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9/20/2004
"But he has a good heart"
 Those were the words uttered from the mother of Andrew Osantowski when she found out her 17-year-old son had elaborate plans to blow up his Clinton, Michigan high school. File this under "Parents who need to get a flippin' clue".
Osantowski's malicious plans to take his classmates lives were unveiled when a Washington state police officer was tipped off via his daughter to threats made in an internet chatroom. So it turns out America Online is good for something. In this case, authorities were able to trace the threats to Osantowski who appears to be in bed with the doctrine of Hitler and the Aryan nation. The Associated Press reports,"An investigation into the series of Internet threats led to the discovery of weapons, ammunition and bomb-making paraphernalia at Osantowski's Macomb County home about 25 miles northeast of Detroit, police said.
At a press conference, police displayed evidence from the home including weapons and ammunition, tools police say were stolen from a construction site, Nazi flags and books about white supremacy and Adolf Hitler. " To the fact that her son had indeed been engaging in hate worship, Janice Osantowski said the findings were "horrifying" and that she was glad all the weaponry was found before something bad happened. She remarked, "My son Andrew is a good kid with a good heart...I think he's just been brainwashed by this Nazi stuff that he had." Ya think? Generally, our actions follow whatever is in our heart. Like that time when you called yourself a clean talker and the reckless idiot cut you off on the road and something bad accidentally slipped out. Yeah, that was probably in your heart. But I digress. I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that this Andrew Osantowski feller was not in possession of the "good heart" his mother professed.
Again I say, I don't understand this modern-day "we didn't know anything was wrong with Billy" approach to parenting. In addition to stolen firearms and bomb-building paraphernalia, there were instruction sheets on how to build a bomb and video tapes showing the teen in possession of assault weapons. Add to that, two apparently clueless parents and you get a potential revisitation of the calculated events at Columbine High School. Parents don't know their son wants to be a Nazi. These are the times we are living in.
Again I ask, "Oh Parent Where Art Thou?"
posted by ambra at 9/20/2004 02:03:17 AM | link to this entry |
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