Thomas Szasz now has an excellent editorial on-line concerning the
Virginia Tech Massacre:
http://www.fee.org/in_brief/default.asp?id=1257

Here's a slection:
> Cho did not talk. When spoken to, he did not answer. When asked to
> write his name in class, he wrote a question mark. Nevertheless, he
> was in college, where the coin of realm is the spoken word. We know
> that at least one of his professors did not tolerate Cho's behavior
> and kicked him out of her class and that another was so intimidated
> by him that she "worked out a code with her assistant: if she
> mentioned the name of a dead professor, her assistant would know it
> was time to call security."
>
> We also know that, in 2005, Cho's behavior brought him to the
> attention of the campus police and mental-health system, that a
> counselor recommended "involuntary commitment" and a judge declared
> him to be "dangerous to himself and others" and sent him to a
> psychiatric hospital "for an evaluation." A psychiatrist at the
> hospital diagnosed Cho as mentally ill, but "not an imminent
> danger." The judge declined to commit him and instead ordered
> outpatient treatment. After these conventionally proper psychiatric
> interventions, Cho decided to commit mass murder and suicide.
>
> These are facts.

Make sure to read the whole editorial.

I wish an editorial like this could get printed in the main stream
press.

-- Matt Dioguardi