Nobody Remembers Columbine
Nobody Remembers
“Isn’t America supposed to be the land of the free? Howcome if I’m free, I cant deprive a stupid fucking dumbshit from his possessions? If he leaves them sitting in the front seat of his fucking van out in plain sight and in the middle of fucking nowhere on a Frifucking day night. NATURAL SELECTION,fucker should be shot. Natural selection!!! God damn it the best thing that ever happened on the Earth.Getting rid of all the stupid and weak organism’s I wish the government would just take off every warning label then all the dumbasses would either severely hurt themselves or DIE. “
No, that’s not a statement from one of the Wall Street protesters, that a rant from Eric Harris’s journal’s right after he was arrested for breaking in a van and stealing what was on the front seat. Eric Harris will go down in history as the mastermind of the Columbine murderers, and he’d be proud of that.
I just got finished reading Columbine by Dave Cullen. Dave Cullen is considered the expert on Columbine, because he spent who knows how many decades interviewing, researching, and looking for the answers. Why? It’s a herculean effort and well reported. There is probably not one kid, parent, police, or official, that this man didn’t interview after the event. 
It’s a good book, and he makes no judgments on anyone.
Most of the people who read this blog, I’m sure, remember April 20, 1999, the day that we all watched kids being run out of the Columbine High School on our TV’s— hands on their heads while they stepped past the dead body lying on the sidewalk. It was being reported that “men” were inside the Columbine High School in the Colorado shooting. Â
This Nobody was saying:.. So…we have..uh…450 SWATS, and hundreds of COPS, and Military, and NOBODY is going into the school to save those poor kids inside? What the hell good are they?!  Typical. Hurry up and wait for the orders. 
But…who wasn’t giving the orders? After the second hour which seemed like an eternity, I was thinking, “I bet Bill Clinton is watching this and trying to figure out a way he can push for his anti-guns laws, so the more gruesome, the better for him.” That’s sounds crude, but it’s the truth.  Would a President send orders from the top to…milk the event?
Now, before you say I’ve gone too far– think of this. The FBI negotiator on the scene was none other than the last man to talk to Branch Davidian, David Koresh before he and his 80 or so people in Waco were burned to the ground on orders from (it was reported ) Janet Reno.
Janet Reno reported to Bill Clinton.
Dwayne Fuselier did a horrible job of “talking” down David, why in the world would they call him in to take care of this? He was the closest FBI person, it was said. But…this wasn’t a hostage situation. That’s what he was, a hostage negotiator. Nevertheless,he took over, although in the book its reported that he just “helped.”
The book goes into detail about many of the events that day–like a teacher who had been shot, but laid bleeding for four hours inside, waiting for help. He was near a window. He bled to death. No one was held accountable. Â They kept telling the people who were begging for help: “They are on their way…ten minutes!”
Uh…why do we have SWAT teams again?
While the carnage inside was bad enough…one poor boy was left outside to lay on the sidewalk for 28 hours, all the time the camera’s were filming him. Â This was even after all Eric and Dylan had been found dead in the library. I can only imagine the poor parents. Seeing their kid’s dead body all over the news…it started snowing. Nobody touched him. “He might be wired” was the police’s excuse.
Absurd. Really. He was wired all right–to a hungry adminstraton and media who wanted to sensationalize the crime of what guns can do. There was no reason not to move that body. There was over a hundred witnesses that saw him get shot. 
I was furious that day, and I’m not ashamed to admit that I thought the government’s lame reaction to this was almost criminal.
After reading the book, I am now even more furious.
Okay— you have some really sick kids: one is a wannabee terrorist psychopath, (Eric Harris) and the other was a major manic depressive, (Dylan Klebold) and they have done just about everything to let everyone who was paying attention to them know that they are going to cause some real damage.
Eric had a website where he bragged about his bomb making for over a year, right after he ranted about how much he hated the human race and wanted to kill them all. Teachers reported scary English papers from both Dylan and Eric. 
