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  • Red Lake Victim’s Family Speaks Out

    Red Lake Victim’s Family Speaks Out

    Jeff Weise ‘ain’t no victim in this’:

    One of the families of a Red Lake shooting victim has spoken out. Donna Lewis, the mother of slain victim Dewayne Lewis, had some choice words for the media and I find it hard to disagree with her…

    “People are looking at that kid, Jeff Weise, like he’s a victim,” said Donna Lewis of Ponemah, whose son, Dewayne Lewis, 15, died in Weise’s assault on Red Lake Senior High School on March 21.

    “He ain’t no victim in this. He’s the one that caused all of this. … He was a murderer. And I don’t even think that his family should even get s— from us. I think they’re the ones to blame, too, because the older people are supposed to watch their kids….

    “They knew he was having problems. They should have been on him right away, instead of letting him go through life being a miserable little kid.”

    It’s absolutely true. Jeff Weise was not a victim, and anyone who believes that is fooling themselves. The article states that some Red Lake residents speak of Weise as part of the community’s shared tragedy.

    He is not part of the tragedy, he’s the cause of it.

  • Prior Knowledge

    Prior Knowledge

    Guard’s family member may have known of Weise’s plan:

    (Log in info) This would be a very interesting development if it turns out to be true. Victoria Brun, the sister of slain Red Lake security guard Derrick Brun, is saying that someone in their family may have had prior knowledge of the attack. The family member has not been identified since the family member is a minor.

    I’m beginning to doubt a lot of these “prior knowledge” claims. It was first reported that 20 people had prior knowledge of the attack, which turned out to be the speculation of a police officer not involved with the case. At the time, I thought 20 was too high of a number. I mean, the odds of 20 people knowing about the plot and the information not reaching some school official or police are very slim.

    Definitely, the signs were there, but to go as far as calling that prior knowledge is a stretch.

  • Red Lake Grand Jury

    Red Lake Grand Jury

    Red Lake Student Ordered to Appear Before Grand Jury:

    An unidentified Red Lake student has been ordered to appear before the grand jury in Minneapolis on April 13. The subpoena orders the student to provide fingerprints, a DNA sample, and a set of full-body photos. That last one kind of creeps me out. No word on the reason behind the subpoena.

  • No Gun Found At Red Lake

    No Gun Found At Red Lake

    No gun found in Red Lake High School:

    A search of Red Lake High School found no weapons, and the school is safe for students to return next week, Red Lake public safety director Pat Mills said today.

    That is all.

  • Harris House Sold

    Harris House Sold

    Parents of Columbine killer sell home:

     A little bit less than a year ago, I did an entry about the house of Eric Harris was up for sale. Well, the house has been finally sold.

    What I found funny about the article is that it states that realtors did not have to reveal that Eric Harris lived there, or that he stored his guns and bombs there before launching the Columbine massacre.

    Yet, the article mentions the name of the people who bought the house. If they didn’t know before, I’m sure they know now. I was hoping someone would bulldoze the house after they bought it, but I guess that’s not going to happen.

  • Search for Gun at Red Lake

    Search for Gun at Red Lake

    FBI: Gun Search At Red Lake High School:

    Again, I’ll just quote…

    A healing ceremony was postponed and Monday’s planned start of classes at Red Lake High School was in doubt after the FBI announced it was searching for a gun at the school.

    “We have uncorroborated intelligence about the possibility of a gun on the premises of Red Lake High School,” FBI spokesman Paul McCabe said Thursday. Federal agents and Red Lake police were searching the school, he said.

    What struck me as odd was that on Monday, when class reopens, armed security guards will be present. I realize this may be necessary, but it seems like a case of closing the barn door after the horses are out.

  • 20 Plotters Downplayed

    20 Plotters Downplayed

    ’20 plotters’ comment played down:

    Just going to quote here…

    The top federal prosecutor in Minnesota says a Red Lake tribal police officer’s claim that as many has 20 students may have known about Jeff Weise’s plan to go on a killing spree at the reservation’s high school was “opinion,” and he refused to endorse it.

    U.S. Attorney Tom Heffelfinger in Minneapolis pointed out that the comment, made during a school board meeting last week, came from a policeman whose department is not conducting the investigation into the March 21 shootings.

    Even if 20 people didn’t know about the plot in advance, if more than one person knew and didn’t do anything to stop it, it’s too many.

  • Tin Foil Press

    Tin Foil Press

    Red Lake Whitewash:

    I originally wanted to call this entry something less culturally sensitive, but I was talked out of it.

    Anyway, this article is from the New York Press, which calls itself New York’s premiere alternative newspaper. That translates into a hippy rag. Rather than let Jeff Weise be responsible for his own actions, the “author” of this article lays the blame squarely on the evil white man. Read the whole article, but I’ll give you a little taste…

    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.

    It is easy to imagine that Weise connected his personal misery to the larger misery of his people.

    Ok, smart guy, let me ask you a question. If Jeff Weise was so outraged by the horrible treatment of his people, then why did he kill not only a member of his own bloodline but also other residents of his own reservation?

    Get back to me when you unwrap yourself from your tin foil cocoon protecting you from your imagined white man conspiracy.

  • Victims Recovering

    Victims Recovering

    Wounded Red Lake teen’s first words: ‘I’m hungry’:

    (Log in info) Some good news out of Red Lake. The two kids who were most seriously injured at Red Lake High School seem to be improving.

    First Steven Cobenais…

    For the first time in more than two weeks, Red Lake High School shooting victim Steven Cobenais was able to speak to his parents Monday.

    The words, spoken from his intensive-care bed just after his breathing tube was removed, could have come from any teenage at almost any time.

    “I’m hungry,” he uttered.

    MeritCare neurosurgeon Alex Mendez said Tuesday that he had wondered if Cobenais would ever get to this point.

    “This kid’s going to die on me,” is what Mendez recalled thinking when he first saw Cobenais’ CT scan revealing a brain riddled with bullet fragments.

    Cobenais, who was shot in the forehead and has lost his left eye, is now in serious condition. He has made miracles out of mundane tasks, such as squeezing a hand when asked to and talking in short sentences, Mendez said.

    And he eats Jell-O.

    No small feat when doctors are concerned about your ability to swallow. There are still the rehab and health hazards to guard against, but Cobenais is off on the right foot, Mendez said.

    “This isn’t just a scientific miracle,” Mendez said. “We’ve done just the basics. … There’s something more here.”

    And Jeffrey May…

    May, who is recovering from a gunshot to his face and a stroke, was moved from the intensive care unit Friday and upgraded to guarded condition.

    Please keep them in your thoughts and prayers.

  • The Unintentionally Funny Lawyer

    The Unintentionally Funny Lawyer

    Osantowski’s attorney wants charges dropped:

    My favorite attorney turned unintentional comedian is in the news again. Andrew Osantowski’s lawyer, Brian Legghio, is now trying to say that the plot Andrew Osantowski spoke to Ceilia Ginty about is protected as free speech. I think the Founding Fathers just rolled in their collective graves when I typed that. Again. I say let’s go to the chat transcript…

    on judgment day ill prolly kill him, my mom, my sistyer, my autisitc brother and my 3 cats

    bring a gun to school, ur on the front of every newspaper

    didnt choose this life, but i damn well chose to exit it

    i cant imagine going through life without killing a few people

    Now, of course, Mr. Osantowski is free to say those things. However, what he is not free from is the repercussions from his own actions.

    I don’t know if Mr. Legghio is trying to be funny, but he sure gives me a chuckle. On the other hand, Assistant Macomb County Prosecutor Steven Kaplan lays out the facts…

    “We don’t have to prove he would have done it or he had the ability,” Kaplan said. “The communication itself is the crime. We can prove he had the motive and the wherewithal to commit carnage at the high schools. He had hundreds of rounds of ammunition.”

    So what Mr. Legghio is saying that the threats made by Andrew Osantowski were protected as free speech; therefore, authorities should not have acted on those threats, which may have culminated in the senseless bloodshed of students and staff at Osantowski’s school.

    Makes perfect sense to me. Assclown.