In short, this shooting was known WELL in advance by the FBI, ATF, CIA, DOD, NASA and on and on. Mass media organs should be insisting that apparently corrupted, compromised or otherwise discredited and non-credible agents/ investigators such as some cited in this article along with FBI chief Dwayne Fuselier and his unconscionable ties to the 1997 Trenchoat massacre video, tell the truth and explain this latest complete about-face from earlier statements as demonstrated by this Post article. The fact that such mass media elements/outlets are not pursuing the Columbine case in such a manner indicates they are also compromised; and/or that they are also being pressured or coerced into preventing the truth of what occurred at Columbine from being brought forth to the light of full public disclosure, accountability and justice. Sheriff Davis and others MUST be forced to confront the latest statements by head Sheriff John Stone, who in an interview published two days AFTER the Denver Post article just cited, reiterated he is convinced others participated in the ungodly and horrendous slaughter at the school. PUTTING THE PUZZLE TOGETHER Yet other new leads are coming from Littleton-area residents. Many homeowners nearby Columbine were evacuated from their homes and paramilitary "sharpshooters"--or would that be "snipers?"--were positioned on the roofs of these houses. Other reports note some students say they witnessed similarly described persons on the roof of Columbine: earlier in the morning! After these nearby residents were allowed back into their homes many found large numbers of shell casings on the roofs and in rain gutters of their homes! However, responding to queries from new media in the days following the massacre about the source and purpose of the near- constant gunfire during the massacre, investigators firmly discounted any exchange of gunfire between FBI, SWAT teams, "sharpshooters" or other law enforcement personnel and the shooters at the high school.

May 8, 1999

Controversy even erupted inside the investigation.

Less than three weeks after the shootings, as the media jockeyed for new leads, Inside Edition, a national TV news entertainment show, aired a two-year-old videotape made for a class by four Columbine students.

Dave McGowan
May 2000
(The following article appears in the book You Are Being Lied To)

On May 15, 2000, the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office released the official report on the shooting deaths of fifteen people at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. Not surprisingly, the report confirmed the version of events that has been reported ad naseum for the last year by the U.S. press.
        The official story (for those who are just emerging from a coma or for some other reason inexplicably missed the saturation coverage of this event) goes something like this: two disaffected teenagers named Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, acting alone with no assistance in the planning or execution of this crime, entered Columbine High on the morning of April 20, 1999, armed to the teeth, and promptly began shooting up the place, leaving twelve fellow students and one teacher dead before turning their guns on themselves.
        As with all the 'big stories' flogged by the American media, the various avenues of the U.S. press quickly fell in line behind this story, deftly avoiding any evidence that would tend to cast doubt on the official version of events. So while there has been some minor quibbling over insignificant details of the story (i.e. did the gunmen target athletes, blacks and/or Christians?), few serious journalists have questioned the central thesis that the carnage at Columbine High that day was the work of Harris and Klebold acting alone.
        Yet strangely enough, the press representatives closest to the scene, both socially and geographically, have reported facts about the case that don't appear to fit into the official scenario. Both the Denver Post and the Denver Rocky Mountain News, the newspapers serving the greater Denver area (of which Littleton is a part), have provided coverage which has been consistently ignored by the media in general.
        For the benefit of those living outside the Denver area, presented here you will find a few facts about the tragedy at Columbine of which you may be unaware and which tend to be at odds with the official report. Take, for example, the issue of how long the rampage lasted. One reporter on the scene wrote that:
        "The bloody rampage spanned four hours ... By 3:45 p.m., shots still rang out inside the school (as) more than 200 law enforcement officers and four SWAT teams tried to stop the gunmen and evacuate wounded high school students…." (Denver Post, April 21, 1999). Another quoted Jefferson County Sheriff John Stone, one of the first officials on the scene, as saying: "We had initial people there right away, but we couldn't get in. We were way outgunned" (Associated Press,  April 20, 1999).
        Echoing this sentiment was Terry Manwaring, commander of the Jefferson County SWAT team, who claimed: "I just knew the killers were armed and were better equipped than we were." The SWAT teams, therefore, made no effort to confront the killers (Playboy, March 2000).
        The official report, meanwhile, contends that the "lunchtime rampage ... ended after 45 minutes" and that "Sometime after noon the killers stood near the library windows and turned their guns on themselves" (Los Angeles Times, May 16, 2000). Strange then that there would be shots ringing out some three-and-a-half hours later.
        Stranger still is the notion that two teenagers with limited firearms training and armed only with shotguns and 9mm handguns would be able to outgun a veritable army of law enforcement officers, many with advanced paramilitary training and weapons. And you would think that the fact that the two were already dead would at least have slowed them down a bit.
        Then there is the issue of the bombs strategically placed throughout the school prior to the shootings. Some of those involved in the investigation of the case were openly skeptical of the notion that the two boys could have transported and placed all the explosive devices that were found. One report noted that:
         "The 20-pound bomb found inside the Columbine High School kitchen suggests the two teenage suspects were aided by others in their plot to blow up the school, police said Thursday. Packed inside a duffle bag with a wired gasoline can - and surrounded with nails and BBs for maximum killing power - the propane barbecue tank-bomb points to a wider conspiracy, police said." (Denver Post, April 23, 1999).
        Likewise, Jefferson County District Attorney Dave Thomas was quoted as saying: "It is obvious to me that they couldn't have carried them all in at the same time, plus the four weapons" (Denver Post, May 5, 1999). And sheriff department spokesman Steve Davis added that: "From day one we've always felt like there was a very good possibility that more people were involved" (Associated Press, May 14, 1999).
        Ultimately recovered, according to the final report, were "95 homemade explosive devices," including two bombs fashioned from propane cylinders (Los Angeles Times, May 16, 2000). Picture, if you will, two teenagers strolling unnoticed into a high school, each carrying two firearms, a propane tank bomb and some fifty other explosive devices, as well as an abundant supply of ammunition.
        Picture them then proceeding to carefully place each of these 95 bombs throughout the school, still unnoticed and undisturbed by faculty or other students. Nothing unusual about that. Just an average day at an American high school. Yet the possibility is clearly there that there may have been more people involved. Many of the witnesses, at any rate, clearly think so.
        "Jefferson County Sheriff John P. Stone raised the specter of a third Columbine High gunman anew Tuesday, saying some students have named another suspect. ‘There was quite possibly one other person shooting,’ Stone said. ‘We do have witness statements.’ The statements came from ‘students who were witnesses at the scene when this was going down,’ and they agreed on the third person's identity, he said" (Denver Post, May 5, 1999).
        In fact, one initial report from Littleton began: "Three young men in fatigues and black trench coats opened fire at a suburban Denver high school Tuesday...," and also noted that a "third young man was led away from the school in handcuffs more than four hours after the attack, and student Chris Wisher said: 'He's one of the ones who shot at us'" (Associated Press, April 20, 1999). This third suspect has, oddly enough, never been identified or even mentioned again by the press.
        In a televised interview, the mother of a student who had escaped the attack quoted her daughter as saying that she "looked up and saw a gunman in a black trench coat with a very huge gun ... He had dark brown hair, thick bushy eyebrows and was very ugly," a description that clearly did not fit either Harris or Klebold. When asked if the gunman was a student, the mother replied that: "She didn't recognize him as a student. No. Not as a student" (KUSA-TV, April 20, 1999; transcript posted on The Konformist)
        Even more disturbing is a report that: "Dozens of witnesses interviewed by police after the crime claimed that from five to eight individuals participated in the shooting that left 15 people dead, including the killers, and more than 20 injured" (Denver Rocky Mountain News, July 29, 1999). Five to eight individuals? Dozens of witnesses? Something definitely seems to be a bit peculiar here.
        It is certainly understandable that some witnesses could have trouble recalling some of the details of the attack. In a situation of this nature, extreme levels of fear and confusion can cloud one's recollection. In the ensuing chaos, some witnesses could easily be confused about the number of shooters.
        Nevertheless, there is a considerable difference between two gunmen and eight gunmen - the latter being pretty much a small army. Is it really possible for dozens of eyewitnesses to be mistaken about the additional three to six gunmen? This issue could possibly be cleared up by examining the autopsy reports of the various victims. Unfortunately, that isn't likely to happen. It seems that:
        "The autopsy reports on the Columbine High School victims will not be released to the public, a Jefferson County judge ruled Friday ... Chief District Judge Henry E. Nieto rejected arguments by 18 news organizations ... The coroner's office, district attorney and the family of killer Dylan Klebold joined the 12 families in getting the documents sealed" (Denver Post, May 29, 1999).
        Another question that could be cleared up by the release of the autopsy reports is the alleged suicides of the two shooters, seeing as how "Klebold was shot once in the left side of the head, apparently by one of two 9 mm weapons ... the wound's location puzzles some investigators. They believe that if the right-handed Klebold had shot himself, the wound should have been on the other side" (Denver Rocky Mountain News, June 13, 1999).
        Very clever, those investigators. Clever enough, in fact, to come up with an explanation for this anomaly. Some authorities now believe (or claim to anyway) that Harris shot Klebold before shooting himself. It seems just as likely, however, that a third party shot Klebold, and perhaps Harris as well.
        Moving on to what is perhaps the most bizarre aspect of the case, we come now to the infamous videotape. You know, the one that was made in 1997, two years before the actual assault, and which "depicts gun-toting, trench coat-wearing students moving through Columbine's halls and ends with a special-effects explosion of the school."  The one that was co-produced by "the son of the FBI's lead agent in the investigation" (Associated Press, May 8, 1999).
        There's certainly nothing unusual about that. It's actually standard FBI procedure to have your son shoot a training film for a high school slaughter a couple of years beforehand. It's also standard procedure to have your other son on hand to eyewitness the crime. Which is why "(Dwayne Fuselier's) youngest son, Brian, was in the school cafeteria at the time and managed to escape after seeing one of the bombs explode" (Denver Post, May 13, 1999).
        It should also be noted that another "student who helped in the production of the film (was) Brooks Brown…" (Associated Press, May 8, 1999). For those not fortunate enough to be home on the day of the shooting watching the live cable coverage, Brooks Brown was the student enthusiastically granting interviews to anyone who would stick a microphone in his face.
        He claimed to have encountered Harris and Klebold as they were approaching the school, and to have been warned away by the pair from entering the campus that day. According to his story, he heeded the warning and was therefore not present during the shooting spree. Fair enough, but let's try to put these additional pieces of the puzzle together.

