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Lyndon LaRouche Claims Videogame Coverup in VA Tech Commission Report


Submitted by thankeeka on September 4, 2007 - 11:18am. Game News

Yes, that's got to be it! It's so much easier to think that a whole gaming entertainment industry somehow managed to work its way into this police investigation to make it show that the VA Tech shooting wasn't because of games. Yep, it couldn't have been the fact that games just weren't an issue - that's too easy of an answer.

From the article:

As GamePolitics reported yesterday, a panel appointed by Gov. Tim Kaine found no evidence that killer Seung Hui Cho played violent video games. In fact, the only title specifically identified as being played by Cho was Sonic the Hedgehog.

LaRouche, however, finds “grave and frightening clues” in the report:

Seung-Hui Cho was exactly the kind of violent-media and video game addict about which LPAC has been warning…

Yet the Virginia Tech Panel went out of its way to understate, or ignore Cho’s deep involvement in violent Internet culture, from video games, to underground movies like the violent “Old Boy.”

Commenting today on the release of the panel’s report, Lyndon LaRouche said, “This commission came under major political pressure to keep out what is known about Cho’s involvement with video games–they obviously didn’t want to offend somebody.

Read the full article over at gamepolitics.com


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