Author and journalist Dave Cullen, the writer of the definitive article about Columbine The Depressive and the Psychopath, offers his opinion on the Eric Harris journal.
Tag: Eric Harris
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5/24/06: From the Mail Sack
It’s been a while since we read the mail from the mutants so let’s get started, shall we?
This one is from my entry on the Columbine Rampart Range Tapes…
jacob Says:
fuck all u white haters out there im not that racist but when it comes to niggers tryen to get at us that pisses me off u niggers have enough problems so fuck off…. by the way that was are ancestors thatdid that shit to you so dont pull that shit on inasent ppl by the way ur not african americans its africans in america
o and marcus and dante get a fucken life.. you stuped ass niggers probaly have an ique of 50 u fucken idoit and come in to my school and pull that shit ill fucken but ur thick skulled head in u bitch ass niggers
If they have an ique of 50, it’s about 50 points higher than yours, Klanboy. And I love how he says he’s not a racist except “when it comes to nig**ers”. I hate to break it to you, Spunky, but that is the textbook definition of racism.
Then we have this comment about the Columbine RPG designer being outed…
Lay-Z-Boy Says:
This may be off topic or whatever but i dont give a fuck. Anyways i just wanted to say that Eric and Dylan what they have taught me is that i can do anything i want. They may have been bad guys to you but to me they were in a way heros they opend my eyes and took my mind to another level beyond all this do what society tells you sheep bullcrap. And what the hell all your post are really stupid all you see is a couple kids that killed some people. I think that you gotta open your eyes and take a look at the world around you and not always see things just for what they are. It’s something youll never understand. To me your the fucking mutant and your the one that should be non existent. Mutants? You are a fucking asshole,it’s people like you bringing everyone who has differnt veiws down.
Your just a fucking number your useless i dont evan see you as the same species. You got alot of evolving to do buddy,suck my balls.REB and VODKA thanks for showing me that i can do anything whether it be good or bad.
I remember when I was young and idealistic, and I thought society’s rules didn’t apply to me. Then I grew up and got a job. With that whole “I’m the rebel, and you’re all sheep” bit, I see only one option of employment in your future…
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Never forget the monsters
Letter: Use of names in Columbine column could mislead others into repeating actions:
This is a letter to the paper of Kansas State University. I don’t know the original article the author is referring to, but it seems like it had something to do with the Columbine anniversary last week. Anyway, this is a person after my own heart…
Editor,
I was appalled at Thursday’s column on the shooting at Columbine High School. The apparent lack of respect displayed by the article was very upsetting for me.
The author states that these individuals were not monsters; only their acts were monstrous. The minute these young men brought guns into a school and started shooting, they became monsters.
Another misstep by the author was the inclusion of their names. The names have been enshrined on Websites by other misguided youths, and have given them people to rally behind. The acts of those two individuals should never be forgotten, but their names should drift into obscurity.
I attended a school that was a middle-class, white suburban school just like Columbine, located on the opposite side of Denver.
My school was hit very hard by the reality of what happened, and how it easily could have been us. I did see the memorial that was set up shortly after the shooting and have never been anywhere so quiet, and yet the expressions of the people said so much.
On April 20, 1999, our schools felt less safe, and a community was trying to find answers as to why kids were killing other kids. A discussion of the reasons why two kids turned into monsters should be held. The discussion should never not include the great pain a community felt and the terror the students and faculty felt.
Chris Rude
Graduate Student
Animal Sciences and Industry
I do disagree on one point. The names of Harris and Klebold, scumbags that they are, should be remembered. If you forget the names of history’s monsters, it will only be a matter of time before their crimes against humanity are forgotten too.
