Sol Pais: The Two Boxes of Ammo Mystery

One of the curiosities of the Sol Pais suicide was that she purchased two boxes of ammunition for the shotgun.  Before 8chan was scrubbed, that community thread debated this anomaly.

If she intended to commit suicide (which she actually did), why buy two boxes of ammunition.

I have a new, recent theory about this based on a comedy sketch by Dave Chappelle that aired on Netflix.  In it he describes going to a gunstore to buy a shotgun for self protection and asking the gun shop owner for advice.  The gunshop owner grabs two boxes of ammunition from the case because that's what is usually bought.

My theory is that Sol Pais was confronted similarly and not wanting to look naive, bought one box of each.

Here's Chapelles skit - IMO, its compelling.

Sol Pais: Camouflaged for Suicide?

I've written on this subject before when it concerned the killing of Tamir Rice.  And the subject is the allegation that a suspect who has not yet committed a crime is dressed in camouflage clothing.

In the case of Sol Pais, the authorities alleged that she was dressed in camouflage.  Now this may seem like a minor point but the authorities in Colorado had evacuated schools based on the fact that a 5'6" 18 year old who was painfully thin had purchased a shotgun.  The shotgun purchase was wholly a legal transaction. And a shotgun, while a weapon that can kill in the hands of someone who was proficient enough to load, point, aim, and shoot it, is not an automatic, high capacity weapon.

Did I mention that she was a high school student in Florida unfamiliar with Colorado climate?

Sooo.

The question remains why the authorities who lost track (and we'll soon circle back to this rather dubious claim) of Pais - presumably for days after arriving in Colorado would claim she was dressed in camouflage when she was wearing a black heavy metal group T-shirt, black shoes and black designer camouflage pants at the airport.

Are we to believe this outfit would disguise her as something other than who she was - a short, slightly built eighteen year old? One would think that any teenager of this description would blend in at a high school regardless of what they were wearing.

Now, don't get me wrong, a teenager carrying a shotgun into school would be the giveaway, again - regardless of what they were wearing.

But Sol Pais was not traveling to Colorado to visit a high school. She was there to commit suicide.  You don't need ineffective, fashionista camouflage to do that.   And out in the snowy forest, how could that outfit camouflage her no matter what her motivations were.

No, the truth is that when authorities smear descriptions such as this on subjects they are ratcheting up the ante.  Police who might otherwise approach her calmly will approach her with apprehension and a reflexive trigger-finger.  Likewise its plausible deniability for every wannbe Batman or Wonder Woman to shoot first and ask questions later if they go bounty hunting.

I have yet to find an official autopsy or postmortem for this tragedy - it appears to be getting whitewashed.  That's too bad. There are lessons to be learned.

Sol Pais: The Fabricated School Threats

The major search engines are no longer dependable repositories of objective information.  For the most cynical critics this observation is not new but in my experience there was a time when an individual could search the web and find all kinds of alternative interpretations of newsworthy information.

In researching Sol Pais's suicide and the events leading up to it, I've had to slog through an ocean of disinformation lucratively distributed by the Main Stream Media as its dictated by government officials who fabricate it for public consumption. The MSM reports this fiction seamlessly and without question.  And now Google and the mainstream search engines and social media sites comply as well.

The narrative that is almost ubiquitously coughed up when searching anything having to do with Sol Pais is that she threatened schools.

Dark as these times may be to compare various sources and opinions about information, there are always cracks in the cyber censorship model.

In this news report, information missing or obfuscated by the broader MSM is yet uncensored;

""Columbine and other schools tightened security the afternoon of April 16 and closed entirely on April 17 when authorities still had not located Pais. She never threatened a specific school, authorities said. 

Her body was found on April 17 in the foothills west of Denver. Authorities knew Pais was last seen in the area on April 15 but it was unclear when she killed herself until the coroner’s report Wednesday. 

“Based on the information we had at the time, local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies, in conjunction with school districts in the Denver Metro area, took the necessary steps to ensure our communities, and particularly our students, stayed safe until there was no longer a threat,” Jefferson County Sheriff Jeff Shrader said in a statement. 

An FBI spokeswoman declined comment Wednesday."

In fact, Pais never threatened any school or individual.  This is precisely why FBI spokespeople refuse to speak.  It is far more advantageous to allow the innuendo that Pais threatened a school or schools to float around on social media than to truthfully admit that this was a precautionary, cover-your-worthless-government-ass speculation.

