This was homegrown terrorism influenced by a fellow that is no longer with us. The political agenda prevents the Obama Administration from stating this was terrorism. So families of those that were killed got fuked for their benefits.
Ft. Hood Was Not Terrorism
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This was homegrown terrorism influenced by a fellow that is no longer with us. The political agenda prevents the Obama Administration from stating this was terrorism. So families of those that were killed got fuked for their benefits.
Grsted I have not followed this story too close but I must have missed something. These were military personnel that died at work on a military base. Wouldn't that automatically give them full benefits?
I really do not know where this came from as I had logged out and left the site I thought permanently being a U.S. citizen and largely ignorant of Canada I was being constantly attacked on this site believing Canadians are not very tolerant or friendly to People who live in the United States. Honestly I have thrown in the towel on politics it is all in God's hands. I will agree that the Fort Hood Shootings which took place in our country was terrorism, if you take the politics out and just look at the facts that is quite clear. I have no agenda to push on this site but the Dentist was islamic, had a card in his pocket linking him to a terrorist organization and had been in contact via email with middle eastern terrorists as well I believe. He attacked fellow unarmed service members. He is also insane but in my mind I believe he knew what he was doing and carried out the attack because he saw his fellow service members as the enemy. Just my opinion please take it as such and please do not attack me as I have a right to my opinion.
Had to look as I forgot what benefits were denied.
Fort Hood Victims Demand It Be Called An Act Of Terror - Investors.com
One would expect that when a self-proclaimed "Soldier of Allah" shouting "Allahu Akbar" opens fire on dozens of U.S. citizens and soldiers, killing and maiming as many innocents as he can, it would have been called an act of terror.
The Fort Hood attack was shamefully labeled "workplace violence," and that designation is more than a question of semantics.
Avoiding the terror designation means victims and their families "do not get combat-related special compensation that provides disability pay," reports the military news site Stars and Stripes.
Staff Sgt. Shawn Manning was shot six times by Hasan, but was denied benefits that would accrue to a soldier injured in an act of terror or a battle overseas.
Manning says the "workplace violence" designation has cost him almost $70,000 in benefits that would have been available if his injuries were classified as "combat related."
"Basically, they're treating us like I was downtown and I got hit by a car," he told ABC News. Two of the bullets remain in his leg and spine, he said.
Pentagon Will Not Classify Fort Hood Shootings as Terrorism -- or Anything Else | CNS News
One victim, Staff Sgt. Shawn Manning, said in the video that the U.S. soldiers who were killed and wounded at Fort Hood were attacked “by a domestic enemy, someone who was there that day to kill soldiers to prevent them from deploying.”
“If that's not an act of war or an act of terrorism, I don't know what is,” Manning, a former Army staff sergeant, said.
Reps. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) and John Carter sent a letter this month to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, citing testimony from a congressional hearing in September that cited former National Counter Terrorism Center director Michael Leiter had already concluded that the attack was an instance of terrorism.
Up to this point they want to call it workplace violence. So yes... injured soldiers will get screwed. Treated no different than a soldier that falls down the stairs while on duty.
Is there an appeal process.
If not then a class action as I am sure the donations would roll in. Keeps it in the public eye.
In the Canadian Military serving members cannot sign certain type of petitions as it is then/ can be classed as Mutiny. I imagine it is the same in the US Military
It sure sounds the same. They have no recourse. The incident has been classified as is. No Purple Hearts... no benefits that a Wounded Soldier would have. Zip.
The Administration did not want to classify this as a terrorist act because they did not want to offend certain groups and they wanted to say Obama protected the Home front from terrorism.
What a way to screw your soldiers(directed, obviously, at the Administration)! I wonder if anyone that was thinking about joining the military will be having second thoughts after seeing how the government obviously doesn't seem to give a rat's *** about the men and women serving their country. That is just not right.
There a lot of pass the hat commercials in the U.S. Wounded Warrior Foundation, and others. Gee, you think you get your limbs blown off or your eye blown out or etc because your country sent you into a dangerous area to do a dangerous job the government would look after you. Agree or not volunteer or not - seems something is not right. Politics aside.