Dear Tom,

I'm a 15 y/o student who USED to go to high school in Hillsboro, OR. I think you may find this very interesting, as we are both under heat from Columbine incident. Now, i'm a pretty big fan of your site since my girlfriend got me hooked to it. Assassin site is a blast, especially since I think Golgo 13 rocks. Anyways, I lead a fair life....good girlfriend and a few friends and trying to get new friends. I hang out with a guy who always wore a trench to school, and used a briefcase instead of a bag. A few months back in English, i did a report on High powered sniper rifles and handguns, and why they were illegal, why they were expensive, and why government banned them, etc. I did fairly good on the report, social life was doing fine, till Columbine. The news had clearly stated that people like Harris and Kleybold (and i might add Harris was one hell of a funny guy...i played Quake against him a bit) should NOT be ridiculed because they are different. The day i walked into school, everyone kept their distance from me and my friend. I was considered the number one person to bring a gun to school. That night, while i was trying to get to sleep, Police knocked on my door and came into house and started questioning me and that they were told i threatned 2 girls and a guy. This, as you might expect, was complete bullshit. The people in question had been bugging me, and I had ASKED to have my classes switched because of them. That same week on Friday, police arrested me in school for same reason they came to my house. They said I had harrassed these people, and i was brought up on 9 counts. 3 counts of menacing, 3 counts of harrasment, and 3 counts of Intimidation 2nd. If anyone was gonna be arrested it should have been her. I recieved a copy of the police report and the people had said i was heavily into guns of maximum firepower (who isn't? it turns girls on!) and that all i did was speak german. The night i was arrested, i was flipping through TV. I headlined on FOX News at 10, Koin 6, Northwestern News Channel 8, and others. All this because 3 trendy/preppy idiots had had a grudge against me and thought best way to get me in trouble was blame Columbine on me. Later, in news reports on the radio, and in call in talk on radio, people had said i influenced Columbine students, and all shootings/bombings that happened in OR. I was the media scapegote. I can no longer go to school because of this. Should I go back to any school in oregon, they will have me brought up on tresspassing charges and put in jail. I can't walk the streets of my own city either without having to look back to see if some asshole jock is gonna try and run me over or throw shit at me. Everyday, jocks pass me and yell things like "Psycho!" or "Fucking asshole!" and give me the finger. We share the exact same problems...narrowmindedness in the people. I know the difference between real killing and fake killing, as do you. Fake killing is fun, and brings out a way to release tension, such as your site does for me whenever i see rap on MTV. The people will always try to blame the most least-defended individuals. In this case, you are getting attacked for your assassin website, which i thought was clever, as do many of my goth friends. I agree, there is no anti-social promoting within it, just plain old fun. Apparently, the people of the US are so scared right now, they will take the steps to persecute individuals like ourselves to ensure that their children grow up safe. But what does it really prove in the end? What does all this teach the children? it teaches them that if a problem arises, blame the little guy who always sits alone, or the guy who never talks to anybody, or the guy who clubs a seal on his comp everynight. Anything to get the people to think that they are safe from the threat, but the truth is....the threat still lingers as long as they blame the wrong people, such as us.

One of your fans,
Aaron Cole

Aaron will be finishing high school in a community college, because unlike the jock assholes who pick on him, Aaron actually has a future. Email Aaron and tell him what you think!