        First, we have the son of the lead investigator, who was obviously a member of the so-called Trenchcoat Mafia, involved in the filming of a pre-enactment of the crime. Then we have a second son of the lead investigator being at ground zero of the rampage. And finally we have a close associate of both the Fuselier brothers and of Harris and Klebold (and a co-filmmaker) being in the company of the shooters immediately before they entered the school, this by his own admission.
        And yet, strangely enough, none of them was connected in any way to the commission of this crime, according to official reports. Not even Brooks Brown, who should have, if nothing else, noticed that the pair had some unusually large bulges under their trench coats on this particular day. At the very least, one would think that there might be just a little bit of a conflict of interest for the FBI's lead investigator.
        This does not appear to be the case, however, as "FBI spokesman Gary Gomez said there was ‘absolutely no discussion’ of reassigning Fuselier, 51, a psychologist, in the wake of the disclosures in Friday's Denver Rocky Mountain News. ‘There is no conflict of interest,’ Gomez said" (Denver Rocky Mountain News, May 8, 1999). And as no less an authority than Attorney General Janet Reno has stated:  "It has been a textbook case of how to conduct an investigation, of how to do it the right way" (Denver Post, April 23, 1999).
        So there you have it. There was no conspiracy, there were no accomplices. It was, as always, the work of a lone gunman (OK, two lone gunmen in this case). But if there were a wider conspiracy, you may wonder, what would motivate such an act? What reason could there be for sacrificing fourteen young lives?
        Many right-wingers would have you believe that such acts are orchestrated - or at the very least rather cynically exploited - as a pretext for passing further gun-control legislation. The government wants to scare the people into giving up their right to bear arms, or so the thinking goes. And there is reason to believe that this could well be a goal.
        It is not, however, the only - or even the primary - goal, but rather a secondary one at best. The true goal is to further traumatize and brutalize the American people. This has in fact been a primary goal of the state for quite some time, dating back at least to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on that fateful day in Dallas on November 22, 1963.
        The strategy is now (as it was then) to inflict blunt force trauma on all of American society, and by doing so to destroy any remaining sense of community and instill in the people deep feelings of fear and distrust, of hopelessness and despair, of isolation and powerlessness. And the results have been, it should be stated, rather spectacular.
        With each school shooting, and each act of 'domestic terrorism,' the social fabric of the country is ripped further asunder. The social contracts that bound us together as a people with common goals, common dreams, and common aspirations have been shattered. We have been reduced to a nation of frightened and disempowered individuals, each existing in our own little sphere of isolation and fear.
        And at the same time, we have been desensitized to ever rising levels of violence in society. This is true of both interpersonal violence as well as violence by the state, in the form of judicial executions, spiraling levels of police violence, and the increased militarization of foreign policy and of America's borders.
        We have become, in the words of the late George Orwell, a society in which "the prevailing mental condition [is] controlled insanity." And under these conditions, it becomes increasingly difficult for the American people to fight back against the supreme injustice of 21st century Western society. Which is, of course, precisely the point.
        For a fractured and disillusioned people, unable to find common cause, do not represent a threat to the rapidly encroaching system of global fascism. And a population blinded by fear will ultimately turn to 'Big Brother' to protect them from nonexistent and/or wholly manufactured threats.
        As General McArthur stated back in 1957: "Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear ... with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it...."
        Perhaps this is all just groundless conspiracy theorizing. The possibility does exist that the carnage at Columbine High School unfolded exactly as the official report tells us that it did. And even if that proves not to be the case, there really is no need to worry. It is all just a grand illusion, a choreographed reality. Only the death and suffering are real.

