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Category: School Violence

The Watchlist: Society Kills

No news tonight, so it’s time for another episode of The Watchlist. To refresh your memory, The Watchlist is a catalog of websites that either praise, worship or sympathize the Columbine killers Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. I download them and save them to not only to let parents, law enforcement, and anyone else know that kids and possibly even adults like this actually exist, but to also serve the mutants a warning that they are being watched.

Tonight’s Watchlist site brings us this little morsel…

This is Eric Harris and below, although just as worthy, Dylan Klebold. A few years ago, I’m sure you’ve heard, Martyrs Eric and Dylan went to thier school at columbine and began a killing spree. Sometimes labelled as “evil” or “bad” or “monsters” by a people addicted to myths and lies, they revealed some powerful Truths, both at home and at Columbine. There was absolutely nothing “wrong”, “evil” or “insane” about thier mass murder actions. They were a reflection of Eric and Dylan’s True-Realities, and society has the responsibility on its shoulders.

On that site, there are similar tributes to Ted Bundy, Charles Manson, The Green River Killer, Timothy McVeigh, and Jeffrey Dahmer. Most with the same running theme that “society” is to blame. I guess we’re supposed to stop society before it kills again.

They were not martyrs. They were cowards who were responsible for their own actions, but didn’t have the guts to face the consequences.

Remember, parents, this could be your kid. Hell, it could even be your spouse.

You have been served noticed. You are being watched.

October 11, 2004
10/10/04: From The Mail Sack

If you’re reading this on Monday morning, please check the weekend’s entries. I had a plethora of news to discuss and with the hosting change, some of you may have missed it.

Anyway I was hoping I could go two weeks in a row without hate mail but here we are…

As usual from the entry on the Eric Harris journal…

😈 Who ever said these people were inocent. I think they deserved what was coming to them. You should have listened. Opened your mind and actually take in what they felt. But as you can see you have not learned your lesson.

you think they were crazy, maybe they were. Or maybe you created what you saw that day. You should think before you do or say because it might affect someone in a way you may regret.

Comment by Cyrus — Wednesday Oct 6, 2004 @ 8:34 am

They were innocent. Most of the people killed had no contact with the two scumbags, Harris and Klebold, at all. They killed random people in cold blood like two little cowards. The only people who created what happened that day were the two scumbags themselves. People are responsible for their own actions. Even two cowards that are burning in hell.

Again from the same entry as usual…

They weren’t cowards, not by along way. They shot a bunch of people and then themselves. Seen the suicide pictures? They ain’t pretty. To the person who said that they never let the bulling get to them. You probably had friends the same as you. Eric and Dylan had barely any friends. They weren’t even in the trenchcoat mafia.They were outcasts among the outkasts.

I respect them for going through with it. I’ve thought about it a lot but obviously never did it.

Yeah, people got killed, but it couldn’t be helped. If Dylan and Eric hadn’t done it, someone would have. And some people copied them.

They weren’t sick fucks. They just couldn’t go on with their shit life and wanted revenge.

RIP Harris and Klebold.

Comment by Aine — Sunday Oct 10, 2004 @ 5:04 pm

Yes, they were cowards. When you shoot 13 unarmed people who had nothing to do with you, it is an act of cowardice. When you take your own life rather than facing the consequences of your actions, it’s an act of cowardice.

It could have been prevented in so many ways that have been documented here before so many times I won’t even get into it. They were sick fucks. Two of the sickest fucks that ever spilled forth from a mother’s womb. There’s only one type of person that’s almost as sick. Little snively mutants like yourselves whose parents obviously don’t care about you, who look up to those scumbags as heroes. I pity you. Really.

October 10, 2004
More from Marshfield

We have much more news from Marshfield. The high school where Toby Kerns had planned on going on a killing spree…

Toby’s dad, Ben Kerns, is claiming that another student is also involved. I also received a comment from someone who claims to go to Marshfield high who said there are four others possibly having charges against them.

The article also states that Kerns had planned his spree to mark the 5th anniversary of Columbine. As we all know, that would have been this past April. I believe they mean the 6th anniversary. The article also states that many Marshfield students don’t believe Kerns was the only suspect.

