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mindmetoo



Joined: 02 Feb 2004

PostPosted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 3:09 am    Post subject: Cho conspiracy Reply with quote

A Korean friend quipped something about how there was some doubt Cho could have been the killer. A criminologist claimed the guns Cho used supposedly could not have been so effective and accurate. Blah blah. I kind of had to stop my friend short and let her know I would think the cops would test to make sure the bullets in the bodies matched the guns used. If that were the case, you'd need a pretty big chain of people to be silent on the evidence the guns weren't used.

I've not heard any real conspiracy theories, but a friend suggested he wouldn't be surprised if someone spun on. He quickly dashed off "the conspiracy":

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How did the "shooter" kill all those people by himself, in such a short time?

One of the photos clearly showed Cho had no idea how to properly hold a fire arm. How could he have been so deadly in such a short space of time?

A well trained sharp shooter couldn't accomplish this so how did a young recent immigrant with no formal training do this?

Why was there so little action on the part of authorities during the interval between the first and second shooting? It is hard to imagine post 9/11 security would be so lax at a major research center close to DC!

Isn't it a little convenient and odd that days after the shooting that the media gets a package will all sorts of "evidence" that this guy was the shooter and why he did it?

Who stood to gain from distracting the media and the American public from the war in Iraq and the Alberto Gonzalez hearings?

Isn't it more than a little odd his sister works for a CIA front company in Iraq!

How does a pair of poor Korean parents suddenly get enough money to send two kids to top schools?

This all happened soon after Korea announced it was going to pull out of Iraq AND America signed a bad Free Trade Agreement.


As sad as the above is, should someone really get the conspiracy bug up their ass, this one is sadder. Vaccines are to blame.
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supernaut



Joined: 04 Jan 2007
Location: Nova Scotia

PostPosted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 3:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Not to blame the killing on vaccines, but there is a huge amount of proof that the thimerasol (mercury) is to blame for the spike in autism cases in children in the 90's.

I wouldn't put it past drug companies to sell us medicine that make us sick in order to sell us more medine in the future.

With slogans like "An aspirin a day", with the crap pre-packaged food and pills we've been consuming since the 70's, we wonder why people are crazier and fatter.

I personally think that pre-packaged foods are worse for your health then marijuana.
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wylies99



Joined: 13 May 2006
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 3:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

What about the "Cigarette-smoking man"? Where does he fit in, agents Mulder and Scully?

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How does a pair of poor Korean parents suddenly get enough money to send two kids to top schools?


Scholarships. There are PLENTY of them available in the US- especially for minorities. Yes, in the US colleges and universities treat foreign-born students very well and welcome them with scholarships. Anyone who doesn't know this has never been in the US.
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Roch



Joined: 24 Apr 2003
Location: Seoul

PostPosted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 4:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

wylies99 wrote:
What about the "Cigarette-smoking man"? Where does he fit in, agents Mulder and Scully?

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How does a pair of poor Korean parents suddenly get enough money to send two kids to top schools?


Scholarships. There are PLENTY of them available in the US- especially for minorities. Yes, in the US colleges and universities treat foreign-born students very well and welcome them with scholarships. Anyone who doesn't know this has never been in the US.


Stafford Loans, Pell Grants, and P.L.U.S. Loans helped my stinkin' rich friends from India, Turkey, Japan and South Korea when I went to one of the most famous National Liberal Arts Universities in the U.S. in the early '90s (rated ahead of Amherst and Williams until the late eighties).

Additionally, preferential, race-based/class-blind treatment for Research and Teaching Assistantships and on and/or off-campus jobs certainly helped all of the Asians I knew maintain surprisingly high monthly incomes given the fact that they were not even American citizens and were already rich by any standard.
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mindmetoo



Joined: 02 Feb 2004

PostPosted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 5:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

supernaut wrote:
Not to blame the killing on vaccines, but there is a huge amount of proof that the thimerasol (mercury) is to blame for the spike in autism cases in children in the 90's.


Actually if you follow the link, it goes to the blog of a neurologist who discusses why there is no good evidence for the vaccine/mercury/autism connection. (For example, places where they've stopped giving vaccines that use mercury still see increases in autism.) There was some indication several years ago that there could be a link but there have been some very well done recent definitive studies that show no connection. It's so much fan death thinking at this point.

http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2006/04/evidence_against_an_autism_epi.php


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Mashimaro



Joined: 31 Jan 2003
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 5:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

If koreans weren't looking to blame their ills on someone else it just wouldn't be korea
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RACETRAITOR



Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea

PostPosted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 5:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

My wife heard a conspiracy theory that Cho didn't act alone, and his accomplice executed him at the end of the massacre and escaped without being detected. I called BS on it.

Another one I heard is that the Korean-American finalist on The Apprentice lost in the final round because he's from the same country as Cho.
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mindmetoo



Joined: 02 Feb 2004

PostPosted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 5:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ah crap:

http://thevirginiatechconspiracy.blogspot.com/

I knew this wouldn't stay hypothetical for too long. The guy may be just trolling.
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Mashimaro



Joined: 31 Jan 2003
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 3:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

RACETRAITOR wrote:

Another one I heard is that the Korean-American finalist on The Apprentice lost in the final round because he's from the same country as Cho.

thanks for the spoiler Mad
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khyber



Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 3:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

read the crap from Kerux on the pusanweb thread on the topic.

It's no injection kids. It's ALL about the mind control experiments going on at VT.
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mindmetoo



Joined: 02 Feb 2004

PostPosted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 4:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

khyber wrote:
read the crap from Kerux on the pusanweb thread on the topic.

It's no injection kids. It's ALL about the mind control experiments going on at VT.


Oh jesus, isn't Kerux the former Meegook here on Dave's?
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kurva anjad



Joined: 19 Apr 2007

PostPosted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 4:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Could be. They all look alike.
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