In each of these cases, satanism, nihilism, and a fascination with violence and destruction figure prominently. In several of the more notorious cases, addiction to video games, and to nihilistic and graphically violent movies (such as Oliver Stones Natural Born Killers) were major components of the lives of these children. There is also the disturbing fact that three of the school shootersEric Harris of Littleton, Kip Kinkel, and Thomas J. Solomonwere among the more than 6 million children in the United States who are taking mind-altering drugs prescribed as a treatment. It may well be that the children on Ritalin, on Prozac, Luvox, and other psychiatric drugs, are walking human time bombs.

by Michele Steinberg The murders of 13 students and teachers at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado on April 20, 1999, shocked the world. These acts of murder by two young men from well-to-do families, who cold-bloodedly shot fellow students and teachers, and then killed themselves, caused a wave of fear and soul-searching, to ripple throughout America. Yet Littleton was only the most notorious of at least eight similar such incidents carried out by child killers, Manchurian Children, who learned their deadly skills from video games, and their scenarios from Hollywood. The brutal acts of these children exemplify a new phenomena in the world. It is the New Violence, as Democratic Presidential pre-candidate Lyndon LaRouche was the first to precisely characterize it at the time ( see box ). It is the use of Nintendo-style games, and related means, to transform young children and adolescents, as well as law-enforcement personnel into Samurai-style programmed killers. The child-killers we have seen so far are only the first of what will be many more Nintendo killersif we fail to recognize and stop the phenomenon. There is a pattern, certain features which are common to all of these cases in the United States: