Sunday, December 9, 2007
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
BREAKING NEWS: Eight killed in school shooting
BREAKING NEWS: Eight killed in school shooting in Jokela, north of Helsinki, gunman in critical condition
Suspected gunman "acted strange in recent days"
Hospital sources have confirmed to Helsingin Sanomat that eight people were killed in a shooting incident at a school in Jokela in the municipality of Tuusula north of Helsinki on Wednesday.
Five male and two female students at the school lost their lives, as well as the school's head teacher. The shooter, an 18-year-old pupil of the school was armed with a handgun. He was critically injured in the incident and hospital sources say that his prognosis is very poor.
There were many injuries, resulting from both the gunfire and injuries sustained while escaping.
Pupils were evacuated to the nearby Perttu School and Jokela Church.
The gunman was seen by local resident Anna-Liisa Vainio, who was coming to the school to meet with her daughter's teacher.
She said that she saw four pupils lying on the floor of the corridor. At first she thought that some kind of a rescue drill was going on, and then she saw the shooter with a gun in his hand.
Tuomas Hulkkonen, a member of the graduating class of the upper secondary school, says that he has known the gunman for ten years - since the lower grades. Hulkkonen says that in recent days he had been acting strange, drawing pictures involving firearms. When asked about it, he said that he was joking. He also said that the suspected gunman had shooting as a hobby.
Hulkkonen says that he last spoke to the suspect on Tuesday. "Pretty hard to digest this equation, when a guy you know does something like this."
A teacher at the school characterised the suspect as a militant radical. He had been interested in both extreme left and extreme right-wing ideas, as well as history and philosophy.
References to an impending attack in Jokela has been found on the Internet.
In one package a young man is depicted in several photographs with a hand gun wearing a t-shirt with the slogan "Humanity is overrated".
Similar material was found on line in the wake of the shootings at Virginia Tech in the United States - apparently left by the shooter.
One video shows a young man shooting at an apple in a forest apparently just a day before the shooting spree in Jokela. The man also took a picture of his SIG Sauer pistol.
In an information package with 21 files there was also a text of more than 1,000 words with the title "Manifesto of a Natural Selector".
"I cannot say that I am of the same race as this miserable, arrogant and selfish human race. No! I have evolved a step higher", the man writes.
The text ends with the words "To each what they deserve".
He had also outlined the planned course of events for Wednesday. The text was last revised on Tuesday at 11:44 PM.
. Before the shooting he placed a video on the YouTube website with the title "Jokela High School Massacre - 11/7/2007".
The Jokela School Centre at Jyväkuja 13 has an upper-level comprehensive school and an upper level secondary school. Last year the two schools had a combined 480 pupils.
A crisis centre has been set up to relay news to parents, who are asked to call 09-4172131 for more information.
The Finnish Red Cross has also set up a hotline for those needing help in dealing with the crisis. The telephone number is 020366266.
Neither of the numbers should be considered sources for those following news developments in the case.
The government has convened over the shooting, and is scheduled to hold a press conference on the event later in the evening.
http://www.hs.fi/english/article/BREAKING+NEWS+Eight+killed+in+school+shooting+in+Jokela+north+of+Helsinki+gunman+in+critical+condition/1135231614979
Suspected gunman "acted strange in recent days"
Hospital sources have confirmed to Helsingin Sanomat that eight people were killed in a shooting incident at a school in Jokela in the municipality of Tuusula north of Helsinki on Wednesday.
Five male and two female students at the school lost their lives, as well as the school's head teacher. The shooter, an 18-year-old pupil of the school was armed with a handgun. He was critically injured in the incident and hospital sources say that his prognosis is very poor.
There were many injuries, resulting from both the gunfire and injuries sustained while escaping.
Pupils were evacuated to the nearby Perttu School and Jokela Church.
The gunman was seen by local resident Anna-Liisa Vainio, who was coming to the school to meet with her daughter's teacher.
She said that she saw four pupils lying on the floor of the corridor. At first she thought that some kind of a rescue drill was going on, and then she saw the shooter with a gun in his hand.
Tuomas Hulkkonen, a member of the graduating class of the upper secondary school, says that he has known the gunman for ten years - since the lower grades. Hulkkonen says that in recent days he had been acting strange, drawing pictures involving firearms. When asked about it, he said that he was joking. He also said that the suspected gunman had shooting as a hobby.
Hulkkonen says that he last spoke to the suspect on Tuesday. "Pretty hard to digest this equation, when a guy you know does something like this."
A teacher at the school characterised the suspect as a militant radical. He had been interested in both extreme left and extreme right-wing ideas, as well as history and philosophy.
References to an impending attack in Jokela has been found on the Internet.
In one package a young man is depicted in several photographs with a hand gun wearing a t-shirt with the slogan "Humanity is overrated".
Similar material was found on line in the wake of the shootings at Virginia Tech in the United States - apparently left by the shooter.
One video shows a young man shooting at an apple in a forest apparently just a day before the shooting spree in Jokela. The man also took a picture of his SIG Sauer pistol.
In an information package with 21 files there was also a text of more than 1,000 words with the title "Manifesto of a Natural Selector".
"I cannot say that I am of the same race as this miserable, arrogant and selfish human race. No! I have evolved a step higher", the man writes.
The text ends with the words "To each what they deserve".
He had also outlined the planned course of events for Wednesday. The text was last revised on Tuesday at 11:44 PM.
. Before the shooting he placed a video on the YouTube website with the title "Jokela High School Massacre - 11/7/2007".
The Jokela School Centre at Jyväkuja 13 has an upper-level comprehensive school and an upper level secondary school. Last year the two schools had a combined 480 pupils.
A crisis centre has been set up to relay news to parents, who are asked to call 09-4172131 for more information.
The Finnish Red Cross has also set up a hotline for those needing help in dealing with the crisis. The telephone number is 020366266.
Neither of the numbers should be considered sources for those following news developments in the case.
The government has convened over the shooting, and is scheduled to hold a press conference on the event later in the evening.
http://www.hs.fi/english/article/BREAKING+NEWS+Eight+killed+in+school+shooting+in+Jokela+north+of+Helsinki+gunman+in+critical+condition/1135231614979
Tuesday, October 2, 2007
Sunday, September 30, 2007
Monday, September 17, 2007
Your children are not your children
Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts.
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit,
not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you
with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;
For even as he loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that
is stable.
Kahlil Gibran
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts.
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit,
not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you
with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;
For even as he loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that
is stable.
Kahlil Gibran
Friday, September 14, 2007
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