According to officials, a school repair man was on the roof and mistaken by witnesses to be a sniper with a gun who was firing atop the library down at students. Apparently, the repair man also decided to leave some high caliber rifle shells on the roof.
Officials imply that fully automatic machine guns were never used by the gunmen.
Officials have made no statements to the effect that Harris and Klebold were ever wearing face masks.
Officials claim that SWAT teams entered the school twenty minutes after the shooting began at 11:17 a.m.
The “official story” sounds more like a “cover story” to us.
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CRTF has received information from a man named Phillip Tkacz who is a fireman for the Versailles Fire Department in Kentucky. In “mid July” he took a class in Lexington on firefighter safety in police situations. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (BATF) participated in the class. The agent who gave the class, William Donovan, is based in Washington D.C., semi-retired and is only involved in “large cases”. He was present at Columbine High School three days after the shootings. He presented a number of forensic pictures from Columbine to the class. One pictured showed shell casings on the roof of the school. Tkacz says the casings were large, and likely .223 caliber. They were not 9mm or shotgun shell casings, as used by Harris and Klebold. The BATF instructor would not comment on who fired from the roof. Tkacz says that during the shooting, on television coverage, he remembers hearing reports of someone firing from the roof. Those reports have since vanished. (A researcher in Denver recently wrote to us that “…students have said, in a quiet manner I might add, that as they were coming out of the cafeteria, someone started shooting at them from the roof.”)
One picture showed the body of Eric Harris as he lay in the library. His skull was fractured from the gunshot wound. Harris’s pants were missing, and Tkacz says that the BATF instructor, “…wouldn’t tell us why he wasn’t wearing pants. I found that very unusual.” Other pictures were shown of exploded pipe bombs, damage throughout the school, etc. The instructor said that the night before the shooting Harris and Klebold used the Harris home garage to break glass which was placed in the pipe bombs. Someone in the class asked whether or not Wayne Harris was involved in some way, and the instructor said he felt otherwise. He also said that backpacks were found with explosives in them, but he would not elaborate on whom they belonged to. The instructor said that the three students arrested the day of the shooting outside of the school were not directly involved with the shooting, though they were close friends of Harris.
Some class participants asked the instructor if there were more than two people involved in the shooting and he replied to the class that it was “feasible” that more were involved. Tkacz felt he was implying that more gunmen could have been involved. Tkacz later approached the instructor and asked him if he could have copies of the pictures, and he refused. He also asked about the possibility of more than two gunmen. Tkacz says that the instructor responded by saying that “off the record” he knew for a fact that there were more people involved.
Tkacz recounts the incident, “From what we saw in the pictures we all agreed that there had to be more than two [gunmen]. I asked the instructor if he believed only two kids did this [and] he finally answered me and said off the record he knows that there were more involved.”
CRTF has talked with Mr. Phillip Tkacz over the phone and he has reaffirmed his story first related to us through an email. Furthermore, one of Mr. Tkacz’s associates who was present during the class has emailed us and confirmed Tkacz’s story. He told us, “I don’t remember a whole lot to be honest…The guy showed us slides from Columbine. Most of them from [were] where bombs had gone off…spent shell casings on the roof…Phil asked him if he thought that only two of them did this. I don’t recall the exact answer but he said that it was very possible…[Phil] told us that he (the instructor) finally said that he knew for a fact that there were more involved.”
The following is a copy of one of Mr. Tkacz’s emails:
In mid-July of this year I attended a class for Fire Departments in my area addressing firefighter safety at police situations. The last speaker was a man who works for the ATF. He is an explosives expert and was telling us about booby traps and the sort. He brought along several slides from the shooting at Columbine. He said he was there by the third day to help with identifying some of the devices. Most of the pictures were of bombs that had already exploded and a few that had not. The one thing that I remember was a picture on the roof. It was of, what he said, where one of the pipe bombs had gone off. In the picture you could clearly see at least 6 to 10 shell casings as well. Someone did ask about that but he never really gave an answer. The casings looked to big to be from a 9 mm like the ones that were used. Also was a picture of Eric Harris's body. Someone asked where his pants were, again no straight answer.
At the end of the class we asked him if he thought there were more than 2 were involved. In front of the whole class he said "it is quite feasible". I talked to him alone before we all left and asked him again. He said "off the record I know that there were more directly involved". He didn't specifically say if he meant a 3rd gunman or if they had help making the bombs that numbered over 60. He also did state that he doubted that Eric's father helped them with the incident. I found him to be very sincere. At the time I didn't realize how important his statements really were.
