丧钟为谁而鸣？

莲步青云

（一）
就在前几天的某个夜里，我做了个梦。梦见自己被派到校园里做卧底，侦查在校园里隐藏的黑恶势力。开始，斗争的很隐蔽，只是些莫名其妙的模糊的勘查工作。

后来，突然矛盾激化，很多人掏出了枪，互相打斗厮杀。我发现我的一个熟悉的同学也在其中，他拿着枪，不知道在向谁扫射。我怀疑他就是我要找的内鬼。可是，不久，我在一颗大树底下，发现他被人枪击，在他奄奄一息的时候告诉我，真正的内鬼，是我们的系秘Ms.Zhang。他刚刚讲完这句话，就咽气了。就在我莫名其妙、不知所措的时候，看见Ms.Zhang正开着车向我冲来，手里拿着枪，指着我的鼻子，我清楚的看到扫射过来的火光，一下子惊醒了......

第二天早上，新闻里播报，弗吉尼亚理工大学发生了校园枪击案，包括凶手在内，共33名学生中抢身亡。


（二）
死难的家属在哀伤，大学生们在哀伤，弗吉尼亚在哀伤，整个美国都在哀伤。很多报道直接指向了美国的持枪法律，抨击美国法律的悖论。也有很多报道直接谴责凶手的残暴和非人道。可是，不知道有多少人真正关心身在异国他乡的留学生们的心理状况。他们畸形变态的心理，并不是一天两天形成的。他们所受到的来自各方的歧视有没有人真正的重视呢？

其实，这些话都不是新问题了。前些日子震惊全国的“马加爵事件”已经够可以让我们警醒了。大学生们的心理问题越来越凸显出来。也有很多学校设立了心理咨询机构，无偿为学生们的各种困惑、茫然提供建议和帮助。可是效果并不明显。来自外界的压力并没有让大学生们的意志更加坚强，他人的漠视、不尊重甚至是歧视，给大学生们的内心带来了巨大的打击与羞辱。过于安逸和平静的校园生活，使得很多大学生内心脆弱不堪一击。而学校只提供说教和劝导并不能解决学生要面对的现实问题。因此，部分大学生接受不了现实的残酷而产生了很多逆反心理，仇恨和暴力倾向便是最为极端和显性的结果了。

现实社会的竞争压力很大，怎样疏导这种由压力产生的副作用才是问题的关键。法律可以规定、限制和约束人们的行为，但并不能真正解决人的心理问题。平和健康的心态才是社会安全、稳定的保障。妄图用枪支来维护社会和人们的生命安全，只能让更多的人陷入危机。人们都在为无辜的大学生死难者哀伤，而我们能做的，决不仅仅是下半旗致哀。

枪支，不是问题的关键。因为不会使枪的中国学生，同样用刀杀死了自己的同学。仇恨，滋生在心底，付诸于行动。严重的心理障碍与畸形，比冰冷的工具，更让人心寒。


（三）
无独有偶。昨天晚上，看了《传奇故事》。其实也是个过了热度的焦点事件“人跪狗”事件。22岁的青年严吉，是一条苏格兰牧羊犬的主人。他的狗在某天惊吓到了一个十岁的男孩刘俊。小刘俊本能的拿起小树枝驱赶该犬。不料，其主人严吉暴跳如雷，残忍的毒打了十岁的刘俊，周边的邻居无论怎样劝阻和拦截都无济于事。并在毒打后，强令刘俊跪在狗的面前，叫“爷爷”，以示向狗赔礼道歉。

小刘俊在暴力威逼下就范。没想事后被送到医院后鉴定，不但是身体上为九级伤残，并且罹患癫痫和精神自闭症。原本活泼可爱的十岁男孩，一下子变为精神病患者。无奈，刘家将严吉告上法庭，要求赔偿。

很多人在关注这件事的时候，往往是怒斥严吉的凶残和暴力。但是当法院裁决，言吉赔偿刘家损失11万元后，众人对严吉便不那么关注了。大家关心的是小刘俊的病能不能用这仅有的11万治愈。当然，善良的人们都希望孩子能早日康复。

但是，我们忽略了一点。肇事人严吉，在闯了大祸之后的反应，或者说有何反省。当记者采访时，他激愤的职责刘家将自己“拉上官司”，还因此丢了工作。言语间充满了仇恨和怨怒。即使赔了钱，丢了工作，这个22岁的年轻人依然对自己的行为没有一点忏悔。

为什么要提及肇事人的事后情况呢？因为根据记者的采访，严吉曾经因为他的牧羊犬也殴打过70岁的老人。显然，“人跪狗”不是偶然，为了一条狗，暴躁的主人可以去毒打10岁的孩童和70岁的老人。内心的骄躁与仇恨，使他更加飞扬跋扈。在被告上法庭后，仍然没有悔改的意思。

