Posted on 04/18/2007 10:26:31 PM PDT by BlackVeil
Between his first and second bursts of gunfire, the Virginia Tech gunman mailed a package to NBC headquarters in New York containing photos of him brandishing guns, and video of him delivering an angry, profanity-laced tirade about rich kids and hedonism.
"You forced me into a corner and gave me only one option,'' 23-year-old Cho Seung-Hui, who killed himself after the shooting rampage on Monday, said in the video portion of the package that NBC received on Wednesday and turned over to the FBI.
"Do you know what it feels like to be humiliated and impaled upon the cross? Thanks to you I die like Jesus Christ, to inspire generations of the weak and the defenceless people,'' Cho said, adding that, "When the time came, I did it. I had to.''
He says in a harsh monotone: "You had a hundred billion chances and ways to have avoided today.
"But you decided to spill my blood. You forced me into a corner and gave me only one option. The decision was yours. Now you have blood on your hands that will never wash off.''
NBC said the package contained a 1,800-word diatribe and 29 photos, 11 of them showing him aiming handguns at the camera. Much of the rant is incoherent and filled with obscenities. He rails against Christianity and the rich.
"Your Mercedes wasn't enough, you brats,'' he says, apparently reading from a manifesto. "Your golden necklaces weren't enough you snobs. Your trust funds wasn't enough. Your vodka and cognac wasn't enough. All your debaucheries weren't enough. Those weren't enough to fulfill your hedonistic needs. You had everything.''
The package, which arrived at NBC television network two days after Cho killed 32 people and committed suicide in the deadliest one-man shooting rampage in modern US history, bore a Postal Service stamp showing that it had been mailed at a Virginia post office at 9.01am on Monday, about an hour and 45 minutes after Cho first opened fire.
That would explain one of the biggest mysteries about the massacre: Where the gunman was and what he did during that two-hour window between the first burst of gunfire at a high-rise dorm, and the second attack, at a classroom building?
Some of the pictures show him smiling. Some depict him brandishing two weapons at a time, one in each hand.
He wears a khaki-coloured military-style vest, fingerless gloves, a black T-shirt, a backpack and a backwards, black baseball cap. Another photo shows him swinging a hammer two-fisted. Another shows an angry-looking Cho holds a gun to his temple.
The package was sent by overnight delivery, but did not arrive at NBC until this morning. It had apparently been delayed because it had the wrong post code, NBC said.
An alert postal employee brought the package to NBC's attention after noticing the Blacksburg return address and a name similar to the words reportedly found scrawled in red ink on Cho's arm after the bloodbath, "Ismail Ax'', NBC said.
"I didn't have to do it. I could have left. I could have fled,'' he says. "But now I am no longer running. If not for me, for my children and my brothers and sisters that you (expletive). I did it for them.''
He also makes references to the Columbine High massacre and the teenage killers, according to NBC.
A coward with a god complex. I shall pray for his parents and sister.
Well, at least it settles the “Nut or Terrorist” debate. Score 1 for the nuts.
Damn, crazy Ba$Tard, Burn in hell.
Thank you for including them among the victims of this monster.
Well I guess it would a gargantuan understatement to say that he had no grasp on reality at all.
So sad for the dead, wounded and their families
So sad for him to, what a way to go before the Lord
He will spend eternity in regret.
How many more of these foreigners are time bombs ready to go off? I have a feeling our country is in trouble.
What a fruitcake.
-—A coward with a god complex. -—
He probably would have made a passable drunk, if he only drank.
The leftist and Democrat poster boy...
Brainwashed into “victimhood and always blame others” by the liberal mindset.
Clearly, the meds he was taking weren't working for him....
Nutters often think they are acting on divine orders.
Brainwashed into “victimhood and always blame others” by the liberal mindset.
Ahh, that's just good old fasioned Marxism. He was mad because his parents had to work for well-heeled business people. In the mean time his parents house is valued at 400K, not to mention thier business. He was a wack job six ways to sunday. No sense of self or others.
Jesus didn’t commit suicide.
And this creep had a deliberately anti-Christian rant. Odd that this would be the chosen headline by some editor.
I recall he did his schooling in the US since he was 8, and also had a green card.
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