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Evidence Item No. 201
This is a great article about the still yet to be released evidence that was seized from the Harris household after the Columbine shooting. It has the usual information about The Basement Tapes, and Harris’ writings, and an alleged police cover-up regarding their prior contact with Harris. But this article enlightened me to something I had previously not known about what was in that evidence, Evidence item no. 201…
But the most intriguing, hush-hush item from the Harris home is probably evidence item No. 201, a green steno book found in a desk drawer. The book doesn’t belong to Eric or God but to Wayne Harris, who used it to write down various matters concerning his son’s mental health, errant behavior and interactions with neighbors and authorities. As a result of the confidential settlements reached in lawsuits brought against the Harrises and Klebolds by some victims’ families, virtually everyone who’s ever seen the steno book can’t comment on its contents.
We do know one thing about item No. 201: It documents more contacts between the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office and the Harrises over their son’s behavior years before the shooting than the sheriff’s office has ever acknowledged. In 2004, investigators working for the state attorney general’s office used the steno book to track a complaint against Eric that dated back to 1997, a case for which the department paperwork had disappeared. The deputy on the case, Tim Walsh, was the same officer who arrested Harris and Klebold for breaking into a van in 1998; interviewed by investigators after the shootings in 1999, Walsh made no mention of the 1997 case.
Jefferson County Sheriff Ted Mink said he will make a decision about releasing the materials after the anniversary of Columbine.
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The Myth Spreads Like Cancer III
Schools learn bullying can plant seed for tragedy:
Yet another article that’s designed to garner sympathy for school shooters and would be school shooters because they were allegedly bullied.
While, of course, I think bullying is a problem, there’s a big difference between bullying and killing. And like I keep saying, all these Columbine wannabes are taking the focus away from bullying and putting it on identifying would be school shooters.
Anyway, back to my main point. As usual, the article is rife with inaccuracies…
The massacre at Columbine High School outside Denver on April 20, 1999, was the deadliest school shooting on record. Two teenagers, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, who dressed in Goth attire and felt like misfits, went on a rampage that left 13 dead and 24 wounded before killing themselves.
Wrong. They were not goths, they had plenty of friends, and most importantly, they were bullies themselves. One only needs to go as far as this to learn the truth.
And secondly…
For instance, a 16-year-old who went on a rampage that left eight dead at a high school in Red Lake, Minn., a year ago fit the profile. School personnel described him as a loner who wore black and routinely was teased.
Wrong again. Weise may have been teased, but when you’re a self-proclaimed Nazi you’re kind of inviting it on yourself. Not only that, but I read more than one report that said Weise used to bully kids who listened to rap.
But hey, let’s not let facts get in the way of “journalism”.
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Mr. Thompson Goes to Delaware
Bill would limit sale of video games:
Our favorite idiot lawyer from Florida is on the move again. This time he’s in Delaware trying to help State Rep. Helene Keeley, D-Wilmington South, get a law passed that would restrict businesses from selling M-rated games to minors. Never mind the fact that most legitimate stores won’t sell M-Rated games to anyone under 18 and that the majority of kids who get these games are getting through their parents. Jack never lets facts get in his way. Like this little nugget of misinformation from Jack…
Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, the Colorado teens who massacred 13 of their fellow Columbine High School students in 1999, “literally trained on the game ‘Doom,’ ” Thompson said.
Sure, they did Jack. Just forget all those tapes they made, showing them at a homemade target practice. I myself, and millions of other people, have played Doom and never picked up a gun in anger but again let’s not let facts get in the way.
Jack also had this to say about the free speech ramifications…
Thompson, meanwhile, said the First Amendment debate is misplaced.
“This isn’t even speech,” Thompson said, holding up a video-game display box. “This is software that enables a machine to allow a player to play a game.”
Does he really believe the lies that he’s spewing forth?
When will politicians, especially Democrats, stop getting in bed with this assclown? It’s making them look worse than they already are.
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MutantSpace
While doing some research on MySpace, I came across the MySpace of a 16-year-old girl who claims to be from “Fuck, New Jersey”.
So right off the bat, I know I’m dealing with someone who has a ton of class. What also caught my eye is that her MySpace opened up with “Bang, Bang, Your Fucked. “RIP REB and VODKA 4.20.99”.
