Comments on: Monthly Survey: Ft. Hood Shootings a Terrorist Act?

By: Brian @ DVD Storage

Brian @ DVD Storage — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 13:40:55 +0000

Having been a former Police Officer in Ohio, and gone through all of the OPOTA training that that involves this was not a civilian crime.

- It was an attack that involved against a national system or body.

- Idealist motivation.

- Non-specific victim(s) involved.

These 3 factors COMBINED (not one of and each it’s one) would require a civilian (non-military) officer in Ohio to treat the suspect, evidence, and investigation as terrorism and not murder.

By: Tom Hargrave

Tom Hargrave — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 06:57:46 +0000

My sentiments exactly.

By: Roy

Roy — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:38:40 +0000

Regardless of how you look at it and how he was motivated, he went on a rampage based on his religion and this shooting was a terrorist attack. This was no different from a extremist strapping on a bomb in Iraq

By: Tom Hargrave

Tom Hargrave — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:51:02 +0000

So, instead of being involved in Afghanistan or Iraq, he does it here???? I don’t think so.

By: mario@Christmas holiday card

mario@Christmas holiday card — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:49:25 +0000

We have this idea that terrorism always come from others.

There is a saying about psychiatrists going into psychiatry because they have a problem or a vulnerability of some kind.

True? False? I don’t know.

But this guy who did the shooting was hearing day in day out the atrocities his patients with PTSD were witness of, in Afghanistan and maybe in Irak.

Probably he heard a lot and could not bear the fact that he had to go and to be an actor in what he heard from his patients.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:20:35 +0000

So, just to clarify your position, are you saying that terrorism is:

“Any act of violence that scares people?”

“Any act of violence carried out by people who share different beliefs to you?”

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:18:10 +0000

I wouldn’t be calling it terrorism if it happened in Afghanistan.

By: Charles

Charles — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:27:19 +0000

Terrorism. Whether that was the intended result or not, that’s what it was.

By: Daniel Drude

Daniel Drude — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:25:13 +0000

I don’t believe the Fort Hood shootings were an act of terrorism, because by definition the intention of a terrorist act is to spread fear among a people for holding a certain belief, or to pressure them into acting in a certain way or stopping some action.

Every actual terrorist act, whether it’s Al Qaeda or the IRA, is accompanied by a declaration from the organisation or individuals who committed it, to spread that fear.

As this guy hasn’t declared anything like this I think it was just the actions of one madman.

By: Joey

Joey — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:29:00 +0000

any violent act can be a terorist act not just the once that happen by people out side the united states. … would you say that the oklahoma bombing was an act of terrorism .. yes and it was carried out by an american. would i say the ft hood shootings was an act of violence was a terrorist act or act of terrorism … hell yea i would … it was an act that the use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims.