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by Evan Long

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This is a picture of two dead boys in a high school library.  The picture, like all pictures, has a thousand words behind it, many of which have not yet been spoken.  There are other pictures related to this one as well, pictures too numerous to fit in this space of other individuals injured by the boys in the first, individuals injured emotionally and physically, and some even fatally so.  The people of the world were told many, many times that the boys shown in the first picture acted alone in harming the other individuals.  The purpose of this article is to clarify the perceptions of the people of the world regarding the events of the April 20, 1999 attack on Columbine High School.         

"He told me that there was another shooter on the roof when he was laying outdoors.  He could see a man on the roof with a gun."  -Columbine attack family member Donna Taylor on a statement by her son, Mark, who was shot at Columbine High School on April 20th

Officially, the attack began at 11:20 and ended at 12:08.  Officially, fifteen were killed, including the two attackers. Officially, they used a total of 99 bombs and fired 329 rounds.  And officially, no one but Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold participated in, assisted with, or had any specific foreknowledge about the attack. 
Almost every detail of the Sheriff's Official Line on the Columbine shooting, a. k. a. "Sheriff's Office Final Report on the Columbine High School Shootings," can be called into question by a study of the court-ordered releases of government documents related to it.  Perhaps the most salient is that of the numerous witnesses reporting three to ten black-clad shooters inside the halls of the school, many were able to identify at least some of them by name as trench coat students other than Harris and Klebold or to describe them distinctly as having been neither of the two.
According to these witnesses, the violence at the school was perpetrated by a variety of attackers who can be grouped into roughly a dozen profiles,
including:

·Eric Harris

A second-tier member of the trench coat group, Harris was allegedly found dead and photographed in the CHS library. He was raised at Plattsburg Air Force Base in New York, was seeing a psychiatrist and taking SSRI antidepressants. Police knew of death threats he'd published on his web site but did not investigate further.

·Dylan Klebold

Klebold was said to have been "tied at the hip" with Harris and was widely reported to have been "goofy-looking" and socially awkward, yet had a female companion and at least half a dozen friends. Like Harris, he began to wear a trench coat in his sophomore year at the school.

·Chris Morris

Morris was the reported leader of the trench coat group in the 1998-99 school year. According to one, he was a "mean kid" who talked with regularity about constructing explosives. He was brought before a special CHS panel for pulling knives on students and was reportedly spotted in the north hall of the school with a handgun during the attack.

·Robert Perry

Like Harris and Klebold, Perry was reportedly a member of the trench coat B-team who left CHS in January 1999 but spent a significant amount of the school day on the campus anyway. He was similar in appearance to Klebold but with notably bad acne and was reportedly witnessed on the west side of the school where the shooting is alleged to have begun.

·"The Chiseled Face Shooter"

This attacker was spotted by several students in the science hall of the building with a shotgun. According to one girl, he was muscular with a "chiseled face." She even produced a sketch of this attacker, who was reported to have appeared to have been in his 30's.

·"The Camo Pants Shooter"

Named by name in one interview, this attacker wore camouflage pants and a trench coat. He was seen first bringing a heavy-looking duffel bag into the school and then wielding a shotgun.

·"The Splatterpunks"

All three of these individuals wore camouflage pants that afternoon in Clement Park, where they had gathered to watch the carnage and where, according to a bystander, they verbally displayed foreknowledge of the attack and a moral alignment with the attackers. They were "detained" but released by law enforcement that day.

·"The Blue Jeaned Bomber"

A pudgy male was reportedly seen by many witnesses wearing a white tee and blue jeans on the west side of the school, tossing a bomb onto the roof from a group of three attackers.

·"The Round Faced Shooter"

A shooter in a black trench coat on the west side of the school was reportedly described as having been 5' 9" or 5' 10" in height with a "very round face" and having been "neither Harris nor Klebold."

·"The Short Shooter"

A shooter, 5' 6" in height with ear-length hair, was reportedly spotted running through the Columbine cafeteria in a black jacket firing a weapon.

