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

["Leigh Meyers" <the.buffalo.in.the.midst@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 4/18/07, CeJ <jannuzi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.


The media is already on it, and as I mentioned to one of the college
students I work with, the '420' celebration at UCSC will be more
'secure' too!

No outsiders. No matter that the students themselves are
'stressed-beyond-recognition'.


  > I am a graduate student at VT. This has been quite a surreal and
grim morning for us all. We had a shooter on campus on the first day
of campus and now this. We have been under a lot of stress lately, as
there have already been several bomb threats over the past few weeks,
even as early as Friday. I do not know if the threats are related to
today's shooting.

   I still can't believe this has happened.
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/talking_point/6561335.stm>

Surveillance cameras will be strategically placed, and if they find
one, it'll bring the s-hammer down on the organizers.

It's worth noting that much of the leadership who cultivated
anti-war/class activism among students at colleges in the 60s were off
campus activists or graduates without current student ID.

At this juncture in history there are schools experimenting with
retinal scanning/rfid-ing students... no chip implants... yet....

This from the Santa Cruz Senile (Sentinel):

UCSC, K-12 schools say they're prepared for violence
from Santa Cruz Sentinel News
http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/archive/2007/April/17/local/stories/03local.htm

SANTA CRUZ â Should a gunman go on a rampage at UC Santa Cruz,
university officials would e-mail students, staff and faculty about
the situation, post emergency bulletins on UCSC Web sites, use a
special system to call all campus phones with a programed message and
make emergency broadcasts on KCSC, the university radio station.
[...]

If It Were Up to Me

  Words and Lyrics by: Cheryl Wheeler

  Maybe it's the movies, maybe it's the books
  Maybe it's the bullets, maybe it's the real crooks
  Maybe it's the drugs, maybe it's the parents
  Maybe it's the colors everybody's wearin
  Maybe it's the President, maybe it's the last one
  Maybe it's the one before that, what he done
  Maybe it's the high schools, maybe it's the teachers
  Maybe it's the tattooed children in the bleachers
  Maybe it's the Bible, maybe it's the lack
  Maybe it's the music, maybe it's the crack
  Maybe it's the hairdos, maybe it's the TV
  Maybe it's the cigarettes, maybe it's the family
  Maybe it's the fast food, maybe it's the news
  Maybe it's divorce, maybe it's abuse
  Maybe it's the lawyers, maybe it's the prisons
  Maybe it's the Senators, maybe it's the system
  Maybe it's the fathers, maybe it's the sons
  Maybe it's the sisters, maybe it's the moms
  Maybe it's the radio, maybe it's road rage
  Maybe El Nino, or UV rays
  Maybe it's the army, maybe it's the liquor
  Maybe it's the papers, maybe the militia
  Maybe it's the athletes, maybe it's the ads
  Maybe it's the sports fans, maybe it's a fad
  Maybe it's the magazines, maybe it's the internet
  Maybe it's the lottery, maybe it's the immigrants
  Maybe it's taxes, big business
  Maybe it's the KKK and the skinheads
  Maybe it's the communists, maybe it's the Catholics
  Maybe it's the hippies, maybe it's the addicts
  Maybe it's the art, maybe it's the sex
  Maybe it's the homeless, maybe it's the banks
  Maybe it's the clearcut, maybe it's the ozone
  Maybe it's the chemicals, maybe it's the car phones
  Maybe it's the fertilizer, maybe it's the nose rings
  Maybe it's the end, but I know one thing.

  If it were up to me, I'd take away the guns.

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