This is a forwarded email (snipped). No comments are mine.....~J ****************************************************************************** ************* > >We live in a cause and effect universe, things don't "just happen". >There are enough emotionally twisted people out there that we should >not be PROVOKING THEM to go over the edge [especially powerful people >like Saddam Hussain and Slobodon Melosovich, etc.]. Sure, the killers >at Columbine High School chose the devil's way of responding to abuse >and to their sense of self-hatred [evidenced by their suicides], however >it was a response to abuse non-the-less. The "Jocks" at Columbine >high school were PARTLY responsible for bringing this upon themselves. >That's my humble opinion [although I might get a lot of flack for it]. (name deleted) >> FROM: http://www.sightings.com/politics2/purehell.htm >> >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 'Trenchcoat' Member Describes 'Pure Hell' And Torment On Columbine >> Campus >> >> By Susan Greene >> Denver Post Staff Writer >> www.denverpost.com >> 4-25-99 >> >> >> Hell. >> The word has been used so >> often this week to describe the bloody rampage at Columbine High School. >> >> >> But one member of Columbine's >> now-notorious Trench Coat Mafia invokes the same image of hell when >> describing life at the school before the carnage. >> >> The 18-year-old, who demanded >> anonymity, said he was taunted and terrorized by his schoolmates - >> so-called jocks who called him "faggot,'' bashed him into lockers and >> threw rocks >> at him from their cars while he rode his bike home from school. >> >> "I can't describe how hard it >> was to get up in the morning and face that,'' he said. >> >> >> "Hell,'' he continued. "Pure hell.'' >> Police repeatedly have >> questioned the teen about his knowledge of the shootings. >> >> He is one of several mafia >> members who at once are shying away from reporters, but also desperate >> to have their stories heard. >> >> He and his parents know >> people will perceive their anonymity as a sign that he has something to >> hide or in some way is responsible for Tuesday's massacre. >> >> He's visibly grieving about >> the tragedy and about what he knows are the ties students are suggesting >> between him and killers Eric Har ris and Dylan Klebold. >> >> He said the two seniors >> weren't even part of the mafia, but merely friends of one especially >> charismatic - and, he notes, the only violent - member. >> >> They were on the fringe of >> the group, the school's most outcast, most fringe clique. >> >> And so, the teen said, his >> reluctance to speak out stems not from an association with the shooters, >> but from the very reason his group of loners banded together in the >> first place >> - out of fear of more ridicule and torment, more shoves, more thrown >> rocks. Or worse. >> >> "I want to stand up and say >> this is what I went through,'' he said. "But I'm scared, not just for >> me, but my family.'' >> >> By now, most of America and >> much of the world have heard about Columbine's jocks. >> >> The student-athletes commonly >> wear clothes bearing the logos of sports teams. Another indication is >> baseball caps with visors worn facing forward and carefully rounded. >> >> Not all jocks tormented him, >> the teen noted. But he said a handful of bullies held so much power that >> most of the school emulated them, or at least were too afraid to voice >> dissen >> t. >> >> "If you didn't dress like >> them, if you walked to school or rode your bike, if you didn't get into >> sports and weren't athletic, then you were an outcast. It's that >> simple,'' he sai >> d. >> >> Taunting started with the >> teen's appearance which, without compromising his anonymity, is gawky - >> the painfully uneasy look of so many male teens teetering between >> boyhood and man >> hood. He said jocks ridiculed his clothes and his black trench coat, >> which his parents bought for him to wear with suits on special >> occasions. >> >> >> The torment often became vicious. >> While the teen biked home >> from school, he said, jocks would "speed past at 40, 50 mph'' and toss >> pop cans or cups full of sticky soda at him. Sometimes they threw rocks >> or even si >> deswiped his bike with their cars. >> >> He described waking on school >> days with a knot in his stomach and the dread of having to face the >> humiliation. >> >> He would avoid certain >> hallways and even make his way to classes outside the school building to >> escape being ridiculed or being bashed against lockers, he said. >> >> In the cafeteria, he >> continued, jocks threw mashed potatoes at him. He would wear the stains >> for the rest of the school day. >> >> But he wasn't the only kid >> messed with at Columbine. Other mafia members faced similar troubles. >> And, he said, he knew Klebold and Harris were tormented as well. >> >> The teen speaks about his >> high school years quietly, but angrily. He's visibly withdrawn and says >> he's depressed. But he has enough perspective to understand why he >> joined the maf >> ia. It was the only place he could find friends. >> >> He said the core group of >> about seven boys - mostly socially awkward kids, loners - started >> hanging out in 1996. They gradually grew to include more students, boys >> and girls who c >> alled themselves "The Anachronists'' because of their interest in the >> game Dungeons and Dragons and their penchant for Goth, short for Gothic, >> fashions. >> >> In early 1998, he said, a >> jock branded them with the name Trench Coat Mafia. The group accepted >> the moniker, hoping the symbolism would scare their tormenters and that >> the nefario >> us aura of a darkly dressed mob would finally give them some peace. >> >> "And it worked,'' the teen >> said. "They did start leaving us alone.'' Members apparently found >> security in numbers. They hung out together listening to music, watching >> movies and c >> ommiserating about their difficulties at school. Many, he said, were >> just grateful for the companionship. >> >> Despite widespread news >> reports about their obsession with the sadist music of Marilyn Manson, >> he said, only one member really was a fan of the shock-rocker. >> >> The teen also makes a point >> of noting the group wasn't racist or interested in Nazi history or >> culture. >> >> "That's so inaccurate, the >> image that we were like that,'' he said. "People just want to put labels >> on us that aren't true.'' >> >> The teen said Harris and >> Klebold were less socially active even than other mafia members. >> >> From the outside, he said, >> they must have seemed part of the group because of their black trench >> coats and their similar Goth style of dress. But, speaking from the >> inside, he sai >> d they weren't really members. Although they sometimes hung with the >> mafia in Columbine's commons and shared sneers at the jocks, he >> recalled, they ate at a separate lunch table and led very separate >> lives. >> >> Harris and Klebold didn't >> usually don trench coats, he added, surmising they wore them on Tuesday >> because they helped hide their guns. Further, he noted, theirs weren't >> really tre >> nch coats, but actually Australian dusters - not authentically Goth at >> all. >> >> The teen is clearly rocked by >> Tuesday's massacre. He swallows hard when talking about it, when seeing >> the yearbook photos of his dead schoolmates and teacher beamed over >> national >> TV. >> >> "I'm not saying what they did >> was OK,'' he said of Harris and Klebold. "But I know what it's like to >> be cornered, pushed day after day.'' >> >> "Tell people that we were >> harassed and that sometimes it was impossible to take,'' he told a >> reporter. 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