Letters to the Editor
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New Leadership/New Role Models VA TECH SHOOTING
“In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”
- Leo Tolstoy
"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."
- Leo Tolstoy
That Asian kid that just shot 32 people and himself at Virginia Tech is just another reason & reminder of why I dedicate my mind to salvation. This world is a mess. That guy doesn't need condemnation, he needs blessing. What is not love is a call for love. Forgive him.
By killing himself he took away people's target for attack. Instead of experiencing hatred for the kid, most people are experiencing shock and grief. If he was in police custody right now, you would see the level of hatred and anger in this world. More gun laws and more security is not the solution. Sending everyone to therapy who writes a violent term-paper is not the the solution. Suddenly everyone is a watchdog. Can anyone see this? Can anyone see a solution to this picture called the world?? I am curious.
There is no solution.
The whole thing is a sordid mess, right down to NBC running the clip, right down to movie makers and novelists using violence as entertainment. The whole thing doesn't make any sense. Is there any reason for selling a gun other than killing or destroying something? That's the most insane part of all to me. Someone walks into a gun shop, they run a security check on him and he is fine, but what he is going to use the gun for? What do people use as reasons for purchasing a gun? Protection and target practice? Come on. Even the use of a gun for protection still means someone is going to get hurt.
I don't get it.
Times like these I sit entirely stumped. I am told that through my mind a new world is ushered in. I believe this is true. I am a minister. I am a Teacher of God. I am God's messenger. I have dedicated my mind to the certainty that peace is possible.
But times like these, it's so overwhelming. It makes me want to cry.
Everyone is running confused. Everyone is scared. No one knows what to do. Nothing makes any sense.
I am glad I don't own a television. I saw the photo on the internet of that kid aiming a gun at the camera and the one of him with a hammer, and last night I had a dream that I was on a busy street in Manhattan and an Asian kid is walking towards me, arm fully extended, pointing a gun at me. He looked me straight in the eye, then kept walking. I turned around to see what happened next, he kept walking with the gun extended and he stopped and turned the gun towards a yellow cab and shot a passenger sitting in the front seat of the cab. The guy slumped over dead against the window and the kid kept walking with the gun pointed at other people.
And I don't watch television! I only saw 2 photos and read a couple paragraphs of what he said (before I said to myself "that's enough!) and these images are burned in my brain forever.
I want to start finding people to join with me to usher in a new world, who want to be part of new leadership. I don't know how it looks. I need help here. Blogging isn't enough anymore.
The time for NEW LEADERSHIP is now.
It's not going to come from the government. It's also not going to come from any current structure. Hopefully you can see this by now.
New leadership is going to have to start with me. It's going to have to start with you.
Lisa natoli
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Quiet ... except at the end
Thanks for the article about the race angle regarding Cho. It is interesting but echoes strongly of the experience in Australia after the Port Arthur, Tasmania massacre in which Martin Bryant killed 35 men, women and (really young) children in a shooting spree at a tourist attraction.
Bryant, long blond hair, pale skin and blue eyes was even referred to in the media as being almost "albino" (overtones of ghostly - similar to "resident alien"?) which if you look at photographs is not true. However he was described by locals as being "a quiet lad and a bit of a loner". But he (being poor, white, uneducated) was also described as being "a bit slow" as well. So we had the reverse stereotype being applied.
The real issue is that no one understands what makes the 'switch' flick over from someone who is "quiet and a bit of a loner" to someone who is raising hell basically and mass-murdering people. I don't think smart, rich or poor, black, white, asian etc has anything to do with it - and in Australia we do not have a constitution that gives us the right to bear arms so that can't even be used as an excuse. (Aside: In fact, the gun laws in our country which have always been tighter than in the U.S. were tightened further after Martin Bryant I think.)
We have created a culture of violence in our society. That is one problem. Another (not unrelated) problem is that we then do not support people who are simply not coping with their lives and / or with the world in general. We do not listen or observe enough, talk to each other enough nor try hard enough to get to the bottom of people who are clearly withdrawn and not integrated in a healthy way. Put these problems together - and the blame on parents, race, economic or social disadvantage, and temperament aside - these sorts of incidences are tragically going to continue to happen.
Girloz
ENDS
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Thoughts from Whiteyland
Minorities often comment that White people aren't contrite in the same way they are when a White person commits a crime. That's because we don't consider ourselves "White". My parents weren't born in Whiteyland.
Just because Americans only seem capable of recognizing Black, Asian, and Hispanic as relevant cultures -- and everyone else gets the vanilla label -- that doesn't mean that White people find a kinship to all other Whites. Minorities can discount my heritage all they like. I, however, won't.
Second, there is a pervasive pattern of second generation Asian males with severe personality disorders. In their home culture, represented by the parents, they are little princes on pedestals who can do no wrong. In the greater American culture, they are considered nerdy, sexually undesirable, and socially inept.
While their parents are fostering a narcissictic personality disorder, the outside world refuses to acknowledge their delusional superiority. Check out the website angryasianman dot com. It will be an eye opener.
Adhering to political correctness in the face of a serious cultural schism and resulting mental illness is idiocy.