A Killer’s Video Manifesto

18 Apr

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Sometime after he killed two people in a Virginia university dormitory but before he slaughtered 30 more in a classroom building, Cho Seung-Hui mailed NBC News an overnight package that included 29 photographs, videos, rambling prose.

Does the Manifesto speak to paranoid schizophrenia or a sane, but deeply evil person. Such inferences will certainly play a role in legal cases that seek to assign liability for the tragedy to university administration who it can be argued under reacted to the many warning signs of Cho’s potential to erupt and to a county magistrate and hospital system (Carilion St. Albans Behavioral Health Center) that failed to monitor a patient who at one point was ruled mentally unfit and “presented an imminent danger to himself as a result of mental illness.”

The television commentators content the manifesto indicates a mental disorder that could have been controled with medication. Yet, the physician who examined him under a commitment order in December, 2005 concluded “His insight and judgment are normal.”

Mentally Ill and in need of hospitalization, presents an imminent danger to self or others

18 Apr

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Virginia Tech police department arranged for order to be issued to detain Cho Seung Hui for psychiatric evaluation in December 2005. That order along with the evaluating physician’s report and resulting “court-ordered outpatient — to follow all recommended treatments” which was apparently not followed up.

Cho Dention Report (PDF file)

Ismail Ax: Biblical, Literary, Musical, or Gamertag????

18 Apr

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Written in red ink on the arm of Virgina Tech killer Cho Seung Hui, the two word phrase “Ismail Ax” has inspired more theories than the number of background checks required before he could purchase his 9mm gun. Oh… wait a minute. I mean don’t wait a minute. There were no required background checks and no required waiting period before the known psychiatric hospital patient was able to purchase the weapon he used to kill 32 people.

The leading theories:

Biblical: Abraham, known as Ibrahim in Islam (notice how the Koran has to tweak everything from the Old Testament), smashed all but one statue in a local temple with an ax, in protest that people in his hometown worshiped idols and not Allah. His son Isaac is known as Ismail in the Koran. Perhaps Choo was upset no one seemed to worship him. Or was symbolizing his singular worship for a women with whom he was obsessed. Read more

The Plays of Virgina Tech Shooter Cho Seung-Hui: Richard McBeef and Mr. Brownstone

17 Apr

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Virginia Tech’s Cho Seung-Hui was known by few on campus until yesterday, but those who knew him from English class knew an eerily quiet, disturbed student who wrote creepy plays about families throwing hammers and chainsaws at one another. Plays creepy enough to cause his creative writing instructor to recommend counseling.

USLaw Celebrity Justice has obtained the violent text of Cho Seung-Hui’s play Richard McBeef. (Bookmark to be alerted to other plays and writing currently being processed.)

Richard McBeef

ACT ONE

SCENE 1

(It is morning.  The sun is s shining through the windows of
the kitchen. John enters the kitchen, grabs a cereal bar,
and opens it. Richard I~1cBeef is sitting in the kitchen
with his legs crossed reading the newspaper.)

RICHARD
Hey John.

(He forces a smile at him.)

JOHN
What�s up, Dick!

(He frowns.)

RiCHARD
Try dad.

JOHN
You ain�t my dad and you know it, you Dick.

(John chews on the cereal bar angrily.)

RICHARD
Come on, John. Sit down. 1�~e need to have man-to-man talk.

(Richard pulls a chair next to him from under the table.)

JOHN
Man�to�man up your ass1 bud!

(John sneers Lhen proceeds to the living room and turns on
the TV. Richard follows him, sits down, and faces him.)

RICHARD
I may not be your biological father, but I�m your new father.
We live under the same roof. We really need to get along. Come
on, son, give me a chance.

(Richard gently rests his hand on John's lap.)
hand on John�s lap.)

JOHN
What the hell are you doing!

(John slaps Ricahrds's hand.)

JOHN (Cont'd)
What are you, a Catholic priest! I will not be molested by an
aging balding overweight pedophilic stepdad named Dick!
Get your hands off me you sicko!  Damn you, you Cathloic
priest. Just stop it, Michael Jackson. Let me guess, you
have a pet named Dick in Neverland ranch and you want me to
go with you to pet him1 right?

(He sighs and ignores the comment.)

What is it you want from me, what do you want me to do?  Why
are you so angry at me--