Last Sunday morning, four Seattle area Lakewood Police Officers were gunned down in cold blood by a perpetrator who walked into the coffee shop where they were sitting and opened fired, killing all four. It was a devastating blow to the law-enforcement community, and these officers are survived by their families, including nine children between them.

What was the reaction from the President? Where was the White House Spokesman on President Obama’s’ outrage and desire "not to rush judgment". Normally, one might wonder, “Why would we care”? Was it mentioned that the victims were all white and the perpetrator was black? Does that not manifest the same level of scrutiny and outrage from the White House and President Obama as a white officer doing his job that happened to have ruffled the preening feathers of a hostile and combative black Harvard professor (and personal friend to the President of the United States?)? I fear it only manifests the growing reality of hypocrisy within the liberal political circles, academia, and media establishments

I will look forward to the President’s take on this, and see if there is the same level of concern regarding race relations in the US…and of course what beers everyone will be drinking at the upcoming summit…but I won’t be holding my breath.

As more information trickles out about Major Malik Nidal Hasan’s attack against fellow soldiers and colleagues at Ft Hood last week, it becomes abundantly clear that his actions culminated from a clear lack of fortitude and basic security awareness on the part of senior Army leadership. This lack of fortitude and security awareness illustrates the stark level of hypocrisy and political correctness permeating throughout the Army, the Armed Forces, and government organizations in general. It is coming to light that not only were Major Hasan’s views, open comments, and stated positions regarding US policy and his personal views about a perceived “war on Islam”, but he also is alleged to have made internet comments and even spoke in a public venue as to his perceptions and arguments against US policy “against Islam”.  There is preliminary reporting he may have had some tacit, loose connections with other Jihadist sympathizers.

Anyone who has spent any time working in the government or has been on active duty has been subject to hours and hours of what the Army refers to as EEO Training (Equal Employment Opportunity). It is code for mandatory politically correct seminars touting the virtues and recognition of minority groups within the organization, ensuring there are open lines of reporting and redress for alleged racial, gender based, or ethnic slander,  perceived or actual abuse, or innuendos that can cause, and have caused, tension, instability, or hostile working environments within military units.  It is almost exclusively tailored to minorities and how they can fend against perceived white Christian male-based pressures and abuses toward them. In the civilian world, Gay-Lesbian Transgender abuses and impropriety from heterosexuals is added to the mix of victimized groups. It is often tedious, poorly administered, and for those of us that were raised in loving, tolerant, and respectful homes, offensive in its simplicity to the root causes of true tensions and pressures in large organizations that may be racially, sexually, or religiously based. Yet, it permeates throughout all levels of the organization, and often hangs over like a dark cloud, or like a Zampolit, or political officer from the old Soviet days. Instead of being plus positive, it instead has good people questioning what is now appropriate to say, do, act, think amongst their colleagues within the organization.  It goes on the premise that all people (white males) are prone to these types of politically incorrect thoughts, and that the organization needs to stamp out that kind of thinking and actions that can affect the force, especially the minorities, women, and certain religious practitioners.

Anyone who spent any considerable time over the last 15-20 years in the military would recognize the unfortunate, but completely plausible, result of Major Hasan’s traitorous words, deeds, and ultimate act….an act of terror.  This terror, however, manifested from a lack of fortitude from the stench of hypocritical political correctness. A clear example of this hypocrisy is all the attention and ways to identify White Supremacy signs and potential activities within the military. Though, I can say emphatically, while on duty within the Marine Corps for over twenty years, I never once saw any signs of any organized, loose affiliation, or tacit approval of white supremacist activity. Yet, if one goes to a typical EEO Office, one would find all the literature, pamphlets, and posters identifying white supremacist logos, signs, tattoos, affiliations, and activities, giving the impression that the Neo Nazi SS is infiltrating the US military. Some information discusses Latino“gang” related activity, but the preponderance is identifying the scourge of Neo Nazi groups within the military. Those same Neo Nazis that I never saw, nor had any information or even rumor of existing in anything other than the mind of some stupid drunk belching some tirade that did nothing for his “cause” other than looking like a complete red neck ignoramus.

Enter Major Hasan. If we replaced the same words, deeds, thoughts, internet writings, and public speaking venues of Major Hasan, and replaced them with the tirades, ramblings, and hate filled, anti government rhetoric of a white supremacist, does anyone believe this situation would have ever culminated as far as it did resulting in the deaths of 13 people and the wounding of 30 others? It is clear that because Major Hasan was a Muslim, and was insulated by the chrysalis of political correction, he was not given the same level of scrutiny nor follow through action as a result of his seditious and traitorous views precisely because the force has been so eroded to not rock the proverbial PC boat for fear of career repercussions. Nowhere is this more prevalent than watching General Casey, Chief of Staff of the Army,on the Sunday News Shows painfully address the non-sequiter of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), and the alleged abuse Hasan is said to have endured because he was Muslim while on active duty. Despite the fact that Hasan had never deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan, and had not been subject to any stressors related to Post Traumatic Stress or “combat” stress, Casey was forced to deliberate and comment on all the Army is doing to stamp out the PTSD, and address allegations of perceived “abuse” toward Hasan as a Muslim. All because Casey, and much of the entire force, has been shaped and crafted to address the PC version of the story, not the security and Force Protection version.

Hasan was not just a member of the military. He was an officer, granted special trust and confidence within the military. Additionally, he was a doctor, and a psychiatrist, both granting him additional trust and confidence in the physical and psychological well being of his patients. This guy was as vetted in this organization as one can get. However, he began showing signs of breaching that special trust on each of his special conditions within the organization…and no one did or said anything to affect it. Had he been in the intelligence field, his actions alone would warrant an inquiry for a number of reasons, one being the fact that he was interacting on websites, and voicing his anti-US policy opinions to colleagues, patients, friends, and soldiers. He was proselytizing Islam, clearly with Jihadist views, to his colleagues and subordinates, his patients and coworkers. Can you imagine anyone doing the same thing as a “born again” Christian with supremacist undertones? Yet, he remained on duty.  Why wasn’t this issue brought forward by one single official to affect a course correction? How was this person allowed to have and voice these views, views that are the antithesis to good order and discipline, let alone traitorous and completely in step with the propaganda spread by our Jihadist enemies?

Political Correctness.