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Re: What Really Caused the tragedy

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From: Tiller
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 00:00
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ofr555@hotmail.com wrote:

> Tiller wrote:
> >
> > This is a snip of a Perspective article from The Denver Post by
> > columnist Stephen Singular.
> >
> > In Time magazine last December Evan Todd, a 255 pound defensive lineman
> > on the Columbine football team he was wounded in the massacre),
> > described the atmosphere at the school.
> >
> > "Columbine is a good Clean place, except for those rejects," he said,
> > referring to Harris and Klebold.  "Most kids didn't want them there".
> > "They were into witchcraft and voodoo dolls".
> > "sure, we teased them. but what do you expect when kids come to school
> > with weird hairdos and horns on their hats"? "The whole school's
> > disgusted with them". "They're a bunch of homos, grabbing each other's
> > private parts".
> >
> > If you want to get rid of someone usually you would tease 'em. So we got
> > the whole school to call them homos, and when they did something sick,
> > we'd tell them, "you're sick and you're wrong."
> >
> > (Stephen Singular)
> > If Evan Todd was right, the meanness at Columbine was the same meanness
> > that was shaping our entire society -because that was the way America
> > now did business. Our children with their tears and their bullets, were
> > trying to tell us something. The question is: Are we ready to stop the
> > demonizing and start listening?
> >
> > (Me)
> > Evan Todd is one of the students suing the police and school for his
> > injurys.
>
> So, your intolerance and hatred of persons that refuse to conform
> to your standards is the reason?
>
> Have you changed your actions?
>
> Do you expect different results in the future?
>
> They were the only two?
>
> --
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> (518) 356-4238
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You know ofr the (me) isn't evan todd but you replied for the right reason.
This event was so disturbing for many, yet finding the reason this happened,
until now, has barely even been slightly addressed. The fact you responded to
this does show  good character in you, in recognizing some of the real issues.
Here in Colorado a bill was introduced which would teach bullyism, an ongoing
sensitivity training course if you will. At the same time a bill was
introduced to put the ten commandments up in the schools. Well the bullyism
bill was defeated in favor of the ten commandments bill. And the ten
commandments bill was voted down for various reasons, the thou shalt not kill
will not stop someone from killing someone. Learning about bullyism will make
a huge impact on the way we treat others. As long as people accept
unacceptable treatment of others we will keep having the so called Columbine
incidents. The fact is bullyism continues at columbine, in fact they didn't
even hardly skip a beat, although some have admitted that their treating of
others cruelly played a major role in the masacure and said they will not
treat anyone cruelly again, which is definately a step in the right direction.
There needs to be more done, a bullyism bill needs to be passed. The two
youths who killed seem to be the only parties involved, but as we read the
person in the above excerpts, he reports the whole school didn't like Eric and
Dylan, but that is not true he and others would like everyone to think that.
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Subject: Re: What Really Caused the tragedy
Date: 2000/04/22
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