Reaching Out From The Grave

Apparently, Cho Seung-Hui wasn't as silent a killer as we thought - or hoped.

The Internet and television news networks a literally buzzing over the revelation that Seung-Hui , in between the first and second shootings at Virginia Tech, mailed NBC News a package containing what some have called a "multi-media manifesto" containing photos, videos and an 1800 word essay detailing his final act of brutality.

And while anybody who views these videos and photos or reads his ramblings will certainly and understandably be shocked and upset by what they see, can anybody say that they're truly shocked at the discovery of these materials?

Just when the news networks had packed up and headed home, leaving the students, faculty of Virginia Tech to heal in the aftermath of Seung-Hui's violent rampage, once again, that community, and to some degree the whole world, is once again victimized by one man's selfish, violent bid for immortality.

Not to diminish what's happened in any way, only as a means of putting things into a manageable context for no one but myself, the discovery Seung-Hui's words and images, 2 days after his one man act of terrorism -- smacks of nothing but pure cowardice... not unlike standing tall and talking shit over your shoulder as you walk away from a fight...

Unimaginable

The Virginia Tech tragedy. It's almost unimaginable. Or is it...

Just last week, the CBS drama "The Unit" featured this as their story:

"In Loco Parentis"
The Unit is called in to help out the local SWAT team when a prominent school in Virginia is taken over by shooters. They must determine how to free the hostages without the students getting injured.

Not that you need to relive the experience, as it continues to unfold live on CNN, but the entire episode is actually streaming on CBS' broadband channel, Innertube.