TheTrenchcoat Chronicles

Tag: Pekka-Eric-Auvinen

  • The Mutant Network

    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.

  • Finnish school shooters may have had contact

    Finland school shooters likely had contact: Police:

    Police in Finland are saying that it’s more than likely that Jokela shooter Pekka-Eric Auvinen and Kauhajoki shooter Matti Saari have had some form of contact. Police note that Saari had purchased the gun he used in his spree in Jokela.

    It was also confirmed after his arrest that Pennsylvania school shooting plotter Dillon Cossey also had contact with Auvinen prior to his killing spree.

    This why I think sites like MySpace, LiveJournal, and YouTube need to clamp down on the school shooting tribute groups. It’s obvious they’re now networking and feeding off of each other.

  • YouTube under the gun

    Finnish gunman’s video puts YouTube policies back in spotlight:

    Last year after the shootings at Jokela High School in Finland I called on YouTube to revise its policy about videos such as the ones that Pekka-Eric Auvinen posted prior to the shootings. Of course, the Google-owned company didn’t heed my words. Why would they? I’m just one blogger and they’re a multi-billion dollar corporation. However, that warning has come back to bite them in the ass with Matti Saari and the Kauhajoki School shooting.

    As I mentioned before Saari posted similar videos to the ones Auvinen made prior to his shooting spree. Not to mention all the mutant videos that pay tribute to the Columbine killers. I wonder if it will finally take the deaths of 10 people in Finland to rethink their policies.

    Stop relying on the users to flag inappropriate videos. Considering the stereotypical YouTube user this is kind of the videos they live for.

    Like I’ve said before if Google can censor the entire country of China I would imagine they could do a better job in screening their videos.

  • Jokela report released

    Teen gun killer sought to be ‘a God’:

    Police in Finland have released their final report on Pekka-Eric Auvinen and the school shooting at Jokela High School.

    Nothing much we didn’t already know or could have guessed.

    The one thing I found interesting was this quote from his diary…

    “In the best case, this (attack) would create massive destruction and chaos, or even a revolution,” Auvinen wrote in diary entries cited by the police report. “In any case, I want this to be remembered forever. Maybe I’ll even have a follower; after all, I am a super-person, almost God.”

    Just like a typical school shooter. Deluded, selfish, and an over-inflated sense of self-worth. No revolution, no followers, and you’re not even close to God. You’ll barely be remembered outside of Finland.

  • YouTube rejects mutant monitoring

    YouTube rejects mutant monitoring

    YouTube rejects calls to monitor videos:

    YouTube and their parent company Google are saying they will not monitor their site for videos inciting violence against schools. Much like the video that Pekka-Eric Auvinen posted shortly before killing 8 at Jokela High School in Finland.

    Peter Fleischer, privacy counsel at Google, which bought YouTube last year, said the website was not considering passing more information to the police to avert such events. “Logistically we couldn’t do pre-screening,” he said. “We don’t want to become censors of the web.”

    I fail to see how that would be any different from pulling copyrighted material off their site. They don’t seem to have an issue with that.

    Mr Fleischer said privacy was of paramount importance but admitted there was no blanket ban on passing on information. “If it were child pornography then we would inform the authorities immediately. In the case of somebody doing a video that looks something like hate speech, however, we would remove the account. In most of these cases we don’t report it.”

    Except they don’t suspend the accounts. The accounts for Auvinen and Dillon Cossey were still active after their respective incidents occurred. Cossey’s was even up for weeks after his arrest.

    As long as YouTube allows these hate-filled mutants to post video tributes to mass murderers, they’ll just continue to be the whipping boy whenever one of these events happens.

  • Auvinen’s girlfriend responds

    Auvinen’s girlfriend responds

    Ex defends school killer online:

    The former ‘girlfriend’ of Pekka-Eric Auvinen has spoken out online about the tragedy in Finland. I use the quotes because she lives in Australia, which, the last time I checked wasn’t next door to Finland.

    She posted a video on YouTube in defense of Auvinen and actually belays a certain myth.

    The statement consists of a video entitled “Pekka”, with a metal soundtrack and scrolling text.

    “The reason I have not talked to the press and the rest of you is not because I want to wash my hands of it,” she says.

    “It is because there is no point”

    Ms Scheel then launches into her defence of Auvinen.

    “First, he was not a Nazi. He hated Nazism.”