Later, the same article notes,

"An autopsy summary by the Clear Creek County coroner estimated that 18-year-old Sol Pais likely died on April 15 — the day authorities said she flew to Denver from Miami. The FBI’s Denver office said it learned of Pais’ travel the following morning. Agents also learned the day after she died that Pais had gone directly to a gun store from the airport and purchased a shotgun and ammunition. 

Pais was already dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound by the time agents began retracing her steps, according to the coroner’s initial autopsy findings. 

Chief Deputy Coroner Harriet Hamilton said Wednesday that the office is awaiting test results before producing a final autopsy report. 

The gun purchase and other warning signs, including Pais’ past conversations about the 1999 Columbine shooting, led the FBI and local law enforcement to consider the young woman a potential threat to schools and issue a public warning about her, authorities have said."

Had Sol Pais threatened a school in any way a voice recording of that threat would exist.  I have yet to encounter any such thing.  To be specific, such a recording would be, as we say in the legal vernacular, "empirical proof" - "evidence", "motive" - more than just plain old bullshit.

The so-called "threat" was an imagined threat to a community whose psychological well-being is in worse shape than its many cult tragedy tribes.  I'll delve into this subject in a later post.   The authorities and post-traumatically-stressed community figures project their fears into opportunities like this.  The recipe is simple - mention Columbine, visit the area, ask about or buy a gun legally and spark a conversation with a local.  Instant crisis.

Here's a copy of the "public warning":

You will notice the No Probable Cause to Arrest heading. You will also notice "considered armed and dangerous" - again based on the infatuated with Columbine School shooting semantic tag that they assigned to her identity.

These kinds of public warnings expose the individual to potential vigilante justice while dog whistling to the authorities that the media by-product of such a warning will trigger a social encounter that will justify terminating the subject's life.

And given this kind of warning, what could  local officials conclude other than emptying the schools?  The confluence of the expectation of violence on the anniversary of the Columbine shootings, the mischaracterization of misguided souls such as Sol Pais, and the hair-trigger, over-reaction by the Columbine community toward even the faintest hint of local interest is a recipe for collateral damage every anniversary period.

The actual autopsy results are yet to be made public.  Nor has any official postmortem analysis of the event been publicized.

I Got an Idea, Let's Split Up!

Audiences never groaned often enough toward the end of grade 'B' scare movies when the individuals who remained alive during the killing spree came to the conclusion that they should "split up".  We all knew how that would work out.

In recent years there have even been product promotions making fun of the meme. Just a little something to keep in mind...


Over the decades of mass shootings, American schools have been hardened to become fortresses that could thwart violent invasion by one or more lunatics.  There are cameras that can count the pimples on student's cheeks, secured entrances and exits, one-way glass, and so on.

Now, its true that the security officers in any given school may be nothing more than a retired lady or gentleman who isn't intimidating anyone.  Still, its more than nothing.

Furthermore, the entire staff at schools and many businesses are trained in survival techniques - hiding, sheltering, and much more.   The most critical advice involves the question of fight or flight.  This is not a decision that is to be taken lightly and a healthy feedback loop of information - one would think - will include the risk involved in taking a stand.  After all, the concept of "Can I win this fight" - "What are my chances of survival" - and other such considerations come in -cough- handy.

I think you can sense where I'm going with this line of reasoning.


I think its fair to say that the Sol Pais example richly illustrates how fucked up law enforcement has become in protecting citizens, in accurately identifying the problem, in covering up their compounded stupidity, and in, far too often, aggravating already bad situations into total cluster fucks of incompetence.

Let's peel the onion together.

Sol Pais was a 5'5" (65") tall high school student who bought a shotgun to kill herself with.  That information was telegraphed in plain english for any intelligent human being to see.  And we know the authorities saw it before the rest of us did.

She wasn't intending to attack a school or anyone other than harm herself.  She wasn't buying easily concealed automatic weapons or even heavy artillery long guns.  No.  I mean if she wanted to attack anywhere, she would have done *that*.  After all, she probably never shot a gun of any kind in her life - she spent her time in her room, depressed listening to death metal music, and she curated a website pretty much dedicated to it.  She certainly wasn't at the shooting range. And she certainly wasn't trying to sneak into a school with an obviously difficult-to-hide shotgun given her stature.