So now it’s obvious she’s just another mutant. And then there was some more ranting on her MySpace…
For those who read how I like Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold I don’t care if you hate them because I like what I like deal with it. I do not also have to tell you why I am interested.
Again I ask do the parents not know or do they just not care?
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On ghosts and hordes
It’s been a while since I pissed on the mutants’ cornflakes and there’s nothing that caught my eye in the news today, so I thought I’d give everyone another little taste of what is going on in the minds of mutants.
Every once in a while, I get a tip from someone who peruses message boards and websites that pay homage to the Columbine killers, scumbags Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. Today I got two good tips.
The first one is from someone who claims that they might have had a “spiritual” encounter with Dylan Klebold…
Last night at around 2 AM i was sitting on my arse at my computer brushing upon my facts of the 2 lovely boys. When i was thinking, what if dylan and eric’s spirits were still around? And i just starting thinking to myself how awesome that would be if Dylan were a ghost..and my friend. Yes call me weird. haha but anywho…the really weird part is…is a few minutes after i was thinking these things…my teevee turns off on its own. And when i get up to turn it back on….i go back and sit at my computer…and it turns off again. Then i unplugged it and it never turned back on. But i started talking as if Dylan was in my room.
i dont know…i can tell you one thing though, i slept like a baby last night with the fact that MAYBE he was there :]
Lovely boys? I’d hate to see what their definition of atrocious is. You know, maybe if you didn’t romanticize about mass murderers, you could get a real friend instead of your imaginary killer ghost friend.
The second one comes from a thread started by someone who can’t seem to quit me. My name was brought up in vain, as usual, and when one of the newer mutants asked who I was, this the reply that was posted…
Hates Eric and Dylan. Refuses to believe they were bullied even though hordes of facts has been presented to him stating they were. Thinks they were “cowardly psychopaths” Basically he’s a narrow-minded arrogant asshole who refuses to admit he’s wrong.
Hordes of facts? The only fact I saw was that some kid teased one of them in gym class. Like I keep asking if they were bullied, give me the names of their bullies and not just the ever-generic “jocks”.
I’ve presented facts that state they were bullies rather than the bullied, and the mutants can’t admit they’re wrong yet I’m the narrow-minded arrogant asshole. And don’t forget they weren’t just “cowardly psychopaths” they’re also lowlife scumbags that are rotting in hell. But hey, it’s a free country. If you want to spend the rest of your days with your bitterness and hate, then, by all means, go ahead. The rest of us will be over here living well-adjusted lives.
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Court rules Columbine materials can be released
High court rules on Columbine case:
The Colorado Supreme Court has ruled that items seized from the homes of Columbine killers Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold can be released to the public if Jefferson County Sheriff Ted Mink deems it a benefit to the public…
The Denver Post is seeking notes written by Wayne Harris about his son Eric and Dylan Klebold; medical records of the teenagers; the audio and videotapes they made; and their writings, including school papers, notations in the Columbine yearbook and the diaries.
And go figure…
Release of the items was strongly opposed by the Harris and Klebold families and by Mink, who must now decide whether to release the records.
Hmm, I wonder why. 🙄
Judy Brown, parent of former Columbine student Brooks Brown, applauded the ruling.
“I think the people affected by the Columbine tragedy have every right to see every piece of information out there,” she said. “I think the court’s made the right decision.”
Now maybe we can finally get the real story. The ball is in your court, Sheriff Mink. Will you be a man, or will you continue to hide the facts?
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Request from a mutant
I got an e-mail today from the webmaster whose site I got the quotes from for both Birthdays in Hell entries which can be found here and here. Here is the e-mail in most of its entirety…
Hello Trench,
My name is Chris and i’m the owner of (URL of mutant website).
I received a note that you posted some text of my homepage:You didn’t ask for my permission to post whats on my website.
I am copyrighted so therefore you must delete what youve taken from my website.Please put this stuff you copy off
Thank you
Chris
First off, I wonder which mutant sent him a note. Like I need to ask. WMD.
Anyway, as to your request, um…
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