Cries of 'My baby, my baby' fell on Pres. Obama's deaf ears

To the editor,

The classification of the November 2009 Fort Hood massacre, which killed 12 soldiers (one was pregnant) plus one civilian and wounded 31 has been classified as "workplace violence" by the Obama administration. Twelve of the wounded remain hospitalized to this day.

I am outraged. In a new video released October 18, representing the victims and their families, one can see that they are also outraged. The downplayed classification denies a number of benefits due the victims which would be forthcoming if the action was classified and recognized for what it really was.

Major Nidal Hasan was a practicing Muslim who was in regular e-mail contact with top Al-Quaida operative Anwar al-Awlaki. Awlaki, who was based in Yemen, was considered a top enemy of the US and was killed in an air-strike last year. Several of the surviving soldiers testified that Major Hasan shouted "ALLAHU AKBAR" as he opened fire on the unarmed soldiers.

I am sorry, folks, but our president, who bows to the Saudi King, refuses to face the TRUTH in this matter. He would rather offend our troops than offend Muslims.

This is not all. One of the soldiers killed was Pvt Francheska Valez, just returned from a 10 month tour in Iraq. She had been on base just 3 days and was being processed for maternity leave to her home in Chicago. She was shot in the stomach and was observed by several witnesses to be in a fetal position calling out, "My baby, My baby" before she died.

In 2003, the Unborn Victims of Violence Act was signed into law by President Bush. This made it a federal crime to injure or kill a "child in utero" allowing the same degree of punishment as the same act committed against a living human being. This law came into being because of the many examples of assault against pregnant women that resulted in injury or death to the unborn child resulting in no right to prosecute for the offense against the unborn. This was because of the Supreme Court ruling in 1973 in Roe v Wade (Granting no rights to the unborn up to a vague "viability") plus the ruling in the simultaneous sister case, Doe v Bolton (Which gave the unborn no rights up to full term). Google the saga of Tracy Marciniac, who was assaulted by her husband five days before her baby was due, already named Zachariah, causing the death of the fully formed ready-for birth little boy. Her husband was tried and convicted of assault, but there was no penalty for killing his son. The law considered Zachariah a non-person with no right to life. Her testimony and picture holding her deceased son at his funeral was portrayed before the House and Senate and was huge in passing the federal act.

The federal law applies to offenses occurring under federal jurisdiction, INCLUDING THE MILITARY. Thirty-six states have followed suit in part or in whole, but 14 have not.

The murder of Pvt. Valez and her unborn child fits the federal legislation perfectly, an open and shut case. But our president, whose duty it is to see that Maj. Hasan is prosecuted to the full extent of the law, has purposely ignored this charge. It is simply because he believes the unborn have no rights whatever. You may say, "why bother with this charge because Hasan is already charged with 13 counts of murder." Then why not only charge him on one or four or six counts, you pick the number, since the punishment would be the same. Why, then? Because it would be an insult to the other soldiers and their families not to prosecute each one and it is the duty of the government to do so.

But the cries of Pvt. Sanchez calling out, "My baby, my baby," who meant the world to her, but nothing to our president, falls on deaf ears. The reason for the omission of this 14th victim's charge, is political. President Obama's loyal constituency might think he might be recognizing a right to life in this case. To him and half of our population, it was only a bob of tissue in the womb of Francheska Valez with no right to life whatsoever. But in this case, the federal law is clear and valid. Even so, no prosecution will be forthcoming. I am outraged.

George Brunstad

Meredith