All the tell tale signs are there: 1. Simultaneous Exercise or drills( there were bomb threats on the campus 3 days before, lots of policemen on campus) 2. Perpetrator on Prozac( he was on anti depressants ) 3. Perpetrator comes in contact with Psychiatrist ( he was sent to mandatory Psych Assessment in 2005 dec) 4. media packet delivered in a convenient manner( like 9/11 passports out of the plane into the streets then someone hands it into the hand of FBI agent) 5. media packet has lots of visual media: The agenda is to terrorize the American populance to agree to more regulation ( Gun control , universal monitoring etc.) 6. He had a 60% fatality rate with handguns - that's unheard of given 9 millimeters don't kill people instantly. 7. he was allowed to perpetrate even though there was presence of police on campus till he terminated himself. 8. Parents and Family member work for the US military( Sister worked for a state dept contractor, worked as an intern for US embassey) 9. Vtech has been pulling out links to CIA and NASA funding and related research.
Vtech/Blacksburg was a hotbed for CIA activity
High School cho went to shares a compound with Northrupp Grumann's special research wing.
CIA has had documented evidence of carrying out Mind Control Experiiments: Projects: MKULTRA, bluebird They have done this before!
If you cant understand this post just ignore it dont report abuse it others have a right to see it.
The only motive of this attack is to ready the ppl for more gun control and terrorize US population.
Media is potraying him as a pyscho and calling him a loner since this a Korean who has done the killings... Y not potray him a Korean terrorist? Korean Terrorist!!!!
Seriously, does rediff even remotely value it's readers' opinions? Time and again, the readers have expressed displeasure about the strong US flavour in it's news. And yet today, 2.5 days after the Virginia Tech shootings, we still have 4 out of the 8 articles under the news tab covering it.
This is not the international section. The url is http://in.rediff.com/ Don't we have any Indian news worth reporting? To be pragmatic, I concede that whether we like it or not, USA is the most dominant country in the world. However, that would carry it's weight on issues of Geo-politics, security, trade, etc. Why is a domestic incident given this much coverage in India?
But, alas we as a nation never got out of fascination for all things foreign. That's why we hailed Kalapana Chawla as an Indian achievement. [Never minding the fact that she has been an US citizen for 13 years when she made her journey into outer space.]
That's why the Tamil Nadu government sponsors flight tickets to the family of Prof. G V Loganathan's. No offence to him (May he rest in peace!) but the guy is, again, an US citizen and wanted his body to be buried in that country. Would the TN government expedite visa's and sponsor tickets for the family of any (God forbid!) Indian who may lose his life in Iraq/Sudan/Russia?
All of these points have been made multiple times in the comments, I would love to hear rediff's reply to these. Why the fascination for all things US?
Note: While there's cause for these questions, I do appreciate the fact that rediff does allow reader participation through these discussion boards.
RE:Does Rediff follow the 'Discussion Board'?
by Nihilist Anand on Apr 19, 2007 07:18 PM Permalink
Because there were Indians as well who got killed in this massacre.What do you want them to report a stupid wedding taking place in Mumbai!~
RE:Does Rediff follow the 'Discussion Board'?
by Dipanjan Ray on Apr 20, 2007 12:08 AM Permalink
Anand there are more people getting killed or dying in India everyday. There are people dying in villages for lack of food. Rediff never covers these news. I don't understand why rediff always prefers licking the feet of white people. Rediff should show more responsibility towards India rather than showing the same toward USA. Practically speaking, people in US never care what Rediff writes about incidents in their country, they have much better media to cover this.
RE:Does Rediff follow the 'Discussion Board'?
by Arunan Bushnam on Apr 20, 2007 04:48 AM Permalink
It's not that rediff should not cover it. The point made is 17 articles for a domestic incident in USA where 1 Indian (Minal) and an Indian born American (Prof. Loganathan) died, shows an US bias.
For example, when 3 Indian pilgrims were killed in the Iraq conflict on Sep 3, 2006: Rediff had a single news article (that too from PTI). Why did the VTech shooting receive more coverage than this?
And let's face it. Rediff and any other media company goes after the eyeballs. So rediff would cover the celebrity wedding, because thousands more more people are interested in that than any killings. The question is about the US bias. Whether Rediff thinks an Indian life lost in USA is deemed more worthy than an Indian life lost elsewhere?
My condolences to the families of Minal, Prof. Loganathan, Jaffer Mashadi, M Beigh and Mohammad Ahmad Ali. And my apologies for having used their deaths to make a point.
RE:Does Rediff follow the 'Discussion Board'?
by Ravi Kumar on Apr 19, 2007 09:41 PM Permalink
Anand, you are right about the Indian angle.
Having said that, a marriage, no matter who the people involved, is good news and a pleasing event rather than a killer on rampage. If only for that reason, it is more newsworthy than the gory, horrific events at Virginia, don't you think?
now that this korean has gone on a shooting spree, the media is playing the role of pyschologist and calling him a loner blah blah as if it was expected that he will do this.
but if you have watched matrix "Beneath our poised appearance we are completely out of control" ....so there...anybody could have done it. generally everybody bottles up frustration and one spark can set it off
RE:media hyping up things!
by Rushabh Buch on Apr 19, 2007 11:20 AM Permalink
Chetan,
Really nice to mentioned 'Matrix'. Matrix is the movie that also inspired school shooting before 2 years...And to discussed on such profound movie Reddiff is not enough !!
