Tuesday,
July 24, 2007
Current mood:
annoyed
Category: School, College, Greek
I am writing in red for a
reason, just keep reading!
I looked at the entire web coverage of this event in Virginia and
it is horrific!
First of all, there are a lot of campuses that lag response time
in handling emergencies; my very own University of Louisville is quite that
way itself. Lots of colleges want to protect their name and their reputation,
and therefore they try to keep things very hush, hush. I mean did they
HONESTLY think a random mass email was going to reach every student that
would be affected by this gunman in time? And if so, are they psychic?
Secondly, the media is trying to create a pity party for the man,
saying he had been teased all his life or whatever. I am sorry folks, I grew
up in a very abusive household, and the teasing I received in grade school
was not only relentless, but my parents just always thought I brought it on
myself. I haven't and will not open fire on anyone! My own university did me
really wrong, and I have always said there was a reason it has a bell tower!
Not that I, personally, would do anything, but the way colleges rape and
pillage their students and their finances, it's a wonder it doesn't happen
across the country every day! BUT MIND YOU THAT IS NOT ADVOCACY...IT'S THE
OPPOSITE! I don't think there is an excuse for what that man did, however you
twist it...period.
There were people killed and maimed that came from countries that
were looking to escape just that! And the Americans that were killed, well,
our government is too busy "PROTECTING OUR BORDERS" from that ever
illusive seven foot Arab on dialysis! This is ridiculous people! Absolutely
ridiculous! Especially when the man that did this was obviously trying to get
help, but people kept just "PASSING THE BUCK!"
Which is all too common amongst our universities, state, local,
and federal governments. I have experienced it my entire life, having been
"in the system" since I was a young child.
And yet we are sooo shocked it had to come to this!
And lastly, about the video, that doesn't make the shooter look
worse, as it does the people that kept pawning him off. It makes the
university look really bad at not handling only the shooting, but his
psychiatric care in general. The poor man needed help obviously medical
attention! And so many students, independent students don't have health care
to provide them with counseling or anything. And then the schools that are
smart enough to seek counseling, it isn't sufficient enough or extensive
enough for what someone with that mental illness may need. Or with those
underlying and long existing issues to work through. And I'm not blaming the
university all together, because our own government has some responsibility
in this too, but because of that almighty buck being passed down, the
greatest responsibility does fall on the school's shoulders!
Also, I read his two plays, which were posted on the web, and
everybody was dumbfounded at the violence in them...yeah, obviously those
people that were disturbed by them haven't seen any Terintino's films or some
of the other directors and playwrights this day and age! Even Shakespeare was
all about incest and murder and backstabbing and deceit. Terintino's films
have been cult-ified amongst young adults and teens! This guy was obviously
writing about something he knew about, or had experience with, or he wouldn't
have written it. Again, IT WAS NOT AN EXCUSE TO OPEN FIRE SOMEWHERE, but it
does offer intelligent insight into how disrupted this guy's life truly was.
I, myself, am appalled that we as a nation reacting like somehow we are not
responsible in an indirect way, for this man thinking this was his
only way...the ONLY WAY! We do have a responsibility, and I saw that on the
campus of the first school I attended, so the last school I attended I was
able to do something about it. With the help of school officials, I started a
group for people, not just students and faculty, but the community members
suffering from depression and mental illnesses. It ended up having national
sponsorship through the National Depressive and Bipolar Association, aka:
DBSA and the Disability Resource Center at the college. Those were our campus
resources...where were his???
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