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| | Did the Columbine Killers Listen to Marilyn Manson? | | | | Saturday, April 12, 2008 (5:45 PM) | | by Evan Long
e-mail: evanlong ATSYMBOL xmail PERIOD net
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There's been discussion over whether or not accused Columbine attackers Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were listeners to recordings by Church of Satan reverend Brian Warner.
According to Warner, writing in a May 28, 1999 piece for Rolling Stone magazine titled "Columbine: Whose Fault Is It?",
"Responsible journalists have reported [...]
that Harris and Klebold were not Marilyn Manson fans".
Warner seems to cite the reports of these unnamed journalists as proof that they were not and for many, this seems to have settled the matter.
However, as can be shown from government documents created during the government's "investigation" of the attack, the answer to this question would seem to, in fact, be yes.
In a release called 936 Pages of Documents Seized from Harris and Klebold Residences/Vehicles (p. 194, JC-001-026113) is an essay allegedly written by Eric Harris in which the reader is exhorted to really "HEAR" the music he or she listens to.
In it, there is a short list of bands the author apparently finds appealing.
The sentence reads, in part:
"Songs from bands like RAMMSTEIN, KMFDM, NIN, M. M."
For those not knowledgeable about this kind of recordings, "NIN" means "Nine Inch Nails" and in this context, "M. M." can only mean "Marilyn Manson", Warner's group having been promoted and their early recordings produced by the former.
Concerning the taste of Klebold, in a release called 11,000 Pages of Investigative Files (pp. 10,826-7, JC-001-010826-7) is a record of an FBI-transcribed phone call between reported CHS Trench Coat Mafia leader Chris Morris and former Harris/Klebold/Morris coworker Phil Duran in which Morris assisted in attempting to obtain evidence for the charge that Duran had illegally played a role in providing Harris and Klebold with a firearm allegedly used on 4/20.
Amid the chit-chat and Morris' repeated questioning about Harris' and Klebold's weapons procurement may be found the following exchange:
Duran: "I mean [...] they didn't even listen to Marilyn Manson."
Morris: "Yeah I know [...]. I mean Dylan did [...]."
However, as close to a hundred witnesses to the attack reported evidence of up to a dozen additional attackers at the school that day, focusing exclusively on topics such as whether or not Warner's recordings played a role in Harris and Klebold becoming homicidal would likely be detrimental to developing a complete understanding of how and why the attack occurred.
Who was the adult reported to have been seen in the Columbine science hall with a sawed-off shotgun and why, despite having been named by name as attackers, CHS students Chris Morris, Robert Perry and others were never convicted of their reported participation in the crime?
Mass shootings continue to directly impact lives all over the planet so let's reject inaccurate and potentially misleading articles like "Columbine: Whose Fault Is It?" and find out more about the real events of and surrounding the April 20th, 1999 attack on Columbine High School. | | | 111 Views | 0  Thumbs Up | 0 Comments |  |
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| | Did the Columbine Killers Code a CHS Level of Doom? | | | | Tuesday, March 18, 2008 (11:13 AM) | | by Evan Long
e-mail: evanlong ATSYMBOL xmail PERIOD net
website: http://www.xmail.net/evanlong/
There's been discussion over whether or not accused Columbine attackers Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold coded a level of the video game, Doom, to resemble the high school they attended and that, on April 20, 1999, they were implicated in having shot to pieces.
According to an article by Barbara Mikkelson of the Snopes web site, a claim had surfaced on the internet in 1999 that
"One of the boys who murdered his classmates at Columbine High School prepared by designing new computer game levels that resembled his school and peopling them with representations of his classmates."
The article in which this is covered is titled, "The Harris Levels", and in it, Mikkelson labels the claim,
"False."
In the years since the official pronouncement that the conveniently suicided Harris and Klebold acted one hundred percent alone in planning and perpetrating the attack on the high school, law enforcement has been pressured by surviving family members and their supporters to release approximately thirty thousand pages of documents created as part of the government "investigation" of the attack, while yet more documents remain under the government's lock and key.
In reference to the Doom levels, on page 7,043 of the release called 11,000 Pages of Investigative Files (JC-001-007043), then-CHS student David Proctor, who had played the game with the killers via modem, was reported to have told government "investigators"
"that earlier this year [1999] Harris had told him he designed a level of Doom that was Columbine High School."
The Mikkelson article, last updated in 2005, would therefore be incorrect on a major point of fact.
What's perhaps most noteworthy about it, however, is that, Proctor's assertion aside, to make the kind of statement she made, Mikkelson undertook the logical impossibility of proving the negative in an incompletely known system.
In other words, even if we didn't have access to the record of Proctor's alleged statement, we could still say that Harris and Klebold might have programmed a level of Doom that resembled CHS and unless someone could present a record of every computer file ever produced, it's logically impossible to state with one hundred percent certainty that they didn't.
This kind of flawed analysis is a weak limb for a would-be high-profile debunking web site to have gone out on, so perhaps there was an ulterior motive for the production of the piece.
If there was, perhaps it's to be found in statements within it such as
"[T]here's not much to it, really",
"There's no need to look for any more horror"
and
"There is no fathoming the heart of the Devil".
Statements like these, as well as the more subtle implication that if Harris' CHS Doom levels didn't make it into the publicly available repositories of his other files such as that of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia any idiot can edit, they truly must not exist, serve to communicate the impression that to venture beyond the official story of the attack is distinctly verboten.
To follow these suggestions would perhaps mean that one would never read the government documents to find that dozens of ear- and eyewitnesses were alleged to have reported up to ten or more additional attackers at CHS, including an adult in his 30's as well as current and former CHS students, some of whom some of the witnesses were able to name by name.
It would also perhaps mean that one would never discover that the police and FBI "investigation" of the attack seems to have consisted mainly of subjecting these witnesses to repeated reinterviews during which they were actively pressured to change their statements.
In any case, it is entirely within our power now to take it upon ourselves to decisively and forcefully reject inaccurate and potentially misleading articles like "The Harris Levels" and to find out more about the real events of and surrounding the attack on Columbine. | | | | 88 Views | 0 Thumbs Up | 0 Comments | |
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