. “The soldier notified a noncommissioned officer, who alerted 911. The area was secured as is normal in these types of incidents.”
The witness said soldiers in the unit were asked to step forward and were nervous about the possibility of a copycat crime like the Nov. 5 shootings at Fort Hood, in which 13 people were killed while waiting for medical appointments.
The suspect in the Fort Hood shootings, Army psychiatrist Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, has been charged with 13 counts of murder.
Jackson said “appropriate force protection measures are in place while an investigation is underway to determine if this is a viable threat.”
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Hmmm….
Does anyone think that politically-correct clowns who give orders now will focus on muslim soldiers in their investigation?
Sure!
Of course they will!
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that just 16% disagree and do not believe political correctness kept military authorities from possibly stopping the killing of
13 people14 people, and the wounding of many others in the November 5 incident.They can’t even get the poll question correct.
A note found in the motor pool. When I was in the Army, these were semi-secure areas. That should narrow the search considerably. Any muslims in the 2nd Bn?
In other words, only the people that are capable of independant thought are aware that political correctness is poison.
Probably the thing that bothers me the most about “PC” actions is, it only goes one way! Anything “white” is bad and anything “black” or “brown” is good! Anything “Christian” is bad and anything “nonChristian” or “antiChristian” is good! And anything “American” is bad and anything “nonAmerican” or “antiAmerican” is good!
That was certainly the case here! Hasan is not “white”, is “antiChristian”, and “antiAmerican”, so there wasn’t a @#$%& thing that could be done to stop him without someone getting in trouble!
The blood of 14 victims says this has to stop!
General Casey has to go…
George Orwell says:
Since the followers of Islam come in many colors, that fact alone could be their downfall in any attempt at profiling. That said, that leaves us with simply a religious one. They’ll never go there, and call it for what it is, so we can expect more of these incidents. Our soldiers are sitting ducks in Iraq, Afghanistan, and now at home. Time to arm them on bases.
Deadly diversity. How true. I have a sinking feeling this is not the last time “diversity” will kill people.
At least let the soldiers be armed so that they may defend themselves.
Interpreting the data -
A box of bullets and a threatening note versus a non-connected string of incidents by an individual.
One is a more obvious threat and the other was less obvious. Both present a danger. Both should be and have been dealt with.
All properly qualified Officers and NCOs should be carrying sidearms when on duty.
as does dear leader, the congress save a very very small few, all the czars, the fed and a bunch more of those marxist/libtards in our gooberment…
This sounds more like a ‘disgruntled’ GI rather than a jihadi, to me. The “re-enactment of Ft. Hood” could just be refering to shootings, rather than any Islamic motivation.
Agreed.
There has to be a wholesale housecleaning; a change of kind, not just of degree.
This just might be a problem that requires a similar style of solution to that which Alexander the Great came up with for his Gordian Knot problem.
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Forgive my ignorance; but why/how would dismissal of all charges against an apparent dangerous jihadi barbarian loon “regruntle” a “disgruntled” GI?
The Superintendant of West Point put a letter up on his website parroting the nonsense that Casey is spewing. He tells the cadets to focus more on diversity and to avoid making their minority classmates feel bad. My message: When you become an officer, care more about your troops than your next promotion.
I hope that our service academies do not get infiltrated.
The other day CNN had a story on the “best cities to live in” or some such. The comments were hilarious. Several comments were of the “Why aren’t any of these good cities diverse?” type. For that, you can look at the bad cities list, and lo and behold, there’s all the “diverse” cities, like Camden, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Detroit.
What was scariest was the subtle subtext of the comments. Whoever built the lists should have listed diverse cities in the safest list merely because they’re diverse, and that’s more important than the facts that they’re not as safe.
Really I’m quite surprised that the # opposing isn’t far more.
The reason for comments like these is because mindless lemmings parrot liberal-speak without even knowing what the hell it means. If you think about it “diversity” in the sense that immigrants now want to set up little versions of their own home countries and not assimilate into the American culture, or agree to the fact that english is the primary language in the US, isnt a strenth but a MAJOR weakness.
Liberals love catch-pahrases, mantra’s etc., because as I have said a hundred times on this blog, they have an intellect that is puddle deep, and cannot analyze issues like most others can. The “simple” appeals to them, because they can wrap their minds around it.
Ummmm, am I the only one who believes that just MIGHT refer to dropping all charges against Hasan?
Semper Fi’
DM
Not at all.
Hence, my first comment above.
Yeah, you want diversity and PC?? Move to those lovely cities that are run by progressives. Detroit, Pittsburg, New Orleans, Los Angeles, many more. Every single one of them has been destroyed by liberal policies and the welfare state. Why can’t they SEE this??? Seriously, one only has to look at these kinds of lists to see the obvious in black and white (pardon the pun). Another example of progressive idiocy is my own Minneapolis. Remember all the Somalians we proudly brought to this city. Poor, oppressed Somalians. We were so wonderful to bring them here and help them!! Yes! Bring more!! Ha! Minneapolis has been destroyed by progressives for a long time. Our Mayors in Mpls. have all been democrat since 1974!
Following on the thoughts of sbw999 above (regarding culture, assimilation, ‘diversity’, etc’)
Let Mr. Teddy Roosevelt respond:
Indeed. Unity and commonality have a place in our culture too, and they are sadly undervalued in the present time.
How can we remain ‘united’ if we keep emphasizing and rewarding those who only focus on our differences? I think T.R. was able to see the long-term implications of the cultural implosion.
I confess, I didn’t read the entire article. I am of the opinion that tolerance falls in the same amoral category as diversity, Tolerance and diversity are two strokes from the same pen.
Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society.
~Aristotle
the sooner the western nations face the fact that islam (all of it is radical) is out to colonize the entire world, the better. europe is half conquered, the phillipines are in trouble, and russia is wobbbling. ANY PERON WHO LOOKS AT HISTORY WILL COME TO ONE CONCLUSION. ISLAM IS ON THE MARCH WITH SOFT WORDS AND BOMBS.
“Keep your friends close and your enemies closer”. The soldiers need to be instructed not to shun or to fear fellow soldiers who are Muslim, but to become friends with them, buddies, close confidants. Talk to them about their faith and yours, ask why they joined the military, how they feel about what happened in FT Hood, and what they would do if they knew that another soldier was threatening jihad. By talking and listening you will be more likely to learn if THEIR sympathies lie with you and your fellow soldiers or if they are a part of the soldiers of Allah first…and the USA last. Know your (potential) enemy.
Good luck with that.
Not wise at all.
One word for you…taqiyya (deception).
Wait a minute…your post was tongue-in-cheek, right?
Of course, all Christians and crazy conservatives must be investigated first so as to not give Muslims the idea that they are being profiled…
You know what? I am tired of all this crap, jihad, muslim (radicals), Crap and Trade, Health Care, faultering economy, unemployment. Lets make a change and take charge, not just of the United States, but collectively as people of the world. I do not care if you are Ungandian, Chineese, Asian, Anglo, Hindu, Christian, or anything in between. Let us sit down and come up with a plan together to do away with all the corruption, killing, war, and suffering. There is no power on earth greater than WE.
Now if folk will stop referring to the red flags as “missed”, it is pretty clear that nothing was “missed”. The wildly flapping red flags were pointedly, intentionally “ignored”.
The warning signs were NOT missed.
-brian
Time for base/post installation commanders to start let us pack some heat on base.
I know on AF bases, you have to turn in your personal weapon to the armory.
I just read about some Navy SEALS being criminally charged for busting the lip of Iraq’s most wanted terrorist when they caught the guy.
I’m ready to go bust somebody’s lip myself!
Oh really. Look… the accused (he is innocent til proven guilty) just killed these 4 Blackwater security people with grenades and bullets, then burned, dismembered and hung their bodies upside down on a bridge to be photographed. How dare those Seals bloody his lip!!! They should be put away for life, and the jihadi should get a visit to the White House, and a personal apology from the White House! Not to mention a million dollars, at least, in damages for being assaulted. I mean, c’mon!!!!
/sarc off
granite,
Shunning them all and refusing to speak with them won’t work.
“You shall know the Truth, and the Truth will set you free.” -Some Jewish Carpenter Dude
Befriending them is a solution, but only if by befriending them you are willing to CONSTANTLY tell them the truth about Islam, about Allah and Mohammad, AND about God (that is, Hashem, YHWH, the creator).
Unfortunately most want to tell them that their religion is B.S., and that ALL religions are B.S., that they’re all the same, yada yada yada.
This doesn’t work, and never will. You cannot replace a lie with another lie, especially a milquetoast lie like that. The truth about Christ and God’s plan is the only replacement that will work.
There is a reason that most successful cult-deprogrammers are CHRISTIAN. They know the only Way that really works. Truth will stomp out taqiyya.
“There is no power on earth greater than WE.”
Mach1Duck, I couldn’t disagree more.
If in 2010 Americans are still worshipping the altar of Entertainment, if in 2010 Americans are still murdering babies by the millions per year, if in 2010 Americans are still not on bended knee to the God who blessed this nation with such bounty as has never been known by man, then the spanking will continue, and increase in magnitude and severity.
Political maneuvering and winning elections for the Republican Party is not going to save us. “WE” don’t have the power, not intrinsically.
“Without Him we can do nothing.”
Keep thinking you’ll “take it back” in 2010, while America still worships its Idols. You’re in for a bad year.
I supposed it could be someone at Benning, but it could just as well be someone sympathetic and asking for the charges against Hasan to be dropped.
I agree with that, but it’s not enough. What good does it do to learn where their sympathies lie if fear of the PC police prevents people from doing anything about it?
There were many fellow doctors and officers who knew all about Major Hasan’s sympathies. They saw his slide show presentation calling for the beheading and burning of non-muslims. They saw him rejoice at the news that a muslim had shot two men at a recruiting center in Arkansas. And they knew he had tried to have some of his patients brought up on war crimes for fighting against Muslims.
Some of Hasan’s colleagues even reported him to their superiors, but NOTHING was done (other than giving him a promotion.) No one wanted to be accused of being overly suspicious of Muslims or (gasp) profiling them. That’s why they refused to incur the wrath of the PC police by being the first to point out that the emporer had no clothes.
But worst of all, the FBI knew he was sending emails to an Al Qaeda cleric affiliated with 9/11. They dismissed it as a Muslim seeking advice from an Imam and claimed there was not enough evidence to conduct a formal investigation. But the FBI knew full well that some of the advice he was seeking from the Imam was how to contribute money to jihadist causes without being noticed. If that doesn’t warrant a formal investigation, what does?!!
tre said:
That sums up the character of President Barak Hussein Obama, and his administration as well. A merry band of American haters.
Sounds too late to me. In Branch Immaterial Officer Candidate Course (BIOCC) at Fort Benning, Georgia, back in the olden days, we were taught that our concerns should be, in order: Mission, Men, Myself. Nowhere in my “Mission statement” did it say that I had to be “diverse.” As for my Men, they weren’t “diverse;” they were soldiers. As for Myself, I failed to get elected to the Equal Opportunity Council while running with the campaign slogan: “Diversity not Perversity.”
ECS