Something stinks in Blacksburg.

[JazzManJim]

Again Jim, I'm not suggesting a conspiracy. At least not in the conventional context. I'm thinking more in terms of suppression of identity to protect the innocent.

It's possible, but I'm not sure it's warranted at this point.

You may be right. The authorities may be burying the ID because they don't want some sort of backlash (because we all know how wicked those backlashes get, don't we?). I want to wait a bit before I start thinking that way.

 

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[Sean]

Did the killer fall into his own footprint?

 

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[Ishmael]

It's possible, but I'm not sure it's warranted at this point.

You may be right. The authorities may be burying the ID because they don't want some sort of backlash (because we all know how wicked those backlashes get, don't we?). I want to wait a bit before I start thinking that way.

There is more info up on the Drudge Report that has this making a little more sense. It seems that the first two killed were the gf and a dorm advisor. He didn't get the guy who was beating his time so that would explain why he waited and then went to the classrooms.

And it seems he was attending the Univ. on a student visa from China.

I would suppose the Chinese embassay is involved so that would explain the delay in releasing his name.

Hope that that's all there is to it.

Ishmael

 

[busybody..]

Maybe the son of a diplomat

who needs time to get outa the country

 

[medjay]

Apparantly this guy was dressed as a boy scout. That's creepy and weird all by itself.

And you mean to tell me that an Asain guy dressed that way with ammo strapped to his chest managed to walk all the way across campus undetected, after the word went out that a shooter was on the loose?

Surreal.

 

[Killswitch]

Maybe the son of a diplomat

who needs time to get outa the country

Like you're boss flew all osama bin ladens family out of the country within hours of 911 when the only other planes flying were AF1 and F-18's?

Like that?

 

[Killswitch]

Apparantly this guy was dressed as a boy scout. That's creepy and weird all by itself.

And you mean to tell me that an Asain guy dressed that way with ammo strapped to his chest managed to walk all the way across campus undetected, after the word went out that a shooter was on the loose?

Surreal.

I heard he was wearing a black leather jacket and a maroon ballcap.

I dont know what the BS wear in your area.

 

[busybody..]

yes

 

[JazzManJim]

Apparantly this guy was dressed as a boy scout. That's creepy and weird all by itself.

And you mean to tell me that an Asain guy dressed that way with ammo strapped to his chest managed to walk all the way across campus undetected, after the word went out that a shooter was on the loose?

Surreal.

Well, LARPing and all...

 

[JazzManJim]

Like you're boss flew all osama bin ladens family out of the country within hours of 911 when the only other planes flying were AF1 and F-18's?

Like that?

*coughmythcough*

 

[busybody..]

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[FunkNStein]

I was having dinner at the bar of a "pan-asian" restaraunt today. Just me and the employees, it was dead tonight.

We discussed this shooting, and one of them said they'd heard it was an Asian. Everyone said "ohh.." and I said "thankgod he aint one of mine!" After joking that we all thought it had to be a white dude, the bartender then started speculating what sort of Asian it could be. "Can't be Japanese. They wouldn't have the balls to do this in this situation. Chinese? I can see Chinese... must be Chinese because..." and so on.

Interesting, and how American it is of us to lump all Asians together.

 

[medjay]

Well, LARPing and all...

Lol. . . Well, if I saw that dude walking across the yard and I'd just gotten the report that a shooter was at large, I'd think to myself, Holy shit! That must be the guy!

Also, the BBC is saying he chained the doors of the classrooms to keep people from escaping. I wonder if he was carrying locks and chains around with him? Did he use the chains that were already there and, if so, how did he have the key? Do schools just leave opened padlocks sitting around? I don't think so. That's kind of curious, if you ask me.

 

[medjay]

"Can't be Japanese. They wouldn't have the balls to do this in this situation.

This guy must have never heard of the Yakuza.

 

[Songcatcher]

Two shooters?

 

[FunkNStein]

This guy must have never heard of the Yakuza.

I think she was speaking more in terms of the ordinary, not the extraordinary.

 

[medjay]

I think she was speaking more in terms of the ordinary, not the extraordinary.

True. I'm just curious as to why she would think a Japanese person wouldn't be capable of such a thing. What was the reasoning?

 

[BigAndTall]

Why would they cover up someone's identity?

 

[FunkNStein]

True. I'm just curious as to why she would think a Japanese person wouldn't be capable of such a thing. What was the reasoning?

I did not get into it. She was not specifically talking to me- she was talking to co-workers and including me in a little bit. I left it alone.

 

[Ishmael]

True. I'm just curious as to why she would think a Japanese person wouldn't be capable of such a thing. What was the reasoning?

She probably wasn't Japanese. You haven't seen racism until you visit the orient Med. The Japanese think the Chinese are racially inferior and the Chinese think the Japanese are. Both think that way of the Koreans and all three think that way of all the other Asians. There is a whole racial pecking order.

BB has a point also, he's probably the son of a Diplomat or someone relatively high in the military establishment. And I wouldn't be surprised to learn he's had military training himself. He was very efficient with those pistols. He didn't learn that from a movie. His size, tall, would indicate he's had a good diet most of his life which points to the either the military or political class. Chinese 6' or taller aren't very common among the commoners because of the crap diet they have to live on, especially during the growth years.

Regardless, the press was lied to initially. They've known his name since shortly after the first incident. The whole 'we can't identify him' was a stall.

Ishmael

 

[Songcatcher]

Lol .

 

[Cap’n AMatrixca]

Think it could have been a couple of maladjusted freaks like in Columbine, acting together with different targets?

Hey, we have one reporter in Oklahoma convinced that an Indonesian man was with Timmy. The rush back then was to get the angry white male.

I don't want to speculate on this case, I would like to see some facts, but even now, after all this time, to have so little information smells of a cover-up, what kind of cover-up, who knows?

But I will point out to President Bush that when your sanctuary is a gun-free zone then the hunter has free rein to poach.

 

[Cap’n AMatrixca]

Two shooters?

A cell?