“Step aside because now is not the time for cowardice” - Lieutenant Colonel Allen B West
Lieutenant Colonel Allen B West (US Army, Ret) Statement on Fort Hood Shooting.
11/08/09 Lt Col. Allen West
“Tragedy at Ft Hood”
This past Thursday 13 American Soldiers were killed and another 30 wounded at a horrific mass shooting at US Army installation, Ft Hood Texas. As I watched in horror and then anger I recalled my two years of final service in the Army as a Battalion Commander at Ft Hood, 2002-2004.
My wife and two daughters were stunned at the incident having lived on the post in family housing.
A military installation, whether it is Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine, or Coast Guard, is supposed to be a safe sanctuary for our Warriors and their families. It is intended to provide a home whereby our “Band of Brothers and Sisters” can find solace and bond beyond just the foxhole but as family units.
A military installation is supposed to be a place where our Warriors train for war, to serve and protect our Nation.
On Thursday, 5 November 2009 Ft Hood became a part of the battlefield in the war against Islamic totalitarianism and state sponsored terrorism.
There may be those who feel threatened by my words and would even recommend they not be uttered. To those individuals I say step aside because now is not the time for cowardice. Our Country has become so paralyzed by political correctness that we have allowed a vile and determined enemy to breach what should be the safest place in America, an Army post.
We have become so politically correct that our media is more concerned about the stress of the shooter, Major Nidal Malik Hasan. The misplaced benevolence intending to portray him as a victim is despicable. The fact that there are some who have now created an entire new classification called; “pre-virtual vicarious Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)” is unconscionable.
This is not a “man caused disaster”. It is what it is, an Islamic jihadist attack.
We have seen this before in 2003 when a SGT Hasan of the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) threw hand grenades and opened fire into his Commanding Officer’s tent in Kuwait. We have seen the foiled attempt of Albanian Muslims who sought to attack Ft Dix, NJ. Recently we saw a young convert to Islam named Carlos Bledsoe travel to Yemen, receive terrorist training, and return to gun down two US Soldiers at a Little Rock, Arkansas Army recruiting station. We thwarted another Islamic terrorist plot in North Carolina which had US Marine Corps Base, Quantico as a target.
What have we done with all these prevalent trends? Nothing.
What we see are recalcitrant leaders who are refusing to confront the issue, Islamic terrorist infiltration into America, and possibly further into our Armed Services. Instead we have a multiculturalism and diversity syndrome on steroids.
Major Hasan should have never been transferred to Ft Hood, matter of fact he should have been Chaptered from the Army. His previous statements, poor evaluation reports, and the fact that the FBI had him under investigation for jihadist website posting should have been proof positive.
However, what we have is a typical liberal approach to find a victim, not the 13 and 30 Soldiers and Civilian, but rather the poor shooter. A shooter who we are told was a great American, who loved the Army and serving his Nation and the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) stating that his actions had nothing to do with religious belief.
We know that Major Hasan deliberately planned this episode; he did give away his possessions. He stood atop a table in the confined space of the Soldier Readiness Center shouting “Allahu Akhbar”, same chant as the 9-11 terrorists and those we fight against overseas in the Iraq and Afghanistan theaters of operation.
No one in leadership seems willing to sound the alarm for the American people; they are therefore complicit in any future attacks. Our Congress should suspend the insidious action to vote on a preposterous and unconstitutional healthcare bill and resolve the issue of “protecting the American people”.
The recent incidents in Dearborn Michigan, Boston Massachusetts, Dallas Texas, and Chicago Illinois should bear witness to the fact that we have an Islamic terrorism issue in America. And don’t have CAIR call me and try to issue a vanilla press statement; they are an illegitimate terrorist associated organization which should be disbanded.
We have Saudi Arabia funding close to 80% of the mosques in the United States, one right here in South Florida, Pompano Beach. Are we building churches and synagogues in Saudi Arabia? Are “Kaffirs” and “Infidels” allowed travel to Mecca?
So much for peaceful coexistence.
Saudi Arabia is sponsoring radical Imams who enter into our prisons and convert young men into a virulent Wahabbist ideology….one resulting in four individuals wanting to destroy synagogues in New York with plastic explosives. Thank God the explosives were dummy. They are sponsoring textbooks which present Islamic centric revisionist history in our schools.
We must recognize that there is an urgent need to separate the theo-political radical Islamic ideology out of our American society. We must begin to demand surveillance of suspected Imams and mosques that are spreading hate and preaching the overthrow of our Constitutional Republic……that speech is not protected under First Amendment, it is sedition and if done by an American treason.
