The arguments against televising the long-awaited and eminently justified execution of Muslim fanatic traitor Nidal Hasan, who murdered 13 and wounded at least 30, many of them fellow soldiers, add up to “That’s not who we are” and “Oh well, I never.” “It’s barbaric,” we’re told. It’s awful that people will have the opportunity to see justice delivered after so many years of legal onanism. What does it say about us as a people if we shoot a guy who murdered 13 of his comrades?

It says we are done playing games. It says we are serious.

When the U.S. Army executes that traitor, everyone’s going to know that we are no longer going to tolerate this kind of thing. We’re going to act. Decisively. If you betray your country and murder your comrades, you’re going to die. People need to see that. It makes a statement. That statement is not going to resonate with everybody. It doesn’t have to. There are a lot of arguments that this will just make this guy a martyr, but he’s going to be a martyr whether we show him getting shot or not. And for the Third World pagans who have taken up arms against civilization, they don’t seem to have a recruiting problem anyway. There’s always this idea that if we dare fight back against Muslim terrorists, we’re just going to make more Muslim terrorists. We might make some more, but we should kill them too.

After all, that’s the answer. Defeating our enemies. Whether you shoot them on the battlefield or tie them to a stake on a rifle range at Fort Hood, the answer to jihadism is lead.

Nor should we be ashamed of what we’re doing. This is justice. He deserves to die. He deserves to die much more miserably than he will. There’s no reason to hide this process simply because it’s aesthetically displeasing. That aesthetic displeasure will enhance its deterrent effect on other criminals, and it also reminds our society that we will inflict justice on evildoers. Americans can’t be sure of that right now. We have judges letting people get away with their crimes and politicians making excuses for the thugs. The chaos in our inner cities is a choice – it could end in a day. There’s an easy button – President Bukele of El Salvador pushed it and has saved tens of thousands of lives. Shooting this criminal and letting everybody see sends a message that at least the federal government is not going to tolerate evil.

The last public execution in America was in 1936, and do you think we’re significantly better off because we started doing it in secret? Why do you even have a death........

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