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HOLY SHIT!!! WHY in the fucking hell didn't anyone DO anything? Something? Just by reading those you can tell he is mentally disturbed. I would even wager a guess it stems from sexual molestation from an authority figure as a young child. Repeated abuse from his peers. The list goes on and on. *shakes my head*
AOL News has obtained two plays a classmate says were written by Cho Seung-Hui. Ian MacFarlane, the former classmate and current AOL employee, provided us with the plays. A note from Mr. MacFarlane and links to the works appear below.
What happened yesterday:
When I first heard about the multiple shootings at Virginia Tech yesterday, my first thought was about my friends, and my second thought was "I bet it was Seung Cho."
Cho was in my playwriting class last fall, and nobody seemed to think much of him at first. He would sit by himself whenever possible, and didn't like talking to anyone. I don't think I've ever actually heard his voice before. He was just so quiet and kept to himself. Looking back, he fit the exact stereotype of what one would typically think of as a "school shooter" ? a loner, obsessed with violence, and serious personal problems. Some of us in class tried to talk to him to be nice and get him out of his shell, but he refused talking to anyone. It was like he didn't want to be friends with anybody. One friend of mine tried to offer him some Halloween candy that she still had, but he slowly shook his head, refusing it. He just came to class every day and submitted his work on time, as I understand it.
A major part of the playwriting class was peer reviews. We would write one-act plays and submit them to an online repository called Blackboard for everyone in the class to read and comment about in class the next day. Typically, the students give their opinions about the plays and suggest ways to make it better, the professor gives his insights, then asks the author to comment about the play in class.
When we read Cho's plays, it was like something out of a nightmare. The plays had really twisted, macabre violence that used weapons I wouldn't have even thought of. Before Cho got to class that day, we students were talking to each other with serious worry about whether he could be a school shooter. I was even thinking of scenarios of what I would do in case he did come in with a gun, I was that freaked out about him. When the students gave reviews of his play in class, we were very careful with our words in case he decided to snap. Even the professor didn't pressure him to give closing comments.
After hearing about the mass shootings, I sent one of my friends a Facebook message asking him if he knew anything about Seung Cho and if he could have been involved. He replied: "dude that's EXACTLY what I was thinking! No, I haven't heard anything, but seriously, that was the first thing I thought when I heard he was Asian."
While I "knew" Cho, I always wished there was something I could do for him, but I couldn't think of anything. As far as notifying authorities, there isn't (to my knowledge) any system set up that lets people say "Hey! This guy has some issues! Maybe you should look into this guy!" If there were, I definitely would have tried to get the kid some help. I think that could have had a good chance of averting yesterday's tragedy more than anything.
While I was hesitant at first to release these plays (because I didn't know if there are laws against it), I had to put myself in the shoes of the average person researching this situation. I'd want to know everything I could about the killer to figure out what could drive a person to do something like this and hopefully prevent it in the future. Also, I hope this might help people start caring about others more no matter how weird they might seem, because if this was some kind of cry for attention, then he should have gotten it a long time ago
As far as the victims go, as I was heading to bed last night, I heard that my good friend Stack (Ryan Clark) was one of the first confirmed dead. I didn't want to believe that I'd never get to talk to him again, and all I could think about was how much I could tell him how much his friendship meant to me. During my junior year, Ryan, another friend and I used to get breakfast on Tuesdays and Thursdays at Shultz Dining Hall, one of the cafeterias on campus, and it was always the highlight of my day. He could talk forever it seemed and always made us laugh. He was a good friend, not just to me, but to a lot of people, and I'll miss him a lot.
Click on the links below the read the plays. WARNING: the plays contain profanity and scenes with disturbing content.
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play #2
uhm..
i write short stories, and monologues and the majority of them.. in fact, all of them are..... very violent... very graphic... very twisted.... and of a rather disgusting nature
so... by that theory... and judging by two plays he wrote which appear to be written by a 13 year old with too much angst and not enough education on the english language....
so what you're saying is...
if a person were to read my books and take a trip through my head
i guess i would a prime candidate to be the next mass murderer
..... i think that's a really shitty theory you got goin on there.. IMHO
no offence, but that's almost as bad as saying that because this kid that played violent video games was more prone than this one to shoot up the school... or this one who listens to gangster rap is more likely to kill a bitch and ass rape her while she bleeds on the floor than the college jock hopped up on steroids... see what i'm saying?
my opinion on this is there no excuse to kill innocent people...
i'm not sayin that just those plays meant he was gonna kill people paigee...i think that those plays should have at least triggered a response of some sort from the teacher to look into it..it seems in MOST note the most cases that people who write extremely violent stuff eventually act it out because they have a hard time separating reality and "make believe" and if a person sat and talked to you they'd know you are graphic with violence in your writings but you are NOT the type to seriously act that stuff out...see what i'm sayin??
All these stories and video games and music bullshit, is just another for society to blame others for there sins. Step up and be a man/woman and own up to your fuck up's. Don't put the blame on other's porogitives. If I get a thrill about hunting and killing an animal just to mount it on my wall then so be it, but if flip out and kill someone don't go blaming it on my hunting adventures. Do you understand, What I am saying?
I understand what youre saying Dark
Like Summer said...those plays SHOULD have triggered some sort of response and looking into. There is a difference in a person who can write stuff like that and still separate the two. Here you have someone who was a loner...refused to talk to anyone...and had written those plays plus left notes. To shut oneself off from society is not a "normal" human response.
Here is something to check out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RV-yPaJb_k
*shakes my head* i saw that on the news...he had to have this planned for a long ass time...and it probably didn't have to happen and NOT in his defense but the kid needed help...i just hope that people learn from this...
my thoughts exactly
That is the thing...I hope they do learn from it and pull this shit off the news and quit hyping it up so damn much when shit like this does happen. People learn to deal with their pasts in different ways. The point I was trying to make with this is that there were many red flags that something was in fact wrong and no one did anything. *shakes my head*