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Cho Seung-Hui was the real victim

by C. K. Yao Sunday, Apr. 22, 2007 at 12:12 AM

Cho Seung-Hui was the real victim. He was laughed at for being Asian. He was tortured psychologically by white America. His was a last-stand.

Cho Seung-Hui was the real victim. He was laughed at for being Asian. He was tortured psychologically by white America. His was a last-stand.

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let's look at this

by Psyops the Cyclops Sunday, Apr. 22, 2007 at 1:04 AM

Thank you for the intense bullshit about sensitive kid being bullied. And whammo. F**k you spooks with your Project MOCKINGBIRD whores in the busy world of political police work.

This was another event in the process of terrorism the ruling class has its trained snakes perform.

No information but massive conjecture and bugga boos about 'troubled' perhaps even mobilized individuals.

Nothing about the PA system that was never used.

Ot the numerous bomb threats at the same building the event occurred.

Nothing about the f**king *** e mails *** sent as a *** warning *** to a double homicide. "Hey Ed, how was the shooting at your school today, huh? Oh you got some e mails..."

You scum that write this are traitors/accessories to murder and deserve to be tried and hung if convicted of collaboration with the gangsters that made this happen.

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He was a murderer

by and a very disturbed individual Sunday, Apr. 22, 2007 at 10:41 AM

Many people are teased. Many people face discrimination. Very few people respond by murdering 33 strangers in cold blood.

He was a victim though- a victim of a failing mental health system

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shake hands with evil

by thanks Sunday, Apr. 22, 2007 at 10:59 AM

I'm sure the psychiatric meds he was taking had nothing to do with this massacre. Also the feds taking over to force a stand down while they had the police chasing down numerous bomb threats when a deranged individual chained the exits and performed like a terminator mark 100.

The recent drills and installation of the PA system.

their flimsy response to a dual killing.

Your Operation Artichoke graduates leave a trail a mile wide.

As does the military hit.

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just say no to personal responsibility

by woncha? Sunday, Apr. 22, 2007 at 11:22 AM

Meds? = failing mental health sysytem.

Its easier and cheer to medicate someone than to have them institutionalized or in long term therapy.

Did the school screw up?

Sure.

Is it any more nefarious than minimum wage security gurads being paralyzed with fear? Is it any more nefarious than small town cops being clueless?

I doubt it.

But 30 miles away- an Israeli kid got a parking ticket- so clearly he was an agent of Mossad, and this is all a Zionist plot .

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The universe throws curve balls at us, now and then.

by Carl Davidson Sunday, Apr. 22, 2007 at 11:45 AM



It seems to want to wake us up, and teach us lessons in impermanence and interconnectedness.

Take the killings at Virginia Tech.

A strange, quiet young Korean man, Cho Seung-Hui, writer of tortured and violent plays and screeds, makes his own solipsistic martial arts-gangsta video of himself, and sends it to the media, in the course of slaughtering 32 people, then killing himself.

The media sensationalizes it. MSNBC ratings go through the roof as its images are repeated, to millions and millions, then all the networks join in the frenzy. As expected, other troubled youth respond, in copy-cat fashion, often only with words, and scares shut down numerous classes across the country. At the same time, discussions of 'healing' get underway.

Talk show commentators are having a time of it. I hear both liberal and conservatives alike carry on about 'looking in the face of evil' and trashing the notions of illness and therapy. Rush Limbaugh and one caller on his show go on about how the Korean youth is an 'America hater,' 'suicide bomber,' and simply evil. Retired FBI guys talk about 'training' students to be able to respond better, and hiring tougher 'security.' People debate police tactics, censorship and guns.

Then a British paper goes to a tiny hut in Korea, and a reporter talks to the boy's grandparents, who say he was a bad kid and 'deserved to die' for his sins.

But the grandparents also reveal the poverty of his parents as they immigrated to the U.S. Most important, they reveal their grandson was diagnosed early with autism, but the poverty all around prevented them from doing much about it, either in Korea or here.

Autism is recently growing with unusual speed in the US. Parents, rich and poor, are desperate for help, since dealing with an autistic child is often beyond any couple, however well off.

One radio personality, Don Imus, takes up their cause. He helps grow their organization for families of Autistic children, and raises millions. His wife, an environmentalist, believes toxins, perhaps in vaccines, are partly to blame, and demands independent research. Wealthy pharmaceutical companies and the Wall Street Journal counter-attack, smearing the couple. But Imus is relentless, and blasts away at their money-grubbing and lies. Largely through his efforts, a compromise measure, offering some relief, gets through Congress, but he pushes on for more substantive solutions, and raises millions more.

Now the effort has stopped, or is at least severely reduced. Imus, as we well know, also indulged in racist, sexist and chauvinist commentary and locker-room 'jokes,' repeatedly, and finally went too far. He realized it, blamed himself and tried to make amends. He promised changes in his show, but accepted whatever he got, saying he had dished it out long enough, now it was his turn to take it.

But a groundswell wanted more. They wanted his show shut down, period, and it was. Many people declared victory over racism and sexism, and to a degree, it was. The media moguls preened about their new-found responsibility and the need for change.

At least until 32 people died at Virginia Tech.

Now we have a new wave of violence featured in the media, and Imus is old news, history.

And we have a new wave of blame, and a new staking out of moral ground against evil.

But you can make a good case that untreated autism, rooted in poverty, was the root cause of what happened at Virginia Tech, however terrible the consequences and the suffering visited on those who didn't deserve it in the least, just as the Rutgers women didn't deserve it in the least.

The whole thing reminds me of Thich Nhat Hanh's long poem, 'Call Me by My True Name.' It's about looking deeply, in the poem, about a Thai sailor, and his raping and killing Vietnamese boat people. It's too long a story to retell here, but do yourself a favor and read it, or better yet, listen to it sometime.

But given this latest curve ball, I think I'll wait a bit before declaring either Don Imus or Cho Seung-Hui, connected in this curious way, to be evil, or at least, in the case of Imus, who's still with us, beyond public redemption.



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while you're preparing an evasion

by say... Sunday, Apr. 22, 2007 at 11:50 AM

The 'minimun wage security guards were fully armed swat and federal personnel.

Nice try, Skippy.

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this is about dissarming the people

by not dissing a person Sunday, Apr. 22, 2007 at 12:23 PM

Yup lots of mean kids and insensitive kids can provoke murderous rages.

We need to be polite to each other.

We need to respect each other.

People feel free to be abusive as a culture of passive-aggressive spectator violence. Engineered through the media saturation and worship of it as a solution.

Are you going to boycott '24' the station and sponsors? Yah, right.

When a kernel pops in someone's head, we need to protect ourselves from the result of the growing level of the rule of terror though events as these, and 9-11 and the OK Bombing and Waco and Ruby Ridge and Pine Ridge and the MOVE massacre; until we rip their sponsors to oblivion.

The day is coming.

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