Fort Hood

By lex, on November 5th, 2009

It’s impossible to know at this early juncture what snakes were writhing in the skull of Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan, a psychologist so clearly unhinged that he took the life of 12 of his fellow soldiers, while wounding 31 others. It’s tempting to believe that this has something to do with a faith that led him to believe that his own people were not those in digital cammies heading out in the name of liberty and freedom, but those who hew to a violent and suffocating version of received knowledge that is 1400 years old, unadaptive, unswerving.

Credo

"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me."

— John Paul Jones

"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature"

— George Bernard Shaw, Caesar and Cleopatra

"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."

— Friedrich Nietzsche

"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."

— Edmund Burke

"Μολὼν λαβέ"

— Leonidas

"Blogito Ergo Sum"

— Neptunus Lex