From: montas@stable.ecn.purdue.edu (Hubert J Montas)
Subject: Re: Wayne Lo
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 06:18:01 GMT

In article <105089@bu.edu> merritt@macro.bu.edu (Sean Merritt) writes:
>
>Wayne Lo, an 18 year old American of chinese decent did almost
>that on Monday night. Mr. Lo who was arrained yesterday, killed
>two people and injured four others on the campus of Simon's 
>Rock College in western Massachusetts. At his arraignment Wayne
>showed a little emotion as he stood sullenly with his shaved head
>and T-shirt that had the words "Sick of it all." printed
>on it. Wayne was an `A' student and a basketball standout.
>[...] Mr. Lo a talented violinist is a bigot by his own admission
>and advocated the killing of Jews and gays. [...] AIDS to Canada
>[...] a white woman and a black man were told to "Watch out.". 
>
     What's your point? My interpretation of what you wrote, as I attempt
to adopt your perspective, is that a very talented 18 year old Chinese-American
skinhead bigot killed 2 and injured 3 persons. In other words, what I think
that you are saying is that asiatic students, which are very bright, and
shave their heads are very dangerous to all of us! They further strike randomly
so we should eliminate them before it is too late.
     Here's my view: A guy killed some people for the same old usual motive;
he was fed up with something. You can expand on the guy if you want, but I 
don't think it's relevant to point how the details about origin or talent
unless it is to show that a great diversity of people actually commit such
crimes. Remember the guy who drove his truck through a cafeteria, took his
rifle and killed 18 people (local origin, no particular talent). The guy
who killed 14 women engineering students in Polytechnique (semi-local origin,
some talents). Charles Manson. Then, we could also debate as to whether the
guy was a skinhead, a punk, a mod, a disco, a rocker, a melllow man, a what-
ever you want, but again, I don't think that It would bring us much in under-
stnding the situation other than pointing out again the diversity in musical
tastes of people that choose to solve their problems by killing others. Alex
in A Clockwork Orange (although a fictitious character) found his drive for
hate and violence in Beethoven's music for example. Now, the student you
talk about wore a T-shirt bearing the text: 'Sick of It All'. Here are
potential interpretations: 1) wearing susch a strong statement on his t-shirt
may mean that he had communication problems. He couldn't and/or hadn't told
others about his problems, kept them inside of him until it was too late, and
then saw killing others as the only solution. 2) Sick of It All is also a
fairly broad statement. Can one really be sick of it all? If so, why try to
attract attention by writting offensive articles and antagonizing others?
Why attract attention by killing people? If you're sick of it all (assuming
it to be possible), you just do away with yourself, become one of Kevorkian's
patients. 3) Again, can we really be sick of it all? Or do we just want more
attention? I was pretty sick of it all last evening. I had a test coming and
didn't want to study. In other words, I had a problem and didn't accept it's
logical solution (i.e. study) nor the alternative (i.e. fail). Wasn't there
something else somewhere that I could hold on to instead of using the palia-
tive of violence? Yes! Pride! Pride of being here by myself, although the
situation is difficult (lots of rednecks) I'm hanging on! I will succeed.
Pride of doing what I think is right, and of becoming a man, however painful
the process might be. So, be proud man, then you won't feel inferior to the
black man and won't have to form armed gangs to beat him up! (Hey look guys,
a new theory, racism stems from an inferiority complex). Be proud of yourself
and you'll realize you're not sick of it all! Killing others doesn't solve
any problems.

     Hubert.