Virginia Tech and our "sensibilities"

I haven't blogged about this yet as I really don't know what to say. Today, however, I was driving to work, listening to AM800 CKLW's Lynn Martin call in show. The theme? Should they have shown the video of the killer? When is enough, enough? After commercials they played the audio of his rantings. With, of course, the swear words bleeped out! Last night onMSNBC, the swear words were ****'d out! On tv the bleep, the papers the ****. So let me see if I understand this correctly?

The part where he explains that he can no longer run but must take a stand for, "my children, my brothers and sister that you've fucked over" The word "fucked" is apparently the most threateningly offensive part of his ramblings.

Bleep out the profanities to protect our sensibilities. Well guess what?

The act committed 4-16-07, was one of the most profane things I have ever seen or heard. The nonsense of bleeping out the swearing just goes to prove that they really shouldn't have broadcast anything at all. If we cannot, tolerate profane language, than how on earth do we sit and watch this malevolence spew on our screens over and over again? The priorities of our society are so skewed as to be beyond straightening.

I'm not going to go into how "profane" it is that he apparently took a break, went for a walk, stopped in at the post office and mailed a package. Perhaps, had the University done something after the first killings, 30 others would still be alive. Had there been a visible police presence would he have carried on so casually? Would he have turned around and walked away? Would he have simply put the gun to his own head and ended it there? That my friends is profane. The word fuck is just the talk of the angry with limited vocabularies and I for one, will not shrivel up in horror to hear it or read it on a page.