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Though it's unclear if he told anyone about his plans to stage a shooting rampage at Virginia Tech, from childhood, Seung-Hui Cho showed an appetite for brutality, according to a new report. The Washington Post reports that while Cho was unusually quiet as a child — according to relatives, he refused to respond to greetings and didn't want to be hugged — when he fought with his older sister, Sun-Kyung Cho, his actions spoke volumes. Relatives say he punched her with shocking force. Despite signs of trouble, Cho's mother didn't seek treatment for him because he did well in school,...

NEW YORK -- A law enforcement source told WNBC.com's Jonathan Dienst that Cho Seung-Hui fired at least 168 times during his rampage on the Virginia Tech campus that ended with 32 people dead on Monday.

BLACKSBURG, VA. - The shocked family of America's worst mass murderer broke their silence yesterday to say they never imagined Seung-Hui Cho was capable of his rampage and were sorry that "he has made the world weep." The statement came on a day of mourning for the 32 students and professors Cho killed Monday at Virginia Tech, where 1,000 people gathered near the scene of the massacre to cry, grieve and remember. "Our family is so very sorry for my brother's unspeakable actions. It is a terrible tragedy for us all," said the statement from Cho's sister Sun-Kyung Cho, a...

Troubled state of Virginia Tech killer was known in '05 By Shaila Dewan and Marc Santora Wednesday, April 18, 2007 BLACKSBURG, Virginia: Campus authorities were aware 17 months ago of the troubled mental state of the student who shot and killed 32 people at Virginia Tech on Monday, an imbalance graphically on display in vengeful videos and a manifesto he mailed to NBC News in the time between the two sets of shootings. "You have vandalized my heart, raped my soul and torched my conscience," the gunman, Cho Seung-Hui, said in one video mailed shortly before the shooting at a...

Cho indicated in his letter that the end was near and that there was a deed to be done, the official said. He also expressed disappointment in his own religion, and made several references to Christianity, the official said. The official said the letter was either found in Cho's dorm room or in his backpack. The backpack was found in the hallway of the classroom building where the shootings happened, and contained several rounds of ammunition, the official said. Col. Steve Flaherty, superintendent of the Virginia State Police, said authorities were going through a considerable number of writings. Citing unidentified...

- G. K. Chesterson: The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason. - The horror this week at Vtech is beyond what is found in monster novels ... but an explanation little talked about regarding 'why' can be found in one novel: Frankenstein. ' "Devil," I exclaimed, "do you dare approach me?" ' ... these are the first words of Mr. Frankenstein when he confronts his creation for the first time. This same creature who he failed to name. The would-be doctor, scientist even, had...

April 20, 2007, 4:03AM Va. Tech shooter did not talk much as a child, relatives say By BO-MI LIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea — Cho Seung-Hui was a worry to his family because he did not speak much as a child, and after the family emigrated to the United States doctors thought he might be autistic, relatives in South Korea said Thursday. Family members said there were even concerns the boy might be mute. The South Korean student killed 32 people and himself at Virginia Tech on Monday, the deadliest school shooting in modern U.S. history. Former classmates said...

Our civilization is under attack from a new kind of weapon: the suicide killer. Sometimes these killers explode bombs, sometimes they crash airplanes into buildings, sometimes they go on shooting rampages - as happened at Virginia Tech on Monday. Technology has made each individual potentially more of a menace to society, here and around the world. Not only do people have access to explosives and rapid-firing guns, but the specter of future infernal invention haunts us further. What new methods of mayhem will be concocted? The forces of peace and order are not equipped to deal with oncoming threats. In...

Killer Cho at Virginia Tech is, of course responsible for the rampage that scourged the college this past week. We can spend time for the rest of eternity attempting to dissect his psyche. What provoked him? Why did he fall into the cracks? Why was he constantly excused by the school for aberrant and even criminal behavior? What were his parents like? Were his plays inspired by Quinton Farrentino who probably dipped his pen into blood to write those monstrous screenplays such as Kill Bill and Pulp Fiction? What does Ismail Ax mean? Let Nancy Grace decipher his modus operandi,...

WASHINGTON -- Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Thursday that laws should be strengthened to prevent the mentally ill from buying guns. Cho Seung-Hui, the gunman who shot 32 people at Virginia Tech Monday before killing himself, had a history of mental health problems but still was able to buy two guns that he used in the rampage. "If we know that he got mental health services, then there should be some way of preventing somebody like that from buying any kind of weapon," Obama said in an interview on "The Steve Harvey Morning Show," syndicated on radio stations nationwide....

