Posted on 10/10/2009 4:18:47 PM PDT by real saxophonist
Dylan Klebold's mom speaks in "O" magazine
"No inkling" of plans for Columbine massacre
By The Denver Post
Posted: 10/10/2009
Susan Klebold wrote an essay in the November issue of O magazine. (Denver Post file photo )An essay by the mother of Columbine killer Dylan Klebold says she had "no inkling" of her son's inner turmoil, and her examination of his journals has prompted her to learn about suicide in an effort to understand the school shooting.
The essay by Susan Klebold, which appears in the November issue of O, The Oprah Magazine, explores her son's role in the 1999 massacre where he and co-conspirator Eric Harris killed 12 students and a teacher and left two dozen wounded before killing themselves.
Neither family has spoken at length in the aftermath of what at the time marked the most deadly school shooting in U.S. history. Pending litigation contributed to the silence for several years, but even with the lawsuits resolved, repeated requests for interviews have been turned down.
In a news release, Oprah Winfrey also noted that Susan Klebold had declined interview requests but then, several months ago, agreed to write about her personal experience. The magazine released a few advance excerpts.
"From the writings Dylan left behind, criminal psychologists have concluded that he was depressed and suicidal," Susan Klebold wrote in one passage. "When I first saw copied pages of these writings, they broke my heart. I'd had no inkling of the battle Dylan was waging in his mind."
She added: "Dylan's participation in the massacre was impossible for me to accept until I began to connect it to his own death. Once I saw his journals, it was clear to me that Dylan entered the school with the intention of dying there. And so in order to understand what he might have been thinking, I started to learn all I could about suicide."
Susan Klebold received no payment for the essay, said a magazine spokesperson, but hoped to "raise suicide awareness and to generate support for organizations such as The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and the American Association of Suicidology."
A spokesperson for the Klebolds' attorney, Gary Lozow, would not field questions and said that the Klebold family would have no further comment.
The magazine hits newsstands on Tuesday.
In another passage, Susan Klebold recounted the early morning before the violence began:
"Early on April 20, I was getting dressed for work when I heard Dylan bound down the stairs and open the front door. Wondering why he was in such a hurry when he could have slept another 20 minutes, I poked my head out of the bedroom. 'Dyl?' All he said was 'Bye.' The front door slammed, and his car sped down the driveway. His voice had sounded sharp. I figured he was mad because he'd had to get up early to give someone a lift to class. I had no idea that I had just heard his voice for the last time."
Another excerpt describes her struggle to come to grips with the tragedy.
"For the rest of my life, I will be haunted by the horror and anguish Dylan caused," she wrote. "I cannot look at a child in a grocery store or on the street without thinking about how my son's schoolmates spent the last moments of their lives. Dylan changed everything I believed about myself, about God, about family, and about love."
Okay, one last thing on the top of my head and the need for father figures. If you are a boy growing up today with no male role model, where does your perception of what men are like come from?
T.V.? Movies? Rap Music?
Why would we be surprised that such a situation would produce violent children. Add on to that, some degree of attachment deficit which is much more likely to occur when there is only one parent caring for a child and is more stressed, absent, etc. in order to provide for the child. Then add some culture issues (i.e. inner city culture or trailer park/white trash culture) where the value of working hard to suceed is not reinforced. Yikes.
In the FBI’s analysis they came to the conclusion that Dylan Kleibold suffered from depression. This does not remove his guilt in the killings, but it is a true diagnosis of what was going on in his brain. His mother is relating some of her feelings on that.
Again, we have not read the full article, so we don’t know all that she has said about her son. And we truly don’t know all that she feels. We’ll never know.
I think it is best to leave the judgement where it belongs, in the hands of God.
Again, we have not read the full article, so we don’t know all that she has said about her son. And we truly don’t know all that she feels. We’ll never know.
I think it is best to leave the judgement where it belongs, in the hands of God.
Millions of people are depressed everyday and they don't make pipe bombs, buy assault rifles, plan a massacre and execute innocent people. No judging to it, just save me the revisionist history from a mother who by all accounts except her own is and was clueless about her kid. We already had to hear about how Klebold was a victim of bullying, spare me.
Let's have an honest discussion about what made this kid click, starting with the parents, his upbringing and the diet of violence and meds he consumed. If you ask me, this kid didn't get bullied enough.