    “Second, he was not a psychopath or a sociopath. He felt love, he felt guilt, he felt fear.”

    “Third, he was not bullied or picked on, not by you or people in his life.”

    In the video, Ms Scheel refutes the notion that online messages would cause him to go on a shooting spree, and admits that Auvinen was often the initiator of online arguments.

    Ms Scheel also states that Auvinen was not bullied by his classmates, but “had he been, he would have reacted to it instantly”.

    So she claims Auvinen was not bullied. Even if he was, her second statement that Auvinen wasn’t a psychopath is incorrect. I would even go as far as to say that he was a megalomaniacal psychopath, considering he thought he was better than the rest of the world.

  • More confirmation in Cossey/Auvinen link

    More confirmation in Cossey/Auvinen link

    Teen who killed 8 may have contacted Pa. youth:

    There’s been more confirmation that Dillon Cossey was, in fact, in contact with Pekka-Eric Auvinen prior to the shooting that killed 8 at Jokela High School in Finland.

    Police said material seized from the computer of Pekka-Eric Auvinen suggests the 18-year-old communicated online with Dillon Cossey, 14, who was arrested in October for allegedly preparing a possible attack at Plymouth Whitemarsh High School in suburban Philadelphia.

    I doubt this will result in any additional charges for Cossey, as he claims that Auvinen gave no indication that he planned the shooting.

  • Cossey/Auvinen link confirmed

    Cossey/Auvinen link confirmed

    Teen charged with Plymouth plot communicated with Finnish shooter:

    No, this isn’t a repeat. The link between Finnish gunman Pekka-Eric Auvinen and would be school shooter Dillon Cossey has been confirmed.

    “He recognized the screen name and recalled having contact by email,” said J. David Farrell, who represents Cossey, 14, of Plymouth Valley.

    Farrell said Cossey was “very distressed” to learn that Pekka-Eric Auvinen, 18, of Tuusula, Finland, had gunned down six students, a nurse and the principal at his high school, located about 30 miles north of Helsinki. Auvinen then killed himself.

    Cossey told Farrell that Auvinen “gave no indication he was going to do anything violent,” and that Cossey “offered nothing in the way of encouragement” to pursue violence.

    The teens shared an interest in a video game called “Hitman,” Farrell said, adding that they may have also had a mutual obsession with Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, the students responsible for the Columbine massacre.

    Farrell said he believed more information about the time and extent of the communication would be available tomorrow.

    When these mutants congregate, they share ideas and encourage each other to commit these acts of violence. For years, I’ve been trying to get website hosts to shut these kinds of groups down. They haven’t listened yet. I wonder if they will now. Maybe it’s time to re-start my crusade. Who’s with me?

  • Mutant MySpace connection

    Mutant MySpace connection

    The cyber school for killers:

    According to the article, not only were Dillon Cossey and Pekka-Eric Auvinen YouTube buddies, but it seems they belonged to the same pro-Columbine groups on MySpace.

    Police do not believe this to have been a coincidence. The two youths are thought to have made contact over two MySpace groups, “RIP Eric and Dylan” — a reference to Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, who killed 12 schoolmates at Columbine — and “Natural Selection”.

    And people wonder why I think that sites like MySpace and YouTube need to shut down what basically amounts to hate groups.

    But like I’ve said before, MySpace and YouTube wouldn’t have to if parents just paid better attention to their kids.

    Speaking of parents…

    Auvinen’s parents are regarded as somewhat bohemian in the small dormitory township of Jokela. His father plays part-time in a jazz band and composes his own music; Auvinen’s mother is an activist for the Greens. They are regarded as stalwart members of the community and neighbours describe them as a “normal family”.

    I’ll let you draw your own conclusions on that one.

  • Principal shot execution style

    Principal shot execution style

    School massacre: Ninth graders saw killing of school principal:

    Just another disturbing detail of the shooting at Jokela High School in Finland…

    A group of ninth graders at the Jokela School in Tuusula were eyewitnesses to the execution-style killing of their school’s head teacher Helena Kalmi by gunman Pekka-Eric Auvinen on Wednesday.

    Watching from their classroom window, they saw Kalmi first fleeing the attacker, but later she went back. Auvinen forced Kalmi onto her knees and then shot her.

    And how fitting is this?

    Finally, Auvinen shot himself in the head. Police found him injured in a toilet at 2:53 PM.

    Exactly where he belonged.