So when the authorities circulated a photo that made her look like a thirty year old crack addict, machine-gun momma they were not only wrong, they were causing a panic in Denver.  Furthermore, they claimed she was insane because her father (drinking the official kool-aid) said there must be something wrong with her.  The complete context of this exchange is yet to be pieced together.

So.  Circling back to our previous thoughts about fight or flight - people in the area had no reason to believe it was not riskier to fight than flee if it came to that.  It seems to me that the public should expect a more comprehensive profile than that.

By now the parents were crawling up the asses of the authorities to do *SOMETHING/ANYTHING*!  And so they did.  The authorities quietly panicked.  They not only dismissed Columbine but schools all over the area - because, hey, you can't be too careful.

Right?

Right??

Of course that meant instead of being locked down in a protected fortress students were sent home in unprotected school buses that clogged traffic lanes and neighborhood streets. Had an actual shooter or shooters been loose, these targets would have been easy pickings.  Or malls congested with congregating teenagers.

Genius.



First draft.




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Sol Pais WAS NOT Obsessed by Columbine AT ALL

I spent this evening examining Sol Pais's journal on her website.

The journal consists of 61 pages curated by Sol to be discovered after her suicide attempt [keep in mind she might have been assassinated first]. The reference to potentially have been killed by someone other than her own hand will be dealt with in a separate blog entry.

There is not a single reference to Columbine in any of it. NOT A ONE.

There is not a single reference to killing anyone other than herself anywhere in the journal.

There is not a single drawing of anyone associated with Columbine or any other such event anywhere in the journal.

There is not even a temporal overlay to suggest she had any awareness of Columbine at all.  Columbine happened before she was born.  If she had been exposed to something that fascinated her, not a single link on her quite sophisticated website even hints an interest.  Any fair reading of her journal is compelling eveidence that she would not have been shy about it.

The authorities are demonizing and slandering this young woman's reputation.

She was never a threat to anyone.  She was gifted and brilliantly suicidal. She was not mentally ill in any criminal sense of the terminology.

She was a tortured soul who found solace in Death Metal music and lyrics.  Its often difficult to disambiguate her words against the fabric of lyrics from songs that express her feelings. The journal, taken as a whole, is an American Post-Modern mantra that gives the Tibetan Book of the Dead a run for its money.

Sol Pais, much like a terminal patient with something to leave behind, speaks privately what she cannot express in her day to day life.  The doctored photograph of her face covered is a classic metaphor for those who might bellow, "I have no mouth and I must scream!"

Sol Pais could not reconcile her existence.  Its a terrible self-knowledge she agonizes with on page after page.  She, like everyone who commits suicide, welcomes an end.  Its not something most of us can understand or accept but it is real.

The only indication she gives of why she feels an outsider is expressed on page 29, dated 6/29/18. She feels an outsider in an [oppressively] liberal high school.  Her rant could well be a meme for anyone who is intelligent and forced to witness the masses at work.

The agony of Sol Pais as a conservative student in a liberal school should serve as an important milestone for all of us.  The current political climate is adversely affecting generations of youth who may be as ready to check out of this world as engage it. 

We can't "woke" the dead.


Her suicide was planned and she would do it in the woods of Colorado.  She drew both the shotgun she would buy and a landscape that was her destination accurately looking like the woods of Colorado.  This illustration is on page 24 no date but sandwiched between 6/18/18 and 6/21/18.

The shotgun shows up on page 35 dated July 14, 2018.  I need to triangulate this to the correspondence about acquiring guns in Colorado by someone also using DissolvedGirl as an avatar.  Dissolved Girl is a sub-genre rock song that could be used by many fans of the music.

The journal pages are sequential and occasionally dated.  The illustrations circulated by authorities appear before page 5, dated May 27, 2018.

The illustration being sold as a Columbine shooter is in fact a man holding a large book.  We know that because Sol practiced drawing the book just to the left of the character who could be a priest, rabbi, speaker, or fantasy movie figure (see illustration).  Of course if what you are trying to sell is the Columbine myth, books are dangerous weapons.

It is on page 11, sandwiched between May 27, 2018 and June 17, 2018.






This is a second, updated, draft, I'm pressed for time but I'll flesh this out even more.


My warning falling on deaf ears and now obsolete but preserved for reference...

