Virginia Tech president Charles Steger and former Executive Vice-President James Hyatt remain as defendants in the two lawsuits filed by families of students killed in the 2007 shootings at the school. [More]Hey, at least they made sure they were out of physical danger--even if they didn't tell anyone outside their elite clique...
Virginia Tech’s government affairs director ordered Steger’s office locked around 8:52 a.m. [That's 30 minutes before they notified students!]And there was another silver lining:
Campus trash collection was canceled 21 minutes before students and teachers were warned.Thing is, when the trucks got running again, it looks like they didn't pick up all of it...
[Via Mack H]
Notice how the accomplices to murder took care to shield themselves. Odd, isn't it, how these swine enable, abett, and encourage hideous deeds, and then hide behind their sanctimonious squealings? I'm thinking of a rope, a tree, and a dreadfully rainy day.
ReplyDelete"sovereign immunity"?
ReplyDeleteWhat is every elected ofical and School staff, along with LEO's immune from being held accountable?
Why, yes. Yes they are.
ReplyDeleteThe privileged class cannot be held responsible by us plebs.
We're getting a new Virginia governor sworn in on Saturday. He looks to be a BIG improvement over Timmy Obama-Kaine. Maybe he'll clean house. I'll email him.
ReplyDeleteSome things should not be forgotten or forgiven. Primary among them is teaching our young people that they aren't good enough or smart enough to procide for their own safety, to let the professionals handle it.
I remember the news tapes. All the professionals were hiding behind trees, their big bellies hanging out, waiting for the shooting to stop.
David,
ReplyDeleteFrom the Richmond Times Dispatch:
The families of Julia K. Pryde and Erin N. Peterson, echoing the views of dozens of victims and families who settled with the state in 2008, allege that Tech's top officials delayed too long before advising the campus about Cho's first two murders in a Tech dormitory that day.
That meant Cho's 30 additional murder victims, and the others he wounded, went to class that day not knowing anything was amiss and not having the chance to make up their own minds whether it was safe to be on campus.
Reader comments are interesting.
time for a little review. the source quoted here is good on some
ReplyDeletethings but is missing the major flaw in the "lockdown" procedure.
From the inimitable letter to the Boston Globe by Doug Van Gorder of a few weeks ago.
Current school security procedures lock down school populations in the event of armed assault. Some advocate abandoning this practice as it holds everyone in place, allowing a shooter easily to find victims.
An alternative to lockdown is immediate exodus via announcement. [T]his removes potential hostages and makes it nearly impossible for the shooter to acquire preselected targets ...
For more from an expert, visit
http://freemendo.typepad.com for November 2007. "Lockdown no No NO." he has an update on his discussion of the 2009 Binghamton shoot-in.