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I will pose this question to the panel that I posed to Mr. Hincker, which he has never answered. I would especially like to hear the governor's defense of helplessness as a "security measure".
Further, I take deep exception to fact that to date you are ignoring the university's part in enabling such an atrocity. Shame on you.
The question:
Are you still pleased that your Defenseless Student policy was not overturned by state law? Are you pleased that so many have died and been wounded because you and others at Virginia Tech decided that the purity of how you think it should be was upheld and these people died and suffered grievous injury, but did not escalate the violence? That is the next spin on your stance isn't it? "At least the violence was not escalated by some horrid displays of old west gunfights in the streets. " Of course, we must remember that it wasn't stopped either, because you made that monster the most powerful man everywhere he walked that day on the environs under your care.
Will you get an award for such a forward looking progressive program? Maybe the A. Eichmann Award for Societal Solutions?
Shame on you and the entire administration and all who push the lie that helplessness makes one safer.
(signed with my name and email
May 16, 2007, 4:34:00 PM
Posted to Citizen Comments on Virginia Tech