By de Andrea
Cho Seung-Hui
Carl Jung coined the notion of the Collective Unconscious. The theory is that when shielded by the anonymity of a crowd, people will abandon their personal values to surrender to the contagious emotions of the crowd. A crowd thus assumes a life of its own, stirring up emotions and driving people toward irrational action. Freud called it Crowd Psychology.
Liberalism depends on the Collective Unconsciousness to move ahead an agenda of Pacifism. This collective brainwashing was tragically evident in Norris Hall when the students lay in the floor and watched in terror while Cho repeatedly took his time changing empty magazines in his Glock and then resuming his bloody shooting spree.
Certainly there was enough time to shoot the gun wielding maniac if anyone would have had a gun for self defence, unfortunately guns are ironically not allowed on the collage Campus, Virginia Tech is a “Gun Free Zone”. But likely even enough time to rush the killer if our young heads full of mush had not been so brainwashed in this new liberal pacifist academic society to submit to violence so as not to anger the attacker, as opposed to fighting back, we are indoctrinated with this pacifist liberal philosophy that this is the safest possession to take.
Carl Jung coined the notion of the Collective Unconscious. The theory is that when shielded by the anonymity of a crowd, people will abandon their personal values to surrender to the contagious emotions of the crowd. A crowd thus assumes a life of its own, stirring up emotions and driving people toward irrational action. Freud called it Crowd Psychology.
Liberalism depends on the Collective Unconsciousness to move ahead an agenda of Pacifism. This collective brainwashing was tragically evident in Norris Hall when the students lay in the floor and watched in terror while Cho repeatedly took his time changing empty magazines in his Glock and then resuming his bloody shooting spree.
Certainly there was enough time to shoot the gun wielding maniac if anyone would have had a gun for self defence, unfortunately guns are ironically not allowed on the collage Campus, Virginia Tech is a “Gun Free Zone”. But likely even enough time to rush the killer if our young heads full of mush had not been so brainwashed in this new liberal pacifist academic society to submit to violence so as not to anger the attacker, as opposed to fighting back, we are indoctrinated with this pacifist liberal philosophy that this is the safest possession to take.
Part of the safety procedures in the Virginia Tech's faculty manual, support this dangerous passive position, even to the point of-"if the perpetrator gives up, and offers you his gun, you are not to touch it". It is this brainwashing indoctrinated and programed Passivity that sets the stage for the enabling of these psychopathic maniacs. Instead of being a deterrent, this acts as a vacuum, in actually promoting this kind of behavior.
As a result Cho Seung-Hui, unchallenged, killed 32 people and himself on Monday morning the 16th of April 2007, at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia.
Mr. Cho seems to have been a shy, quiet type seething with rage toward his imagined unspecified tormentors.
Virginia Tech police on Tuesday morning identified Cho, 23, as the man whose body had been found in Norris Hall, the site of the worst shooting spree in American history, lying dead, next to two semi-automatic pistols.
Mr. Cho seems to have been a shy, quiet type seething with rage toward his imagined unspecified tormentors.
Virginia Tech police on Tuesday morning identified Cho, 23, as the man whose body had been found in Norris Hall, the site of the worst shooting spree in American history, lying dead, next to two semi-automatic pistols.
According to the Chicago Tribune, scrawled on the inside of one arm, were the words "ISMAIL AX" which is a reference to the Islamic account of the Biblical sacrifice of Ishmael as the son of Abraham.
From his actions, words and writings it is quite clear that he was at least influenced by Islam and the agenda of jihad taught in the Quran, or he may have been in fact a practicing Muslim and this was an independent act of Islamic terrorism striking out against Western Culture or there is even the possibly that Mr. Cho may have been part of or used by an Islamic sleeper cell.
From his actions, words and writings it is quite clear that he was at least influenced by Islam and the agenda of jihad taught in the Quran, or he may have been in fact a practicing Muslim and this was an independent act of Islamic terrorism striking out against Western Culture or there is even the possibly that Mr. Cho may have been part of or used by an Islamic sleeper cell.
A rambling note left in Cho's dorm room reportedly railed for several pages against "rich kids" and "debauchery" and "deceitful charlatans" on campus, and at one point states, "You caused me to do this."
