 Comments are closed  Uncategorized  1995, Alfred P. Murrah, April 19, Ben Partin, bombing, Charles Key, conspiracy, cover-up, coverup, demolition, Denver Post, documentary, Edie Smith, explosives expert, false flag, FBI, Federal Grand Jury Handbook, film, Glen Wilburn, government informant, Governor Frank Keating, grand juror, grand jury, gun show, Hoppy Heidelberg, horse farmer, inside job, interview, intimidation, J. D. Cash, John Doe Number Two, Josh Nichols, Kathy Wilburn, London Telegraph, Magna Carta, media consolidation, media corruption, Michael Fortier, New World Order, New York Times, NWO, Richard Cook, Ryder truck, surveillance footage, terrorism, terrorist, Terry Nichols, Time Magazine, Timothy McVeigh, Turner Diaries, United States Constitution, video, white supremacist Comments are closed Uncategorized 7/7, Al-Qaeda, Anne Maguire, antiterrorism budget, backpack, Big Brother, biometric identification, Birmingham Six, bombing, bus, carry-on luggage, CCTV, CIA, conspiracy, cover-up, coverup, Daniel McNamee, Danny McNamee, David Kelly suicide, dirty bomb, evidence tampering, exercise, explosion, false flag, fire, forced confession, free speech, government, government funding, Guildford Four, HBO, Heathrow Airport, independent investigation, internal review commission, invasion of privacy, Islamic extremist, Judith Ward, Leeds, liquid bomb plot, London, Lord Faulkner, Maguire Seven, mass media, Maya Evans, metro, MI5, military, National ID Card, New World Order, NWO, oppressive legislation, patsy, Peter Powers, plot, police, police state, psyop, rucksack, subway, surveillance camera footage, Tavistock Square, terror drill, terrorism, terrorist, Tony Blair, train, tube, tunnel, war crimes, whitewash, withheld information, witness, WMD, Zionism, Zionist Comments are closed Uncategorized 2007, Afghanistan, Barack Obama, campaign promise, conspiracy, Democrat, Iran, Iraq, liar, lies, Meet the Press, New World Order, nuclear bomb program, NWO, politician, Republican, trust, video, war, War on Terror Comments are closed Uncategorized agribusiness, Calgene, canola, corn, corporation, crop, danger, Deborah Koons Garcia, documentary, FDA, film, Flavr Savr, food, Food and Drug Administration, frankenfood, garden, genetic engineering, genetically modified organism, GMO, health, Jerry Garcia, Monsanto, New World Order, nutrition, NWO, organic, papaya, Percy Sledge, pesticide, science, seed, soybeans, squash, tomato, United States, video Rolf Zaeschmar is a longtime Columbine shooting researcher who’s been on the case for over ten years. His many writings on the internet, often posted under the handle, “Starviego”, have introduced whole new audiences to a relatively unpublicized side of the attack, one which has been derived from the government documents related to it. In addition to working with the Columbine evidence, Rolf has also made connections between the profiles of other “random rage” spree killings such as Red Lake, Virginia Tech and Northern Illinois University. His work deserves the attention of anyone interested in any aspect of the mass shooting phenomenon which plagues society today. Rolf was good enough to talk to me and give his thoughts on the Columbine shootings and related events. By way of introduction, Rolf first began researching the case shortly after the shooting took place because he was skeptical of the official story. He later joined with other researchers on the internet, where he became a key contributor to efforts to expose the discrepancies between the official version and the facts as he and others had uncovered them. Rolf’s early research suggested that an underrepresented portion of those connected with the incident were disapproving of the official version. For instance, a Columbine parent named Christian Laplante was quoted by Extra Daily News as saying, “We can’t be so stupid as to think two teenagers did this. Two adults couldn’t have done this.” About thirteen months after the attack, the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office released a comprehensive presentation concerning the conclusions of their “investigation” into it. Titled Sheriff’s Office Final Report on the Columbine High School Shootings, the Sheriff’s Official Line maintained that not only had Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, two Columbine seniors who had been found dead at the scene, been the only attackers on 4/20, but that none of their friends or associates had any foreknowledge of the plan. Soon afterward, the government began to publish their once-secret internal documents which had been generated during the various phases of the “investigation”. 