Wednesday, April 18, 2007

News - The moral panic begins

Here comes the pre-emptive arrests, questionings and targeting of "potential killers" in our midst:

http://www.ajc.com/hp/content/shared-gen/ap/National/Virginia_Tech_Colorado.html (Free registration required to read the article)

Excerpt from the article:

Student Arrested Over Va. Tech Remarks

BOULDER, Colo. — A University of Colorado student was arrested after making comments that classmates deemed sympathetic toward the gunman blamed for killing 32 students and himself at Virginia Tech, authorities said.

During a class discussion of Monday's massacre at Virginia Tech, the student "made comments about understanding how someone could kill 32 people," university police Cmdr. Brad Wiesley said. Several witnesses told investigators the student said he was "angry about all kinds of things from the fluorescent light bulbs to the unpainted walls, and it made him angry enough to kill people," according to a police report. Witnesses "said they were afraid of him and afraid to come to class with him," Wiesley said.

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