The sheep find their scapegoat

Gotta admire the speed at which the weak, the cowardly and those who prey on them have moved on this. The VT Massacre isn't even a week old yet, and they've already found the pop-culture item that's going to be blamed for "causing" Cho Seung-hui to murder people. Because, y'know, it can't just be that random evil and insanity sometimes simply happen. No, that's too scary. That's too hard to face. Something must have "caused" it, and if they can just find what it is and raise a fuss, they'll feel better.



Weaklings. Fools.



So, what's it going to be this time? Chan Wook-Park's movie "Oldboy."

Why? Because apparently Seung-Hui had seen it, and because in one of his snapshots he was holding a hammer, and "Oldboy" killed guys with a hammer in one scene.

How perfect, eh? How clever the Encyclopedia Browns out there are: "OMIGOD! South-Korean movie! SOUTH KOREAN KILLER!!! IT ALL FITS!!!!" And, not for nothing, the film is a foriegn import, just like Hui himself, so they don't even have the SLIGHT element of introspection that comes when they put the blame on American music/movies/whatever. Super, eh? Pro-censorship for one set of idiots, xenophobia for another.

What a disgrace.