Thursday, April 19, 2007

Cho Seung-Hui Videos

A forensic psychiatrist tells ABC News that the broadcasting of Cho Seung-Hui's videos serves only to validate his delusions.

"If anybody cares about the victims in Blacksburg and if anybody cares about their children, stop showing this video now. Take it off the Internet. Let it be relegated to YouTube," Welner said. "This is a social catastrophe. Showing the video is a social catastrophe."

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"I think that's very important for the viewing audience to understand. This is not him. These videos do not help us understand him. They distort him. He was meek. He was quiet. This is a PR tape of him trying to turn himself into a Quentin Tarantino character," Welner said.

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