11,000 Pages of Investigative Files, also known as the 11K, was released in November 2001 and gave a disturbing new window into the shootings which was a major break in the case for researchers like Rolf. The revelations spurred by the release of the 11K as compiled in Rolf’s postings led to renewed interest in the case around the internet and Jefferson County came under further pressure to release the remainder of its files. In 2003, a major boost was given when the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office, which had also responded to the shooting, released a report titled Reinvestigation Into the Death of Daniel Rohrbough at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999. These files expanded upon what had been presented in the 11K. According to what was now in the public domain, several witnesses to the shootings had named Columbine High School’s Trench Coat Mafia leader Chris Morris as a shooter and approximately two dozen described or named TCM member Robert Perry as the same. Still more described or named then-CHS junior and TCM member Brian Sargent as a shooter and at least one put TCM member Joe Stair on the scene that day, signficant not only due to his past threats to blow up the school but because he had graduated the year prior. In addition to these facts, several earwitnesses also told of a gunman shouting, “Joe, where are you? I’ve got three of them in here,” during the course of the siege. Many of the witnesses who ID’ed these individuals revealed that they knew precisely who it was doing the shooting because they knew them personally or from having seen them around school. The other named suspects were rounded up within hours of the attack but despite relatively weak alibis, they were let go just as quickly. The reported involvement of these others was officially addressed and dismissed in a Final Report file called “Trench Coat Mafia and Associates”. With the other suspects out of the way, the official focus would remain on the now very silent Harris and Klebold. However, if other attackers were involved as the many corroborating witnesses alleged, Eric and Dylan may not have been the only ones who committed serious crimes at Columbine. According to the Sheriff’s timeline, the shootings officially began outside the school on the west stairs next to the cafeteria. This scene was witnessed by many students who stated that it was not specifically not Harris or Klebold doing the shooting, that it was specifically other individuals whom they recognized or that it was three or more individuals. Officially, after shooting outside, Klebold made a brief, unexplained foray into the cafeteria, where he did not shoot, then rejoined Harris outside. Officially, the two then entered the school through the west main doors. However, at this time, when the cafeteria surveillance cameras are conveniently missing eight minutes of footage, many witnesses reported shooters attacking the cafeteria and other, more remote parts of the citylike campus. Although only four firearms, two shotguns and two semiautomatics, were allegedly used in the attack, many witnesses described the sound of automatic gunfire as having been heard outside and throughout the school. Also, witnesses to the alleged sale of Klebold’s TEC-9 pistol, which netted the only two prosecutions directly related to this case, those of Phil Duran and Mark Manes, described the buyer as having had acne. At no time during the 1998 to 1999 school year did Dylan Klebold have acne (January 1999 – 17 April 1999), but it was reportedly a distinctive feature of accused Columbine attacker Robert Perry. Many other points about the official version are suspicious according to evidence found in the documents. One is that some of the deaths may not have happened the way that they were officially described. Another point about the tragedy which almost everyone has bemoaned was the incredibly slow police response. Whereas most school shootings are stopped within minutes, the Columbine attack officially lasted for close to an hour despite hundreds of officers from over thirty agencies being present. Although there were reports of officers attempting to enter prior to 12:00, the first organized police entry did not come until the time when Harris and Klebold officially committed suicide. It was begun on the side of the school opposite where shots were last heard and shots continued to be heard throughout the afternoon. The explosions and gunfire which could be heard coming from within the school until up to 4 that afternoon were officially explained away as six to eight shots