But during their second conversation, Hasan seemed almost incoherent, Danquah said.
“But what if a person gets in and feels that it’s just not right?” Danquah recalled Hasan asking him.
“I told him, `There’s something wrong with you,’” Danquah told The Associated Press during an interview at Fort Hood on Saturday. “I didn’t get the feeling he was talking for himself, but something just didn’t seem right.”
But Danquah was sufficiently troubled that he recommended the center reject Hasan’s request to become a lay Muslim leader at Fort Hood.
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johnpi
Montana 1:53 pm on November 7, 2009 Permalink |
My heart and prayers go out to all the victims, their families and friends.
From all the news reports it appears this Major is a career military man and that in his current position for less than a year and was not going well. He did not want to be deployed and in fact wanted out of the Army, so he paid back his military student loans and hired an attorney.
The reason may have been that he was being harassed and called names like “camel jockey ”. I guess all that sensitivity training for those with bigotry tendencies are all for not. (Can training real change the way you were brought up?)
Another reason is called PTSD by proxy, the stress of treating PTSD in other soldiers make you go a little crazy yourself. Its even more stressful because most of the higher ranks don’t even believe in such thing as PTSD. Their denial prompts them to tell suffering soldiers to “drink it off.” Some civilians in the defense dept feel the same way no doubt IMO, it’s why hardly anything is mentioned of PTSD until one of these violent episodes occurs. These people see PTSD as a cop-out or an excuse. First we need to have an understanding that PTSD actually is real before we can ever hope to help treat it (does anyone believe that being shot at or killing your fellow man is not going to affect you in some way either then or in the future?). I guess with the high soldier suicide rate before and after deployment kinda takes care of the complaints from coming in (so those who said he should have just killed himself, well that’s already happening ). What real ticked me off when I heard that the military was trying to say that some soldiers coming back from this war with PTSD or other psychological disorders had “Pre-Existing Conditions” and that the military would not pay to treat them, I think it has been corrected but what a bunch of asses they break you and don’t want to pay.
The final issue is why does the military want to keep people in their ranks that no longer want to be there is it just sheer number? I mean is it ten percent, twenty percent. Is it that it is the only contract in the US that you can’t get out of unless to kill yourself or kill your fellow soldiers? It does not make any sense to me.
I guess the Major could just be another wacko like Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nicholas, of course McVeigh was executed and apparently because Nicholas became a Christian he received a life sentenced. I real think if he gets that far the Major will get the former and not in a million years the latter.
This is so messed up, hopefully they will make some changes that make sense.
johnpi 2:11 pm on November 7, 2009 Permalink |
Thanks for the informative post. I had not heard of PTSD by proxy.
shams 6:13 pm on November 7, 2009 Permalink |
My father switched his residency to orthopeadic surgery from psychiatry after he began tranferring from his patients….expressing their symptoms and pathologies.
I think this is a common occurrence for vulnerable therapists.
I think Dr. Hasan caught a psychic disease.
The pathology expressed itself as reaverism.
He yelled ‘allahu akbar’ because he was muslim…..Scott Roeder probably yelled ‘babykillermurderer’ in his head at least because he was a WEC, and his pathology was expressed through the prism of his particular memotype.
shams 6:21 pm on November 7, 2009 Permalink |
I wonder what the Rev. Paul Hill yelled as he shot Dr. Britton, his driver, and Mrs. Britton.
Certainly he had no regrets.
Are all Presbyterians proto-terrorists like Rev. Hill?
What an evil religion christianity is, full of hatred and lust for murder!