Daily Archives: November 10, 2009

The Maj. Hasan Inci­dent is so puz­zling that one is drawn to con­struct analo­gies in more famil­iar, every­day set­tings to try and under­stand how this sit­u­a­tion was allowed to ripen until its evil flower bloomed.  Let’s try.

• A police sergeant tasked with Diver­sity Train­ing  tells his com­rades that he doesn’t like hav­ing to deal with black peo­ple, that he found a lot of good in a speech given by a KKK Grand Klea­gle, and posts on a web site that some­times lynch­ings are jus­ti­fied.  Nobody makes any­thing of it.
• A man tells a group of fel­low scout­mas­ters that he really likes fondling the gen­i­tals of young boys. Nobody makes any­thing of it.
• A cross­ing guard, dur­ing a train­ing exer­cise, tells the other trainees that it looks really cool when kids get run over by speed­ing cars. Nobody makes any­thing of it.
• A worker at a humane ani­mal shel­ter insists he doesn’t see why every­one got so worked up by Michael Vick.  Nobody makes any­thing of it.
• A fam­ily ther­a­pist tells par­ents that their child might burn them all to death in their beds some night and so they should stop mak­ing him do his home­work, but oth­er­wise there is noth­ing to be con­cerned with.

Oh!  Now I get it.  This is how every­day peo­ple would react in these kinds of sit­u­a­tions and the non-judgmental, PC mil­i­tary cul­ture is just respond­ing to soci­etal pressures.

Maybe nos­tal­gie de la boue?  Or is it just That Old Black Magic ?   Or has The San­ity Inspec­tor actu­ally dis­cov­ered another per­son who writes for The Guardian who thinks Ani­mal Farm is a Utopian novel?

You be the judge.

Think Big Bird was large?  Hah!  The next time some­body starts going on about a 500 pound gorilla in the room you can just snort “Horse-feathers!”  Or “elephant-feathers!”

Or, maybe, if you really want to start a ruckus, “T-Rex-feathers!”