fired by police to open locked doors. Having armed suspects alive in a school full of innocents for three to four hours while so many officials stood outside to “secure the perimeter” could look very bad for the authorities. According to several corroborating witnesses, at least one unidentified adult was also an attacker at Columbine. His role in coordinating the attack and making sure it went to plan is unknown but for their part, the Columbine Trench Coat Mafia had been well-known to school authorities as a troublesome group for years prior to the attack. Afterward, however, almost everyone on the faculty played this down as much as possible. The phenomenon of social outsiders wearing black trench coats as a symbol of separation emerged some time in the early ’90′s. It has typically been accompanied by an interest in hateful music, drug abuse and a dabbling in the occult. Many “Columbine client” murderers have worn trench coats during their attacks. Columbine is a very high-profile mass shooting with a lot of suspicious characteristics but it isn’t the only one cast from such a mold. The Dunblane, Port Arthur and Gladio attacks, for instance, also seem to have much more to their stories than we were initially told by the governments charged with “investigating” them. One particular string of events occurred right around the time of the Columbine attack. Numerous bomb threats and plans for school shootings in Colorado and around the nation came to light just as Columbine was hitting the news. For instance, a message was left on the nearby Stein Elementary School answering system in Lakewood which stated, “Yes, I’m one of the trench coat robbers [...] and if you don’t give up ten million dollars, we’re going to kill everybody in the school.” Curiously, according to the police files from which this anecdote arises the message was left not on April 20th but the day before, April 19th. There are many very important facts about Columbine which have been deeply suppressed by the government and the media, which have access to all of the information Rolf and his colleagues have and more. Instead of honestly investigating the shooting, the government swept all the loose ends under the rug and busied itself with forcefully advancing a reactionary agenda. Meanwhile, the media contented itself with brutalizing audiences further via tasteless coverage of the attack which regularly included phrases such as “a grisly tableau of young bodies”, and “a bloodied young man dangled” and “a bullet slammed into her skull”. Many repressive suggestions for change acquired support as a result of the horror caused by the Columbine attack, from the banning of the private ownership of firearms to filling the schools with police officers operating under “Zero Tolerance” principles to forcing psychiatric behavior modification onto young children. The political fallout from attacks like Columbine seems to follow a definite pattern not just in America but internationally. If the State is involved in coverups as high-profile as the Columbine attack, it cannot jeopardize its credibility with a full confession. As such, reinvestigations typically only provide a few quality pieces of information and a lot of limited hangouts. Instead, a more widespread grassroots discussion of the suppressed evidence in crimes like Columbine may help to bring a resolution. If there had been no patsies, Columbine would have been much more difficult to disguise as a teen-generated incident. Young people should take note that there are more pitfalls and traps strewn around the social landscape today than ever before and the stakes concerning what can go wrong have never been higher. By caring for for each other and ourselves, we may be less vulnerable to exploitation by a conspiracy seeking to cause our downfall. Thanks to the hard work of Rolf and his colleagues, the Echoes of Columbine message board is full of quality research about the Columbine attack. The following posts by Rolf concern Columbine attack suspects Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold.
The following posts by Rolf concern the other Columbine attack suspects as well as possible causative forces in the attack.
The following posts by Rolf concern the weapons reportedly used in the attack. The following posts by Rolf concern deaths related to the attack.
The following posts by Rolf concern the relationship of law enforcement to the attack.
The following posts by Rolf are organized around particular releases of government documents related to the Columbine attack.
The following posts by Rolf concern other mass shootings and similar attacks.
