From: cdhart@laurie.net (Carolyn Hart)
Subject: SNET: [piml] [Fwd: Help yourself and JPFO]
Date: 8 May 1999 07:34:54 -0400
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jpfo@dbeatty.worldweb.net wrote:
>
> Multi-Billion Dollar Training Program Taught
> Colorado High School Killers
>
> What gives two boys the ideas to dress up in trench coats and masks, load up
> with guns and bombs, and charge into a school? Who teaches them to kill one
> teenager after another in cold blood?
>
> Maybe they learned their tactics from the just-released movie entitled "The
> Matrix." A surrealistic scene begins with two characters choosing a dozen guns
> each with seemingly endless ammunition, and grabbing a few grenades. They
> stash the weaponry into long black trench coats. Then they charge straight into a
> stronghold of the "enemy." What seems like thousands of spent shells cascade
> dreamily in all directions, bodies blasted and walls demolished, with a soundtrack
> of hard rock bass and guitar. The Littleton killers enacted this scene in a parallel
> universe lacking only the soundtrack.
>
> Another tactics lesson came from Bruce Willis' "Die Hard." Viewers of that
> film learned how revenge-seeking killers can take over a whole office building,
> shoot anybody for any reason, and look "cool" the whole time. Cold-hearted
> murder with an ulterior motive took center-stage in "Air Force One." "Hard Target"
> showed how some people get their kicks from tracking and killing other human
> beings. Hundreds of people (and sentient creatures) die in the "Star Wars" trilogy,
> at the hands of either dedicated warlords or wisecracking rebels. The 1995 film
> "Basketball Diaries" depicted a schoolboy shooting classmates for revenge.
>
> For decades, mobster films portrayed murder as a matter of "honor," or just
> the cost of doing business. In the last twenty years, countless "troubled teen"
> movies have depicted hard core violence in schools and on the streets. The popular
> "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" weekly demonstrates just exactly how beautiful girls
> should stab other teenagers.
>
> Thousands of millions of dollars have been invested by Hollywood to teach
> teens how to attack buildings, hold hostages, and kill defenseless people. With so
> much financial support and virtually 24-hour broadcasting, the training program
> was bound to succeed with at least two teens in America. The Littleton killers
> acted out an "Oscar"-winning performance of "The Matrix" in living color.
>
> Predictably the "gun control" lobbyists will scream for more laws to restrict
> firearms ownership, possession, and use. The "law and order" types will demand
> more warrantless school locker searches. Both groups will worry about what kids
> keep in their lockers and tool sheds, but not what is in their minds.
>
> Gun owner organizations daily teach safe and sane firearms practices. A few
> synagogues and churches weekly teach the Sixth Commandment (forbidding
> murder). Meanwhile the film and TV industry displays more killings than all the
> murderers ever commit. That industry indoctrinates more people about invasion,
> hijacking, kidnaping, torture and homicide than all the houses of worship
> combined can possibly counteract.
>
> Two depraved, Hitler-worshiping Goth-gangsters in Littleton killed fellow
> teens in a suicide mission patterned after dozens of movies and TV programs. The
> gun prohibitionists will try to slap new laws on the 100 million law abiding,
> peaceful firearms owners who don't act out mortal combat TV fantasies.
> Thoughtful citizens must resist this illogical "gun control" response.
>
> News media personalities won't do it. Gun prohibitionists won't do it.
> Ordinary Americans will have to ask the fabulously wealthy movie producers,
> directors and actors this question: Why have you worked so hard to make murder
> and mayhem so popular?
>
>
> ==> To learn more about how Israelis prevent school yard attacks, read the
> interview with an international criminology expert at:
> http://www.jpfo.org/school.htm
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