Paranoia Runs High After Virginia Tech Shootings
by Jeff Davis
American law and society has a long tradition of responding to serious events by attempting to lock the barn door after the horse has already been stolen. Every time some individual of any race snaps and goes berserk with a gun, the sluggish and senile American legal and social engineering systems lumber ponderously into low gear in an attempt to “prevent” something that has already happened. Usually, this takes the form of some new attempt to sabotage and revoke the Second Amendment, but increasingly, the First Amendment is coming under attack by these government bureaucrats and politicians who are perhaps afraid of retaliation from the millions of people who have been over-taxed, reverse-discriminated or victimized in some other way by the Feds.
The Chicago Sun Times reports: “Police Thursday released portions of an essay used to charge a Cary-Grove High School student with disorderly conduct, leaving several experts puzzled at an arrest based on such schoolwork. Asked to write about whatever he wanted in a creative writing class, would-be Marine and honors student Allen Lee, 18, described a violent dream in which he shot people and then ‘had sex with the dead bodies.’ ‘’ (You would think every Oriental student in America would be concerned about looking anything like the Virginia Tech Shooter, but not this guy. In the aftermath of a shooting incident, there is naturally some paranoia, but could this paranoia become a permanent condition with writers dragged off in handcuffs for the slightest mention of violence or politically incorrect thought?) (more…)