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A teenage girl by the name of Lindsay Waters who knew Eric Harris for two years has spoken with CRTF and given detailed accounts of the many exchanges that took place between Harris and herself. (We have confirmed the girl’s identity and location).
Harris and the girl played the popular action computer game “Doom” over the internet with each other, chatted on the WBS and AOL chat internet servers, and even exchanged phone calls at one time. They never met physically.
“The last time I talked to him was on April 19th, my birthday. He wished me happy birthday and we played Doom against one another on a server. [He] said he loved talking to me and may not be on [the internet] tomorrow due to circumstances,” said Waters. The next day the shooting occurred.
Waters says that Eric Harris “never said racist slurs to me and he never said he hated Christians…Everyday [he said], and I quote him on this, ‘school is fuckin’ hell for me!’ He was randomly pushed up against lockers and walls, called names and just a victim of torment…He said teachers would pay it no attention.” Waters says Harris was “pissed off” when he was rejected by the Marine Corps. She said that Harris felt that he had failed his father, Wayne Harris, who has a long history of military service.
She stated, “Harris always complained how he hated his mom [being] home all the time since she was unemployed and it got on his nerves. He said it delayed his work process — I didn’t know what kind of ‘work’ he meant at the time…He never really said much else about [his parents]. All I know is he kept saying how he had failed them and so on.”
The girl talked over the phone with Dylan Klebold as well. She said that he was “a nice guy too; [but] he acted nothing in the manner Harris did.” Waters noted Harris’s sometimes hateful feelings toward society, but she never felt that Harris would act out on them.
“Eric was not a racist; he says so on his [web] site and [he] is totally against it…People claimed when the killers went in the library they were screaming racial slurs; if Eric wasn’t racist it wasn’t him…Dylan Klebold loved Rachel Scott, why would they kill her?” said Waters. (It can be postulated that Scott was killed by the same person who fired at teacher Patti Nielson).
Waters also expressed concern as to why Brooks Brown was told to “go home” by Harris. She states, “Why would Eric say ‘Brooks go home!’ if he wasn’t involved in anything?” She was perplexed as to why Ben Mauser was killed since Mauser and Brooks were friends. Why would Harris or Klebold kill the friend of the person who’s life they had just spared? Waters also related to us that she has had trouble believing that Harris and Klebold would have actually killed anyone.
Visit this website (Sorry, archived page no longer exists) for an alleged transcription of Eric Harris’s web site (which was quickly removed from the internet by the FBI). Here you will find the revealing, disturbing, hateful, and sometimes humorous writings of Eric Harris. He does proclaim on the web site his position against racism.
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The Denver area is considered to be a model city for highly socialistic, liberal government programs. Hence the following:
An Outcomes Based Education (OBE) expert has made comments about the Columbine and Denver area educational system. This source (name not to be revealed at this time) spoke at the Arapaho Auditorium in Littleton in 1994. The source indicates her displeasure in the OBE and Goals 2000 programs. She says, “I have the entire Colorado outcomes in which every subject area was laced with psychological components like; physical, emotional and mental health; aesthetic development; human relations and responsibility, multicultural understanding reasoning and higher order thinking skills.”
She continues, “I used an example of how dangerous this transfers to real life, right there on stage at Littleton were I spoke. The eighth grade had a reading section on the ‘Real Story of The Three Little Pigs’. The kids had to role-play being the wolf. This was used for multicultural education. In a wolf’s culture it was ‘OK’ to kill pigs. The wolf was now the victim because in the wolf’s culture, wolves kill pigs. Transfer this to a real life situation…”
“This society has let the education bureaucrats allow this psycho-babble into our classrooms. Probably 50% of the school day is used to implement ‘mental health’ programs.”
The above relates to the early reports that a “death education” class was taught at Columbine High a few years ago. The above source mentions “death education” as a form of OBE/Goals 2000 programs.
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Further vital information was revealed by Denver resident James D. Shindler. Please read the following comments he sent to us by way of email on Dec. 2nd:
“Do you recall that in 1990, the TV program ’20/20′ did a special on ‘Death Education Curriculum’, focusing on Jefferson County Schools, and specifically Columbine?
“At that time, the teen suicide rate in Jefferson County was the highest in the nation. They interviewed a former Columbine student named Tara Becker, who elaborated on the seemingly unusual focus on death, dying and suicide in the classroom studies. She claimed that the intense focus on this subject eventually led her and other classmates to make attempts to take their own lives. Some were successful. She talked of field trips to cemeteries, mortuaries, crematoriums and of writing their own obituaries and eulogies, and designing their own headstones, etc., to include classroom activities focusing on how you would ‘do it’ if you killed yourself.