RE:media hyping up things!
by Richard Branson on Apr 21, 2007 12:15 AM Permalink
He spoke quite eloquently in his video. neither was he shy nor had any problem with his accent or english
RE:media hyping up things!
by xq see on Apr 19, 2007 10:58 AM Permalink
hei buddy, take care. and if u feel anything, seek help immediately. as i know, something comes out on surface since it is out of control. and i can see it coming out here.
All, When our own people (Kashmiri Pundits) being masaccared by terrorists and more than 100 die in homicides,murders in our great country no one is bothered, but why people(we Indians) are so worried about the Korean and his act. Our great proffessor went to USA to develop Americans, and he is a USA citizen... When Americans and rest of world are not worried about terrorists killings in India and even our own people are not worried about happenings in India , then there is no point in thinking or discussing about happenings in USA. I wish all Indians to be more sympathetic towards people affected by terrorists in India rather than towards America....
RE:Think about India too
by coolmay on Apr 19, 2007 11:55 AM Permalink
agreed...why are we bothered so much for those ppl....we should be bothered for our won ppl..whom we dun give a damn...hundereds of our ppl hav died bcoz of terrorism, hundreds of women hav been raped, hundreds of inhuman crimes but sadly we turn a cold shoulder for these things happening in our own homeland, or country....sad, but its true that we are bigger hypocrites than those Americans, whom we are not tired of calling hypocrites.
RE:Think about India too
by Dipanjan Ray on Apr 20, 2007 12:23 AM Permalink
I absolutely agree with you. We actually are the hypocrites. We always turn a deaf ear to the massacres happening in our own country and put forward an ever listening ear towards any damn thing happening in USA. Actually, we all have the bloody habit of thinking USA as land of dollar and luxury, and the aspiration to reach here by hook or by crook and that is why we get shaken by anything that happens in this country. Harshuk was right saying that the professor who got killed was a US citizen and was developing Americans and not Indians. So we should definitely mourn his death but thats it, nothing more he deserves from Indians. We must get rid off this slavery habit and focus on the greatness of our India and dream about making our coutry a developed one from a developing one.
I know my comments are going to cause outrage amongst Rediff readers staying in USA thinking that I am writing these just out of jealousy that I wasn't a issued a US visa etc etc. To clear out those doubts, I also stay in US in Texas but I give a damn to whatever bull shit happens here, rather I tend to read every minute event occuring in my India.
Just anyone will agree with the fact that the Korean students in the US (and for that matter most far-east Asian students) tend to become loners due to their inability to converse freely in English. Not to forget the strong regional values which are not in sync with western value system. I think a little amount of understanding for these people and appreciation of their background by the westerners would go a long way in reducing such kind of outbursts.
RE:cho's character
by Taxpayer on Apr 19, 2007 09:08 AM Permalink
Your reasoning does not have any logic , The killer is doing a majors in English (that's what the media say) . So can he be not proficient in English
I read the entire article and have a great sense of feel that - this act of violence, murder of future generation was avoidable.
Cho had shown pshycic imbalance thru his writings, behaviour. He should have been put thru - councelling or advanced techniques of gaining back his sense for the fellow human beings. I believe every organization should keep a vigil over those who behave abnormal and help them to overcome the bad phase of life they are thru. It he overcomes, and who doesnt know - trying that save a band of 33 innocent lifes! condolences to all the families and friends of those who deceased yesterday.
i think its not writing only its his psycology which was different he was in some kind of depression and we need to extract that out of the findings so that in future no such incident happens. if writing only is wrong then we have to arrest all those writers and also directors who make movie on some violent note so its never writing its something which was invoking him to write that so find that reason and stop the things in future please stop the killings
Oye..Defenders of mera bharat Mahan..... Haven't you heard of kidnappings and killings in Indian colleges during college elections? Where do they get the guns / knives from? Do you blame the gun / knife seller? He who presses the trigger is the criminal not the seller! Common sense.
Do you remember the Madrid bombings in 2004? The terrorists had used mobile phones to detonate, and the mobile phones were bought in an Indian shop in Spain. Who is the criminal? One who sold the mobile phone or one who used it to explode the bomb?
RE:Re: why ignore the gun seller
by navdeep singh on Apr 19, 2007 05:19 AM Permalink
i agree to your point but here the issue is that government should take some steps to avoid students taking gun to the college or revise the licensing process so that students dont have gun thats the point to discuss here not to blame anyone its time for the world to unite and tell that gun is to kill whether on the name of safety or whether on the name of crime.
RE:Re: why ignore the gun seller
by Alok Chakraborty on Apr 19, 2007 06:45 AM Permalink
I buy the point that there should be enforcement of even more stricter regulations. However, just some food for thoughts..the crime rate is almost zero in the area where this heinous crime took place (not to mention that in US the crime rate is far below than in India). Don't you think that easy access to owning guns for the common man has got something to do with it??