April 22, 2018 - New suspicious activity and assertions by the Cult of Columbine authorities is that Sol died wearing a guerrilla camouflage outfit.  This woman was committing suicide not honing her skills as a sniper using a shotgun.  There is a nasty cover-up being perpetrated here.

The Social Media Fabric that Swallowed Sol Pais

Invitational disclaimer:  Years ago, I had much more free time to spend investigating topics of special interest The best I can do is offer educated speculation that I hope provokes and stimulates attention and goodwill discussion of the topics at hand.  I'm more than happy to be proved wrong.  That's a long way of saying the you're welcome to complement anything you read here with comments, criticism, or your own writing elsewhere.

As of this writing we are still debating the ebbing tide of concern about fake news. Fake news, for the most part, is information that is widely distributed to distort the reality of political events. Fake news isn't exclusive to politics but that's where it garners the most attention.

I became aware of the Sol Pais story on Thursday, April 18. When I started looking for information it seemed to have appeared whole cloth - Sol Pais was imitating the Columbine shooters, the FBI was looking for her, she was dead, and here's all the corroborating evidence she deserved to die. Boom.

The story didn't develop from one event to the other. Mostly, its over. back to Mueller and Russia, and Trump-hate news.

Burp.

I am blessed and cursed by sensing patterns. And nothing about the news reports, before or since, strike me as anything but empty echoes by law enforcement that rationalized their hunting down of Sol Pais.  The closer I look, the more I distrust everything being asserted about this teenager.

I first wrote about the subject of "swatting" back in 2014.

A more recent example involved gamers. 

There's not only a pattern emerging, but an escalation.

The Pais narrative smells like the next step.  The authorities, acting on a tip, somehow don't act fast enough to detain this girl for questioning long before she flies to Denver and [allegedly] buys a shotgun, and somehow is found dead after wandering around in the woods.

Take that in for a minute.  AND!  AND! they have a trove of [laughably preposterous] back story about her and her [imagined] destination and intentions.

The question for me, aside from the lack of any hard facts or objective analysis of the information at hand, was and continues to be - has the law enforcement community incorporated "swatting" as a tool in their arsenal of plausible deniability in exterminating suspects without the presumption of innocence, without warning, and without subsequent consequence.

When information is weaponized in this way, its not fake news - its more like propaganda on steroids - it pushes emotional response buttons in its intended audience.  This incites an agency in that public cohort to eliminate the discomfort.

When that cohort is an intolerant, vigilante organization then the response is the equivalent of throwing meat into a tank of hungry piranha.

The public is looking away from Sol Pais's death - believing the cover stories - secure in the knowledge that it was justified.  The tsunami of official terror porn has done its job.

But what if it wasn't an inside cover-up?

An even more disturbing is the distinct possibility, Pais was swatted by a zealot from a special interest group whose myopic interpretation of art, or interest, or objection to opinion or comment triggered outrage.  That outrage manifested in licensing a swat killing of the offending party.

The trajectory of this kind of violence and rational to violence will not end with Pais.  If Americans are concerned about hackers participating in politics online, what happens when one of those hackers or political operatives decides to target a politician, or their family, or their sponsors? This is a slippery slope covered in blood.

These anonymous tips need to be vetted.  They need transparency, and they need to be evaluated by even tempered analysts. That is clearly not the case today.

The tools to unravel this sequence of alarm and violence is readily available.

We need an accurate timeline of events - actual classic news.  Who, what, Where, When...

And then it gets interesting.

Ruminations on the Credible Innocence of Sol Pais

The bizarre story of the hunting and death of Sol Pais fit a pattern I've written about before and that continues to play out with predictable inevitability.  The pattern I'm speaking of is the use of sometimes over-eager or paralyzed by fear law enforcement officials to "swat" an unsuspecting victim.

The deadly game starts with an anonymous tip that someone/somewhere has or may have a weapon and the tipster is "just doing their duty" to report that maybe/just maybe they are a threat to the general public.  The consequence is almost always tragic for the unsuspecting target.

In this case, an eighteen year old honors student is dead. Based on the sketchy and preliminary information I can gather, I think this may be a case of wrongful death.

The fabric of our contemporary American civilization needs to be carefully reconsidered.  The preposterous "evidence" promoted by the authorities is little more than a thimble full of dross.  The subsequent social media dissemination of this nonsense serves as a cautionary tale that journalism is broken, social media search engines are corrupt, and our social media society is psychologically being programmed to kill, destroy, or maim by proxy.