Postscript:  As the dust settled over Columbine High, other high-profile shootings would rock the nation: at schools, in the workplace, in a church, and - in Southern California's San Fernando Valley - at a Jewish community center where a gunman quickly identified as Buford Furrow opened fire on August 10, 1999. The man, who later would claim that his intent was to kill as many people as possible, had received extensive firearms and paramilitary training, both from the U.S. military and from militia groups.
        Shooting in an enclosed area that was fairly heavily populated, Furrow fired a reported seventy rounds from his assault rifle. By design or act of God, no one was killed and only a handful of people were injured, including three children and a teenager. None of the injuries were life-threatening and all the victims have fully recovered.
        With a massive police dragnet descending on the city, Furrow fled, abandoning his rolling arsenal of a vehicle. Not far from the crime scene, he stopped to catch up on some shopping and get a haircut. Along the way, his aim having improved considerably, Furrow killed a postal worker in a hail of gunfire, for no better reason than because he was Asian and therefore "non-white."
        At about this same time, Furrow car-jacked a vehicle from an Asian woman. Though this woman - besides being obviously non-white - was now a key witness who could place Furrow at the scene and identify the vehicle he had fled in, she was left shaken but very much alive. Having taken great risks to obtain her vehicle, Furrow promptly abandoned it, choosing instead to take a taxi.
        In an unlikely turn of events, this taxi would safely transport Furrow all the way to Las Vegas, Nevada. Having successfully eluded one of the most massive police dragnets in the city's history (which had the appearance of a very well-planned training exercise), and having made it across state lines to relative safety, Furrow proceeded directly to the local FBI office to turn himself in. No word yet as to whether Dwayne Fuselier was flown in to head up the investigation.
        Meanwhile, in Littleton, Colorado, the death toll continued to mount. On May 6, 2000, the Los Angeles Times reported that a Columbine High student had been found hanged. His death was ruled a suicide, though "Friends were mystified, saying there were no signs of turmoil in the teenager's life." One noted that he had "talked to him the night before, and it didn't seem like anything was wrong."
        The young man had been a witness to the shooting death of teacher Dave Sanders. His was the fourth violent death surrounding Columbine High in just over a year since the shootings, bringing the body count to nineteen. Very little information was released concerning this most recent death, with the Coroner noting only that: "Some things should remain confidential to the family." (Los Angeles Times, May 6, 2000)
        On February 14, 2000, two fellow Columbine students were shot to death in a sandwich shop just a few blocks from the school. The shootings, which lacked any clear motive, have yet to be explained. In yet another incident, the mother of a student who was shot and survived "walked into a pawnshop in October, asked to see a gun, loaded it and shot herself to death." (Los Angeles Times, May 6, 2000)
        Unexplained was why the shopkeeper would have supplied her with the ammunition for the gun. Perhaps she brought her own, though if she had access to ammunition, chances are that she would also have had access to a gun. Such are the mysteries surrounding the still rising death toll in Littleton, Colorado.
 
 
 

ADD: Okay? The law enforcement agency is the FBI. The lead agent with the son is Dwayne Fuselier.

ADD: The crime was the Columbine High School shooting.

ADD: The newspaper, the Denver Rocky Mountain News, wrote about all this in May of 1999. "Dwayne Fuselier\'s son graduated from Columbine in 1997 and was one of the students who produced a videotape more than two years ago that shows trenchcoat-wearing students armed with weapons moving through the school\'s halls. The film ends with four students walking away from the school as it explodes in flames."

FBI investigator's son linked to case

By Kevin Vaughan and Hector Gutierrez
Associated Press

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LITTLETON — One of the students who helped produce a 1997 video that's similar to the April 20 assault on Columbine High School is the son of the FBI's lead agent in the investigation.

The disclosure came as FBI agents sought lie-detector tests on people who were close to Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, the two gunmen who stormed Columbine.

FBI agent Dwayne Fuselier, a psychologist, is one of three investigators heading the probe of the deadliest school shooting in U.S. history.

His son, 19-year-old Scott Fuselier, was one of those who helped produce the 1997 film, which has not been linked to Harris or Klebold. In a call to the agent's home, a woman who answered the phone said, "Scott and the boys that are with that movie don't want to talk about it." In a later call, Dwayne Fuselier, refused to comment. "You can stop right there — nothing, goodbye," he said Thursday evening when a reporter began asking about his son's connection to the video.

The film depicts gun-toting, trench coat-wearing students moving through Columbine's halls and ends with a special-effects explosion of the school. The videotape was obtained by the syndicated television show Inside Edition. It was broadcast Wednesday.

A separate videotape, produced later by Harris and Klebold, shows gunmen shooting down a student who was harassing a classmate, according to students who've seen it.

When asked about the connection between Fuselier's son and the 1997 movie, FBI spokesman Gary Gomez said: "That's a non-issue, and I'm not going to comment on what kids are making in their video productions."

Asked whether the FBI would be concerned if the agent's son had been involved in making the video, Gomez said: "No, there would be no concern by the FBI."

