4/11/4, "White House Denies ’09 Fort Hood Victim's Request for Meeting With Obama," ABCNews
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| Staff Sgt. Alonzo Lunsford |
"As President Obama spoke of old "wounds” at Fort Hood this week, the
White House declined a request from a survivor of the 2009 massacre
there to meet with Obama for a few minutes so the veteran could explain
face-to-face how he believes the government has mistreated and
disrespected the victims of that attack.
Staff Sgt. Alonzo Lunsford (ret.) was shot seven times in November 2009
when Army psychiatrist Maj. Nidal Hasan opened fire at Fort Hood,
killing 13 people. Despite Hasan’s admission that he carried out the
attack on behalf of the Taliban and revelations that he had been in contact with high-profile al Qaeda recruiter Anwar al-Awlaki,
the Department of Defense has refused to classify the shooting as
“terrorism,” which the survivors claim in lawsuit against the government
has meant they’ve been denied Purple Hearts and combat-related benefits afforded to victims of other terrorist attacks.
“As you may know, the President and high-ranking members of the military
promised me, my family and the other Fort Hood terror attack survivors
that the federal government would 'make them whole.'
After more than
four and one-half years, however, the government has yet to make good on
this promise,” Lunsford wrote to Obama’s Chief of Staff Denis McDonough
a day before Obama's visit.
“We believe that if the President could
hear, first-hand, our plight and our mistreatment at the hands of his
bureaucracy, that he would take the steps needed to set things right.
Therefore, we ask for ten minutes of his time.”
The White House had announced days before that the President would be
coming to Fort Hood this week to honor three people who were killed in
another shooting earlier this month – this one carried out by an Army
specialist with “mental health issues” who purportedly became enraged after an employee wouldn’t give him a leave of absence form.
“Part of what makes this so painful is that we’ve been here before,” Obama said
at Fort Hood Wednesday, standing at a podium behind the boots, rifles
and helmets of the three fallen, arranged in the same manner as 13
others in 2009. “This tragedy tears at wounds still raw from five years
ago.
Once more soldiers who survived foreign war zones were struck down
here at home, where they’re supposed to be safe.”
Though he spoke of figurative wounds from 2009, Obama did not meet with Lunsford, who suffered actual wounds that day.
“After receiving your letter yesterday, and consulting with the White
House Counsel’s office, we forwarded your letter to the Departments of
Justice and Defense, who are leading the government’s efforts to ensure
the victims of the 2009 shooting receive the justice and benefits they
deserve,” McDonough said in a letter to Lunsford dated April 10, a copy
of which was provided to ABC News by attorney Reed Rubinstein.
“Unfortunately, we were unable to meet your specific request for a
meeting with the President yesterday.”
Rubinstein, who represents Lunsford and other 2009 Fort Hood survivors
in a pending lawsuit against the government, told ABC News earlier this
week that the nature of the most recent shooting, and its contrast to
the 2009 attack, shined a light on the “underlying fallacy of what the
government has tried to tell people.”
“The idea that the [2009] Fort Hood shooting was workplace violence is a
lie,” Reid said. “They know it’s a lie. Everyone knows it’s a lie.”
In documents, the Pentagon obliquely referred to efforts to reduce
“workplace violence,” including self-radicalization, to prevent another
shooting like 2009. In a statement to ABC News earlier this week, the
Army said that evidence has shown Hasan acted as a “lone wolf” and that
“investigations… concluded that Nidal Hasan committed criminal acts of
murder and attempted murder.” It wasn’t terrorism, the Army said.
The Army defines terrorism
as the “calculated use of unlawful violence or threat of violence to
inculcate fear; intended to coerce or to intimidate governments or
societies in the pursuit of goals that are generally political,
religious, or ideological.”
The gunman in the most recent shooting, identified as Spc. Ivan Lopez,
killed himself when confronted by military police in the midst of his
rampage, military officials said. Hasan was found guilty of murder and
has been sentenced to death." via Mark Levin
Image above: "Retired Staff Sgt. Alonzo Lunsford talks about being wounded in the 2009
Fort Hood shooting rampage, at his home in Lillington, N.C., June 4,
2013."
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April 3, 2014, "Sgt. Wounded in 2009 Fort Hood Attack: Our Lives Would Be a ‘Living Hell’ Without Private Charities," The Blaze, Erica Ritz
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Added: Obama knows he can treat wounded Americans and surviving families of Islamic terrorism like crap because his pals in GOP "leadership" couldn't give a damn either. GOP political correctness and neglect are partly responsible for the 2009 Ft. Hood massacre. Young Guns, right.
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May, 2011
1/4/2013, McConnell and Obama, Getty
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9/17/13, "The Obama-Boehner Project," Angelo M. Codevilla, libertylawsite.org
"The ruling class’ foolishness and insincerity, its willingness to insult the American people’s intelligence, are no joke. But we can take comfort in its transparent ineptitude."
"The ruling class’ foolishness and insincerity, its willingness to insult the American people’s intelligence, are no joke. But we can take comfort in its transparent ineptitude."
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12/15/13, "Breaking The UniParty," Angelo Codevilla, libertylawsite.org
"So long as the Uniparty exists, mere voters will have no way of affecting what the government does."
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2/20/13, "As Country Club Republicans Link Up With The Democratic Ruling Class, Millions Of Voters Are Orphaned," Angelo Codevilla, Forbes, op-ed
They "collude and demand submission as did the royal courts of old."....(subhead 'Public Safety')"
They "collude and demand submission as did the royal courts of old."....(subhead 'Public Safety')"
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P. S. The BBC and Prince Charles are counting on global warming billions in their bank accounts via a US political class intent on selling out starving American children.
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