Posted on 04/17/2007 2:22:21 PM PDT by Coleus
I think most of his victims were in a single classroom, also. It was like shooting fish in a barrel; I don’t think any great skill was involved.
I wondered why he wasn’t kicked out of school after he set the dorm room on fire.
“Stories of heroism and ingenuity emerged Tuesday. Liviu Librescu, an Israeli engineering and math lecturer, was killed after he was said to have protected his students’ lives by blocking the doorway of his classroom from the gunman.”
It was reported on Fox Cable News that he had been in a Nazi concentration camp.
http://newsbloggers.aol.com/2007/04/17/cho-seung-huis-plays/
It's hard to believe an adult, a college student, wrote this garbage. It tells you much about our educational system that this guy was allowed to stay at Va Tech.
About the only “saving grace” ( and I am almost hesitant to use the term) to come from this whole sad, tragic episode, is that the perp successfully killed himself. We are at least spared our legal system run amok..the profiling..the psychobabble.. the attempts to get him declared insane..”his parents owned a dry cleaners..He worked there as a kid. Obviously the chemicals scrambled his brain. Sue Dow”....and of course, the banal statements that capital punishment is wrong..
Who was paying for this guy’s tuition, fees, and books, let alone his living expenses? I have been skimming all the material about him pretty fast and perhaps I just missed it.
He did attempt arson, didn't he? Why was he not charged with that? A student at my alma mater tried to set up a fire in dorm room and was charged with arson.
My step mom and step brother are Korean. My step brother was born here and is a great kid.
It never even occured to me to involve them in this in any way shape or form.
All I know is she takes great care of my Dad. And I love her and my step brother. They also love me.
If they are like the parents of many friends of mine, it would be hard to describe exactly how disappointing this loser must have been to them even before this final act of insanity.
Elementary, my dear Watson.
What about the dog that didn't bark?
What about the kids that didn't charge the killer in their midst? There are a lot of questions that I don't have the brainpower to even ask.
I don't see any evidence of anti-Catholicism, or any other coherent thought process. His plays are an eclectic mishmash of ideas picked up from mass media and trashy popular entertainment. His thought processes were extremely immature for someone of his age.
I don’t know the details of the arson cases, so I may well stand corrected on my previous post. Did the university actually investigate and determine that this jack@ss had deliberately set his dorm room on fire?
“He apparently had scrawled the words “ISMAIL AX” on the inside of one arm, according to the Chicago Tribune, which may be a reference to the Islamic account of the Biblical sacrifice of Abraham.”
From this site: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,266523,00.html
Ismail ax, or more correctly Ismail’s axe, (after all he was a failing English major), refers to a Koran passage. I gotta think that this guy was was on a jihad.
“News reports said that he may have been taking medication for depression”
Pay up....:)
I think that's just typical human psychology. Who wants to be the first one to get up and charge, and be a sure victim? Also, there was no time for the victims to communicate, to organize a resistance, as apparently there was with the airplane highjacked over Pa..
I was reading an account of the capture of John Wilkes Booth. He was cornered alone in a barn by some 26 Federal troops who certainly had a better chance than the students trapped in a classroom with this killer. However, because Booth was heavily armed, no one wanted to make a charge into the barn.
Two of his "plays" are posted on AOL (link here, along with comments of fellow student)
It is so easy to hope for a simple explantion, for if there is a simple explanation, ergo there must be a simple preventative.
It is sort of like the difference between a mental patient and a neurotic. You can just tell the mental patient is more then a little off and can't quite put your finger always on why. One thrives professionally and the other in an institution. But there is no doubt which one is which and this was true of his piece.
Maybe it is intuitive on my behalf. But the obscure "Honey Poo let's go do it doggy style like you like," rang sick, sick, non-writer play to me. It was too out of the blue even for the play. (It didn't feel like parody or anything like any other writer technique.) The chainsaw or whatever out of the blue by the mom in the play exceeded the obscurity of American Psycho (which I loved by the way.). At least groundwork was laid for the main character picking up a chain saw in AP, here an obscure side character who is not even raging picks it up. There we are again the thin line crossed. This all leads to no meaninfl resolution, just death.
Whacked, whacked, whacked. If I was a student and reading his work, combined with the personality type described I would go to admin. But you know what they say about hindsight. I think the admin failed miserably on many counts.
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