The Boston Herald conflicts itself. In one article, they say that students support Kerns. In the other students who were targeted by Kerns are not surprised…

“He gives off this really creepy vibe,” said David McGrath, a former student who was allegedly targeted by Kerns. “He stared at me in the halls and gave me weird looks. He’s almost the stereotype of someone who would do this.”

Another tidbit from the same article…

Kerns, described as a goth who was hospitalized last summer after he threatened to commit suicide, was hanging around with swastika-toting teens who called themselves the “Natural Born Killers.”

Sounds like he was part of a group of Harris and Klebold worshiping mutants.

Ben Kerns is also putting the blame on the abuse Toby suffered at the hands of his mother as the outlying cause of his behavior. I sympathize for Toby for any abuse he may have suffered, but the bottom line is there is no excuse for plotting to kill people. Listen to your Uncle Trench kids. It’s just high school. In 4 years, it’s over. Living well really is the best revenge.

If you kill someone or kill yourself, then you’ve let them win. Be bigger than they are. Then after high school, you can look back at what pricks they were that probably still have a high school mentality or forget about it completely.

Wouldn’t you rather have that than being dead or in prison? It’s not worth it. And parents, keep an eye on your kids. Put a stop to it before the police come bashing down your door. Sometimes you have to be the bad guy. If more parents disciplined their kids more, we wouldn’t have these problems.

October 10, 2004
Mass. Plot Thwarted

Columbine-Style Murder Plot Foiled On South Shore:

We have another plot that was thwarted today. This time in Massachusetts. A 16-year-old boy from Marshfield High School was planning a Columbine-style attack on his school in April 2005. I wonder which specific date he had set. Any guesses?

He had plans of the school, including which doors were padlocked and the locations of the gas lines. The kid also manufactured and tested homemade bombs. A “shopping list” of guns, ammunition and bomb-making materials were also found at the boy’s home. Police also found the always required “hit list”. No motive has been given yet, but I wouldn’t be surprised if he was a mutant worshiper.

So, are we ready for the question that begs to be asked every time something like this happens? C’mon kids. Say it with Uncle Trench. Where the hell were the parents? Someone give me an answer, please. I’d really like to know. And of course, we have to repeat the new mantra here at The Trench Reynolds Report, If you think that this could never happen with your kid, think again.

October 6, 2004
More Charges Filed against Osantowski

Teenager accused in Columbine-like plan faces other charges:

Andrew Osantowski has a new charge against him yet again. This time for spitting on another inmate, which is considered assault. When you’re 17 and in jail, your best bet is to keep a low profile. Spitting on an inmate is not a low profile. I’d be curious to know what the ethnicity of the other inmate is.

As was reported previously, Osantowski was arraigned on two additional charges of two counts of breaking and entering, two felony counts of larceny in a building, and two misdemeanor counts of malicious destruction of property. The B & E charges can carry a 10-year sentence. The charges stem from an online journal attributed to Osantowski.

Center Line Police Detective Robert Wroblewski said he had no suspects in the break-ins until he read a Sept. 22 news article about an online journal attributed to Osantowski. The postings describe break-ins almost identical to the March 27 and April 8 incidents.

It’s unknown whether if I had anything to do with Center Line police finding Osantowski’s website, as I never heard back from any law enforcement agencies.

The article also states…

In a note dated April 9, the writer wishes a happy birthday to Columbine killer Eric Harris.

That’s half-true. The exact quote is…

April 9, 2004-Happy B-day to Eric Harris, NJ teen sentenced to 10 years in jail for Columbine Like Plot.

Eric Harris’ birthday is April 9th but the teen from New Jersey he’s referring to is Matthew Lovett who was sentenced the day before Osantowski’s journal entry to 10 years for his own school shooting plot.

I’m not surprised that the Detroit Free Press didn’t check that fact. Their motto should be… “Print First. Ask questions later.”

October 5, 2004
The Watchlist Begins

No hate mail this week, so this gives me the opportunity to do something I’ve been wanting to do for a while. I want to make people aware that there are sites out there that either praise, worship or sympathize the Columbine killers Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold.

