Stockholm Syndrome defined:
A psychological response sometimes seen in abducted hostages, in which the hostage shows signs of loyalty to the hostage-taker, regardless of the danger or risk in which they have been placed. ... the victims became emotionally attached to their captors, and even defended them ....Last Thursday, 11/05/09, a US Army major stationed at Ft. Hood TX walked into a processing center on base and shot at least 43 innocent, unarmed, and unaware people. So far he has killed 13 of them. The major is Muslim.
President Obama's first official remark about the shootings were included in a speech he was giving to an [American] Indian tribal conference on Thursday at 5:00pm, wherein he said, in the following order:
OBAMA: Please, everybody, have a seat. Let me first of all just thank Ken and the entire Department of the Interior staff for organizing just an extraordinary conference.Lip service! Especially considering the fact that Obama isn't even going to visit Ft. Hood until tomorrow. (Former President George Bush visited with the wounded soldiers the next day.)
I want to thank my Cabinet members and senior administration officials who participated today. I hear that Dr. Joe Medicine Crow was around, and so I want to give a shout out
[flippancy before addressing the worst mass killing at a military base in the nation’s history?? This is the important thing to notice here.]
to that Congressional Medal of Honor winner. It's good to see you.
My understanding is is that you had an extremely productive conference. [Blah, blah, blah,]
But as some of you might have heard, there has been a tragic shooting at the Fort Hood Army base in Texas. We don't yet know all the details at this moment. We will share them as we get them.
What we do know is that a number of American soldiers have been killed, and even more have been wounded in a horrific outburst of violence.
My immediate thoughts and prayers are with the wounded and with the families of the fallen and with those who live and serve at Fort Hood.
[Blah, blah, blah,]
God bless you and God bless the United States of America.
Thank you. (Source)
At the very least, as the Boston Globe stated,
"It takes more than scripted eloquence for presidents to connect with their fellow Americans. It requires a visceral ability to grasp the scope of tragedy, calculate its impact on the national psyche, and react swiftly to it. Ronald Reagan did it after the Challenger explosion took the lives of seven crew members on Jan. 28, 1986. So did Bill Clinton, after the Oklahoma City bombings of April 19, 1995, left 168 dead and more than 600 injured.This is no big deal to Obama. Or is it? If you're secretly a Muslim terrorist sympathizer this could be the biggest deal since 9/11. But because of his eloquent style it appears the main stream media is rolling along with the flow of apathy - sympathy even! towards the Muslim major.
When a gunman fired those shots at Fort Hood, the country immediately felt the pain. Obama missed the first moment to show he understood just how much it hurt."
Are we a nation held hostage because our own 'political correctness'? Are we blind to the fact that the major's actions were an act of terrorism simply because he objected to us killing Muslim terrorists in Afghanistan? Are we really going to offer sympathy to this man because he was supposedly harassed? Give me a break!
The leader of our captors is, of course, Obama. He hypnotically influences most of the cable news networks, who in turn lull us into believing the major is a victim. Poor Muslim victim. What better way to control an entire nation than to put sympathy on the side of the terrorists?
Do you think it's not possible? Hitler controlled his people this way, remember?
Very scary stuff.
