In the winter 2000 issue of the journal '' 49th Parallel '' , Turse wrote of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold , the perpetrators of the Columbine High School massacre , " Who would not concede that terrorizing the American machine , at the very site where it exerts its most powerful influence , is a truly revolutionary task ? To be inarticulate about your goals , even to not understand them , does not negate their existence . Approve or disapprove of their methods , vilify them as miscreants , but do n't dare disregard these modern radicals as anything less than the latest incarnation of disaffected insurgents waging the ongoing American revolution . " Historian David Farber of Temple University wrote that Turse 's assertion " only makes sense in an academic culture in which transgression is by definition political and in which any rage against society can be considered radical . "
Columbine High School massacre
Columbine High School massacre
Nick Turse