Virginia Tech Gunman's Mind and the Causes Led to the Shooting on April 16, 2007

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Virginia Tech Gunman’s Mind and the Causes Led to the Shooting

[FONT=&quot]By Mariette Do-Nguyen[/FONT]​

Author of the series entitled Mysteries of God Revealed to Man​

http://www.wdcic.org​

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I watched various television broadcasts of interviews of Cho Seung-Hiu’s dorm suitemate, an English teacher, a former schoolmate, and information regarding the fact that Cho Seung-Hiu was stalking two females, he had been involved with law enforcement officials and the court, and I saw the videotape that Cho Seung-Hiu recorded and sent (?) to NBC before he shot 32 students to death, and wounded dozens of other students prior to turning his gun on himself at the Virginia Tech campus.

Mr. Cho’s expressions and words were full of anger and hatred toward people since childhood not only from recent events. He expressed his extreme anger and hatred on April 16, 2007, because of the accumulation of actions of people around him, especially those who dealt with his action of stalking two females. His behavior regarding stalking of two females led these two females reported Mr. Cho to law enforcement officials, mental illness counselors, for court procedures, and court orders were issued. These things were overwhelming for his soul and his spirit (the supernatural power that is generated by his soul). He had eaten extremely bad spiritual food that had exposed his mind to the most dangerous mental illness. He wanted to get revenge for people mistreating him throughout his life, so he carried out the shooting on the Virginia Tech Campus.

Cho Seung-Hiu already embraced an evil spirit within his soul during his childhood, and this caused him to be involved in a lot of evil activities, such as he was stalking the two females on the school campus. The result of Cho Seung-Hiu stalking these two females led to his anger and hatred of these two females, law enforcement officials, and judicial systems, as well as extremely embarrassment with his immediate family members, mental doctor(s), and the public through the court documents. Cho Sung-Hiu’s mind was constantly in a very strong battle with these issues to the level of gaining revenge against those who had badly hurt him, including rich people, because with him the society of the rich and authorities would always use their power against him, and against others who are similar to him. This was revealed in his words on the videotape, when he referred to the Columbine shooting and Jesus hanging on the cross.

Jesus hung on the cross and two gunmen at Columbine High School can be interpreted in two ways: Jesus died because of his love and salvation for the human race, and the two Columbine High School gunmen died because of hatred and gain revenge of those that had been bullying them. Obviously, Cho Seung-Hiu’s mind was full of anger and hatred. He chose the same road that the two gunmen at Columbine High School chose, the road of massacre for revenge.

[FONT=&quot]Cho Seung-Hiu’s mind was full of anger and hatred, exactly like Tim McVeigh, Al-Qaeda, Jihad insurgents, and other terrorist groups. The difference between them is working individually or in variously sized groups. The minds of Cho Seung-Hiu, other individuals, and members of small groups are exactly the same as minds all over the United States of America! Majority of people have these symptoms are live in denial of early signs and symptoms of getting easily angered and showing mild hatred toward others. Even until they reached high level of angered and hatred they still live in denial. [/FONT]
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The Virginia Tech English teacher detecting Cho Seung-Hiu’s hatred through his writings was critical, but now it is too late! Freedom of speech is protected through the First Amendment of the United States Constitution, and the United States Supreme Court has banned prayer in public places, and it has upheld separation between religion and state without understanding that people pray to God, not to any particular religion. God and religion have two different identities. Religion resides in the natural realm and the Spirit of God resides in the spiritual realm. While the minds of mental illness resides in the spiritual realm with the devil’s spirit. The invisible spiritual realm is full of the supernatural power of good and evil, and this realm is ruling everything. With carnal eyes only can seen after manifested in natural realm, such as behavior, words, writings, and radical violence actions.
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[FONT=&quot]Medicine and therapy alone without spiritual Divine intervention will never remove anger and hatred out of human souls, because the anger and hatred is supernatural power and continually generates from individual souls. It builds up and gets stronger, and then the person acts foolishly like Tim McVeigh, the two gunmen at Columbine High School, Virginia Tech’s gunman, and terrorists and insurgents. [/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Limiting or preventing school shooting is not an easy task! It is harder than limiting or preventing terrorist attacks, because anger and hatred reside in the spiritual realm. To limit or fully remove anger and hatred from human minds, people must depend on daily self-deliverance through the Almighty Eternal God’s special power. For people who frequently and easily get angry and hold on to hatred (whether right or wrong) for longer than a day or two, these people must receive at least one session of exorcism from a spiritual minister who fully complies with all God’s commandments. (Note: exorcism is a ritual to remove the devil’s cord out of human soul; therefore, an individual acts as God’s instrument to remove the cord of hatred [the devil’s spirit] out of an individual. The individual performing exorcism must fully follow God’s instructions in his daily life.) The central necessity for removing evil supernatural power from any individual depends on the Almighty Eternal God’s power, because God is the only one that has authority over the devil, and the devil must obey God. The devil does not have to obey doctors, judicial officials, medicines, spiritual and government leaders, or law-enforcement officials.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]The road to limiting or preventing school shootings, terrorist attacks, and all other kinds of violence must begin with amending the United States Constitution’s First Amendment protection of freedom of speech and the press. It must be amended to freedom of speech and press that leads to good results. Use of words that lead to the result of hatred and violence must be banned. Legislators must make corrections to certain Federal laws, and government officials and spiritual leaders and ministers must put these laws into their daily practice. Law enforcement officials, school faculty members, government and private executive officers and workers, medical field researchers and practitioners, as well as each individual family, and then students from grade schools through universities must live by new laws with regard to behavior and freedom of speech. This change will lead to preventing school shootings and terrorist attacks in America and beyond America as well.[/FONT]

