J.A. William,

Re: too much evidence to suspend judgement.

Why would this be “unsettling” to you ? Although I am not offended by the general tone of your response or that you have a differing opinion, I am somwhat offended that you have inferred that I have no respect for the rule of law or would wish to subvert/undermine US courts of law and due process .No, I am not “disturbed”, concerned that I, or anyone here, will unduly influence the prosecution of this individual. I have no fear that legal justice will not proceed as expected. I am greatly disturbed, however, by military service members giving diversity more import than human life. I am more than disturbed that the media feels it is their place to show us the way to respond, to manipulate an outcome that they preceiveas more favourable to their personal mind set.

The media has overstepped its bounds in filtering information and by attempts at tamping down rightous public outrage. Actually, I see that they, and you, are overreacting to the public seeing this as a clear example of one more terrorist act.I feel insulted and disrespected by people who see it as their duty to shape my thought. No one elected them to the position of thought police.

Reference to the “Enola Gay” is hardly fitting. You can’t disregard the circumstances and context matters.

Re: the insanity plea.
I really can’t understand why you would be making this argument. I have said nothing to imply that it doesn’t have a place in our legal system.

I do not find the acts of terrorism to be an elusive or hard to define concept. Those that do are using weasle words to either rationalize (excuse) such acts or diminish the signifigance of these acts in order to lull the world populace into apathy concerning them.The same thing is happening in the instance of Maj. Hasan.People want us to assume it was just another guy going postal at his place of work and let it slip from our memories.Atta was a socially dysfunctional , a loon, but a terrorist as well. They are not mutually exclusive by any means as we have seen in the past. No need to stress ourselves overmuch in concluding that.