Columbine Shootings: Basement Tapes Finally Revealed

FBI and its team of psychiatrists and psychologists have reached an conclusion. They believe they know why Harris and Klebold killed, and their explanation is both more reassuring and more troubling than our misguided conclusions.

School shooters tend to act impulsively and attack the targets of their rage: students and faculty. But Harris and Klebold planned for a year and dreamed much bigger. The school served as means to a grander end, to terrorize the entire nation by attacking a symbol of American life. Their slaughter was aimed at students and teachers, but it was not motivated by resentment of them in particular. Students and teachers were just convenient quarry, what Timothy McVeigh described as "collateral damage."



The killers, in fact, laughed at petty school shooters. They bragged about dwarfing the carnage of the Oklahoma City bombing and originally scheduled their bloody performance for its anniversary. Klebold boasted on video about inflicting "the most deaths in U.S. history." Columbine was intended not primarily as a shooting at all, but as a bombing on a massive scale. If they hadn't been so bad at wiring the timers, the propane bombs they set in the cafeteria would have wiped out 600 people. After those bombs went off, they planned to gun down fleeing survivors.

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An explosive third act would follow, when their cars, packed with still more bombs, would rip through still more crowds, presumably of survivors, rescue workers, and reporters. The climax would be captured on live television. It wasn't just "fame" they were after—Agent Fuselier bristles at that trivializing term—they were gunning for devastating infamy on the historical scale of an Attila the Hun. Their vision was to create a nightmare so devastating and apocalyptic that the entire world would shudder at their power.

Harris and Klebold would have been dismayed that Columbine was dubbed the "worst school shooting in American history." They set their sights on eclipsing the world's greatest mass murderers.

Klebold is easier to comprehend, a more familiar type. He was hotheaded, but depressive and suicidal. He blamed himself for his problems. Harris is the challenge. He was sweet-faced and well-spoken. Adults, and even some other kids, described him as "nice." But Harris was cold, calculating, and homicidal. "Klebold was hurting inside while Harris wanted to hurt people," Fuselier says. Harris was not merely a troubled kid, the psychiatrists say, he was a psychopath.

Diagnosing him as a psychopath was not a simple matter. Harris opened his private journal with the sentence, "I hate the f---ing world." And when the media studied Harris, they focused on his hatred—hatred that supposedly led him to revenge. It's easy to get lost in the hate, which screamed out relentlessly from Harris' Web site.

It rages on for page after page and is repeated in his journal and in the videos he and Klebold made. But Fuselier recognized a far more revealing emotion bursting through, both fueling and overshadowing the hate. What the boy was really expressing was contempt.

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He is disgusted with the morons around him. These are not the rantings of an angry young man, Harris claimed to lie to protect himself, but that appears to be something of a lie as well. He lied for pleasure. Harris married his deceitfulness with a total lack of remorse or empathy—another distinctive quality of the psychopath.

Harris' pattern of grandiosity, glibness, contempt, lack of empathy, and superiority read like the bullet points on Hare's Psychopathy Checklist and convinced Fuselier and the other leading psychiatrists close to the case that Harris was a psychopath.

It begins to explain Harris' unbelievably callous behavior: his ability to shoot his classmates, then stop to taunt them while they writhed in pain, then finish them off. Because psychopaths are guided by such a different thought process than non-psychopathic humans, we tend to find their behavior inexplicable. But they're actually much easier to predict than the rest of us once you understand them. Psychopaths follow much stricter behavior patterns than the rest of us because they are unfettered by conscience.



None of his victims means anything to the psychopath. He recognizes other people only as means to obtain what he desires. Not only does he feel no guilt for destroying their lives, he doesn't grasp what they feel. The truly hard-core psychopath doesn't quite comprehend emotions like love or hate or fear, because he has never experienced them directly.

For the first time FBI has release the basement video tapes that Harris and Klebold, typed in manuscript below.

Eric: "Do not think we're trying to copy anyone. We had the idea before the first one ever happened. Our plan is better, not like those ****s in Kentucky with camouflage and .22s. Those kids were only trying to be accepted by others."


Dylan: "I'd like to make a thank you to Mark and Phil. I hope you don't get ****ed." (Eric laughs. Dylan continues.) "We used them. They had no clue... Don't blame them. And don't ****ing arrest them. Don't arrest any of our friends, or family members or our co-workers. They had no ****ing clue. Don't arrest anyone, because they didn't have a ****ing clue. If it hadn't been them, it would've been someone else over 21."

Eric: "I'm sorry I have so much rage, but you put it on me."

Eric: "More rage. More rage. Keep building it on."

Dylan: "If you could see all the anger I've stored over the past four ****ing years..."


Dylan: "You made me what I am. You added to the rage."

Eric: "I could convince them that I'm going to climb Mount Everest, or I have a twin brother growing out of my back. I can make you believe anything."

Dylan: "**** you Walsh."


Eric: "Shut the **** up, Nick, you laugh too much! And those two girls sitting next to you, they probably want you to shut the **** up, too! Jesus! Rachel and Jen.. and.. whatever."


Dylan: "I don't like you, Rachel and Jen, you're stuck up little bitches, you're ****ing little.. Christian, Godly little whores!"

Eric: "Yeah.. 'I love Jesus! I love Jesus!' -- shut the **** up!"

Dylan: "What would Jesus do? What the **** would I do..?"