[END] Permalink: Unraveling the Sheriff’s Official Line: Columbine Researcher Rolf Zaeschmar on School Shootings and More Comments are closed Uncategorized antidepressant, ATF, Brian Sargent, Chris Morris, Columbine High School, Columbine shooting, conspiracy, cover-up, coverup, Dylan Klebold, Eric Harris, false flag, FBI, hypnosis, Jefferson County Sheriff's Office, Joe Stair, Joseph Stair, mind control, MKULTRA, New World Order, NWO, patsy, psyop, Robert Perry, SWAT, terrorism Comments are closed Uncategorized Abraham Lincoln, Alan Greenspan, Andrew Jackson, assassination, Bailout, banker, Bear Sterns, cash, Central Bank, Civil War, currency, debt, England, Federal Reserve Bank, Germany, globalization, gold, Goldman Sachs, Great Depression, greenback, IMF, international banker, International Monetary Fund, J. P. Morgan, loan, Milon Friedman, Monetary Reform Act, Napoleonic Wars, New World Order, NWO, Red Shield, Rockefeller, Rothschild, silver, tally stick, third world, Treasury, United States, World Bank, WTO, Zionism, Zionist Comments are closed Uncategorized Air Force, alcoholic, Army, assassin, ATF, CIA, communism, conspiracy, cover-up, coverup, expose, Free Mason, Freemason, George Griggs, homosexual, intelligence, interview, Israel, Kay Griggs, mafia, Marine Corps, Marines, military, mind control, NATO, Navy, New World Order, NWO, prostitute, Randy Weaver, rape, Rick Strawcutter, ritual, Ruby Ridge, SEALs, socialism, stripper, The Joint, United States, video, Vietnam war, Waco, Zionism, Zionist  In October 2007, I released a video called “The Columbine Cause”, which discusses many reported features of the 1999 Columbine High School attack which were never fully discussed in major media. Some of these features include reports of additional dead, additional shots fired, and above all, additional attackers other than the two found in the library, the alleged suicides and Columbine High School seniors, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. While doing research for the presentation, I came across an internet site called Judicial-Inc.biz. The site features discussions of many acts of terrorism including the attack on Columbine. The site is popular and well-known; a web search on the word, “Columbine”, for example, will usually bring up Judicial’s main page on the attack within the top ten to twenty results. Judicial has published information concerning the many well-grounded reports which conflict with the official story of the attack, many of which are substantiated by information found in the police and FBI’s own records. However, their presentation is riddled with either incredibly sloppy fact-checking or a conscious attempt to distort the facts in favor of pointing a finger toward the Jewish in a false way. In light of this realization, I contacted an individual called “The_Skunk”, who runs the site, and shared with him some of my concerns, and him asked for some sources on what I knew to be fraudulent portrayals of Columbine information. “The_Skunk” responded that my questions might be, quote, “right on” and suggested that I publish a web site to counter his. Below are some of Judicial’s main claims about the Columbine attack, followed by my commentary. Assertion One: Eric Harris was Jewish. Judicial’s source for this statement is a Salon article by Jill Wolfson called “Hurting Young Men Put Pen to Rage” which contains the quote, “My mother is Jewish! [...] Dreydl power!” However, a careful read of the article, or even a not-so-careful read of the article, reveals that, although she was writing about him, Wolfson was not quoting Eric Harris but rather, an unnamed boy in one of her writing classes. If Harris was Jewish, Judicial’s source doesn’t show it. Assertion Two: Harris’ diaries contained a plan to escape to Israel after the attack, which would be helpful to him because Israel considers all Jews automatic citizens and will not extradite them to foreign nations to stand trial for crimes committed in those nations. For the reason stated in the response to assertion one above, this policy of Israel’s would probably not have been helpful to Eric Harris. Nevertheless, in 2006, a nearly one thousand page file of diaries and other writings attributed to Harris, Dylan Klebold and others was released by law enforcement authorities (part one | part two). However, the only escape fantasy it seems to contain is a piece attributed to Harris which described escaping after a violent attack to, “some island somewhere or maybe mexico (sic), new zelend (sic) or some exotic place where americans (sic) can’t get us”. This is found on