Columbine
Introduction/Definition/etc
Name of a town in Colorado and location of a school
where shootings occurred.
Also a book by that name just seen on the BookTv.org
cable channel...
Body
Interesting perspective on the BookTV.org video taping
at the LA Festival of the Book. Writer was a GLAAD
award winning journalism student from the LA Times?
who attended college in Boulder, CO.
At the end showed top pages of the handwritten
journals of the shooters, Eric and Dylan.
Talked about lawsuits towards pharma, families, etc
mostly settled out, though the home owners
insurance settled from the family of the shooters,
odd, but I guess got some equity out.
Some people left town, but their supports
were still there and returned. Not sure how
one would deal with losses like that.
PTSD or similar mentioned by the writer
when he was researching and writing this stuff,
even an hour long phone conversation with a
specialist...
More locally, in the Michael Kennedy shootings,
the parents ended up jailed on weapons charges??
In VA Tech, [which someone called the 9/11
of school shootings], I heard the family moved
out of country and the father committed [suicide?]
back in Asia, though rumor, not confirmed.
A higher Judge put the supposedly sealed lower court
comments between parents [agreement was they could
ask anything? lawsuits were not about money, they
wanted information instead?], who could ask anything
but was to be destroyed, into the public in 20 years.
Federal Classified information usually has a time limit on it too.
Not sure some stuff like details of the Manhatten Project
would ever be released, but things like people's
FBI records, say of Black Panther party surveillance
seems to make it out eventually. CIA documents
on potential terrorist torture at gitmo seem to have
been released [by Obama?], after probably cleaning up
the agents left out in the field, or heavily censored,
don't know haven't seen them...
What is the public's right to know?
Is the school the new battle ground when traditional media
bombards us with war images 24/7 and kids want to emulate that?
Or is the war where our enlisted and officers out
of country, and away from family risking their lives
daily for something that the media thinks is passe?
BookTv recently had Soldiers Still or similar with a
general office describing Vietnam, perhaps as lessons
we haven't learned yet?
Showing Dover AFB returns of coffins from our current
conflicts if the family agrees to allow it... Is that appropriate
and respectful? Or political?
Is it video games fault for First Person Shooter
games? Is virtual reality the place to put in the hands
of kids with things like Doom/ Free Doom that are
downloadable without a credit card?
I like 'free as in freedom'/ able to read code, inspect and modify
and 'free as in beer'/ no cost software,
but is there a limit to simulating situations or
virtual training grounds for minors to learn how to cause
mass death to others?
See also the 'a cry for help' pbs show when I get around
to thinking/ reviewing and writng about that, or should I just
skip that becuase no one cares about my opinion anyway,
they just got the RRWG money and f* an advocate
that helped make that happen [went to legistlature,
spoke briefly, attended most RRWG meeting despite
being outvoted on most stuff, and now blamed or excluded?]
and got nothing but grief [losses/deaths of friends] in return?
See Also
a cry for help pbs on teen mental illness
highway4.pdf
WasteOfMyTime mostly angry/ disappointed/ used
the.great.white.funder.ss.exercise.pdf
some hopefully funny/ therapeutic...
i.had.a.dream.its.now.a.nightmare.to.ss.pdf
can.i.graduate.writing.pdf
Ombuds.proposal.ods
Ombuds.proposal.pdf
TisTheSeason
FormalNotice
GatekeepingOnTheFrontLines
EditorsRevenge
Plot
BewareOfTheIdesOfMarch
2008April16
TheShortOfIt
ARoastingFarewell
OneSidedPartnerships
RecoveryPartnershipsCon2009
AnEarlyMorningShare
ChairBullyingbyRevisionistBillShowingRRWGsCommitmentToCommonConsumers
IveBeenEdited
CreativityAsTherapyFeedbackAKAHateMail
dynohubs
ArtWork
ChillingEffects
VirginBirthAndOtherFictions
PBWikiCountersLostAgainStipendsLastWinter
BrainFoundationOpensLaurasHouse
CollegeConsumerMHResources
EthicsDignityAndRiskTraining
StreetSenseAndRRWGLackOfFiscalProcedures
OneLaptopPerChildoplcorg
SullyingTheReputationOfFairfaxCounty
TooLittleTooLateOrTheWrongThingEntirely
ScheduleAndOtherAbuse
20080118BlogEntry
PatrickSnow
Summer2007WebsiteStatusEmail
Peer-Program-Chart-Page2
Peer Program Chart
David O'Brien Memorial
OOOFC
StarTrek
positive
vacation
We
SameBatChannelSameBatStation
DisOrganizing
union
MarchMadness
JerrySpeak
BFLHOpeningGroupPhotoBehindTheScenes
BrainFoundation
snookered
Recovery Jobs
Recovery
Judi
LiveInInterestingTimes
Ides of March
Interactive Website
Empowered for a Change
DearSideBarEtAl
Our Journey Experiences
eecummings
Conference photography, How NOT to Do It
MargePiercy
WikiDiscussion
wiki training
CommitteeOfTheWhole
RRWG
Privacy
Proposal
Disclaimer
Herding Turtles report
CWC
Judi Chamberlin
CWCResignationLetter
CWC Opening
MIAW2006
Figuring it out
PeerProgramChart
Drop In History Timeline Notes
PeerChart
OPFC History
AcceptableUsePolicy
OPFC
mh resources f shtml
About PeerConf1
PeerConf1
RRWG Position Description
Memorial Pages
grief resources
Fairfax County's grief counselor
Hospice and Havens
Improv song
artwork
David Mangano's Ombudsman presentation slides
Article Repository
Conclusion
Two students kill other students and becomes
the model for other shootings in schools like
Western Fairfax County and later from the same
High School, VA Tech.
"Can't we all [just] get along?" as Rodney King
stated probably describes it best...
And these people had their freedom,
were probably not subjected to broom handles
up the ass, by providers/ supposed care takers
in mental hospitals, and the other sick types of things
that go on behind locked wards...
Personally, I am against violence,
my weapon of choice has been the pen/ keyboard
and 'the truth shall set you free' but I'm not sure how that
is interpretted... Literal interpretations by fundamentalists
of any religion or someone misinterpretting what I'm writing
because psychotic, or whatever, so maybe I should just
write nice and skip all the negative stuff, just say nice
things and everything will work out fine. Be the good
little consumer/survivor/ex-patient and say what
the funders want said, basically a lobotomy...
That would not be recovery for me. Not that everyone
needs to hear my uncensored thoughts on every
topic imaginable, replacing therapy that is not available
to me in the forms I need, since providers are control
freaks and most are haters of the people they should
be caring for, at least in my experience with this project.
Money is at stake, more than ever with the budget
cuts, maybe stimulus money makes it better, but
people's jobs are being lost, and maybe providers
learn 'what it's like' as the Everlast song goes...
Still not violence, there is enough in the world,
don't add to it. Don't accept illegal treatment,
harrassmment and ridicule, but use legal means
instead of violence. Words work, or at least
they should, when used by a system of MH
or justice that is fair and just, though access
to legal services are about as limited as
access to real mh care...
Wonder if lawyers, obama or others could
make it rain for the homeless like it is outside,
when, while 'blessed' to have housing
most people with a car, and enough sleep
to safely drive it, insurance, gas money and
the time to enjoy anything, would probably
be going out to socialize at church, for
fellowship or just do errands, instead of stuck
in writing/ whining/ venting/ or doing literary
self therapy/ journaling like this...
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20090503 Jerry
- Jerry created this page to briefly describe a booktv.org interview with the author
- but went on all sorts of tangents..
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