同样是仇恨，严吉仅仅用他的“拳头”，就毁了一个10岁男孩子一生的前途和幸福。然而，目光狰狞的严吉之父，还在聚光灯下，狡猾的为儿子辩护。

可见，使用什么工具并不重要，无论是枪支，刀，还是赤手空拳，都可以要人的命。而社会，学校，家庭，在面对内心日渐激烈的学生和年轻人们，应该扮演怎样的角色。


（四）
美国各处都在为无辜死难者悼念。自发参与的群众也很多。32个无辜的生命，有那么多素不相识的人来纪念和哀悼。而就在校园枪击案发生后的第三天，辽宁铁岭的某钢铁厂，发生了钢水包脱落事件，导致32人惨死。其中包括3名农民工。

可是，我们关于他们的报道有多少呢？我们对于他们的悼念又有多隆重呢？我们并没有拿着蜡烛到教堂悼念的习俗，但是，面对死难者，我们的漠视和坦然，足以让我们自己感到惊诧。

难道就因为是农民工和普通工人吗？他们的命就不值钱吗？还是又涉及到很多敏感的问题，就避而不谈呢？

面对生命的渺小、脆弱和转瞬即逝，我们应该低下头，冥思。


（五）
为所有无辜的死难者，哀悼。

包括大学生，农民工，以及普通的钢铁工人。

[ 本帖最后由 小永表妹 于 2007-4-21 16:11 编辑 ]

永无止境

表妹也开始关注社会事件了.值得表扬!

莲步青云

哀悼与悲痛

莲步青云

祭奠

莲步青云

不是亡者进地狱，

家属才是在地狱里煎熬。

散仙儿

恩！！！！


另：标题扣得很好！！！！

莲步青云

HOUSTON -        NASA officials who examined their security measures following the deadly shooting at Virginia Tech are trying to figure out how a contract worker sneaked a handgun into the Johnson Space Center and killed another employee before shooting himself.

The gunman, armed with a snub-nosed revolver, barricaded himself in a building that houses communications and tracking systems for the space shuttle. He shot and killed a man and duct-taped a woman to a chair for hours before finally shooting and killing himself, police said. The woman hostage suffered minor injuries.

"Right now we're trying to understand why this happened, how this happened," Mike Coats, director of the Johnson Space Center, said in a news conference. He said they had reviewed their procedures earlier this week because of the Virginia Tech shootings.

"But of course we never believed this could happen here to our family and our situation."

NASA spokesman Doug Peterson said the agency would review its security.

To enter the space center, workers flash an ID badge as they drive past a security guard. The badge allows workers access to designated buildings.

NASA and police identified the gunman as 60-year-old William Phillips. He apparently had a dispute with the slain man, Police Chief Harold Hurtt said without elaborating.

NASA identified the slain man as David Beverly, a 62-year-old NASA worker. Beverly was shot in the chest and was probably killed "in the early minutes of the whole ordeal," police said.

Beverly's wife, Linda, said her husband of 41 years was an electrical parts specialist who felt working at NASA was his calling.

"His intellect and his knowledge, David really felt he was contributor," she said.

Her husband had mentioned Phillips before, but she declined to say in what regard. Linda Beverly said it wouldn't be fair to Phillips.

The second hostage, identified by NASA as Fran Crenshaw, a contract worker with MRI Technologies, escaped after being bound to a chair with duct tape. She who worked in the same general area and was presumably taken hostage after Beverly was shot, Hurtt said.

"She was very courageous, a calming influence in this whole issue and apparently was a very positive relationship between her and the suspect because he at no time that we know of threatened to do injury to her," Hurtt said.

Phillips, an employee of Jacobs Engineering of Pasadena, Calif., had worked for NASA for 12 to 13 years and "up until recently, he has been a good employee," Coats said.

He was unmarried, had no children and apparently lived alone.

The shooter left telephone numbers and names of people to contact and wrote a note on a dry erase board in the room, police said.

"I don't recall what was on it," Hurtt said.

During the confrontation, NASA employees in the building were evacuated and others were ordered to remain in their offices for several hours. Roads within the 1,600-acre space center campus were also blocked off, and a nearby middle school kept its teachers and students inside as classes ended. Doors to Mission Control were locked as standard procedure.

       President Bush was informed about the gunman as he flew back to Washington from an event in Michigan, White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said.

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BLACKSBURG, Va. - Some have called him a loner, but Sun-Kyung Cho says her younger brother was quiet and reserved. She grew up with Seung-Hui Cho, but now says she feels as if she no longer knows him. From afar, she learned her brother was the gunman who went on a rampage at Virginia Tech, killing 32 people before committing suicide to cap the deadliest shooting rampage in modern U.S. history. Now, with her parents, she is "living a nightmare."

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"We are humbled by this darkness," Sun-Kyung Cho said in a statement issued Friday to The Associated Press. "We feel hopeless, helpless and lost."

