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Nine dead in Finland school massacre november.8.2007

HELSINKI - Police today confirmed that the gunman who killed eight people at a Finnish school was 18-year-old student Pekka -Eric Auvinen, who had posted a video clip foreshadowing the massacre on YouTube. "The killer is Pekka-Eric Auvinen. He comes from a very normal family, four people, he has one brother. He had no problems in school," said local police officer Jan-Olav Nyholm naming Auvinen for the first time. Auvinen was already known to have posted a video entitled "Jokela High School Massacre - 11/7/2007" on the You Tube website, reportedly some time in the past two weeks.

TUUSULA, Finland - Students have told how an armed teenager rampaged through a Finnish school shouting: "Revolution! Smash everything" before killing seven pupils, the principal and then fatally shooting himself. And an ex-girlfriend of Pekka-Eric Auvinen, 18, told local media she had been accused of causing the tragedy by dumping him. She said: "I have got many many emails and phone calls saying I am a killer. But many people get dumped without going out and killing people. "He did what he did because he was who he is.'' Auvinen shot himself in the head following the massacre, having first signalled his intentions in a video posted on YouTube. Witnesses described chaos and panic as Auvinen killed his headmistress, five boys and two girls, and wounded a dozen others as they tried to flee the carnage. A pupil, Terhi Vayrynen, 17, told the Associated Press that her brother Henri, 13, witnessed the killing of the head teacher through his classroom window. The girl said the gunman came into Henri's class shouting: "Revolution. Smash everything." He shot at a television and windows, but not at pupils, and ran off down the corridor. Extremist movements A teacher, Kim Kiuru, told a local radio station the gunman had been keenly interested in war history and extremist movements. "He was moving systematically through the school hallways, knocking on the doors and shooting through the doors,'' said Mr Kiuru, who was teaching an eighth-grade class when the gunfire started. "It felt unreal,'' he added. "A pupil I have taught myself was running toward me, screaming, a pistol in his hand.'' Local police said the gun used was legal and Auvinen had been issued a permit through a gun club three weeks ago. Mr Kiuru said the head teacher announced the danger over the public address system just before midday and ordered all children to remain in their classrooms. "After that I saw the gunman running with what appeared to be a small calibre handgun in his hand through the doors toward me, after which I escaped to the corridor downstairs and ran in the opposite direction.'' "Then my pupils shouted at me out of the windows to ask what they should do and I told them to jump out of the windows ... and all my pupils were saved." "We heard the shots and then we broke the windows and jumped out," said Franz Andersin, 14, who was in the school when the shooting spree started. 'Always smiling' "I knew the guy. He was always smiling. I wonder why he did it," he said. Finnish Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen described the shooting, the worst in the Nordic country's history, as "a great tragedy". "This is an awful day ... The shooting has deeply undermined the sense of security in society ... Nobody had expected such things," he said. The rampage began at 11.43am on Wednesday (8.43pm AEDT) inside a classroom at Jokela High School in the small town of Tuusula. The secondary school has about 450 pupils. Auvinen had posted a video, entitled Jokela High School Massacre - 11/7/2007, on YouTube in the past two weeks. The video zooms in on the school with heavy metal music blaring in the background and shows a young man against a red background pointing a gun at the camera. Within hours of the shooting, the video had been downloaded more than 200,000 times. 'Prepared to fight' In his profile on YouTube, Auvinen, calling himself Sturmgeist89, says: "I am prepared to fight and die for my cause. "I, as a natural selector, will eliminate all who I see unfit, disgraces of human race and failures of natural selection. "You might ask yourselves, why did I do this and what do I want? Well, most of you are too arrogant and closed-minded to understand," he added. He was pronounced dead at 10.14pm (7.14am Thursday AEST) after being treated for a single gunshot wound to the head at Helsinki University Hospital. "He died at 22.14 of a one-bullet injury in the head," Eero Hirvensalochief, a traumatology physician at the hospital, said. Police and school pupils alike were at a loss to explain why Auvinen had committed such a terrible act. Normal family "He comes from a very normal family of four people, he has one brother. He had no problems in school," police officer Jan-Olav Nyholm said. One of Auvinen's classmates, told the Helsingin Sanomat newspaper that the gunman, who was a sports shooter, had recently been acting "strange'' and had begun making drawings of gun massacres. He had logged into his YouTube account on Wednesday morning. Other videos posted under his name hail the perpetrators of school shootings in the US and Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh. According to media reports, he had repeatedly expressed admiration for Hitler and Stalin and he names Nietzsche as a favourite author on his YouTube account. The US-style shooting sent shockwaves through Finland, where such violence is extremely rare. While there have been several stabbings at Finnish schools in recent years, Wednesday's was the first shooting since a 14-year-old shot dead two classmates in a school in the coastal city of Rauma in 1989. "It's incredible that something like this has happened in Finland," said Jokela High School history and psychology professor Kim Kiuru. Finland has one of the world's highest gun ownership rates, ranking third behind the US and Yemen, according to a recent study by the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva. Most of the registered weapons in Finland are hunting rifles.

Gun-loving culture threatened november.7.2007

HELSINKI - Finland's accommodating gun laws are likely to attract criticism after an 18-year-old gunman shot dead seven children and a school principal today. About 56 of every 100 Finns own a gun according to a study by the Geneva-based Graduate Institute of International Studies this year, putting the rate of firearm ownership in Finland third after the United States and Yemen. The government has said Finland's low crime rate meant there was little need for harsher gun regulations. But Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen said that perception might change after the student, who obtained a licence for a .22 calibre handgun from a shooting club last month, opened fire on his fellow students in the south of Finland. "Definitely this will impact opinions about handguns," Vanhanen told a news conference after the shooting in the municipality of Tuusula. He said the government would take up the issue later. The European Union's arms legislation forbids the sale of weapons to those under 18 except for hunting or target shooting. Earlier this year, the EU proposed raising the legal age for all gun possession to 18, a measure that drew protests from Finland which said hunting was a popular leisure activity. The proposal allows minors to use guns only if accompanied by a parent or guardian. In 2006, there were 300,000 hunters among the 5.3 million inhabitants of Finland, the national statistics office said. Some 38,000 were under the age of 20. Anyone aged 15 and over can apply for a gun licence with local police if they are able to offer a valid reason. The easiest way to obtain a licence is by joining a shooting or hunting club, as the Jokela gunman did in October. If underage, a Finn needs to have his or her legal guardian's approval to apply. In addition all applicants are checked for a clean criminal record and whether they have any disability that could impact their gun use. Violent incidents are rare at Finnish schools and metal detectors, common in the United States, are unheard of. The massacre at Jokela High School could change all that, said Timo Myllyntaus, a history professor at Turku University. "This is very brutal violence with no obvious reason and seemed to have been very carefully planned and might change the school and university life in this country," he said. "Finnish schools and universities are very peaceful compared to American ones." Police today confirmed the Jokela High School gunman was 18 year-old student Pekka-Eric Auvinen, who had posted a video clip foreshadowing the massacre on YouTube. "The killer is Pekka Eric Auvinen. He comes from a very normal family, four people, he has one brother. He had no problems in school," said local police officer Jan-Olav Nyholm, naming Auvinen for the first time. Auvinen was already known to have posted a video entitled Jokela High School Massacre 11-7 -2007 on YouTube, reportedly some time in the past two weeks. In the old days Finns used to believe in the dark power of Tuonela, the mythical land of the dead. Now they believe in YouTube, the land of the virtual living. The crazed marginalised teenager who takes out his frustration on his teachers and schoolmates, who chases them through classrooms like mice in a maze, has become a universal phenomenon: the massacres at Virginia Tech, Columbine and Erfurt in Germany conformed to a pattern. A pupil is snubbed, is deemed a failure, and retreats into an interior world that structured by his computer, video games that tap his inner aggressions, throbbing downloaded music and a locked room. Murder ‘manifesto.

I am a cynical existentialist, antihuman humanist, antisocial socialdarwinist, realistic idealist and godlike atheist.

SI VIS PACEM, PARA BELLUM! JUSTITIA SUUM CUIQUE DISTRIBUIT! SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS!

I am prepared to fight and die for my cause. I, as a natural selector, will eliminate all who I see unfit, disgraces of human race and failures of natural selection.

You might ask yourselves, why did I do this and what do I want. Well, most of you are too arrogant and closed-minded to understand... You will proprably say me that I am"insane", "crazy", "psychopath", "criminal" or crap like that. No, the truth is that I am just an animl, a human, an individual, a dissident.

I have had enough. I don't want to be part of this fucked up society. Like some other wise people have said in the past, human race is not worth fighting for or saving... only worth killing. But... When my enemies will run and hide in fear when mentioning my name... When the gangsters of the corrupted governments have been shot in the streets... When the rule of idioracy and the democratic system has been replaced with justice... When intelligent people are finally free and rule the society instead of the idiocratic rule of majority... In that great day of deliverance, you will know what I want.

Long live the revolution... revolution against the system, which enslaves not only the majority of weak-minded masses but also the small minority of strong-minded and intelligent individuals! If we want to live in a different world, we must act. We must rise against the enslaving, corrupted and totalitarian regimes and overthrow the tyrants, gangsters and the rule of idiocracy. I can't alone change much but hopefully my actions will inspire all the intelligent people of the world and start some sort of revolution against the current systems. The system discriminating naturality and justice, is my enemy. The people living in the world of delusion and supporting this system are my enemies.

I am ready to die for a cause I know is right, just and true... even if I would lose or the battle would be only remembered as evil... I will rather fight and die than live a long and unhappy life.

And remember that this is my war, my ideas and my plans. Don't blame anyone else for my actions than myself. Don't blame my parents or my friends. I told nobody about my plans and I always kept them inside my mind only. Don't blame the movies I see, the music I hear, the games I play or the books I read. No, they had nothing to do with this. This is my war: one man war against humanity, governments and weak-minded masses of the world! No mercy for the scum of the earth! HUMANITY IS OVERRATED! It's time to put NATURAL SELECTION & SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST back on tracks!

Justice renders to everyone his due.

Country: Finland
Occupation: Unemployed Philosopher, Outcast
Companies: Human Race (evolved one step above though)
Interests and Hobbies: Existentialism, Freedom, Truth, Misantrophy, Social / Personality Psychology, Evolution Science, Political Incorrectness, Women, BDSM, Guns (I love you Catherine), Shooting, Computer Games, Sarcasm, Irony, Mass / Serial Killers, Macabre Art, Black Comedy, Absurdism
Movies and Shows: The Matrix, A View To A Kill, Falling Down, Natural Born Killers, Reservoir Dogs, Last Man Standing, Full Metal Jacket, Dr. Butcher MD (aka Zombie Holocaust), Saw 1-3, Lord Of War, The Deer Hunter, True Romance, The Untouchables, 28 Days Later, 28 Weeks Later, Idiocracy, They Live, Apocalypse Now, End Of Days, The Shining, The Dead Zone, Dr. Strangelove, House MD (TV), Monty Python, TV Documentaries Relating To History
Music: KMFDM, Rammstein, Eisbrecher, Nine Inch Nails, Grendel, Impaled Nazarene, Macabre, Deathstars, The Prodigy, Combichrist, Godsmack, Slayer, Children Of Bodom, Alice Cooper, Sturmgeist, Suicide Commando, Hatebreed, Suffocation, Terrorizer
Books: Fahrenheit 451 (Bradbury), 1984 (Orwell), Brave New World (Huxley), The Republic (Plato), all works of Nietzsche