Virginia Tech pays respects to victims and gunman (Reuters Barf Alert!)

Reuters ^ | 4/21/07 | Andrea Hopkins

[wagglebee]

"He was a student. Thirty-three people died," said Chabalko. "There's nothing anyone can do about it now. We've got to remember them equally."

Like hell we do!

[BenLurkin]

“A small tribute to Seung-Hui Cho, who shot his victims then himself on Monday, has been added ...”

They have GOT to be kidding!

[Don Corleone]

The feminization of America goes on!

[Man50D]

Funny, that's what Neville Chamberlain said to Hitler and the socialists in this country are now saying to the terrorists. We can see how effectively that attitude has worked.

[Gondring]

The note, one of three expressing sorrow and sympathy for the gunman, a mentally disturbed English major, was signed "With all my love, Laura." A purple candle burned and a small American flag stood in the ground nearby

Three notes expressing sorry and sympathy for the gunman. How many people have expressed outrage but weren't reported? I'm with you on this, wagglebee!

[L98Fiero]

“Graduate student Chris Chabalko, 29, said adding a stone memorial for Cho was fair.”

Good lord.

[tessalu]

Cho was actually first diagnosed as an autistic, when he first came to the USA, and his parents could not afford help for him. Cho has the symptoms of autism. Autistics do not like to look animals or people in the eyes, nor do they wish to be touched, and they may not speal at all in the early stages of their life. The often do show uncontrolable behavior, and have inablility to sustain a conversation. I can not help but feel great sorrow for his parents.

[Diogenesis]

"Political Correctness will kill all you fools"

[BRITinUSA]

Under federal law, Cho should have been barred from buying a gun, but wording differences with a Virginia law allowed him to legally get a weapon, a state law professor said. "A person who has been found in a commitment proceeding to be a danger to himself and committed to out-patient care ... is disqualified from purchasing a firearm under federal law," Richard Bonnie, chairman of the Supreme Court of Virginia's Commission on Mental Health Law Reform, told Reuters. But under state law, he said, the prohibition only appears to extend to people who have been committed to a hospital, which Cho was not. As a result, his details would not have been captured by an FBI background check system used by gun sellers.

I thought that Federal law trumps state law...??? There is no way that this guy should have been able to pass a NICS check !

As to the main focus of this posting, the memorial to Cho; I don't think he should have a memorial alongside the people that he murdered but I would say that forgiveness is a huge part of the Christian faith. Hard as it may be we should find it in our hearts to forgive. If forgiveness were easy then there would be no point in it... It's hard to do in cases such as this but we are better people for that ability to forgive.

Jesus gave us a gift, we should use it.

[Diogenesis]

Autism? Cho was a psychopath who had his behavior vetted
by the University over and over, even when he murdered two.

Giovanni, another professor, Cho's former roommates and a classmate all recall Cho behaving in a disturbing manner --
and authorities confirm he was investigated after being accused of stalking a woman ....>

Lucinda Roy told ABC News she later worked with him one-on-one after becoming concerned about his behavior and themes in his writings.
Roy, co-director of the creative writing program at Virginia Tech, said she asked Cho to go to counseling, but he never went.
Roy also said she was concerned for her safety when she met with Cho.

[TitansAFC]

Fear not my friend, the warped thinking of the indoctrinated Liberal has no effect on Seung-Hui Cho’s place in eternity. At best, Liberals who refuse the idea of real Earthly justice can spite and mock God’s laws for but a smidgen of time here on Earth. This Chabalko can try with all might and effort to resurrect the image of a mass murderer. In the end, he only mocks the innocent - more proof that the Liberal mindset is poison to the very ideas of true justice and true mercy.

Right now, Seung-Hui Cho is experiencing new kinds of pain and agony. Take joy in the Lord’s justice - Seung-Hui Cho is truly wishing he was one of the ACTUAL victims now.

Instead, he faces a sentence ETERNAL, from which he will receive no pardon or pity. Even the minor twinges of shame and guilt some feel from such a thought of eternal punishment will have no bearing on God’s justice.

Oh I do have pity for you, Seung-Hui Cho.

I pity you, Seung-Hui Cho, not because you are a victim, but because I know that the LORD is just.

[hole_n_one]

Chris Chabalko is on the right.......

Source

[Logophile]

"He was a student. Thirty-three people died," said Chabalko. "There's nothing anyone can do about it now. We've got to remember them equally."

One of the pathologies I have observed during my years in academia is the stubborn unwillingness to make distinctions of right and wrong. This Chabalko will undoubtedly fit in well at one of our major universities.

[operation clinton cleanup]

I think it was more shame and ignorance rather than lack of money that kept his parents from getting help. I can’t believe he graduated high school and almost college without speaking or looking at anyone.

[Vn_survivor_67-68]

Type of Document Master’s Thesis
Author Chabalko, Christopher Carter
Author’s Email Address cchabalk@vt.edu
URN etd-08222001-111203
Title Comparison of Paul and Morlet Wavelets for Measuring the Characteristic Scale of Peak Pressure Events on Low-Rise Structures
Degree Master of Science
Department Engineering Science and Mechanics
Advisory Committee
Advisor Name Title
Donald A. Jordan Committee Co-Chair
Muhammad R. Hajj Committee Co-Chair
Henry W. Tieleman Committee Member
Saad A. Ragab Committee Member
snip
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-08222001-111203/

[Semper]

They have GOT to be kidding!

Would you say that about Jesus also? Forgiveness is a Christian principle - they were just following a tried and true religious practice.

[vetsvette]

“There’s nothing anyone can do about it now. We’ve got to remember them equally.”

Probably “feels” the same about Mohamed Atta.

Moron

[kenth]

Graduate student Chris Chabalko, 29, said adding a stone memorial for Cho was fair.

“He was a student. Thirty-three people died,” said Chabalko. “There’s nothing anyone can do about it now. We’ve got to remember them equally.”

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This one is going to have to get mugged personally. Even then, I hold no illusions that it would change him. At twenty-nine, he’s well on his way to being a professional student and I’m sure later faculty and doesn’t set foot in the real world, even when confronted by a mass murder.

[dc-zoo]

All of the tributes said: “Rot in Hell you SOB”!!

[Wormwood]

Would you say that about Jesus also? Forgiveness is a Christian principle - they were just following a tried and true religious practice.

Wrath gets a lot more play around here than Charity.