It’s almost impossible to make sense of something as horrific as the Virginia Tech massacre, and no doubt the coming weeks will be stuffed full of blame and counter-blame, but one thing is for sure: there’s something profoundly wrong with the way in which guns are shipped, sold and so casually used in the United States of America. From a piece by Greg Palast:
‘He had accomplices. Don’t kid yourself: 23-year-old Cho Seung-hui didn’t forge his two little pistols in his smithy shop.
He had a dealer, a guns-and-bullets pusher-man who put the heat in his hand, took the kid’s money and pocketed it with a grin.’
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Damien DeBarra was born in the late 20th century and grew up in Dublin, Ireland. He now lives in London, England where he shares a house with four laptops, three bikes and a large collection of chairs.
“This is about a group of co-conspirators who dropped two killing devices into the hands of someone who shouldn’t have had access to a plastic spoon.”
Brilliant!
After I read your post, I went to the Green Festival in Chicago and heard Palast speak. The Hat, the self-aggrandizement, and the rhetorical questions got distracting, but he may just be the best American investigative reporter next to Hirsch we have. So I bought his book and had him sign it to the people responsible for him getting my 15 bucks.
PS He didn’t know ya, but he does now.
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