[A-List] Re: Workers World Editorial: Why Virginia Tech killings happened

[CeJ <jannuzi@xxxxxxxxx>]

As for Iraq, make that 170 dead and counting, but whose really counting?

LM:>>speaking of depressing, the shooter was on meds, or off them recently>>

I think half the US is on something that is psycho-active. I thought
the idea of the meds was to get back to some sort of 'normal' life.
But can it really alleviate anomic depression?

And then there is the mass hysteria--to which the US is so prone. I
think the period late 2001-now will go down as one big mass psychosis
in the US. The VT massacre will only add to it. We'll be seeing SWAT
teams on every campus. Students will be turned in to the authorities
for 'acting strange'. Everyone who doesn't fit in will be pathologized
as a potential mass killer. And poor Blacksburg, VA. From relative
obscurity to the town that gave the US its most prolific serial
killer--Henry Lee Lucas--and the site of its largest mass murder.

CJ