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Here’s a little roundup just to demonstrate that I can tell the countries apart. Everything I know about politics I learned from satirical and handsome television personalities. Hey, there are worse resumes, I’m telling you. I would post a clip of Boris talking about Canada, but all I could find was the Saskatoonberry essay, and let us just say the visuals are not exactly compelling.
First, here’s Jon Stewart on the Canadian terrorist plot:
And here he is again, from last year, on the microscopic differences between the US and the UK leadership:
And here’s a special bonus segment of Rick Mercer’s Talking to Americans. In this episode, he makes asses of people at NYU, Stanford, and the Gore and Bush campaigns:
Looks like things have calmed down at VampireFreaks, although Auntie Angel reports that a lot of people have signed up to the site just to look at Gill‘s pictures and blog, and are still hanging around. There will always be gawkers at a tragedy; Gill himself was a gawker of the Columbine Massacre.
In any case, there’s a new note at VF and an acknowledgement that the media hasn’t actually been all that Goth-bashy after all. Which is no more than the truth; the media mentions Gill’s Goth side because really, other than that, there was nothing whatsoever interesting about him. Without the trenchcoat, shades, metal and guns, he was just another unemployed alcoholic living in his mom’s basement.
The new message from VF:
News Update, Wallpaper contest
* September 16, 2006 *
Thanks to everyone’s support in light of recent events. There’s been a huge reaction on this site, and really i want to express a thank you to everyone who has been supportive. We will be monitoring the site more closely due to recent events. And once again I offer my sincere sympathy to the victims and their families. It really is a tragic event. I’ve gotten countless emails about the incident, yes a few of them were very negative and close-minded towards goth culture and this site, but the vast majority of feedback i’ve received has been understanding and supportive of the site. Mature adults, not into the goth scene, who are smart enough to see that this site is not to blame for what happened. Also, thanks to the media, for actually not being that hard on goth culture this time. I know that the goth scene and this website in particular has gotten bad publicity in the past, and while a few reporters have decided to make us look bad again and try to place the blame on us, i see that many members of the media are actually starting to be more accepting and understanding of our scene. Anyway, I feel this has been the topic of conversation on here for too long, so lets just move on and go on with our usual site updates. If you want to further discuss these news, please do so in the entry posted before this one, it already has over 7,000 comments related to the incident and this entry is for our new wallpaper design contest…
Let’s look at his post from June 11 (stolen from the Volokh Chronicles):
Warning
Look out friends
The RCMP and CSIS in Canada and Local Law enforcement and F.B.I. in the States have been scouring this web site during the last 3 months. Looking to arrest you guys and girls for nothing.
Ever since that girl from Alberta killed her family, they’ve been going through the pros, and have arrested dozens of people because of what they wrote in their journals (like talking about killing someone), or the pics they got (like holding a gun) or whatever.
Just be careful about what you write. Select “Private Entry” for anything that might be perceived as suspicious. For now.
And yes, he was right. The RCMP have confirmed that they have a unit who looks at social networking sites and, further and almost inconcievably (and I do know what that word means), they have told the press that, had they seen Gill‘s blog, they’d have considered it mundane and not in any way indicative of problems in the present or the future.
All I can say is that maybe they should assign it to someone who’s a little better with English or with psychology next time. Pros agree.
“From what he wrote, you could tell that he basically hated humanity as a whole. He hated everybody. He hated black people, white people, rich people. He hated everybody,” a police source said.
“It was very obvious his state of mind was deteriorating greatly over the last three weeks.”
So perhaps there are many, even more violent posts in his blog; we won’t know unless the police choose to tell us. He wasn’t shy about his paranoia:
Shut up
I wonder why my household has been under surveillance by law enforcement for 6 years now? Makes no sense to me!!
Oh, you’re wondering how I know? lol Bet you little monkeys are Hey, assholes!! Everything everyone says or does against me is shown to me in my dreams, I see everything. You fucking monkeys.
God, you humans are so inferior. Mood:………………………….
Music:Marilyn Manson – Coma White
Legally, there’s a case to be made for the blog being part of Gill‘s estate, so VampireFreaks may have to answer for that at some point. In any case, blogs are going to have to have formal in-case-of-mortality clauses soon. People aren’t going to stop dying. But that’s an aside.
Gill was also for a time a regular on the Trenchcoat Chronicles, a discovery greeted with strongly mixed emotions by Trench, the proprietor of the site. In apparently every single comment he made on the website (under his Yahoo id, rogue_warrior_50@yahoo.ca) he denied that kids who wrote about their intentions to do violence ever, once, for so much as a moment, were joking. Prescient echoes of the VampireFreaks disclaimer, methinks. My own theory is that Gill was trying to throw the cops off his trail; the cops who freely admit that they weren’t even aware he existed back then.
It makes me wonder what’s in those hidden entries.
This is the post that got him banned from the Trenchcoat Chronicles:
How can the police arrest this young rebel, and send him to jail? He hasn’t done anything wrong. Many teenagers feel isolated and alone, and for such a reason they may create an imaginary reality within their own mind, such as shooting people.
If he was really going to kill alot of people then he wouldn’t be telling people he was going to do it. It’s just common sense. I believe he just wanted a little attention, nothing more.
Lets hope he gets outta jail soon, and the police give him back the guns the seized
For that comment I banned him from leaving comments on my site.
The last time I heard from him was from an e-mail he sent me which you can see here.
Did he have any hidden blog entries at all? If so, did he threaten to kill anyone in them? He didn’t seem all that shy, although not being stupid he wasn’t all that specific either, in the regular blog entries.
We need a lot more answers from the police and from VampireFreaks.com before we can answer those questions. For now, let’s look at the final email he sent Trench and extrapolate from there, shall we? Emphasis mine.
Hi
Cool page. Like what you do here. But I find you only look at the story one way. Not once have I read a comment you’ve made, about even one of these school shootings being acceptable, or needed.
Did you use to be a police officer or something?
Sometimes Goth is exactly the right thing, and for this week, this is exactly the right song.
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