Comments on: UPDATED: 'EVIL, NOT ILL' https://barelyablog.com/evil-not-ill-2/ by ilana mercer Wed, 02 Apr 2025 19:29:09 +0000 hourly 1 By: bill https://barelyablog.com/evil-not-ill-2/comment-page-1/#comment-14196 Sun, 22 Apr 2007 06:44:36 +0000 http://blog.ilanamercer.com/?p=441#comment-14196 The Blame for the Virginia Tech Massacre
The media has done a great job at shifting the blame everywhere but… But they’ve failed to tell you the three most important issues.

1. First and foremost, we must blame Cho Sung-Hui (he did it.) [What do you think this column is about?]
2. Our own Countries immigration policy, has allowed this to happen.
3. Our own legislators, that do not want you to have the right to defend yourself against murderers like Cho, have encouraged Chos’ and much more to follow.

Did you know that in the two worse massacres in America, a gun was never used?

911/World Trade Center, Pentagon ect: Weapons used? Box cutters.
Oklahoma City Bombing: Weapon used: A rental Truck, ammonium nitrate & fertilizer.

[Massacres by the state, anyone? Wako? Or is the state allowed guns/bombs for the purpose of the odd massacre.]

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By: Flaxen-headed Strumpet https://barelyablog.com/evil-not-ill-2/comment-page-1/#comment-14195 Sat, 21 Apr 2007 16:50:22 +0000 http://blog.ilanamercer.com/?p=441#comment-14195 “Diamond in a goat’s ass”?? What a simile!!! I don’t know if I could wear that around my neck or not! Somebody ought to foward that to all the poetry instructors at VT.

[Strumpet, you’re too much. It is a rather jarring imagery.]

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By: Alex https://barelyablog.com/evil-not-ill-2/comment-page-1/#comment-14194 Sat, 21 Apr 2007 15:53:44 +0000 http://blog.ilanamercer.com/?p=441#comment-14194 I’m probably less appreciative of Cho being called ‘the idiot’ by his aunt… sounds like he came from a great family, alright (when a kid acts up, you punish him; spankings or destroying things and or objects that they enjoy. You don’t humiliate and degrade them. No wonder he hated people.

Lack of punishment, ignoring his clear misadjustment in life, and shutting up wonderful people like his aunt could have stopped this crap. In his writings he sounds like a five year old boy raging against the world – which reminds me of the saying that the evil man is the child grown strong. He needed discipline, structure, and a likely a better father figure. What he got was was the liberal form of child abuse; we’re finding out, slowly (America is pretty dumb) that ignoring kids and pretending that clearly anti-social actions and rebellion is ‘ok’, and letting kids ‘grown into their own’ is jsut as tyrannical as beating a boy for nothing.

What Cho needed, it seems, was a good spanking.

Too late now though – a bunch of (innocent) people are dead, and one man wasted away his life by becoming a monster. A total waste for all involved.

But don’t count on America learning anything from this.

[See comment/response in the post update.]

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By: Martin Berrow https://barelyablog.com/evil-not-ill-2/comment-page-1/#comment-14193 Sat, 21 Apr 2007 02:52:21 +0000 http://blog.ilanamercer.com/?p=441#comment-14193 Has anyone noticed that the silence from the likes of Hillary Clinton, Barak Obama, Ted Kennedy, and many other liberals who are rabid advocates of gun control, is deafening. Their horrible, big-government mindset has suddenly disappeared, in the most likely scenario, they normally would be foaming at the mouth to spew out their false gun control agendas. Yes, we are talking about the massacre at Virginia Tech. If we were to pay attention to what the liberal democratic candidates were saying, (or rather not saying), you would think that they are proponents of the 2nd amendment. They represent the typical bottomfeeder, liberal mentality, to hush their mouths on this subject, because it may jeopardize their hopes of becoming President of the USA. They all love gun control, but now they would like you to think that they are having brunch with Ted Nugent in Waco Texas on his hunting reserve. These liberal democrats really think that they are shrewd. Not so. Instead of condeming the fact that the campus was a “gun-free zone”, they remain silent. But their silence speaks volumes. Just as it took many years for the United States airlines to take the cue from El Al airlines pertaining to arming the pilots & crew, hopefully it won’t take that long for people here to realize there must be some armed teachers in schools. Martin Berrow

