Wednesday, June 5, 2013

NIDAL HASAN'S DEFENSE



Nidal Hasan (I refuse to associate his name with a military rank) murdered 13 soldiers and wounded over 30 others at Ft. Hood. He is being allowed to defend himself at his trial. Many people are upset at the judge’s decision to allow this. I am not and will explain why.

Any judge or lawyer will tell you that the worse defense council in the world is yourself. Hasan says he is going to use "the defense of others" as his defense. Well the others he is referring to are Muslims in Afghanistan. The only Muslims in Afghanistan coming under U.S. fire are combative members or combative supporters of the Taliban. So in other words he is defending the Taliban. The Taliban are the enemy and he was an Army officer at the time of the shootings. By shooting our soldiers to defend the Taliban he is a traitor and committed treason. He is going to admit to treason, in a court of law, as his defense. Treason during war time can carry the death penalty.

I am not a lawyer but this seems pretty straight forward to me. My words to Hasan, go for it. Use that defense. We'll execute you for treason instead of murder. Same result.

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