Major Hasan will be tried by a General Court Martial on March 5, 2012. The news media reported that he was "arraigned" on July 20, 2011.

Personnel subject to Uniform Code of Military Justice are not "arraigned." Upon completion of an investigation, conducted pursuant to Article 32 of the UCMJ, the findings are presented to the officer having General Court Martial jurisdiction. That officer may or may not convene the Court Martial. Once convened, the Court operates per provisions of the Manual for Courts Martial, of which the UCMJ is a part. There is no Jury; there is a board of officers. If the defendant is an enlisted person, he or she may request that the board have Non-Commissioned Officer members. In this instance, all members of the board will be Commissioned Officers. There will be a Military Judge, who will advise the board on law and procedures. The Military Judge does not "charge" the board. The board will have a Senior Officer who can; but seldom does, overrule the Military Judge.

I have read posts and E-mail expressing anger that the Major is still drawing pay. Even though military personnel give up some Constitutional rights during their service, innocent until proven guilty is not one of them. If the Major is found guilty, his sentence, among other things, may include: Dishonorable Discharge, reduction to the lowest rank and a forfeiture of all pay and allowances. I look forward to the next post here when I can refer to Major Hasan as private - note the small P.

If convicted, the appeal process, also specified in the MCM will begin. Here, I will add a thought that I had expressed over 27 years of active military service and believe, today. If I am innocent, I choose Court Martial. If I am guilty, I'll take a civilian court.

Free speech is a good thing. This is just damned rude http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7w96UR79TBw

April 16, 2010
A call for a Senate inquiry http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/lieberman-hood-shootings-base/2010/04/16/id/355894

Information is sketchy and developing. Everything now available, however, indicates that Major Hasan's views and oppostion to his country's policy and its actions were known to his chain-of-command. If the reporting is correct, a question is begged. Was politically correct consideration to blame for a lack of intervention?

I dismiss that this was a "tragedy." A tornado or flood is a tragedy. This, by all reporting, was an act of terrorism. Acting in a violent manner to further, advocate or support a view or agenda is the definition.

While I will accept that there was a failing of Major Hasan's superiors to act, I reject any attempt to explain, defend or in any fashion to define him as other than a terrorist. I reject the public breast thumping, hearings, legislation and other activities surely to come .

Some latest information indicates a terrorist link. Enter Hasan in the search block at the following link. http://www.telegraph.co.uk

Intelligence agencies may have known Hasan was trying to establish contact with Yemen Terrorist factions.

Now I find that an anti-2nd Amendment group has found in the loss of my comrades-in-arms a chance to advance their agenda. Scroll down, look left and check the article. Come back here and visit http://www.hcgv.org

What we have here is a round firing squad. CYAWP will begin.

Now we wait and see.

November18, 2009
Take a deep breath. I am about to agree with the CINC and the Attorney General. In an observation, above, I said I rejected the public breast thumping I feared was coming. If, as it seems, Major Hasan will be tried by Courts Martial pursuant to the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ), no show boating by the politcos is necessary or desired. It has long been my position that if I were guilty, I would prefer to be tried in a civilian court. If I were innocent, I would prefer a Courts Martial. In a while, there will need to be some evaluation to ascertain if the Chain-of-Command dropped the ball. The test of that evaluation will be if it is done properly. Afterwards, without consideration of whose ox is being gored, our representatives should make a calm and non-political evaluation. In the interim, our military installations should not be free hunting areas. A couple, lone, civilian, DOD policemen should not have been the only defense. A couple Officers and NCO's who were on-duty, in uniform, working in the processing center, bearing issued firearms, would have reduced death and injury. The anti-gunners should take no exception with this, unless dissarming the military is also their goal.

It seems other have the same idea on arming our military men and women on their installations http://www.nraila.org/News/Read/InTheNews.aspx?ID=13120

December 29, 2009
We hear that another terrorist working for, with or through the same fellow with whom Hasan was in contact tried to bring down a loaded aircraft. When will we wake up?

Civ Military Policewoman
Kimberly Munley Hero

Major Nidal Malik Hasan

Indianapolis Star Comments

Indianapolis Star Nov 11, 2009

Are we fighting a war on terror or aren't we? Was it or was it not started by Islamic people who brought it to our shores on September 11, 2001? Were people from all over the world, mostly Americans, not brutally murdered that day, in downtown Manhattan, across the Potomac from our nation's capitol and in a field in Pennsylvania? Did nearly three thousand men, women and children die a horrible, burning death that day, or didn't they?

