Writings by Virginia Tech killer Cho Seung-Hui have been obtained by The Smoking Gun.
As they always are.
(h/t WM Redux in the comments.)
Kathy Shaidle – “We really need to ban “Creative Writing” programs.”
Barack Obama, paraphrased – “Virginia Tech. Don Imus. Same thing.“
I can’t belive what I’m hearing. Ban Creative writing? The writing was only a outlet for his insanity, it didn’t cause it. If anything, it gave warning signs. Creative writing did not increase his insanity. Creative writing did not kill those people.
I don’t know what’s more disturbing, the play, or this reaction. Lock up Tarentino? For pitys sake. Let’s not use this tragedy as one massive move to end creativity on the grounds that it can show you what a psycho thinks. If that disturbes you, you shouldnt have Googled “Richard McBeef.” You shouldn’t even be on the internet- I’ve seen a lot more disturbing stuff, belive it or not. Don’t anyone go near Marquis de Sade, and he never killed anyone.
In all of this rush to point our fingers at something in respect to the recent Virginia Tech shootings we have failed to overlook a HUGE clue left for us in the writings of the late Mr Cho Seung-Hui. So far everyone has pointed out the obvious themes of violence, linking the character of “John” as a possible reflection of Cho himself, and there has been much talk of pedophillia.
But what about the recurrent references to cereal bars?? I was able to count in just ten short pages that cereal bars were mentioned FIVE separate times. To prevent tragedies of this proportion from happening in the future, I would propose a STRICTLY ENFORCED BAN on anyone of asain decent purchasing or consuming cereal bars.
I know, from my own personal experience with them, that cereal bars are one of the most rage inducing substances on earth. Just looking at the package you are tempted to begin to dream of all the rich oatmealy, nutty, fruity wholesome goodness that lies within… only to find that 60 minutes and 15 cases of cereal bars later… you are still empty. Not just your stomach, but empty.. inside.
I know that I get pretty p*ssed off after consuming just ONE of these empty calorie tiny ‘breakfast’ bars. I have been known to take cheap shots at co-workers, yell at my cats, and one time I even knocked out the support beam to the 2nd floor balcony of my apartment building. ALL THIS AFTER ONE BAR!! and I’m only 1/4 Korean. Now, if there were a scientific test to prove it – I’m sure that means that I only experience cereal bar related pyschosis at a strength of 25%. If you study Cho’s work closely you will notice that his ‘character’ consumes these bars one after another similar in the way a chain smoker would consume cigarretts. That kid didn’t have a fighting chance.
Cereal bars poison and enrage asains (especially us Koreans) but we can’t be trusted to help our selves. That is why we need YOUR help to create and pass a bill that would regulate and restrict sales of ALL cereal bars to Asian-americans.
If you have read this far – Thanks for your interest – THE TIME TO ACT IS NOW!!!!
Luci,
You are a complete and total doucebag.
His creative writing professor DID report him, as did three of his other writing teachers and the chair of the English Department. The problem is inaction on the part of the administration, based on the confidentiality laws that protect the transfer of information about mentally ill students. It’s also quite possible that the English teachers gave him failing grades, but that he was passed through the system due to higher grades in his other classes. We really don’t know that information.