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Tag: Cho Seung-Hui

  • Yeah…that’s the ticket

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    Those who knew gunman return to classes:

    Not only was Cho Seung-Hui an anti-social, selfish, cowardly, loser he was also delusional, or a pathological liar.

    Koch remembers taking Cho out to some parties at the start of the fall semester in 2005. He introduced Cho to friends, but the sullen roommate didn’t say much. At one party, Cho did get tipsy enough that he opened up and began talking about his virtual love life.

    He said he had an imaginary girlfriend named Jelly, and that she was “a supermodel that lived in space.” Jelly had a nickname for Cho — Spanky.

    Once, Koch knocked on Cho’s door looking for his roommate, John. The door was locked, and Seung wouldn’t open it up.

    “I’m in here with my girlfriend and we’re making out,” he said.

    “Who says that kind of stuff?” the junior from Richmond asked.

    A couple months later during Thanksgiving break, Koch’s phone rang. It was Cho.

    “I didn’t know why he called, and I was like ‘What’s up.’ He goes, ‘I’m vacationing with Vladimir Putin. I was like, ‘Really? I think he lives in Russia.’ He’s like, ‘Yeah, we’re in North Carolina.’ I’m like, ‘I’m pretty sure that’s not possible Seung.”‘

    I think we all know a guy like this. Someone who tries too hard and ends up pushing people further away from him.

    Cho didn’t hate the so-called rich kids. He wanted to be one so bad it hurt. And when they didn’t accept him his stalker mentality kicked in. If they won’t be friends with me they won’t be friends with anyone.

    Not everyone has to accept you as a friend. That’s the way the real world works.

  • Cho: The Unoriginal Loser

    SICK HOMAGES FROM A STUDENT OF PSYCHOS:

    I love the New York Post when it comes to crime coverage. They pull no punches. This article is about how Cho Seung-Hui didn’t have an original idea in his head.

    Virginia Tech killer Cho Seung-Hui plagiarized other school-shooting psychos in a twisted show of one-upmanship.

    He used the Internet to research and learn from infamous school killers, including Columbine HS’s Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, Duane Morrison of Bailey, Colo., and Kimveer Gill of Montreal, experts said.

    In photos he sent to NBC News, Cho is seen wearing a black baseball cap backward, just as Harris wore in published images.

    In others, Cho strikes poses disturbingly similar to those of Gill – who posted photos of himself online before his rampage last September at Montreal’s Dawson College that killed one student and injured a dozen.

    The only thing he outdid his scumbag heroes on was his level of cowardice.

  • Dave Cullen on Cho

    Was Cho Seung-Hui really like the Columbine killers?:

    Dave Cullen, who wrote the definitive article about Columbine, is back. This time he’s writing about the Virginia Tech gunman Cho Seung-Hui and analyzing the comparison between Cho and the Columbine killers. The article does not disappoint.

    I’m not even going to post any quotes of the article because it’s way too good for that. The article must be read in its entirety.

  • The Mutant Report

    To some online, gunman is a hero, martyr:

    We have an article here from the Detroit Press about people who idolize school shooters. Apparently, it was written by Captain Where The Hell Have You Been For The Past 8 Years.

    In the videotapes Cho Seung-Hui sent to NBC in the midst of the Virginia Tech massacre, he spoke of his children, brothers and sisters and compared himself to Jesus.

    Many may shrug off such rantings as those of a deranged killer.

    But not everyone.

    “Cho Seung-hui, we fringed ones salute you,” reads one Web site that praises the bloodshed just days after the country recoiled at the deadliest shooting spree in U.S. history.

    Rowell Huesmann, a professor of psychology and communication studies at the University of Michigan, called such sentiments “disgusting.”

    But, he added, there’s a reason for them.

    “There are disaffected people who are alienated, for one reason or another, from society who wouldn’t do anything physically violent,” he said. “But writing these gives them a chance to be aggressive to society in a way that’s fairly non-risky.”

    He says non-risky, I say cowardly. Get back to me when one of you mutants has the balls to say this to a family member of one of the victims. Then again that would require you to leave your mom’s basement.

    If Cho wanted notoriety as a martyr for the disenfranchised, history indicates he’ll get it.

