{"id":34908,"date":"2013-04-03T08:18:33","date_gmt":"2013-04-03T12:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=34908"},"modified":"2013-04-03T08:18:33","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T12:18:33","slug":"the-purple-heart-for-fort-hood-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34908","title":{"rendered":"The Purple Heart for Fort Hood victims"},"content":{"rendered":"

Derek and MCPO Ret. in TN send us a link to CNN<\/a> which discusses the reasons that the Department of Defense won’t award a Purple Heart to Nidal Hasan’s victims, and it has to do with lawyer shit;<\/p>\n

The Defense Department argues that awarding the Purple Heart to the Fort Hood victims would make it harder to convict Hasan in the death-penalty case and “deprive the victims of these crimes the right to see justice done.”<\/p>\n

“Defense counsel will argue that Major Hasan cannot receive a fair trial because a branch of government has indirectly declared that Major Hasan is a terrorist — that he is criminally culpable,” the document states. That could lead to a delay of the case or the reversal of a guilty verdict on appeal, it continued.<\/p>\n

“This laudable sentiment mistakenly and unwillingly supplants the criminal trial process by infusing official, formal statutory conclusions about the motive, intent and culpability of the man charged with the crime,” the memo reads.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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It would make it “harder to convict Hasan”? How is that? The article continues that the prosecutors will tell the jury that Hasan yelled “Allah Akbar” while he shot unarmed people. Before the shootings, he was in communication with Anwar al-Awlaki, someone that the US government determined was a terrorist threat to the US and sent him a catered Hellfire lunch. I don’t see how it could be hard to convict Hasan of being a terrorist, since what he did is terrorism. From U.S. Code Title 22, Ch.38, Para. 2656f(d); the term \u201cterrorism\u201d means premeditated, politically motivated violence perpetrated against noncombatant targets by subnational groups or clandestine agents<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I’m no lawyer, but some of you are. Maybe you can explain it to the rest of us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Derek and MCPO Ret. in TN send us a link to CNN which discusses the reasons … The Purple Heart for Fort Hood victims<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[198,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-army","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}