Turns out the latest force of nature – all five foot four, and 120 pounds of her – has an analogue in the world of nature.
The image comes from Downs, helpmate to Our Marianne, who adds:
Sexual dimorphism is strongly evident in polar bears. Males are three times as large as females, far more aggressive, and heavily muscled. Males sometimes kill and eat cubs and have been known to kill adult females as well. With good reason, female polar bears are timid and cautious in the presence of adult males. Nonetheless, a female will attack any male who appears to threaten her cub. Gaping and growling, she stands between him and her offspring.
Herself comments:
I woke up this morning thinking of that heroic police Sgt. And her shooting of Dr. Hasan. It made me think of mother polar bears protecting their cubs against far bigger male polar bears. So I asked Downs to forward to you one of his great photographs of a male polar bear menacing a much smaller female and her cubs. She fights back quite successfully. This can happen quite often, since polar bears don’t have families as such, or packs. It’s pretty much ‘love ‘em and leave ‘em’ with the bears, who live solitary lives, and don’t even know who their children are. When the bears assemble on the banks of Hudson Bay, waiting for the Bay to freeze over, they’re all pretty hungry, and almost anything is prey, other bears, even baby bear cubs. Sort of like Major Hasan’s attitude. Downs has seen male bears grab a cub, and its mother fight to keep it, often.
She most often wins, by the way. As the Sgt. did, protecting the unarmed soldiers. I’m sure the soldiers might not be happy to be equated with cubs – but whatever works. The old saying goes, “the female of the species is deadlier than the male.”
Certainly more focused, and in the instant case, much more charming.
It’s interesting, is it not? That Hasan was quite possibly driven mad by his failure to find within the US a sufficiently submissive woman. And was consequently laid low by a US woman that refused to submit.
I’m hoping that, once the trial is over and it’s time for Dr. Hasan to get his neck stretched, his sodium pentathol cocktail, or a severe buggering from Reddy Kilowatt, that it’s one of our women who pulls the lever, pushes the syringe, or flips the switch.
Just so that, with the last thing he sees, he may notice the irony.
He’s going to have a long, hot eternity to ponder it.
– Max
“It’s interesting, is it not? That Hasan was quite possibly driven mad by his failure to find within the US a sufficiently submissive woman. And was consequently laid low by a US woman that refused to submit.”
which proves once and for all that, when it comes to her taste in humor, G*d prefers irony.
Max,
I am afraid that you will have to wait a long time. Sgt. Hasan Akbar, infamous for his murder of two and wounding of 14 fellow soldiers of the 101st on 23 March 2003, convicted and sentenced to death — is STILL consuming oxygen, food and $$. When (and If) he shuffles off this mortal coil, it will be by lethal injection rather than the rope he so richly deserves.
It is essentially the same as a school shooting, the person willing to kill was undeterred by the “gun free” zone. Since all the soldiers were following orders, the Major was free to shoot people until someone else with a gun stopped him. She did a good job, a heroic job even, but the situation is a direct result of all those soldiers being disarmed by regulations. Some percentage of personnel at all institutions should be trained as auxiliary police and armed at all times.
Not to diminish Sgt. Munley’s heroism in any way, I heard one report that said she had a partner officer who also fired.
IF that’s the case, I’d hope that (probably) he gets a share of the glory that is justly due to them both.
Indeed, by his own account, Munley’s partner, Sgt. Mark Todd came upon Hasan after he had downed Sgt. Munley during their rapid exchange of fire from a few feet apart, and fired the shot that finally felled the Islamist POS.
Then Sgt. Toddm a retired soldier himself, proceeded to provide first aid to Hasan.
Is the Army using civvie police these days? If so, what happened to the MPs, and why?
It is ironic that an Army Post would be a gun free zone.
Janet Napolitano is worried about anti-Muslim backlash. Says Hasan “does not, obviously, represent the Muslim faith.” With people like that in charge of security, we are doomed.
That, and the picture has a way of reminding me how arguments with my wife usually turn out. Which is why I have learned to avoid them when possible.
My heart is filled with pride in Sgt. Munley and Sgt. Todd. Americans who took jobs that put them in harm’s way as a part of their normal workday. Who put themselves at risk every minute of the day.
Wow.
What do you all make of this piece of the story with the former Gulf war vet being the co-founder of the mosque who recommended that Hasan not be approved as a lay leader at the mosque? Because he thouht (and told him) there was something wrong with him. Think it’s all just made up after the fact?
Of course, there’s always the fact that as wacky as Danquah said he thought Hasan was he didn’t bother to report it to the military, either.
As regards the polar bear…”Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned…” Or something like that.
I don’t want to diminish her actions, but I wonder if Sergeant Munley would be getting as much media attention if she were a he. I somehow doubt it. If the responding officer were named Ken instead of Kim, you might read his name in a news report and that would be that. She was not a momma bear protecting her cubs. Munley’s job was to stop the threat and she did her job. Her gender is irrelevant.
sobersubmrnr/
As Cybele, above, notes, Sgt Munley wounded our boy but was on the ground wounded when her male partner Sgt Todd hove on the scene and put him down with a ctr-mass shot and then cuffed him. In agreement with you here. Taking nothing away from the courage or professionalism of Sgt Munley, but the media immediately concentrated on the actions of the female, leaving the distinct impression for many hours that she was solely responsible for the entire takedown, much in the same way they hyped (actually made up out of whole cloth) the supposed dogged defense of her convoy with her M-16 by that Army female Iraqi POW supply clerk (Jessica Lynch– from W. Va.) when in fact she had not fired a shot. The Amazon warrior meme in the MSM is strong indeed–as is the PC Army’s
reflexive readiness to participate/aid & abet in the hype.
I’m not going to take anything away from her. She ran to the sounds of guns and did her job. Her partner deserves just as much recognition.
The last cop that did anything noteworthy ended up having a beer with the President. Wonder if this will merit the same in his mind. Probably not, one shot up Muslim too many is one too many to keep calling attention to.
Its called A Just Karmic Response, Lex. I shorten that to “Justice”.
“Kick his ass, honey. Again and again.”
Subsunk
I just looked at the picture again. For some unknown reason I have this urge to watch reruns of “The Honeymooners” with Jackie Gleason and Audrey Meadows.
– Max