the asshole everyone is talking about

I have this thing about the V word. Victim. Not sure why. Let's take a look at this week in victims, though; maybe we'll find a clue.

There's an asshole that everyone is talking about. He's not just an asshole, he's a psychopath. He's also dead. He also murdered 30+ people. "Wait a minute," my legions of readers are saying. "If he's dead, why is he being discussed in the present tense rather than the past tense?" Yeah. Because he's been immortalized by the fucking media. Because they aired his suicidal diatribe the minute they got their greasy little media-hands on it. For advertising bucks.

This decision to play the video is not reporting, because the information in the video is neither factual nor is it evidence. It's just a jerkoff with a bad complexion jerking off, waving around his little weapons, talking in his ridiculous voice about his need to be ON THE NEWS.

AAaaaaand the report will roll on, invariably describing the tightening security on the nation's college campuses as the INEVITABLE COPYCAT INCIDENTS are prepared for.

America, you're a fucking idiot. They wanted to be on the news. They all wanted to be on the news. They all got on the news. Psychopaths always believe the axiom, 'the end justifies the means'. So WHY would we let them win? It makes me vomit when I think about the fact that the largest corporations on Earth get money for putting people I hate in front of my fucking face. But they do. They fucking do. And the harm it does is immense.

Back on November 3, 2006, when anti-war protester Malachi Ritscher burned himself to death by the freeway in Chicago, the national press barely touched it. The big TV news affiliates reported it as if it were a murmur from deep underground, even though the fact that he wrote his own obituary and perhaps the most political suicide note ever makes this death unquestionably interesting. The trappings he left behind are those of a passionate, intelligent, painfully sane man.

He took no one with him. Yet the reason most often given by media flacks for the curious blackout for the first public protest death of this war was FEAR OF COPYCAT SUICIDES.

You FUCKING HYPOCRITES.



So now I'm watching the news. And the entire world is being told to watch out for people who match my description:

*kinda crazy
*weird gleam in eye
*uses big words/talks funny
*writes about violent stuff
*angry
*girl trouble
*bad credit
*bored
*sometimes threatened/threatening

as a matter of fact, there's only one thing I can't empathize with these psychopaths about;

*they think it's OK to kill

and that is something which I can only provide outward evidence of by not killing people, something which I do regularly. So folks are wasting time when they profile me, finding me suspiciously full of the attributes on the first list. But I notice, and it pisses me off, because IT IS NOT A SOLUTION TO CRIME. AT ALL.

The solution is to ignore cocksucking motherfuckers like this one that's about to be looking back at me from every newsstand on the way home. And, not to give them guns. Fuck.