Posted on 06/14/2013 3:24:35 PM PDT by jazusamo
FORT HOOD, Texas — A uniformed Army psychiatrist had no justification for gunning down U.S. troops and won’t be allowed to tell jurors that he was protecting Taliban leaders in Afghanistan, a military judge ruled Friday, appearing to clear the way for the Fort Hood murder trial to begin.
Maj. Nidal Hasan’s “defense of others” strategy fails as a matter of law, Col. Tara Osborn said during a 45-minute hearing. That strategy must show that a killing was necessary to prevent the immediate harm or death of others.
Osborn said no soldiers at the Texas Army post on Nov. 5, 2009, posed an imminent threat to anyone in Afghanistan and that the legitimacy of the Afghanistan war is not an issue at Hasan’s court-martial. She also ordered that Hasan not present any evidence or arguments about his claims that deploying U.S. troops posed an immediate threat to Taliban fighters.
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Did the judge order that his beard by hacked off with a dull knife, yet?
Meet the next Attorney General of the United States.
He should be executed in the Islamo-fascist manner that he embraces, either a slow strangulation hanging, or a slow beheading, Daniel Berg-style.
Look at the families we have barely able to make ends meet, and this guy will eat away at millions of dollars to game our system of justice.
I just want him dead. I don’t much care how he gets there.
Where’s Jack Bauer when you need him?
The judge and obama are going allah’s work.
“Give him Judge Roy Bean Justice”
Give him the Judge Crater treatment. Gone without a trace.
He can still take the stand and admit to what he did and why he did it if he wants.
Bottom line is it doesn't matter because the Army's case is overwhelming, there were so many witnesses.
He planned to, then killed a bunch of people for his god and his ideology, because he wanted to.
He likely derived pleasure for his acts of murder and terror on behalf of his causes and likely is enjoying prolonging this show trial for similar reasons.
All he is good for now is whatever public justice our system can wring out of him.
Send him to the final Judge and be done with it and him.
“He should have been dead on the day this took place, I still don’t know why he was allowed to live.”
He was shot, multiple times I believe. He was given top-notch medical care and survived so he can have this circus trial, then hopefully, we will get to kill him.
Yeah, he was just having a bad hair day that day. Move along. Nothing to see.
He is still collecting a paycheck of American tax payer dollars, the families of the murdered and injured cannot collect for damaged and health care because it is classified as work place violence. This is how THIS government feels about its service men and women
In a narrow sense, perhaps, but in a broader sense there is more than Hasan on trial. An unsuccessful defense based on the murderous tenets of islam would have a chilling effect on some future jihadists (spell check wanted to correct that to "sadists"!) and establish a cultural limit on that 'up with which we will not put'.
Repudiating islam as an excuse for mass murder has its own value, wouldn't you agree?
Or are you really afraid the court could find that it actually is?
By using that as his defense, wouldn’t he be admitting to committing treason?
Banning a defense strategy???
Really? I’m not allowed to any defense strategy I want? Really? I was unaware of this.
So the state dictates what you can offer as mitigation? I thought that is what juries are for.
Let me guess, he will be forced to use the “workplace violence” defense.
jazusamo wrote: “He should have been dead on the day this took place, I still don’t know why he was allowed to live.”
The ‘first respondent’ was taking fire, and catching bullets, and did her damnedest, returning fire, but was succumbing to her wounds, to hit the heart of that Johnny Jihad. She managed to hit his spine, so give her some slack, please?
that idiot judge !!!! eric holder’s goons are already on their way to arrest him ... led by that pathetic pos who runs the fbi ...
There were many others there and one of them could have stood on Hasan’s throat while they bandaged him up to prevent further trauma.
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