An English professor said Cho's creative-writing work was so disturbing that he had been referred to on-campus counseling services. In one class, he refused to speak and signed his name using a question mark. Fellow pupils called him "The Question Mark Kid."
Cho, a senior majoring in English from Centreville, Va., had been taking medication for depression, and had also recently set fire to a dorm room and stalked women.
Identification was delayed nearly 24 hours after the end of the rampage because Cho was carrying no ID, had no police record, and had severely damaged his own face when he killed himself. A positive match was finally made with fingerprints on immigration records.
"He was a loner, and we're having difficulty finding information about him,"
Virginia Tech spokesman Larry Hincker said Tuesday morning.
Larry Hincker is the College spokesman that led the defeat of a state bill in 2006, that would have allowed eligible students and faculty to carry a fire arms for personal self defence
Cho was born in South Korea on Jan. 18, 1984 and entered the United States in 1992 as a child of 8. He was a permanent resident alien, a "green card" holder entitled to most of the legal rights held by U.S. citizens.
The Last Hours
Cho's last hours apparently began with the killings of freshman veterinary student Emily Hilscher, 19, and senior Ryan "Stack" Clark, a resident advisor, at about 7:15 a.m. in the West Ambler Johnson residence hall.
Hilscher's connection to Cho is not clear. The police who responded to 911 calls described the incident as a "domestic dispute," implying that she and the gunman had some sort of relationship, but at least one report said they did not know each other. "As far as we can tell, wrong place, wrong time," said John W. McCarthy, an administrator for rural Rappahannock County, Va., where Hilscher's family lives, to the Washington Post. "She was a beautiful, smart, great kid.” It seems that Clark tried to intervene and was killed for his trouble.
Cho was gone by the time police arrived at the West Ambler Johnston residence. Officers told the nearly 900 resident students to stay in their rooms; they began questioning a mutual acquaintance of Hilscher and Clark and considered the incident essentially over.
‘Could He Be a School Shooter???'
Professor Roy told the New York Times she tutored Cho individually in the fall of 2005 after his writings and behavior had intimidated his classmates. During the sessions, she said, he wore sunglasses and a baseball cap pulled low on his forehead.
"He seemed to be crying behind his sunglasses," Roy told the newspaper.
She also said she had been so worried about tutoring Cho that she developed a plan with her assistant — if she mentioned the name of a dead professor, the assistant would know to call campus security.
The Web site The Smoking Gun on Tuesday posted a play Cho allegedly wrote last year. Entitled "Richard McBeef," the violent, possibly darkly comic one-act play concerns an argument between the title character and his 13-year-old stepson, who accuses him of murdering his father and of pedophilia.
The play seems sympathetic to the stepfather, who tries to defend himself in vain against his wife and stepson's accusations. It ends on an ambiguous note, with the stepfather swinging a "deadly blow" at the boy.
• Click here to read the play, which is short on character development but has plenty of foul language and violence.
"When we read Cho's plays, it was like something out of a nightmare," former classmate Ian MacFarlane, now an AOL employee, wrote in a blog posted on an AOL Web site. "The plays had really twisted, macabre violence that used weapons I wouldn't have even thought of."
He said he and other students "were talking to each other with serious worry about whether he could be a school shooter."
Poet Nikki Giovanni, one of his professors, told a cable news channel Wednesday that her students were so unnerved by Cho's behavior that she had security check on her room and eventually had him taken out of her class. Some students had stopped coming to class, saying Cho was taking photos of them with his cell phone, she said.
Giovanni told the Washington Post that after one instance when Cho recited his poetry in class, seven out of 70 students showed up for the next meeting.
She asked about the absences, and was told the other students were afraid of Cho.
"It was not bad poetry. It was intimidating," Giovanni said of his writing. "At first I thought, OK, he's trying to see what the parameters are. Kids curse and talk about a lot of different things. He stayed in that spot. I said, 'you can't do that.’ He said, 'Yes, I can.’ I said, 'No, not in my class.'"
"We always joked we were just waiting for him to do something, waiting to hear about something he did," said another classmate, Stephanie Derry. "But when I got the call it was Cho who had done this, I started crying, bawling."
Cho has not been tied to two campus bomb threats in the past three weeks, but a note detailing a third bomb threat was found near the bodies in Norris Hall. On Wednesday morning, yet another bomb threat had campus police evacuate Burrus Hall, another school building.