Fox News reporting a shooting at the Johnson Space Center Building 44, building evacuated.

ISMAIL AKDr. ISMAIL AK is a Professor of Psychiatry at a university in Turkey. His research interests include the following: Personal Disorders, Agresivve behavior and self-mutilation, ECT, Substance-related disorders, Sexual Disorders, Forensic Psychiatry, Sleep Disorders From the Turkish Association of Psychopharmacology website: President-elect: Professor Ismail AK, M.D. Head, Department of Psychiatry, KTU School of Medicine, Trabzon, Turkey Ismail AK is Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Head, Department of Psychiatry, KTU School of Medicine, Trabzon, Turkey He is an experienced on clinical psychopharmacology of schizophrenia and bipolar disorders. Dr. Ismail Ak is one of the authors of an article about patients...

The Virginia Tech Killer's Final Victim: Cho Seung-Hui By John David Powell Apr 20, 2007 This will not be popular, but it must be said: Thirty-three students lost their lives this week in those horrible minutes on the Virginia Tech campus. Thirty-three sets of parents lost their children, and many siblings lost their brothers or sisters. The official count sets the number at 32. An addendum to the accounting tells us the killer took his own life, and brought the "number of dead" to 33. But, we all know by now, just as we knew within hours, that the person...

BLACKSBURG, Va. - The family of Virginia Tech gunman Seung-Hui Cho told The Associated Press on Friday that they feel "hopeless, helpless and lost," and "never could have envisioned that he was capable of so much violence." "Our family is so very sorry for my brother's unspeakable actions. It is a terrible tragedy for all of us," the family said. The statement was issued by Cho's sister, Sun-Kyung Cho, on her behalf and that of her family. She works as a contractor for a State Department office that oversees billions of dollars in American aid for Iraq. "We pray for...

-snip- ...the National Rifle Association has begun negotiations with senior Democrats over legislation to bolster the national background-check system and potentially block gun purchases by the mentally ill. Rep. John D. Dingell (Mich.), a gun-rights Democrat who once served on the NRA's board of directors, is leading talks with the powerful gun lobby in hopes of producing a deal by early next week, Democratic aides and lawmakers said. Under the bill, states would be given money to help them supply the federal government with information on mental-illness adjudications and other run-ins with the law that are supposed to disqualify individuals...

Here's one ally that most people opposed to the airing of Cho's material would surely just as soon do without. In an MSNBC column, Siva Vaidhyanathan claims that NBC News' decision to air the material was unfair to, that's right, Cho the mass murderer. In Material from Killer Should Not Have Aired, Vaidhyanathan does note en passant that the airing "ultimately was disrespectful to the victims and their families." But the lion's share of his column is devoted to complaining that NBC was unfair to Cho and "all severely mentally ill people." We will see sick attempts at humor,...

What's the English Department's official frontpage reaction to the murder of thirty-two students just a few days ago? Here it is. "We do not understand this tragedy We know we did nothing to deserve it But neither does a child in Africa Dying of AIDS Neither does the baby elephant watching his community Be devastated for ivory ... Neither does the Mexican child looking For fresh water ... Neither does the Appalachian infant killed By a boulder Dislodged Because the land was destabilized" In other words: We didn't do nuthin.' It ain't our fault. It's greedy capitalism's fault. We don't...

This morning I read that the Virginia Tech shooter died with the name Ismail Ax written in red ink on his arm. The mainstream press doesn't seem to have a clue as to what this might mean. To quote Indiana Jones, "Didn't any of you guys go to Sunday School?" The story starts with a man named Abraham. He is the father of the Jews, the Muslims and the Christians. He was born in Iraq, the son of a wealthy idol manufacturer. He came to believe that there was only one true God and, according to tradition, took up his...

Student pleaded with Tech: Allow guns Bradford Wiles Wiles, of New Castle, is a graduate research assistant in the department of human development at Virginia Tech. My fears have been realized. As a graduate student at Virginia Tech, I have been adamant about changing the university's policy forbidding students from defending themselves. Before I proceed, let me please express my deepest condolences to those who have lost family, friends and loved ones in this awful tragedy. I do not want anyone to misconstrue my pleas for reform of university policy with a disregard for the human impact of this calamity....

