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Tag: Columbine

  • Ohio mutant arrested for threats

    Ohio mutant arrested for threats

    Newark man accused of sending threatening email to Columbine investigator:

    28-year-old Patrick James Gauchel of Newark, Ohio, has been arrested for sending threatening e-mails to an investigator of the Columbine massacre.

    Gauchel is accused of sending “threatening, intimidating and retaliation-type messages” to Kate Battan, an investigator with the Jefferson County sheriff’s office in Golden, Colo., Newark Police Capt. Al Zellner said yesterday.

    Gauchel did not know Battan but apparently was familiar with her role in investigating the massacre in Littleton, Colo., on April 20, 1999.

    I can almost guarantee you that Gauchel is a mutant. E-mailing someone connected to the Columbine tragedy is like getting an autograph to them. Alvaro Castillo sent an e-mail to the principal of Columbine, Frank DeAngelis, before he went on his shooting spree. I know of at least one un-incarcerated mutant that e-mailed Mr. DeAngelis.

    Mutants also think they have a better understanding of Columbine, even though none of them were there. But since most of them are mental midgets, they can’t get their point across without resorting to threats.

    Getting back to Gauchel, he must have been 19 or 20 when Columbine happened. You would think one would be out of high school by that age, but you never know. I’m curious to see how Gauchel identifies with Columbine, considering he shouldn’t have even been in school when it happened.

    Gauchel is looking at a max of 6 years behind bars.

  • Did computer addiction cause Columbine?

    Did computer addiction cause Columbine?

    Study links computer denial to Columbine:

    This is one of the more sensible explanations for Columbine I’ve heard in a long time.

    Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold went on a killing rage at Columbine High School in 1999 because they were abruptly denied access to their computers, an Oregon psychiatrist says in a published study.

    The two young men relied on the virtual world of computer games to express their rage and to spend time, and cutting them off in 1998 sent them into crisis, said Jerald Block, a researcher and psychiatrist in Portland.

    “Very soon thereafter – a couple of days – they started to plan the actual attack,” Block said.

    Block published his research in the current issue of the American Journal of Forensic Psychiatry, a peer- reviewed journal.

    The paper is likely to generate debate, said Cheryl Olson, co-director of the Center for Mental Health and Media at the Massachusetts General Hospital.

    Block sifted through thousands of pages of documents released by Columbine investigators and said he believes both Harris’ and Klebold’s parents banned them from their computers after the two were caught breaking into an electrician’s van in 1998.

    Harris and Klebold had each previously been temporarily kept off computers at school or at home, and after each incident, Block said, the boys’ writings or behavior became more violent.

    Block said he worries about people immersing themselves so deeply and also about cutting them off cold-turkey.

    “How do you pull them out, without triggering homicidal or suicidal behavior?” he asked.

    Personally, I don’t think that was the only reason, but it very may well have been a major one. However, those two cowardly scumbags were so selfish and spoiled that Dr. Block may be on to something.

  • Beware of anti-bullying laws

    Beware of anti-bullying laws

    VIEWPOINT ~~ Beware of anti-bullying laws:

    This is a great editorial on why anti-bullying laws are ineffective. Here’s my favorite part of the article.

    Government regulation of offensive speech opens the door to any complaint of being offended, by anyone, for any reason. The Columbine killers have often been described as victims yet they themselves routinely rejected and harassed all classmates who did not share their antisocial beliefs and behavior. Then they ironically protested of being bullied when their offensive behavior did not endear them to their peers. Had speech laws been in effect at Columbine, students like Klebold and Harris would have made numerous frivolous bullying complaints just to punish everyone they didn’t like.

    So, wouldn’t that be anti-bullying laws being used to bully?

  • Appeal to be filed on sealing of depositions

    Appeal to be filed on sealing of depositions

    Columbine parents launch appeal of decision to seal depositions:

    As expected, some of the parents of Columbine victims have filed a formal notice that they will appeal Judge Lewis Babcock’s decision to have the depositions of the parents of the Columbine killers sealed for 20 years.

    Attorney Barry K. Arrington filed the notice of appeal in U.S. District Court on behalf of parents Brian Rohrbough, Susan Petrone and Dawn Anna. The notice does not discuss the grounds for appeal and Arrington did not immediately return a call.

    Rohrbough and Petrone are the parents of Daniel Rohrbough and Dawn Anna is the mother of Lauren Townsend. Their children were among 12 students who were killed at Columbine on April 20, 1999.

    Judge Babcock’s reasoning for sealing the depositions was to prevent copycats of Columbine. Obviously, that didn’t work.

  • Columbine parents call for release of evidence

    Columbine parents call for release of evidence

    Columbine Parents Call For Release Of Reports:

    Yesterday at a news conference at 11:20 AM, the exact 8th anniversary of Columbine, Brian Rohrbough called once again for the release of all the evidence pertaining to Columbine. Most notable, the basement tapes and the sealed depositions.

