Posted on 04/19/2007 6:49:12 AM PDT by brityank
The college's first email to students goes out more than two hours after the first killings were discovered.
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Two dead bodies, a killer somewhere on [or near] campus, and Steger makes his big decision to do nothing.
That isn’t a bad idea. Train volunteer students and teachers , if they won’t remove bans.
The logic supporting this claim is deeply flawed. Sorry.
Don’t publish the names and photos of the perps, and certainly don’t publish their manifesto. Deny them the notoriety.
While the logic is flawed, there is a connection which must be examined.
I agree with what he stated above.
How to stop the next campus massacre:
1. Make it illegal to buy or sell to insane people - oops, that is already law. Perhaps the courts need to place the info in a national data base.
2. Make it illegal for non-Americans citizens to own or buy or be sold weapons. Ooops, same as above and input the data into - oops that is already done.
3. Seal the border to prevent illegals from entering and claiming to be Americans. NOW
4. An armed Citizen is a secure and safe citizen. It is evident that “sanctuaries” and gun control on honest citizens doesn’t work.
Surprising to hear a communist support general gun ownership, since they usually only support gun ownership by communist party operatives and fellow thugs. But I imagine that he envisions that the “student volunteers,” carefully screened for their socialistic tendencies, to be the ones carrying.
The rest of the article is armchair monday morning quarterbacking.
Just what we're all doing; you, FReeperdom, amd I -- trying to make sense of it all.
-—yes—amazing from Cockburn, although I do remember stumbling across him making sense once or twice in the last 35 years or so-—
Imagine if this guy had tried this in the sociology department and ended up getting raped by the VT offensive line. That would make a headline that not even Kip Kinkle would have been impressed by. (not to disparage the VT Offensilve line, they have my respect).
In a similar vain I would propose the next shooter get's taken down and (befor the cops crawl out from behind their cover and concealment to save him) water boarded in a public toilet until he
1). Cries on film
2). Renounce whatever religion they are, and profess adherence to the Church of Scientology (remember, this is about discrediting them)
3). Pledge their life to the Holy Crusade against the Thetans,
4). Swear to honor the Hajj by pilgraming to Hollywood annually to bikin wax Tom Cruises Left Buttcheak.
5). Tearfully confess to being unimpressive to women
or Alternatively..Declare themselves to be Mr. Bean.
It all has to be done before the cops save him, and it needs to be on Youtube before ABC can make a folk hero out of the putz.
There are a million winning Super Bowl coaches sitting in their recliners on Monday.
I have mixed feelings about this...as irresponsible as our press is and has been for several decades, we still have a first amendment. Likewise, in the war on terror, control of information is vital. If the press had been restricted in publishing what we know so far about VT, any number of terrorist groups would be free to claim credit for the incident, leading to public confusion, speculation and furthering the ends of these groups. Likewise, knowing the name may elicit past acquaintances and associates who could provide further info / evidence regarding the subject.
To the NYT's credit (wow, am I actually giving them credit for something?), they deliberated about publishing the Unabomber's manifesto, and working closely with the Investigative Support Unit (profilers) at the FBI, doing so led to the ultimate identification of Kaczynski by his brother in Chicago...
I think not enough has been said about this.
Even as we discuss the VT massacre, the MSM has a perfect record of witholding this fact from the American public.
Note also that even this critique timidly refers to them as "weapons" (baseball bats? brass knuckles?).
The connection is that crazy people are more likely to be on anti-depressants.
I don’t have any problem with them publishing the Unibomber’s manifesto. He was still on the loose, and there was a chance it would lead to his capture.
But this guy is dead, and it’s clear that he did it for the notoriety, just as did the Columbine killers, and the Amish schoolhouse killer. No purpose is served by publishing it, other than to make money, and plant the idea of a copycat in the mind of the next nutcase who wants to call attention to himself as his last act before committing suicide.
I most emphatically agree that the piece of garbage's name should never be mentioned, but as to the remainder, I just as emphatically disagree.
It was embarrassingly this morning for the moron police superintendent to express "regret" that NBC aired the images and ramblings of the killer.
That's not his job!!
Has he yet expressed "regret" for timid, incompetent law enforcement to have utterly failed in preventing 29 deaths?
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