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AOL News has obtained two plays a classmate says were written by Virginia Tech gunman Cho Seung-Hui.

Cho Seung-Hui’s play, ‘Richard McBeef’

Cho Seung-Hui’s play, ‘Mr. Brownstone’

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OK I aM curious - what the hell is Ismail Ax? Is this some sort of new form of perverse viral marketing?

All at once, the world went searching for the meaning of “Ismail Ax”.

Those two words, written in red ink on one arm of Cho Seung Hui, the 23-year-old Virginia Tech student suspected of the campus shooting spree, set off a massive internet hunt by the public for clues to what might have motivated the nation’s worst mass killings.

Almost as soon as the Chicago Tribune’s website reported that detail, which was then picked up by news organisations around the world, the blogosphere filled with theories about the possible meaning of “Ismail Ax.” Hundreds of bloggers speculated on a link to Islam or to literature; thousands offered their opinions and millions read the commentaries, according to Technorati.com.

FULL ARTICLE

Go here for the BOING BOING thread on the Ismail Ax mystery.
Go here for the original Chicago Tribune article

UPDATE : Is the mysterious phrase nothing more than an XBox Live gamer tag? as mentioned HERE

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Proposed graffiti laws give police new powers to search anyone they please if they are in a ‘hotspot’.

Graffiti becomes a new chargable offence (though it seems the only people who are ‘offended’ by grafitti are those who make the laws). The new ‘offence’ brings with it a jail term of 2 years or a $24,000 fine.

Most interesting is this quote from The Melbourne Leader -

Victoria Police Acting Sgt Anthony Ridd - who heads the Melbourne Regional Response Unit, said police had not been involved in the drafting of the laws… but that he welcomed any new laws that ‘help us do our job’.

As I was saying, the only people who are ‘offended’ by grafitti are those who make the laws. And those that make the laws in Australia are Fascists. Literally…

FASCISM - A form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy and purity.

Non-Marxist Evolutionary Socialist political agendas have ruined Australia… Riding on a train that has grafitti justifies you being searched. The presumption of innocence which is the basis of our justice system is yet again under attack.

On another note is is great to see this in the news

Canberra Liberal MP and anti-graffiti campaigner Steve Pratt may face arrest after he spent four hours removing an “obnoxious piece of vivid graffiti vandalism” - aka “commissioned mural

NEWS STORY HERE

I proposed a theory in 2002 on sueing The Government if they deface you artwork. Notice however that the new laws create Grafitti as a new chargable offence all on its own. Until this ‘vandalism’ was covered by local council bylaws, which are not as far reaching as International copyright conventions.

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