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Cho sent photos and rambling letter to NBC.
MSNBC

Posted on 04/18/2007 1:29:40 PM PDT by harwood

Just heard anchorette report this on pMSNBC


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aishmael; cho; copiedfirst; ishmael; losersyndrome; manifesto; nbcexclusive; psychmeds; ratings; schizophrenic; senttofbisecond; vatech; virginiatech; vtach
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
The Koran, for the most part, is just a ridiculous, muddled rewriting of the Bible. It’s a bastardization of Judaism and Christianity overlaid with a cult of personality of a degenerate, demonic, barbarian....Mohamed.
1,401 posted on 04/19/2007 12:59:33 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: nopardons

but he did


1,402 posted on 04/19/2007 12:59:58 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
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To: Beatthedrum
But lets face the facts here, this is a price we pay for the celebrity obsessed society that is America today, for the garbage they sell our children, and the immoral sewage we tolerate.

Good point.

1,403 posted on 04/19/2007 1:00:45 PM PDT by Lijahsbubbe (Ah don't feeeeel no ways taihrd.)
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To: Timeout
...then he should be gone. Period

How do you think he would have reacted, knowing now what was in his head.

I'm thinking the massacre would have occurred regardless, but it would have started in the Dean's office where the bad news was delivered.

To throw a mentally unstable person out into the street in any case, the problem simply moves to someplace else, and again the massacre would have occurred.

The answer lies in treatment. It lies in interdicting the problem before it become a societal problem. It cannot be forced treatment unless a crime has been committed, and then it is too late.

We must put mental health ahead of many of the unnecessary and useless political correctness. We need to make it as important as contraception, acne, chest pains and cancer for example. It needs to be on the front societal burner and everyone should be concerned about their own health as well as others.

Today, some poor kid got tossed out of grade school for making a list of people he did not like. What a great help that was...LOL...Show me a kid who does not have issues with other kids. Show me a kid who makes no lists....Show me a kid who automatically knows how to deal with interpersonal relationships.

What happened to that kid was wrong, and a stupid reaction.

It is no wonder that the U.S. is often the laughing stock in other countries. We act like rabble. Knee jerk, hyper emotional rabble.

1,404 posted on 04/19/2007 1:12:32 PM PDT by Cold Heat (Mitt....2008)
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To: BurbankKarl

Not as a constant and not primarily.


1,405 posted on 04/19/2007 1:14:41 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: chickenNdumplings

VA, like most states has two levels of commitment. The first is a “Temporary Order for Dentention” which is for observation/evaluation. This is what Cho had. He was detained, evaluated, given a prescription, ordered to outpatient treatment and released.

Had he presented a more clear danger to himself or others they might have gone to the 2nd level of involuntary commitment.

That didn’t happen. Had he had an actual criminal record say from actual stalking charges having been filed or arson charges filed, his heinous act may have been averted.

But maybe not. The best way to protect ourselves and our civil rights is to pack heat and take personal self defense as both a right and a responsibility very seriously.

Government cannot protect us from the insane without seriously eroding the civil rights of average citizens. I do not recommend tightening up mental health laws because they are incredibly easy to abuse by those in power.


1,406 posted on 04/19/2007 1:32:04 PM PDT by Valpal1 (Social vs fiscal conservtism? Sorry, I'm not voting my wallet over the broken bodies of the innocent)
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To: Lijahsbubbe

The deadliest school attack in the US was in 1927, though.


1,407 posted on 04/19/2007 1:38:04 PM PDT by Strategerist
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To: nopardons

I don’t disagree with any of that. Mohammad was a barbarian, a pedophile, a rapist and a demon. As far as I’m concerned, he’s the most vile animal to ever walk the planet.

And his fake religion is the fastest growing faith on the planet.

I think it’s important that every Christian and Jew on this earth understand the implications of exactly what that means.


1,408 posted on 04/19/2007 1:43:35 PM PDT by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (NRA Life Member)
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard

We are in complete agreement! :-)


1,409 posted on 04/19/2007 1:45:36 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: Valpal1
I do not recommend tightening up mental health laws because they are incredibly easy to abuse by those in power.

True. No argument from me here.

I don't see how it could have been averted, either, unless charges were filed. No one knew what was in this kid's head, no one knew what his plans were. No one knew how dangerous he truly was until it was too late.

1,410 posted on 04/19/2007 1:52:45 PM PDT by chickenNdumplings
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To: pitinkie

Thanks!


1,411 posted on 04/19/2007 2:02:34 PM PDT by pa mom (God bless Tech--and I'm a Wahoo!)
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To: pa mom

welcome!


1,412 posted on 04/19/2007 2:28:24 PM PDT by pitinkie (revenge will be sweet)
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To: chickenNdumplings

“These people really cannot help what their dysfunctional brain chemistry is doing to them, anymore than people with MS or Parkinson’s or pick-any-disease can help what their illness does to them.”

This is very true. A big problem though is that there seems to be alot of resistance from those with serious mental disorders (bi-polar, schizophrenia) (not depression/anxiety patients) in taking their medication. There seems to be a common complaint, they do not like the way the meds makes them feel. I have met two people with schizophrenia, one was angry, controlling and delusional, the other passive, deceptive & manipulative. Some characteristics may just be personality. But, when anger & delusional thinking comes into play, we all can see it can be very dangerous. I wish there was a way doctors could hold patients accountable to taking medication if the diagnosis is serious.


1,413 posted on 04/19/2007 3:02:11 PM PDT by HollyB
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To: milford421

Ok. How’s this for seeking information: How many states are in the U.S.? From the question you can infer something about the person asking it. I pegged you once I saw your first post. bu bye.


1,414 posted on 04/19/2007 4:11:11 PM PDT by ItisaReligionofPeace
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To: Strategerist

well ok....what I was trying to say was...as he was member of a minority group, he given more latitude, in the numerous confrontations with the faculty, whereas other students would have been expelled....


1,415 posted on 04/19/2007 4:55:46 PM PDT by thinking
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To: thinking

Yall see this? http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1820287/posts


1,416 posted on 04/19/2007 5:40:34 PM PDT by CindyDawg
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To: HollyB

If a person has TB they will get their meds. They may be in the hospital or have to go to clinic or a home health nurse tracks them down. If they don’t take their meds we commit them.


1,417 posted on 04/19/2007 5:43:21 PM PDT by CindyDawg
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To: ItisaReligionofPeace

“Ok. How’s this for seeking information: How many states are in the U.S.?”

I think you shouldn’t be allowed on the computer without mommy and daddy’s permission.

“I pegged you once I saw your first post. bu bye.”

No, you’d have to have intelligence and knowledge to do that...you have neither.


1,418 posted on 04/19/2007 5:44:29 PM PDT by milford421 (U.N. OUT OF U.S.)
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To: Cold Heat

Just about everyone on FR have lists of who they like. It’s called a ping list:’)


1,419 posted on 04/19/2007 5:46:02 PM PDT by CindyDawg
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To: harwood
In the old days, we had insane asylums for the crazies. Now, we let them on the street and a few get shown on Jerry Springer.

Then they will tell us we need to take guns away.

How about taking the crazies away, away?!!

1,420 posted on 04/19/2007 9:00:36 PM PDT by do the dhue (May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I wont - George S. Patton Jr)
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