Gomez said the video was a spoof on a mad scientist and had no similarities to the tape that Harris and Klebold produced, and that any inquiries about it would have to be made to Jefferson County school officials.

A student who helped in the production of the film, Brooks Brown, said the film looks "eerie" today, given what occurred at Columbine a little more than two weeks ago.

"It was a parody, done in humor," Brown said.

Brown, an underclassman when the film was made, said he had a small hand in editing it. He said it was supposed to spoof a play called "Get Smart."

On April 20, Harris, 18, and Klebold, 17, donned trench coats then stormed Columbine with guns and bombs, killing 12 students and a teacher and wounding 23 people before they took their own lives.

Among their weapons was a large propane bomb in the school's cafeteria that officials say would have severely damaged Columbine if it had detonated.

Scott Fuselier graduated from Columbine in 1997.

Brown said he is attending college out of state, where he is studying film production. The younger Fuselier could not be reached for comment.

Dwayne Fuselier, 51, is assisting Jefferson County sheriff's Capt. Dan Harris and Lt. John Kiekbusch in leading the investigation.

Fuselier is best known as one of the top negotiators in the "Freeman" standoff in Montana. He is a former member of an elite FBI squad known as the Crisis Management Unit.

Scott Fuselier is not considered a suspect in the April 20 shootings.

As investigators try to unravel what lead to the rampage, friends of Harris and Klebold are being asked to take lie-detector tests.

The tests are part of the search for accomplices in the assault on Columbine.

Jefferson County Sheriff John Stone and other investigators believe Harris and Klebold had help — if for no other reason than the two killers would have had a hard time carrying by themselves all the shotguns, assault weapons and bombs they used in the attack.

The FBI is handling the lie-detector tests.

Investigators also are trying to piece together every facet of the April 20 attack.

Agents from the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms worked in the school Thursday, gathering information for two models of the sprawling building that investigators will use to understand the sequence of events.

One model will be constructed with the use of computers.

Investigators hope to create a three-dimensional look at the crime scene that will allow them to move through each room of the school, panning for 360 degrees and locating each piece of evidence that was collected.

The second model will be structural, like those built by architects. It will cover the whole school and give investigators a compact look at the crime scene.

About 75 investigators were working in seven teams. By Thursday, they had conducted more than 1,000 interviews and received about 1,800 tips.

At the same time, work was under way at the Colorado Bureau of Investigation to process thousands of pieces of physical evidence, including blood samples and hundreds of bullets and shell casings.

That ballistics and forensic work may help settle two questions:

Was a third gunman in the school that day?

Did Harris and Klebold both commit suicide, or did one of them kill his partner and then himself?

Investigators have found no physical evidence to indicate that a third person wielded weapons in the school.

A videotape from the school's cafeteria shows only Harris and Klebold, but some students who were at Columbine that day told investigators they believe a third person was firing a gun.

Investigators have not been able to rule out the possibility.

As for the question of Harris and Klebold's death, so far the Jefferson County coroner's office has said only that their wounds were "consistent" with suicide.

 

May 8, 1999

Columbine Update
The Washington Post (4/29/99) reported that Columbine High gunman, Eric Harris, was on a prescription antidepressant called fluvoxamine or "Luvox." The Post did not mention the drug's side effects, only that the Marines rejected him since he was on the drug. Fluvoxamine is indicated for the treatment of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, and is not approved in this country to treat depression, though it is marketed as an antidepressant in other countries.

Sources say that Luvox "can activate mania in susceptible patients." The manufacturers prescription insert states Luvox should be used cautiously in patients with a history of mania. Symptoms of "mania" include: "provocative, intrusive, or aggressive behavior." A National Institute of Mental Health webpage lists the following symptoms of mania: inappropriate elation, inappropriate irritability, grandiose notions, disconnected and racing thoughts, markedly increased energy, poor judgment, and inappropriate social behavior. All of these symptoms appear to be applicable to the actions and grandiose ideas of Eric Harris, which included a plan in which, after killing their fellow students, the two would escape to an Island in Mexico and then return to the US to crash a plane into New York City.

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 Ironically, although some have labeled Eric Harris as the "mastermind" behind the April 1999 attacks, he did not become involved with the so-called Trenchcoat Mafia until some time after the prophetic video was produced. 

Case in point: the Trenchcoat Mafia crowd: by many indications a relatively non-threatening cluster until infiltrated by young Fuselier, Klebold and later Harris: people with notably different ideas about things than some of the earlier trenchcoaters. Fuselier, Klebold, Harris and some associates were indeed outcasts within a fringe group.

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The Depressive and the Psychopath
At last we know why the Columbine killers did it.
By Dave Cullen
Posted Tuesday, April 20, 2004, at 8:59 AM PT

Five years ago today, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold murdered their classmates and teachers at Columbine High School. Most Americans have reached one of two wrong conclusions about why they did it. The first conclusion is that the pair of supposed "Trench Coat Mafia outcasts" were taking revenge against the bullies who had made school miserable for them. The second conclusion is that the massacre was inexplicable: We can never understand what drove them to such horrific violence.

But the FBI and its team of psychiatrists and psychologists have reached an entirely different conclusion. They believe they know why Harris and Klebold killed, and their explanation is both more reassuring and more troubling than our misguided conclusions. Three months after the massacre, the FBI convened a summit in Leesburg, Va., that included world-renowned mental health experts, including Michigan State University psychiatrist Dr. Frank Ochberg, as well as Supervisory Special Agent Dwayne Fuselier, the FBI's lead Columbine investigator and a clinical psychologist. Fuselier and Ochberg share their conclusions publicly here for the first time.

The first steps to understanding Columbine, they say, are to forget the popular narrative about the jocks, Goths, and Trenchcoat Mafia—click here to read more about Columbine's myths—and to abandon the core idea that Columbine was simply a school shooting. We can't understand why they did it until we understand what they were doing.

School shooters tend to act impulsively and attack the targets of their rage: students and faculty. But Harris and Klebold planned for a year and dreamed much bigger. The school served as means to a grander end, to terrorize the entire nation by attacking a symbol of American life. Their slaughter was aimed at students and teachers, but it was not motivated by resentment of them in particular. Students and teachers were just convenient quarry, what Timothy McVeigh described as "collateral damage."