    “How much more blood must be spilled?” Rohrbough asked

    Rohrbough said if he can raise the money, he’ll appeal a decision by U.S. District Judge Lewis Babcock to seal depositions given by the parents of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold for 20 years.

    If he sets up a fund for donations, I’ll be more than happy to contribute.

  • Could Columbine records have prevented Va. Tech?

    Could Columbine records have prevented Va. Tech?

    Truth about Columbine may have helped prevent Va. rampage, Rohrbough says:

    If you’ve been following Columbine as long as I have, you’re familiar with the name Brian Rohrbough. He lost his son Daniel at Columbine. He’s been very outspoken about how he thinks the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Department handled Columbine. Sometimes I agree with him, sometimes I don’t. This time I agree with him 100%.

    The father of one of the victims of the Columbine tragedy said he isn’t surprised that the Virginia Tech gunman refers to the shooters responsible for his son’s death as “martyrs.”

    “Because Jefferson County lied so much about what happened in Columbine, they raised the interest in these guys,” Brian Rohrbough said Wednesday. He lost his son Daniel Rohrbough at Columbine. “When (officials) refused to release the basement videos, they created a cult following for these two guys.”

    Rohrbough has long sought the release of videos – the so-called basement tapes – and other documents created by Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris long before they went on their rampage at Columbine.

    “If the videos were released, then parents, schools, law enforcement and counselors would have a benchmark to look for potential murderers, and the odds of stopping this before it happens would increase dramatically,” Rohrbough said.

    “The basement tapes and the documents give a very clear picture on how to identify these guys. There is so much information that would help identify these serious threats.”

    He said that until the truth about Columbine is told, school shootings will continue to occur.

    “When you withhold the truth and you create mystery, imaginations and conspiracy theories run wild,” he said.

    Are you paying attention, Judge Babcock?

  • Sealed depositions may end study

    Sealed depositions may end study

    Sealed depositions may be end of Columbine study:

    Read the words of one Professor Del Elliott, director of the Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence at the University of Colorado.

    Professor Del Elliott said Tuesday he doubts he will undertake a study into the causes behind the Columbine High School shootings now that depositions of the killers’ parents have been sealed.

    In the meantime, the nationally recognized expert on violence prevention said he expects the ruling will translate into more lives lost.

    “We’ve not had a chance to learn much about was going on in the lives of (killers) Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold that precipitated this event,” he said.

    “Unfortunately, it’s going to be repeated,” he added, “and maybe then we’ll learn more about the circumstances which lead young people to commit these kinds of horrendous acts.”

    I hope you’re paying attention, Judge Lewis Babcock. I hope that robe can help you clean the blood of future victims off your hands.

  • Columbine depositions to remain sealed

    Columbine depositions to remain sealed

    Columbine depositions to stay sealed:

    U.S. District Judge Lewis Babcock has done the unthinkable and ruled that the depositions from the Columbine killers’ parents will remain sealed for 20 years in the National Archives, where they will do no one any good whatsoever.

    Judge Babcock claimed copycat fears as to why he ordered the documents to remain sealed. I hate to tell you this Judge but sending the depositions to the National Archives will not stem the tide of copycats. This website is a testament to that. Those documents might have actually prevented copycats, but we won’t know that until I’m 58.

    The fact that he wouldn’t even let a state Attorney General and a recommended violence expert look at them smacks of a cover-up.

    Brian Rohrbough, the father of slain student Daniel Rohrbough, is justifiably angered and is considering an appeal.

  • Columbine closed after bomb threat

    Columbine closed after bomb threat

    Columbine H.S. closed by threats:

    A phoned-in bomb threat closed down Columbine High School today. Yes, that Columbine High School. The caller was a male and said he wanted the situation to be covered on CNN. Police searched the school and no bombs were found.

    If this were any other school, I would say it was some kid who just wanted a day off. Since it’s the site of the worst school shooting in American history, it could have come from anywhere.

    I know for a fact that there are some worshipers and sympathizers of the Columbine killers, the ones I refer to as mutants, that love sending e-mails to Columbine principal Frank DeAngelis. As a matter of fact, North Carolina school shooter and murderer Alvaro Rafael Castillo e-mailed Principal DeAngelis prior to Castillo killing his own father then firing at his former high school.

    So it wouldn’t surprise me if it turned out to be some mutant teen from out-of-state who thought he was being “revolutionary”. I would be even less surprised if it were one of the cadres of mutants that I know.

    Thanks to Ima for the tip.

  • It helps to read them

    It helps to read them

    Judge to read Columbine records privately to decide on release:

    US District Judge Lewis Babcock is the judge who wants the depositions from the Columbine killers’ parents sent to the National archives for 25 years before being destroyed.

    In a written statement, Judge Babcock has said that he wants to read the depositions before making his final decision. Wait. What? You mean he hasn’t read them yet?

    If he hasn’t even read them, then why the hell is he so adamant about sending them to the National Archives, then destroying them?