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Contributed by: Gayle Bartos-Pool on 4/22/2007

A warped young man goes on a rampage, kills thirty-two people and himself and people wonder what went wrong. What went wrong? He killed thirty-two people. That's what went wrong. Pretty simple.

Fingers started pointing immediately, even before his movie came out. Was anybody surprised he took time to make a video? Through all the carnage and panic and terror, he pauses to make a video. Who does that?

The last time I saw someone's pre-carnage video was the woman who blew herself apart in Iraq. She left the little memento for her daughter to remember her by. My mother left me her wedding ring. For some reason I can't draw a parallel between the two. Pre-carnage video...wedding ring.

Voices after the slaughter in Virginia asked: What caused this guy's violent act? Was he on drugs? Was he taunted?

No. He was taught. Taught in Madras America where video games show kids how to kill, movies show them how to massacre, and rap lyrics tell them how to take a life with musical accompaniment.

Logic tells you not everyone is influenced by the movies or video games or music. Those are basically forms of entertainment and ninety-nine percent of the population can't be swayed by a joystick, flashing images, or filthy lyrics. But movies and videos just teach the technique, like an owner's manual shows you how to operate a lawn mower.

This unrelenting hatred of life, especially hatred for American life, and America itself, is taught just like the suicide bombers in Iraq and Iran and Egypt and Syria are taught, in schools. Show me the difference in what is preached to young men and women by al Qaeda and Hamas and Hezbollah and what is spewed on American campuses.

America is evil. America is too rich. America is draining the world of its oil. America is polluting the world.

Propagandist hogwash.

America feeds the world. If America didn't have the wealth it has, the world would starve to death or be totally consumed by petty third-world dictators. America pays for the oil it uses. It doesn't come free out of those pumps at Exxon. Ask the sheiks to lower their prices if you want cheaper gas. As for global warming, America adds 1% to the greenhouse effect. If we disappeared, 100% of greenhouse gases would be caused by all the other causes, mostly natural ones, like humidity. Tell Mother Nature not to rain and the greenhouse gases will disappear. So will everything else, so watch what you ask for.

Children were taught to listen to their teachers. Look what kids are being taught: college professors and high school teachers rant about evil America. Hate speech is coming in the form of school lessons. Al Qaeda couldn't say it better, except this bilge is taught to your children in English in American classrooms.

So while your little latent jihadists are concocting ways to blow up the world, or their school, maybe you should sit down with your kids and tell them this stuff is wrong. Show your children better movies. Go to their schools and see what tripe is being fed to them along with politically correct lunches. If you don't teach them, somebody else will.

But the youth of America isn't the only sector of the population "taught" this stuff. I was at a local bookstore, listening to some writers. One semi-famous author was asked what story would he love to write. He said the one where the president and vice president and the former secretary of defense were killed.

Another time at a library featuring another set of authors, a woman in the audience, a nurse at a public hospital, said she would like to write a story about having the president come to the hospital in need of an operation and she would kill him on the operating table in a way no one would detect. She's a nurse. I will not be going to that hospital.

At the LA Times Book Fair in 2004, I saw the booth selling the book on how to assassinate the president. There was also the movie, Death of a President, which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival that showed Bush being assassinated in a way reminiscent of the shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald. And then there are the Hate America web sites and hate radio and actors and news anchors preaching the doctrine.

Why do kids hate and kill? You think they're crazy? No. They're taught.

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Submitted By: Jackie Houchin

posted on 4/24/2007 @ 10:47:47 AM

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This could happen anywhere - even at our Glendale Community College. Stop teaching our youth that violence is thrilling. Stop giving these killers all the press. Start teaching are youth the sanctity of life!

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