Amused To Death

Just when I thought this country couldn't sink lower in the gutter, Pete Hegseth sends us right into the sewer.

Hegseth, who as Defense Secretary has become this administration's Hermann Goering, announced that the Islamist terrorist Army major who shot and killed fellow servicemen at Fort Hood in Texas in 2009, who was sentenced to death for his crime, will be shot by a firing squad for a . . . livestream television broadcast.

Now, I don't support the death penalty for the same reason I as a Catholic, don't support abortion - because only God should decide who lives and who dies.  (You atheists who have a bone to pick with me can shut up and sit down now, thank you very much.)  But if Nidal Hasan, the guilty party, should be executed, at least let it be done in private, and preferably with lethal injection - or, as befits a fascist regime, a cyanide capsule.  A firing squad on live television is barbaric, disgusting, horrible, egregiously stupid, and morally bankrupt.  Given that Hegseth is a white nationalist with enough tattoos to embarrass Graham Platner, his plan to have Hasan shot live (and in a wheelchair, at that, as Hasan is disabled), that's par for the course.

What's more, it will inflame Muslims all over the world to the point where the next terrorist attack on American soil could make 9/11 look like a bomb in a baby carriage. 

Hegseth is doing this for a target audience, and it's not the orange blob in the White House.  It's for all of us.   Not necessarily the MAGA crowd, who will likely find great amusement in watching a Muslim in a wheelchair got shot to death, but for those of us on the opposite side of the political spectrum.  We can't watch, and we don't want to watch, but Hegseth will see to it that we have to watch.  Airing an execution is his way of sending a message as to what we might expect going forward if we oppose the regime.  As Stephen Miller, this administration's Heinrich Himmler, said once it became apparent that a black woman with a Jewish husband was going to lead us to a new birth of freedom, the policies of the President will not be questioned. 

Be afraid.  Be very afraid. 

The execution is scheduled to take place at the scene of the crime on December 3, which, like November 5, 2009, the day of the shooting, is the first Thursday of the month.  Hegseth appears to have discovered this thing they call symmetry.  But Hasan's lawyers might be able to delay it for awhile.