There should not be some 30 Islamic terrorist training camps in America that has nothing to do with First Amendment, Freedom of Religion. The Saudis are not our friends and any American political figure who believes such is delusional.
When tolerance becomes a one way street it certainly leads to cultural suicide. We are on that street. Liberals cannot be trusted to defend our Republic, because their sympathies obviously lie with their perceived victim, Major Nidal Malik Hasan.
I make no apologies for these words, and anyone angered by them, please, go to Ft Hood and look into the eyes of the real victims. The tragedy at Ft Hood Texas did not have to happen. Consider now the feelings of those there and on every military installation in the world. Consider the feelings of the Warriors deployed into combat zones who now are concerned that their loved ones at home are in a combat zone.
Ft Hood suffered an Islamic jihadist attack, stop the denial, and realize a simple point.
The reality of your enemy must become your own.
Steadfast and Loyal, Lieutenant Colonel Allen B West (US Army, Ret)
Oh great now the black guy wants to be president also. Have you not learned anything yet. 95% of all blacks support Obama and showed their support by voting Obama into office. The damage to this country lays directly in the Black man’s lap. I am so sick and tired of everyone going out to find some Black ass hole or the PC guy, and let him speak for all of us. It is almost as if we are all to stupid to ask some white person, because everyone knows that you always have to ask the black guy to get the right answer. This guy and your article makes me puke. Am I too understand that now this site is going to always ask the black man for the real truths.
Tuxkabin has spoken.
true words !!
Go West !
tuxkabin,
I understand your anger at the Black Racists that support the Usurper and his international/socialist agenda. They are fools that are destroying their own opportunities, because they want to see a Black man in power, regardless of how evil he and his policies are.
However, you are short sighted and ignorant to include all Black people! Col. West, Alan Keyes, Lloyd Marcus, Walter E. Williams, Thomas Sowell come to mind immediately as strong and faithful Americans.
Religion is a choice, race is not! To compare the two is as foolish as the Blacks that celebrate the destruction of our country, because a Black man is in power!
Well, Lt Col. West. you hit the nail on the head. Thank you for stepping up to the plate. We have way too many cowards in the White House.
My question is.. How can this be done? We have a man in the White House who has no business there. His goal is to destroy us.
Where do we start? I grew up in the military. Our base was our home.
God Bless
Tux,
Just an FYII Allen is a personal friend and I find your remarks racist and shortsighted specially from someone who hasn’t a clue who Allen West is and what he represents. He is running for congress in South Florida NOT PRESIDENT! A Presidents skin makes no difference as long as he is on the right side of the history of this country and its beliefs which Allen does and loves his country. We have a marxist in office now and he could have been white and we still wouldn’t like what he is doing to this country. So take your racist crap and sell it somewhere else!!!!!!!!!!
Oh and Allen is completely right in what he is saying.
TUX
Another thing you don’t speak for all of us!!!!!
ALL I CAN SAY IS GET RID OF THE HEAD MUSLIM IN WHITE HOUSE AND MOSST OTHERS WILL FOLD, BUT CHARACTER IS FOUND IN EVERYBODY, BLACK,WHITE,BROWN,YELLOW WHATEVER THE COLOR DOESNO’T MATTER, BAD APPLES IN EVERY BASKET, WE JUSST MUST BE AWARE, THE POLITICALLY CORRECT METHOD IS WHAT IS DESTROYING AMERICA, WHEN I SAW 2 BLACK TEENAGERS SAY ON TV, WE VOTED FOR OBAMA AS HE IS BLACK LIKE US, I KNEW THEN MOST BLACKS ARE FINE PEOPLE AND GREAT AMERICANS, BUT THEN WE HAVE SOME FOOLS THAT FIGURE IS THE SKIN IS BLACK THEN THEY ARE BETTER THAN THE WHITE SKIN. NONSENSE, CRAP. CHARACTER IS THE ONLY THING TO VOTE FOR. AS MARTIN LUTHER KING SAID PEOPLE SHOULD BE JUDGED BY CHARACTER NOT BY COLOR OF SKIN. I WISH MARTIN WAS HERE TODAY, MAYBE HE COULD MAKE SENSE OF THIS RADICAL WHO IS TRYING TO DESTROY ALL AMERICANS, AS I SAID ABOVE, GET RID OF THE HEAD MUSLIM, OTHERS WILL FOLD. GOD BLESS AMERICA
Lieutenant Colonel Allen B West - Thanks your sooo right.
Tuxkabin,
I agree with LindaB, you are sounding like a racist. You should know better, than to lump anyone into a group.
GOD bless America!!
