Another brutal crime with a VT connection
The Army soldier charged with killing 13 and leaving another 30 injured at Foot Hood, Texas, graduated from Virginia Tech, served in the Reserve Officer Training Corps. (ROTC) and had “difficulties” that required counseling while interning at Walter Reed medical center in Arlington.
Once again, Tech is linked to a brutal crime that shocks the nation. While the University cannot be blamed with creating another mass murderer, it reminds people that the of the worst shooting rampage on American soil in April 2007 and comes on the heels of the murder of two Tech students shortly after classes convened this fall. Tech not makes more national headlines for its links to shocking crimes than for its national sports aspirations.
Other colleges and universities have crime but how many had a student with a history of mental illness kill 32 and wound many others? How many had a Chinese exchange student behead his former lover with a kitchen knife at an Au Bon Pain Cafe on campus? How many mourned the loss of two students killed in a national forest right after the start of the fall term? How many universities locked down the campus on the first day of a new term because a suspect escaped from a nearby hospital and killed a security guard and deputy sheriff?
Nidal Malik Nasar did not commit his bloody crime at Tech or even in the area, but news that the Arlington native graduated from Tech comes during another national story: The search for missing Tech coed Morgan Harrington, who disappeared while attending a Metallica concert at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.
Why so much violence centered around one university in Southwestern Virginia?
I don’t know but I’m sure that question will become the subject more than one post-graduate thesis in the future.
I know this will sound weird to most folks, but a good friend of mine who used to work at the old Red Lion Inn in Blacksburg (now site of Bruce Smith’s development, Smith Landing) told me that when they began demolishing the closed hotel (before they started), a whole bunch of bad things would begin happening in the area related to the Town and VT (something about an evil spirit buried at the site that would wind up being released). The hotel closed in 2004 and plans to demolish the hotel were announced in early 2006. They began work over the summer of 2006 to pick apart the hotel, just before the Morva shootings. Full-scale demolition began in April 2007, and we all know what happened then. Since that time, all of the other strange things associated with VT have gone on, and they are so completely ‘out there’ that it’s hard to understand what in the world is going on. It could all just be pure coincidence, but the timing of the demolition along with the timing of all the shootings, killings, and other events has been something that I keep looking at. I have a hard time believing in that sort of stuff, but regardless ‘there’s something happening here, what it is ain’t exactly clear.’
From Augusta Free Press:
Tech officials confirm Hasan connection
November 6, 2009 by chrisgraham
Virginia Tech has confirmed with the United States Army Human Resources Command in Alexandria, Va., that the alleged shooter at Fort Hood, Texas, once attended Virginia Tech.
According to Virginia Tech records, Nidal Malik Hasan first enrolled at Virginia Tech for Summer Session II in 1992, and completed coursework in Spring Semester 1995. He received a Bachelor of Science degree with honors in biochemistry from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. He minored in biology and chemistry.
Prior to enrolling at Virginia Tech, Hasan was a student and completed coursework at Barstow Community College in Barstow, Calif., and at Virginia Western Community College in Roanoke, Va.
Hasan was not a member of the Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets, nor was he a member of any ROTC program at Virginia Tech.
According to the Associated Press:
Based on my past experiences with Virginia Tech, I will must remain skeptical about their quick denial that Hasan was in their ROTC program. The University has a record of playing fast and loose with the truth when it comes to controversies. To be fair, military records are not always known for their accuracy either so we will have to see what surfaces as the investigation progresses.
You left out Michael Vick.
http://www.roanoke.com/news/nrv/wb/225423 Yet more violence. You’re welcome.
I lived in Blacksburg for 12 years and feel lucky to have escaped. I feel convinced that it is some sort of hub for demonic forces which somehow can manipulate otherwise compassionate humans. Among these minions Demon Liquor has a great deal of influence, but in my mind, it represents just a fraction of the big picture.
Sorry, I have a few items to add to the list that has started here to iterate the acts of inexplicable violence that have stemmed from the Blacksburg area:
—Henry Lee Lucas, one of planet Earth’s most sinister, deranged serial killers hailed from Blacksburg.
—Author Cathy O’Brien has plenty to say about Blacksburg’s history in her book, The TranceFormation of America.
—Nik Jones-Lezama was an outspoken critic of US foreign policy whose activism led him to “die-in” with other activists, including Susan Jean Daniels, at protest events at the School of the Americas. Although many who knew him spoke of his compassionate character, his mental health began to fray severely until he took his own life, and the life of Susan Jean Daniels, in a murder-sucide.
—I have no evidence to support this other than a strong sense that it is true, but I feel convinced that Will Morva is an intuitive who was personally invaded so many times by ill spirits in Montgomery County that functionality was never an option for him.
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