Posted on 04/20/2007 2:55:42 AM PDT by Star Traveler
From Address on Package sent to NBC from Cho
A. Ismail
88 Revol
Blacksburg, VA
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88 used as a greeting or a closing by Neo-Nazis (in e-mails or handles). Means 8th letter of alphabet (H); double 8s mean Heil Hitler
Revol revers of lover; or could mean revolution
Hence Heil Hitler lover [Hitler lover]; possible Heil Hitler revolution
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Significance of 88 from Anti-Defamation League
http://www.adl.org/hate_symbols/numbers_88.asp
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On this thread, the Neo-Nazis, there, are commenting on the fact that the press has *not yet* picked up the meaning of 88 or Revol
88 Thread (from Stormfront forum, Neo-Nazi forum)
http://tinyurl.com/2bgue3
Some comments from that thread...
Who saw the fake return address Cho put on the NBC letter? It was a little inside joke Hitler reference, probably as a nod to Columbine and the proximity of the date.
Most people of course dont know what 88 means. Do we really want the media to play the Hitler angle on this one?
Thats what I was thinking! Dont need to give the media ammunition!
Good point. At least theyll have a hard time tying him to White Supremacists like they did by lying about Klebold and Harris.
Ismail ax- I think this means Ax of Ishmael. You know, Abrahams bastard child from Hagar. The illigitimate son who spawned the Arabs, Islam, etc...
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Well, even though the press did say something on the Ismail bit they have *not* picked up on the *Hitler* reference. But, I suppose, if the press reads FReeprs, they may soon pick up on that...
Regards,
Star Traveler
Wait, let me dig out my tinfoil hat before answering. :P
Sheesh.
Hmmmmmm, maybe that’s why there 88 professors at Duke who signed a public rant against those lacrosse players....eh?
Big talk-radio fan as well...
Oh yeah, that’s it -
He was a Right Wing nutjob.
No - he was not a ‘joiner’. Your speculation just fans the flames and attempts to make a group (substitute ‘Jew’, ‘Korean’, ‘Muslim’, or ‘NRA Member’ for ‘Neo-Nazi’ and you would wind up making way more people angry) responsible somehow for what appears to be (so far) the act of a deranged individual.
People will try to analyze his actions, but that is trying to make sense of ‘insanity’. He is dead. He should have been ‘put down’ immediately, but that did not happen.
Everybody needs to just back off and take a deep breath.
‘88’ could mean a LOT of things. As could Ismael, Ishmael, and any of the ‘messages’ he left (although I am disturbed by his choosing what everybody assumes is a Muslim name as his ‘nom de guerre’).
Who cares. He is dead. It is over. We can avoid this in the future, but analyzing it is not the way. Neither is legislation or regulation.
I feel safer in a room where everybody is armed, as opposed to a ‘gun-free zone’. Always have, always will. Barring that, I feel more comfortable in a place where the sheepdogs are welcome.
ONE.......LONE.......NUT
Nothing more. Nothing less.
Star Traveler- what part of the galaxy are you in at the moment?
Regards,
Carl Lafong
It makes people feel safer if they think that they can actually spot the ‘bad guy’.
Just heard from Fox &FRiends that he was suspended for a month in middle school for having a hit list.
Yeah. Like a simple drunk driver who killed a princess.
But that doesn't make Cho anything. Cho was living out delusions in his own sick mind. That he picked up bits and pieces of equally insane ideas -- Isamil, 88, the poses -- and finally the murders, from hither and yon is to be expected. No conspiracy needed.
Cho was too much a loner, too pathologically shy -- to have joined any organization no matter how loony. JMO.
Yeah, he was one lone nut, still he “meant” something with that odd return address. Maybe 88 keys on a piano? He liked Chopin?
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