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Expatriate journalist Mark Ames blames Northern Illinois University for the lecture hall massacre, rather than the pathological narcissist who carried out the shootings. Mark Ames is cavalier and brutal in his scribblings, highlighted today at Newsbusters. He writes for The Exile. Excuse me, that may not do him justice. He is founder, essayist for the Exile, an English language alternate paper for Moscow expatriates, with “tens of thousands of fans,” by his own estimation.

Ames affects a superior tone of hip schadenfreud in his writing. That tone works well in the alternative universe where Berkeley alums and pimple-faced anarchofascists dwell. He has written about the Columbine school shootings in the U.S. and also attributes these tragedies to American society rather than to the perpetrators. Ames sees the values and social system of American life as the ultimate cause of these massacres, holding accountable no one but the victimized schools, deserving of butchery for being Red States. The killers are not to blame in these shootings, the victims are to blame, the schools are to blame, Amerika is to blame. Ames apparently singled out one student at Columbine to bear the responsibility for causing the massacre there, and that student was not either of the killers. Here’s an excerpt from Ames’ self-published message to that individual:

“The fact that you brag about not having any regrets about all of the blood on your hands proves my point that dicks like you, the popular jock meatheads and the Red State pigs they grow up to be, are the real sociopaths, not guys like Klebold and Harris whose violence was beaten into them.” Mark Ames

Well, you can Wiki this Berkeley alum’s bio and read his drek on your own if you want. He’s busy scribbling and perfecting treasons, stratagems and spoils at the feet of neo-Stalinists in Moscow. They can keep him.