·"The Baggy Pants Shooter"

An attacker was reportedly also spotted in the cafeteria wearing a red or orange shirt and black baggy pants. According to statements attributed to one witness, this attacker spoke German.

·"Joe"

Several witnesses reportedly overheard an attacker yell, "Joe, where are you?" At least one gunman was reportedly described as a class of '98 student, and a Joe Stair, reportedly at CHS that morning, was one of the most prominent Trench Coat Mafia members of the previous year at Columbine.

·"The Rooftop Gunman"

Witnesses noted a gunman on the roof, a location to which neither Harris nor Klebold officially traveled.

·"The Weaver Park Gunman"

CHS is surrounded by an elementary school, a public library, and public parks including Weaver Park, where two male witnesses noted an attacker crouched with a shotgun on their way off of the campus.

In all, statements from some hundred individuals would be referenced either directly or secondhand in the documents indicating the presence of additional gunmen.

"They said do not talk about anything to anyone.  [...]  Because they will come after you; the snipers will come after you."  -Columbine attack family member Donna Taylor on the government officials who visited her son, Mark, in the hospital after the shooting

The interviews which constitute the sources of those profiles generally took place between April and August 1999, when almost everyone at Columbine High School plus additional individuals were interviewed by police and FBI.  The curious thing about the interview portion of the "investigation," however, was that between approximately September and November 1999, a peculiar phase was established which might be referred to as the "Autumn Sweeps."  The distinguishing feature of this round was that they tended to serve no other purpose than to take aside the witnesses who had indicated a likelihood of shooters other than Harris and Klebold and to attempt to coerce them into endorsing the official narrative.  To illustrate:

"On 10-8-99 Columbine High School student Mindy Pollock was re-interviewed at the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office South Sub-Station.  [...]  The purpose for the interview was to clarify Pollock's perceptions during the April 20th shootings at Columbine High School [...].  [...]  The interview was concluded with Pollock understanding that the person she had identified as [redacted] was, in fact, Dylan Klebold.  There were no additional concerns [...]."

"On 10-12-99 Columbine High School student Nathan Anema was re-interviewed at the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office South Sub-Station.  [...]  The purpose of the re-interview was to clarify Anema's observations during the April 20th shootings at Columbine High School [...].  In that interview Anema identified [redacted] as possibly being the person he saw throw a pipe bomb during the shootings at Columbine High School on 4-20-99.  [...]  The interview was concluded with no additional concerns [...]."

"On 10-12-99 Columbine High School student Leiha Murphy was re-interviewed [...]."  [...]  The purpose of the re-interview was to clarify Murphy's observations during the April 20th shootings at Columbine High School [...].  In that interview, Murphy stated she was certain that she saw [redacted] wearing a trench coat and standing near the sidewalk [...] when the shooting started.  [...]  The interview was concluded with Murphy and her mother understanding and feeling comfortable with my explanation."

A behind-the-scenes look at this scenario may be found in the news articles of independent journalist John Quinn, who wrote in 1999that "Columbine witness Chris Wisher told to [him] repeatedly that other gunmen were DEFINITELY involved; and law enforcement ["]investigators["] are coercing witnesses into making their stories conform to the two "lone" gunmen theory."
While even Wisher is reflected in his Autumn Sweeps interview as chalking up his observations of additional gunmen to a vivid imagination, not all of the witnesses are recorded as having recanted, and the summaries of the interviews with those who reportedly refused to accept the official line betray the particularly persistent tactics used against them to stamp their stories out.  To illustrate:

"I asked Ashley if she believes she could have made a mistake on her identification of [redacted] and she told me that she did not believe she made a misidentification.  [...]  After Ashley finished, she handed the time line back to me and said with the information you're providing me, it looks like I made a mistake, but she told me in her mind, she still believed that [redacted] was still the individual that she saw in Columbine High School with Eric Harris. 

[...]  At this time, I again asked Ashley if she made a mistake in her identification of [redacted].  Again, Ashley told me that it is possible, but she still believed that [redacted] was the other gunman she saw at school that day.”