pages JC-001-026343 to JC-001-026344. If anyone can find a page number for the Israel entry, please share it. Assertion Three: CHS class of 1998 Joe Stair claimed that the Trench Coat Mafia group was founded to protect a “gay Jewish kid”. Judicial provides a link to another Salon article by Dave Cullen called “Inside the Columbine High Investigation” which contains the sentence, “The rumors seem to have originated two years ago, with a single member of the Trench Coat Mafia who may have been gay or bisexual.” As you will notice, the member is not named. Assertion Four: The three boys arrested in a field during the attack, the so-called “Splatterpunks”, were named “Siegel, Cohen and Smith”. All of the police files and media coverage, including an appearance on Sally Jesse Raphael’s talk show, indicates that these individuals’ names were Matt Akard, Jim Brunetti and Matt Nalty, except some media reports which had “Christianson” as Nalty’s last name. Judicial gives no reason as to why it falsely gave these individuals Jewish names. Assertion Five: An older-looking male named Nathan Klein was publicly arrested for having some connection or alleged connection to the attack. The name, “Nathan Klein”, appears nowhere in the police documents related to the attack, nor in any media articles about it. While several witnesses who took cover in the science rooms during the attack reportedly told police that they saw an older individual who appeared to be balding and in his thirties holding a sawed-off shotgun in the halls of Columbine, the individual in Judicial’s picture does not match his description, nor a witness’s sketch of the gunman. Judicial does not give any further explanation but Columbine shooting researcher Rolf Zaeschmar informs me that the image is of Larry Scott Petty, an armed individual who was arrested on-scene that day. Assertion Six: Some police connected with the “investigation” of the attack believed that the Jewish Defense League, or JDL, was involved in constructing some of the bombs used against the school. While some reports surfaced that some law enforcement agents at the scene remarked that some of the bombs used in the attack appeared to have been too sophisticated for two teenagers to have built themselves, I was unable to find any articles mentioning the JDL specifically. Judicial provides no source for the statement. Judicial-Inc’s authors are mixing important information about major cover-ups with a high percentage of misinformation. I strongly suggest that anyone using Judicial-Inc as a reference seek outside verification of its statements. As you can see, the research quality on their well-read Columbine pages is laughably poor to outright farcical. It is high time that the silence surrounding the Columbine cover-up is broken in a widespread manner but Judicial-Inc is not helping in this regard. [END] Permalink: Judicial-Inc’s Columbine Shooting Pages Comments are closed Uncategorized ADL, Brian Sargent, Chris Morris, Columbine High School, Columbine shooting, conspiracy, cover-up, coverup, crime, Dave Cullen, deception, dreydl, Dylan Klebold, Eric Harris, false flag, Israel, JDL, Jewish, Jill Wolfson, Jim Brunetti, Joe Stair, Joseph Stair, Judicial-Inc, killers, Larry Scott Petty, massacre, Matt Akard, Matt Christianson, Matt Nalty, media, Mossad, Nathan Klein, New World Order, New Zealand, NWO, patsy, psyop, Robert Perry, Rolf Zaeschmar, Sally Jesse Raphael, Salon, sayanim, shooting, Splatterpunks, Starviego, terrorism, The_Skunk, Trench Coat Mafia, Trenchcoat Mafia, Zionism, Zionist In 1996, an Australian historical attraction called Port Arthur, located on the southeastern coast of Tasmania, was rocked by killings. More than just a mass shooting which claimed the lives of thirty-five and shattered many more, the Port Arthur massacre was a political event which was leveraged by the anti-gun lobby into a complete and total Australia-wide ban on private firearm ownership. Since violent crime in Australia has increased in the years since the ban went into effect, just as it has in the UK following similar legislation which was put into effect around the same time, this matter is of concern to all Australians. Likewise, as arguments continue to rage concerning the possibility of a prohibition on private gun ownership in the United States and other nations where men and women are currently legally able to defend themselves with guns, this matter is of concern to non-Australians as well. What’s perhaps more disturbing than the rise in crime, however, are allegations made by a team of investigators and attack survivors headed