{"id":983,"date":"2009-11-08T05:39:52","date_gmt":"2009-11-08T05:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/?p=983"},"modified":"2009-11-08T05:39:52","modified_gmt":"2009-11-08T05:39:52","slug":"gop-congressional-candidate-alan-west-says-fort-hood-tragedy-proof-jihadists-infiltrating-our-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/gop-congressional-candidate-alan-west-says-fort-hood-tragedy-proof-jihadists-infiltrating-our-military.php","title":{"rendered":"GOP Congressional candidate Alan West says Fort Hood tragedy &quot;proof&quot; Jihadists infiltrating our Military"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_Zm6JXvXXze4\/SvSzGicv_II\/AAAAAAAAIC8\/ApRh434Mw48\/s1600-h\/AlanWest.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/89a1f_AlanWest.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5401138778032045186\"><\/a>From Eric Dondero:<\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/66685-top-gop-recruit-says-ft-hood-shooting-shows-enemy-is-infiltrating-our-military\">The Hill<\/a> reported earlier in the day, that Alan West, a candidate for US House from Florida for 2010, and long a favorite of Libertarian Republicans, made the following remarks:<\/p><blockquote><p>\"This enemy preys on downtrodden soldiers and teaches them extremism will lift them up,\" West said in a statement. \"Our soldiers are being brainwashed.\" <\/p><p>The release added that West claims \"the horrible tragedy at Fort Hood is proof the enemy is infiltrating our military.\"<\/p><\/blockquote><p>West went on to comment:<\/p><blockquote><p>[The Military should find ways] \"to prevent Islamic extremism from penetrating our bases.\"<\/p><p>West said \"it is imperative that we take steps to make sure this does not happen again\" and that it is important to \"objectively assess this situation.\"<\/p><\/blockquote><p>West will be challening liberal Democrat Ron Klein in a Broward County district.  In 2008, an off Election Year for the GOP, West polled 45% against Klein.  <\/p><p>West gained major media attention in 2003 during the early months of the Iraq War, when he was called before a Military Tribunal to answer questions over a combat incident.  West pulled his weapon and threatened an Iraqi insurgent POW for information regarding the detenion of men in his unit.  <\/p><p>More recently, West has co-hosted functions in South Florida for Dutch libertarian Parliamentarian Geert Wilders, and is a friend and close political ally of libertarian blogger Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs.<\/p><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/89a1f_7828681836623105417-7705068711263784619?l=libertarianrepublican.blogspot.com\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Eric Dondero:The Hill reported earlier in the day, that Alan West, a candidate for US House from Florida for 2010, and long a favorite of Libertarian Republicans, made the following remarks:\"This enemy preys on downtrodden soldiers and teaches them &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/gop-congressional-candidate-alan-west-says-fort-hood-tragedy-proof-jihadists-infiltrating-our-military.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libertarian"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}