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April 20, 2007

Sherwood Ross: Virginia Tech Parents Have No Right to Grieve

Posted by Dave Blount at April 20, 2007 11:39 AM

If anything could be more contemptible than a psychotic loser who murders 32 people on a maniacal rampage, it would be a comparably psychotic moonbat like Sherwood Ross, who proclaims that the slain students' parents have no right to grieve because they're American:

The American people, including the families of the murdered Virginia Tech innocents, have collective blood-guilt on their hands. […] How many of those parents in the audience hearing the President's words had elected to Congress men and women who voted for lax laws on gun ownership? How many of those parents in the audience had also voted for legislators who backed the president's illegal invasion of Iraq? Are we, as a nation, too obtuse to grasp the connection between our "gun culture" policy at home and our militarist policy abroad that murders and mutilates human beings at every turn? […]

Who is responsible for the killings in Iraq except the same now bereaved parents of the murdered students at Virginia Tech? […]

The same parents who weep for their children might consider that they and their neighbors are also spending a half trillion dollars a year so that the Pentagon, just over the horizon from Virginia Tech, can wage a war that is snuffing out the lives of children of other parents just like their own. […]

All across America, people who attend church and regard themselves as "good" people, such as the bereaved at Virginia Tech, are working in the plants that make atomic bombs and warplanes and napalm and cluster bombs and are creating new, demonical designs of germ warfare and space-based weapons so vile and horrible they defy description.

America as a nation has become an organized nightmare. Yesterday, the nation woke up to the pain of the kind of killing it has been inflicting widely around the world since its fleets of bombers roared out to destroy Dresden, since it leveled Hiroshima and Nagasaki, since it laid waste to Vietnam, since it overthrew Chile, and now since it has invaded two Middle Eastern nations in its thirst for oil.

Ross clearly has mental problems and lives in fabricated reality of grudges and delusions. But as with Cho Seung-Hui, that's no excuse.

Hat tip: Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler