Eric Harris’s Big Lie

[Redwald]

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Eric Harris’s Big Lie

Eric Harris of course was the psychopath who was the prime mover behind the Columbine shootings. What’s striking here is the contrast between the fake letter of “apology” he wrote to the owner of a van he and Dylan Klebold broke into and stole $700 worth of equipment, his simulation of “empathy” with the van’s owner, and what he wrote privately in his journal afterwards:

Dear Mr. Ricky Becker,

Hello, my name is Eric Harris. On a Friday night in late-January my friend and I broke into your utility van and stole several items while it was parked at Deer Creek Canyon and Wadsworth. I am writing you this letter partly because I was ordered to by my diversion officer, but mostly because I strongly feel I owe you an apology and explanation.

I believe that you felt a great deal of anger and disappointment when you learned of our act. Anger because someone you did not know was in your car and rummaging through your personal belongings. Disappointment because you thought your car would have been safe at the paring lot where it was and it wasn’t. If it was my car that was broken into, I would have felt extreme anger, frustration, and a sense of invasion. I would have felt uneasy driving in my car again knowing that someone else was in it without my permission. I am truly sorry for that.

The reason why I chose to do such a stupid thing is that I did not think. I did not realize the consequences of such a crime, and I let the stupid side of me take over. Maybe I thought I wouldn’t be caught, or that I could get away. I realized very soon afterwards what I had done and how very stupid it was. At home, my parents and everyone else that knew me was shocked that I did something like that. My parents lost almost all their trust in me and I was grounded for two months. Besides that I have lost many of my privileges and freedom that I enjoyed before this happened. I am now enrolled in the diversion program for one full year. I have 45 hours of community service to complete and several courses and classes to attend over the course of my enrollment.

Once again I would like to say that I am truly sorry for what I have done and for any inconvenience I have caused you, your family, or your company.

Respectfully,

Eric Harris

Here’s what he wrote in his journal afterwards:

isnt america supposed to be the land of the free? how come, if im free, I cant deprive a stupid fucking dumbshit from his possessions if he leaves them sitting in the front seat of his fucking van out in plain sight and in the middle of fucking nowhere on a Frifuckingday night. NATURAL SELECTION. fucker should be shot.

How’s that for “empathy”?

Needless to say, I’m sure the only things he felt “sorry” about were losing the trust of others along with his privileges and freedom, being grounded for two months, and having 45 hours of community service to complete.

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[Donna Andersen]

Wow Redwald – that really shows what psychopaths really think. Thanks for posting!

[emilie18]

Ah yes – the face you show the world as opposed to your true face — I have seen that, too… Doesn’t surprise me at even a young age Eric was able to play the game so well – he had learned early what he was supposed to look like, say, do, to get away with living his true evil life. Early on in my relationship with the narc he butt-dialed me and I overheard a conversation he was having with another guy – his language, his words, his denouncement of women in general came as a HUGE shock — to me he was nothing but kind and considerate and endearing. I rationalized and excused it as “boy talk braggadocio”. After I began to realize his true nature I remembered that overheard call. THAT was his true self. The rest was a mask. They are very, very good at pulling on that mask to “get by”.

[Redwald]

Here’s another quote from an infamous malefactor, who for once in his life was being honest and truthful when he wrote it:

When I first discovered there were easier ways to make a living than to work long hours in an office, I did not ask myself whether I was doing right or wrong. That seemed to me to be irrelevant. I merely said: “This is what I wish to do.” And as the means lay within my power, that was what I decided.

Lord Dunboyne, in quoting this passage, observed that it “might have come from the pen of the paranoiacal author of Mein Kampf”–an insightful comment, since both Hitler and this particular fraudster were said to have a “paranoid constitution.” (Along with other disorders, no doubt.) Since not everyone has heard of this villain in spite of his notoriety, perhaps I should tell his story here some time–except that it’s extremely long. And shocking besides, as anyone might expect from his total indifference to “right and wrong.”

Interestingly, this “artist in the practice of deception,” as he saw himself, claimed to be guided by a “higher power” than mere earthly notions of morality: a power he called “the Principle.” It was obvious to everyone that he was otherwise sane, though he did pretend to “insanity” in an unsuccessful attempt to avoid punishment. He simply and calmly followed his guiding “Principle,” which by odd coincidence happened to concur with his own self interest, even when it involved the destruction of others.

Edited to add: This sounds much like Keith Raniere of NXIVM, whom I was just reading about. He has no remorse for the crimes he says he didn’t commit in the first place. I guess he was just following his own “Principle” too.

[sept4]

Yes they are great at faking empathy. They have faked emotions their whole life. They actually study normal people so they can mirror normal emotions. And wear a mask of a normal person.

They have to do that so they can seem normal to trap their victims. If they showed their true self nobody would ever fall for them.

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