How "odd".
Feb. 19th, 2010 04:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
flewellynIt's funny how, when Joe Stack flies a plane into an IRS building because he hates paying taxes and wants to strike a blow against the government, he's clearly a guy who just snapped.
But when Nidal Malik Hassan shoots up Fort Hood after enduring years of harrassment and intimidation by his fellow soldiers, he is immediately branded a terrorist and no talk of "just snapping" is tolerated by the media.
But when Nidal Malik Hassan shoots up Fort Hood after enduring years of harrassment and intimidation by his fellow soldiers, he is immediately branded a terrorist and no talk of "just snapping" is tolerated by the media.
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Date: 2010-02-19 11:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-19 11:20 pm (UTC)He then set his house on fire: http://www.foxtoledo.com/dpps/news/national/south/investigators-begin-day-combing-house_3244826
Then crashed his plane into the IRS building.
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Date: 2010-02-19 11:13 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-02-20 03:04 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-02-20 11:10 pm (UTC)Far too true.
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Date: 2010-02-20 12:13 am (UTC)the fiend
or that this kind of federal building destruction only happens when a democrat is in office?
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Date: 2010-02-20 12:16 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-02-20 12:46 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-02-20 10:03 pm (UTC)I have been confused about Nidal Mallik Hassan being labelled at terrorist because a terrorist attack is defined as an attack against civilians. Hassan attacked military personnel. It can't be terrorism.
It was still a horrible act of mass murder though.
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Date: 2010-02-21 05:57 pm (UTC)We ALL hate paying taxes, but most of us LOVE a man in uniform.
Der! =^P