Treason
11th August 2013
Jerry Pournelle speaks the truth that politicians dare not think.
\The court martial trial of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan drags on, and no one can understand why. The constitution provides a definition of treason – levying war on the United States – which certainly fits the action of an armed man shooting military men and women while crying “Allah Akbar!” on a military base. What else could that be but treason? Major Hasan should have been ceremonially stripped of his rank in the presence of representative troops, then either hanged or shot, wheel chair and all, and this done last year. The wounded should get their purple hearts. This was no workplace incident, this was an act of war by a Muslim against the armed forces of the United States of America, and it should be treated as such.