Letters to the Editor
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VT Crises
The VT Crises
You have finally come full circle with the larger problem. The shooting at VT is an example of the overall much larger problem. This is a copy of an email I sent Fox News.
This is now the last straw that must move the political law makers to amend the
freedom of speech rights in this country. Simply the freedom of speech
amendment should allow only legal expression of verbal speech and visual art.
This is not censorship but the responsibility of our country to allow all forms
as long as the expression falls into what the culture has determined as legal.
Killing is not legal, adultery, assault, prostitution and pornography are
examples of what is not legal etc.
You have the opportunity to make this the headlines and change the moral
compass of this country and the generations to come. This is why we have laws
and this will has and should effect all forms of entertainment and forms of
expression from this point on in our culture. All forms of illegal expression
should be removed from all stores and venues immediately.
This is our necessary action and responsibility to the freedoms that a
democracy should reflect and guard for the protection of all. Please forward
this to the President.
Thanks,
Obewan
We will still have all the freedoms and the protections...the only change is that it must be with the parameters of the written laws now on the books...makes sense to me!
-- Obewan
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Where do these nuts come from?
From under what rock did you crawl, "Obewan?" Your tinfoil hat is far too tight. Can you draw a line, even if it's in crayon, from mass murder to freedom of speech? What "makes sense" to a nutbar like you is insanity to the rest of us.
By the way, lunatic: pornography is legal. So is adultery. Which means it's legal for me to tell you to go fuck yourself, legal for you to view some porno to get in the mood, and legal for you to do it, even if you're married.
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heartbreak & soulsearching
The shooting at VT brings horror and heartbreak to nearly everyone. Knowing and loving alumni of Virginia Tech I have, like many in our nation, been mesmerized by the news coverage. I have found myself with tears and goosebumps often.
At the same time, while media speak in superlatives, I think as a historian of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 when U.S. military killed dozens of women and children. Nearly every day Iraqis experience similar numbers of dead.
We as a nation, while grieving, must not let this experience cause us to abhor aliens or Asians.
We must not exacerbate this; we must instead let it make us more appreciative of our opportunities. We must learn from our pain and make our world a better place in memory of
those we lost April 16, 2007 in the idyllic town of Blacksburg.
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Adultery, Prostitution & Pornography???
I hate to add to the name calling and general lack of respect in the blogosphere, BUT the term 'nitwit' does come to mind in reference to the first above posting. When was the last prosecution in this country for 'illegal' adultery? Pornography of various forms is legal nearly everywhere in the US, and prostitution is legal in places in Nevada, and not heavily prosecuted in most other places.
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Going Out in a Blaze of Infamy
Too bad the identity of the shooter is being released, along with pictures and stories about his life etc. This is what he wanted and we're giving it to him postmortem. Now the next jerk who can't simply off himself but rather chooses suicide by SWAT needs to up the ante to get into the books...
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What A Hideous Display
Personal ignorance generally finds its basis in personal fear.
As a climate of fear promotes the growth of belligerance like a fungus over the Whitehouse and the likes of Fox News, individuals are lead to focus on those things which frighten them. Not, "frighten," in the sense of watching a horror movie, but "frighten" from the perspective of a person dropped helplessly into an enclosure with a rapacious and hungry preditor.
A point that the movie, "Bowling for Columbine," made that I think is germaine is the fact that Columbine is the home to a major defense contractor. As an employee of a major defense contractor, I have some sense of the climate and of the personality types that inhabit my work "ecosystem." To suggest that a climate of fear permeates the defense industry would be an understatement. That the climate of fear promoted by the defense industry contributed mightily to the events of Columbine seems a reasonable hypothesis.
Equally worthy of research and supposition is that the climate of fear promoted by the Whitehouse and it occupying administrative junta is the hypothesis that the level and intensity of violence that occurs within a society is directly related to the level and intensity of the fear present within that society.
Individual actors will always be present within the society, each with their own individual motivations, shortcomings, flaws and redeeming qualities.
Far more critical and often subordinated by the current genre of shock-trauma journo-mediaists are the larger themes in which these individual actions take place. Acts of violence are most often acts of desperation, and the present crisis at Virginia Tech is no exception. It is the leadership of the society that must accept a larger accounting for events like these.
For too many years and at too high a level of intensity, the United States has trumpeted the clarion call of mortal terror and infernal fear as a means of promoting corporate economic interests.
Eventually, the human mind implodes or explodes under the strain of attempting to reconcile the dissonance between a social contract entered into for the purpose of personal security, and the social fact that no such security is possible, present or desireable.
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Tinhats
Well I see that creating a world made of peace and love is not one that we desire or want. Instead we want to pollute the minds of every person on the planet for our own personal pleasures. The needs of personal pleasures far out weighs the needs of the insane and weak minds infected by your desired of freedoms. The tin hat I wear is the tin hat of wisdom far reaching and complete in understanding the future. Your freedoms will become less and less and more and more laws will be enacted in order to control your behaviors and thoughts. The illusion of the freedoms you now enjoy are for the profit of a few at the expense of your country and the minds of your young. Not taking a stand or a position on the insanity of our times will certainly catch up with all of us, much sooner than later. As the ultimate free thinking animal...our basic instincts will always be contolled by those who want to use your desires for the making of money. Your pleasures are their money.....fools that you are think its really about freedoms....how naive some of you really are. My insanity is certainly a potential forced future in a world out of control where laws written everyday attempt to reign in your freedoms.
Obewan