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Mike Nelson here.
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Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan sentenced to death

A jury has sentenced U.S. army psychiatrist Nidal Hasan to death for killing 13 people during the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood in Texas.

The U.S.-born Muslim said the attack on unarmed soldiers was motivated by a desire to protect insurgents fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.

He offered no defence in his trial.

The same jury that sentenced him to death Wednesday found him guilty last week in the attack, which also wounded more than 30 people.

Before an execution date is set, the sentence will face years of appeals.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2013/08/28/us-ft-hood-massacre-death-sentence-nidal-hasan.html

shaking my head.

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Online
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Military Justice Is Served

Two major sentences handed down in one week!
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hi
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robert bales got life w/o parole.
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Unlike Hasan, Bales pleaded guilty to his crime and asked for forgiveness from the victims' families. The system works.
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I wonder how much syrian inaction frustration played a role in this case.
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yeah, and realistically the guys he killed probably would've killed themselves anyway. and the ones that wouldn't have are just demonstrable psychopaths, so it's probably better to just weed them out. really, i'm having difficulty imagining any scenario where killing soldiers could be seen as a tragedy.
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tardy on these heaters
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cool thing about nidal hasan he never raped nobody
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Not Your S.H.I.E.L.D.
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Troops should be openly treated as disposable commodities and told from Day 1 that the only way they get to come home is in a body bag. weed out the poseurs
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Not Your S.H.I.E.L.D.
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just think of how many homeless that would immediately clear off the streets
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meet me in st louis
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waiit, they come back in a bag of weed? where do i sign up?
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Marxsplainer
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compost Troop bodies and use it to fertilize the finest all-american patriotic kush. roll it up in commemorative constitution bluntwraps and take it to the dome in the name of that red white and blue. old glory baby.
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codywilson posted:

yeah, and realistically the guys he killed probably would've killed themselves anyway. and the ones that wouldn't have are just demonstrable psychopaths, so it's probably better to just weed them out. really, i'm having difficulty imagining any scenario where killing soldiers could be seen as a tragedy.


social production v. private appropriation.

Social production of troops, yet privatized, individualized responsibility of troops? Such seems to be a contradiction, a distortion leading to a crisis of reality.

Are we all, as social cogs in the imperialist machine, responsible for the actions of the troops? If we invade Syria, is the blood of the people on my hands? is it on your's? Should something be done to curtail or influence such action?

(I apologize for the american-centrism, but with the globalization forces in play it seems superfluous to distinguish industrialized, "first-world" nations--the expanded conceptualization which identifies the contradiction to begin with can be applied, I think, to the greater global community rather than exclusively America.)