Current Events - April 2007

Question Details: was his girlfriend asian? (haven't been watching all the networks), i know there was one asian guy posting here questions, saying "white" people taking all asian's stuff, and said now white men taking their women and girlfriends, was glad to see some asian girls post that that is their decision and no one "takes" them or forces them as to who they wish to date or go with. some girls have posted on here that he didn't like females, don't know who he was stalking (never showed, as usual), but did anyone see on another network that he was ticked off his "girlfriend" (don't know how he managed to have one) was going around on him with another guy, i wouldn't blame her, if she wanted to get away from him : )

2007-04-19 02:46:53 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

They are two of the worst events in years. Which had more impact on you personally?

2007-04-19 01:00:37 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

its sad but think of how he was feeling what he was feeling its just sad then just what must you be feeling to go kill all those people

2007-04-18 23:44:08 · 9 answers · asked by bik_ko 3

Why do they get more attention than tragedies occuring in other parts of the world often with a larger scale of casualties?
Why is it that the world is mourning the deaths of 32 in Us but forgets to sympathize with the 172 that died just yesterday in Iraq?
Why is it that we want to understand and determine the facts and motives behind the cold blooded assassinations of monday but fail to do so with the 7/7 bombings?
Why is it that an American life is considered more precious than an Iraqi one?
Why is it that after an event such as that of 9/11 and 7/7 many muslims are arrested and illegaly detained without any sensible reason, but that same process is not repeated with any South Korean living in America or any other part of the World?
Why have these double standards been always visible in the Us Foreign policy?
Why?...Why?....Why?

2007-04-18 23:23:33 · 10 answers · asked by The Big Man 2

Why do you think certain kinds of people feel it necessary to capitalize on tragedies such as VT in order leap up on a soapbox and air their socio-political views that sometimes are barely even related to the tragedy?

Debate is one thing but these types seem less interest in debate and more interest in promoting their socio-political views.

Already we've seen close to a dozen posts about the worth of American lives as opposed to others (even though international students were victims as well). I've seen this type of comment over and over after 911 and Katrina. This is nothing new or thought-provoking and yet these comments get thrown out time and time again.

Also people are using VT to launch into tirades about Iraq, America, South Korea, racism, guns, liberals-conservatives, etc...

Why? Is it just for the sick fun of verbally assaulting people when they're vulnerable? Is it just for the attention they'll get?

2007-04-18 20:45:12 · 7 answers · asked by samurai_dave 6

I know for a fact that Koreans have this odd tendendency to play a victim card. They like to lay a blame on others when they are in trouble, which is an act of refusal to accept responsibilities and consequences for their own actions. Do you think the massacre is just a manifestation of this collective cultural trait?

"Han is a concept in Korean culture, attributed by some as a national cultural trait. Han denotes a collective feeling of oppression and isolation in the face of overwhelming odds. It connotes aspects of lament and unavenged injustice."Wikipedia "Han"

http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/4316/025293615197017229sg4.jpg
This cartoon saying "Korea is the 33rd victim of the shootings"

2007-04-18 20:37:54 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

how did he get cleared to get a weapon from the gun-shop if he has been 302'd?

and they talk about all these acts of heroism, but why didnt anyone just flat out try to stop the kid? he wasnt that big from what i understand and in a school room setting it is very easy to sneak up on someone.

2007-04-18 20:05:26 · 7 answers · asked by tom t 2

I am a filipina and a teacher for Koreans, my students told me that they are afraid that other people from other nations might think that they are all like Cho, (the gunman in VT massacre) and they are all afraid to go to the US anymore because they think that they will be the one to blame knowing that they are also Koreans, do you think that's right? What should i tell them? How can i help?

2007-04-18 19:45:00 · 13 answers · asked by (sinner*saint) 2

You know how it goes...in the dysfuctional pseudo-respectful minds of all races, it is assumed if one can do it, the rest are suspect. Will the big cities of North America see Korean convienience foodstores trashed and firebombed by people who's perpetual showings of gun machismo over the decades been usurped by what they see as 'little' Korea?