Eric: "I would shoot you in the motherfcking head! Go Romans! Thank God they crucified that asshole."

Eric and Dylan: "Go Romans!" "Go Romans!!" "Yeah!!" "Wooo!"

Eric: "Hi, mom."

Eric: "Yes, they did have the right number."

Dylan: "We wouldn't be able to do what we're going to do."

Dylan: "You can't see it, it's buried there. That's why it's called a bunker."


Dylan: "Directors will be fighting over this story."

Dylan: "I know we're gonna have followers because we're so ****ing God-like. We're not exactly human -- we have human bodies but we've evolved into one step above you, like fcking human ****.

Eric: "We need a ****ing kick start. If we have a ****ing religious war - or oil - or anything. We need to get a chain reaction going here. It's gonna be like ****ing Doom man - after the bombs explode. Tick, tick, tick, tick... Haa! That ****ing shotgun straight out of Doom. Go ahead and change gun laws - how do you think we got ours?"


Eric: "You guys will all die, and it will be ****ing soon! I hope you get an idea of what we're implying here. You all need to die! We need to die, too! We need to ****ing kick-start the revolution here!"

Dylan: "The most deaths in U.S. history."

Eric: (kisses his shotgun) "Hopefully."

Dylan: "We're hoping. We're hoping. I hope we kill 250 of you. It will be the most nerve-racking 15 minutes of my life, after the bombs are set and we're waiting to charge through the school. Seconds will be like hours. I can't wait. I'll be shaking like a leaf."

Eric: "I hope people have flashbacks."

Eric: "Isn't it fun to get the respect we're going to deserve? We don't give a sht because we're going to die doing it."

Dylan: "If only we could have reached them sooner, or found this tape."

Eric: "If only we would have searched their room. If only we would have asked the right questions. I really am sorry about all this."

Dylan: "They gave me my fcking life. It's up to me what I do with it."

Eric: "My parents made mistakes, now I'm going to rot in hell because you mom, you had to be a little whore & fck daddy didn't you, now I'm going to rot in hell for eternity & it's going to be fun."

Dylan: "I appreciate that."

Eric: I'm going to die, and, and.. it's going to be so much fun!

Eric: "You guys are very cool. Sorry, dudes. I had to do what I had to do."

Eric: "Bob is one of the coolest guys I've ever met in my life, except for being an alcoholic." It's a weird feeling knowing you're going to be dead in two and a half weeks."

Dylan: "Thanks, Mister Stevens. He knew I was fcking buying it."

Dylan: "I'll have to take the coat off."

Eric: "There are 7 and 1/3 days left. ****ing btches."


April 20th 20 mintues before the shootings.


Eric: "Yea... Everyone I love, I'm really sorry about all this. I know my mom and dad will be just like.. just ****ing shocked beyond belief. I'm sorry, all right. I can't help it."

Dylan: "It's what we had to do."

Eric: "Morris, Nate, if you guys live, I want you guys to have whatever you want from my room and the computer room."

Eric: "Susan, sorry. Under different circumstances it would've been a lot different. I want you to have that fly CD."

Eric: "That's it. Sorry. Goodbye."

Dylan: "Goodbye."

Though now many of the early 20 year olds on college campuses of today say that looking back Eric & Dylan was a voice of a silent generation in the U.S, ready to explode.

Because of Columbine many educational laws were changed to protect students, giving parents more chooses to where to send there children, (boarder schools, home schooling) including laws that let students/parents report easier if they do not like how there public school system is being run.


An U.S estimated 311 school shootings occurred within 2 years after Columbine.

Some interesting facts:
In there plans the chaos was to end when they hijacked a plane & drove it into the empire state building NYC. Klebold's birthday was September 11, 1980. Was God giving us a hidden message for things to come?

 

wow. didn't read ANY of that.

 

i think the tidy scientific facts were somewhat clouded by the email god tag at the end. but i do tend to believe in universal synchonicity.

 

WOW just WOW.

 

yea, that was some...yea...they deffinatley ummm, yea....serious god complexes.
keep an eye on that lying in a field fellow...

 

that was some crazy shit

 

Man. I never knew all that.
How can someone be so damn cold like that?
You know, those dudes remind me of two cousins I have who are brothers. Either one of them would be capable of this kind of behavior, I'm sure. Luckily, they are both beyond school age.

 

Good thread and info.

 

wow, that is way out there, like they didn't even know how far?

where do you think they are, are they the same place as the saint

 

That was the most fascinating transcript I've ever read.

Wow...I'm so excited I'm going to major in psychology.

 

woah i just noticed the 311 school shooting within 2 years statistic, i remember feeling glad i wasn't in high school at the time, but I had no idea

 

yea that is a really high statistic... it saddens me

 

yep. all we had to worry about was beatings and humiliation.

 

guns too dont ya think ;p

I mean , idotn know anyone who owns or who has access to one of these shitlogs here

and these guys werent involved in the black market or stuff

 

naw, we didn't have to worry about guns when i was in school.

i have guns, though. i hunt.

 

ok ok...I though you were sayin that acting on humiliation or bad treatment, which the two shooters had endured, could have made things different

 

no, i was saying we didn't have to worry about guns, we just had to worry about abuse and humiliation, of which i received quite a bit, being the snarky shithead i am.

 

for all of you who were really quiet and watchful in school: did you ever notice how your very existance irritated the shit out of people?

 

youre a shithead?

 

kinda, yeah.