Posted on 11/06/2009 11:49:30 AM PST by missycocopuffs
Health experts say they are hardly astonished that the suspect in the worst mass murder ever at a U.S. military base is an Army psychiatrist — the very person who is supposed to be helping soldiers deal with the traumatic stress of war.
Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, suspected of gunning down 13 and wounding 30 at the Fort Hood Army Post in Texas, treated soldiers at the Darnall Army Medical Center there after being transferred in July from the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, where he had worked for six years.
Dr. Robin Kerner, an attending psychologist who specializes in disaster anxiety at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital in New York City, said it’s not uncommon for individuals who work with traumatized patients to suffer the effects of "compassion fatigue."
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Those pushing this can go you-know-what themselves.
He’s fatigued fom having a woman pop 4 caps in him...
Yeah. That’s so true. When I get Compassion Fatigue, I always start murdering people.
Oh yeah, Compassion Fatigue causes “Allahu Akhbar!”
I forgot.
This is a joke.
So the fact that he was defending suicide bombings of American troops have no bearing on why he did this?
here we go, make him the victim
I forgot to add a Barf Alert...sorry.
no barf alert?
No, he was infected with the disease of Islam. Period!
OMG.
Compassion fatigue?
COMPASSION FATIGUE?????
Words fail me.
Yes, we are too nice to islam.
“Oh, I am soooooo stressed out ... think I’ll go kill a bunch of people - there, now I feel better” .....
Who is he kidding? This man had begun wearing Arabic clothing for the first time. What kind of fatigue is that? And engaging in very troubling anti-American sentiments.
I am SO sick of reading about this psycho. What about some compassion for the VICTIMS??? Ugh.
BS. Commie propaganda.
then put him out of his misery
14 people are dead, including at least one unborn child that we know of, Hasan is a murderer. Doesn’t matter what he was called, or what type of “fatigue” he suffered from, he deserves any justice that the Army can dish out. I’m just hoping the current, so-called CIC keeps his pointy head out of the issue.
” ‘Compassion Fatigue,’ “
Does anybody, with the possible exception of Shep and Geraldo, actually buy this???
Racking my tired old brain to come up with a comment that would be suitably sarcastic for this psycho-babble....
This morning, they tried “PRE-Traumatic Stress Disorder”, but that didn’t fly.
Now they’re trying this shit.
A muslim doctor and soldier makes statements against his country’s war with radical islam, is in fear of being sent to Iraq to “fight” his muslim brothers, makes anti-American statements on the web and at medical conferences, but kills 14 Americans because he just ran out of “give a damn”?
WTF?
Makes it sound like he got tired of Pres. Bush.
I cannot BELIEVE the line of questioning going on at the General Casey presser right now, they’re painting the perp as the victim! I hope that the creep suffers..suffers a long, slow painful demise.
PC IS KILLING THIS COUNTRY.
This dog won’t hunt.
I think the suspect suffered from a “too-long-without-killin’ fatique.”
He is an agent of the Saudis and Islam like you know who is.
"If our difficulties can be ascribed to something that has happened in the past, they cannot serve as evidence of our present inadequacy and cannot blemish our self-confidence and self-esteem." - Eric Hoffer, "The Passionate State of Mind," (1955)
And this is worse than not having a clue, this sells cluelessness as an acceptable narrative. Of course, had these killings taken place at the neighborhood Olive Garden, people would claim to have a clue, would they not?
They might ask, yet again, what motivated millions of Germans to join the Nazi comic opera, seventy years ago, and why their officers were offended when, after all was said and done, it was explained to them that "just following orders" was hardly an excuse and made a poor defense.
The Fort Hood "shooter" fits a profile, and along more than one track, of those who join Mass Movements. See a definitive work on the subject, "The True Believer," by Eric Hoffer (1951).
The "readiness for self-sacrifice" is a the big clue. The perception of a "permanently ruined self," incapable of socialization and, perhaps more importantly, lacking the capacity or opportunity for achieving a sense of "unquestioned usefulness," the shooter sought self-annihilation and a promised escape from the burden of responsibility that comes with freedom, by submission to a collective, where choice becomes the prerogative of the collective, especially a collective touched with timeless destiny.
Add to Hoffer the singularly Judeo-Christian view that there is no escape from the responsibility that comes from "knowing good and evil," and the panic that sent Adam and Eve running for the tall grass, suddenly aware of their "nakedness," becomes a picture of the Human Condition, for many.