The killers, in fact, laughed at petty school shooters. They bragged about dwarfing the carnage of the Oklahoma City bombing and originally scheduled their bloody performance for its anniversary. Klebold boasted on video about inflicting "the most deaths in U.S. history." Columbine was intended not primarily as a shooting at all, but as a bombing on a massive scale. If they hadn't been so bad at wiring the timers, the propane bombs they set in the cafeteria would have wiped out 600 people. After those bombs went off, they planned to gun down fleeing survivors. An explosive third act would follow, when their cars, packed with still more bombs, would rip through still more crowds, presumably of survivors, rescue workers, and reporters. The climax would be captured on live television. It wasn't just "fame" they were after—Agent Fuselier bristles at that trivializing term—they were gunning for devastating infamy on the historical scale of an Attila the Hun. Their vision was to create a nightmare so devastating and apocalyptic that the entire world would shudder at their power.

Harris and Klebold would have been dismayed that Columbine was dubbed the "worst school shooting in American history." They set their sights on eclipsing the world's greatest mass murderers, but the media never saw past the choice of venue. The school setting drove analysis in precisely the wrong direction.

Fuselier and Ochberg say that if you want to understand "the killers," quit asking what drove them. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were radically different

Klebold is easier to comprehend, a more familiar type. He was hotheaded, but depressive and suicidal. He blamed himself for his problems. Harris is the challenge. He was sweet-faced and well-spoken. Adults, and even some other kids, described him as "nice." But Harris was cold, calculating, and homicidal. "Klebold was hurting inside while Harris wanted to hurt people," Fuselier says. Harris was not merely a troubled kid, the psychiatrists say, he was a psychopath.

individuals, with vastly different motives and opposite mental conditions.

In popular usage, almost any crazy killer is a "psychopath." But in psychiatry, it's a very specific mental condition that rarely involves killing, or even psychosis. "Psychopaths are not disoriented or out of touch with reality, nor do they experience the delusions, hallucinations, or intense subjective distress that characterize most other mental disorders," writes Dr. Robert Hare, in Without Conscience, the seminal book on the condition. (Hare is also one of the psychologists consulted by the FBI about Columbine and by Slate for this story*.) "Unlike psychotic individuals, psychopaths are rational and aware of what they are doing and why. Their behavior is the result of choice, freely exercised." Diagnosing Harris as a psychopath represents neither a legal defense, nor a moral excuse. But it illuminates a great deal about the thought process that drove him to mass murder.

Diagnosing him as a psychopath was not a simple matter. Harris opened his private journal with the sentence, "I hate the f---ing world." And when the media studied Harris, they focused on his hatred—hatred that supposedly led him to revenge. It's easy to get lost in the hate, which screamed out relentlessly from Harris' Web site:

"YOU KNOW WHAT I HATE!!!? Cuuuuuuuuhntryyyyyyyyyy music!!! . . .

"YOU KNOW WHAT I HATE!!!? People who say that wrestling is real!! . . .

"YOU KNOW WHAT I HATE!!!? People who use the same word over and over again! . . . Read a f---in book or two, increase your vo-cab-u-lary f*ck*ng idiots."

"YOU KNOW WHAT I HATE!!!? STUPID PEOPLE!!! Why must so many people be so stupid!!? . . . YOU KNOW WHAT I HATE!!!? When people mispronounce words! and they dont even know it to, like acrosT, or eXspreso, pacific (specific), or 2 pAck. learn to speak correctly you morons.

YOU KNOW WHAT I HATE!!!? STAR WARS FANS!!! GET A FaaaaaaRIGIN LIFE YOU BORING GEEEEEKS!

It rages on for page after page and is repeated in his journal and in the videos he and Klebold made. But Fuselier recognized a far more revealing emotion bursting through, both fueling and overshadowing the hate. What the boy was really expressing was contempt.

He is disgusted with the morons around him. These are not the rantings of an angry young man, picked on by jocks until he's not going to take it anymore. These are the rantings of someone with a messianic-grade superiority complex, out to punish the entire human race for its appalling inferiority. It may look like hate, but "It's more about demeaning other people," says Hare.

A second confirmation of the diagnosis was Harris' perpetual deceitfulness. "I lie a lot," Eric wrote to his journal. "Almost constantly, and to everybody, just to keep my own ass out of the water. Let's see, what are some of the big lies I told? Yeah I stopped smoking. For doing it, not for getting caught. No I haven't been making more bombs. No I wouldn't do that. And countless other ones."

Harris claimed to lie to protect himself, but that appears to be something of a lie as well. He lied for pleasure, Fuselier says. "Duping delight"—psychologist Paul Ekman's term—represents a key characteristic of the psychopathic profile.

Harris married his deceitfulness with a total lack of remorse or empathy—another distinctive quality of the psychopath. Fuselier was finally convinced of his diagnosis when he read Harris' response to being punished after being caught breaking into a van. Klebold and Harris had avoided prosecution for the robbery by participating in a "diversion program" that involved counseling and community service. Both killers feigned regret to obtain an early release, but Harris had relished the opportunity to perform. He wrote an ingratiating letter to his victim offering empathy, rather than just apologies. Fuselier remembers that it was packed with statements like Jeez, I understand now how you feel and I understand what this did to you.

"But he wrote that strictly for effect," Fuselier said. "That was complete manipulation. At almost the exact same time, he wrote down his real feelings in his journal: 'Isn't America supposed to be the land of the free? How come, if I'm free, I can't deprive a stupid f---ing dumbshit from his possessions if he leaves them sitting in the front seat of his f---ing van out in plain sight and in the middle of f---ing nowhere on a Frif---ingday night. NATURAL SELECTION. F---er should be shot.' "

Harris' pattern of grandiosity, glibness, contempt, lack of empathy, and superiority read like the bullet points on Hare's Psychopathy Checklist and convinced Fuselier and the other leading psychiatrists close to the case that Harris was a psychopath.

It begins to explain Harris' unbelievably callous behavior: his ability to shoot his classmates, then stop to taunt them while they writhed in pain, then finish them off. Because psychopaths are guided by such a different thought process than non-psychopathic humans, we tend to find their behavior inexplicable. But they're actually much easier to predict than the rest of us once you understand them. Psychopaths follow much stricter behavior patterns than the rest of us because they are unfettered by conscience, living solely for their own aggrandizement. (The difference is so striking that Fuselier trains hostage negotiators to identify psychopaths during a standoff, and immediately reverse tactics if they think they're facing one. It's like flipping a switch between two alternate brain-mechanisms.)