 

[Jaymes]

While I don't have much of a thought on the rest of the stuff...

"and the United States Supreme Court has banned prayer in public places"

What? That's bull.

 

[Runlikethewind]

[FONT=&quot]The road to limiting or preventing school shootings, terrorist attacks, and all other kinds of violence must begin with amending the United States Constitution’s First Amendment protection of freedom of speech and the press. It must be amended to freedom of speech and press that leads to good results. Use of words that lead to the result of hatred and violence must be banned.[/FONT]

I do NOT agree with this and I do not like where it could lead. Who would be the judge of what speak could lead to hatred and violence? I am certain that someone could make a good case that half of the Bible is hate speech (I don't necessarily agree but a case could be made). Who would be the judge of what could lead to hate and violence? The first amendment was designed to protect kinds of speech that could be very unpopular. I could say that pro choice speech leads to abortion clinic bombings and so no more pro-choice speech then someone turns around and says Catholic teachings on homosexuality lead to violence against gays so thats gone too. before you know it nobody can say anything. And how would you police such a thing? Microphones in peoples homes? Big brother is watching you? No way would I support this type of thing.

 

[logician]

To stop massacres in public buildings, you must not allow an armed crazy person to gain access to a building full of unarmed people.

This can be done 2 ways.

1. Allow trained teachers, staff, and security personnel to carry weapons.

2. Have metal detectors and armed guards at the doors.

IF one or both of these are not done, we will have more massacres.

 

[greatcalgarian]

I do not think his problem has anything to do with spirituality.

The repeating use of using the word stalking of two women to illustrate the author view that this is the cause of his mental breakdown is simply looking at the wrong cause of his problem. If the action he has done was done by an average white male, would the two female students have reported the incidents? Even if reported, would the authority have taken the same action that they have taken in his case?
When prejudice is the part of the cause, probably the main cause of the problem, and if the society involved close their mind and eyes and refuse to face that fact, the problem will not go away and will become worse.
Go ahead and blame it on the Islam (also the atheist?), go ahead and blame it on the terrorists, if you do not search your own soul, search your own society which has gone on the wrong path, you will not be able to resolve anything.

 

[greatcalgarian]

Okay, this is another view that I think is fair to counter the first one:
http://mostlywater.org/what_may_come_asian_americans_and_the_virginia_tech_shootings

Like many, I was glued to the television news yesterday, keeping updated about the horrific shootings at Virginia Tech University. I was trying to deal with my own disgust and sadness, especially since my professional life as a graduate student and college instructor is tied to universities. And then the other shoe dropped. I found out from a friend that the news channel she was watching had reported the shooter as Asian. It has now been reported, after much confusion, that the shooter is Cho Seung-Hui, a South Korean immigrant and Virginia Tech student.