2007-04-18 19:38:49 · 13 answers · asked by nativexile 5

Do people like Cho, Jeffery Dommer, Bin Laden ever scare anyone about having children? Are some people just born evil and will amount to no good to society no matter how much love and attention they get?

2007-04-18 19:31:06 · 14 answers · asked by l8r2007 2

If the gunman's family as well as schoolmates and teachers, had been more supportive, if American society in general had been more socially concerned, do you think the shooting could have been prevented?

2007-04-18 18:57:23 · 16 answers · asked by bob_i_ta 2

probably he was trying to act like one of the stupid characters. that thing he did does not have any words to describe the level of tragic he did.
i am not making any joke but he is weird.

2007-04-18 18:54:12 · 9 answers · asked by call me 2

As you see every day killing in Iraq. After US killed Saddam, can not control Iraq situation. Today Iraq became a poor country. (Is it due to US?) Where is the chemical and other Iraqis weapons? How long it will take more, just killing innocents. Is US enjoying this bloodshed and builds up US Economies with Iraqis oil. Because people are saving them life's and US look after Iraqis oil and transferring. Was there any deal with IRAQI Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki " You will be the PM if you kill Saddam and others those are anti US"?

2007-04-18 18:47:34 · 15 answers · asked by C B S 4

I can understand if they release it later after some time when all of the publicity from this tragedy has subsided but for them to release it in the midst of this just seems like a huge mistake that is truthfully very very questionable considering there are photos of the shooter pointing a handgun straight at the viewer as if he is shooting you. When a kid happens to get on the internet and sees this...what is he or she to think about the world? They should not have released this..especially for the grieving families, who I'm sure don't want to see this right now. It would just add to the pain and make them have to realize the amount of terror that their loved ones had to encounter. This is disgusting to me and I think there should be a public outcry about this. I'm not for political correctness but this is abominable!!

2007-04-18 18:46:31 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous

why is it when something like this vtech shooting happen everyone cries yet in other countries more ppl die in violent wars and noone cares

2007-04-18 18:45:15 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

Keeping your heads low I take it!

Hypocrites, Hypocrites, Hypocrites!

2007-04-18 18:40:58 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

who was it directed at and he was saying things like" wash hands" (blah blah ).
what do you think?
n where r his parents?
thanks

2007-04-18 18:40:01 · 7 answers · asked by call me 2

A Mother's Agony
Schizophrenic, drug addict son put her through 'hell' for years, then burned down their home
Doug Ward and Frances Bula, with files from Kelly Sinoski, Vancouver Sun
Published: Wednesday, April 18, 2007
For years Helga Knippelberg's schizophrenic son demanded that she give him money to feed his drug habit.

She would give him cash or cheques. Often she would borrow money from neighbours. If she refused his request for money, Ronald Knippelberg would regularly threaten to harm her or burn down their large east Vancouver house.

"It's been horrible. No one can imagine," Helga Knippelberg, 74, recalled Tuesday. "I'm not even afraid to go to hell because that man has put me through hell."


Helga Knippelberg, 74, stands Tuesday by what's left of her home of 51 years after it was burned to the ground Monday night by her son, Ronald, 47.
Ian Smith, Vancouver Sun

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Font: ****On Monday night, fire destroyed their house at 1091 East 21st Ave. Ronald Knippelberg, 47, was arrested by police after he escaped the three-alarm blaze by jumping out a second-storey window. He has been charged with arson and uttering a threat.

"I've lost everything, furniture, everything," said Helga Knippelberg, standing beside the ruins of her home, where she had lived for 51 years, the day after the fire.

The German immigrant was accompanied by her daughter, Doris Fischer and a grandson, and embraced by neighbours and long-time friends -- all of whom had watched with horror and fear for many years as Helga Knippelberg struggled with her son's mental illness and his insatiable appetite for drugs.

She said her son was diagnosed with schizophrenia at age 17 after being sent to Riverview psychiatric institute by a judge.

