Political Views
In March 2004, during a school pep rally, Weise extended his right arm upward in the Nazi salute while students were reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. He was sent to a school counselor and professed far-right leanings and his admiration for Adolf Hitler. In April, the faculty at Red Lake Senior High School had been warned of someone threatening to "shoot up" the school on April 20, Hitler's birthday and the five-year anniversary of the Columbine High School massacre. Weise was a prime suspect in the threat and was expelled in October. For the following five months, Weise was enrolled in a home-schooling program for children residing on the reservation.
Weise is also believed to have posted messages on the Neo-Nazi Internet forum of the Libertarian National Socialist Green Party under the aliases NativeNazi and Todesengel (German for "angel of death"). The posts revealed an admiration for the ideas of Adolf Hitler, and interests in persuading other Native Americans as to the merits of those ideas. He also had a fascination with the swastika. On one occasion, he fought with a pupil whom he referred to as a "Communist".
In one post, dated July 13, 2004, he claimed:
As a result of cultural dominance and interracial mixing there is barely any full blooded Natives left. Where I live less than 1% of all the people on the Reservation can speak their own language, and among the youth wanting to be black has run rampant...Under a National Socialist government, things for us would improve vastly… and that is why I am pro-Nazi.
Another post read:
I try not to be aggressive in most situations, I'll use force if I have to, but I'm not about to go out and pick a fight. I'm mostly defensive, I'll defend myself if someone tries something but other than that I'm a peaceful person.
The posts were dated eleven months prior to the shooting.
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