LPAC Calls for Banning Violent Video Games During Va. Tech Hearings

May 11 (LPAC)--The first public meeting of Governor Kaine's "Independent Virginia Tech Incident Review Panel" was held at the VA State house in Richmond on Thursday. Governor Kaine started by asking the panel of eight prominent people including former Homeland Security chief Tom Ridge: Why did Sung Hui Cho killed 32 students before committing suicide, and why authorities responded as they did?

Most of the morning was taken up by regrets and sorrow and an hour long lecture by a VA police major on hand gun regulations.

But, during the session open to public comment in the afternoon, LPAC representative Don Phau, one of three speakers, began by reporting that the Washington Post removed its coverage of Cho's addiction to the point and shoot video game "Counterstrike". Phau explained the tremondous growth of video games led by Microsoft, the maker of Counterstrike, and said this was same game played by the killer of 16 people in Erfurt Germany in 2002 by a young student. Phau noted, finally, that the best thing the commission could do is join with the LaRouche PAC and call for the banning of violent video games like "Counterstrike."