None of his victims means anything to the psychopath. He recognizes other people only as means to obtain what he desires. Not only does he feel no guilt for destroying their lives, he doesn't grasp what they feel. The truly hard-core psychopath doesn't quite comprehend emotions like love or hate or fear, because he has never experienced them directly.

"Because of their inability to appreciate the feelings of others, some psychopaths are capable of behavior that normal people find not only horrific but baffling," Hare writes. "For example, they can torture and mutilate their victims with about the same sense of concern that we feel when we carve a turkey for Thanksgiving dinner."

The diagnosis transformed their understanding of the partnership. Despite earlier reports about Harris and Klebold being equal partners, the psychiatrists now believe firmly that Harris was the mastermind and driving force. The partnership did enable Harris to stray from typical psychopathic behavior in one way. He restrained himself. Usually psychopathic killers crave the stimulation of violence. That is why they are often serial killers—murdering regularly to feed their addiction. But Harris managed to stay (mostly) out of trouble for the year that he and Klebold planned the attack. Ochberg theorizes that the two killers complemented each other. Cool, calculating Harris calmed down Klebold when he got hot-tempered. At the same time, Klebold's fits of rage served as the stimulation Harris needed.

The psychiatrists can't help speculating what might have happened if Columbine had never happened. Klebold, they agree, would never have pulled off Columbine without Harris. He might have gotten caught for some petty crime, gotten help in the process, and conceivably could have gone on to live a normal life.

Their view of Harris is more reassuring, in a certain way. Harris was not a wayward boy who could have been rescued. Harris, they believe, was irretrievable. He was a brilliant killer without a conscience, searching for the most diabolical scheme imaginable. If he had lived to adulthood and developed his murderous skills for many more years, there is no telling what he could have done. His death at Columbine may have stopped him from doing something even worse.

Correction, April 20, 2004: The article originally identified Dr. Robert Hare as a psychiatrist. He is a psychologist. Return to the corrected sentence.

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What most people know about the massacre is what they learned in the first few days after it occurred. The basic narrative of Columbine—the story that Americans absorbed—was based on fragmentary and incorrect information from the first hours after the shooting. The story was that Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, a pair of lonely, outcast Goths, tore through the school hunting down jocks to settle a long-running feud between athletes and the Trenchcoat Mafia. After years of bullying, the pair finally snapped and turned on their tormenters with automatic weapons and pipe bombs. They arrived at the school with a hit list of victims, including despised minorities, Christians, and athletes. In fact, this tale was mostly a myth, as were other supposed "facts" about Columbine involving Marilyn Manson, the martyrdom of Cassie Bernall, and a plan to hijack a plane and crash it into New York City.

Here is the straight story on seven of the central myths:

1. Targeting jocks, blacks, and Christians: There were no targets. Harris and Klebold just wanted body count, and they didn't care who died. They expected their bombs to do most of the killing, murdering everyone in the cafeteria, irrespective of clique or social standing. When the bombs failed, they shot indiscriminately, firing into open crowds and under tables without bothering to see who their victims were. They taunted jocks briefly in the library, but they taunted virtually everyone else there, too.

2. The Trench Coat Mafia: A small group of Columbine students did dub themselves the Trenchcoat Mafia, and they did have a feud with a band of jocks in 1999. But it was never a formal gang or club, and most of the members graduated nearly a year before the massacre. Harris and Klebold were never closely affiliated with the group and did not appear in the 1998 yearbook picture identifying the members. The TCM had little to do with Harris and Klebold and nothing to do with the massacre. The killers wore long coats in order to hide their weapons.

3. The Hit List: Eric Harris did create an enemies list, with a wide and sometimes comical assortment of personalities—students who pissed him off, girls who refused his dates, Tiger Woods. There's no indication that these were ever intended as targets. No one on the list was killed.

4. Christian Martyr Cassie Bernall: One of the killers allegedly asked student Cassie Bernall if she believed in God, then killed her when she said yes. Bernall became a revered figure among evangelical Christians. In fact, one of the killers posed the question to another girl, Valeen Schnurr, after she had already been shot. They had a short exchange, he reloaded, got distracted, and she crawled away to safety.

5. Marilyn Manson: Klebold and Harris hated Marilyn Manson. On his Web site, Harris said he loved, "Good, fast, hard, strong, pounding TECHNO!! Such as KMFDM, PRODIGY, ORBITAL, RAMMSTEIN, and such."

6. Escape to New York: Harris' journal does contain a passage about hijacking a plane and crashing it into New York City, but that appears to have been an early fantasy. He settled on a more practical scheme long before he and Klebold actually staged their massacre. By the time of the attack, they fully expected to die at the high school. They refer to their death routinely and explicitly in their writings and in their videos.

7. Outcasts: Perhaps the most pervasive myth is that Harris and Klebold were rejected outcasts. They were not captains of the football team, but they were far more accepted than many of their schoolmates. They hung out with a tight circle of close friends and partied regularly on the weekend with a wider crowd.

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Dave Cullen has written for Salon.com and the New York Times and maintains The Columbine Almanac. You can e-mail him at davecullen@earthlink.net.

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The Bronfman Center & Avoda Arts are pleased to announce the winners of the 3rd Annual NY Jewish Student Film Festival Grand Prize: "Dark Night", Director, Leon Prudovsky (Tel Aviv University) 1st Prize: "The Messiah", Director, Guy Dimenstein (Tel Aviv University) 2nd Prize: "Winning the Peace", Director, Eli Akira Kaufman (UCLA) & "Passover Noir", Director, Scott Fuselier (Jewish Impact Films) This year’s festival featured some of the most outstanding short student films from all over the world. Congratulations to all of the finalists!

