Red Lake Whitewash

[NVMojo]

Amid all of the fake soul-searching in the aftermath of the recent Red Lake high school shooting, one question is hysterically avoided: Was Jeff Weise's massacre justified?



The best argument for considering whether or not Weise was provoked comes from the hysterical official reaction: a cataract of lies, moral acrobatics, grotesque cliches and laughable contradictions all of which point to a giant cultural cover-up. The goal of this cover-up is to place all blame for the massacre on Jeff Weise's evil shoulders. Thus, every major news organization repeatedly describes Weise as a Nazi, a gore-obsessed goth who once gelled his hair into the shape of horns.



The Nazi claim is the craziest of all. The obvious contradiction—Weise is a Native American, a child of one of the world's greatest Holocausts—is lost on the very culture that committed that Holocaust. Weise was acutely aware of his people's Holocaust, and he explicitly linked his rage and his urge to massacre to America's moral hypocrisy. On one posting, Weise described America as "a country founded on the deaths of millions of Native Americans." In another he wrote: "9/11 was Bush's Reichstag. 100,000 Innocent Iraqis dead since the beginning of the war, is this what they mean by 'you must sacrifice one for the good of the many?'" His solution? "ne day I'll gladly buy my sons (once I have them) assault rifles, pistols, shotguns, rifles, whatever. It's my right as an 'American.' God bless America, for killing billions of people world wide."

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Jeff Weise is the offspring of an exterminated nation whose people suffer from rates of alcoholism, poverty and early death usually found in African countries. His father committed suicide; his alcoholic mother regularly beat him until she crashed her car and wound up a vegetable. It is easy to imagine that Weise connected his personal misery to the larger misery of his people.

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http://www.nypress.com/18/14/news&columns/markames.cfm

[rainy]

1. I nominate this for greatest post as more people should see this.

[donsu]

2. kick

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[RaleighNCDUer]

3. Justified or justifiable?

It was certainly justified in his own mind, or he wouldn't have done it. I don't believe it is justifiable from anyone else's point of view.

But the fact remains, as the article points out, that we are not getting the whole story here, and likely getting a lot of flat out fabrications to 'justify' what happened.

[Serial Mom]

4. Kick ...

How right you are!

offspring of an exterminated nation whose people suffer from rates of alcoholism, poverty

They also experience high rates of health problems - Diabetes is rampant among Native Americans and showing up in children, not as juvenile diabetes, but as Type 2 Diabetes usually occurring in the older obese population.

I am amazed that some "investigative" reporter can't find the truth in matters such as this!

[Aryel]

5. New here

I live in Minneapolis, and I can tell you that these shootings have brought about much debate in the area. Also, I heard today that another kid was arrested in a suburb of Mpls for making threats against fellow students.

Here's the latest article in our local newspaper regarding the Red Lake shootings.

http://startribune.com/stories/156/5335596.html


I found a link to what apparently happened today.

http://www.startribune.com/stories/467/5334921.html

What's going on with kids today? :o