Posted on 04/19/2007 7:38:26 AM PDT by SirJohnBarleycorn
Police believe the Virginia gunman may have been copying scenes from a film when he carried out his killing spree.
Scene from Oldboy and Seung-HuiDetectives say Cho Seung-Hui repeatedly watched the South Korean movie Oldboy in the days leading up to the massacre in which 32 people were killed.
The film's themes of obsession and revenge also occur in Cho's own writings.
In a chilling video sent by the student to the American TV network NBC he appears to re-enact scenes from the movie in a series of photographs.
In one he holds a gun to his own head and in another wields a hammer, images that appear in the film.
The video also confirms that Cho had been planning the killings for some time.
Advertisement It is believed to have been posted after the first shooting in a university dormitory, in which two students were killed, but before Cho shot dead another 30 people in a classroom across campus and then committed suicide.
Police said the package that contained photographs, video and writings could be a "very new critical component" of the investigation into the mass killings.
The video contains a rambling and at times incoherent account of his grievances and his reasons for the shootings.
The package Cho sent to NBCVirginia Police superintendent Col Steve Flaherty said: "We're in the process of attempting to analyse and evaluate its worth."
The package, addressed to NBC News head Steve Capus, bears a postal stamp in the two-hour window between the first shooting and the second, in which Cho killed himself.
It was passed to the FBI after it arrived yesterday.
In the video Cho talks to the camera and at one point makes a reference to the massacre, saying "this didn't have to happen".
In one clip, Cho says: "You had a hundred billion chances and ways to have avoided today.
Some of the victims"But you decided to spill my blood. You forced me into a corner and gave me only one option. The decision was yours. Now you have blood on your hands that will never wash off."
One of the 29 pictures in the package showed Cho staring at the camera with his arms outstretched, brandishing two handguns and wearing what appeared to be a military-style jacket for holding ammunition.
The latest revelations come after it emerged Cho was held in a mental health unit after two women students complained about his behaviour in 2005.
University police chief Wendell Flinchum said officers spoke to Cho in November and December 2005 following complaints of low-level harassment.
Way to knock down that strawman.
Well, I guess we know what the most rented movie will be this weekend ...
AND - AND - In one of Cho’s video rants - he says he has done this for “his brothers and sisters and children of...” and then the news bleeps it out. His lips looks like he is saying “ISLAM!”
BUT WHY DID THE NEWS BLEEP IT OUT? ALSO, NOW THE NEWS ALSO MAKE FUZZY HIS MOUTH...SOMETHING IS NOT RIGHT - WHY ARE THEY WITHHOLDING THIS INFO?????
Here we go....
Do these people ever think that he may have been attracted to such movies because he’s nuts in the first place? Of course not, you can’t fund a national censorship movement based on the fact that some people are simply nuts.
Well, yeah ... but hey, somebody had to say it, so I thought it might as well be me.
It was sent via U.S. Post Service, not FedEx.
Way to miss that sarcasm.
Singer views disabled infants as flawed and, therefore, undeserving of life.
Cho viewed college students as "flawed" and, therefore, undeserving of life.
There are only a few differences between the men.
Singer gets an Ivy League bully pulpit and would have doctors carry out his fatwah on disabled infants.
It was handed by him personally to a US postal worker; she put the timestamp on it.
If he had been watching THIS movie alot in the days leading up to this event how could one NOT say this movie had an impact?
I don’t recall any mass murderers who watched 20 hours of Bugs Bunny and then went out hunting people.
We’ve seen about 1/100th of the tape this guy sent to NBC. Surely NBC wouldn’t only release segments selectively for agenda purposes would they? sarcasm off.
Brian was a freshman and got to the point that he was so afraid of this guy that his parents came up to meet him thinking that Brian was overstating the situation. After a weekend at the school with Brian and his roomie, my sister had her son transferred to a private dorm. She told anyone who would listen that this kid had some serious problems that were evident to anyone who spent more that a couple of hours with him.
We heard a couple of other stories about situations like this. It seems that some young people do well in situations where there is very little stress. Mounting stress and the inability to cope with sitations they cannot control with no support system in place for them just pushes them over the edge.
Now that it's been broadcast around the world and found its way to YouTube, Fox has decided it shouldn't be shown at all and will discontinue showing it.
Insulting, isn't it?
Yeah, and they have “racism” too!
Thought we had a monopoly on all that is bad, did ya?
But NBC would go to any length to keep an audience from hearing or seeing the word Islam at that point.
What is sarcasm?
Is that Malcolm McDowell? I never heard of that flick. Any good?
I did notice that Cho was epousing Marxist class warfare agit-prop. (you know darn well had he been espousing conservative rhetoric, the media would already be leading the charge for the firing of Rush and Hannity and congress would be convening panels to study the adverse effect of talk radio) Only a handful of professors have stated that they saw anything wrong with him. To the majority of the on-campus professor/radicals, his behavior in the days leading up to the shootings was perfectly normal for anyone living in the Bush/Cheney war-for-oil imperialist opression.
Which is close to this guys name.
No, no, I just made that up.
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