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April 26, 2007

Confused Americans for Truth - Whose Failure Is It, Anyway?

by Ferdinand T Cat

I've been waiting for this story to appear, because some variation of it appears every time a young person goes on a rampage. It's the story of how America failed to save Virginia Tech shooter Cho Seung-Hui.

The truth is, however, that Cho Seung-Hui is not America's failure, he is a failure of liberalism. America does not promise you a life free from prejudice, fear, and want. America promises you the opportunity to better your own life. It is liberalism that says you have a right to expect a life without hard knocks, and the reason Cho Seung-Hui's expectations weren't fulfilled is that liberalism doesn't work.

Every story about Cho eventually comes to his relationship with Lucinda Roy, the teacher who tried to help him. Here's how the article above describes Roy's failure to help Cho.

Professor Roy became fearful. Sadly, we all are when we do not understand. Often, when any of us think we are threatened, instead of continuing to assist, we withdraw from what causes us great apprehension. We avoid knowing what we recognize and prepare to protect ourselves further. Thus, we as a society discuss increasing security in our schools rather than raising the standards and funding for mental health.

Honestly, it would be irrational to try and maintain a close relationship with someone who acts like a stalker. It would be even more irrational to think that free mental health care would have made a difference. Psychotherapy only works if the patient wants to be cured. People who want to be cured don't buy guns and make video tapes. People who want to be cured throw themselves on the mercy of the clinic when they're sent there for evaluation.

But the act of wanting to be a better person comes from a conservative mindset. It's not an option if you subscribe to the liberal belief that your problems are somebody else's fault. That belief only allows one way out of the downward spiral of self-pity: violence.

Do you think I'm exaggerating? I'm not, you know. I'm merely repeating the central theme of an article titled Seung-Hui Cho. I Mourn Your Life and Loss.

So, if you come across an angst-ridden teen, explain that there is an alternative to a life of crime, and it's called Improving Yourself. All you have to do to embrace your brighter future is abandon liberalism. It's not something you can learn at college, but people do it all the time.

Respectfully submitted

Ferdinand T. Cat

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Cat, the one who "mourns" and has a hurting heart above, should understand that every person in the world cannot save "each" person in the world, from their demons.

This poor teacher...my gosh, she tried and I saw the interview when she said she thought she should have done more. Guilt, guilt. At the time, she did what she thought needed to be done.

We have to get on to the others, whom we can help. When we can, we should. We can only reach out to those we can reach. If we cannot reach them...then we find those we can.

The problem is, Liberalism has awarded the privilege of victimhood, in all of it's various guises, as an anointing. As you have well said: "...the act of wanting to be a better person comes from a conservative mindset." That, of course, is the understanding that: I/you/we expect to be held accountable. If Cho or whatever his Americanized name is, was not capable of "expectations," then only his family is to blame, for it appears that he has been weird since he was a child. In this case, "weird" means "non-communicative." A child who does not talk and will not meet the gaze of a loving adult, is likely in big trouble. Even the parents can only do what they can do. Did they try hard enough? We don't know.

Good article.

Maggie
Maggie's Notebook


Posted by: Maggie M. Thornton at April 26, 2007 2:12 PM

Thanks for the link back.

Maggie
Maggie's Notebook


Posted by: Maggie M. Thornton at April 27, 2007 9:17 PM

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