I wanted to make people aware that sites like these actually exist. However, I didn’t want to do it in such a way that I provided other worshipers of these scumbags the links to find these sites. So now what I’ve done is started “The Watchlist”.

Instead of trying to get these sites removed from their hosts, I’m cataloging them. After I had one of Andrew Osantowski’s sites removed, it made me wish I still had a copy of it to provide to either law enforcement or the media.

So now when I come across a Watchlist site, I download the entire site and burn it to a CD. Also, I do it to let these mutants know that they are being watched. Which brings us to our first Watchlist site. The following is taken from the site’s “mission statement”…

The purpose of this website is to serve as a memorial to Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. I would first like to say that I do not condone what they did. Murder is wrong no matter what the circumstances. My point is to say that they were not unprovoked and they were pushed to the point of no hope. They chose the wrong course of action, but society can not be blameless for what happened. Sure they made their own choices, but they would not have had those choices to make had they not been victims of harassment and toment. They were also way ahead of most people in their awareness of the way society is and will always be. Nothing would have ever changed for them. People don’t care about anyone except themselves and how they are perceived by others. It’s rather disgusting that people can’t be different without being labeled as weird. They hated society and they wanted to make a difference in the only way they knew how. There is a huge message we can all learn from “Reb and Vodka”. The message is not about violence or retribution. The message is about us and society. I hope people can learn from what happened without any more incidence occuring like Columbine. Unfortunately, most people can’t see through their own ignorance and try and understand what Dylan and Eric were trying to say. They deserve to be remembered. They were sons and brothers. They were friends. They are sadly missed and it is my goal to keep their memory alive.

So the webmaster says that murder is wrong, but then goes on to defend the actions that Harris and Klebold took. No one is provoked into the killing of 13 unarmed, innocent people. What’s even worse is that a so-called adult is running this site.

Kids and teens are finding sites like these and could possibly reason that since Harris and Klebold are worshiped by these people, then maybe if I kill more people than them, they’ll be worshiped more than them. One of those kids could be yours.

You have been served noticed. You are being watched.

October 3, 2004
Trench in the media…yet again

Online, teen is praised for alleged bomb plot:

Well, well, well. Look who made it into the media again. Yours truly. This time for the Andrew Osantowski case. But it’s factually incorrect as usual. While I appreciate that the article is trying to show how that there are kids like Osantowski out there that worship the Columbine killers, I have to take the Detroit Free Press to task for a couple of things…

“I don’t know about the rest of you mindless self-righteous people out there, but I, for one, salute Mr. Osantowski,” a posting signed by someone identified as The_Grandest_Dragon wrote on the Web site The Trenchcoat Chronicles .

The domain name is taken from the Trench Coat Mafia, a group Klebold and Harris belonged to. Although the site’s keeper apparently condemns their killing spree — America’s deadliest school shooting — many postings on the site defend them.

First off, my domain name does not come from “The Trenchcoat Mafia”. I’ve been referring to myself as “TheTrenchcoat” online since 1997. Secondly, the commenter who called himself The_Grandest_Dragon did, in fact, make that comment, but in his defense he also made the following comment in the same entry the first comment is taken from…

I have been reading your sight for quite some time now, and yeah i guess it has sunk in that im in the wrong. You are right trench, everyone you have talked about on this site, what they have done did nothing to make their lives or anyone else’s any better, and i guess life is just too short to hate everything all the time. Sorry about posting twice, i had a couple of ones after the exlcamation marks, i pressed stop but i guess it went through anyways. You where right and im sorry.

Comment by The_Grandest_Dragon — Friday Sep 24, 2004

Lastly, while the article does correctly state that I do condemn the Columbine killings, that point can’t be stressed enough, the impression the article gives me is that I somehow encourage the pro-Harris and Klebold comments that are left on my site. Nothing could be further from the truth.

While I do attract a large number of what I call “mutants” I leave their comments on my site for a reason. Part of what I’m trying to do here is to show parents and educators that there are kids out there that worship the Columbine killers. Check any one of my entries about Columbine or the mail I receive. Any one of these kids might be your son, daughter, relative, or student. It’s a growing problem that can’t be ignored.