Mysterious Writings
Sources also told the Tribune about the strange inscription on one of Cho's arms — the words "ISMAIL AX" in red ink. The reference may be to the Biblical sacrifice of Abraham, in which God commands the patriarch to sacrifice his own son. Abraham begins to comply, but God intervenes at the last moment to save the boy.
In the Jewish and Christian traditions, the son is Isaac, father of the Jewish people; in Islam, it is his older half-brother, Ishmael, or Ishmael in Hebrew.
Abraham uses a knife in most versions of the story, but some accounts have him wielding an ax.
A more obscure reference may be to a passage in the Koran referring to Abraham's destruction of pagan idols; in some accounts, he uses an ax to do so.
THE BOTTOM LINE: No doubt Cho was mentally and socially unbalanced, there was however, obviously some connection to Islam. The extent of that connection may never be known, either because it is being covered up, or simply because the information will never be available for any number of reasons.
Reminiscent of the Columbine massacre, trying to understand why people go off the tracks is of little value in preventing this in the future. The truth is we will not prevent this in the future, some people have dysfunctional hearts, and some have lame limbs, some people’s brains fall short of that mysterious categorization of what is acceptable as functionally normal. No amount of trying to understand this will prevent this from reoccurring.
The only way to deal with this inevitability is to ask oneself and ones leaders, what are we going to do different the next time. In this case we did exactly the same thing as at Columbine, and guess what, we got the same result. I hope our society hasn’t become as insane as these mentally deranged maniacs. Since offence is not an option then a proper defence is an obvious alternative. While it may not totally prevent an incident or even prevent someone from being killed it will prevent an out of control situation such as we have had at Columbine, Virginia Tech and the Amish massacre. One Student or teacher with a gun could have reduced a 32 person bloody massacre to two or three, to say nothing of the eventual deterrent. There is a logical reason why this happens in a gun free zone, being mentally ill doesn't mean that one is necessarily stupid, there are no guns in a gun free zone to deter this kind of behavior.
An English professor said Cho's creative-writing work was so disturbing that he had been referred to on-campus counseling services. In one class, he refused to speak and signed his name using a question mark. Fellow pupils called him "The Question Mark Kid."
Cho, a senior majoring in English from Centreville, Va., had been taking medication for depression, and had also recently set fire to a dorm room and stalked women.
Identification was delayed nearly 24 hours after the end of the rampage because Cho was carrying no ID, had no police record, and had severely damaged his own face when he killed himself. A positive match was finally made with fingerprints on immigration records.
"He was a loner, and we're having difficulty finding information about him,"
Virginia Tech spokesman Larry Hincker said Tuesday morning.
Larry Hincker is the College spokesman that led the defeat of a state bill in 2006, that would have allowed eligible students and faculty to carry a fire arms for personal self defence
Cho was born in South Korea on Jan. 18, 1984 and entered the United States in 1992 as a child of 8. He was a permanent resident alien, a "green card" holder entitled to most of the legal rights held by U.S. citizens.
The Last Hours
Cho's last hours apparently began with the killings of freshman veterinary student Emily Hilscher, 19, and senior Ryan "Stack" Clark, a resident advisor, at about 7:15 a.m. in the West Ambler Johnson residence hall.
Hilscher's connection to Cho is not clear. The police who responded to 911 calls described the incident as a "domestic dispute," implying that she and the gunman had some sort of relationship, but at least one report said they did not know each other. "As far as we can tell, wrong place, wrong time," said John W. McCarthy, an administrator for rural Rappahannock County, Va., where Hilscher's family lives, to the Washington Post. "She was a beautiful, smart, great kid.” It seems that Clark tried to intervene and was killed for his trouble.
Cho was gone by the time police arrived at the West Ambler Johnston residence. Officers told the nearly 900 resident students to stay in their rooms; they began questioning a mutual acquaintance of Hilscher and Clark and considered the incident essentially over.
‘Could He Be a School Shooter???'
Professor Roy told the New York Times she tutored Cho individually in the fall of 2005 after his writings and behavior had intimidated his classmates. During the sessions, she said, he wore sunglasses and a baseball cap pulled low on his forehead.
"He seemed to be crying behind his sunglasses," Roy told the newspaper.
