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America Fails Its Children Yet Again

Cho Seung-hui, shooter, Virginia Tech, guns

Use of Cho's image is surprisingly more controversial than liberal gun laws.


This killer was so creepy that months ago he was withdrawn from one class because students were, well, creeped out...But he can buy a Glock 19 immediately and with no problem. '
By Citizen Correspondent Marc Emery
Date Posted: 04/19/07
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The appalling Virginia Tech killings reveal that for all of its billions spent on "Homeland Security," the safety of the students and faculty at Virginia Tech was compromised by a system that just doesn't work.

9/11, Katrina, Iraq, and now Virginia Tech. America's vast resources and enormous bureaucracies and armies of soldiers, police officers and engineers just can't protect its people. As there was advance information right to the White House that a terrorist attack was coming, as there was advance information that Katrina was a colossal danger and for years it was known that levees were vulnerable, as it was known that Iraq was made up of two ethnic divisions that were historical enemies, as it was always known that Saddam possessed no weapons of mass destruction...

Information is pouring out now and will for days about this 'loner' killer who nonetheless telegraphed in dozens of ways and over a number of years to every possible authority and peer that he was delusional, angry, obsessive, creepy, hateful and mentally insane.

This Korean-born misanthrope, who moved to America in 1992 when he was a boy of around eight years old, was declared mentally insane in 2005 by a local Virginia judge. In fact, the judge said he was "an imminent threat to himself and those around him." The killer, in the most recent semester, wrote violently hate-filled plays, and parts of them were read aloud in school. This disconcerting person was over months stalking students with a camera and many students noted his peculiar and disturbing behavior.

No information has come forth that he was ever told by any campus authority to live off campus. No one dismissed him from the college campus at any time.

This killer was so creepy that months ago he was withdrawn from one class because students were, well, creeped out.


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The store which sold a 9mm

By Brandon, April 19, 2007 at 15:31

The store which sold a 9mm Glock and a .22 semi-automatic to an insane and alienated college student isn't even partly responsible for the 33 deaths caused directly by these instruments of violence - instruments which notably have no other purpose than the killing of humans. But the selling of seeds, from over a border, in a distant land outside national jurisdiction, which can be grown into plants, which can then yield a little bud which causes a peaceful serenity - now that's criminal! In so many ways it's a third world country.

For those readers who aren't

By Heather Wallace, April 19, 2007 at 15:43

For those readers who aren't familiar with citizen correspondent Marc Emery, who wrote this piece, he is an activist for civil liberties and the legalization of marijuana and is currently facing extradition to the U.S. for selling marijuana seeds over the border.

So far, our American readers have been quiet about gun control and legalization of marijuana. I hope to hear some opinions on these matters in this forum in the coming weeks.

There has been some controversy about the media using Cho's image. It is true the victims need to be honored and memorialized and their stories told, but I don't believe we can look away from any aspect of this story.

Heather Wallace

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