"Monte stated that she was 100% sure she saw [redacted], a person known to her [...].  I advised Monte that according to other witness statements, [redacted] was at home between 8:00 am and 12:00 pm on 04-20-99.  Monte explained due to those witnesses being a family member and neighbor, those individuals could have lied [...]."  "Prior to the conclusion of this interview,  I advised Monte that there were several witnesses out on the southwest corner of the school at the same time she was and had different recollections of what took place and who was there.  I asked Monte if she could explain the differences in the stories of the several other witnesses.  Monte stated that she had no explanation for the other witness observations and reiterated that she knew [redacted] prior to the incident and that's who she saw standing over the two injured students."

"Jennifer looked at the photos and again I asked her if these are the two individuals that she saw at the high school.  Jennifer positively identified Dylan Klebold, but stated the other subject she saw was not Eric Harris.  She told me that the party she saw was approximately 25 to 30 years old, had a thick muscular neck and muscular build and that Eric Harris was too scrawny to be the party she observed.  I again reiterated with Jennifer that the still photos are of Eric Harris and it is the same description that she is giving us.  [...]  It was apparent to this ["]investigator["] that Nancy and Jennifer were questioning the credibility of the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office."

"[W]hen she went to school that day [4/20/99], there was [...] three Trench Coat Mafia guys and it looked like they had guns in the trunks of their cars but she thought they were doing role playing in the school so she didn't think anything of it."  -Columbine attack family member Donna Taylor on a female Columbine student who visited her son, Mark, in the hospital

In the years prior to the attack, the CHS trench coaters were doing enough LARPing, or live action role playing, at the school that when the shooting broke out, some of the witnesses reportedly thought it was just another mock attack or a quote, "paintball incident".  Also, the senior class had reportedly been playing a running game of "Annihilation" involving a "Secret Santa"-type list of players who had to be "killed" by other players.  According to reports, the game was being played by two hundred members of the student body and one of the rules of the game was that it could not be played on school grounds or at school functions.
Some of the attack-themed videos which Harris and Klebold created, such as the relatively well known "Hitmen for Hire", were admittedly created for school, while others, which allegedly describe their motivation for the attack, have not yet been released.  By the time of Harris' and Klebold's arrest for breaking into an unattended van and stealing electronics equipment, one of the head school disciplinarians acknowledged that, in his opinion, Harris was "on the edge of (losing) control", and many of the lesser known Trench Coat Mafia members had been brought up on drug or weapon complaints. 
A series of conferences between the staff of Columbine High and lawyers hired by the school district after the attack put a damper on what would and would not be revealed about the school's knowledge of and possible hand in planning the attack but could some or more of Harris' and Klebold's alleged confession tapes, which are reportedly funny, have been not actually created in reference to the shooting, but to an imaginary plan partially encouraged or even scripted by members of the faculty in order to seal Harris and Klebold in a lie?

"If there's any way in this [******] up universe we can come back as ghosts, we'll haunt the life of any one who blames anyone besides me and [Dylan Klebold]".  -Columbine attack patsy Eric Harris

If the Columbine attack was an event pulled off with direct adult assistance, most of the sociological analysis of its causes would be fundamentally flawed, much more concrete blame than "it's society's fault" remains to be laid, and many of actually those responsible would have been found among the school staff, law enforcement and other authorities involved.  Assuming these principles to be accurate, one might ask, how aware were Eric and Dylan of the trap being set for them and if you had been in either of their places, would you have been able to sense it, yourself?  This is the kind of question we must consider if we are to survive and thwart this oncoming age of chaos, however long it lasts, why accurately determining whom to trust is important and exposing and circumventing those who serve the system is vital.  If there are ten thousand of the system servants against the billions of the rest of us, it's an easy match even with all of their technology and toys.  If we refuse to stand up for one another and act out when necessary, however, then it's not ten thousand against six billion but ten thousand against one six billion times over.  That's an easy match as well and that's what they're counting on.

by Evan Long

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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?",

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:

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:

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.