The Columbine High School Massacre: ^[1] Occurred on Tuesday, 20th April 20 1999, at Columbine High School in Columbine, an unincorporated area of Jefferson County, Colorado, United States, near Denver and Littleton. Two senior students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, embarked on a massacre, killing 12 students and one teacher. They also injured 21 other students directly, and three people were injured while attempting to escape. The pair then committed suicide.

     Both Harris and Klebold were classified as gifted children and had been ‘hazed – bullied’ for years.  Early stories following the shootings charged that school administrators and teachers at Columbine had long condoned a climate of hazing/bullying by the so-called jocks or athletes, allowing an atmosphere of outright intimidation and resentment to fester which, they claimed, could have helped trigger the perpetrator’s extreme violence. ^[2]

     A year later, an analysis by officials at the U.S. Secret Service of ‘37 premeditated school shootings’ found that hazing/bullying, which some of the shooters described; “In terms that approached torment,” played the major role in more than two-thirds of the attacks.  A similar theory was expounded by Brooks Brown in his book on the massacre, noting that teachers commonly looked the other way when confronted with hazing/bullying. ^[1]                                                  

     The Virginia Tech Massacre: occurred on the Monday of the 16th April 2007 at the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, Virginia.  Fraternities have been an integral part of student life at Virginia Tech [VT] since 1873.  In two separate attacks, approximately two hours apart, the perpetrator, Seung-Hui Cho, killed 32 people and wounded many others before committing suicide. 

     It’s been alleged Cho was ‘bullied’ for speech difficulties in middle school.  High school officials worked with his parents and mental health counsellors to support Cho throughout his sophomore and junior years, though Cho eventually chose to discontinue therapy.  When he applied and was admitted to Virginia Tech, school officials did not report his speech and anxiety-related problems or special education status because of federal privacy laws that prohibit such disclosure unless a student requests special accommodation.

     In the ensuing investigation, police found a suicide note in Cho’s dorm room that included comments about ‘rich kids, debauchery, and deceitful charlatans’.  On the 18th April 2007, NBC News received a package from Cho with a time-stamp between the first and second shooting episodes.  It contained an 1800 word manifesto, photos, and 27 digitally recorded videos, in which he expressed his hatred of the wealthy. 

     He stated, among other things: “You forced me into a corner and gave me only one option...You just loved to crucify me. You loved inducing cancer in my head, terror in my heart and ripping my soul all this time.” - ^[3] Yet what no one seems to have mentioned is that hazing/bullying and racism still purveys in many of these kinds of rich-kid fraternities in general, and one of the reasons the first African American Fraternity Alpha Phi Alpha [Alpha Black Greek letter organisations, aka BGLOs], was first set up in the first place.

     Northern Illinois University Massacre: occurred on Valentine’s Day the 14th February 2008 at the Northern Illinois University, where 27 year old Steven Kazmierczak called ‘Strange Steve’ by his roommates killed five people and left 18 other students wounded.  It’s been alleged the army discharged him for hiding his psychiatric history and expressed admiration for famous murderers.  According to documents from a year-long investigation into his killings, he studied the massacres of Virginia Tech and Columbine killings and idolised the sadistic killer in the Saw horror films.

     A police file on the shootings, shows Kazmierczak had been hospitalised several times as a teenager for psychiatric issues and had a history of suicide attempts, and Kazmierczak ended up shooting and killed himself at the end of his gun rampage. ^[4]

     As far back as childhood, Kazmierczak’s mother wrote in a family book that her son was overly sensitive and bullied: “Sometimes I wish he would be a little tougher, and bop the daylights out of people that pick on him. ... One day he will”, she wrote ^[4].

     It’s quite clear to see Kazmierczak was mentally ill, and here’s the problem, you never know whose really who, no one knows what someone else might have previously gone through before going onto university. 

      It’s quite possible Kazmierczak was being bullied, ‘hazed’ at Illinois University where it hosts 30 Greek fraternities, in which only 10% of the campuses students ever belong to.  Did Kazmierczak finally lose the plot, and decided to seek revenge on those who might have tormented him?

     The isn’t exactly the same kind of thing as the other examples, - but nevertheless it’s still a campus fraternity linked killing, when on the 5th February 2011, two men left an Ohio Omega Psi Phi fraternity house party and returned early Sunday morning 6th February 2011, with guns and sprayed bullets into a crowd.  One Youngstown State University student was killed and eleven other people were injured, including a 17-year-old in critical condition with a head wound. ^[5]

 Extract from Trapped in a Masonic World - http://www.trappedinamasonicworld.co.uk

[1] "Columbine High School Massacre http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbine_High_School_massacre .

[2] "High School:1955 vs. 2010, page 9." http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread543326/pg9 .

[3] "Excerpts From Video Virginia Killer Sent http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Sky-News-Archive/Article/200806412... .

[4] "CNN exclusive: Secret files reveal NIU killer's past http://articles.cnn.com/2009-02-13/justice/niu.shooting.investigati... .

[5] "School shooting Questions, Answers, News, Images and Info ..." http://www.chacha.com/topic/school-shooting .