I’d like to address all the Columbine conspiracy theorists out there. Please stop contacting me. I have no time for your bullshit theories. I am a firm believer in Occam’s Razor. The obvious answer is usually the correct one.
The Columbine shootings were only carried out by two people, the cowardly scumbags Harris and Klebold. There were no additional gunmen. Police did not shoot any of the victims.
Please remove your Reynolds Wrap chapeaus, get out of mom’s basement and leave me alone.
Court upholds decision to keep Columbine depositions sealed:
The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a decision that depositions given by the parents of the Columbine shooters remain sealed in the National Archives for 20 years.
Previously U.S. District Judge Lewis T. Babcock ordered the depositions sealed after families of the victims among others had requested that the depositions be made public. The depositions were given by Wayne and Kathy Harris, the parents of Eric Harris, and Thomas and Susan Klebold, the parents of Dylan Klebold. They’re from a civil lawsuit that the family of Columbine victim Daniel Rohrbough filed against the killers’ parents.
In the new ruling attorneys argued that since the records were made by a court that they qualify under the Federal Records Act. The court disagreed stating the depositions should have been returned to the people who made them. If that had happened I’m sure they’d be nothing but ash by now.
Judge Babcock originally ruled that way stating that if the depositions were to be made public that would inspire a whole new generation of school shooters. I disagree. In case you haven’t noticed school shooters and would be shooters don’t need some depositions to find inspiration. You would need to erase the memories of Columbine and every school shooting since from everyone on the planet before they would no longer find inspiration. The private journals of both cowardly scumbag killers have been released and that didn’t cause an outbreak of shootings.
Conversely, I think it would benefit greatly if the depositions were made public. We could learn from the Harrises and Klebolds mistakes in their parenting techniques on how to tell if our children are on a dangerous path like those of the killers.
Now there will just have to be a 20-year wait for that knowledge. I still say if any school shooting deaths happen between now and then that the blood will be on the hands of Judge Babcock.
Admirers of school killers exchange views on Internet:
This happens after every recent school shooting. Some media outlet prints a story about how the mutants congregate in their dark slimy corners of the internet.
“I love this day! I love it!” declared one person who had known about Matti Juhani Saari on his YouTube page a few hours after the shootings.
As I’ve been saying for the past 8 years there are groups on the internet that basically worship school shooters. Most of them can be found on LiveJournal, MySpace, and YouTube.
“He was intelligent. He was beautiful”, says one video of Pekka-Eric Auvinen.
These websites are well within their rights to ban these types of groups.
“They all had much courage – if we want our community to change, we need to hear their ideas.”
But they never do.
Already on Tuesday, a website in the United States was selling T-shirts featuring a picture of Matti Saari.
They hide under the guise of free speech.
The same site maintains a list in which school killers are placed in a “ranking order” based on the number of people they have killed.
When it’s really hate speech.
The two shooters at Columbine, Jokela’s Auvinen, and most recently, Matti Saari have an iconic status on certain websites, similar to that of serial killers depicted in horror films.
Then everyone wonders why when it happens again.
Typical features include posing with weapons, shouting at the camera, shouting at the camera, firing into the ground, and television footage broadcast after the massacre.
Parents. teachers, police, and websites need to be made more aware of these groups. For the most part, they’re not groups looking into the whys and hows of what happened and how future shootings can be prevented. They’re mostly a cultlike subsection of society that relishes in these mass murders. Because their lives are unfulfilled they feel the need to live vicariously through the actions of cowardly mass murderers.
It’s not just kids either. In my travels, I have seen adults, who were even adults at the time of Columbine, who worship or sympathize with these scumbag killers.
Freedom isn’t a right, it’s a responsibility. It’s high time we started holding people responsible for this cancer that infests the internet.
Principal still doesn’t know why killers did it:
This article starts off talking about the three yahoos who were arrested for threatening the life of Barack Obama. Then somehow it morphs into talking about Columbine. I guess because both involved guns and happened in the state of Colorado. However, it contains a great interview with Columbine principal Frank DeAngelis.
I’d like to address two great quotes made by Principal DeAngelis who is often the target of mutant harassment.
“Less than a year after the Columbine shootings,” Mr. DeAngelis was saying, “I was on a panel somewhere and I was asked, ‘What could have prevented Klebold and Harris from committing those murders on that particular day?’ I didn’t really have a good answer. The guns that they used were bought legally. An 18-year-old student went to a gun show in Colorado Springs and bought these weapons and gave them to Klebold and Harris.
I think Mr. DeAngelis is being too kind. The obvious answer is that parental involvement would have prevented Columbine. I’ve said it hundreds of times, if Harris and Klebold’s parents had just gone snooping through their own home they would have discovered what was going on. Whether or not they would have done anything about it is a different story. So maybe Mr. DeAngelis is right and Columbine was inevitable.
