Mark: Nicely said.

One only needs to consider the dark thoughts and mannerisms of celebrated cultural figures. One could easily see these psuedo-scientists and a skittish judiciary declaring the likes of Van Goh, Dostevsky, Edgar Allan Poe, Tarantino, Orwell, Huxley, and Freud himself as being too dark and obsessing to be free and “unmedicated” for the “mental norms” of society. If we allow psuedo-scientists more footholds in the courts and deciding whose thoughts are not right, we create a thought police by our own thoughtlessness.

As applied to the shooter, if he had been captured instead of commiting suicide, the same pundits and anal-ists would have taken the exact same facts and declared his actions demonstrated he did not suffer from a mental illness and he would have been quickly imprisoned or given the death penalty. I submit to you that in every case where there is a psuedo scientist offering an opinion on the mental status or social ilness of a person, you can find psuedo scientists to reject the claim.

In short, there are obvious dangers to our freedoms involved in reforming mental health, commitment and punishment laws and procedures. Psychology, psychiatry and the like are not subject to scrutiny and are not hard sciences. People should stop looking at simplistic reactionary fixes to aberrant and unpredictable actions. To do so will lead to another excuse to overreach and punish all those who are “different” but dark, mysterious and introverted. And since there isn’t bright lines in the world of psuedo science, nobody (like the case of taking freedoms by wiretapping) can say “I’m not, so I don’t have anything to worry about”. You need only to take a personal inventory and reflect on whether someone thinks you are wierd in your traits, personality or socialization habits to understand how this one size fits all mentality for immediate corrective action could emerge to affect you and those you know.

So think twice. This creeping intrusion into “thoughts” and “acceptable behavior” has a tremendous potential for subverting the entire Bill of Rghts and the notions of freedom of thought. Everyone should be outraged and worried at these types “reformation”.

Due to the many school shooting that have happen due to harassment by bullies, I am requesting that the Department Of Justice investigate Virginia Tech to see why it did not have a discipline protocol in place for reporting and reprimanding bullies.
Thank you,
Rev. Wesley Richardson PM

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DID VIRGINIA TECH CONDONE STUDENTS HARASSING UNDESIRABLES?
This South Korean student had a mouth deformity which is obvious on the videos. Why didn’t someone from the schools assist this young man in getting speech therapy and referrals to a neurologist, a oral surgeon, etc.

There are federal laws prohibiting harassment of minorities. I haven’t seen or heard anything that indicates that the university has disciplined students and/or staff for harassing this young man. It should have been reported especially when it occurred in the classrooms. Was his harassment reported to the dean and/or to the authorities by anyone?

Perhaps he would have reflected badly on the college’s image with him being an English major graduate of Virginia Tech and could not talk. Does this college condone other students humiliating and harassing the undesirables until they drop out. The only problem here is that this student didn’t drop out.

This practice of condoning peers running off undesirable has been used in the work force as well as in schools for years. It has many advantages; however, if it backfires as it did here where the student would not drop out but went on a killing spree. All those that knew about these illegal practice will probably face felony charges.

Evidently Virginia Tech prefers the elite, America’s fittest young men and women with no provisions in place for the poor, and the handicapped. Every article that I have read about this immigrant’s history (prior to the month of the shootings) in America reflects some type of harassment or civil right violations. The local high school as well as this college needs to be audited by the DOJ.

Why did the teachers/professors constantly put him on the spot to speak in class? All instructors when they get a class roster should have been given a brief medical history of each student concerning physical deformities, allergies etc.

Why was this student an English Major anyway? Was it part of the plot to get him to quit the school or was it a cruel joke by the school counselors that he ended up in a field where it was impossible for him to participate orally and master.

His English teacher’s accent, fancy jewelry and her attire makes me think she missed a Hollywood or Broadway career and had to take a job where I believe she feels misplaced and possibly resents being isolated to a small classroom occupied by mixed nationalities whose attire is mainly blue jeans and T-shirts. I believe that it was an insult to her with him being in her class with an English/literature major and not being able to orally communicate.

If you don’t understand the end result correlation of your statement regarding nail clippers to Gun Control or Ban, please sit in a dark room with no other stimulus and ponder it until the little light bulb finally turns on in your head. Or, several of us can explain it to you in standard media 6th grade english.

#22. I somewhat agree, but would limit it to designated and trained teachers (similar to a floor fire drill person in charge). It wouldn’t have to even be a handgun, it could be a Taser. Something, I agree. And better yet, again, make it mandatory for a course on chivalry to be taught - I still can’t get over 20 year olds leaving a 70 year old teacher holding a door close while they jumped out of a window.

#21. What in the world are you talking about. Complicity? No one holds you or your race accountable, I certainly don’t. Evil men? Capitalism? Entertainment? They are not responsible, overall morality in our society, the gradual abatements of core rights, a ‘me’ mentality and an general lack in capital punishment for accountabliilty.

