Cho’s Chilling Play

17 Apr

Posted by MacRanger as Va Tech, islam

Smoking Gun has a copy of Cho’s play which caused concern with staff at Va Tech.

“The play by Cho Seung-Hui, a 23-year-old English major, was submitted last year as part of a short story writing class. Entitled “Richard McBeef,” Cho’s bizarre play features a 13-year-old boy who accuses his stepfather of pedophilia and murdering his father. A copy of the killer’s play can be found below. The teenager talks of killing the older man and, at one point, the child’s mother brandishes a chain saw at the stepfather. The play ends with the man striking the child with “a deadly blow.”

Not to give this creep any creedance, but the story is only understandable from an Oriental mindset. As I’ve said before my wife of 25 years is Korean and in watching Korean programs (soaps, movies, tv plays), the themes of death and mayhem are similar.

No, I’m not saying that killing 33 innocents is “Korean culture”, but it does provide context to what was going on in the mind of this killer.

Themes of passion and revenge in the Korean culture are much more magnified than we think of here in the west.

By the way, much speculation about the tatoo written in red on the killer’s arm, “Ismail-AX”. Quite possible it is a cite referenced to Islam

“By Allah, he said, I shall plot a plan to destroy their idols. He knew that a big celebration was coming soon, where everybody would leave town for a big feast on the riverbank. After making sure that nobody was left in town, Ismael went towards the temple armed with an ax.

She offered Hajar her servant as a wife to her husband, and prayed Allah to bless Hajar and Ibrahim with a child. And so came Ismail, a baby boy born to Hajar. Statues of all shapes and sizes were sitting there adorned with decorations. Plates of food were offered to them, but the food was untouched. “Well, why don’t you eat? The food is getting cold.” He said to the statues, joking; then with his ax he destroyed all the statues except one, the biggest of them. He hung the ax around its neck and left.

How big was the shock when the people entered the temple! They gathered inside watching in awe their gods broken in pieces. They wondered who might have done this? Then they all remembered that the young Ibrahim was talking evil of their idols. They brought him to the temple and asked him: “Are you the one who has done this to our gods?” Ibrahim said: “No, this statue, the biggest of them has done it. Ask them if they can speak.” “You know well that these idols don’t speak!” They said impatiently. “Then how come you worship things that can neither speak nor see, nor even fend for themselves? Have you lost your minds?”

UPDATE: Heh, Capt Ed beat me to the punch.

However again, I find the idea plausible and intriguing.

3 Responses

crosspatch

April 17th, 2007 at 2:37 pm
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What if …

What if Cho and the girl had been planning a Columbine style operation together. He gets a 9mm for him and a .22 for her which is lighter and easier to handle. What they had been doing the bomb threats to test campus security procedures and to figure out a way to move security assets into certain positions on campus (for example, to get security around the target location lighter by calling in a threat to another location).

Now he goes to collect her on the day of the deed so they can go back to his dorm and “suit up” for the operation but she backs out. They get into an argument and the RA comes over to settle things down. What if the RA overhears something or the girl starts to tell the RA about the plot. Cho goes back to his dorm room, gets a weapon, comes back to her dorm and shoots the RA and her to prevent the plan from being exposed. He then returns to his dorm, suits up, and continues with his plan.

Questions I would want answers to:

1. Was another vest with ammo pockets found anywhere in the backpack or in his room?

2. Were any of the bomb threats leading up to the incident phoned in by a female?

3. What is the girl’s background. Was she also a “troubled loner”?
oneuno

April 17th, 2007 at 8:01 pm
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In Cho’s note he referenced several delusional reasons why he was “Driven” to commit the carnage.

One, as I recall was the overwhelming presence of to many “Charlatans” On Campus.

Being really suspicious and not had the opportunity to actually see the note Cho wrote I wonder if the word “Christians” was sanitized to “Charlatans” to avoid a backlash.
Minael

April 19th, 2007 at 10:55 am
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I read the play, do not see anything horrific in that play. So a little violent, not like he painted the picture of any slaughter of anyone particular, unless everyone in the class felt he was writing about them. I do not see how they can get that from this father and son story. It was more funny and outrageous then horrific….

Backlash? why would he worry about a backlash when he was planning on commiting suicide? The girlfriend and RA theory sounds plausible. curious killing only two then 31 two hours later….