He also addresses the two cowardly scumbags’ motives and their mutant followers…
“Where I really struggle is, what caused so much hate in those kids’ hearts that they would kill their classmates and their teachers and they would kill themselves? You’re talking about kamikazes, but the kamikazes had a deep national and religious reason to do what they did. With Klebold and Harris, there was only this aspect that they had to do it so that their names would live forever. And you can go on these Web sites that are dedicated to them, and it’s like they do live forever.”
What caused so much hate is that they are one of those from their generation who believe that the world is fair and that the world owes them everything. It’s not and it doesn’t. And as far as their mutant followers are concerned they buy into every myth about their cowardly heroes, mainly the myth that they were bullied.
However, I think that they live forever due to their cowardly and violent legacy. Their mutant followers are just a mere footnote.
Newark man who threatened Columbine detective given probation:
So if some guy in his late 20’s from Ohio e-mailed threats to a police officer, claimed he knew a mass murderer, then claimed the mass murder was his idea what kind of sentence do you think he would get? You’d think he at least get a few years for violently threatening a cop right? Wrong!!!!
Patrick Gauchel threatened one of the Jefferson County Sheriffs who investigated Columbine and all he got was five years probation, a $750 fine, and has been banned from the internet for 5 years.
Add Judge Thomas Marcelain to the list of judges that must be on crack. At the very least this nutbag, Gauchel should have been sent to the squirrel factory for an extended stay.
I’ve posted about Dr. Jerald Block before. He’s a psychiatrist from the Oregon Health & Science University who theorizes that the cowardly scumbags Harris and Klebold went on their rampage because they were both denied access to their computers in the days prior to their attack. While I don’t agree 100% with Dr. Block’s theory I do think that is does have a lot of merit and may have been the breaking point.
However I’m not here to talk about Dr. Block’s work. I’m here to talk about what in my opinion is lazy journalism.
In this article from UPI they editorialize while paraphrasing Dr. Block…
Prior to the shootings, both teens spent a significant amount of time playing first-person-shooter computer games. Block suggests that these virtual worlds became essential for the teens and that Harris and Klebold may have been unable to distinguish the boundaries between their virtual lives and their real lives — in effect mixing the two.
That seems to imply that Dr. Block thinks that games like Doom were the main cause behind Columbine.
However in this article by WebMD, who Dr. Block actually spoke to, he says no such thing.
Before the attack, shooters Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold spent “more and more time with their computers, to the point that they may have been unable to distinguish the boundaries between their virtual lives and their real lives,” says Oregon Health & Science University psychiatrist Jerald Block, MD.
“Then, as they got into trouble with school authorities, limits were put on their use of the computer. This made them react with homicidal rage and suicidal depression,” he tells WebMD.
Does that sound like Dr. Block is blaming video games? Not to me. Personally it doesn’t even sound like he’s blaming computers or the internet.
He is basically giving a warning to parents to not let their kids immerse themselves wholly into any of these things. Yet the UPI article never mentions that at all.
There’s nothing wrong with editorializing, that’s what I’m doing right now. Editorializing in what’s supposed to be an informative article is just bad journalism.
Newark man claims he suggested Columbine attack:
You may remember the tales of Patrick Gauchel that I’ve posted before.
First, he was arrested for threatening violent harassing messages to the lead Columbine investigator. Then he claimed that he was in contact with cowardly scumbags Harris and Klebold prior to Columbine. According to the article he has also sent threats to the parents of Columbine victims
Now he’s claiming that Columbine was his idea…
“The suspect also stated it was his idea for the Columbine shooting, and it was not Eric’s fault for what happened,” Detective Cliff Biggers wrote.
Cliff Biggers is an awesome name for a cop, but I digress.
By claiming that Columbine wasn’t the fault of Eric Harris this may just make Gauchel the king of all mutants, which is kind of like being the president of NAMBLA. It makes him the ultimate Columbine apologist by saying that his hero is innocent.
The following quote though explains everything…
Other messages included in the update are nonsensical.
As he noted in his report, Biggers said Gauchel appears to have mental health issues.
Most mutants do.
Man arrested in threats claims he corresponded with Columbine shooter:
Yesterday I posted about a mutant from Newark, Ohio named Patrick Gauchel and the classic signs of mutantdom he displayed by sending threatening messages to the lead Columbine investigator.
Now comes to us another article which displays an even deeper sign of mutantcy, claiming to have a personal relationship with one of the Columbine shooters.
In an exclusive interview with NBC4 on Saturday, Gauchel said he had correspondence with Eric Harris, one of the Columbine shooters. He told the station he was so upset about the way Battan conducted the investigation that he sent her threatening e-mails.
He said the e-mails contained things like, “I’ll pay someone to rape her,” NBC4 reported.
The station reported Gauchel said he had a fascination with the Columbine case, but his correspondence with Battan was “just e-mail.”
They always claim they knew Eric Harris for some reason, never Dylan Klebold. If as many people who claimed to have been friends with Eric Harris were actually friends with him, he would have been the most popular kid in Colorado.
You only have to go as far as my mail section to see other delusional souls such as this.