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I’ll take up the claims regarding Columbine last, since LaRouche’s writer, Walsh, chooses not to address them directly in the article. Instead, let us take up the case of Cho, not to slight the unfortunate victims in Finland or Germany, but because Walsh’s article argues, perhaps rightfully, that it was the “the deadliest mass shooting by a lone individual in U.S. history.” Walsh claims that “Although it’s obvious, from study of the facts, that Cho was addicted to and driven, by violent games, this element of the story has been the subject of a major cover-up, reaching as high as the former head of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Tom Ridge.” To support these claims, he argues that:
“On April 18, 2007 the Washington Post website, under the headline ‘Centreville Student Was Virginia Tech Shooter,’ wrote, ‘Several Korean youths who knew Cho Seung Hui from his high school days said he was a fan of violent video games, particularly Counterstrike…’ Hours later, the article disappeared from the site, and was never published” and also that “In a videotape Cho made before the massacre, he called out the names of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, the two Columbine killers, who had trained tirelessly on Doom.” Cho said to others, he ‘planned to repeat Columbine.’ Training on Counterstrike, as his heroes had on Doom, was essential preparation for that plan.”
Walsh further argues that the evidence of Counterstrike gameplay could be found in Cho’s methodology in the attacks, including headshots and the systematic moving from room to room hunting for victims. Backing up these claims are references to Grossman’s interviews with LaRouche in April of 2007 in which he describes Counterstrike‘s gameplay and its reliance on headshots.
Are you convinced? You might be, unless you’ve read the Report of the Virginia Tech Review Panel like I have. (Don’t worry, you don’t have to read the whole thing. I direct you to the summary of key findings, a modest four page PDF.) A quick review of the document will reveal three things. First, Cho had a mental health history of suicidal thoughts that dated back to middle school. Second, he purchased his firearms illegally. Third, administrators and mental health professionals knew he was having mental health problems and might become a threat, even receiving treatment for these problems, but due to confusion over federal privacy laws, they failed to coordinate with one another or communicate with his family. What you won’t see is anything about Counterstrike, video games, computer usage or anything speaking indirectly of those things. Why not? You’d think that might be pertinent to a full investigation of what lead to the massacre. You might even think that school administrators would want to strip the offending software from school computers and prohibit it on campus. That is, unless there is no actual causal connection between the two.
And therein lies the problem. We will see this again when we examine Columbine, but coincidence does not equal causation. You might have heard of cum hoc ergo propter hoc, which is a fancy term for the logical fallacy that means just that: just because two things happen together or are related does not necessitate a causal connection. It’s a logical fallacy because it’s faulty reasoning. To support a claim like that, you need lots of evidence; after looking at all the evidence, including all kinds of forensics and metal health records not normally discussed widely in public, the government of Virginia decided that video games were so unimportant to the events that they didn’t even mention it in the key findings.
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Auvine may have asserted that video games, music and movieshad no influence on him.
Are you going to believe this psychotic mass murderer?
Idiot
The anti-video game crusade, along with items against social networking sites and wikipedia and google, is a matter of controlling the cult members. Since last April (due to events on April 11), a flood of internal items have fallen onto the Internet due to internal strife as older members have fled the cult. This crusade sort of culminated with an edict which ordered the members of the “Larouche Youth Movement” off the Internet.
That is why Larouche hates your hobby.
A well written, unbiased article. Although I wonder why almost uniquely, americans seek to displace the actions of the few to some enviromental factor that could be controled and therefore elimintated, instead, as is more likely to a culmination of social and physcological causes, brought about more by a flaw in the society than a computer game or a film. Hitler didn’t play computer games he was dissolusioned with a less than perfect society, but he did paint perhaps that was the reason he was so racist.
I appologise for the bad grammer and possibly spelling.
The cult will hijack any tragedy and “Laroucheify” it by adding one of a virtual infinite universe of delusions spinning in the cult master’s brains. The cult is desperately trying to replenish Larouche’s precious body fluids by recruiting confused college students to drop out of school and work around the clock, 7 days a week for this madman. Months of goping through lack of sleep. nutrition and being in the Hostile Fantasy World of Larouche will creat a Nick Walsh.
If you waish to have some eye opening material, just google a convicted felon named Don Phau who was at the Va hearings. This multi decade Larouche bootlcker spent aq few years in the big house for his role in the theft of nearly 30 million dollars from elderly supports of Larouche when he was running for the WHite House ijn the 1980s. Don Pahua has lost his family, wife and every bit of dignity in worshipping Larouche. WHen they finally have a funeral for the very old Laoruche. I expect Don to try tom jump into the grave to still be with him.
If it is not video games it is the internet, if it is not that it was rock music. Google Don Phau and rock music to read an insane haze of delusions about the Beatles. This is a sick, sick bunch of llsers who Laoruche breathes life into by elevating them into his Bizarro world of hate and delusions.
For more info you can check out
kenkronberg.com
justiceforjeremiah.com
lyndonlarouchewatch.org
laroucheplanet.info They even have a Laoruche video game set up.
To read a long running documentary about the cult, go to factnet.org and do a search under
Laoruche or find it in “social organisations.
There are also tons of other articles one can find. These Larouche zombies are usually good for a few laughs, but the cult has caused pain, abuse, monetary losses and now has the death of a several people in its portfolio of lunacy
Really, it all boils down to chance. Someone should figure out:
-How often terror-hobbyists are actually into violent games.
-How often gamers become terrorists as opposed to relatively non-violent people.
-How often these terrorists have other factors that vastly outweigh game choice.
-How often taking away violent games from pre-terrorists curbs their appetite to ruin everyone’s life and die.
and
-How often Americans let government take away their trivial freedoms.
I dont claim to be a pych expert but I can realize that games and distractions as a whole can VENT anger and frustration. I think that keeping the YOUTH contained until their mental maturity and INTELLIGENCE, reaches their ability to control their own DESTRUCTIVE IMPULSES, does the world a great service. I am a player and wonder what ballances me more, my personal beliefs in GOD or my ability to use a computer for social development and anger managment. It is my understanding that the youth could be doing far more destructive things. I have learned to see “BOTH SIDES” of the world through the eyes of SCI-FI. I learned, nothing is as it seems. Aliens can be friend and foe. Hasty and rash decisions have dire consequences. Openess leads to discussion and knowledge. Cults tend to control knowledge and people therefore stiffling information. Anything that is not OPEN for discussion is probably very BAD for everyone. Warmongers should sit down with every WAR movie and personalize themselves in the lowest positions. Being forced to make bad things happen on behalf of someone else. EVIL is about personal greed,control, and fear. A tiny bit of it makes us productive and aware. Too much makes us EVIL. Being able to play violent games and press “RESET” after your friends have died is very comforting. To watch War movies and see how things can and do get without the “RESET” switch is a very powerfull lesson.
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