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Cho Seung-Hui, Rot in Hell
By JBC | April 17, 2007
The events of the 16th of April at Virginia Tech are heartbreaking and scary. More than 30 innocent young people were gunned down in a seemingly senseless horrific act. Unlike many other people on worldwide television, I can’t pretend to act as if I am as sorry as those families and friends who lost loved ones yesterday. I am shocked, but I can’t falsely claim that I feel their immense pain and anger. I can only join the chorus of people who wish it never happened.
While I am still in the dark about the reasons why the South Korean student, Cho Seung-Hui, decided to shoot so many people, I am disgusted with the news coverage from certain quarters, and comments from some foreign leaders.
Geraldo Rivera is a piece of trash. While this shouldn’t come as a shock to anyone who has followed this buffoon’s career over the last couple of decades (anybody remember Al Capone’s underground vault?”), he has never matured into a respectable reporter. Following a press conference at the university, a meeting in which they tried to give as much substantiated information as is possible in such turmoil, Geraldo found it necessary to deride these officials trying to sort out the details, by claiming that it was an “unsatisfactory press conference”, in which the parties failed to answer Geraldo and the other vultures’ most undignified questions. If this weren’t enough, he continued with his 3rd grade melodramatic vocabulary to describe the academic building as a “house of horrors”, the college community possessing a “gaping wound in the soul”, and the shooter as a “perverted madman”. Such hyperbole is rarely heard or read outside of tabloid newspapers, where Geraldo Rivera should be employed, if they are willing to lose some credibility.
Another maladroit is the United States Editor for the The Times of London. Gerard Baker has taken this tragic time in history to lead with the headline, “Only the Names Change. And the Numbers”, with the subhead, “The scale of the Virginia incident is, sadly, all that distinguishes it”. Nice. Mr. Baker continues with the thought that this will only remain our largest killing spree for a short period of time, optimistically adding in his loathing of America, “Surely in a year or two the news networks will be replaying the same footage from another college, with only the numbers different.” I guess he has something to live for. Looking down his imperial nose at America, he says, “But it won’t change America’s deep-rooted and sometimes lethal commitment to its own freedoms.” Yes, only an Englishman, whose ancestors tried to deprive citizens all over the world, and in their own backyard, many basic freedoms, could decry another nation’s commitment to freedom and a desire to protect themselves from foreign and domestic theft of liberty. William Wallace had the right idea.
It is bad enough that two dodgy semi-literate members of the unsuccessful international press corps are using this as a soap-box, but foreign heads of state? John Howard could not contain his giddy disposition as he offered condolences to America. He wanted to pat himself on the back for fighting the “gun culture” in his prison colony. Yes, I agree, Mr. Howard. The “gun culture” in South Korea is pretty bad. Did the kawalas and kangaroos vote for this moron?
Topics: Immigration, Crime and Punishment, Academia |
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