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Hegseth Wants Public to Watch First Firing Squad Execution Since WWII
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Everyone understands that. That's not a question.
All this will do is provide something inside these terror networks to play over and over and over to their recent converts. A public execution of these radical attacks only serves to encourage more of the exact same thing. There's no part of it that's discouraging.
These terror networks will literally play it over and over again. They will tell their people. "Hasan killed 13 of them and he is now dead and in heaven for his actions. The US will make you all martyrs and your kin will know your acts."
Like Hegseth has literally no clue who he is dealing with. The people who he acts like this will discourage, all it will do is make happier to jump at the chance to have the same thing happen to them. He's going to make the best recruitment tool for these terror organizations.
they are all too stupid to understand any of the points you are making
They're all definitely stupider than shit, but idk if they'd care even if they did understand. They want more terrorist attacks because they think that will get them reelected and they pretty obviously don't give a crap about who gets hurt in their quest for power.
⬆️ The correct answer right here.
The FBI just manufactured, then heorically stopped a terror plot at the Mall of America the other day
The Trump admin wants terror plots right now, they feel it will help them in the midterms
They saw Netanyahu cancel elections after 10/7 and avoid the consequences that were coming his way.
Yep they'll just say the thread op is "defending Muslim terrorists" or some bullshit
Hegseth probably is. The people telling him what to do...they probably have some idea
You think they don’t want that? The more terror attacks on Americans the more they can push for the totalitarian police state to protect us.
It’s what Israel has been doing by funding Hamas and splintering Palestine.
I don't think its accurate to say that Hegseth doesn't know what he is doing.
Making the execution public is on purpose, so the question is what purpose does it serve.
The most obvious seems to be about ego, and being a "tough guy" Hegseth (and Trump) are obsessed with being seen as strong men, and they think a public execution makes them seem tough
Terror, the next most obvious is that this is a part of the regimes ongoing terrorism campaign against Americans. Hegseth (and republicans in general) are telling people that they will find and execute anybody they think is an enemy.
"Speaking to Real America’s Voice, Hegseth made clear that the decision was deliberate. “We’re gonna make sure that people are able to watch it, that it’s public, because people need to understand that there’s serious consequences for these types of things,” he said."
Desensitization seems to be next. The constant ramping up of violence, and the political celebration of violence is a pretty deliberate attempt to make government run violence a normal part of life.
Precedent is probably on this list. Now that the Regime can publicly execute people for terrorism, they can publicly execute anybody. They have already said that anybody who is against fascism is a terrorist, and they already have assaulted, imprisoned and killed people for it. Now they are setting a precedent that they can do it legally.
Pissing off Muslims and making more enemies is probably here too. The regime needs people to blame atrocities on, when Trump nukes Los Angeles, he is going to want to blame it on "extremists." It fuels his forever war, and gives him an unlimited supply of support from people that don't look too hard. This seems to be rather low on the list, since the regime already lies about everything, and lying about muslim terrorists is probably easier than telling the truth about muslim terrorists, but anything to cloud the waters is probably a bonus.
All the guy wanted was to die a martyr. He said so at his sentencing. Not only is this not going to show serious consequences but encourage future terrorists like you pointed out.
That said, Hegseth would be all too happy to encourage more violence on US citizens if it means ramping up the security apparatus and eroding citizen rights. No better than Netanyahu allowing Oct 7th to be as murderous as possible.
They don't give a shit about Islamic terrorism. This is just another push of the Overton window.
If you think this will be the only live streamed execution, you're in for a bad time.
So long the next ones are theirs
Honestly, there is much greater than a 0% chance that Hegseth didn't understand serious consequences until he himself was exposed to it, so he thinks everyone else needs that type of awakening.
No, he understands very well the fascist economy needs enemies. If you gave Petey-pie a button that cleanly deleted Islam from the planet, he'd never press it because he can't function without an opposing religious extreme...
For a sillier analogy, Batman and the Joker fight all the time but can't exist without each other.
Yeah, and he can't touch Saudi Arabia, being one of the largest purchasers of military equipment and in control of the Sunni mindset preventing the rest of the Muslim world from trying to intervene in the nakba.
Also, for the people who care about that, firing squad is how you kill other soldiers. By extension, the Pentagon is acknowledging this man as a combatant and not a terrorist.
Traditionally reserved for (noble) officers too. Regular soldiers got a one to the back of the head or just hanged.
100%. The guy didn't do it thinking he'd get away with it or the US military would give him a slap on the wrist at his court martial. He intentionally tried to get the death penalty.
It degenerates the society that makes it a spectacle.
Everyone knows shooting sprees are bad but people still do them in spite of the punishments.