by retired Tasmanian police officer Andrew MacGregor in a 2008 video called “A Question of Guilt: The Massacre at Port Arthur.” Over the presentation’s 61 minute run time, the group makes a case that the true guilt for the massacre lies with parties not yet identified and that the feeble-minded Martin Bryant — one psychiatrist’s estimate put Bryant’s IQ at 66 — who pled guilty under questionable circumstances of having planning and executed the plot single-handedly, was probably a mere patsy in the grander scheme of events surrounding this crime. The video opens with a quote from former Australian Prime Minister John Howard, who lamented the loss of life in the massacre but praised the governments of the Australian states for uniting in their support for, quote, “tougher and more effective gun laws.” It was never explained, however, how the massacre had resulted from a lack of gun control, since Bryant had no history of violence, and even a greater mystery remains as to why a complete and utter national ban on privately owned guns was an appropriate response to the death of thirty-five people at the hands of one lone madman, as the people of the world were told. As the video explains, Bryant was born in 1967, making him 29 years old at the time of the shooting. From his first years of school, Bryant was recognized as being unusually slow and clumsy and later in life, he received government benefits on the basis of his mental handicap. Later inheritances and accident damage awards left Bryant a fairly wealthy young man, however, with over $500,000 and a house coming to him in his twenties. In all, “Simple Marty,” as he was known, lived a quiet, childlike life, was frequently visited by his mother who helped care for him, had a girlfriend named Petra Wilmott, and enjoyed playing games with the children next door. Despite this unlikely portrait of a mass murderer, however, it has been alleged that on the 26th of April 1996, the childlike Bryant drove up to the historic site at Port Arthur, shot and killed over thirty strangers and stole a vehicle before holing up in a nearby cottage with hostages for several hours. It is then suggested that after a shootout with police, Bryant set fire to the house and emerged. And ever since, Bryant has sat in jail. The Australian government stands firm in its allegations but some survivors and witnesses were not satisfied with this description of events. One such witness is Graham Collyer, who described the gunman, whom he saw at close range in Port Arthur’s Broad Arrow Cafe, where a majority of the shooting took place, as having had a “pitted face”, as if he had had a lot of acne. As photographs of the accused show, Bryant did not fit this description. When requests by skeptical survivors for a post-trial coronial inquiry into the shooting were met with alleged concerns over the emotional wear and tear this might cause them, some grew quite suspicious that the Australian government was mainly interested in putting the issue to bed and reaping certain political gains which had arisen as a result of the massacre and not with uncovering the full truth of the circumstances of it. A television interview with government attorney Ray Groom which catches Groom in a lie is put to excellent use here and calls attention to the duplicity which has made the Port Arthur aftermath what it is. An Oklahoma City bombing-style “trial by media” was also in full effect in the Port Arthur case and is well-exposed in the video as several Australian newspapers all but declared Bryant guilty in full-page cover stories run just a few days after the shooting which featured altered photographs in which Bryant’s eyes appeared wild and distorted. Some even went as far as to argue that there should be no trial or due process for Bryant. In the second half of the presentation, the pace changes considerably with presentations by Andrew MacGregor, the author of a Port Arthur e-book titled Deceit and Terrorism, which probe more deeply into the specifics of the evidence and pose questions about the official timeline. Prominent questions here concern the Port Arthur gunman’s expert-level accuracy in the Broad Arrow Cafe and the sudden and unexplained change in council on the part of Martin Bryant which led to a guilty plea and the closing of the case. “A Question of Guilt” is a worthwhile view for anyone concerned about the details of the Port Arthur shooting and the resulting political fallout. While some might find the revelations within it shocking, those of us who have studied the particulars of other high-profile “lone nut” mass shootings such