Preferential Treatment

By Semperpapa

Maj. Nidal Hasan made his first court appearance at his Court Martial in Ft. Hood, Texas. He is to answer for the massacre he committed last November when he walked into a receiving area at the Military base and opened up with firearms on the unsuspecting crowd, killing 13 people in the name of his religion.

What disturbed me was the first lines of the article I read, where it described the man being wheeled into the court room while wearing his Army uniform.
I may be all wrong in this, especially being a civilian, but I see that detail as a slap in the face of every soldier who wore the uniform with honor. What the hell happened to the stripe or orange jump suits? But, as I said, I may be wrong on this one.

The court proceedings got delayed upon the request from the defense, citing the need of extra time to analyze the documentation they received about the investigation including FBI ballistic reports.

As much as I understand the needs for complete adherence to legal procedures, I remain somewhat baffled by the time this case is taking to get to a resolution.
Dozens of eye witnesses, 32 of which will actually take the stand, should be enough to make this a close shut case. And the ballistic report appears to be just a delay tactic.

Which brings me to my thoughts.
Why is such a delay been allowed to occur? Is the politicized upper portion of the US Army stringing the case along to avoid being accused of bias?
I want to believe that the handling of crimes committed by radical Islamists is being hampered by simple political correctness and not by a concerted effort on the part of the political establishment, namely Obama and cohorts, to create an atmosphere of greater tolerance for Muslim criminals as opposed to the rest of the population, at least when it comes to political crime.

The New Black Panthers got their case dismissed even after a video was available as proof of their crime.
We have the Christmas wanna be bomber who was whisked away from the scene of the crime by Federal agents sent by Eric Holder.
We have the Times Square wanna be bomber, who was labeled by anti-terrorism members as a lone wolf and instead turned out to have connections with al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.

And we have Abdulhakim Muhammad, the Islamic radical who gunned down Pvt. William Andrew Long in front of an Army recruiting office in Arkansas.
Pvt. Long only crime was his wearing an Army uniform, just like it was the only crime that the victims inside the Ft. Hood center committed.

Hasan is getting all the time he needs for his lawyers to drag the case at length, while Abdulhakim Muhammad and his crime has completely fallen off the media radar.
In both cases, the families of those who were killed by these Muslim radicals will never get a reprieve from a lifetime of grief and pain.
These men should have received the speediest trial, sentencing and execution in modern history, which is always more lenient than the execution they carried out upon their victims.
And that would be justice!

Just my thoughts!