VoDKa kirjoitti:
Siltä vaikuttaisi. Eric selkeästikin halusi viettää vielä viimeiset syntymäpäivänsä (olivat samoihin aikoihin kuin tuo nauha on nauhoitettu), mutta muuten taisi olla vielä aika auki. En jaksa oikein uskoa siihen, että pojat olisivat tähdänneet tarkoituksella pidempää aikaa juuri Hitlerin syntymäpäivään. Ehkä ovat lähinnä miettineet päivämäärää koneen äärellä yöllä ja etsineet jotain sopivaa - ja törmänneet Hitlerin syntymäpäivään ja siihen faktaan, että se olisi melko pian tulossa.
Kyseinen päivämäärä lienee vain epämääräisesti ja nopealla aikataululla valkattu päivämäärä, ilman sen kummempaa merkitystä.
Onko muuten olemassa mitään dokumenttiä siitä, että pojat edes tajusivat, että iskupäivä on Hitlerin syntymäpäivä? Nyt kun rupesin oikein miettimään niin enpä muista mistään lukeneeni poikien mainitsevan mitään Hitlerin syntymäpäivästä... Olisikin aika huvittavaa, jos pojat eivät itse olisi edes tajunneet iskunsa ajoittuvan Hitlerin syntymäpäivälle. Mediassa sitä muistetaan kuitenkin aina hehkuttaa.
Löysin tuosta päivän valinnasta ja natsi-ihannoinnista vähän matskua:
Harris and Klebold attended German courses in their school. According to classmates, they talked a lot about the Second World War, Hitler and the Nazis. A few weeks before the massacre, they are said to have shouted “Sieg Heil!” and “Heil Hitler!” at their bowling class and raised their arms to the Nazi salute. During his lessons, Harris sometimes wore boots with steel toe caps and a German cross. At the day of the assault, he was dressed with a white shirt, at which were the cynical words “Natural Selection”. This was no coincidence. On his website, he had called it the best thing that ever occured to earth (cf. Bartels/Crowder 1999; Cullen 1999).
As executers of the “natural selection” he had chosen himself and Klebold. This can be concluded from a document (NBK.doc) which was found in his room:
“I would love to see all you fuckheads die. NBK. I love it! sometime in April me and V will get revenge and will kick natural selection up a few notches.” (Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office 2006: 427)
In his diary, that began with the words „I hate the fucking world”, there are social-darwinian statements as well (ibid.: 84). On April 21st, 1998, he made for example the following entry:
“I will sooner die than betray my own thoughts. but before I leave this worthless place, I will kill whoever I deem unfit for, anything at all, especially life. and all you pissed me off in the past, you will die if I see you...” (ibid.: 88 )
Harris drew direct comparisons between himself and the Nazis in the diary. While the Nazis wanted to kill all Jews, he wanted to kill all human beings. Harris in his own words:
“If you recall your history the Nazis came up with a ‘final solution’ to the Jewish problem: kill them all. well incase you havent figured it out yet, I say ‘Kill mankind.’ no one should survive.” (ibid.: 91)
But because it is not possible to kill all people, he and Klebold restricted their aggressions to that place where they had to suffer the most abasements: Columbine High School. Harris wrote at the end of October 1998:
“Once I finally start my killing, keep this in mind, there are probably about 100 people max in the school alone who I dont want to die, the rest, MUST FUCKING DIE!” (ibid.: 94)
Harris described himself as “racist” in his diary and made no secret about his admiration of the Nazis:
“I love the nazis too... by the way, I fucking cant get enough of the swastika, the SS and the iron cross. Hitler and his head boys fucked up a few times and it cost them the war, but I love their beliefs and who they were, what they did, and what they wanted.” (ibid.: 96)
Already in the middle of November 1998, he had chosen April 1999 for the massacre. He also described the reason for it:
“It’ll be very fucking hard to hold out until April... If people would give me more compliments all of this might still be avoidable... but probably not. Whatever I do people make fun of me, and sometimes directly to my face. I’ll get revenge soon enough. fuckers shouldn’t have ripped on me so much.” (ibid.: 96)
The fact that the assault on the high school occurred at April 20th, 1999, the 110th birthday of Hitler, caused speculations that Klebold and Harris had chosen this day intentionally. However, according to findings of the police, the two wanted to attack their school one day earlier (at the anniversary of the massacres of Waco and Oklahoma City). Because they needed more ammunition, they delayed the assault on April, 20th (cf. Lowe 2000).
http://www.bredel.homepage.t-online.de/ ... glish.html
Tuo alunperäinen päivämäärähän 19. huhtikuuta valittiin muistaakseni siksi, että Robyn Anderson ei ollut silloin koulussa, mutta missäköhän vaiheessa pojille on selvinnyt, että he eivät ehdi varustautua tuohon päivämäärään mennessä. Häiritsevää, kun noista viimeisistä hetkistä on niin vähänlaisesti matskua (...ainakin julkaistua).