as the Columbine High School attack may recognize a pattern. A DVD copy can be purchased from Sunrise Audio Visual Productions. [END] Permalink: A Question of Guilt: The Massacre at Port Arthur Comments are closed Uncategorized 1996, acne, Andrew MacGregor, Australia, Broad Arrow Cafe, Coronial Inquiry, DVD, false flag, film, fire, Graham Collyer, gun ban, gun control, gunman, Hobart, hostage, Isle of the Dead, Jamie, John Howard, lone nut, Martin Bryant, mass shooting, massacre, movie, New World Order, News Corporation, NWO, patsy, Petra Wilmott, Port Arthur, psyop, random violence, Ray Groom, review, Rupert Murdoch, Seascape, shooting, siege, SOG, Tasmania, terrorism, video In 1996, a horrible shooting took place at Australia’s Port Arthur Historical Site, located near Hobart in Tasmania. The crime, which took some thirty-five lives, was pinned on a twenty-eight year-old man named Martin Bryant. As of early 2009, Mr. Bryant, who pled “not guilty” almost thirty times before being pressured to change his plea and forfeit his right to a trial, continues to sit in jail as a result. Not all who have investigated the massacre agree with the perception that Bryant was the gunman. At the 2001 convening of the Inverell Forum, an Australian forum for information and viewpoints suppressed by the mainstream media, Port Arthur shooting survivor Wendy Scurr presented information concerning the shooting and contested the official line. The presentation was filmed and above is a recording of Wendy’s speech and question and answer session with an introduction and moderation by Master of Ceremonies Dennis Stevenson. The official Forum summary of the event is located here and my summary follows. For those familiar with my 2007 presentation of suppressed information related to the 1999 Columbine High School shooting, the topic may be somewhat familiar. Thanks to YouTube user mashj50 for having kept this video available. Introduction As a tour guide and medical attendant at Tasmania’s Port Arthur Historical Site, Wendy Scurr witnessed the devastation of the 1996 massacre there firsthand and suffered extremely severe stress as a result. It was her take that justice was blocked in the case and that many of those most directly affected by the attack were ignored and shunned by the government agencies charged with overseeing the recovery. As of 2001, there had yet to be performed a Coronial Inquiry into the crime and few, if any, survivors received aid or compensation. Wendy Scurr’s Morning Between 11:00 and 11:30, Wendy was on a ferry, giving tours. Between 12:00 and 1:00, she took a group to the “Isle of the Dead”, a convict burial ground. At about 1:10, she noticed a young man with blond hair staring at her near the on-site Broad Arrow Cafe. She nodded to him, and he replied. At 1:20, she got some food and took it with her as she walked to the information center, located in a separate building. Sounds of a Shooting A few minutes later, Wendy heard bangs. Something flew past her head and she thought there might be a brawl in the cafe. Someone came running out quickly and told her to run and that people were being shot. Wendy ran back into the information center with the thought of phoning the police and did so. The time was now 1:32 PM and other staff began phoning other areas of the site to tell them what was going on and not to let any more cars in. Outside the Cafe Wendy led the other staff toward some bushes, dove in and laid flat. On the way there, the group was shot at. When the shooting ceased, they went toward the cafe to inspect the damages and encountered dead and injured people. They were told that the vehicle the gunman had used was still on-scene and they told the survivors to hide in the bushes. Inside the Cafe Wendy’s companions knew several employees who worked inside the cafe and gift shop where the shooting had occurred and the three decided to go in and look for them. When they opened the door to the cafe, Wendy saw blood, bodies and body parts everywhere, including on the walls and ceiling. The two girls they were looking for in the gift shop had been killed. There was a back exit near where they were located; five others had been killed in its vicinity but since the door was broken, none of them had been able to escape that way. Since part of Wendy’s job at the site was first aid duties, she decided to help any survivors she found in the cafe. Cafe Survivor Graham Collier Wendy first encountered Graham Collier, who had been shot in the neck and was choking on his blood. She couldn’t do much for him but instructed a Victorian policeman, Dennis