As an Asian American woman, I am keenly aware that Asians are about to become a popular media topic if not the victims of physical backlash. Rarely have we gotten as much attention in the past ten years, except, perhaps, during the 1992 Los Angeles Riots. Since then Asians are seldom seen in the media except when one of us wins a golfing match, Woody Allen has sex, or Angelina Jolie adopts a kid.

I am not looking forward to the onslaught of media attention. If history truly does have clues about what will come, there may be several different ways we as Asian Americans will be talked about.

One, we will watch white media pundits and perhaps even sociologists explain what they understand as an “Asian” way of being. They will talk about how Asian males presumably have fragile “egos” and therefore are culturally prone to engage in kamikaze style violence. These statements will be embedded with racist tropes about Japanese military fighters during WWII or the Viet Cong—the crazy, calculating, and hidden Asian man who will fight to the death over presumably nothing.

In the process, the white media might actually ask Asian Americans our perspectives for a change. We will probably be expected to apologize in some way for the behavior of another Asian—something whites never have to collectively do when one of theirs engages in (mass) violence, which is often. And then some of us might succumb to the Orientalist logic of the media by eagerly promoting Asian Americans as real Americans and therefore unlike Asians overseas who presumably engage in culturally reprehensible behavior. In other words, if we get to talk at all, Asian Americans will be expected to interpret, explain, and distance themselves from other Asians just to get airtime.

Or perhaps the media will take the color-blind approach instead of a strictly eugenic one. The media might try to whitewash the situation and treat Cho as just another alienated middle-class suburban kid. In some ways this is already happening—hence the constant referrals to the proximity of the shootings to the 8th anniversary of the Columbine killings. The media will repeat over and over words from a letter that Cho left behind speaking of “rich kids,” and "deceitful charlatans." They will ask what’s going on in middle-class communities that encourage this type of violence. In the process they may never talk about the dirty little secret about middle-class assimilation: for non-whites, it does not always prevent racial alienation, rage, or depression. This may be surprising given that we are bombarded with constant images suggesting that racial harmony will exist once we are all middle-class. But for many of us who have achieved middle-class life, even if we may not openly admit it, alienation does not stop if you are not white.

But the white media, being as tricky as it is, may probably talk about Cho in ways that reflect a combination of both traditional eugenic and colorblind approaches. They will emphasize Cho’s ethnicity and economic background by wondering what would set off a hard-working, quiet, South Korean immigrant from a middle-class dry-cleaner-owning family. They will wonder why Cho would commit such acts of violence, which we expect from Middle Easterners and Muslims and those crazy Asians from overseas, but not from hard-working South Korean immigrants. They will promote Cho as “the model minority” who suddenly, for no reason, went crazy. Whereas eugenic approaches depicting Asians as crazy kamikazes or Viet Cong mercenaries emphasize Asian violence, the eugenic aspect of the model minority myth suggests that there is something about Asian Americans that makes them less prone to expressions of anger, rage, violence, or criminality. Indeed, we are not even seen as having legitimate reasons to have anger, let alone rage, hence the need to figure out what made this “quiet” student “snap.”

Given that the model minority myth is a white racist invention that elevates Asians over minority groups, Cho will be dissected as an anomaly among South Koreans who “are not prone” to violence—unlike Blacks who are racistly viewed as inherently violent or South Asians, Middle Easterners and Muslims who are viewed as potential terrorists. He will be talked about as acting “out of character” from the other “good South Koreans” who come here and quietly and dutifully work towards the American dream. Operating behind the scenes of course is a diplomatic relationship between the US and South Korea forged through bombs and military zones during the Korean War and expressed through the new free trade agreement negotiations between the countries. Indeed, even as South Korean diplomats express concern about racial backlash against Asians, they are quick to disown Cho in order to maintain the image of the respectable South Korean.

Whatever happens, Cho will become whoever the white media wants him to be and for whatever political platform it and legislators want to push. In the process, Asian Americans will, like other non-whites, be picked apart, dissected, and theorized by whites. As such, this is no different than any other day for Asian Americans. Only this time an Asian face will be on every television screen, internet search engine, and newspaper.

