Author: Trench Reynolds

Va. Tech Shooter Was Laughed At:

It was inevitable, wasn’t it?

Now the claims are being made that history’s most prolific coward was bullied.

Long before he snapped, Virginia Tech gunman Cho Seung-Hui was picked on, pushed around and laughed at over his shyness and the strange way he talked when he was a schoolboy in the Washington suburbs, former classmates say.

Chris Davids, a Virginia Tech senior who graduated from Westfield High School in Chantilly, Va., with Cho in 2003, recalled that the South Korean immigrant almost never opened his mouth and would ignore attempts to strike up a conversation.

Once, in English class, the teacher had the students read aloud, and when it was Cho’s turn, he just looked down in silence, Davids recalled. Finally, after the teacher threatened him with an F for participation, Cho started to read in a strange, deep voice that sounded “like he had something in his mouth,” Davids said.

“As soon as he started reading, the whole class started laughing and pointing and saying, `Go back to China,’” Davids said.

Stephanie Roberts, 22, a fellow member of Cho’s graduating class at Westfield High, said she never witnessed anyone picking on Cho in high school.

“I just remember he was a shy kid who didn’t really want to talk to anybody,” she said. “I guess a lot of people felt like maybe there was a language barrier.”

But she said friends of hers who went to middle school with Cho told her they recalled him getting picked on there.

“There were just some people who were really mean to him and they would push him down and laugh at him,” Roberts said Wednesday. “He didn’t speak English really well and they would really make fun of him.”

Three words for you. “Suck it up.” It ended 4 years ago. What a selfish, egomaniacal, self-centered, piece of crap. He’s also another mutant freak that bought into the Columbine bullying myth. He didn’t have the stones to stand up to his attackers, so he killed 31 innocent victims four freakin’ years later. When did we start raising a generation of emotional cripples who think the entire fucking universe revolves around them?

This cowardly scumbag, who by the way is rotting in hell, will no doubt receive unwarranted canonization from the vultures who will pick at his corpse to satisfy their inane agenda, whether it’s the anti-anti-depressant Luddites or the soccer moms whose kids are too weak to stand up for themselves.

Listen up good all you snot nose little punks who think they can identify with this coward. I lived through bullying. I had enough concussions and broken bones to show for it. You can get through school without having to resort to violence. Once high school is over, you never have to deal with that crap again. Or you can be a selfish little bitch. Your decision.

Thanks to Pat for the link.

Cho sent a manifesto of hate:

This is an article from the News and Observer in Raleigh about the tragedy at Virginia Tech. The thing I like about this article is that it draws the comparison between Cho and North Carolina’s own Alvaro Rafael Castillo, and how Cho was not the first school shooter to mail a manifesto.

However, what I really want to discuss is Cho’s obvious hatred for “the rich”. I get the feeling “the rich” are going to become the new “jocks”. Anyway, this is from Cho’s self-serving manifesto…

“Your Mercedes wasn’t enough, you brats,” he said. “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.”

Hold it right there, Junior. You attended Virginia Tech. You legally owned two handguns. You recorded yourself on a video camera. The files were transferred to QuickTime, which leads me to believe you owned some form of Mac.

None of those things are cheap. I hate to break it to you, Slapnuts, since I know you’re busy rotting in hell right now, but you were richer than a lot of people.

Personally, I think you were just a jealous bitch who wasn’t rich enough.

Professor recalls ‘mean streak’:

Please read the words of Virginia Tech professor Nikki Giovanni. Ms. Giovanni taught one of Cho’s writing classes. She’s not buying into the whole “troubled kid” crap.

“I knew when it happened that that’s probably who it was,” Giovanni said, referring to her former pupil. “I would have been shocked if it wasn’t.”

Cho’s poetry was so intimidating — and his behavior so menacing — that Giovanni had him removed from her class in the fall of 2005, she said. Giovanni said the final straw came when two of her students quit attending her poetry sessions because of Cho.

“I was trying to find out, what am I doing wrong here?” Giovanni recalled thinking, but the students later explained, “He’s taking photographs of us. We don’t know what he’s doing.”

Giovanni went to the department’s then-chairwoman, Lucinda Roy, and told her, “I was willing to resign before I was going to continue with him.” Roy took Cho out of Giovanni’s class.

“I know we’re talking about a troubled youngster and crap like that, but troubled youngsters get drunk and jump off buildings; troubled youngsters drink and drive,” Giovanni said. “I’ve taught troubled youngsters. I’ve taught crazy people. It was the meanness that bothered me. It was a really mean streak.”

No one should take pity on Cho Seung-Hui. He is not a victim. He was not “troubled”. He was nothing more than an insane, selfish, coward.

Cho’s Family Struggled in Korea:

This is an AP article about Cho Seung-Hui’s family life.

His parents immigrated to America when he was 8 for, lacking a better term, the American Dream.

They moved to the U.S. in order to have a better life. They worked in a dry cleaner’s while raising him in suburban D.C.

I hope to God they didn’t pay for his stay at Virginia Tech because he did a shitty job of paying them back.

Shooter was the ‘question mark kid’:

More former classmates of Cho Seung-Hui are describing him as a loner, but it sounds like it was by his own choice…

Classmates say that on the first day of a British literature class last year, students took turns introducing themsleves. When it was Cho Seung-Hui’s turn to speak, he said nothing.

The professor then looked at the sign-in sheet, and noticed that Cho had written a question mark instead of his name. The professor asked, “Is your name ‘Question mark?”‘ A classmate, Julie Poole, says Cho offered little response.

She says he then spent much of the class sitting in the back of the room, wearing a hat and seldom participating. Even though it was a small English department, she says, Cho remained anonymous, not reaching out to anyone, and not talking.

Unfortunately, for the victims at Virginia Tech, that question mark is now an exclamation point.

Here are some links from blogs that I read regularly about the tragedy at Virginia Tech…

Cho Seung-Hui is the New Face of Evil:

VT Images:

VIRGINIA TECH: The coming storm for immigrants:

Lamentations on Virginia Tech:

Heroism in the Midst of Tragedy:

Virginia Tech Rampage victims:

Virginia Tech Part II:

Seung Cho Was Total Loser:

The Mind Of A Monster:

Ismail Ax and the North Korean President:

Making sense of losses:

VA Tech Shooter’s Second Act:

If I left your blog out, please don’t be offended. Feel free to post links in the comments.