So, If anyone coming to my site from the Detroit Free Press is now aware of the problem that I’m trying to expose, then the article has served a purpose. Other than that, being falsely misrepresented in the media? Yeah, I don’t know what that’s like.

And please do not e-mail the author of the article. I have already done so, expressing my concerns.

UPDATE: I exchanged e-mails with the author of the article, and she was willing to rectify the situation. Also, I accidentally deleted some comments from this entry. I’m monkeying with a new spam blocker and it may have deleted some comments.

October 2, 2004
More on the Osantowskis

Quiet teen’s terror plot stuns school:

Just some more tidbits about the Osantowski case that I missed.

Osantowski enrolled at Chippewa Valley High only 10 days before his arrest. How can you hate your school that fast, especially when he requested to go to that school because all his friends were there? Obviously, there’s something mentally wrong with that kid.

Check out this quote from his arraignment…

Andrew Osantowski’s only public comments Friday came during his video arraignment. Osantowski, his pale skin and blond hair a stark contrast to his black T-shirt, was polite and composed when asked for his thoughts on bond by Magistrate John Russi.

“I’d like to participate in, like, anti-drug programs or antiviolence programs. Anything I can do to help the community,” Osantowski said, just after requesting a court-appointed attorney.

Oh, no. No community service for you. Don’t you realize the severity of the charges you’re facing? I guess he thinks in his mind that he really didn’t do anything wrong.

Conflicting accounts of the father Marvin Osantowski…

His father came on-screen a short time later to face charges of concealing stolen firearms and conspiring to conceal. He told the magistrate, “I’m a good citizen,” before his bond was set at $600,000.

And…

Marvin Osantowski is an autoworker on disability with a penchant for neighborhood causes. He is a member of the Knights of Columbus and a founding member of a local Catholic church. In 2000, he was appointed to the township committee after protesting a road expansion in his neighborhood. Fellow members didn’t notice anything unusual. In fact, he seemed like a nice man, said Jason Davidson, who is the vice president of the Clintondale Community Schools Board of Education.

However…

The teen apparently targeted the liaison officer because she handled a case in which he and his father were accused of stealing three golf carts from Fern Hill in May. Both were charged with receiving and concealing stolen property and were arraigned Thursday morning, only hours before their home was raided on the terrorism tip.

And according to the chat transcript, Andrew Osantowski claims his dad beat him.

Maybe he’s one of those guys that keeps up public appearances but is a real jerk at home.

Curiouser and curiouser.

September 28, 2004
The Bullying Myth

Violence ensues when teenagers are bullied:

This is an opinion piece from Eastern Michigan University’s magazine by Lindsay Buhagiar. She takes the stance that if people like Eric Harris and Andrew Osantowski were not bullied, they would not have planned or committed acts of violence.

While I respect Miss Buhagir’s right to her opinion, it’s a load of crap. Yes, bullying is a severe problem in our schools that needs to be corrected. However, I don’t think in either case that bullying was a major factor.

Both Harris and Osantowski were racists and anti-Semitic. Both had past criminal histories of break-ins. Most importantly, both had parents that that didn’t care enough to get them the help they needed.

Now, your novel approach to be nice to those that are different from us is fine, but the subjects involved didn’t exactly make it easy for themselves by having beliefs that are shunned by most reasonable people. It’s hard to get attached to “Hug a Nazi” day. What do you think would have happened if a cheerleader or jock or whatever tried being nice to Harris or Osantowski? They would have been met with a nice “fuck you” for their troubles. The alleged bullying was just an excuse. In reality, they’re nothing more than psychopaths.

September 24, 2004
Andrew Osantowski’s Website

Here’s a Trench Exclusive. I have reported it to their local law enforcement and media. I told you a few days ago that I had what I believe to be one of Andrew Osantowski’s websites blacklisted but that I had a partial mirror site. That site can be found here. It has no details whatsoever about his alleged bombing plot. It does go into detail about various break-ins, theft, and vandalism. I have no proof that this site actually belonged to Andrew Osantowski, but the details on the site and details that I’ve picked up in the media make me convinced that it is his site.

September 23, 2004