Columbine killer’s mom: ‘No inkling’ on son

"When I first saw ... these writings,

they broke my heart.

I'd had no inkling of the battle

Dylan was waging in his mind."

---Susan Klebold

This from MSNBC:

Mother’s anguish emerges

in Oprah magazine essay on teen's suicide

In the first detailed public remarks by any parent of the two Columbine killers, Dylan Klebold's mother says she had no idea her son was suicidal until she read his journals after the 1999 high school massacre.

Susan Klebold's essay in next month's issue of O, The Oprah Magazine, says she is still struggling to make sense of what happened when her son and Eric Harris killed 12 students and a teacher in the shooting rampage at Columbine High School in suburban Denver. Twenty-one people were injured before Klebold and Harris killed themselves.

"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." ...

Blog post praising Columbine killers leads to arrest of teacher

Legal experts say anonymous post on political site

is likely protected under free speech laws

December 05, 2007 (Computerworld) -- A Wisconsin high school teacher was arrested last week after a blog post that included support for student killers like those involved in the 1999 Columbine, Colo., High School massacre.

James Buss was arrested Nov. 29 and charged with disorderly conduct and unlawful use of computerized communications systems, according to a spokeswoman from the West Bend, Wis., police department. Buss, a teacher from a high school in Milwaukee, admitted to making an anonymous blog post on the political blog Boots and Sabers on Nov. 16, the spokeswoman said.

In the post, Buss said teacher salaries in West Bend "made me sick; $60,000 for a part-time job where you 'work' maybe five hours per day and sit in the teachers' lounge and smoke the rest of the time. But whining here doesn't stop the problem. We've got to get in back of the kids who have had enough of lazy, no-good teachers and are fighting back. Kids like Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. They knew how to deal with the overpaid teacher union thugs. One shot at a time! Too bad the liberals rip them; they were heroes and should be remembered that way." ...

This from ComputerWorld.