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Dylan Klebold's mom speaks in "O" magazine; "No inkling" of plans for Columbine massacre
Denver ComPost ^ | 10/10/2009

Posted on 10/10/2009 4:18:47 PM PDT by real saxophonist

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To: Guenevere

The woman was in shock. When you are in that kind of deep shock you just go through the motions. I went to the polls and voted for Reagan before going to my 18 year old son’s funeral. Did it mean that I cared more for Reagan or for politics than I did my son? No, I was just in shock and it was election day.


121 posted on 10/10/2009 7:03:32 PM PDT by Ditter
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To: Double Tap

Still boggles my mind how anyone even pretending to be in their right minds . . .

would even obliquely defend being NON EMOTIONALLY BONDED WITH THEIR KIDS!

Amazing. I guess if they haven’t been able to pull it off, the best they can do is justify their lack of skills and lack of bothering.


122 posted on 10/10/2009 7:03:34 PM PDT by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: Eaker

Naw.

I just think and type fast.


123 posted on 10/10/2009 7:04:26 PM PDT by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: Ditter

INDEED.

AND, often enough, going thru the motions can help one manage and eventually deal overcomingly with the traumas.


124 posted on 10/10/2009 7:05:51 PM PDT by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: real saxophonist
I urge freepers to read the book Columbine that came out a few months ago. I think you will be sympathetic towards Dylan Klebold’s parents. They are horrified by the suffering their son inflicted on so many people and sent long, personal letters saying so to the families of the victims. Regarding the hair appointment story, as I recall reading about it in the book, Susan Klebold either had an appointment and didn't show or showed up in a state of dazed shock because she couldn't stay at her house and didn't know where to go.

I am usually very tough on parents of thugs and sadists, but I think there were actual satanic forces involved in the Columbine murders. Again, I urge everyone to read the book — it is superbly written — before judging the Klebolds. (Incidentally, Eric Harris’s parents were much less willing to work with the police than the Klebolds were.)

125 posted on 10/10/2009 7:06:42 PM PDT by utahagen
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To: Quix

Neither clearly or well.

So go chase a UFO boy yer botherin’ me.


126 posted on 10/10/2009 7:07:26 PM PDT by Eaker (Kaiden sez, "If you have a problem and If explosives are an option then explosives are THE answer.")
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To: Ranger Drew
I agree. As I just posted, I think there were satanic influences involved. (No, I'm not defending Klebod and Harris.)
127 posted on 10/10/2009 7:07:46 PM PDT by utahagen
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To: utahagen

I agree about the satanic.

However, those boys had some level of ATTACHMENT DISORDER.

NO DOUBT.

And whatever the parents did right, that they did very wrong.


128 posted on 10/10/2009 7:09:40 PM PDT by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: Eaker

y’all’s emotionality has been fascinating to play with.

I wonder what all’s behind it.

It’s clearly not healthiness.


129 posted on 10/10/2009 7:12:18 PM PDT by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: utahagen

Satan has little attraction for kids who feel loved by parents . . . and therefrom feel loved by God.


130 posted on 10/10/2009 7:27:55 PM PDT by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: Pan_Yans Wife

I think it has many ramifications, for example, the less needed husbands feel the more likely they will leave the family.


131 posted on 10/10/2009 7:31:25 PM PDT by donna (Yasser Arafat won a Peace Prize - of course Obama gets one too.)
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To: Dumpster Baby
WTF is wrong with their parents?

They aren't home.

There is such a difference between stay-at-home parents and SOME working out of the home parents. Their kids are scheduled but the parents are not in the kids' lives. On weekends and holidays, they are at a loss for what to DO with their kids. In stay-at-home and especially homeschooling families, we just operate as a group all the time and don't get desperate when the kids are around. These are our loved ones and we are a part of each other's lives. It's second nature. Hard to describe.

132 posted on 10/10/2009 7:35:02 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Morgana

If G-d Forbid one of my sons died of ANY cause I would not give a flying HOOT for my hair.

If that son had killed many children AND himself, I would give LESS of a flying HOOT for my hair than if he had died of another cause. Funeral or no funeral. That is just sick.


133 posted on 10/10/2009 7:37:49 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Yaelle

INDEED.

And all the rationalizing and pontificating in the world will NOT make-up for FAMILY CLOSENESS, UNITY, BONDEDNESS, LOVE.

And, I think that folks who’ve never had it—too many—have no clue what it’s about; what it costs and what it’s worth.

I’m a scrappy enough bloke but it’s always interesting on these threads how much I can count on being attacked for saying that parents aren’t doing their job when the kids are not ATTACHED, EMOTIONALLY BONDED the first 8 years.


134 posted on 10/10/2009 7:43:10 PM PDT by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: Yaelle

Yes and no.

For some folks, probably those living more shallow lives . . . they know nothing else. Going through the motions is all they’ve done. No one ever taught them any better. Likely their parents didn’t know any better. And they never paused long enough to say—tweet everyone out of the pool. This isn’t working and I’m not going on until I find something that convincingly works a LOT better.

They just keep going through the motions.


135 posted on 10/10/2009 7:45:01 PM PDT by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: Ann Archy

don’t read that mag rag and wouldn’t read the interview either.


136 posted on 10/10/2009 7:47:43 PM PDT by cubreporter (.)
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To: Ann Archy

don’t read that mag or any others like it and wouldn’t read the interview either.


137 posted on 10/10/2009 7:48:12 PM PDT by cubreporter (.)
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To: Yaelle

In truth, you have no idea what you would do or how you would behave until it happens to you. You think you know but you can’t know until that day.


138 posted on 10/10/2009 7:48:39 PM PDT by Ditter
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To: Quix
Read the book. In diaries and videos, Dylan Klebold made it clear that he loved his parents and that he knew they loved him. I don't get your determination to feel no sympathy for a woman you've obviously read little about.
139 posted on 10/10/2009 7:55:14 PM PDT by utahagen
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To: real saxophonist

There are thousands, probably hundreds of thousands of moms in the US like this. She is trying to cope. She will be tormented for the rest of her days. Sad beyond words.


140 posted on 10/10/2009 7:58:03 PM PDT by Lando Lincoln
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