It was the Chos' first public comment since Monday's massacre. Raleigh, N.C., lawyer Wade Smith provided the statement to the AP after the Cho family reached out to him. Smith said the family would not answer any questions, and neither would he.

"I actually feel sympathy towards their family," said Virginia Tech freshman Andrea Hacker, 19. "A lot of people are probably looking down on them now, but they have no reason to."

"It's gotta be tragic for them as well. They're going through just as much grief as we are, plus the added pressure of having a brother do this."

The family's statement was issued during a statewide day of mourning for the victims. Silence fell across the Virginia Tech campus at noon and bells tolled in churches nationwide in memory of the victims.

At Blacksburg Presbyterian Church, a memorial service was held for Kevin Granata, a 45-year-old engineering science and mechanics professor.

Some 600 people packed the pews and stood along the walls while friends described Granata as a devoted father to three children, a beloved professor, a world-class researcher and a humble man of good humor.

"It's a hard day, but a day of trying to celebrate his life and his legacy," said Pastor Alex Evans.

Several memorial services are planned for Saturday, including Emily Hilscher and resident adviser Ryan Clark — Cho's first two victims.

"We pray for their families and loved ones who are experiencing so much excruciating grief. And we pray for those who were injured and for those whose lives are changed forever because of what they witnessed and experienced," said Sun-Kyung Cho, a 2004 Princeton University graduate who works as a contractor for a State Department office that oversees American aid for        Iraq.

"Each of these people had so much love, talent and gifts to offer, and their lives were cut short by a horrible and senseless act."

Authorities are in frequent contact with Cho's family, but have not placed them in protective custody, said Assistant        FBI Director Joe Persichini, who oversees the bureau's local Washington office. Authorities believe they remain in the Washington area, but are staying with friends and relatives.

Persichini said the FBI and Fairfax County Police have assured Cho's parents that they will investigate any hate crimes directed at the family if and when they ever return to their Centreville home.

Cho's sister said her family will cooperate fully and "do whatever we can to help authorities understand why these senseless acts happened. We have many unanswered questions as well."

Cho's name was given as "Cho Seung-Hui" by police and school officials earlier this week. But the South Korean immigrant family said their preference was "Seung-Hui Cho." Many Asian immigrant families Americanize their names by reversing them and putting their surnames last.

While Cho clearly was seething and had been taken to a psychiatric hospital more than a year ago as a threat to himself, investigators are still trying to establish exactly what set him off, why he chose a dormitory and a classroom building for the rampage and how he selected his victims.

"The why and the how are the crux of the investigation," Virginia State Police spokeswoman Corinne Geller said. "The why may never be determined because the person responsible is deceased."

During the campus memorial, hundreds of somber students and area residents, most wearing the school's maroon and orange, stood with heads bowed on the parade ground in front of Norris Hall, the classroom building where all but two of the victims died. Along with the bouquets and candles was a sign reading, "Never forgotten."

"It's good to feel the love of people around you," said Alice Lo, a Virginia Tech graduate and friend of Jocelyne Couture-Nowak, a French instructor killed in the rampage. "With this evil, there is still goodness."

The mourners gathered in front of stone memorials, each adorned with a basket of tulips and an American flag. There were 33 stones — one for each victim and Cho.

       President Bush wore an orange and maroon tie in a show of support. The White House said he also asked top officials at the Justice, Health and Human Services and Education Departments to travel the country, talk to educators, mental health experts and others and compile a report on how to prevent similar tragedies.

Seven people hurt in the rampage remained hospitalized, at least one in serious condition.

莲步青云

目前，我还没有查到有对辽宁铁岭遇难钢铁工人的报道，
甚至对整个事件的进展模糊不清。

莲步青云

“辽宁省及铁岭市高度重视钢包脱落事故善后处理工作，事发当天下午已初步确定对死难者的赔偿标准，最终补偿金额将参照煤炭行业标准执行，并力争有所提高。
　　目前当地政府已安排遇难工人家属对尸体进行ＤＮＡ鉴定，并先以每人1万元的标准，将首笔抚恤金发放到死者家属手中，同时，当地政府已安排机关干部包户包人深入到死者家中，对其家属做思想安抚工作。  ”


　

莲步青云

新闻惯用的语言，套话。

喜欢琥珀

为死者默哀

莲步青云

四月，是最残忍的一个季节

荒地上长着丁香

把回忆和欲望掺和在一起

又让那春雨来滋润柔嫩的根芽

去年你种在花园里的尸首

它发芽了吗？

今年它开花了吗？

菜鸟

守住内心的佛性，让自身发亮而去照耀四方。

排骨鱼

的确伤感，那两天CNN很多节目都停播，关注枪击案。但也看出美国人的虚伪，因为同一时间伊拉克汽车炸弹杀死了200多人，美国人却毫不关心。
死的都是一样的人