80% of all blacks have been and still are members of the comunnist party since before 1940. Which one do you support linda B. The word racist does not even appear in the Blackslaw dictionary it is a simple play on words to promote PC. So now we know where you stand. I give everyone an equal chance until proven wrong. You show me that these four or five black men are real and I will show you another 60 million blacks that are still communist to this day. Wow maybe you did find one good man in the crowd. I am not impressed. IN our local community the crime rate is the fouth highest in the country per population. The city is St. Pete Fl. 95% of all crimes here are commited by the blacks and in fact 90% of the crimes are (BLACK ON WHITE). So i have to ask you Landa B which white neighborhood do you live in and where is your dream world. You and your PC bull has placed this country in the hands of Obama you are Guilty. I repeat you LIndaB are guilty just like the SPLC you are the ones who have turned America in to PC world. Know you worth not your weight.IN fact LIndB I am a jewish German and my wife is an Native American Indian. Who the hell are you to call me names. IN fact you are a biget.
Yea good old allen Keyes. I believe if you go to the mInuteman site of Jim Gilcrest, Then you will discover that he and his friends tried to steal this LLp corporation from mr. Gilcrest by forgery of the corporate documents. It was only after JIm went to the webmasters and filled the original paper work and contacted the FBI and filed several law suits that MR. Keyes did his move on act. Have you ever wondered what happen to the minutemen movement. Well now you know this guy gutted it …hope you all enjoy speaking Mexican for the rest of your lifes. Some great friends you have Longknife. Know your history before you speak. Oh Jim is a personal friend of mine.
Hear is your great Col West at the local SEIU sponsored communist party in Florida. Hope you enjoy the pictures. Here is your link mm.mm.mm.
http://news.webshots.com/album/570069881XrROPI?vhost=news
This blatant racism is the last thing we need now. This kind of talk is exactly what the left wants to hear from the right. It is so exactly such that my guess is that Tuxkabin is someone from the left, an Obot perhaps.
In any case, LtCol West has stated a precise summary of what most of us believe and I appreciate the effort he took in making this statement. He speaks as an American who loves his country and hates his enemy. He is no race baiter and didn’t deserve such disrespect. Minimally Tux, he is the enemy of your enemy; think about it.
You know it really sadens me when good people are treated badly. It seams to me that most people in America are always trying to find the good in bad people. Like Satan look hard enough and I guess someone can find something good about him not me. Or when you take a bag of sour Oranges and bite everyone of them hoping to find just one good one so you can bragg about it to someone who might listen to you. Don’t stop and look that you have been cheated out of all of the good Oranges. Now I am sure if I take the 95% of Blacks who voted for Obama because he is Black and had over looked the facts that he was also a Sour Orange then just maybe I could find one of those 95% that is maybe OK. But here, where I live, if a Black man says anything about Obama his home is burned to the ground by the Blacks and his family is attacked and hurt. I really have to ask you LindaB have you even really ever had a Black friend in your life. And if so ask them if they would wear a sign into the lower income nieghborhoods that say Obama is a muslim, and an Usuper. If you find this person and they really do it and live to tell the stroy call me and they too can become my friend. I don’t live on dreams I live in the real world. Anyone who uses the term Racist needs to take a close look in the mirror and see who or what they have really become. Or vote for Obama again and agina. mm.mm.mm. How did you like the SEIU pic.
“We must recognize that there is an urgent need to separate the theo-political radical Islamic ideology out of our American society. ” Lieutenant Colonel Allen B West (US Army, Ret) Statement on Fort Hood Shooting.
AMERICAN soilder during WWII ” If you had a chance to take the shot, WOULD YOU?”
And I also wonder if Lieutenant Colonel Allen B West ever used the race card to get where he is today. I also wonder if he is a product of the Affrimative actions just laike Obama and his find wife. mm.mm.mm.
No way he could not being trying to get a few good white peoples votes to get into office. Now could he.
You see there is bad and good everywhere but to like someone for their color is wrong LindaB. Now I will find a few more sites for you such as Accorn and Lieutenant Colonel Allen B West , and maybe even balack pathner week. I’ll be back someone needs to wake you all up. If you can’t see thru the color nor thru the fog then there is no hope anymore. Obamas New America . ONly a domestic Terroist uses such words as color or race. How come Obama is not the first Black president???? Instead he is the first Africa American President. Got YOU>
Oh here is a statement from the all black district 22 of south eastern florida. This is the church that Lieutenant Colonel Allen B West goes to.(Welcome to the online home of Community Christian Church. We believe that all people matter to God and therefore they matter to us. Because of this, our doors are open to people from all backgrounds regardless of where they are on their spiritual journey.) So just like the UCC chruch of Rev. Wright come one come all anything goes.