Thanks, I think I will read it soon.
If you don’t spend time with someone, you don’t know them.
Working moms do not spend time with their kids.
EXCELLENT OBSERVATIONS, imho.
I think I’d list the following with such fatherless kids . . . particularly boys . . .
—lack of limits—as you noted
—entitlement—as you noted
—less or lack of a sense of a need to earn what one gets—as you noted.
and
—worthlessness overlayed with bravado, bullying, arrogance, prickliness, striking out, anger, rage,
—striving vainly in self-destructive ways cycling with giving up and striking out aggressively for spite and revenge and even sheer frustration and exasperation at feeling so worthless and hopeless . . .
—depression, bitterness, vengeance, retaliation,
—learned helplessness, hopelessness.
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I think your observation about brother siblings is apt, too. Good points. Thanks.
INDEED,
THE PTB HAVE CERTAINLY STACKED THE DECK
WITH A HELL’S WITCHES BREW OF MIND BENDING, MASS MIND CONTROL TECHNIQUES AND PROPAGANDA
DESIGNED
TO MAXIMIZE VIOLENCE AND HOPELESSNESS.
All MOSTLY targeted on the populations, races, etc. that the elites most want removed from the planet.
Hideous.
BTW, were you conservative in grad school?
I was. The token Christian and token conservative. LOL.
VERY WELL PUT.
She did, clearly, comprise one half of the failure team that produced the son. There is no getting around that. There are lessons to be learned from that.
Nevertheless, a lot of folks throwing rocks would not have done as well as she did.
Critical spirit fleshly judmentalism is a trap.
Scott Fusilier, who helped produce a 1997 video His father, Dwayne, was the head of the FBI investigation into Columbine. Was created by the son of the lead FBI investigator.
shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach
that's similar to the April 20 assault on
Columbine High School is the son
of the FBI's lead agent in the investigation.
SSRI & Columbine SSRI and mass murder
shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach
the term
“trenchcoat mafia?”
I wonder what the son or father know about
. . . complicity . . . of the Bureau in various . . . globalist terrorist etc. treason.
INDEED.
Thx.
I started to ask . . . why am I the only FREEPER sticking my neck out so far warning folks of such things except for occasional stuff by brave souls like you . . .
then it occurred to me . . .
I do it . . . others can ride along silently thankful someone is doing it??? LOL.
The Fall of Babylon.shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiachNAsbU Revelation 18:23 and the light of a lamp will not shineSorcery <5331> farmakei,a pharmakeia
in you any longer; and the voice of the bridegroom and bride
will not be heard in you any longer; for your merchants were
the great men of the earth, because all the nations were
deceived by your sorcery.
Meaning: the use of medicine, drugs or spells
Origin: from farmakeu,w pharmakeuo (to administer drugs)
Usage: sorceries(1), sorcery(2).
Yup.
Many scoffed when some Believers shared such knowledge in the 1970’s.
Some Duduman links:
some were asking for:
DIMITRU DUDUMAN LINKS:
MAIN WEBSITE BY HIS GRANDSON:
http://www.handofhelp.com/index.php
DIMITRU’S DAUGHTER’S VISION:
http://www.choicesforliving.com/spirit/prophesy/prophesy/!SSL!/FlashHelp/march_23,_2000.htm
STEVE QUAYLE SITE:
http://www.stevequayle.com/News.alert/Prophetic/Prophetic.index.html
PDF:
http://www.markswatson.com/duduman.pdf
HEAVEN WAITS . . .
. . . WILL BURN, INCLUDES VIDEO:
http://heavenawaits.wordpress.com/dimitru-duduman-%E2%80%93-%E2%80%9Camerica-will-burn%E2%80%9D/
Amen Brother
shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach
LOL.
THANKS.
Just so they are PRAYING FOR ME! LOL.
LUB
I wonder what the son or father know about
. . . complicity . . . of the Bureau in various . . . globalist terrorist etc. treason.
something about ducks walking ; you can always tell it is a duck. FBI agent downplays son's film
shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach
I figured
they’d have one of their uhhhh
agents
in charge of such an investigation.
They are so slick . . . except when they’re not.
Look at link below and find(Scott_Fusilier)shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach
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