Posted on 04/18/2007 8:26:10 AM PDT by janereinheimer
IT'S NOT ILLEGAL TO BE WEIRD
By now, the world knows that the killer at Virginia Tech is a guy named Cho Seung-Hui. You won't see him described as an "Asian" anymore. The group that protects the Asians have voiced a protest for fear of casting aspersions on all Asians.
I think I've read enough about the massacre to know that Hui was a loner. He talked in monosyllable responses when asked questions. His roommate says he wasn't particularly interactive.
He wrote a story for an English assignment that apparently was a bit over the top. So much so that his prof felt the need to alert authorities about the murderous prose writer in her class.
At that point, either the teacher removed Hui from the class or the university did. Don't know yet. Point is, the prof started tutoring him.
My point is, and some of you may have had similiar experiences, when you have noisy nuisances going on in your neighborhood, or if someone is acting really weird and it makes you feel awfully uneasy, the police won't/can't do anything about it.
"Sorry," they say, "but no one's broken any laws."
And for the most part, nuisances are and remain just that. A petty bother for living close in to neighbors who are sometimes annoying.
Hui didn't make any threats to anyone specifically. Leastwise, not that we have heard about up to this point.
Instead, he had this slow-churning volcano of rage living inside his head. Just waiting for lava-like murderous thoughts to become real life situations of human drama spilling over onto horrific reality.
There, you've finally done it, Hui. You broke the law. But did you have to go this far?
Couldn't you have just played out your rages onto paper like you did the first time? After all, murder and suspense stories are a whole genre unto their own. Didn't you know -- America is obsessed with scary stories. And the xxxier the better.
You could have made millions if you'd just been able to contain yourself.
Now look what you've done!
Each of your victims has at least a minimum of five first degree relatives -- that is, immediate family members -- who will grieve themselves into numbness because of your insanely uncaring last moments.
And you big coward! You couldn't even face the music. You took no accountability at all for what you'd done. And the lava kept flowing through your head.
Finally, in one big huge chicken moment, you put your gun to your own head and blew half the volcano off the top of your neck.
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He was a ticking time bomb, and he detonated on Monday morning.
This story today, if true, shows that the school is to blame for doing NOTHING meaninful in dealing with a dangerous bullying nut........
“It emerged today that at one stage students were so scared of his behaviour that only seven out of 70 turned up for class, forcing lecturers to give him one-to-one tuition.
One teacher even suggested today he was given A grades because he was so “intimidating and staff wanted to keep him happy”.
Nikki Giovanni, who teaches poetry, said she threatened to resign if Cho was not taken out of her class. She said: “I think he liked the idea he was a scary guy. Some people like that. That is how they define themselves. Kids write about murder and suicide all the time. But there was something that made us all pay attention closely.
“Students absolutely would not come into class. They said, ‘He is taking photographs of us. We don’t know what he is doing. It is very strange’.”
Your writing is kind of weird.
Agreed, absolutely right. Beyond that is another menace, a menace that threatens us all.
"That old devil" -POLITICAL CORRECTNESS.
My point is, and some of you may have had similiar experiences, when you have noisy nuisances going on in your neighborhood, or if someone is acting really weird and it makes you feel awfully uneasy, the police won't/can't do anything about it."Sorry," they say, "but no one's broken any laws."
He was criminally insane and had been diagnosed with a problem.
You cannot walk around in public drunk (PI) or drive with a minimal amount of alcohol in your system because of the "potential" threat you pose. If someone could claim an insanity defense for their actions, then they are not safe EVER to walk around unescorted (whether it is a legal guardian or some professional mentor). Institutionalize them. Put them in something a step down from house arrest.
And to those who say that such incidents are "rare", they are increasing in frequency compared with the history of this country.
The only thing that would have stopped this or at least reduced the carnage would be a student/professor packing heat
The problem with wierd and scary behaviour is that it means different things to different people. elizabeth edwards is terrified of her neighbor because he is a gun owning republican.
With the rules today....you cannot force someone to get help, or even institutionalize them, UNTIL they’ve done something to harm someone....
As I sat mulling all this over in my head this morning, I couldn’t help wondering what Quentin Tarentino’s Creative Writing profs must have thought...
Yep. That is where I would go if I was a student there or a parent of one. Guns don’t kill. Bad people do. If they can’t get a gun they can make a bomb or carry a knife but they will get a weapon.
I don’t know about this state but how come the government cleared him anyway? It seems that I had to answer some mental questions on my application when I bought a hand gun. Don’t they check mental histories before approving?
Its a good thing nobody in the armchair-warrior world read MY creative writing papers....y’all would’ve had me committed 10 years ago....for nothing.
YET
Well we (America) have to blame someone and of course hastily make new laws. It doesn’t matter if we already have good ones on the books. Armed students/teachers and bad people do really bad stuff sometimes is just not acceptable.
If the school had placed armed guards at every building that day, Cho would no doubt have postponed it for another day. I agree that the only thing that would have cut down on the fatalities is if some students - perhaps members of ROTC - or faculty had been armed.
This is what I mean. I know the family that the post I gave happened . They were heart broken as the kids in VT are now.We have got to change the laws, work something out. Get people the help they need before innocent people live the pain these families have. Looks like we have to lobby the lawmakers to change the mental health laws. I am sure we can all work out something that one person cannot lock you up because they do not like you. If you look at this kid in VT all the signs were there, even from his parents.We cannot have another VT. Pray for the kids , when the press leaves and no one is there, that is when a lot of the pain sets in. Pray for them all!
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