I'll be writing about the details of these issues as I have time.  Yesterday, Good Friday, I spent some time privately discussing the possibility of raising the Julie Group from the ashes of a long hiatus.  The investigative work that needs to be done includes substantiating source of truth material. Virtually everything that has been publicized is either hearsay, innuendo, or a cover-up to justify a manhunt that could only end in tragedy.  If government officials have gone rogue, we are all in deep trouble.

An accurate timeline of events is critical. Confirming the veracity of Ms. Pais's notebook, website content, email correspondence, geo-location evidence and so on is critical.  There's more that must be discussed confidentially.

Law enforcement has not only sold the public on a de facto guilt of this young woman but are compounding that mistake by broadening their investigation into her friends and associates.

There are real problems with this myopic approach. If Ms. Pais was lured into some kind of entrapment scheme, her friends and associates may also be. If there are official bad actors involved, they need to be dismissed.  The FBI should have a strong incentive to assign an internal affairs investigation into what's going on.

My own investigative sense has raised a concern antithetical to my personal politics. The initial "tip" may have come from an anti-gun advocate or vigilante group. I'll attempt to examine these possibilities later in detail.

However, the possibility exists that Pais, upon legal purchase of a firearm in the vicinity of Columbine, provided all the personal identification required for a misguided local to call in a self-serving tip to Florida police.

Given the school-shooting tragedies in Florida and the subsequent gun reform mobilization, Pais may have run afoul of political correctness regarding these issues  prompting a retaliatory anonymous tip.

Another possibility is that her family, being from Argentina [based on MSM reports], may have been targeted by an anti-immigration group.

Or maybe the tip was legitimate.

It's important to establish the facts for obvious reasons.

Educational Fraud, You Need Not Look Far

Today, Valerie Strauss of  the Washington Post reports on a set of fraud cases that are but the tip of an iceberg in secondary education.

This has long been one of my special interests as the undeserving leap-frog the deserving systemically with open eyes and welcoming hospitality.

A few years ago, a fellow BOE member once whispered to me, "So what if her Dad gave her a helping hand, why not!"

Here's an excerpt from the Post,

"Following are excerpts from the explosive 204-page criminal complaint charging more than 30 wealthy people — including Hollywood actors and college coaches — in a years-long scheme to bribe and cheat to get their children into exclusive colleges and universities.

The Washington Post story on the complaint says:

The alleged crimes included cheating on entrance exams, as well as bribing college officials to say certain students were coming to compete on athletic teams when those students were not in fact athletes.

The criminal complaint paints an ugly picture of high-powered individuals committing crimes to get their children into selective schools. Among those charged are actresses Felicity Huffman, best known for her role on the television show “Desperate Housewives,” and Lori Loughlin, who appeared on “Full House,” according to court documents.

[FBI accuses wealthy parents, including celebrities, in college-entrance bribery scheme]

According to the criminal complaint, the schools targeted included Georgetown University, Stanford University, UCLA, the University of San Diego, the University of Southern California, the University of Texas at Austin, Wake Forest University and Yale University.

The complaint says that many of the children involved did not know what their parents had done to get them into school."

I think that list is short a school or two.

The system remains gamed to favor the sons and daughters of entitlement, privilege, wealth, and political pull.  Critics of educational reform usually have a vested stake in this game.  These occasional speed bumps will do little to change it.


 

The Tech in Schools Debate

"In a recent NPR report, writer Anya Kamenetz notes that clinicians are debating whether technology overuse is best categorized as a bad habit, a symptom of other mental struggles (such as depression or anxiety), or as an addiction."

From:  https://www.edsurge.com/news/2018-02-07-former-google-design-ethicist-relying-on-big-tech-in-schools-is-a-race-to-the-bottom

Unschooling American Education

When I was in college, I became a fan of the de-schooling authors and followed their work enthusiastically.  John Holt, Ivan Illich, Paulo Friere, and others found a warm place on my bookshelf.

Some 50 years later, those concepts have evolved.

see: http://reason.com/reasontv/2019/01/24/these-unschoolers-say-children-dont-need

Carnegie Mellon Releases Free High School Computer Science Curriculum

https://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2019/january/cmu-launches-high-school-computer-science-curriculum.html