{"id":20054,"date":"2012-11-08T01:57:30","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T04:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=20054"},"modified":"2012-11-08T01:57:52","modified_gmt":"2012-11-08T04:57:52","slug":"fort-hood-massacre-victims-sue-us-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/08\/fort-hood-massacre-victims-sue-us-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Hood Massacre Victims Sue US Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As reported by the Associated Press, victims and surviving family members of the 2009 <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/30\/hasans-fort-hood-victims-13-or-14\/\">Fort Hood massacre<\/a>\u00a0have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2012\/11\/05\/148-victims-family-members-sue-government-over-fort-hood-shooting\/\">filed a lawsuit against\u00a0the US government<\/a>\u00a0alleging negligence and shirking of responsibility.\u00a0 They\u00a0claim the government is attempting to avoid liability by referring to the attack as &#8220;workplace violence&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/19\/video-fort-hood-victims-want-massacre-declared-terrorism\/\">rather than terrorism<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The lawsuit alleging negligence by the government said that the Defense <!--more-->Department is avoiding legal and financial responsibility for the killings by referring to the shootings as &#8220;workplace violence&#8221; rather than as a terrorist attack.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The 148 plaintiffs &#8212; many of whom apparently filed unsuccessful claims last year &#8212; are also saying the government knew for years that Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan, currently on (much delayed) trial for murder in the attack,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>was a fanatic Islamist extremist who supported jihad, suicide attacks and violence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For his part, Hasan has managed to drag his trial out for years, most recently by <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/19\/appeals-court-muslim-soldier-can-be-forcibly-shaved\/\">growing a beard<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As reported by the Associated Press, victims and surviving family members of the 2009 Fort Hood massacre\u00a0have filed a lawsuit against\u00a0the US government\u00a0alleging negligence and shirking of responsibility.\u00a0 They\u00a0claim the government is attempting to avoid liability by referring to the attack as &#8220;workplace violence&#8221; rather than terrorism: The lawsuit alleging negligence by the government said that the Defense<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[88,97,44,2,1431,10,171,3648],"class_list":["post-20054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-army","tag-fort-hood","tag-islam","tag-military","tag-nidal-malik-hasan","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-terrorist-attack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}