History Forum / General / British History / April 2007

they filed miserable. they were on campus investigating the first shooting,
they did such a good job that 30 more were killed and as many maimed.
the POLICE f.cked UP.

Now we get the eminently predictable OVERREACTION by the same sort of
incompetent ACADEMICS, et alii.

DSH

Lux et Veritas et Libertas
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Essay arrest baffles experts
Chicago Sun-Times

April 27, 2007

BY DAN ROZEK, ROSALIND ROSSI AND ABDON M. PALLASCH Staff Reporters

Police Thursday released portions of an essay used to charge a Cary-Grove
High School student with disorderly conduct, leaving several experts puzzled
at an arrest based on such schoolwork.

Asked to write about whatever he wanted in a creative writing class,
would-be Marine and honors student Allen Lee, 18, described a violent dream
in which he shot people and then "had sex with the dead bodies.''

But then he immediately dismissed the idea as a mere joke, writing, "not
really, but it would be funny if I did.''

A second disorderly count accuses Lee of alarming first-year teacher Nora
Capron by writing that "as a teacher, don't be surprised on [sic] inspiring
the first CG shooting,'' an apparent reference to Cary-Grove High.

Lee said Thursday he was "completely shocked'' to be arrested Tuesday for
his essay, especially because written instructions told kids not to
"censor'' what they wrote.

"In creative writing, you're told to exaggerate,'' said Lee. "It was
supposed to be just junk. . . .

"There definitely is violent content, but they're taking it out of context
and making it something it isn't.''

"I have no intention of harming anyone,'' said Lee, who has been transferred
to an alternative school setting. "I miss school.''

Lee's father, Albert Lee, who emigrated from China 32 years ago, said his
son has a clean academic and police record. He, too, insisted his son's
essay was not threatening but authorities "drew a conclusion before the
investigation. They didn't want to do the investigation.''

However, the father would not comment on whether he believed authorities
acted quickly because his son is of Asian heritage, as was the Virginia Tech
campus shooter.

Family therapist Michael Gurian, author of The Minds of Boys, said Allen Lee
needs at least good counseling, but "If he was arrested solely based on
those words, I don't see that as the most helpful course.''

Bernardine Dohrn, director of Northwestern University's Children and Family
Justice Center, laughed when she heard the charge.

"You might want to talk to him, talk to his parents, but the criminal
justice system seems to be the last thing you'd want,'' said Dohrn, a former
Weatherman leader who lived for years as a fugitive.

Mike McInerney, former head of the Cook County Public Defender's Juvenile
Court office, said he "wouldn't be happy'' if his son wrote such words but
"I wouldn't criminalize free expression. . . . I don't think it's going to
hold up criminally.''

Write or wrong

Excerpts from Allen Lee’s essay

•  “As a teacher, don’t be surprised on inspiring the first CG
[Cary-Grove High School] shooting.”

•  “Blood, sex, booze. Drugs, drugs, drugs are fun. Stab, stab, stab, stab,
stab, s..t..a..b...puke.”

•  “So I had this dream last night where I went into a building, pulled out
two P 90s [submachine guns] and started shooting everyone, then had sex
with the dead bodies. Well, not really, but it would be funny if I did.”
what do you think?
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It looks as if the Virginia Tech and Blacksburg, Virginia POLICE all did an
excellent job.

The pity is that they were so badly let down by the ACADEMICS,
ADMINISTRATORS, JUDICIALS, PSYCHIATRISTS and "COUNSELORS" -- both at
Virginia Tech and in the region -- who SHOULD have ENSURED that Cho was in a
State HOSPITAL -- NOT at a State UNIVERSITY.

Those two "PLAYS" Cho wrote were enough to tip ANY intelligent person to the
fact that Cho was a VERY SICK PUPPY.

Read the two "plays" and see for yourself.

<http://newsbloggers.aol.com/2007/04/17/cho-seung-huis-plays/>

DSH

Lux et Veritas et Libertas

Fortem Posce Animum

The students did nothing wrong either.  They followed the doctrine they were
taught.

The real culprit here is the DOCTRINE they were taught, and it's a doctrine
that is taught not only to students.

The SUBMIT AND COOPERATE with criminals doctrine.   According to it, when a
student is in a class where an executioner is carrying out his grisly work,
and there is no escape all there is to do is to choose a desk to die under,
close your eyes, pray, and think that help is on the way.

True, it's better to hand your wallet over than to get shot, but there are
situations where one can do a lot better than THE DOCTRINE would have it.

No one is saying that the alternatives are devoid of risk, but any
alternative to certain death is a good alternative.

The passengers of United Flight 93 certainly showed that there is a BETTER
DOCTRINE then the current do-nothing-and-hope-for-the-best philosophy.

It was a tragic outcome, but they saved other lives, and at some point they
may even have had the chance to wrest the controls from the hijackers and
saved themselves, though it was not to be.

From now on it will take several armed hijackers to take control of a
plane -- or bus --  not completely filled with wusses.   I doubt people are
going to shrink back from box cutters, ice picks, or even a single gunman.

It's a shame that a man can kill 30 young vigorous persons because none of
them had the oomph to say "hell NO!" and charge the Korean a.shole and stick
his Glock up his a.s.

The living should LIVE AND LEARN.

CHANGE THE DOCTRINE OF ABJECT PASSIVITY.