The police department, had a valid report on Eric making bombs long before the attack. One couple went to the police 18 times to get them to do something because Eric was threatening to kill their son. The threats were on Eric’s website.
They didn’t pull up the website until they got on the scene.
The poor families whose kids were shot, struggled with medical bills, and one woman committed suicide over her daughter’s paralysis, but it was the teachers who got the money because they suffered from “anxiety” afterwards.
God bless the union.
 Over 24 of the victims tried to sue. They lost. The most money came from the home insurance that Dylan’s parents had on their home. Tell me, millions of dollars were sent to Columbine…where did it go? The book doesn’t say.
The parents of the two murderers were clueless. Not different from many parents across the country, but the police blamed them. As did everyone else. Â The mother of Dylan wrote every victim a letter to apologize, but the police never sent them. Â
Clinton and Al Gore used Columbine to promote gun laws as he also did at Oklahoma city. He used the tragedy to promote gun control. He got it passed in Colorado, but it was stopped in the Congress. 
Suicide among teenagers increased 300% from 1950 to 1990, and it’s the third leading cause of death among teens. Dylan, was so depressed before that day that he wrote this:
“Good god i HATE my life, i want to die really bad right now.”
After the book you feel sorry for the people who lost kids, who got no answers, who will never ever get over the insanity of the event, and the callousness of the authorities who made so many mistakes.
But something tells me, there is more to this story, and we will never know the whole puzzle of what happened that day. Why it was handled so poorly?
Why is there so much depression in our kids? It’s the land of the free, the home of the brave, isn’t it?
Well, two kids evidently didn’t think so.
The worst thing about that day? There were no hero’s allowed. No fathers allowed to go in to save their daughters. No SWAT teams allowed to storm the shooters.
Why? Nobody Knows.
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I am a nobody. If the different classes of America were color-coded, I would be in the yucky brown, one rung up from the bottom. I grew up in Naples, Florida and live near the Mississippi River now with my husband and two dogs. I am part of the slowly disappearing middle-class. I was a musician most of my life: drummer/singer/keyboards—but I retired before the plastic surgery flu hit. I have no degrees, which could be a good thing…depending on how you view our educational system. I do have three patents…but that really doesn’t make me a somebody. The one thing that is constant in my life is my OPINIONS, which i have more than perhaps even Carl Sagan could have imagined…mostly political. (yes…my ancestors were crabby buggers)
Hopefully other nobody’s will put their opinions on my site. But, if you happen to be a somebody, you’re more than welcomed to help out.
It’s my Nobody Opinion that Nobody’s Perfect, and Nobody Cares, that Nobody Knows why Nobody Wins, and when that happens, Nobody Wonders, why Nobody Flashes, why Nobody’s Fooled, but then Nobody remembers that Nobody ALWAYS Reports the truth.
You can email me at joyanna_adams@yahoo.com
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so many people wrote about it and no one remarks what the source of the problem. columbine is one of the school terror series as Oslo (Andrey Breivik) or Finland (Pecca Auvinien) etc. darwinism, darwin’s false theory of evolution cause people lose their mind and become aggressive animals! so, NOBODY sees and don’t want to see the real background reason of all this terror:nowadays in the world even in my country every government is raising up potential terrorists who believe natural selection deceit of the evolution theory. because in none of the school or universities nobody teach that evolution has already been refuted but only try to make it stand up only through propaganda via media!
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I think you have a great point. And it seems with each “terror” act, the governments can use them as launching points for making their grip on their populations even more tyrannical…all in the name of ‘safety.’ As for evolution, I could never understand why a supreme intelligence would not have made that part of a natural way of his universe. Most of the great scientists have all done their work searching for “god”. Why is it just assumed that evolution means no god? There is no scientific proof in evolution that there IS no god. There is more evidence that there is a supreme intelligence ..than there isn’t. At least that’s my Nobody Opinion.
