The Eloi syndrome continues

From the New York Times, “Virginia Tech Shooting Leaves 33 Dead”:

Chief Flinchum [of campus police] said that initially officials thought that the shooting was “domestic,” suggesting that it was between individuals who knew each other, and isolated to the dormitory. He said the campus was not shut down after the first shooting because authorities thought that the attacker may have left the campus, or even the state.

“We knew we had two people shot,” he said. “We secured the building. We secured the crime scene.” He later added: “We acted on the best information we had at the time.”

Let me get this straight: Two people were murdered in a dorm at Virginia Tech at 7:15 a.m., and the unknown killer was still at large, and the campus authorities did not inform the campus community either about the murder or about the fact that the killer was at large?

This is like the people in the South Tower of the World Trade Center (where a major terrorist attack had occurred eight years earlier almost causing the North Tower to fall into the South Tower) who when they saw the North Tower in flames, did not instinctively immediately leave the South Tower. It’s like the people at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado who saw the two future killers engaging in more and more weird and threatening behavior, and never did anything about it. It’s like the woman in the Agriculture Department who was threatened by Muhammad Atta, and never reported it. It’s like the ticketing agent in the Portland, Maine airport who felt that Muhammad Atta seemed like a terrorist, but waved him aboard his flight.

And it’s like the American people, who know that a large percentage of Muslims either seek to destroy America or support those who do, yet continue letting mass Muslim immigration into the United States.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at April 17, 2007 10:19 AM | Send