A pet cat will tease a captured and stunned mouse until the prey is exhausted or dead, literally torturing the animal to death, and no one suggests the cat is doing anything other than its "natural born thing."
But if little Johnny does the same thing we might seek professional help for him.
There's no mystery here. The shooter made a deliberate decision, and coldly, based on the perception of having merged an unwanted self with a collective that cannot die, and cannot be questioned.
It's amazing how so recent a history as that of World War II can be lost on so many, so quickly.
But, for a brief time, in the middle 1960's, Hoffer and his definitive work "The True Believer" was required reading in American High Schools and the Longshoreman philosopher was the subject of a CBS prime time television special where he was interviewed for ninety minutes by Walter Cronkite. He even was awarded the American Freedom Medal in 1982.
Fittingly, Hoffer's work has been in demand and back in print since 2001.
Absurd, the murderer had plenty of compassion for our enemies.
BULL CRAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!
At no time will any member of the press, at any time, come to the obvious conclusion. MSNBC is in full blame-the-military mode.
Sure he did.
And I’ve got a bridge to sell anyone who believes that tripe.
Well as long as people watch TV they will keep spewing this propaganda. The Sat/cable TV persaon last night practically was begging me not to cancel and was pushing me towards their Christian TV package.
Love your post!
Here’s a report about her:
Munley had bullet wounds on her arm and she called them a “minor scratches.”
http://kdhnews.com/news/story.aspx?s=36924
"The fact that he had been giving away his possessions is something psychiatrists are always attuned to, because it does make you legitimately wonder whether this is someone who sees their existence coming to an end," he said.
Hasan had also turned against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, his cousin told Fox News. The 39-year-old wanted to be released from the military, and he had even hired a military lawyer to assist his efforts, Nader Hasan said.
Compassion fatigue. Right. Send out the fax to the lamestreams: Compassion fatigue.
“expert” what’s?
The shooter is a TERRORIST and should be treated as such!
listen people— if Pelosi gets her way, these people will be your new doctors
"He said Muslims should stand up and fight the aggressor and that we should not be in the war in the first place." He said that Major Hasan said he was "happy" when a US soldier was killed in an attack on a military recruitment centre in Arkansas in June. An American convert to Islam was accused of the shootings.
Col Lee alleged that other officers had told him that Major Hasan had said "maybe people should strap bombs on themselves and go to Time Square" in New York.
“This is a joke.”
It is not. Liberal elitists are going on overdrive to place this act within their notion of psychologically wounded military. This first arose at the end of the Vietnam War. Today, post-9/11 they use this feigned compassion for military personnel as proof of the non-anti-Americanism.
The emotion of compassion is incompatible with radical Islam.
Let me guess: Shepard Smith reported this one, right?
"The news of the mass shooting at Fort Hood Thursday hit close to home for some Utahns. One man says his daughter heard the shooter exclaim "Allah Akbar" as he opened fire..."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2379750/posts
I think....I’m going...to puke. Excuse me.
You can bet the media has already bought into this crapola.
OMG THESE WASHINGTON BUTTHEADS ARE ON TV GIVING THE SUICIDE DEFENSE FOR THE MURDERER.
NEED TOUCHY FEELY PROGRAMS FOR JIHADIST.
OOPS, THERE IS ANOTHER SUSPECT.
BLOWS THE DEPRESSED LONEGUNMAN THEORY.
I AM SO PISSED OFF THAT WASHINGTON IS TRYING TO BLAME THE ARMY AND NOT THE ISLAMOFASCIST.
Oh my, I’m so tired of helping people I want to commit mass murder.
What stunning pile of bullpucky.
” I cannot BELIEVE the line of questioning going on at the General Casey presser right now “
Way too many questions about ‘military suicides’, with the implication that this is the *Army’s* fault....
In re leftist reporters (and stupid ones, at that..) see my tagline....
Please!
Add “Major Barf Alert” to this story.
“Fort Hood Suspect May Have Suffered From ‘Compassion Fatigue,’ Experts Say”
All together now; Aaaawwwwwww!
If the murders were driven by compassion, why didn't he scream "I feel your pain!" as he started shooting?
Because, as I hear it, he was screaming "Allahu Ackbar." That sends a different message to me.
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