The Accomplices: Sundance George and Butch Reid and the Virginia

The Accomplices: Sundance George and Butch Reid and the Virginia Tech
Massacre

by Greg Palast
Tuesday, April 17, 2007

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.

"Whether you are looking for a pistol for affordable training or simply
the excitement of shooting, the P22 is the pistol for you!"

That's the ad on the Walther website for the student-reaper, a Walther
.22.

Not that Walther, or its fellow murder-maker, Glock, which crafted the
other Weapon of Student Mass Destruction, the Glock 7mm, kept all of the
killer kid's money. The gun makers religiously tithe a portion of their
grim reapings to their friends in Washington.

This report isn't about gun control legislation or the right to bear arms
or any of that sideways crap. 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.

But before we bring in the suspects for questioning, let's pull back the
camera lens for the bigger picture. Because what we saw at Virginia Tech
was just a concentrated node of a larger, nationwide killing spree that
goes on day after day in the USA. Eighty-thousand Americans take a bullet
from a hand gun in any year. Thirty-thousand die. That's one thousand
shooting deaths off-camera for each victim at Virginia Tech.

Sundance Bush is right now at the school for his photo op. The President
is, "saddened and angered by these senseless acts of violence." But will
our senseless and violent President do anything about it? He already has:
On July 29, 2005, the US Senate passed, then Bush signed, a grant of
immunity from lawsuits for Walther, Glock and other gun manufacturers.

Now, corporations that make hand-guns can't be sued for knowingly selling
firearms to killers. Like that? No other industry has such wide lawsuit
immunity -- not teachers, not doctors, not cops -- only gun makers.

Here's how Cho got his guns. It's a story you won't hear on CNN. It begins
with something known as, The Iron Pipeline. At one end of the Pipeline are
states like Alabama where gun laws are loosey-goosey. Gun makers including
Glock stuff the 'Bama end of the pipe with far more guns than can ever be
bought legally in that state, knowing full well that the guns will be
illegally shipped up the pipeline into states where gun laws are tougher.
Virginia law prevents "gun-trafficking"; in Alabama, they could care less.

In every state in America, a bar owner is liable to lawsuit if a bartender
serves too many drinks and a customer dies in an auto accident. Hand a
chainsaw to a child, you're in legal trouble. Until Bush signed the 2005
protect-the-gun-makers law, the same common law against negligent
distribution applied to firearms.

Bush was aiming at Stephen Fox. Steven can describe feeling pieces of his
brain fly from his skull after a mugger shot him. He's permanently
paralyzed. A jury charged the makers of .25-caliber hand guns with
negligent distribution -- and Bush went wild.

He was especially worked up because the City of New Orleans sued the gun
makers for the cost of hospitalizing cops shot by armaments pooping out
the end of the Iron Pipeline. The NAACP joined in the suit with the
effrontery to demand the gun-pushers alter their marketing programs to
keep their products out of the hands of maniacs and murderers.

Do the gun manufacturers know their .22's are being used for something
other than hunting long-horned elk? Every year, the federal Alcohol,
Tobacco and Firearms agency sends 800,000 requests to the gun companies to
trace weapons found at crime scenes. As Fox's attorney told me, criminals
are a much-valued, if unpublicized, market segment sought out and
provisioned by these manufacturers.

But they're safe, the gun-makers, even if we aren't, because of Bush's
immunity law. But Sundance Bush didn't act alone. There was Harry 'Butch'
Reid, leader of the Senate Democrats, riding shotgun on the immunity
bandwagon.

The Walther .22 comes from Austria. Hitler came from Austria, too. The
Glock 7mm student-slayer comes from Germany. With the legal protection
handed them by Bush and Reid, the two Teutonic weapons profiteers can skip
free of legal judgment with that line well-practiced by their countrymen:
"We were only taking orders -- for our product."

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This report is adapted from, "Just Put Down that Lawsuit, Pardner, and No
One Gets Hurt" in the Class War section of the new edition of Greg
Palast's bestseller, "ARMED MADHOUSE: Sordid Secrets and Strange Tales of
A White House Gone Wild." Order it now at www.GregPalast.com before its
official release next week.

such as this, with as little insight into what is going on makes me wonder if he's off meds or something.

This isn't the first time Palast has done something this idiotic.

This needs to be investigated because if it is true than it needs to be made public

Weapons including guns have an energy, a power, of their own. They can make an otherwise gentle person feel very powerful.

Weapons such as guns tend to attract people who want or need to feel very powerful. Most people who have and use guns are not lost to the power of the guns they own, but some of the people who have guns will be overwhelmed by the power of their guns -- and use them to hurt other people and themselves.

Look at our nation. Our military might has overwhelmed our leaders. They are not controlling our military power. They are being controlled and crushed by it. They think they are crushing Iraq but they are being crushed by our military power. Our whole country is being crushed by our military power.

I also want to know why.If it isnt true then I want the truth

...of excitement to road rage which is clearly missing today. Windshield penetrations!:sarcasm: