Posted by
Playful Walrus on Monday, June 11, 2007 12:13:49 PM
I’m definitely for the rights of crime victims, but it looks like some of the activism of the 9/11 widows is combining with a victicrat culture to
establish problematic precedents.
Relatives of the Virginia Tech shooting victims demanded representation on a gubernatorial panel studying the killings, saying in a letter Monday that they feel "ostracized."
Uh, isn’t it normal to have professionals investigate crimes? What’s next - parents demanding to assist in major surgery on their own children? It is horrible when something like this evil act is visited upon your family. You
should demand justice and whatever restitution is possible, from the appropriate parties. But this should not entitle you to participate in an official capacity in a public investigation. Hire a private investigator if you want, or do your own investigative work.
Gov. Timothy M. Kaine appointed the eight-member panel, which includes former Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge, psychiatrists, educational specialists and former law enforcement officials, to review the tragedy, the circumstances that led to it and the response.
Some guy from Korea who was clearly diverse - uh, I mean disturbed - murdered a lot of people. I just offered that insight for free. No panel needed.
"Family is important to us. It's also important, I think, to the governor that he have a panel that was viewed as being totally objective and not driven by emotions," said Massengill, a former Virginia State Police superintendent who oversaw the agency's response to the Sept. 11 attack on the Pentagon and the 2002 Washington-area sniper attacks.
The panel's third public meeting was held Monday, when members hoped to get some insight into how the student gunman, Seung-Hui Cho, was able to skirt Virginia's mental health system. Cho was ordered to receive outpatient mental health treatment in 2005 but never did.
Maybe he got special treatment for being a famous rich white girl.
On the morning of April 16, Cho killed two students in a Virginia Tech dormitory, then went across campus to Norris Hall, chained the doors shut and opened fire inside several classrooms. He later committed suicide there. In all, Cho killed 27 students and five faculty members.
The only thing he did right was shoot himself and save everyone a lot of time, money, and trouble. Too bad he didn’t
start the rampage by shooting himself. Things would have gone much better then.
The families also said it was important that panel members gain access to Cho's immigration and mental health records. Massengill has said that the panel would go to court if necessary to get Cho's medical and mental health records, which Virginia Tech officials have said federal privacy laws bar them from sharing.
Remember, medical privacy is an absolute right. So much so, that it allows women to have their babies killed. You have to love what “abortion rights” has wrought.
I wish those directly harmed by this evil man's actions well, but I do not like the precedent I'm seeing established.