Posted on 04/17/2007 11:41:34 AM PDT by Sleeping Freeper
BLACKSBURG, Va. - The gunman suspected of carrying out the Virginia Tech massacre that left 33 people dead was identified Tuesday as an English major whose creative writing was so disturbing that he was referred to the school's counseling service. News reports also said that he may have been taking medication for depression, that he was becoming increasingly violent and erratic, and that he left a note in his dorm in which he railed against ''rich kids," ''debauchery" and ''deceitful charlatans" on campus. Cho Seung-Hui, a 23-year-old senior, arrived in the United States as boy from South Korea in 1992 and was raised in suburban Washington, D.C., officials said. He was living on campus in a different dorm from the one where Monday's bloodbath began. Police and university officials offered no clues as to exactly what set him off on the deadliest shooting rampage in modern U.S. history.
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So do I. They left their homes, and everything they knew, halfway across the world to come to this country to make a better life for themselves and their son, and he chooses, for whatever reason, to spit in their faces with his actions.
Yes, he did have a roommate, but apparently didn’t speak to him much. The roommate said that Cho would go to bed at 9pm and be up sometimes at 5am, and would leave the room, staying gone most of the day.
I'd read somewhere else that this was reported incorrectly, and that it was Ismail AK, who was some sort of researcher in psychiatric issues. Could be that Cho had been reading some of his writings and found some of himself in them.
<< The words “Ismail Ax” were found inscribed on his arm in RED ink,>>
Is this a common thing to do?
Notice first victims Myspace page.
See pic of guy with cigar in left hand and take note of his right arm.
Tell me what you see. I see RED ink symbol on his arm.
Is this some joke or coincidink?
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=19406792
That came about as a direct result of the Vietnam era protestors and their sit-ins. When Columbia, Berzerkly and the other major schools gave in to them, all semblance of real authority left the schools.
I don’t think it’s been demonstrated that the report was incorrect. There is a Turkish psychologist named Ishael Ak, so this has been proposed as an alternative theory. I don’t find it persuasive myself. No connection to Ak has turned up thus far, and in any case why would a killer write the name of an academic psychiatrist on his arm before going out and shooting people?
But Ibrahmim and Ismail (Abraham and Ishmael) were the founding prophets of Islam, later leading to Mohammed. They used axes to destroy the pagan idols, and then built the Kabaa to replace them, according to Mo’s version of events.
There are plenty of RCs. Maybe my view is biased due to where I live, most of the Koreans around here are RCs. The SF Bay Area is definitely not like some other parts of the US, the RCC is really dominant here.
I would imagine that like many contemporary college campuses, there are cliques and within each one a hookup culture. Granted we here the perp didn’t say much, but there are many mysteries about his life. Was he somehow involved with the circle of people on that page, albeit once removed? I hope the investigators are savvy to current youth culture.
I think it’s a stretch to attach any terrorist motives to this, in the absence of ANY information. There is only speculation, which some folks have taken to the extreme.
—arrived in the United States as boy from South Korea in 1992—
Perhaps he was made angry by growing up during the Klintoon years and the dot-con boom, which produced so many super-rich people /sarc
—Anger against the “rich” is a tell-tale sign that he was gotten to by liberal professors.—
BINGO! It’s time for liberal-professor-control legislation.
All liberal professors must be registered, and their foreheads stamped with serial numbers.
—“The silicon chip inside (his) head was switched to overload.” - Bob Geldof—
He hated Mondays, ergo he probably read too many “Garfield” comic strips...Ban “Garfield” now!
—April is a bad month for the US.—
The Bay of Pigs and the MLK murder happened in April too...
Those guys *are* dangerous. Don’t let the elbow-patches fool ya..
a lot of those posts that you suggest for goggling “prozac + murder” are:
1. ancedotal
2. unscientific
3. and here’s the real catch—by the church of scientology.
the church of scientology has a jihad against all mental health, except their craziness, of course.
Again look at the number of murders where no medication is involved. It absolutely dwarfs those where something like Prozac is in the background.
Who takes a med like Prozac? Someone who has a mental illness. Those with mental illnes are more prone to violence medicated or not. The problem is that the Prozac does not do enough to alleviate the symptoms.
The “buzz” means nothing. Seems to be a bunch of people with little or no knowledge of the topic or an ax to grind. There’s a “buzz” if you google murder and handguns too. Does that mean the gun made him do it? The fact that some of these shooters have a history of psych meds indicates that someone somewhere noticed that they were off. That’s a start. But in a country of 300 million people there are going to be those that crack.
The guy was obviously warped long before any med was prescribed.
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