“There was complete denial by school administrators that any such curriculum existed. However, proof exists that this type of curriculum was being taught, and is more widespread today throughout the schools, public and private alike. When Tara Becker was contacted in regards to her feelings about the Columbine shootings, her comment was, ‘Did you think it would go away, when they continue to focus on the subject of death? It’s worse today than when I was in school, because now they want to take others out with them when they kill themselves. I’m not surprised at all’.
“I see an equation playing out! So much focus on negative subjects could well lead a student into depression.. Severe depression leads to a diagnosis requiring treatment with anti-depressants, which do, in some cases, lead to thoughts of suicide and homicide. (Tara Becker was never medicated, but had these thoughts anyway) If you look at Harris and Klebold’s gradual decline into an obvious sociopathic mindset, i.e. the Nazi salute when they would bowl a strike during bowling class, the time spent playing violent video games, the making of a film for their school video class which portrayed (at least in part) the event which they eventually carried out, and Harris’ website which addressed many terrible things, it seems that it would give reason to look inward for the possible cause of such a tragedy.”
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In our reporting of the Columbine High School shooting we feel it is important that the current social and political climate in the Denver area is also examined. The shooting itself and local social matters go hand in hand. The following is an important reminder of why answers about the shooting are not likely to come forward anytime soon from those in positions of power.
Mayor of Denver, Wellington Webb, is said to have connections with the Queen of England. It is a fact that Webb has physically traveled to England in the past to discuss “trade agreements” with the British. (When was the last time the mayor of your city went to England to discuss “trade agreements”?) The state of Colorado and city of Denver formed The London Trade Office in 1994, an arm of The Colorado International Trade Office, in Denver. British Royalty own a “large amount” of land near Denver through corporations such as Olympia & York and Trizec. Much of the shady business transactions are said to take place through The Mayor’s Office of Economic Development, a.k.a. The Colorado International Trade Office.
Rodney Stich, author of “Defrauding of America”, claims to have a copy of an audio tape of a CIA agent paying off Webb with $1.5 million dollars to allow the construction of Denver International Airport to continue without opposition. Webb played a key role in bulldozing public opposition to the $6 billion-dollar airport.
When you look at Webb’s past, and the political transformation he has gone through, reading “inbetween-the-lines” is made a great deal easier. Thus, the following story caught our attention…
Wellington Webb is in Washington D.C. beginning Wednesday, the 8th. His intentions are “to lobby for tougher gun laws” to Congress. In fact, “…[i]f it were up to him…he would support even stronger gun legislation than is pending in Congress.” During his stay, Webb will spend a night in the White House as a guest of President Clinton, and appear on ABC’s “Good Morning America”.
“Webb…and dozens of mayors, police chiefs and church leaders from around the country came to Washington to lobby for stricter gun controls in the wake of the Columbine High tragedy,” said the Denver Rocky Mountain News.
“Unfortunately, hypocrisy is all too common in political circles these days, but Mayor Webb’s actions take hypocrisy to new heights,” said Alan Gottlieb of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. The group said major pro-gun groups supported Webb during his mayoral campaign eight years ago. They are now complaining of his “political flip-flop” on the gun issue. The Law Enforcement Alliance of America “attacked” Webb and the gathering of law enforcement officials in Washington D.C. for their involvement in the anti-gun rallies held at the White House and in Congress. The group said that the law enforcement officials present during the rallies — which included Denver Police Chief Tom Sanchez — did not represent “rank and file” officials from around the country.
Webb, in a bald-faced lie, said of private ownership of firearms, “The more guns you have, the more people die. That’s the cold facts.”
“If we don’t talk to them, we can’t change any minds,” Webb said of Congress.
It’s apparent that Denver is quickly becoming a nexus of global interest and policy. (source1) (source2)
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David G. Penland, resident of Littleton and certified private investigator with Colorado Property Bureau Investigation, contacted CRTF in November. Mr. Penland handles security for local neighborhoods and homeowner associations. He related to us that on April 21st, 1999, one day after the Columbine High School shooting, he received a call from a frantic Aurora resident. The resident said that at a home adjacent to his a loud party was taking place in which participants were celebrating the Columbine shooting and Hitler’s birthday. The party was taking place inside the home, yet loud enough to cause a disruption.