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By: Max Bleiweiss https://barelyablog.com/evil-not-ill-2/comment-page-1/#comment-14192 Fri, 20 Apr 2007 20:36:44 +0000 http://blog.ilanamercer.com/?p=441#comment-14192 As usual, Ilana has expressed it very well…the only thing that I might add is that the psych drugs in this case, as in so many others, allowed the murderer to act out his evil deed. Even an evil person has self-restraints, be it fear of consequences or whatever. The drugs pushed him to the point where he no longer had fear of consequences to restrain him.
Please see http://www.cchr.org for the facts on psychiatry’s involvement in these horrific crimes.

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By: Bob Schaefer https://barelyablog.com/evil-not-ill-2/comment-page-1/#comment-14191 Fri, 20 Apr 2007 20:17:04 +0000 http://blog.ilanamercer.com/?p=441#comment-14191 When is the last time a crime scene investigator discovered pure paranoid schizophrenia in the bottom of his test tube? Or pure evil?

The fact is Seung-Hui Cho was a member of our society and he murdered 32 of his fellows. As a member of that same society, I don’t care if Cho was motivated by mental illness or an evil heart or acute indigestion. He’s dead. He’s no longer a threat to me or anyone else in our society.

If Cho had survived his murderous rampage, then I would care about what motivated his actions, but only insofar as the criminal code of our society considers “state of mind” a mitigating factor in the crime of murder. Had he survived, Cho might have been adjudged “not guilty by reason of insanity” and might have remained a murderous threat to society for years to come.

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By: Randy https://barelyablog.com/evil-not-ill-2/comment-page-1/#comment-14190 Fri, 20 Apr 2007 19:26:30 +0000 http://blog.ilanamercer.com/?p=441#comment-14190 I am really getting weary of the “it’s gotta be somebody else’s fault,” and the “all world views are equally valid” mentality. Some folks don’t have a clue. You either believe in right and wrong, or you don’t. At bottom, those are the only 2 “philosophies” to choose from. Which is really the most intolerant?

By the way, thanks for a refreshing, if depressingly rare analysis.

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By: D. Ox https://barelyablog.com/evil-not-ill-2/comment-page-1/#comment-14189 Fri, 20 Apr 2007 17:58:25 +0000 http://blog.ilanamercer.com/?p=441#comment-14189 I read your article over at WND after writing my own post yesterday on the same problem. The very LANGUAGE of morality has been made verbotten.

Thanks for an insightful elaboration.

All the best,
D. Ox

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By: John McClain https://barelyablog.com/evil-not-ill-2/comment-page-1/#comment-14188 Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:25:44 +0000 http://blog.ilanamercer.com/?p=441#comment-14188 It is essential to those who would “run” the Nation, that such incidents be labeled “ill”, because any delving into the things that lead up to such actions inevitably demonstrate irresponsibility on the part of the majority of the adults around him. Some people appear to be born evil, I’ve known people who were nothing but evil, and they came from nice, well parented households. They are the odd ones, most of those who are “evil” have come to it step by step, and by being allowed to escalate until they reach a point where they have to make a substative moral decision about themselves. At that point, they choose a path, and if it is to continue, nothing short of killing and being killed will stop them. He chose to follow his path and it is evil to make excuses for what he did. He chose.

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By: robert reavis https://barelyablog.com/evil-not-ill-2/comment-page-1/#comment-14187 Fri, 20 Apr 2007 12:54:15 +0000 http://blog.ilanamercer.com/?p=441#comment-14187 Ilana Mercer is like a diamond shining in a goat’s ass. Brilliant, tough, possessing attractions with (almost) everlasting appeal . Yet so few miners willing or able — even capable — of withstanding the stench to retreive it. These are hard truths for a very weak age. Robert Reavis

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