Finally, some good news today:
The Army psychiatrist charged in the deadly Fort Hood rampage in Texas will be court-martialed and face the death penalty, Fox News confirms.
Maj. Nidal Hasan is charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder in the November 2009 shooting spree at the Texas Army post…
Hasan’s lead attorney, John Galligan, had urged the commanding general not to seek the death penalty, saying such cases were more costly, time-consuming and restrictive…
Galligan has declined to say whether he is considering an insanity defense for his client.
What other excuse has he got? Low blood sugar? It’s not like he can say his client was a radicalized Muslim who openly called for jihad, but whose superiors looked the other way for fear of harming their careers by being pegged as bigots. So, yeah, let’s go with “Hasan was crazy.” Second-hand PTSD, right?
No civilian trial for this murderer and traitor. Good.
To celebrate this welcome news, here’s an oldie but a goodie. I wrote this back in Nov. ’09, when I first heard Hasan had been paralyzed from the waist down. Please enjoy.
Malik Nidal Hasan Goes to Heaven
EXT. GATES OF HEAVEN* – ETERNAL DAWN
Ridwan, gatekeeper of the Muslim afterlife: Hasan! Welcome to Paradise! Allah be praised!
Hasan: Thank you! Oh, it’s so nice to finally be here. The infidels, death to them all, they made me wait so very long.
R: Yeah. Infidels. Don’t you pity ’em? Anyway, you’re looking good. Er, as good as… as can be…
H: It’s okay, you can say it. I don’t mind being in this wheelchair. All in a day’s jihad.
R: Good. Excellent! That’s the spirit, if you’ll pardon the expression. Okay then, my friend. Paradise is yours. What would you like to do first?
H: Yes, um… If it’s no trouble… I was kind of hoping I could… Ahem… This is embarrassing.
R: Not at all! You’d like to meet your 72 virgins, wouldn’t you? Yes? It’s okay, a promise is a promise.
H: That would be very very very very nice.
R: I hear you, I hear you! Well, I have some good news and some bad news. The good news is that you’ve been a really terrific martyr, and your multitude of unsullied maidens awaits. They’re eager to fulfill your every desire. Aching to service you beyond all earthly imagining. I have to say, they’re really quite revved up about it. You’re a bit of a celebrity around here!
H: Oh, dear sweet Allah, yes, y– Wait. What’s the bad news?
R: They’re at the top of those stairs.
SMASH TO BLACK
*Not the ridiculous Christian heaven as imagined by the pinch-faced scold and the uneducated rustic, but the exotic Muslim Heaven, their belief in which we must all try to respect.