“A Good Joke”, Writer/Director/Animator: Nick Fox-Gieg (CalArts) “The Bene Yisrael”, Director: Rachael Sevilla (NYU) “Christ in the City”, Writer/Director: Yitz Brilliant (Columbia) “Dark Night”, Director: Leon Prudovsky (Tel Aviv Univeristy) “I Gotta Tell Marianne”, Writer/Director: Michael Immerman (NYU) “The Messiah”, Director: Guy Dimenstein: (Tel Aviv University) “Passover Noir”, Director: Scott Fuselier and Producer: Jewish Impact Films and the JEC

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Moving on to what is perhaps the most bizarre aspect of the case, we come now to the infamous videotape. You know, the one that was made in 1997, two years before the actual assault, and which "depicts gun-toting, trench coat-wearing students moving through Columbine's halls and ends with a special-effects explosion of the school."  The one that was co-produced by "the son of the FBI's lead agent in the investigation" (Associated Press, May 8, 1999).
        There's certainly nothing unusual about that. It's actually standard FBI procedure to have your son shoot a training film for a high school slaughter a couple of years beforehand. It's also standard procedure to have your other son on hand to eyewitness the crime. Which is why "(Dwayne Fuselier's) youngest son, Brian, was in the school cafeteria at the time and managed to escape after seeing one of the bombs explode" (Denver Post, May 13, 1999).
        It should also be noted that another "student who helped in the production of the film (was) Brooks Brown…" (Associated Press, May 8, 1999). For those not fortunate enough to be home on the day of the shooting watching the live cable coverage, Brooks Brown was the student enthusiastically granting interviews to anyone who would stick a microphone in his face.

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		Members of the Trenchcoat Mafia speak out, denying close association with the shooters and extending heartfelt sympathies

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Belief in 3rd shooter persists Seven eyewitnesses are still convinced, but evidence says otherwise By Lynn Bartels Denver Rocky Mountain News Staff Writer Seven eyewitnesses to the Columbine shootings remain convinced there was a third gunman despite evidence Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold acted alone. The witnesses have fingered at least three current or former Columbine students as the third shooter. But ballistics evidence and eyewitness accounts point only to Harris and Klebold, the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department concluded Monday in its final report on Columbine. Investigators offer a look into the 100 people they interviewed who had a connection to Klebold and Harris, including friends, co-workers and members of the Trench Coat Mafia, a loose-knit group of so-called outcasts at Columbine High School. "Harris and Klebold had a few close associates in the (group), but overall were not described as having any particular influence or leadership roles," the report concludes. The report names few of the associates, but provides enough details to make it possible for those familiar with the investigation to identify the people in question. Investigators eventually identified 22 people who were closest to the two high school seniors and interviewed them a total of 71 times. "All denied recognizing any indications from either Klebold or Harris that they were planning the Columbine murders," investigators said in the report. Detectives searched the computers of 13 friends, but did not find anything, and most agreed to take polygraph tests, the report said. The report addresses the arrests of four young men that day on or near school grounds. The arrests were detailed by the media. Police caught three youths in nearby Clement Park because they were dressed in black. The trio, who were not Columbine students, identified themselves to authorities as "Splatter Punks" and said they were there because they were curious, the report said. The three had no involvement in the shooting, investigators quickly discovered. Chris Morris Cameras caught the image of another young man being led to a police car in handcuffs. The report does not provide a name, but that person was Chris Morris, a Trench Coat Mafia member and friend of Klebold and Harris. In the report, investigators for the first time publicly reveal that Morris contacted them after he learned from newscasts that his friends were named as the gunmen.   "A detailed timeline was compiled providing his whereabouts on April 20, and he successfully passed a polygraph," the report said. "His computer also was searched, and no evidence implicating him of having knowledge or participation in the shootings was found." Sherry Markham, whose daughter Nichole dates Morris, said she hopes the public finally realizes that he, too, was a victim. "Those boys destroyed his life, and he's so angry at them," she said. "Even though it destroyed him, it made him take a reality check. He's doing well. He's going to college." In some cases, investigators said, eyewitnesses who claimed to have seen a third shooter recanted once they were shown footage of Harris and Klebold in the cafeteria. They realized they had mistaken Klebold for someone else. In addition, others realized they were wrong when they discovered that Harris almost immediately discarded his black trench coat, revealing a white T-shirt. Those witnesses had reported seeing two shooters in black trench coats and another in a white T-shirt. The report makes only brief mention of Brooks Brown, a 1999 Columbine graduate and the only person publicly named by Sheriff John Stone as a possible suspect. The report does not mention Brown by name but notes that Harris let one "associate" leave the school prior to the shootings.  None of the eyewitnesses named Brown as one of the colleagues they suspect was involved.

FBI BACKS AGENT WITH CLOSE TIES TO COLUMBINE VIOLENT VIDEO MADE BY
SON WHEN HE ATTENDED SCHOOL NOT CONFLICT OF INTEREST, AGENCY SAYS
 

Denver Rocky Mountain News
 

Officials with the FBI said Friday (5/22/99) their lead investigator
in the Columbine High tragedy will stay in his post despite close
ties to the school. Dwayne Fuselier's son graduated from Columbine in
1997 and was one of the students who produced a videotape more than
two years ago that shows trenchcoat-wearing students armed with
weapons moving through the school's halls. The film ends with four
students walking away from the school as it explodes in flames.
 

"I have complete faith and confidence in Dwayne Fuselier," said Keith
DeVincentis, acting special agent in charge of the FBI's Denver
office. In addition, FBI spokesman Gary Gomez said there was
"absolutely no discussion" of reassigning Fuselier, 51, a
PSYCHOLOGIST, in the wake of the disclosures in Friday's Denver Rocky
Mountain News. "There is no conflict of interest," Gomez said. (What
dimension is THIS guy from anyway? [JQ])
 

The tape, made in 1997, has no known connection to either Eric Harris
or Dylan Klebold,... (As a matter of fact there WAS a connection
between those who filmed the 1997 video and Harris and Klebold; that
person being Brooks Brown, as information below will clarify.)
 

Fuselier is one of three commanders leading the investigation, along
with sheriff's Lt. John Kiekbusch and Capt. Dan Harris. The sheriff's
department had taken no position on Fuselier's continuing role in the
investigation, deputy Troy Gardalen said. Sheriff John Stone has not
spoken publicly about any aspect of the investigation since Tuesday.
Officials from the U.S. Attorney's office also would not discuss the
situation.  But Z.G. Standing Bear, a criminal justice professor at
Colorado State University and a former criminal investigator for the
U.S. Army, said federal officials should avoid the perception of a
conflict of interest. In this case, he said, that means reassigning
Fuselier, if for no other reason than to protect the agent.  "That
can be potentially dangerous to the agent conducting the inquiry,"
Standing Bear said. If he were running the investigation, Standing
Bear said, he'd want agents with "no connection whatsoever" to the
case....  Fuselier's son, who is attending college out of state,
could not be reached for comment. Another student who worked on the
film refused to talk about it. Copyright 1999, Denver Publishing Co.
 

