Army Sued for $750M Over Fort Hood Tragedy

[old Grump]

November 11, 2011
Associated Press|by Pete Yost



WASHINGTON -- Eighty-three victims and family members in the worst-ever mass shooting at a U.S. military installation are seeking $750 million in compensation from the Army, alleging that willful negligence enabled psychiatrist Maj. Nidal Hasan to carry out a terrorist attack at Fort Hood, Texas.
The administrative claims filed last week said the government had clear warnings that Hasan, who is scheduled to go on trial in March, posed a grave danger to the lives of Soldiers and civilians.


http://www.military.com/news/article/army-sued-for-750m-over-fort-hood-tragedy.html?ESRC=navy.nl
Looks like the bend over backwards to the Muslim radicals is finally paying off, if getting bit in the tush for 750 million is a good thing for the tax payer. It sure makes the lawyers rich but won't do much for the families who lost members to that low life scum sucking bastard. It won't do a damn thing for security at our bases either as long as our bosses in the upper floor offices play PC and make the policy. I still get heartburn just thinking about what he did and the fact that nobody was allowed to defend themselves. Worse yet the restrictions against guns on base just got tighter after the massacre.

Call me cynical but what in the hell has to happen before our troops can be safe on base at home?

[El Jefe]

But, but, but........ah the he'll with it, we all know what's up.

[imanaknut]

I am hoping that some time in my life, I get to see people starting to admit that when you allow people to be armed for self-protection, these mass slaughters will not happen.

[Mark Ducati]

When's the last time the Army put someone to death? I don't think the Army's into "lethal injection" or the electric chair... I think in the Army they hang you or death by firing squad???

[Mark Ducati]

I was right... most of the time, hanging... but no capital punishments have been carried out in the military since 1961:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_by_the_United_States_military

I hope this guy's noose is lubricated or bullets dipped in bacon grease.... if convicted, I also don't think the Army lets someone sit on death row for 20 years... I bet if convicted, this guy's dead within a couple months.

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I was off a little... according to this article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_A._Bennett , The last guy executed, Eisenhower signed the death warrant, then 4 years later the family of the raped 11 year old girl asked for leniency when Kennedy was president, but Kennedy chose not to grant that leniency and spare this guy.

[Warthogg]

When's the last time the Army put someone to death? I don't think the Army's into "lethal injection" or the electric chair... I think in the Army they hang you or death by firing squad???

I remember the Germans captured dressed in US uniforms at the WW II Battle of the Bulge were shot.


Wart

[Warthogg]

I was right... most of the time, hanging... but no capital punishments have been carried out in the military since 1961:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_by_the_United_States_military

I hope this guy's noose is lubricated or bullets dipped in bacon grease.... if convicted, I also don't think the Army lets someone sit on death row for 20 years... I bet if convicted, this guy's dead within a couple months.

Right......the Germs convicted of war crimes at the end of WW II were hung. (Very poorly.)


Wart

[Mark Ducati]

Eh.... I just found this:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6515939/Fort-Hood-shooting-Maj-Nidal-Malik-Hasan-could-be-executed.html


Maj Nidal Malik Hasan could become the first person to be sentenced to death by a military court in almost 50 years. ...The US Armed Forces has a death penalty – lethal injection – but there have been no executions since 1961 when an army private, John Bennett, was hanged for rape and attempted murder.