Regardless of the camp you are in, you can't help but be curious of why people like Theodore Kaczynski, Timothy McVeigh, John Mohamed, Nidal Hasan - American Citizens – can commit such acts of mass mayhem and murder. People of Normal Sensibilities (IMO) cannot but look upon it in horror and call it what it is, an Act of a Terrorist.

Liberal/Progressives, as an identifiable Demographic, will readily decry the human tragedy in woundings and losses of life, and moan and mourn for the Victims, but they are loathe to call it Terrorism. They say they are searching and exploring for viable explanation, but, in reality they are looking for “excuses.”

Daniel Zwerdling, of NPR reports, “Walter Reed Officials Asked: Was Hasan Psychotic?”  Promptly, then, he quotes a staffer at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, "Everybody felt that if you were deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan, you would not want Nidal Hasan in your foxhole."

One official involved in the conversations had reportedly told colleagues that he worried that if Hasan deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan, he might leak secret military information to Islamic extremists. Another official reportedly wondered aloud to colleagues whether Hasan might be capable of committing fratricide, like the Muslim U.S. Army sergeant who, in 2003, killed two fellow soldiers and injured 14 others by setting off grenades at a base in Kuwait.

Still, the Liberal determination is that Nidal Hasan must be Mentally Ill or insane. He can't be held responsible!

The Washington Post reports:
As a senior-year psychiatric resident at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Maj. Nidal M. Hasan was supposed to make a presentation on a medical topic of his choosing as a culminating exercise of the residency program.  Instead, in late June 2007, he stood before his supervisors and about 25 other mental health staff members and lectured on Islam, suicide bombers and threats the military could encounter from Muslims conflicted about fighting in the Muslim countries of Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a copy of the presentation obtained by The Washington Post.

"It's getting harder and harder for Muslims in the service to morally justify being in a military that seems constantly engaged against fellow Muslims," he said in the presentation.

I believe I know precisely why the Liberal/Progressives refuse to call the acts of the Fort Hood Shooter (or anyone else, for that matter) Terrorism.

The Foundation, Basement, and Ground Floor of the Liberal/Progressive Movement is that the Entire World is the Victim of the United States of America.

Keyword: VICTIMSTANCE  -- the active mindset of being a victim.

So, what do we know about Victims? Victims are expected to be in Victimstance, a temporary state of Mental Disorder. Victims are expected to be angry. Victims are expected to be irrational. Victims are expected to be seeking vengeance. Victims can even be forgiven for acting outside the bounds of the law, in a court of law, on occasion.

If the Liberal/Progressive zealots can manage to keep their unenlightened adherents in that Irrational State of Victimstance, there are numerous other manipulations that may be easily be foisted upon them, one of the easier being “Hero Worship.  To levy blame upon anyone whom they deem to be a potential hero of the cause to be a definite spell breaker.

NPR Story: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120313570&ps=rs
Washington Post Story: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/gallery/2009/11/10/GA2009111000920.html

There is a lesson here, for the Conservatives to to understand and treasure. Of particular note is the fact that Mr. Christie focused on particulars of how to deal with individual and specific problems in the State, rather than any Partisan Issues.

And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country.
My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.

Only the House of Representatives may authorize expenditures from the National Treasury.

An ominous prognostication is attributed to Alexander Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee (15 October 1747 - 5 January 1813), a Scottish-born British lawyer and writer, “A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the Public Treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose Fiscal Policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.” [either Authoritarian or Totalitarian]

Three things I have continually tried to convince people of, in the five years or so I have been Blogging.
-- TANSTAAFL - There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch! If you don't pay for it, somebody else did. Taking someone else's money without their permission is Theft!
-- Regardless of which Party has the Majority in the House of Representatives, the President should be elected from a different Party.
-- At the outset of American Government, the Senate was populated by Statesmen and some Lawyers, and the House of Representatives was populated by Average Citizens - Shop Keepers, Small Business Owners, Farmers and Ranchers, even Educated Laborers - sent as Envoys from the areas where they lived - known and trusted. They were willing to do their duty, but, almost from Day One, they were anxious to go back Home.