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Now more background.  This can be found in its entirety @
http://www.sightings.com/politics2/littleton2.htm I have NOT included
it all here due to space. Check into it yourself. I cannot vouch for
the following info, but must say it is compelling and needs to be
followed up.
 

Columbine 'Trenchcoat Murder' Video Produced In 1997! By John Quinn
<newsh...@iname.com> NewsHawk Inc. 1999 All Rights Reserved 5-28-99
 

                       MAJOR NEW DEVELOPMENTS
 

Death Threats, FBI Links To Trenchcoaters "Rogue" Agencies/Spookland,
What's Up With "4/20?", Inconsistencies, Questions Resurface, More
Details on Wisher Interviews, Atlanta Shooting--Drugs, Programming
Breakdown, Plattsburgh Links
 

              BIZARRE TIES - TRENCHCOATERS AND THE FBI
 

Very significant information revealing the extent of the connection/
involvement/friendship that existed between Dylan Klebold and Brooks
Brown has been recently revealed. There was significant involvement
between the two; and now also apparently considerable involvement
between THESE TWO and the son of the FBI's lead Columbine
investigator Dwayne Fuselier, who is known to be directly tied to
making the 1997 pre-massacre video which would appear to be a dry-run
of trenchcoated gunmen shooting down students AT COLUMBINE HIGH
SCHOOL! Apparently Eric Harris was not even part of this group at
that time!  These newly revealed facts are more than a little
disturbing -- especially the connection to the FBI chief's son--and
could aid substantially in efforts to get a better grasp on the
sociological/peer group "layout" of the terrain at Columbine: the
preexisting conflict into which the carefully contrived, mind
controlled and PRE-REHEARSED monstrosity of 4/20/99 was unleashed.
This whole angle obviously now bears a great deal more looking into;
along with the entire aspect of coercion and intimidation of massacre
witnesses by investigators and now DEATH THREATS being made against
massacre survivors, warning them NOT TO TALK about other
participants--or be killed!  Any readers of this report who are
Littleton area residents, PLEASE find out more about the ties between
Brown, Klebold, the FBI chief's son --last name Fuselier, and others
reported linked to the earlier days of the Trenchcoat group at
Columbine, and subsequently to Harris.
 

                     "ROGUE" AGENCIES/SPOOKLAND
 

This MOST troubling information regarding events in the two years
prior to the massacre itself leads to inevitable questions concerning
various entanglements between Dylan Klebold, Brooks Brown and other
proto-trenchcoaters; including, as we now know, young Fuselier.
Perhaps the general demonization of Harris as the mastermind and TCM
"cult" leader is just further mass manipulation by mass media --
setting up Luvox-intoxicated psycho-Nazi Eric to take the brunt of
the rap (from the grave of course). At one time young Fuselier,
Klebold, Brown and others were some of the main trenchcoaters--at
Columbine that is.  It seems to be at least a possibility there could
have been behind-the-scenes connections between some members of the
group and rogue FBI and BATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and
Firearms) elements and THEIR bosses in NWO-oriented NSA and CIA
factions.  The BATF has, by many accounts and a good deal of
substantial evidence, literally gone rogue and is running wild: ever
since they were directly involved in mass-murdering over 80 people at
Waco and then many more in the Oklahoma City bombing.  There of
course would have to be something--some group or other--behind THEM
however. They're nothing but a a goon squad and probably quite easy
to take control of. They're like soldiers of fortune, and I pick up
very eerie overtones of this kind of general mentality from reading
"Eric" (oh yeah?) Harris's website ravings. It's worth seriously
considering that certain Trenchcoat Mafia members as well as Eric AND
Wayne may have been tied to (rogue) BATF and FBI elements. This would
appear to fit well into the low-tech, "blow it all to shit" approach
found in the website documents AND in BATF operations like Waco and
Oklahoma City. Basically, "terrorist"-type tactics.  And now the
potential motivation for the participation of the FBI in any coverup
of facts regarding the Columbine massacre becomes more clear.
 

                        MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE?
 

There seems some possibility that Wayne Harris may have been more
than merely negligent as Eric's father. Due to noted peculiarities in
documents from Eric Harris's website, there is some possibility he
was involved with the text itself, the activities described therein,
and the construction of the website. If these suppositions are even
partly true, then of course Wayne may have had more than a little to
do with Eric's "programming" overall. Keep in mind that this IS just
speculation.
 

Some would find it difficult to believe Eric Harris's father would be
a control agent for his own son and have anything to do with leading
Eric to his death--UNLESS, of course, his father was programmed
himself. To these folks I advise break out the popcorn for another
run-through of "Manchurian Candidate." Remember the "MK" hitman's
mommy? Well there ya' go...  Wayne Harris's background has been tied
to the both the military (Air Force) itself AND to the top secret
research arm of the intelligence/military industrial complex for his
entire adult life. This guy was the epitome of a military "lifer".
Already an officer and a heavily decorated pilot, Wayne was working
at the Boeing Military Airplane Co. in Witchita Kansas in 1981, when
Eric was born. This particular Boeing plant has virtually nothing
whatever to do with making airplanes but is instead deeply involved
with highly classified, black budget projects for the
intelligence/military/industrial complex. In fact a lot the kind of
operations going on around Littleton.
 

After about 12 years of stays at various Air Force bases, lastly
Plattsburgh AFB, the Harris's came to Littleton in 1996. Though
outwardly it appeared Wayne's military-related career was over, in
fact he took a job at FLIGHT SAFETY in Englewood, where he trained
pilots to fly LARGE REFUELING AIRCRAFT. Now who the hell else flies
large REFUELING CRAFT but THE MILITARY, I'd like to know?   A LOCAL
CONTACT-- The View From Littleton (The following information was
compiled from several emails sent by Littleton-area resident Linda
(Linda...@aol.com), and edited.)  Four days after the massacre
Linda's teen daughter (not a student at Columbine) went to see the
memorial at Clement Park. What stuck out most to her was the vast
presence of armed military personnel and their vehicles. THEY
COMPLETELY SURROUNDED THE SCHOOL AND THERE WERE A NUMBER OF VERY
LARGE COVERED TRUCKS PULLED UP NEXT TO THE SCHOOL. IT WAS THE MOST
OUTSTANDING AND PUZZLING IMAGE (beyond the intense sadness) of the
event.  People had asked the media about this and on T.V. they showed
just a handful of personnel and a small vehicle to convey the
completely erroneous impression that the military presence was very
minimal, just to protect the perimeter.  In some interviews,