It is a hard thing to say and have understood in context but there is a minimal order of magnitude here. That is why making this into a political agenda about Public Satefy and Gun issues is so ludicrous. Other countries deal with losses in this number daily or multiple times per day. It hits home and affects us because we as Americans are used to having what we want, when we want it and with little concern for how we affect others - hence why life seems so cheap to individuals such as the shooter.

You can’t control what singular people do and regulate society based on the actions of a fraction of a percentage and you can’t adjudicate morality.

Well now why would he do something like that when he can shoot a bunch of you, and then commit suicide effectively screwing you guys so badly without consequences and teach you a lesson at the same time? Clearly he wanted revenge for things already done, he didn’t want to fit in anymore. He was past fitting in. Once you are thrown out of society you dont WANT to get back in. You only want it to pay right?

Also i love how the victims are made out to be lil angels like wtf. As if those people never fkd anyone. As if half those people weren’t on drugs. As if As if As fkn IF!!!!!!!! Noone is actually innocent!! ok? They are just normal people, stop painting a portrait of the way you or their parents see things. Parents know nothing about their kids. infact stats show 1 out of every 32 American adults are behind bars at some point. So perhaps one of those people he killed was someone that society would deem as bad.

Also i dont see what his race has to do with anything. If i take the facts that he’s Korean, and American. I’d have to say that the American part stands out more when it comes to school shootings and rampages. Lets not pin it on Korea, Pin it on yourselves and your society. And if you want the killing of innocents to stop then maybe you should care about these people BEFORE the situation occurs. Its so easy to spot. i mean these people generally tell others they are going to do it. Letters, stories, anti social behaviour. If you are going to suggest they are psychopaths because of this behaviour and suggest they go to therapy because they are crazy then i can pretty much gaurentee they are going to turn into exactly what you are suggesting they already are. a psychopath. Psychology 101

You stated, we are racist. You are correct, everyone is racist to a certain extent; to deny that is ludicrous. However racism/bullying is a part of life and is no excuse for this level of violence on a campus or elsewhere.

Do not confuse this person with an immigrant. He was a foreign national, not a citizen; albeit a permanent legal resident. I refuse to give him that credit on top of all the sympathy he is getting in the media.

Are you saying (At least we have laws for immigrants now which lets quality people) that everyone prior to the immigration process was not a quality person? Wow, Bunny, that sounds awfully racist against Americans - I hope your words don’t make me buy a gun and kill all my co-workers next week due to my anxiety over not being a quality person in this country. In any case, he did not immigrate so that is a mute point.

(This person was subjugated to racism and bullying which forced him to do this as he mentions in NBC video.) Please shut up and leave for Europe or Canada immediately.

(We bully any asian whether chinese/ vietnames/ korean as chinese and tell them go back to China.) I don’t remember doing this, wow, show me the tape of my actions. I would bet that I have had way more bullying than the shooter in my lifetime.

(We cannot stop this kinda thing until we stop racism and bullying.) Not going to stop, at certain levels its part of human nature, we have to learn to deal with the fact that not everyone will love us, like us or respect us. I have been on that side of the fence too and I have not killed anyone - especially people I didn’t know.

Appears NBC accomplished what they desired in their agenda - to aggrandize this insane person. We have Bunny and millions of others feeling sympathy now.

(We should stop this to protect and promote multi cultural diversity) Absolutely not. How about these two novel concepts - American Culturalism (people actually melting and assimilating into the Melting Pot) and individual responsibility.

Let us remember every one in this coiuntry was once immigrant or their parents immigrated here or came here as slave. Atleast we have laws for immigrants now which lets quality people. This person was subjugated to racism and bullying which forced him to do this as he mentions in NBC video. We bully any asian whether chinese/ vietnames/ korean as chinese and tell them go back to China. We cannot stop this kinda thing until we stop racism and bullying. We are racists, we should stop this to protect and promote multi cultural diversity.

They are not men. They are weenies.

To be Human is to Judge. We are only ‘human’.

By every account, each classroom listened for minutes as the prior classroom was decimated. One classroom had time to barricade the door and that class appears to have been made up of predominantly women, who should be commended for their actions.

If noone has any right to judge what these people did, then noone has a right to judge the inaction of the police, the preparedness of the University, the sale of guns and the motive of the shooter. Your argument holds no water - if it did, this blog would not exist and we would have little or no Law.

If Human instinct is to automatically protect oneself and not necessarily aid others selflessly, we would all be speaking and writing German, Japanese or Korean at this very moment.

I have been faced with two occassions in a similar vein at a similar age and had less time to react - but I did. And I am a normal, non-military, shorter than average Joe.