“The night after Columbine I had a call from frantic resident who said there were youths celebrating the ‘victory’ of Columbine. We know this individual (one of the teenagers involved) to be a Neo-Nazi type, who follows the pack. I responded to this call and contacted the teens, who of course denied their celebration.” Penland confirmed to us that the young man who is a resident of the home has been arrested on drug charges before.
Mr. Penland recently provided the following write-up on the incident:
While on patrol in area of a local homeowner association, I received an emergency call from a resident of another homeowner association. The resident said that he was afraid of what was going on next door in a town-house next to him. He said there were several teens next door having a party and celebrating Adolf Hitler's birthday and the 'victory' of Klebold and Harris in the Columbine massacre of students. They were yelling and screaming "Hail Hitler" over and over, and playing a game of some type. I was the first to respond to this call and I met with the frantic resident. I got him quieted down and waited for the teens who had left. I waited in my patrol car for them to return, and otherwise it was quiet in the neighborhood. Soon they returned and I confronted them about the noise complaint. They denied it, and said they were not home at all. I filed a report with my security office and contacted an Aurora police officer on patrol and spoke to him about the incident. He followed up the next day and contacted the youth and his father. The officer contacted me and shared the results of his investigation. He said the father jumped all over him and the kid went ballistic. We know as a security firm that we have past reports on this youth being involved in Neo-Nazi activities. This he does not deny and he is proud of being part of this large group. He also has been arrested for other disturbances, and for selling and using drugs often.
Penland could not say whether or not the teenagers involved in the incident had any direct relation to the Columbine shooting. He noted that he has seen “trench coated figures” in the Aurora area before. Penland also related to us a number of crimes in the Denver area which indicate a Satanist or Neo-Nazi faction the responsible party.
This incident further confirms our suspicion that the Denver area is home to a large cult underground comprised of a wide range of criminals. That the Columbine shooting was completely unrelated to this underground network seems improbable if not impossible.
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Conclusion
Something I personally observed, as well as a friend of mine I spoke with over the phone that day, was the unusual, sedate manner in which students recounted their experiences to news cameras on the scene. Most of the students, with the exception of a few, showed very little emotion when describing the graphic events. They were disturbingly manner-of-fact about what happened. To my recall, one girl described with utter monotony how a girl next to her had her brains blown out. The girl hinted in her voice the slight displeasure and annoyance she experience in having the other girl’s blood sprayed all over her. This account, witnessed also by my friend, disturbed us both greatly. This is likely a reflection of the school’s culture. Were students in shock? Or has society already numbed us to these events?
During the past year the shooting has caused the U.S. Congress to vote on and pass various gun control legislation. Issues ranging from gun safety locks, to age requirements, and gun show restrictions are being discussed. A national debate on school safety has ensued and the National Rifle Association, gun owners, and gun makers have been criticized by the body politic.
In Denver, before the shooting, a new concealed carry weapon law ready for a vote by the legislature would have allowed anyone to obtain a CCW permit in any county in the state of Colorado. Anti-gun groups were quietly worried about the legislation. Even though the vote was put on hold due to the shooting, it has popped up again, with newfound opposition by Governor Owens. Currently, a swath of new anti-gun bills wait for approval in the House and Senate of the state legislature.
The Jefferson Co. Sheriff’s Office. has been fairly inconsistent in its evaluation of how many shooters there were and how many people took part in the crime (See Main page for recent updates). Sheriff John Stone has been consistent. However, he has recently shied away from the spotlight and is likely no longer involved in the investigation.
What we are seeing now in the newsmedia is not careful analysis of what happened and what the investigation has recovered so far. We’re seeing more of a peripheral grasp of the event — the shooting is used as a catapult to propel other stories deployed by the media; for instance, stories involving gun regulation, or video game violence. The actual shooting becomes a secondary element, and not the main focus.
The questions remain. How did so many bombs get placed in the building without anyone noticing? Who were the three teenagers found on the site who appear to have had a great deal of knowledge about the shooting? Why haven’t the school video tapes been released at least to reporters? Why haven’t the “third-gunman” reports received more attention? Why does the top investigator with the FBI have disturbing ties to Columbine and the shootings? Will the autopsy reports ever be released? Did Klebold and Harris wear masks, or were other assailants wearing masks? What is to be made of the numerous timeline discrepancies? There are even more questions…
The most important question is this: Were there other shooters or accomplices at the high school during the rampage?
The many unanswered questions remain unanswered; that a cover-up could be taking place, with the sheriffs office as the unwitting dupe, seems more than possible.
[End]This article from: http://www.apfn.org/apfn/columbine2.htm
Notes:
Special thanks to Ian Goddard.
Real Audio files can be found at the USA Today web site.
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