Counterpunch Moonbat Cheers Fragger of US Troops

The Counterpunch gang has a new role model and hero: Hasan Akbar, who was sentenced to death last week for fragging his fellow soldiers in Kuwait. Akbar is a devout African-American convert to Islam, and he identifies with the Iraqi enemy against his fellow soldiers. The Los Angeles Times quotes him stating, after he was apprehended, "You guys are coming into our countries, and you're going to rape our women and kill our children."

Akbar, you may recall, was a 32 year old combat engineer with the 326th Engineer Battalion of the 101st Airborne Division when he was charged March 25 with two counts of premeditated murder, 17 counts of attempted murder, one count of aggravated arson of an inhabited dwelling and one count of misbehavior as a sentinel. The attack occurred at Camp Pennsylvania -- the Kuwaiti headquarters of the division's 1st Brigade -- on March 23, four days after the start of the war in Iraq. The ultra-moonbats have been cheering on Akbar, chanting how they support US troops when they murder their officers.

Akbar is the new guru for Stan Goff, whose personal web page celebrates Mumia and links to the communist party, assorted other communist groups, as well as to Uruknet and other Islamofascist groups. After 9-11, Stan Goff equated the terrorist attacks with the German Nazis' torching of the Reichstag in 1933. "The de facto executive branch and the compliant press are putting the historical spotlight right now on December 7, 1941, and Pearl Harbor," said Goff, a disgruntled former U.S. Army Ranger. "I think we need to aim that spotlight at February 27 in 1933 and the Reichstag fire." Goff promotes conspiracy nonsense about 9-11 on Narco News and elsewhere.

Here is Goff's Counterpunch take:

"How many times had Hasan Akbar heard his religion thus maligned and misrepresented by fellow soldiers, by officers and NCO's, by the press, on the internet, watching call-in programs on C-Span? Akbar's lawyers attempted to make the case that Akbar feared his fellow soldiers. I don't know if he did or not, but it's not a stretch..... It's hard for me to forget that this is the government that has illegally imprisoned thousands of people, including holding one U.S. citizen (Jose Padilla) without charges or access to a lawyer, and that persecuted Wen Ho Lee with the enthusiastic cooperation of the 'objective' press. This is the government that still holds Leonard Peltier and Mumia Abu Jamal (though Mumia is held on Pennsylvania charges). And this is the military that denied exit to military-aged males in Fallujah before they turned it into a Warsaw free-fire zone. So I hope I'll be forgiven if I say, even without claiming the innocence or guilt of Hasan Akbar -- which I simply do not know about... forgive me if I say there is something here that doesn't pass a smell test."

Goff basically thinks all trials are silly and that murderers cannot get justice in them. "Trials are codified rituals, no less primitive and dogmatic than pretending we are drinking blood and eating flesh during communion." Goff goes on to claim that black murderers do not get justice under the American legal system and that Daniel Pipes is a "designated troll", you know - unlike the moonbats, communist stooges, anti-Semites, and neofascists who are regular columnists for Counterpunch. Talk about a smell test!

Meanwhile, Akbar's lawyer, Wazir Ali Muhammad Al-Haqq, had been saying the trial will be about more than just Akbar's guilt or innocence – it also will be a political trial of the US Army itself!! Goff agrees. While not exactly coming out and cleanly defending Akbar's crimes of murder, nevertheless Goffball thinks Akbar is innocent until convicted in some court other than a military court martial, and thinks that Akbar's murders pale in comparison with the crimes of the American government and racist society.