He later became hooked on injection drugs while in prison, said his mother. Anger management therapy never worked and he wouldn't take medication.

She described her son as someone "who hasn't a friend in the world."

Doris Fischer said her brother always refused therapy. "He never felt there was anything wrong with him. It was all of us who were the ones who were off."

The mother hopes that her son finally gets the help that he never received before.

"I am hoping that somebody realizes that he needs help. He still has longer to live than I do."

Helga Knippelberg said that on the day of the fire, her son had been berating her for not giving him enough money for drugs. She gave him a cheque, but he wanted some more. He needed another hit of whatever drug he was using that day -- crack cocaine or heroin.

Her son, like most drug addicts, can't accept the word "no," said Helga Knippelberg.

"When they do drugs, they are in a completely different world. It's unexplainable. Unexplainable."

He had already spent about $1,400 on drugs since March 7, when he was released from jail, she added, and had gone beyond the money limit she had set for him.

"He was in a very big need of a fix," said Helga Knippelberg. He demanded that she borrow some money from a neighbour and she refused. She lay down on the chesterfield and he began walking up and down the stairs, appearing more and more hyper.

His behaviour became so worrisome that she decided to phone the police. He had already broken the downstairs phone so she ran across the street and asked a neighbour to call 911 just after midnight.

The police emergency response team appeared and then 38 firemen in 11 trucks.

Const. Tim Fanning said that a police negotiator tried to talk the "very upset, very distraught" suspect into leaving the house. But he had barricaded the door and the police couldn't enter.

2007-04-18 18:34:45 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

was there anything on the news about cho's parents?

2007-04-18 18:25:36 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

i have a theory...maybe cho was picked on in high school but they didnt no he had problems and he maybe kept it inside for so long and he ended up exploding(as in a medafore) and taking it out on innocent people beacuse he was angry at someone that done somthing to him in the past because he was utreated for his condition and held a grudge.

2007-04-18 18:13:13 · 11 answers · asked by Evanna 2

About like the DC hand gun ban is reducing murders in that city?

2007-04-18 18:02:22 · 8 answers · asked by steve d 1

whats iwth this " oh we need to be more understanding, its statements like these that drive crazies like cho over the edge" can you really get off on blaming others/??

2007-04-18 18:02:00 · 14 answers · asked by lady26 5

Cho Seung-Hui couldnt scare the hair of a trannys nutsack. They shouldve kept his idenity secret.

2007-04-18 18:01:24 · 9 answers · asked by namereg b 1

was that really necessary that the USA must dropped the atmoic bomb on janan when the japanese were on the verge of surrendering anyway? why? be specific please.

2007-04-18 18:01:12 · 4 answers · asked by goodyuantellme 1

Was the Oklahoma City Bombing carried out by an American Terrorist orgnaizaiton that is still in existence?

2007-04-18 17:59:48 · 5 answers · asked by Yahoo Sucks 5

I'm sorry if i asked this question in a very inappropriate time. But do u think hollywood producers are gonna turn this sadly and horrible tragedy into a flick? when ?

2007-04-18 17:46:19 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-04-18 17:46:05 · 15 answers · asked by Skeptic 7

Seems like he had suffered abuse, since one doesnt hate others so blatantly without first introduce to the hate itself. He was a victim of abuse. My sympathy for all the victims family and ALSO CHO's family.

2007-04-18 17:42:55 · 27 answers · asked by no name 2

Apparently, it is too easy to purchase weapons in this country. More people use these weapons for crime rather than self defense.
Should the government create a new amendment on restricting all lethal weapons (ie. firearms) to the public?
Share your opinions.
http://wcbstv.com/politics/politicsnational_story_107031103.html

2007-04-18 17:38:55 · 17 answers · asked by Legend 4

They are as much victims as the people he killed, they have probably already received death threats. They will have to bury their (admittedly crazy) son most likely without a funeral, and although some might blame bad parenting, it is not their fault that this happened. What do you think?

2007-04-18 17:36:41 · 17 answers · asked by The JZA 2