Tamara K. Nopper is an educator, writer, and activist living in Philadelphia.

 

[greatcalgarian]

"The Worst Shooting Rampage in American History?": A Native Perspective on Virginia Tech
Submitted by blackandred on Fri, 2007-04-27 08:07. United States | Indigenous | Terrorism | History
A Native Perspective on Virginia Tech Headlines

by Kat Teraji; April 26, 2007 - Znet
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=30&Ite...

Bury my heart at Wounded Knee, Deep in the Earth, Cover me with pretty lies - bury my heart at Wounded Knee. Didn't we learn to crawl, and still our history gets written in a liar's scrawl. They tell 'ya "Honey, you can still be an Indian d-d-down at the 'Y' on Saturday nights."

- lyrics to "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee," written by Buffy St. Marie

"The worst shooting rampage in American history." "Massacre and Mourning, 33 die in worst shooting in U.S. History," and "Rampage called worst mass shooting in U.S. history." "What first appeared to be a single shooting death unfolded into the worst gun massacre in the nation's history." You've seen and heard these headlines and reports all week as the media provided non-stop coverage of the tragic shooting of 33 people at Virginia Tech University on Monday.

"The worst in U.S. history." Really? It is certainly the worst shooting on a college campus in modern U.S. history. But if we think it is the worst shooting rampage in U.S. history, then we are a singularly uneducated nation.

"I can't take one more of these headlines," said Joan Redfern, a member of the Lakota Sioux tribe who lives in Hollister. We met at First Street Coffee to talk while we scanned Internet stories. "Haven't any of these people ever heard of the Massacre at Sand Creek in Colorado, where Methodist minister Col. Chivington massacred between 200 and 400 Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians, most of them women, children, and elderly men?"

Chivington specifically ordered the killing of children, and when he was asked why, he said, "Kill and scalp all, big and little; nits make lice."

At Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota, the U.S. 7th Cavalry attacked 350 unarmed Lakota Sioux on December 29, 1890. While engaged in a spiritual practice known as the "Ghost Dance," approximately 90 warriors and 200 women and children were killed. Although the attack was officially reported as an "unjustifiable massacre" by Field Commander General Nelson A. Miles, 23 soldiers were awarded the Medal of Honor for the slaughter. The unarmed Lakota men fought back with bare hands. The elderly men and women stood and sang their death songs while falling under the hail of bullets. Soldiers stripped the bodies of the dead Lakota, keeping their ceremonial religious clothing as souvenirs.

To say the Virginia shooting is the worst in all of U.S. history is to pour salt on old wounds-it means erasing and forgetting all of our ancestors who were killed in the past," Redfern said. "The use of hyperbole and lack of historical perspective seems all too ubiquitous in much of the current mainstream media," Redfern said. "My intention is not to downplay the horror of what has happened this week in any way. But we have a 500-year history of mass shootings on American soil, and let's not forget it."

This is only the most recent mass shooting massacre in a long history of mass shootings in a country engaged in a long love affair with firearms and very little interest in gun control.

Let's not forget our history and the richness of our Native roots. While spending time on the 1.5 million acre Hopi Reservation in Arizona, I met families living in homes they have occupied for over 900 years. On the surface, it looks like a third world country: you will observe many homes without running water, travel unpaved roads, and notice that there are no building codes. But sitting in a Hopi home being served a delicious lunch cooked by a proud Hopi working mother, I experienced so much more: the continuity of a long and deep heritage, a sense of the sacred, an artistic expertise, and wisdom about many things that remain a mystery to my culture.

Most of all, may we never forget all those innocent civilian men, women, and children who lost their lives simply for being in the wrong place at the wrong time, just as the students happened to be this week in Virginia. May we always remember the precious humanity of these students, but may we also never forget the humanity of those who lost their lives simply for being born people Native to this country.

 

[vandervalley]

The repeating use of using the word stalking of two women to illustrate the author view that this is the cause of his mental breakdown is simply looking at the wrong cause of his problem.

I agree with this statment; In Cho's video recording to NBC he clearly stated that the main reason for his anger is the behaviour of the rich kids. NOT due to the mental sickness tratment he received.