Please don't shoot other kids, it's like totally bad karma.

No, seriously. What happened in Colorado has devastated me to no end--especially as it has hit so close to home for me, having spent my "High School Years"(tm) in Boulder, Colorado--I even knew kids who went to Columbine and on a couple of occasions did donuts in the parking lot with my friends.

There's a lot of confusion right now in the media and everyone is frantically searching for different scapegoats to wave their fingers at. One being the media itself, which I won't waste a comment on and another being the internet. Anarchy is once again getting a bad rep; the media claims that the two kids learned how to make bombs from "Anarchist Websites"

So, it's time to be upfront and direct--I have never met a violent Anarchist and don't believe violence has a place in our revolution. Unamerican Activities does not promote or condone violence as violence is oppression and we don't want none of that. Some people have recommended that we remove our "Bomb The Mall" design, but we really would like to give the people who look at our site more credit than that. Of course we are not suggesting you literally destroy a mall in the same vein as when we say we want to "blow up the minds of today's youth" duh!--what do you think we mean?

When it comes right down to it, I imagine that a majority of the people who are reading this relate more closely to the two kids who opened fire at Columbine than to the other people involved with this tragedy. Our hearts go out to all of the kids involved--any dead kid is wasted potential. Obviously, the kids who did this horrible act were intelligent in certain ways and I'm sure there is a lot more going on than we can ever know--cuz I know a lot of people (including to a certain extent, myself) who were picked on and harrassed and embarassed and felt like outcasts in high school. We grew up to give all those squares a big "FUCK YOU!" as we actually do something with our lives.

Absolutely nothing good came out of Eric and Dylan's actions. Killing yourself and others is the ultimate cop-out! Now misfits and outcasts are going to be looked down upon even more. Prying counselors will be much quicker to put misfits in "special classes" and report "odd behavior" to the authorities. Boards of education will start looking more seriously at making school uniforms mandatory as they supposedly "deter cliques." School campuses will be less open for coming and going by students (get your hall pass forgeries ready) and basically everyone is going to be a whole lot more suspicious. "Why does that kid dress like that--I wonder if he's planning on shooting his classmates?"

In times of general panic, it is much easier for the government to start removing civil liberties one by one as people feel more comfortable giving them up in the guise of "safety precautions." As terrible as this whole incident is, how many kids are really capable of these actions? Is it really enough that everyone else should have to give up our right to dress how we want, listen to whatever kind of music we want, be friends with who we want? Rather, kids should be given access to tools to express themselves creatively and this should be encouraged.

Will there be methods devised to censor the internet? If you really want to learn how to make a bomb, you'll find the information--it's always been available if you know what you are looking for. Will this just be a convienent excuse? Will Unamerican have to do "age checks" because of our "potty mouths?"

Everyone is looking for really quick and easy solutions to prevent a similar event from recurring. We are a society of violence and self-loathing. The President puts on his "sad face" and stands in front of the world saying that violence is not the way to handle your anger while on the other side of the world our military is systematically destroying a country with bombs much bigger than the little DIY pipe bombs the kids had at Columbine. The United States, like the two students who shot their peers, is killing people just like us. Violence is the way that this country handles frustration and this is what we are showing kids. We teach kids through our actions even more than our words.

I really want to hear from all of you what you think about the Columbine shooting and how we as human beings can prevent it from happening again, without relying on legislation. Also, I'm here in the office a lot of the time, if you don't have any friends and need to talk to someone, go ahead and drop me a line.

There's a bunch more about this incident on our website http://www.unamerican.com and another site we are working with: http://www.hsunderground.com/resources.html if you are interested.

Thank you for continuing to FAIL to die!

James Squeaky

http://www.unamerican.com

my little web page: http://home.earthlink.net/~jamessqueaky/