After 18 year-old Pekka-Eric Auvinen killed seven students and his principal at a Finnish high school Wednesday in an attack eerily similar to Columbine, media outlets reported that Auvinen had posted a YouTube video describing the shooting before he launched the attack, leading pundits to question why no one had noticed it in time to prevent the massacre.

But months before the fateful video was posted, one prolific YouTube user known as TheAmazingAtheist called for the police to investigate Auvinen and others who had been posting videos glorifying the Columbine shooters and Timothy McVeigh, saying they were showing warning signs of being more than simply infatuated or interested in violence.

On June 7,2007 TheAmazingAtheist, whose real name appears to be Terroja Lee Kincaid, posted a rant filmed in his garage entitled "Columbine Killers, Mental Midgets & Social Darwinism." About 7 minutes into the video, which drew plenty of comments in June, he says:

"[W]hen someone starts talking about how they admire [Columbine shooters Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold], you have to wonder if they might not be potential dangers and I think they should be investigated as potential dangers," he said. "Not go to jail of course, but I think that those people are the kind of people you want to keep your eye on."

We are always talking about warning signs. Well if you want to talk about warning signs, there they are [pointing off screen to a list of URLs of YouTube profiles, including Auvinen’s old profile NaturalSelector89]. I hope they get a lot of attention. I’m not the kind of person who would report these profiles to the FBI or to a law enforcement agency. And I don’t think most of them should be, but there are a few that would warrant some kind of investigation. I’m not the kind of person who would report them, but if you are, by all means do so, because some of these people facing the authorities about their beliefs on these matters would be just fine by me. Investigate those fucking people. It’s really hard to know where to draw the line because its such a dangerous thing I am advocating. […] but there is that point I think where someone crosses the line […] RobinMcveigh, for instance, will go around threatening to shoot people. She threatened to shoot me. Several people on MySpace have said she threatened to shoot them. She makes a habit of going around threatening to shoot people. It’s something she does. That’s someone who warrants an investigation. She admires Timothy McVeigh, she admires the Columbine kids […] When you start admiring all those people and you start threatening people, I think that should set off some flags.

On Wednesday, as news of the killing broke, TheAmazingAtheist posted another video entitled "I Knew This Would Happen":

Today I am vindicated but I don’t feel good about it.



You can probably tell I am not happy about my vindication. It was something I warned you this would happen. something that I told you to be mindful of, and you didn’t.



You criticized me for it. Many of you said I was being a bully and I was picking on people. […]



For those of you who couldn’t know what I’m talking about, the YouTube user formerly known as NaturalSelector89 and StormGeist89 decided to go on a little killing spree down in Finland and shoot up his classmates. Now I warned you guys that these social darwinists kids that idolized Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were dangerous and i have the videos right there [pointing offscreen to URLs] to prove it. I warned you., I warned you. I went specifically head-to-head with the kid that committed this act. I made videos directed exactly at him My video "NaturalSelector89 A Sub Par Human" was directed at the man or the boy who would on this day become another mass murderer in the tradition of the people you have allowed him to heroify.

Auvinen had a following and friends on YouTube who would also create videos set to black metal or thrash music that glorified young teenagers taking revenge on bullying classmates and a stultifying society by gunning them down.

TheAmazingAtheist, now 22, was himself a young high school goth at the time of the Columbine shootings, and said, in a YouTube video, that he was interrogated by school authorities who thought he would stage a similar attack. In one video, he argues that the lesson of Columbine and Virginia Tech shootings was that disaffected youth could become famous, not through art or writing, but through mass violence.

On his YouTube profile, Auvinen wrote "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. 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."

TheAmazingAtheist declined requests to talk in depth to THREAT LEVEL:

I really don’t have any desire to entrench myself in this as if I can speak for him. All I can say is that when people idolize killers and have no love for themselves it’s not hard to see the course their lives might take.

He suggested we talk to RobinMcVeigh who he said was Auvinen’s best friend, but she did not respond to a message for comment. RobinMcVeigh was one of the users included in a list of people who he thought was investigation worthy.

The AmazingAtheist’s list of profiles, which he has since removed, is as follows:

INVESTIGATION WORTHY: http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=RobinMcVeigh

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=Hendrixfor3ver REALLY BAD: http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=NeKoo4823 http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=freurfrie http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=Viequense7 http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=emogurli666biotch http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=NaturalSelector89 (emphasis added) http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=blitzkreigstein http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=PsychopathicHottie http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=RebAndVoDKaGir

(Image: The picture from Avinen’s YouTube profile)