VTConspiracy News: CIA recruits students

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) will be attempting to recruit students at Virginia Tech for the second time this year.
Groups of angered students, who view the CIA as an immoral organisation that engages in torture and murder, will be protesting their attempt at recruitment.

Last spring Nicholas Kiersey organized a protest when the CIA came in an attempt to recruit. He released the following statement Monday about the CIA's trip to Torgeson 3100 Thursday at 7 p.m.:

"Blacksburg, VA November 13, 2005 - A coalition of concerned graduate students and campus organizations at Virginia Tech are this Thursday staging a 'teach in' to protest CIA recruitment on campus. Planned events also include the protest of a 'career information' session to be held by the CIA later that evening."

On November 2nd, 2005 the Washington Post published an article entitled “CIA Holds Terror Suspects in Secret Prisons”. The article reported that the CIA has set up a covert network of secret prisons and interrogation centers, known as “black sites”, in several countries around the world, including several democracies in Eastern Europe and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Prisoners at these facilities are held indefinitely and often in isolation, without due process of the law. Moreover, CIA interrogators working at these sites are permitted to use the CIA's approved "Enhanced Interrogation Techniques," some of which are prohibited by the U.N. convention and by U.S. military law. Among the tactics approved for use are "waterboarding", intended to induce in prisoners the idea that they are drowning.

While intelligence officials defend the unrestricted operation of these sites as necessary for the successful defense of the country, it should be noted that both the sites and the suspected practices carried out at them would be illegal if operated within the USA, which is a signatory to the U.N. Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. Importantly, the same is true for the democratic host states in Eastern Europe where some of these sites are located.

The 'Teach In' will take place on Thursday, Nov. 17, 5-6.30pm, in Torgerson 3100. The event will feature talks by Virginia Tech instructors and the presentation of a draft letter to President Steger's office, signed by a number of concerned Virginia Tech faculty and students.

The letter will request that Virginia Tech place a moratorium on all CIA activities on Virginia Tech's campus until such time as a thorough and independent investigation certifies that the organization has been thoroughly reformed and no longer engages in practices that contravene international law and basic standards of human rights.

The CIA's scheduled 'career information' session will take place at 7pm in the same location.

Sponsoring campus organizations include: The International Club and Amnesty International at Virginia Tech."

Is it possible that Cho, through these 'recruitment sessions' became involved with the CIA before the massacre? It is certainly an interesting idea and should be explored further.

VTConspiracy News: Criminologist in disbelief

Professor of Criminology at Florida Gulf Coast University, Charles Mesloh, told NBC 2 News that he was shocked Cho could have killed 32 people with two handguns absent expert training. Mesloh immediately assumed that Cho must have used a shotgun or an assault rifle.

"I'm dumbfounded by the number of people he managed to kill with these weapons," said Mesloh, "The only thing I can figure is that he got close to them and he simply executed them."

Mesloh said the killer performed like a trained professional, "He had a 60% fatality rate with handguns - that's unheard of given 9 millimeters don't kill people instantly," said Mesloh, stating that the handguns Cho used were designed for "plinking at cans," not executing human beings.

VTConspiracy News: Inconsistent News Reports

On April the 16th Charles Steger, president of Virginia Tech, stated that the shooter responsible for the Virginia Tech Massacre had no identification. He admitted to a CNN report that the identity of the deceased gunman could not be confirmed.

"We have not confirmed the identity of the gunman, because he carried no identification on his person, and we are in the process of attempting that identification."

However this claim was later retracted when officials started to claim that Cho Seung-Hui was carrying a receipt on his person that led them to the store where he had bought the weapon.

"That's the first gun traced to that shop, not by the serial number on the gun, Paula, but on the receipt that he was carrying that they found on his dead body. He had filed away the serial numbers in three different spots on that Glock .9-millimeter, which makes no sense, because he's carrying the receipt." - Drew Griffen, CNN Investigative Correspondant

I must agree. It does make very little sense for Cho Seung-Hui to be carrying a receipt. Considering he had bought these guns months before the attack it seems rather unlikely that he would, very conveniently, happen to keep a hold of one.
It seems even more unlikely that he would have accidentally kept one as he had filed off the serial number on the weapons, suggesting that he wanted the source of the guns to remain unknown.

As I said before, inconsistencies in the media accounts of the attack are disturbingly common.

Also according to Karina Porushkevich, a student at Virginia Tech, all phone-lines were blocked and many were unable to contact their families following the assault.

"It was very, very saddening. I was crying. I couldn't reach my family because they turn -- like the phones were off, everything was off."

This report received surprisingly little news coverage.

VTConspiracy News: Student arrested and Teacher Fired

A University of Colorado student pleaded not guilty Wednesday to making comments that classmates deemed sympathetic toward the gunman blamed for killing 32 students and himself at Virginia Tech, authorities said.
During a class discussion on April the 17th regarding the massacre at Virginia Tech, Max Karson "made comments about understanding how someone could kill 32 people," university police Commander Brad Wiesley said.

His father, Michael Karson, told the Camera Newspaper that the comments may have been misinterpreted and questioned whether his son's free speech rights had been violated.
"I would have hoped that state officials would know their First Amendment better than they seem to," he said.

Also a former Emmanuel College adjunct professor was recently fired for starting a discussion on the recent Virginia Tech Massacre. On April the 22nd he stated that the college violated his rights and has tried to stifle valid discussion of a controversial topic.

"Every other faculty member there has learned the lesson of 'be quiet,' " adjunct professor Nicholas Winset said in a telephone interview yesterday. "How can you be a professor and not touch on controversy?"

On Saturday, Winset posted an 18-minute defense of his actions on YouTube.com, a popular website for homemade video clips.
Under the title "Fired Professor Speaks Out!" the four-part video features Winset describing the lecture that led to his dismissal.
He said it included a brief discussion of gun control, whether to respond to violence with violence, and the public's "celebration of victim-hood" in the aftermath of the Virginia Tech shootings.

Below are the Videos posted on Youtube:

There is clearly a lot of sensitivity surrounding the Virginia Tech Massacre and most are unwilling to tackle the issue. With such blatant attacks on civil liberties occurring, those stated above serving as an example, we must ask: are we allowing our sensitivity to damage our liberty?

VTConspiracy News: Police search phones, e-mails and records

Investigators pressed ahead Saturday with their search for Virginia Tech shooter, Cho Seung-Hui's, motives.

Authorities sought Cho's cell phone records, thinking he may have informed someone about the attack. They also hope to glean any relevant information from his e-mails and that of Emily Hilscher, one of the first two victims.

"Seung-Hui Cho is known to have communicated by cellular telephone and may have communicated with others concerning his plans to carry out attacks on students and faculty at Virginia Tech,'' police wrote Friday in an affidavit seeking records from Verizon Wireless.
The affidavit also states that Cho regularly made calls on Sunday evenings.

Police also sought warrants for Virginia Tech e-mail records in their hunt for a connection between Cho and Hilscher, who was killed at West Ambler Johnston Hall. This would allow them to probe most Virginia Tech school e-mail records.

Another affidavit sought Cho's records from the student health center, and police obtained his medical and counseling files. The contents of the affidavits were first reported by ABC News.com. Investigators are still trying to establish how he selected his victims.

Seven people hurt in the rampage remained hospitalized, at least one in serious condition.

However as already stated in this blog investigations are being "assisted" by The System Planning Corp. (an organisation responsible for the production of military technology and biological weapons) how much will the SPC be hiding during the course of the investigation?