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Lieutenant Colonel Allen B West district is 70% black and hs one of the highest crime rates in the great state of Florida. Acorn heven. Had enough. There is more.
I agree with Lt. Col. West. He is a great man and right on target as always. We need more men like him.
Tuxabin, you are a bore and a racist.
LindaB and Steve, please get the terms racists and racism out of your vocabularies. That is all we hear out of the liberals. Anything that is said about Obama, oh you are a “racists”. Can’t you say anything else but hate speech toa fellow person??? That is definitely hateful speech from you. Get some more intellectual terms, if you can! please. Like say oh that is chicken sh*t, that is better than using the term “Racists, racism, etc.” You are mean, hateful people using the most hateful speech you can find. Maybe we can pass laws about hate speech and fine anyone who uses the term racists.
Tux,
“80% of all blacks have been and still are members of the comunnist party since before 1940. Which one do you support linda B”
Most Blacks before 1960 didn’t support either party, the few that did were Repubs. The Idiot fringe of all races are Commies, socialists, whatever.
When the liberal (and Commies) started to take over the Dems, the Great Vote Buying Scam started, let the indigent and parasites vote, and vote for who will promise them the the most. This has been Commie/Dem strategy for 50 years now. But many Blacks now realize it is economic class-war not racial. Unfortunately many Blacks don’t understand this yet, but many are learning. Dems want them dumbed-down, dependent on Gov’t, and angry. Then they will vote stupid, as do many Whites and others. Jews, as a demographic, have overwhelmingly supported Dems, but that is changing, why won’t middle class Blacks vote their wallet, rather than skin color?
And I voted Chuck Baldwin. Alan Keyes sounded to Catholic to me. Not that I have anything against Catholics, he was just a bit too strident. But I still think he is American first, before he thinks he is Black. For him, Black may be further down the list than second. I don’t know him personally.
Tuxkabin, You are EXACTLY why people make fun of those of us with LEGITIMATE concerns about Obama. Your racism makes it look like all of those who believe Obama is a Usurper think and say what you say.
Tux:”You see there is bad and good everywhere but to like someone for their color is wrong LindaB.”
To hate someone for their color is wrong as well. Racism is racism and it goes in many ways. There are black racists, white racists, asian racists, middle eastern racists, native american racists, etc.
Tux: “ONly a domestic Terroist uses such words as color or race.”
ARE YOU SERIOUS!!!? OMG!
Tux: “The word racist does not even appear in the Blackslaw dictionary it is a simple play on words to promote PC.”
Of course it isn’t in Black’s Law Dictionary. Black people were still not considered fully human at the time Black’s was published.
Longknife: “Religion is a choice, race is not!”
Wise words, Longknife. Thank you.
Tux, you do NOT speak for me. I could care less what you think of me because I refuse to accept racism in any form to the very best of my ability.
Your words will dog those of us who want the Usurper out of office for legitimate reasons. When I bring up Obama’s citizenship, all someone has to do is quote you and they will ignore ANYTHING I have to say about our great land and our great Constitution.
Tuxkabin,
whar are you on about,?
Pictures of that so called communist gathering feature among others Pamela Geller, well Pamela Geller and communists really don’t match.
I agree with Longknife when he wrote
And LindaB when she writes
Just as I thought.
Tux;
COMMIES are PINK. That’s the COLOR to rage against!
tux I think you went a bit overboard. I do understand your frustration and for most of your argument I believe you have a valid points but your wrong for lumping all blacks into one big catagory. I love my black brothers and sisters that are patriots and God fearing. I despise those that are not. The same goes for anyone, of all races. If you took a little extra time in writing your responses you wouldn’t have looked so foolish. Just my humble opinion.
Tuxkabin, Colonel West is a GREAT, GREAT MAN and one of the greatest soldiers this country has ever seen! You obviously know very little about him. He is one of the greatest patriots in this country and is a great family man. Your comments that he has somehow been “hand picked” by the GOP is ludicrous. West has been noticed for his strong leadership and Conservative values for a number of years. He stands out in the crowd. Take a hike and leave West alone.
Tux,
You are a racist and I call them as I seem them. Being a german Jew doesn’t give you the right to berate anyone you haven’t a CLUE what his beliefs are. As I said he is a PERSONAL friend as well as being black so you have insulted me on two fronts. Take your racist rants somewhere else they are not wanted here as I can see from every post on here agreeing w/Allen and myself! Maybe if you had a clue of history you would see why many blacks in this country act the way they do. I suggest you look at the entitlement democrats.