    That’s what happened with Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, students at Columbine High School in Colorado who shot to death 12 classmates and a teacher before turning their guns on themselves eight years ago today.

    And locally, it happened with Andrew Osantowski of Clinton Township in 2004. The then-17-year-old was accused of stockpiling an arsenal to gun down classmates and blow up his school, Chippewa Valley High in Clinton Township. His plan was thwarted after he shared it in an Internet chat with a teen in Washington state, who told her father. He, in turn, called Clinton Township police.

    Online, Osantowski was praised.

    “I, for one, salute Mr. Osantowski,” a Web site posting read at the time. Osantowski, who was convicted of threatening an act of terrorism and using a computer to threaten terrorism, was sentenced to 4 1/2 to 22 years in prison.

    I wonder which site that was. Oh yeah. It was this one. What the article fails to mention is that the person who made that comment has since recanted his opinion of Andrew Osantowski.

    But hey, if it opens the eyes of some parents who have at-risk kids hopefully it will avoid another Columbine or Virginia Tech.

  • Victim’s family wants story to be heard

    Virginia Tech victim’s loved ones fight to tell his story:

    The friends and family of Virginia Tech student and victim of the tragedy Jeremy Herbstritt want his story to be heard. So copyright laws be damned I’m posting the whole article to help his story be known.

    (CNN) — Schoolmates and relatives painted a portrait of Virginia Tech victim Jeremy Herbstritt as a friendly, talkative and passionate man, in stark contrast to his killer Cho Seung-Hui, the deeply troubled and quiet loner.

    Their very different lives collided Monday when Cho targeted a classroom building where Jeremy and so many others were following their dreams. Cho shot and killed Herbstritt, police said, along with at least 29 others before taking his own life.

    Images of the armed Cho, wearing black gloves and dressed in a khaki vest have been burned on the public consciousness, as has his screed of hateful words targeting the wealthy and privileged. (Watch Jeremy’s parents and a friend remember how “he had a good heart” Video)

    Jeremy’s loved ones are fighting to replace those images with thoughts of their son and other victims of the massacre, by publicly celebrating his legacy.

    “The rest of our life is going to be to celebrate his life, to say what he did good,” said Jeremy’s father, Mike, while fighting back tears. “Jeremy was a good boy, a good man, and we’re going to love him forever.” (Read a brief profile of Jeremy)

    Cho’s hateful video message he sent to NBC on the day of the killing targeted people who had “everything” they wanted.

    Jeremy’s schoolmates offered a very different message of hope from their fallen colleague.

    “That message is, ‘be passionate, and be passionate about something,’” said Ken Stanton, a friend who lived in the same building as Jeremy. “We may have lost him, but I’ll tell you what, his spirit is certainly with us.”

    Another schoolmate, Gaurav Bansal, said Jeremy “always had uplifting things to say.”

    They both appeared disgusted by Cho’s video they’d seen plastered across the news media. (Watch disturbing video of the gunman talking about his motives Video)

    “It’s a really sensitive topic, and I’d really rather not get into it,” said Stanton. “We want to talk about Jeremy.” (Read more about how some have been disgusted by Cho’s video)

    Friends said the 27-year-old civil engineering graduate student never had a bad thing to say about anyone.

    But he did have many words to say. Friends and parents described him as talkative. “Jeremy had a lot of energy,” said his mother Peggy Herbstritt.

    “From the time he was born and even through graduate school, I don’t think he slept more than a couple of hours a day. He loved life.”

    His father said Jeremy was a hiker and a biker and ran in marathons. He worked as a teaching assistant while pursuing his interest in helping the environment.

    Students looked forward to class when they knew Jeremy would be there to teach, his father said.

    Jeremy also worked in a program to search for mosquitoes carrying the dangerous West Nile Virus.

    “If anybody ever asked Jeremy for some help,” said his father, “Jeremy was there to help them.”

    So much potential good in the world was prematurely snuffed out by the ultimate cowardly act.

  • Jack Thompson takes on Bill Gates

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    According to Counter-Strike Nation, the Washington Post had the following paragraph in this article but subsequently retracted it about the Virginia Tech shooter…

    Several Korean youths who knew Cho Seung Hui from his high school days said he was a fan of violent video games, particularly Counterstrike[sic], a hugely popular online game, in which players join terrorism or counterterrorism[sic] groups and try to shoot each other using all types of guns.