She also said she had been so worried about tutoring Cho that she developed a plan with her assistant — if she mentioned the name of a dead professor, the assistant would know to call campus security.
The Web site The Smoking Gun on Tuesday posted a play Cho allegedly wrote last year. Entitled "Richard McBeef," the violent, possibly darkly comic one-act play concerns an argument between the title character and his 13-year-old stepson, who accuses him of murdering his father and of pedophilia.
The play seems sympathetic to the stepfather, who tries to defend himself in vain against his wife and stepson's accusations. It ends on an ambiguous note, with the stepfather swinging a "deadly blow" at the boy.
• Click here to read the play, which is short on character development but has plenty of foul language and violence.
"When we read Cho's plays, it was like something out of a nightmare," former classmate Ian MacFarlane, now an AOL employee, wrote in a blog posted on an AOL Web site. "The plays had really twisted, macabre violence that used weapons I wouldn't have even thought of."
He said he and other students "were talking to each other with serious worry about whether he could be a school shooter."
Poet Nikki Giovanni, one of his professors, told a cable news channel Wednesday that her students were so unnerved by Cho's behavior that she had security check on her room and eventually had him taken out of her class. Some students had stopped coming to class, saying Cho was taking photos of them with his cell phone, she said.
Giovanni told the Washington Post that after one instance when Cho recited his poetry in class, seven out of 70 students showed up for the next meeting.
She asked about the absences, and was told the other students were afraid of Cho.
"It was not bad poetry. It was intimidating," Giovanni said of his writing. "At first I thought, OK, he's trying to see what the parameters are. Kids curse and talk about a lot of different things. He stayed in that spot. I said, 'you can't do that.’ He said, 'Yes, I can.’ I said, 'No, not in my class.'"
"We always joked we were just waiting for him to do something, waiting to hear about something he did," said another classmate, Stephanie Derry. "But when I got the call it was Cho who had done this, I started crying, bawling."
Cho has not been tied to two campus bomb threats in the past three weeks, but a note detailing a third bomb threat was found near the bodies in Norris Hall. On Wednesday morning, yet another bomb threat had campus police evacuate Burrus Hall, another school building.
Mysterious Writings
Sources also told the Tribune about the strange inscription on one of Cho's arms — the words "ISMAIL AX" in red ink. The reference may be to the Biblical sacrifice of Abraham, in which God commands the patriarch to sacrifice his own son. Abraham begins to comply, but God intervenes at the last moment to save the boy.
In the Jewish and Christian traditions, the son is Isaac, father of the Jewish people; in Islam, it is his older half-brother, Ishmael, or Ishmael in Hebrew.
Abraham uses a knife in most versions of the story, but some accounts have him wielding an ax.
A more obscure reference may be to a passage in the Koran referring to Abraham's destruction of pagan idols; in some accounts, he uses an ax to do so.
THE BOTTOM LINE: No doubt Cho was mentally and socially unbalanced, there was however, obviously some connection to Islam. The extent of that connection may never be known, either because it is being covered up, or simply because the information will never be available for any number of reasons.
Reminiscent of the Columbine massacre, trying to understand why people go off the tracks is of little value in preventing this in the future. The truth is we will not prevent this in the future, some people have dysfunctional hearts, and some have lame limbs, some people’s brains fall short of that mysterious categorization of what is acceptable as functionally normal. No amount of trying to understand this will prevent this from reoccurring.
The only way to deal with this inevitability is to ask oneself and ones leaders, what are we going to do different the next time. In this case we did exactly the same thing as at Columbine, and guess what, we got the same result. I hope our society hasn’t become as insane as these mentally deranged maniacs. Since offence is not an option then a proper defence is an obvious alternative. While it may not totally prevent an incident or even prevent someone from being killed it will prevent an out of control situation such as we have had at Columbine, Virginia Tech and the Amish massacre. One Student or teacher with a gun could have reduced a 32 person bloody massacre to two or three, to say nothing of the eventual deterrent. There is a logical reason why this happens in a gun free zone, being mentally ill doesn't mean that one is necessarily stupid, there are no guns in a gun free zone to deter this kind of behavior.
There is a high probability that the only stupid ones, are those that enable this kind of tragedy, the passive anti-American anti self-defense crowd...
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