Gaberdy (sp.), to scoop the blood out of his mouth. Graham survived, partly due to the help of a Victorian nurse named Lin, and partly by playing dead so that the gunman passed by shooting him again, but his injuries caused enduring pain and paralysis. Cafe Survivor Caroline Walton Caroline Walton was a traveling companion of Graham’s and was shot from the front straight through her left shoulder blade. She was making a lot of noise due to fear so Wendy instructed to keep quiet lest the gunman return to kill anyone who’d survived. Her fifteen year-old daughter, Sara, had been killed by a head shot in another part of the room. A man came to help stem Caroline’s bleeding and Wendy pressed on. Cafe Survivor Rob Elliott Rob Elliott had attempted to jump the gunman and was shot in the back of the head. This caused a serious injury which was causing him a lot of pain. His wife was with him and had succeeded at keeping the bleeding under control. Phoning the Ambulance At around 2:00, Wendy proceeded to the phone in the middle of the cafe to call for ambulances. She told the dispatcher that she could see at least a dozen dead from where she was standing and requested ambulances, helicopters and police. The ambulances soon arrived from Hobart and Wendy learned of dead in other areas of the site. By 3:30, the thoroughly traumatized people on-site had mostly come out of hiding and were asking questions about what had happened. However, the gunman had not yet been found, nor had police arrived to secure the scene. A policeman did arrive at 4:30 but he was unarmed and was only collecting names. Coming Down Wendy and other staff took some of the next of kin to a nearby cottage to begin recovering from the attack. This did not include the management-level staff of the site who had been sent off to the east coast at 11:00 that morning for a special overnight function. According to Wendy’s supervisor, Robin Cooper, this was the first such function in eighteen years. As evening set in, only a handful of policemen were yet on-site and those who were were performing only preliminary duties. Meanwhile, the television news was reporting that the Port Arthur gunman had been surrounded by law enforcement agents in a cottage north of the site. Inexplicably, at around 6:30, three shots were heard near an administration building where several staff were having a break on the patio. No official explanation for these shots was given. “Help” Arrives At 7:30, six hours after they had been called, police finally arrived to secure the site, and they did so in a swarm. According to Wendy, “Trauma Counselors” with “no compassion” entered the place where she and the others were recovering and treated them “like children”. The authorities expressed no interest in taking Wendy’s statements about what she had seen in the cafe, one of the main sites of the killing. The Aftermath Wendy contested the official ninety second to two minute duration of the shooting as being too short and also stated she did not believe the authorities’ claims that twenty-nine bullets killed twenty and injured twelve, a 110% accuracy rate. She also stated that since the official “lone nut” gunman, Martin Bryant, reportedly had an IQ of 66 and a mental age of 11, it was her belief that he could not have carried out the shooting as it is alleged to have transpired. She said that although the surviving staff were largely kept separated from each other after the funerals, Salvation Army staff who intervened to bring them together were very helpful. Like many of the witnesses, Wendy was thoroughly scarred by what she saw and even contemplated suicide as a result. Although Wendy said she feared that those upholding the official story would attempt to disparage her credibility due to the distress she experienced, she assured the audience that she was very sane and furthermore, that she had no political interests which would be motivating her to have called the official story into question. Wendy spoke wonderfully clearly about her awful experiences and should be honored for her courage in doing so when most would have kept silent. [END] Permalink: Port Arthur Massacre: Wendy Scurr at the 2001 Inverell Forum Comments are closed Uncategorized Australia, Broad Arrow Cafe, Caroline Walton, Coronial Inquiry, Dennis Stevenson, false flag, Hobart, Inverell Forum, Isle of the Dead, Martin Bryant, massacre, New World Order, NWO, Port Arthur Shooting, Rob Elliott, Robin Cooper, Salvation Army, Seascape, speech, survivor, Tasmania, terrorism, video, Wendy Scurr, witness |
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