    Now since a video game site found this before the Post pulled it you know the evil one has seen this. Lo and behold he’s sent a letter to Bill Gates, head cheese of Microsoft who don’t even make Counter-Strike…

    April 18, 2007

    Bill Gates

    Microsoft

    1 Microsoft Way
    Redmond, WA 98052 Via Fax and e-mail

    Dear Mr. Gates:

    On Monday, April 16, at 3:10 pm, I was a guest, as I often have been in the past, on the Fox News Channel. News anchor Bill Hemmer asked me to profile the Virginia Tech rampage killer. I did so, noting that until that day the worst school massacre in world history was at the hands of Robert Steinhaeuser, who literally trained on the Microsoft on-line, hyper-violent shooter game, Counterstrike. I mentioned your company’s game by name. I explained that the rehearsal for such a massacre is key to being able to pull it off, as efficiently as Cho, whose name we didn’t even know at the time. Cho and Steinhaeuser were able to do what they did the first time because it was not the first time. This is why the military uses this same virtual reality simulation to train soldiers to want to kill and how to kill calmly, as the witnesses of Cho said he did.

    Sure enough, last night I was doing a west coast radio interview when the host said to me, “Mr. Thompson, you are right. The Washington Post is reporting right now the following:

    ‘Several Korean youths who knew Cho Seung Hui from his high school days said he was a fan of violent video games, particularly Counterstrike, a hugely popular online game published by Microsoft, in which players join terrorism or counterterrorism groups and try to shoot each other using all types of guns.’

    I thus went back on the Fox News Channel, and Bill Hemmer and I explained not only that I was right about your game figuring in the Virginia Tech massacre but also that the Washington Post excised the above excerpt from the story this morning. That is yet another story. The bad news for the Post however is that you can still get the excised excerpt at http://www.washingtonpost.com/…AR2007041700563_3.html?hpid=topnews. Thus, the cat is out of the bag, and his paw prints are still on the bag. Is this a great Internet, or what?

    As you know, I similalry [sic] went on NBC’s Today Show with the DC Beltway Sniper still unidentified and at-large a few years ago and told Matt Lauer and the nation that the triggerman would most likely be a teen video gamer trained on a sniper video game. The tarot card was a clue, but there were other clues. I was right, as Malvo trained on your Microsoft game, Halo. NBC reported that three months later, and it was part of the criminal trial of Malvo.

    Mr. Gates, your company is potentially legally liable the harm done at Virginia Tech. Your game, a killing simulator, according to the news that used to be in the Post, trained him to enjoy killing and how to kill. You knew five years ago that your on-line game, Counterstrike, so clearly figured in the massacre by a student in Erfurt that the event and the game impacted the race for Chancellor in Germany at the time!

    Yet, here you are, five years after “Erfurt,” still marketing Counterstrike. having done nothing to disable the server(s) for this mass murder simulator, and it looks like “Virginia Tech” is a consequence. There’s more going on in the world than Vista. Just ask the bereaved Virginia Tech families.

    Mr. Gates, pull the plug on Counterstrike today, or do we need more dead to convince you? “Virginia Tech” was the 9-11 of school shootings, and it appears Microsoft is in the middle of it, in more ways than one.

    Regards, Jack Thompson

    Wow, he changed it up this time. He used killing simulator instead of murder simulator. But as usual Mr. Thompson is off his rocker. I’m not going to go into the thousand ways that he’s wrong. I would hope that our readers are smart enough to figure that out for themselves. I just wanted to display this to show why I consider Jack Thompson the reigning King of All Assclowns.

  • Cho may have been bullied. Boo hoo.

    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 mom’s 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.

  • The root of all evil

    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 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.

  • Cho wasn’t troubled. He was just mean

    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.

  • It’s official: Cho is a mutant

    I just finished watching the NBC Nightly News. It’s the first time I’ve watched a TV newscast in a very long time. Brian Williams was discussing the “manifesto” that Cho Seung-Hui sent to NBC. In it, he refers to the Columbine killers, Eric Harris, and Dylan Klebold, by name calling them martyrs. So he’s nothing more than a mutant copying the actions of two cowardly scumbags.

    The flames of hell burn a little more yellow tonight with the addition of another coward.