Colleges face dilemma deciding fate of mentally ill students http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/stories/MYSA042007.01A.campus.mental.health.35bbf82.html http://tinyurl.com/3xtbcl Web Posted: 04/20/2007 12:30 AM CDT Melissa Ludwig Express-News Campus administrators, health professionals and police, caught between federal privacy and anti-discrimination laws and the need to protect their campuses, face a daunting challenge deciding the fate of mentally ill students. Before 23-year-old Virginia Tech student Cho Seung-Hui gunned down 32 students and teachers Monday, his violent, lurid work in a creative writing class sparked a string of efforts to get him help. In 2005, after complaints from two female students that Cho was harassing them and a tip that...

Unarmed and vulnerable Bradford B. Wiles Wiles, of New Castle, is a graduate student at Virginia Tech. On Aug. 21 at about 9:20 a.m., my graduate-level class was evacuated from the Squires Student Center. We were interrupted in class and not informed of anything other than the following words: "You need to get out of the building." Upon exiting the classroom, we were met at the doors leading outside by two armor-clad policemen with fully automatic weapons, plus their side arms. Once outside, there were several more officers with either fully automatic rifles and pump shotguns, and policemen running down...

Since Columbine, there has been several mass murders, and the MSM gives such ‘fame’ to the pyshcos that perpetrate these crimes, that it encourages others to follow in their footsteps (many colleges & schools have received threats of copycat attacks since Monday). The portrayals by the media of these mass murderers and the limelight that is afforded them always shows the mass murderers in pictures/videos of when they were alive. I think to break the cycle, we need to show gruesome & embarrassing pictures of the murderers after they are dead. It seems as if the intent of most of...

Cho Seung-Hui & Oldboy: Killer May Have Re-Enacted Violent Film -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- By Nancy Streets Apr 19, 2007 Police investigating the Virginia Tech killings are looking at whether Cho Seung-Hui was copying parts of a violent film titled 'Oldboy' when he murdered 32 people and killed himself in a massacre earlier this week. "Oldboy," from the respected director Chan-woo Park, is about a man unjustly imprisoned for 15 years. After escaping, he goes on a rampage against his captor. In one scene, he dispatches more than a dozen henchmen with the aid of a hammer, reports the Associated Press. In the...

THE grandfather of Cho Seung-Hui said yesterday: "Son of a bitch. It serves him right he died with his victims." Kim Hyang-Sik, 82, said he had a doom-laden dream of Cho's parents the night of his murderous rampage - and woke to hear the news of the massacre and his grandson's death. He watched Cho's sick video of himself holding a gun to his head. His sister Kim Yang-Sun, 85, who also saw it, told the Mirror that afterwards her brother was so distraught he had "gone away for a few days to calm himself down and avoid more questions"....

Cho Seung-Hui did not live the life he wanted. But on Monday, on the Blacksburg campus of Virginia Tech, Cho ended his life the way he wanted. And because of those two hours of slaughter and suicide, Cho attained the immortality he craved. He carried out the killings – and we of the media did the rest. A month from now, few Americans will remember who his victims were. But, decades from now, millions will recognize Cho’s face. When it pops up on a TV screen anywhere in America, they will ask, “Isn’t that the Korean kid who shot all...

Seung Hui Cho is a killer no doubt. The mentally ill Virginia Tech college student responsible for the massacre at Virginia Tech-- seems to have also had a another problem -- a lead foot. His need for speed was very recent. The Enterprise Report has discovered, not one, as reported by some media outlets, but two recent speeding tickets the killer received only weeks before going on his shooting rampage. The first ticket was issued to Cho on March 30 of this year for going 74mph in a 55mph zone.

Liberals want to blame conservative gun laws for tragedy. However, liberal governmental and social policies are more culpable Here is the link. If it does not work cut and paste to your browser: http://www.thebulletin.us/site/news.cfm?newsid=18238693&BRD=2737&PAG=461&dept_id=576361&rfi=6

Gun Control: Five years ago, armed college students subdued a gunman embarking on a college killing spree. Last year, Virginia Tech applauded the fact that its students couldn't do the same. On Jan. 16, 2002 , a killer stalked the campus of the Appalachian School of Law in Grundy, Va., not far from the site of Monday's massacre at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg. A disgruntled former student killed Law Dean L. Anthony Sutin, associate professor Thomas Blackwell and a student. Two of the three law students who overpowered Peter Odighizuwa before he could kill more innocent victims were armed. Mikael...