As for Racist, Racist , Racist……..Believe me I know what a racist is and don’t need you to educate me. Considering your post maybe it is you that needs and education! Racist is EXACTLY what TUX IS by definition:
Noun 1. racist - a person with a prejudiced belief that one race is superior to others
racialist
bigot - a prejudiced person who is intolerant of any opinions differing from his own
Adj. 1. racist - based on racial intolerance; “racist remarks”
racial - of or characteristic of race or races or arising from differences among groups; “racial differences”; “racial discrimination”
2. racist - discriminatory especially on the basis of race or religion
anti-semite, antiblack
discriminatory, prejudiced - being biased or having a belief or attitude formed beforehand; “a prejudiced judge”
In regards to racism that is obviously what TUX practices in his life…..
rac·ism (rszm)
n.
1. The belief that race accounts for differences in human character or ability and that a particular race is superior to others.
2. Discrimination or prejudice based on race.
Skin is skin it is attitude, education, morals and character that make the person! And Tux you have shown you have none of what I posted so you’re NO better than the ones you rant about! Again, you obviously as shown have nothing to sell here so tell your story walking!
As for Black’s Law Dictionary you haven’t a clue as to what it is used for and what the terminology in it explains!
Here are the ways that Black’s defines our country and its citizens (oh and sorry blacks are citizens)
“DEMOCRACY - That form of government in which the sovereign power resides in and is exercised by the whole body of free citizens directly or indirectly through a system of representation, as distinguished from monarchy, aristocracy, or oligarchy.”
- - - Black’s Law Dictionary, Sixth Edition, P. 432
CITIZEN - … Citizens are members of a political community who, in their associative capacity, have established or submitted themselves to the dominion of government for the promotion of the general welfare and the protection of their individual as well as collective rights.
- - - Black’s Law Dictionary, Sixth Ed. p.244
SUBJECT - One that owes allegiance to a sovereign and is governed by his laws.
…Men in free governments are subjects as well as citizens; as citizens they enjoy rights and franchises; as subjects they are bound to obey the laws. The term is little used, in this sense, in countries enjoying a republican form of government.
- - - Black’s Law Dictionary, Sixth Edition, p. 1425
Person - Black’s Law Dictionary 6th Edition, pg. 791, defines ‘person’ as follows: “In general usage, a human being (i.e. natural person), though by statute term may include labor organizations, partnerships, associations, corporations, legal representatives, trustees, trustees in bankruptcy, or receivers.”
Individual - Black’s Law Dictionary 6th Edition, pg. 533, defines “individual” as follows: “As a noun, this term denotes a single person as distinguished from a group or class, and also, very commonly, a private or natural person as distinguished from a partnership, corporation, or association; but it is said that this restrictive signification is not necessarily inherent in the word, and that it may, in proper cases, include artificial persons.”
“… the term ‘citizen,’ in the United States, is analogous to the term “subject” in the common law; the change of phrase has resulted from the change in government. … he who before was a “subject of the King” is now a citizen of the State.”
State v. Manuel, 20 N.C. 144 (1838)
And Elsbeth is correct at the inception of Black’s, black people were not considered citizens. As well as most law definitions come from a latin root therefore racism is not a legal definition nor has ever been that is why you can’t find it! Racism/Racist is an attitude race discrimination is a legal definition.
tuxkabin ,
I’ve been called every name in the book for calling a Zebra a Zebra. I could careless about the color of the skin. Great American’s like Allan Keyes and Dr. Manning and so many others have been called uncle Tom’s.
If they knew the real uncle Tom they would in brace him. No you making such Racist comments on our great blog here. This has nothing to do with race. If you continue on this path I will not moderate your post. I will leave it up to David to make that decision.
I don’t know what you been smoking but you are sure tripping on something. The sooner you get a grip on reality the better. We are all fight for our freedoms and Liberty here. Not race issues. If you have a problem with this stance too bad. Move on and don’t come back.
You have made an evil out of American’s that stand up for truth not color. I personally feel insulted by your commits. The White race is no more superior than the black race or any other race. If you believe this is a black and white issue your are a moron. I will not play this race game with you. You have opened up something that will back fire on you.
Being white myself I’m still offend by your commits. Go join the KKK and burn some crosses but don’t ever bring you racist remakes here again. I will gladly delete them.
I use the word Zebra cause the Usurper can not lay claim to any race. By the way it was first used by a black man. Zebra to me means no claim to any race mixed race.
There are just as many good and bad blacks as there is in the white race. If you can not come to this reality there is something wrong mentally with you. We are supposed to be in our fight for America not for a race war.
Having plenty of black friends that are willing to fight for our country no matter what when called. Ether way they stand ready to fight.
Jesus is the light upon my feet.
Lynn Dartez