The shootings at Fort Hood have of course galvanized the Shithead Right to their vilest spewing of lies and hatred

by Ken

We know that sometimes crisis brings out the best in Americans. Sometimes. Other times it brings out the worst, including to listen to the vilest, worst informed, most bigoted dregs of humanity. And since there has never been a group in the history of the human race as criminally insane and sociopathic as the American Shithead Right, enemies to the death of every form of intelligence and decency, it's not hard to guess which way the wind will blow after a tragic incident like yesterday shootings at Fort Hood.

Since all these devil worshippers know is ignorance and hatred -- or should I say ignorance and hatred and how to make a buck off them? -- the immediate concern is the upsurge of loudmouth (and possibly worse than "mouth") bigotry against Muslim Americans. This is a form of intolerance that is supposed to violate everything that America is about. But of course the merchants of hate, in their desperation to turn the country into a reflection of the shit their souls are made of, don't care what America is about. They look in the mirror and, rightly, see nothing but worthlessness and hatred, but then are seized with the necessity to project their own worthlessness and hatred onto innocent victims.

Remember the first reactions to the Oklahoma City bombing, when the shithead fake-patriots had already launched their anti-Muslim jihad by the time the truth came out, and the degree to which the phony patriots lost interest once it was established that it was a deliberate act of terrorism by the crackpot self-anointed True Patriots of the Far Right, the spiritual forebears of the Teabaggers' Conspiracy.

Spencer Ackerman did a terrific piece on the subject today for the Washington Independent:

Possible GOP Candidate: Ft. Hood Shootings Prove ‘The Enemy Is Infiltrating Our Military’

By SPENCER ACKERMAN 11/6/09 1:40 PM

The Hill reports that Allen West, a former Army lieutenant colonel promoted by the National Republican Congressional Committee as one of its “young guns,” has come to some conclusions about the meaning of Maj. Hasan’s murders at Ft. Hood:

“This enemy preys on downtrodden soldiers and teaches them extremism will lift them up,” West said in a statement. “Our soldiers are being brainwashed.”

The release added that West claims “the horrible tragedy at Fort Hood is proof the enemy is infiltrating our military.”

This is further out there than even Fox host Brian Kilmeade’s slanders on Muslim U.S. soldiers. We don’t know what Hasan’s motivations actually were, let alone that he’s a symptom of “the enemy” “infiltrating” the military. Hasan, it’s worth remembering, joined the Army in 1995, even before Osama bin Laden had declared war on America.

But this is perhaps typical of West’s reasoning, as he was disciplined in the Army in Iraq for actually firing his weapon near a detainee’s head during an interrogation, which is typically a crime. CNN:

In testimony at an Article 32 hearing -- the military’s version of a grand jury or preliminary hearing -- West said the policeman, Yahya Jhrodi Hamoody, was not cooperating with interrogators, so he watched four of his soldiers from the 220th Field Artillery Battalion beat the detainee on the head and body.

West said he also threatened to kill Hamoody. Military prosecutors say West followed up on that threat by taking the suspect outside, put him on the ground near a weapons clearing barrel and fired his 9 mm pistol into the barrel.

To make a point no one should have to make: earlier this year, a deranged Army sergeant named John Russell opened fire near a combat stress clinic -- sound familiar? -- at Baghdad’s Camp Liberty and killed five of his fellow soldiers. No one speculated about any religious motivations. No one suggested he was part of an enemy “infiltration,” or suggested that U.S. troops have been “brainwashed.” Everyone understood that Russell was a deranged lunatic, not an advance scout for a conspiracy to subvert the military internally. It’s funny how double standards work.

Actually, no. It’s disgusting.

Exactly right, Spencer, it's disgusting. And it's likely to be even worse, as any American of "questionable" skin color, who might be suspected of being somehow connected to the Middle East, is targeted for persecution by the know-nothings. It's worth trying to remember just how quintessentially un-American this is.


UPDATE: THE LIES KEEP
COMING, FAST AND FURIOUS

It's a thankless job, but somebody's got to keep track of the psychotic lies pouring out of the Right-Wing Shithead Noise Machine, and Media Matters, bless their souls, is on the job.

The latest? A Lou "Don't Hate Me Just 'Cause I'm Nuttier Than a Pecan Pie" Dobbs shithead lie: Dems using Ft. Hood shooting as "cover" to pass health reform in House.

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