Crime And Culture: When the Virginia Tech shooter's identity was first revealed, he came across as a tragic, almost sympathetic, figure — the nerdy foreign student who couldn't fit in. But the videos Cho Seung-Hui made of himself in paramilitary gear and launching into hateful rants show he was really an arrogant and narcissistic bully who didn't want to fit in. We learned at the same time that he was not only stalking coeds on campus, but also taking up-skirt shots of them under desks with his cell phone camera during his English classes. The shy loner really was a...

How is it that no one at NBC knew what everyone in America knows? How did the self-important network types not know that you don’t reward murderers, that you don’t devastate survivors, that you don’t play into the hands of a monster? How did NBC not know that showing that stuff was wrong? Has the blood lust of what used to be called the news gotten so exhilarating that stroking the ego of a dead psychopath is considered good television? Have the talking heads diverted so far from the values and sensibilities of the American mainstream that their souls and...

“From Address” on Package sent to NBC from Cho A. Ismail 88 Revol Blacksburg, VA . “88” — used as a greeting or a closing by Neo-Nazis (in e-mails or handles). Means 8th letter of alphabet (”H”); double 8’s mean “Heil Hitler” “Revol” — revers of “lover”; or could mean “revolution” Hence “Heil Hitler lover” [Hitler lover]; possible “Heil Hitler revolution”

Ross Alameddine sat a few feet from Mr. Cho for months in a class examining contemporary horror films and literature. Both students were required to keep what were known as “fear journals,” where they chronicled both their reaction to the material covered in class and their own fears. Mr. Alameddine, according to classmates, made an effort to speak to Mr. Cho on several occasions, trying to draw him out of his closed world and his refusal to interact with other students. On Monday, Mr. Cho shot and killed Mr. Alameddine. There is no evidence to suggest that Mr. Cho targeted...

THE grandad of university mass killer Cho Seung-Hui said last night: "Son of a bitch. He deserved to die. "It's better not to have such a child in the family." And he dismissed Cho - diagnosed with autism as an eight-year-old - as "a trouble-causer who has destroyed his mother's life". Kim Hyang-Sik, 81, spoke at his home in South Korea after seeing the video Cho made of himself holding a gun to his head. Student Cho, 23, shot dead 32 at Virginia Tech University before killing himself.

Friday, April 20, 2007 WASHINGTON -- This week, while the masters of America's mainstream media were probing the carnage perpetrated by a deranged, lone gunman in Blacksburg, Va., Defense Secretary Robert Gates was in Israel, discounting the threat posed by an irrational government intent on acquiring nuclear weapons. Neither act makes any sense. In the aftermath of the tragedy at Virginia Tech, schoolmates, faculty members and law enforcement officials pointed to the gunman's pattern of unbalanced behavior, menacing anger and self-destructive writings. Numerous reports cited rules and privacy laws that barred authorities from acting to thwart the massacre of 32...

WE ARE GLAD HE IS DEAD: The grandad of university mass killer Cho Seung-Hui said tonight: 'Son of a bitch. He deserved to die'...

McLEAN, Va. - A judge's ruling on Cho Seung-Hui's mental health should have barred him from purchasing the handguns he used in the Virginia Tech massacre, according to federal regulations. But it was unclear Thursday whether anybody had an obligation to inform federal authorities about Cho's mental status because of loopholes in the law that governs background checks. Cho purchased two handguns in February and March, and was subject to federal and state background checks both times. The checks turned up no problems, despite a judge's ruling in December 2005 that Cho "presents an imminent danger to himself as a...

Shepherd Smith just reported to Greta that the perpetrator of the Virginia Tech shootings purchased his weapon(s) illegally because of his status as mentally ill. Because of a loophole caused by confusion over who was supposed to report the fact that the student was declared mentally unstable, the boy was able to purchase the guns anyway.

<p>The brooding silence of Cho Seung-hui was so impenetrable it disturbed his family even when he was a boy growing up in South Korea, relatives of the Virginia killer told the Guardian today.</p> <p>His grandfather feared Cho, at eight, might be mute; the boy's great aunt worried that he had mental problems. And his mother, Kim Hyang-im, spent most of her time in church praying for him to snap out of his unhealthy taciturnity.</p>

Michael Welner, an ABC News consultant and a forensic psychiatrist, appeared on Thursday’s "Good Morning America" to slam the media for gratuitously airing videos sent by deceased mass killer Seung-Hui Cho. Welner even referenced the network frenzy over fired radio host Don Imus by saying, "Just listen, if you can take Imus off the air, you can certainly keep [Cho] from having his own morning show."

