Tom Ridge is a former governor of Pennsylvania. Even among Republicans, he's one of the most foul and truly evil persons in the country. He's a public enemy on the order of Dick Cheney and George W. Bush. Fools chose Ridge to "investigate" the terrible massacre at Virginia Tech University. It was a serious mistake. Cho Seung-Hui, an insane senior at the university, slaughtered 32 persons and then killed himself. Among the dead was Professor Liviu Librescu who, as a child, had survived the Nazi holocaust. Now a man like Ridge is supposed to investigate the deaths. There can be no rational explanation for the mass murder of 32 persons. Ridge has nothing to investigate. He's an extremist right-wing politician with many Nazi-like principles of government oppression of individuals. Today we call it Bush-ism. Hui's horrible crimes have provoked serious collateral concerns. The first and most mysterious is why the big fuss over these 32 deaths? Thanks to President Bush and his insane far right-wing political fanaticism, more that 30 Americans are slaughtered each week in the Iraq Civil War. More than that many innocent Iraqis are slaughtered each day thanks to Bush starting the war. Why do college students deserve so much grief while American and Iraqi casualties are shrugged off as acceptable sacrifices to conservative Republican idiocy. If Republicans cause your death, you don't count. If a madman kills you, it's all weeping and gnashing of teeth. Of course, there's another factor, unspoken, but true. The kids killed in Iraq are mostly poor, uneducated and intercity. The kids killed at VT are well-to-do and mostly Republican with money enough to command respect. To American bias, Iraqis are only foreigners. Their deaths are meaningless. Killing them doesn't matter to Republicans. The American warriors (both enlisted and mercenary) can't be noticed because that would expose the Bush war folly. If we grieve over mass killing at Virginia Tech, we should grieve over the mass killing in Iraq. If we should take steps to stop the one, we should also stop the other. Another issue which the Virginia Tech massacre highlighted is America's addiction to guns. Guns are an American religion, a cause, an American toy, a much loved addiction. That's largely a mystery. Americans will kill for the right to kill with guns and to possess them as if they were potent cocks. In reality, there are perhaps 100,000 times more guns in America that we should have. Why do we need so many weapons? Does it make us feel tough? manly? less emasculated? I'm convinced it's a sexual displacement, a way to compensate for male sexual inadequacy. Tens of thousands of guns should be taken off the streets. Buy-back programs are great. The best programs are those which swap groceries for guns. Churches, civic groups and other organizations such as "Weed and Seed" should be offering $200 grocery vouchers for each handgun surrendered. It would save lives and do a lot more good than preaching. But the number of weapons is only part of the problem. Using modern technologies and RFID chips, guns should be controlled. Technology should allow the weapon to recognize its registered owner and allow no one else to fire it. Simple chips in the pistol grip should be mandated by federal law. The technology would allow the gun to be fired only by the hand of its registered and authorized owner such as a cop or sportsman. If a kid or criminal gets hold of the gun, it would be useless. A civilized United States has no legitimate reason for citizens armed like pirates. The big thing Ridge and his cronies investigate is how to blame the University for the crimes. Many persons think that the University should have protected the victims. They think that the school should have been locked down when the shooting started. Alternatively, some persons think that a warning siren or something should be sounded when there's danger. Virginia Tech is a small city. There are (or were) 26,000 students and 10,000 employees. If there was a murder in a town of 36,000 people, would the town be locked down? would a siren be sounded? Maybe Big Brother shouldn't be expected to safeguard us from ourselves. Rebecca's Bargain Antiques Collectible Vintage Photos Fine Prints - Old Maps Sheet Music - Old Books Elegant Antiques and Collectibles "The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work, then get elected and prove it," P.J. O'Rourke, 1988 You are welcome to use or republish any of our material. Please give www.prisoners.com credit as the source. Return to the News Items Menu. Return to the Death Sacrifice Menu. Return to the Main Menu. Go to our site's Search Engine. Send us Your Comments, Questions or Input.