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Virginia Killer's Violent Writings
The Smoking Gun ^ | April 17, 2007 | TSG

Posted on 04/17/2007 12:10:12 PM PDT by MrCFdovnh

Virginia Killer's Violent Writings Play told of pedophilic stepfather, murder of 13-year-old boy

APRIL 17--The college student responsible for yesterday's Virginia Tech slaughter was referred last year to counseling after professors became concerned about the violent nature of his writings, as evidenced in a one-act play obtained by The Smoking Gun. The play by Cho Seung-Hui, a 23-year-old English major, was submitted last year as part of a short story writing class. Entitled "Richard McBeef," Cho's bizarre play features a 13-year-old boy who accuses his stepfather of pedophilia and murdering his father.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: massacre; virginiatech; vtech
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all three such murderous rampages in Quebec involved a killer who was either an immigrant or a child of immigrants
Salt Lake City Mall shooter also came to America as a young child.
61 posted on 04/17/2007 1:11:24 PM PDT by syriacus (Congress should debrief Pelosi as they would any US diplomat who met with a foreign leader.)
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To: MrCFdovnh

real sick guy. I hope he likes a dry heat... cuz thats where he is now.


62 posted on 04/17/2007 1:13:16 PM PDT by bedolido (I can forgive you for killing my sons, but I cannot forgive you for forcing me to kill your sons)
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To: MrCFdovnh

Has the text of the note been released?


63 posted on 04/17/2007 1:14:30 PM PDT by RightWhale (3 May '07 3:14 PM)
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To: msrngtp2002

I love the freedoms of this, the most wonderful country ever on the planet. HOWEVER, when I see the mentally ill homeless (daily in L.A.), I do not find their situation to be “freedom.” I do not think we as a society do justice to our mentally ill by allowing THEM to decide whether or not to take their meds.

Everyone should take care of himself and his family, and we as a kind population should take care of our infirm who cannot care for themselves. IMO, this includes keeping the seriously mentally ill at their top capacity in a healthy location on the proper medication, and giving them the opportunity for as rich as life as possible, as we try to do with the developmentally delayed.

We don’t give three-year-olds the “freedom” to choose their lifestyles for the same reason.


64 posted on 04/17/2007 1:14:59 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: bedolido
real sick guy. I hope he likes a dry heat... cuz thats where he is now. Whoa, he's in Phoenix???!!!
65 posted on 04/17/2007 1:17:12 PM PDT by jobnick
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To: dan_s

Right!! But I’m not sure that that would even be PC because play guns were used. That might warp children’s minds and make them think it is alright to protect yourself when you are attacked. Wouldn’t want any of that.


66 posted on 04/17/2007 1:18:11 PM PDT by TDA2
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To: Lorraine
If Ian MacFarlane is telling the truth, it does indeed appear to be the work of a standard-issue nutjob.

So much for the "Islamic Korean" angle.

67 posted on 04/17/2007 1:21:59 PM PDT by r9etb
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To: dan_s
The PC version today is playing "cowboys and cowboys".

When I was a little kid, we played "cowboys and Germans."

68 posted on 04/17/2007 1:23:16 PM PDT by r9etb
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To: MrCFdovnh

Sounds like a Jim Webb novel


69 posted on 04/17/2007 1:23:28 PM PDT by KosmicKitty (WARNING: Hormonally crazed woman ahead!!)
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To: Yaelle
I wonder what one does besides what they DID do, get him into forced counseling.

Counseling provided, no doubt, by the "charlatans" to whom he was probably referring in his note.

70 posted on 04/17/2007 1:24:53 PM PDT by r9etb
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To: MrCFdovnh

McBeef .... Some older renditions of MacBeth in “Olde English” would have called MacBeth “MacBeathe” .... curious and curiouser, especially keeping in mind the dude was a nearly Graduate level English major.


71 posted on 04/17/2007 1:28:46 PM PDT by GOP_1900AD (Stomping on "PC," destroying the Left, and smoking out faux "conservatives" - Take Back The GOP!)
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To: rbmillerjr

Tend to agree.

1. The writing was hardly that expected of an English major.

2. The content aspires to what frequents the Big Screen - and few are “concerned” about Grindhouse, Sin City, Freddy vs. Jason, etc.

Gotta wonder where upcoming scriptwriters will come from...


72 posted on 04/17/2007 1:30:36 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (The color blue tastes like the square root of 0?)
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To: MrCFdovnh
Sounds typical of MFA writing material.

FWIW. The bulk of new writers being published today are those connected with MFA programs and the related networks (a lot of self-indulgent writing, anti-family, etc., anti-Western culture, etc.) If you’re a creative writer and are having trouble getting published, it’s partly because you’re being bumped for writers with such connections.

73 posted on 04/17/2007 1:33:40 PM PDT by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (Liberals are blind. They are the dupes of Leftists who know exactly what they're doing.)
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To: Veto!

He hated Roman Catholicism. He may have hated the US. Although fully eligable for Citizenship he remained an Resident Alien. McBeef, besides being a possible allusion to MacBeth, was used to allude to pedophile step dad’s employ as a burger flipper. That may have been an allusion to the “Supersize Me” Eurotrash style indictment of the US. The rubbish which must have been floating in his drug addled mind being in an English department. Boggles the mind.


74 posted on 04/17/2007 1:34:14 PM PDT by GOP_1900AD (Stomping on "PC," destroying the Left, and smoking out faux "conservatives" - Take Back The GOP!)
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To: jakewashere

Actually, his rantings echo those of Islamists, and of certain more “puritanical” Leftist subcultures.


75 posted on 04/17/2007 1:37:16 PM PDT by GOP_1900AD (Stomping on "PC," destroying the Left, and smoking out faux "conservatives" - Take Back The GOP!)
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To: MrCFdovnh

I think the point is not that he wrote a play that had sick and disturbing stuff in it. It’s that something he wrote (whether this play or something else) led teachers to recommend that he go see a school psychologist. One report mentioned that he at one time had been medicated for depression. SSRI anti-depressants have been linked to violent suicidal and mass-killing behavior.

Many writers have written violent, disturbing, twisted stories. (Stephen King, for one.) But would someone like Stephen King today be referred for psychiatric medication? That ought to be our concern - that someone would actually be referred for medication when they write something disturbing.


76 posted on 04/17/2007 1:38:54 PM PDT by valkyrieanne
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To: MrCFdovnh
His writing was bad beyond words.

Note his reference to conspiracy theories behind the deaths of Marilyn Monroe and John Lennon.

Ya think that may be an indicator that he may have had all six cans but was missing that little thingy that holds them all together?

77 posted on 04/17/2007 1:39:15 PM PDT by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (Liberals are blind. They are the dupes of Leftists who know exactly what they're doing.)
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To: GOP_1900AD

Of course he was writing a parody of Macbeth. The stepfather, the mother. It’s transparent. The vulgarity of the piece and crudeness is a little tough to stomach, frankly.


78 posted on 04/17/2007 1:39:19 PM PDT by jobnick
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To: Lorraine

In the McBeef play, note the allusion to impalement, in its most gruesome literal sense, using a TV remote.


79 posted on 04/17/2007 1:42:37 PM PDT by GOP_1900AD (Stomping on "PC," destroying the Left, and smoking out faux "conservatives" - Take Back The GOP!)
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To: jobnick

Had this been an isolated submission, I don’t think it would have led to his being sent for psych evaluation. I reckon his writing and demeanor was creeping out the entire class for some time. That seems to be borne out by the earlier post quoting a former classmate in the writing class.


80 posted on 04/17/2007 1:42:43 PM PDT by jobnick
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