-Caveat Lector- Below is from alt.conspiracy news group: ---- After surveying the newspaper, television, radio, and net news reports talk shows regarding the tragedy at Columbine High in Littleton, Colorado, it suddenly occurs to me that damn few questions are actually being answered. Therefore, I would like to list a few of the more obvious questions and see if any enlightened readers can post a clue as to the answers. When I try to piece together many of the statements made by witnesses and various officials--at least as reported by journalists and others so far--few of the comments make much sense. Yes, the United States is already innundated with report after report on "How to Prevent Another Columbine" (the collective conclusion seems to be that we can do that with more student counseling and better school security, which is what the same people said after all the other school shootings). Nonetheless, the people in the media who are flooding America with scene after scene of grieving friends and relatives of Columbine High victims--along with interminable talking heads with their opinions and pet theories--have yet to provide answers for a few of the more obvious questions: --The mystery school guard. From various officials and witness being inteviewed I have heard many conflicting reports about a supposed armed guard at Columbine High. Some have said the school had no armed guard at all. Some have said they had one who was absent the day of the massacre. One offical said that was an armed guard who "exchanged shots with the gunman." If so, he didn't seem to hit anyone he should have, since the killing went on for a long time. Further, I have heard no report of any "armed school guard" killed or wounded defending the students. If there was an armed guard, what happened to him? Why did he disappear after "exchanging shots with the gunman", if that report was true? Why was he unable to protect the students--if he exists at all? --Further, I have heard very conflicting about the SWAT teams and their response. Some students have complained that no one was there to help them for a long time. Yet, one official reported that a SWAT team was on the scene "minutes" after the 911 call and had "exchanged shots" with the gunmen. If so, why is it also reported that the teacher who was murdered lay wounded for hours and finally bled to death? The time line presented by the media makes no sense at all when you break it down. --Hostages? Some have said that the SWAT team could not get in to take the wounded out because the gunman had hostages. Others have said that no hostages were taken at all. --Many authorities now saying that the SWAT team could not get in for hours because of the bomb danger. The question then becomes, if armed assistance was immediately on the scene, but could render not assistance to those inside the school due to the danger of explosives, how did the killers have time (in the "minutes" before the 911 call and the arrival of the SWAT them) to place so many bombs around the building? Did the two killers have help? Did they place bombs in advance of the killing spree? Further, since people were bleeding to death, was there no one on the scene with the military-style training to step around explosive devices quickly (in order to stop the killing and render assistance to the victims) without setting the bombs off? These are just a few of the questions that spring to mind. As I suggested earlier, I have noted show after show featuring--sometimes ad nauseum--people supposedly in the know who are, having been given a forum by the media, flooding the airways with opiniated verbiage about "how to prevent another Columbine". Yet, I have heard no clear explanation at all regarding what actually transpired during the massacre. DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