And I'm supposed to care that a copy of the Koran was "desecrated" when an overworked American soldier kicked it or got it wet? Well, I don't. I don't care at all.

I'll start caring when Osama bin Laden turns himself in and repents for incinerating all those innocent people on 9/11.

I'll care about the Koran when the fanatics in the Middle East start caring about the Holy Bible, the mere possession of which is a crime in Saudi Arabia.

I'll care when Abu Musab al-Zarqawi tells the world he is sorry for hacking off Nick Berg's head while Berg screamed through his gurgling, slashed throat.

I'll care when the cowardly so-called "insurgents" in Iraq come out and fight like men instead of disrespecting their own religion by hiding in mosques.

I'll care when the mindless zealots who blow themselves up in search of nirvana care about the innocent children within range of their suicide bombs.

I'll care when the American media stops pretending that their First Amendment liberties are somehow derived from international law instead of the United States Constitution's Bill of Rights.

I'll care when Clinton-appointed judges stop ordering my government to release photos of the abuses at Abu Ghraib, which are sure to set off the Islamic extremists just as Newsweek's lies did a few weeks ago.

In the meantime, when I hear a story about a brave marine roughing up an Iraqi terrorist to obtain information, know this: I don't care.

When I see a fuzzy photo of a pile of naked Iraqi prisoners who have been humiliated in what amounts to a college hazing incident, rest assured that I don't care.

When I see a wounded terrorist get shot in the head when he is told not to move because he might be booby-trapped, you can take it to the bank that I don't care.

When I hear that a prisoner, who was issued a Koran paid for by my tax dollars, is complaining that his holy book is being "mishandled," you can absolutely believe in your heart of hearts that I don't care.

And oh, by the way, I've noticed that sometimes it's spelled "Koran" and other times "Quran." Well, Jimmy Crack Corn and -- you guessed it -- I don't care!

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It is interesting to note the pull and push of the diplomats, talking heads, has-beens and wannabes who style themselves and are styled as experts on the news shows. I recollect many years ago an Air Force Warrant Officer who had more time-in-grade than I had in the world at the time defined expert for me, "ex is a has-been and a spurt is a drip under pressure."

At this time in our history, let us stop mewling around. Islam as dictated by The Holy Qur'an is not a "peaceful religion", no more than is that described in the Old Testament. We have to accept, however, that folks who follow the Judiac tradition did not bring down the Towers. While all Muslims are not terrorists, all, international, terrorists in the last several decades have been Muslims. All "civilized" people cringe when hearing about, and seeing, heads being sawed off and say the act was done by "radical Islamists." The Holy Qur'an, Surah Muhammad, 47-4, gives guidance on the relieving of heads:

So! When you meet in battle those who disbelieve strike off their heads.
After you have bound them fast in fetters, then, afterwards,either
by way of grace or by ransom. until war lays down its weapons.
Such is. Indeed if Allah pleased He could have punished them.
But so that He may reveal your worth at the hands of one another.
As of those who are slain in the cause of Allah He will never let their works go vain.

I find now as I watch the news and I found during 14 years of living and travelling in the Near East, most Muslims have never read the Qur'an for themselves. One sees them at prayer holding their hands as if they are holding the Book. Too many acquire their knowledge of the Prophet Mohhamed's (Peace be Upon Him) teachings, because they cannot read, from those whom may well have positioned themselves as Partners with Allah for whatever advantage or aggrandizement they seek. The Prophet warned, adamantly, against accepting any partners with G-d.

I first read the Koran (here the Turkish spelling) under the tutelage of a Sunni Moslem who was my interpreter and friend in Adana, Turkey (1964-1967). Once again while serving in Ankara, Turkey (1969-1972) and just after September 11, 2001.

Those who forget history are bound to repeat it. Islam came out of the desert and vanquished decadent societies. Hitler rose to power and killed millions because appeasers thought left alone he would not hurt them. Stalin killed even more millions because of the same lack of will. Muslims who can read the Koran, know that much of it takes from and refers to the Old Testament or the First Books which form the basis of the Jewish relegion. Those who use faith, of any discription, to justify the killing of innocents or to advance a political agenda must to be condemend.

Old Sarge

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