Virginia State Police say they're nearly done with their on-scene investigation at Virginia Tech. But inside the classroom building, investigators say they found a surprising number of handgun magazines, or clips — 17. Some, officials say, were high-capacity magazines that hold 33 rounds. That means, investigators say, that Cho may have fired at least 200 times during his killing spree on Monday. In the photos Cho sent to NBC, he showed some of his ammunition — hollow-point rounds, purchased, officials say, in the weeks before the shootings. Law enforcement officials say hollow-points are generally considered more lethal

NEW YORK (AP) - With a backlash developing against the media for airing sickening pictures from Virginia Tech shooter Cho Seung-Hui, Fox News Channel said Thursday it would stop and other networks said they would severely limit their use.

Cornellians in Sage Chapel fell silent April 19 as the university organist struck the first notes of a prelude in a ceremony memorializing the 33 students and faculty at Virginia Tech university who had lost their lives three days earlier in a campus shooting by a Korean student, who subsequently killed himself."We are one," said Cornell President David Skorton. "We are one community, one people, one planet. We are here today to affirm that oneness ... We are here to bear witness to the passing of the 33 members of our family at Virginia Tech University who have met an...

Fearing a backlash in the wake of the Virginia Tech shootings, Korean students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are retreating from their normal campus lives.Some Korean freshmen in student housing here have, for example, taken down their name tags from their dormitory doors out of fear of racially charged retaliation, according to Chai Sun Chang, president of UW-Madison's Korean-American Student Association. While Chang feels such fears are unfounded, he says that the worries of his peers are getting to him. "Such an incident happens, and they're scared that they might be treated like Middle Easterners after 9/11," Chang said of...

Long before he boiled over, Virginia Tech gunman Cho Seung-Hui was pushed around and laughed at as a schoolboy in suburban Washington because of his shyness and the strange, mumbly way he talked, former classmates say. Chris Davids, a Virginia Tech senior who graduated from Westfield High School in Chantilly, Va., with Cho in 2003, recalled that the South Korean immigrant almost never opened his mouth and would ignore attempts to strike up a conversation. Once, in English class, the teacher had the students read aloud, and when it was Cho's turn, he just looked down in silence, Davids recalled....

BLACKSBURG, Va. - He made overtures so unwelcome to young women that their ultimate rejections had to be delivered by the campus police. They in turn were troubled enough to send him to a mental health facility after a court magistrate declared him "mentally ill" and "an imminent danger" to himself or others. That was in 2005. ... Police revealed that Cho first caught their attention in the fall of 2005 when he contacted two women who didn't like his attention. The first incident, on Nov. 27, involved phone calls and e-mails to a fellow student who felt uncomfortable enough...

What happened on the Virginia Tech University campus, on Monday April 16, 2007, should not have happened. All of the warning signs were there for all to see. What am I talking about? The answer is as plain as the nose on your face. The nut that shot all of those people should have been sitting in a mental institution, somewhere in the state of Virginia. Instead, he was walking around the campus, free as bird and was able to buy a firearm. Who is responsible for this atrocity, one may ask? To start with, it is our adherence to...

Take a look at the attitude of Google putting the News about Cho in it's entertainment Grouping, do it before they realize we are on to them and move it.

Shock rocker Marilyn Manson fears his music will be held responsible for the Virginia Tech massacre on Monday, just like it was after the Columbine shootings in April 1999. The Antichrist Superstar hitmaker worries his music is going to come into question again as people look for someone to blame for the drama that unfolded on campus at the university on Monday, leaving 33 people dead. In a BBC radio interview last night, Manson said, "I was watching it in the same way that I can remember watching the TV when Columbine happened, and just seeing it take place as...

The disturbing and cryptic video clips, photographs and manifesto the killer Cho Seung Hui sent to NBC News instantly reminded me of the taped testimonials suicide bombers leave behind to justify their crimes. It looked so familiar -- an angry young man dressed in battle clothing preach a message full of hate in front of a drab background. I have seen many of these videos over the years in the Middle East. The attackers always stress a desire to battle injustice and moral turpitude; they all believe they are avengers of the righteous. The videos are also replete with religious...

April 17, 2007 — Cho Seung-Hui, the 23-year-old student who killed 32 people and then himself yesterday, left a long and "disturbing" note in his dorm room at Virginia Tech, say law enforcement sources. Sources have now described the note, which runs several pages, as beginning in the present tense and then shifting to the past tense. It contains rhetoric explaining Cho's actions and says, "You caused me to do this," the sources told ABC News. Sources say Cho killed two people in a dorm room, returned to his own dorm room where he re-armed and left the note, then...