GORDON DUFF: FT. HOOD: BEFORE THE LIES BEGIN

NO LIES, NO SPIN, NO FINGERPOINTING

THIS WAS A TERRORIST ATTACK

By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor

I am going on the record before there is any official story at all on the murders at Ft. Hood.  The more time passes, the more investigation goes on, the deeper it gets.  12 dead so far is a terrorist attack, not an Army psychiatrist with a stress problem.  Nobody is at fault, not this president, not the last one and not the army.  People kill people, not guns.  It could always happen and it did.  No coverup is wanted, no spin desired no CYA, nothing.  Deal with it.

If I turn on the TV tomorrow and see ANY network trying to feel sorry for the killer or blame anyone else, figure the possibility I will get in my car and start down the road looking to open a can of whoopass on somebody.  We honor our dead, we bury our dead, we don’t spin them into the ground with political chickenshit.

Anyone who no longer feels safe, who thought they were safe before needs to know:  There are no survivors on number 3.  These bodies are issued with no warranty an an expiration date we can’t read.  If being totally safe is absolutely vital to you, please stay the hell away from me.  I am already a Vietnam vet, I don’t need anymore craziness.

Some things are obvious.  Muslim, psychiatrist, gun.  Enough said.  Add carnage to that and any attempt to call this something other than terrorism is totally insane.  People are being killed all over the world.  Today it was us.  We fight back.  This is our way.

The most important thing for us to realize is that this is the only straight talk you are going to get.  Every word from here on will be a lie.  There is a world out there with people who have too much time on their hands, people paid to take a simple fact, paint it blue, paint it green but when they are done it isn’t a fact anymore.

No investigations, no reports, no minute by minute updates are going to bring anyone back.  This guy was a terrorist, this guy was a murderer.  I don’t care if his mother didn’t love him, I don’t care if an Israeli scared his cat.

When things like this have happened in the past, our friends in Saudi Arabia have set up funds to support the families of the killers.  Many of those who murdered Israeli children have been rewarded in such a way.  I think this was wrong, it was wrong but because of oil and gutlessness we did nothing.

I wouldn’t like to think something like this is still going on.  If anyone wants to make certain that this practice is over, I would support this.

Lenin and Trotsky, the real inventors of terrorism would tell us to seek broad retribution.  This is not a moral judgement I am empowered to make, not on an operational level.  However, it is something that crosses my mind.

If concepts like this crossed more people’s minds, there might be less killing.

Maybe I am missing something.  I am supposed to put this in a larger perspective of an endless chain of violence and shrug, perhaps say a few words into clasped hands and wait for a deity to offer an answer.

It is the responsibility of every man, every day, to act with moral judgement and an appreciation for the sanctity of human life.  Today, someone went well beyond any sensibility, any duty, any form of human behavior whatsoever.

We bury our dead, we start sharpening our knives and we begin to look.  Maybe it ends here, maybe, but I am not so sure it should.

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