printMore bureaucracy—more salaries for more slackers—and less accountability. This is how the state deals with its ongoing infractions against the people. A commission of inquiry is planned—or in Pentagon Speak, “a broad 45-day review”—instead of tough, immediate action against every cog in the military machine which promoted, pampered and palliated the mass murderer, “Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the Army psychiatrist accused of killing 13 people and wounding more than 30 in the shootings at the Texas military post on Nov. 5.”
For his part, Attorney General Eric Holder promised to “work with this committee on ways in which we can prevent such a tragedy from occurring again.”
NPR’s Daniel Zwerdling has “uncovered” what was deduced from evidence already in existence a week ago in “Your Government’s Jihadi Protection Program”:
“Substandard professional performance would get one purged from the private sector. It did nothing to undermine Hasan’s employment status, rank, six-figure income, and secret security clearance in the military.”
Government committees are where accountability goes to die.
Update (Nov. 20): Read the Memorandum for the Credentials Committee written about Hasan, the army’s assassin in training.
With power should go responsibility. Certainly Hasan’s superior officer should be fired and his superior officer’s superior officer and maybe a few more levels for good measure.
It is said a fish rots from the head down. I suspect there are too few real men in the military hierarchy to say “The rot stops here.”
Let the whitewash begin!
IM-“Government committees are where accountability goes to die.”
No truer words have ever been written
Such an investigation requires judgments the government is unwilling to make and works feverishly to make illegal for its citizens. What’s left is to put on a good show: if ‘show’ trials (KSM in NYC), then, why not ‘show’ inquiries (marginal major falls on his sword for the Chiefs of Staff).
Have they figured out a motive yet?
“Investigators believe religion may have played a role in Hasan’s shooting spree at Ft. Hood” was the most recent NPR bulletin I heard. This is a week after “Investigators are still searching for a motive.” The naivety is unbelievable! It seems to me like the only relevant question is “was he a lone wolf or did he have outside help?” That religion motivated him was obvious to me as soon as I heard his name. But then again maybe I’m just a bigot.
The government committee, tasked with finding a vanilla pablum statement for the masses, will not wrestle with the question: How much religion qualifies one as insane?
I don’t think Hasan’s co-workers could have predicted that Hasan the parasitical dreg was going to cross over into the violent-killer phase. Nevertheless, I’ve seen incompetents kept on and promoted in government for decades. That phenomenon is even more insidious in the governmental school systems.
Consider that most of the students in ghetto “high schools” (some right near here) are basically sub 3rd grade level illiterates – yet they get AUTOMATICALLY PROMOTED by inept teachers. These two links contain an exam that was required to GRADUATE 8th grade and prior to entering high school given in Kansas in 1895. Interestingly enough, the test is real and snopes.com apparently attempts to “explain” why the test is rather irrelevant:
see http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2307857/posts and
http://www.snopes.com/language/document/1895exam.asp
Notwithstanding that some of the test is archaic, the point is that neither teachers, students, employees, or managers are held to any realistic standards of competency OR ethics OR accountability these days. People are often automatically passed and promoted rather than confronted. The iconoclast who shouts that the Emperor has no clothes is shunned and marginalized so that the consensus of mediocrity can reign supreme.
There’s incompetency in the private sector but it rules supreme throughout the government.
“There’s incompetency in the private sector but it rules supreme throughout the government.” Myron Pauli
I would bet the farm that the government is behind most of that as well.
Regarding “private sector incompetency” (to M. B.)
(1) If it is in a government contractor (Lockheed … Blackwater) padding expenses in a “cost plus” contract), it is insidious and a derivative of theft. In fact, there are often incentives for padding expenses. Governments and their contractors have incentives to INCREASE their budgets.
(2) If it is in a politically connected company (like General Motors or Goldman Sachs), they run to Congress or the Federal Reserve for protection, anti-competitive rules, and bailouts. The history of FDR’s “National Recovery Administration” with their cartelized “codes of fair competition” were basically Mussolini-inspired legalized protected monopolies to destroy efficiency and rob consumers in the name of saving jobs.
(3) Normal free-market business failures – picking the wrong stocks, for example. Or Joe’s Diner does not serve as tasty food as Sam’s Diner – these inefficiencies are wrung out by the corrective “invisible hand” of the free market. Incompetents are PROPERLY run out of business, Joe becomes a waiter to Sam, and the government is not involved in any violation of the properties or liberties of its citizens.
Sadly, our “public schools” and cultural decay have elevated ineptitude into a national pastime – e.g. Hasan’s promotion.
“Incompetents are PROPERLY run out of business, Joe becomes a waiter to Sam, and the government is not involved in any violation of the properties or liberties of its citizens.” Myron Pauli
Indeed. I’m of the mind that everyone is competent at something else the Creator is not, which is impossible.
An entire book could be written on how government intrusion results in the misallocation of individuals to jobs to the detriment of the individual and thus to society. A big example would be over-sized government itself which crowds out employment from the private sector.
When will people learn that every “problem” does not require the hammer (actually gun, tasser and filthy prison) of government?
I can’t get over the fact that gays and lesbians are regularly discharged. But an incompetent Muslim terrorist is promoted to Major!?!?!?