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I’ll just pull up a seat then. OK, I have a horn of fine foreign bevvie, of distinction, and a bear-skin for when the sun goes down, I am ready to watch the fight. Carry on fellows.
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nice! there we go. GM forgots to mention he’s the publisher of the book he’s hyping, and starviego is just nuts.
have fun.
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Stalker chiming in:
‘But something tells me, there is more to this story’
You’re damn right about that. Here’s what Cullen won’t tell you:
http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/columbineeight.php?q=columbineeight.php
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Joyanna, thanks for reading my book, and the thoughtful review. You spent a lot of time on it, and I appreciate that. I wish there were more heroes in the story, though I grew quite fond of Patrick Ireland, Val Schnurr, and some of the other survivors.
(And I apologize in advance if my stalkers show up.)
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Cullen , who first reported on the story for the online magazine Salon, acknowledges in the book’s source notes that thoughts he attributes to Klebold and Harris are conjecture gleaned from the record the pair left behind.
Jeff Kass takes a more straightforward approach in
“Columbine: A True Crime Story,” working backward from the events of the
fateful day.
The Denver Post
Mr. Cullen insists that the killers enjoyed “far more friends than the average adolescent,” with Harris in particular being a regular Casanova who “on the ultimate high school scorecard . . . outscored much of the football team.” The author’s footnotes do not reveal how he knows this; when I asked him about it while preparing this review, Mr. Cullen said he did not necessarily mean to imply that Harris was sexually active. But what else would such words mean?
“Eric and Dylan never had any girlfriends,” the more sober Mr. Kass writes, and were “probably virgins upon death.”
Wall Street Journal
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The cynic in me rises, Joyanna.
I usually go for the ‘incompetence’ scenario over the ‘conspiracy’ but that is a ‘before’. the event. In an ‘after’ we really do see conspiracy at the highest levels as the Political elite use whatever is the ‘Tragedy du jour’ to bring in even more draconian laws and restrictions, riding roughshod over anyone who gets in the way.
Here in my sleepy Island, populated with hippies and feminists and assorted lefty loons, we had such a tragedy. One Martin Bryant murdered 35 people, none of whom had guns with which to shoot back. The Government’s response was to make sure nobody could have guns with which they could shoot back.
Personally, being the calm and affectionate chap wot I are, I would have insisted that everyone who wished could carry a firearm. Except I realize that the majority of the population here are so friggin’ looney themselves that we would rapidly de-populate and eventually (in a year or less) have only sensible folk left. While this would be no bad thing, in my view, and a boost to the Funeral business, the place would be so calm I could no longer scratch my head at the stupidity around me, and have to focus my attention on foreign climes.
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Somewhere in the 11th dimension, some man in the land of OZ, is saying the exact same thing…but not quite as succinctly. I agree amfortas. Either let the men do their job, or leave the brave souls alone who want to risk their lives to save others, because as you said, there are always going to be the ones who just have to shoot the innocent. After Columbine, the NRA was giving a convention in Denver, and the people set out to tell them “We don’t want you here.” And this is what Charles Heston said: “They say, ‘Don’t come here.’ I guess what saddens me most is how it suggests complicity. It implies that you and I and eighty million honest gun owners are somehow to blame, that we don’t care as much as they, or that we don’t deserve to be as shocked and horrified as every other soul in America mourning for the people of Littleton. ‘Don’t come here.’ That’s offensive. It’s also absurd Here in America, most everyone owns a gun. That’s a lot of guns. The young man who sold the guns to underaged boys to make a buck went to jail. But, statistics show, in nations where they outlaw guns, crime triples. The bad guys will ALWAYS find a way to get a gun. Better the rest of us have them, and also, be allowed to use them if need be. There were a LOT of guns that day, in the hands of many who did nothing. It was a disgrace..
Joyanna Adams
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