U.S. Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan is accused of killing 13 people and wounding 29 more at Fort Hood military base last week.
Dan M. Ross, 61. of Lehigh Acres, was just trying to follow the New Testament and love his enemies.
So Ross sent an e-mail to Marvel’s Florist in Killeen, Texas, ordering a $59.95 yellow rose bouquet for Hasan.
He ordered a note be included with the flowers reading: “Major Nidal Hasan. Koran 2: 190 - 3. In God’s eye, and those who submit, you are a hero!”
Guess that got your attention -- and the FBI's.
Ross instructing the flower shop employees to “play stupid” if anyone were to question them.
The owner of the flower shop found the email "disturbing" and hand delivered it to the FBI.
Ross, who claims to be “the reincarnated Apostle Peter” and “the coming son of man,” said he doesn’t condone the Fort Hood shootings. He believes Hasan has a limited understanding of the Scriptures of God.
“God would take that into consideration and say ‘You did the best you can with what you knew,’” Ross said, reports the Naples Daily News.
The FBI came to his door.
Ross emailed the flower shop directed them to his Web site, www.donutnous.com, and said they did not respect his “US Constitutional rights.” Ross told them after reading it if they look in the mirror, they will know who the enemy is: “It is yourself.”
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Lehigh Acres resident Dan M. Ross is interviewed by an NBC-2 reporter in this still
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Comments
Nut cases transcend all racial and religious boundaries I guess.
Posted by: Jojo | November 11, 2009 7:57 AM
Ignorant SOB and religious pshchotic. send him over to the sandsox to be a "Missionary". They have all kinds of respect for your "U.S. Constitutional Rights"
Posted by: SIXFOOTERsez | November 11, 2009 7:58 AM
Mr. Ross you should be so proud of yourself for being such an idiot. Where do these people come from?????
Posted by: KF | November 11, 2009 8:22 AM
Must be the Florida school system...
Posted by: David | November 11, 2009 8:30 AM
Maybe its time the IRS scrutize this idiots tax records for the last 20-30 years. Sounds like he doesn't like our military probably was kicked out.
Posted by: Bobby B | November 11, 2009 9:19 AM
Common loons migrate south in the winter. I guess this guy never left. Wow.
Posted by: Square Grouper | November 11, 2009 9:54 AM
Send him to live with these types in the Middle East if he is so sympathetic to them. . Im sure they would welcome his head in their open arms ..
Posted by: junglejim123 | November 11, 2009 10:27 AM
this guy should be horse whipped!
Posted by: freddy | November 11, 2009 10:28 AM
God only has one eye? We've been worshiping a big cyclops
Posted by: its me | November 11, 2009 10:48 AM
With a head shaped like an eggplant, what do you expect?
Posted by: TBone | November 11, 2009 11:21 AM
They should take this fruitcake and send him to Iraq...He's a disgrace to this country...
Posted by: You sir are a TRAITOR! | November 11, 2009 11:52 AM
Where do these people come from?????
america,
happy vetenarians day .....
cukoo
Posted by: cukooamericano | November 11, 2009 1:49 PM
Well it's obvious that this guy is crazy. Let's not blame it on anything but that. I'm sure there are some more loons out there just like him. So don't get so bent out of shape on what he said or whether or not he's religious. The guy has lost his marbles. He lives in a retirement community so what can you expect?
Posted by: Kevin | November 11, 2009 11:38 PM
Dr. Hasan would have been thrilled to have a re-incarnated St. Peter as his admirer. Although I am not sure what Muslims think about St. Peter. They consider Jesus a minor prophet but what about the saints?
We will never know, the roses were apparently not dlivered. Dr. Hasan is, of course, not crazy at all although he may use insanity as his defense. He will certainly know how to present plenty of psychotic signs...
The head of this guy is truly remarkable, as other write here, one should expect something special from folks with head like that...
Posted by: Ladislav Nemec | November 12, 2009 3:40 AM
He looks like a reject from the Outer Limits.
Posted by: Bill014U2 | November 12, 2009 7:51 AM
Nutcases also seem to come together and egg each other on which is a very bad thing as it glamorizes and promotes these ridiculous events, the less publicity the better I think in this case.
Posted by: Timothy @ Florist supplies | November 16, 2009 10:32 PM
I am Dan Ross, the same in this news article. Ever since in 1996 I proved the Government is segregating the news, such as when Mitsubishi Motors, with 300 women abused, and then Texaco with eight blacks, the IRS has audited my tax records every year. They broke the law, I did not. Such reports should have come every year, it happens all the time but only when I sued the EEOC did it come out, and the news made a cover-up story. By many miracles, not just that stated here, I prove to be the reborn apostle Peter: Qur'an 5:33.
Posted by: Dan Ross | April 21, 2010 7:17