Posted on 04/20/2007 4:29:22 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
THE grandfather of Cho Seung-Hui said yesterday: "Son of a bitch. It serves him right he died with his victims."
Kim Hyang-Sik, 82, said he had a doom-laden dream of Cho's parents the night of his murderous rampage - and woke to hear the news of the massacre and his grandson's death.
He watched Cho's sick video of himself holding a gun to his head.
His sister Kim Yang-Sun, 85, who also saw it, told the Mirror that afterwards her brother was so distraught he had "gone away for a few days to calm himself down and avoid more questions".
She too repeatedly referred to the killer as "son of a bitch" or "a***hole" and said his mother Kim Hyang-Yim had problems with him from infancy.
Yang-Sun revealed the eight-year-old was diagnosed as autistic soon after his family emigrated to the US.
She said: "He was very quiet and only followed his mother and father around and when others called his name he just answered yes or no but never showed any feelings or motions.
"We started to worry that he was autistic - that was the big concern of his mother. He was even a loner as a child.
"Soon after they got to America his mother was so worried about his inability to talk she took him to hospital and he was diagnosed as autistic."
Yang-Sun spoke at her tiny one roomed shack inside a vinyl farm shelter in the Gohyang area of South Korea's capital Seoul.
The family had stayed there the night before they emigrated in 1992. Yang-Sun said Cho's mother had been reluctant to marry her older husband.
She said: "She had five brothers and sisters and she was the second eldest child. She took care of them after she graduated from high school, which meant a lot of self-sacrifice.
"Hyang-Yim was a full-time house person on one of her parents' small farms outside Seoul. She stayed at home like that for years and was still single at home when she was 29.
"We became worried that she was spending too much time at home with her brothers and sisters and family and getting to old for a husband.
"So the family decided to force her into a blind date to find a husband. She met Cho Sung-Tae on that date. He was 10 years older at 39 and still single too. They decided to get married soon after that.
"She didn't want to but her family insisted because we thought she was getting past the right age and it would be good for her.
"Her husband was very serious and quiet and careful with money. He was not very sociable and not very friendly to his mother-in-law and father-in-law.
"After they were married he went away twice to Saudi Arabia in the 80s to try to make some money in the construction boom. He came back with about £2,000, which was enough to buy a small house in Seoul. He also ran a second-hand bookstore. His mother was living in the States on a long term visit to stay with his sister. She asked him to bring his family to live there.
"His sold the house to pay for the emigration costs and rented instead but there were lots of delays and eventually the whole process to get the permissions and organise things took eight years.
"By that time the money from the house was nearly gone. They were barely making ends meet so they had nothing to lose and had this idea of the American dream where there was a lot of money to be made."
She went on: "The reaction of my brother was that Seung-Hui was a troublemaker and it served him right that he died because he caused his mother a lot of problems. He was more worried about his daughter.
"He spoke to a few reporters to express sympathy to victims' families on behalf of our family but now he has gone away. He is 82 and lives quietly on a small farm and all this is too much for him."
Other relatives admitted Cho's parents had always been aware of his problems but had neither the time nor money for specialist help.
His uncle Chan Kim, 56, said: "He wasn't like a normal kid. We were worried about him not talking.
"Both his parents knew he had mental problems but they were poor and they couldn't send him to a special hospital in the United States.
"His mother and sister were asking his friends to help instead.
"His parents worked and did not have time to look after his condition and didn't give him special treatment.
"They had no time or money to look after his special problem even though they knew he was autistic."
I’ve heard the stories....but this is his young daughter.... he was stupid to record that kind of a message. AND I do not blame the little girl for not wanting to talk to him. What a fool....just goes to show you that you can’t buy brains with money. He is now “daddy-dearest to me.
It explains alot...why Basinger moved as far away as she could get and fought him on custody.
I doubt he is that unusual.
You have to be very self centered to be a star.
That tape showed it was “all about him”.
I never understood why people held Hollywood stars up on pedestals. A gazillion divorces and a bunch of adults who hurt their kids.
there ARE stars who are decent...it’s just rare.
hmmmm....I do kinda like Bono, but even he said that rock stars are selfish people and didn’t exclude himself.
I used to like Mel...he’s scratched off my list.
It might be heresy to say this here, but for me, that means he wasn't evil. (Although evil people do exist, I don't believe Cho was one.)
Charles Whitman, the Texas tower shooter, was found on post mortem to have had a tumor pressing on a part of his brain that regulates emotions. People who have tumors like that are prone to committing sudden acts of extreme violence, as I understand it. I think autism can affect some (not all) of its sufferers that way too.
There was a great episode showing an autistic kid on the "Dogs with Jobs" TV show. This little boy, who had very severe speech and behavioral problems, was given a specially trained Labrador Retriever --mainly for the purpose of "anchoring" the boy so he couldn't run off and get killed in the street so easily (the boy was actually tethered to the dog).
At first the autistic boy hardly seemed to notice the dog; and when he did notice the Lab, he mostly pushed her away.
A few weeks later, however, he started making small gestures of affection to the dog --something his parents had never seen him do before, to people or animals! He also began to be more socially interactive with other children at his school.
Too bad Cho didn't get some kind of therapy like this when he was little. (Now spare me the jokes about how Koreans would be more likely to have the dog FOR dinner than TO dinner!)
Patricia Heaton from Everybody Loves Raymond.....she is a conservative voice in the hills of hollywierd.
bullseye there!
celebrity spokesperson for pro-life feminists.
http://www.feministsforlife.org
Apparantly Bruce Willis is surprisingly conservative - when he isn’t chasing pretty young ‘uns around.
I think Alec attended classes at the Ryan O’Neil school of parenting.
see, we thought of two between us! LOL
BTW, the little charmer went to the park....she slid down the slide and clear as a bell calls out “I did it!” ROTFL
There’s a park around here with dry ground?
Where?
I took it you believed this 81-year-old grandfather was truly angry and deeply disturbed by this news.
Though I've been call a cynic by some, I think the man grieves for the awful thing his grandson did.
As to his saying "son of a bi*ch", we all know the term is often used without any thought of demeaning a mother. Whoever chose to parse the words, I suggest you give this sad man a break!
Thanks, Scary though !!!
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