Jeff Weise

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. Before that, the admission of Alaska in January 1959 prompted the debut of a short-lived 49-star flag. As a result of cultural dominance and interracial mixing there is [sic] barely any full blooded Natives left. Heft's design was chosen, after Hawaii gained statehood in August 1959. In one post, dated July 13, 2004, he claimed:. The most recent change, from forty-nine stars to fifty, occurred in 1960 when Robert G. He also alleged that the school was warned that someone was going to "shoot up" the school on April 20, the birthday of Adolf Hitler and the anniversary of the Columbine High School massacre, and that the school authorities "pinned" the threat on him. July 4, Independence Day in the United States, commemorates the founding of the nation.

On one occasion, he fought with a pupil whom he referred to as a "Communist". When the flag design changes, the change always takes place on July 4 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as a consequence of the Flag Act of April 4, 1818. 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. It was the 15-star, 15-stripe flag that inspired Francis Scott Key to write "The Star-Spangled Banner," now the national anthem. 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"). It was ultimately decided that there would be a star for each state, but the number of stripes would remain at thirteen to honor the original colonies. Weise's Newgrounds profile also noted that one of his favorite movies was "Elephant", a film based on the events of the Columbine High School Massacre. As further states entered the union, extra stars and stripes were added until this proved to cause too much clutter.

To which he replied that there was a difference between fantasy and reality, and that the cartoon meant nothing. Initially, a variety of designs were used, including a circular arrangement (below), but gradually a design featuring horizontal rows of stars emerged as the standard. [3] It is also noteworthy that an early reviewer of the animation on newgrounds remarked that Weise 'needed help badly'. The Flag Resolution did not specify any particular arrangement for the stars. The animation is accompanied by the sounds of gunfire. Tradition holds that the new flag was first hoisted in June of 1777 by the Continental Army at the Middlebrook encampment. It ends when the character uses a handgun to shoot himself in the head. On June 14, 1777, the Second Continental Congress passed the Flag Resolution which stated: "Resolved, That the flag of the United States be made of thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new Constellation." Flag Day is now observed on June 14 of each year.

One animation entitled Target Practice[2] depicts an individual who shoots three people with an assault rifle, blows up a police car with a grenade, then shoots a Ku Klux Klan member. Since 1937, the District of Columbia has used a flag based on this design. Weise also created violent Flash animations and posted them on the Internet (including Newgrounds) using the alias "Regret". The red-and-white stripe (and later, stars-and-stripes) motif of the flag may have been based on the Washington family coat-of-arms, which consisted of a shield "argent, two bars gules, above, three mullets gules" (a white shield with two red bars below three red stars). Weise was described by friends and family as an obsessed fan of Horrorcore music, and Mars, whose upcoming international release is entitled "Some Girls Deserve To Die". The Grand Union Flag is the same as the East India Company flag of the same era, although the East India Company flag could have from 9 to 13 stripes. Another website he frequented was The Official Mars Website, the online headquarters for the San Francisco, Bay Area Horrorcore rapper Mars, where the users are encouraged to post about music, murder, and suicide on its forums. This flag formed the basis of the Stars and Stripes, consisting of 13 red and white stripes with the British Union Jack in the canton.

(Note: Grover's Mill, the town in Weise's story, was the town in a series of movies called Critters about small furry monsters that devoured humans.). This flag was initially flown by George Washington and is recorded as being first raised by Washington's troops at Prospect Hill on New Year's Day in 1776. The story is bloody and crude in content and spelling, but the language style is articulate beyond his age at the time. At the time of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776, the most commonly flown flag was the Grand Union Flag. In a short story he published in late 2003/early 2004, titled "Surviving the Dead", he includes a detailed description of a school massacre from a victim's perspective, combining it with the subject of zombies. The current 50-star version will tie the record if it is still in use on July 4, 2007. Weise posted frequently on Internet boards dealing with the subject of zombies, under the pseudonym "Blades11". The 48-star version holds the record, 47 years, for the longest time the flag has gone unchanged.

Weise also had a fascination with the swastika, a symbol both Native Americans and Nazis have used. The flag has gone through 26 changes since the new union of 13 states first adopted it. stuff." [1]. According to Presidential proclamation, Congressional order, and custom, the American flag is displayed continuously at the following locations:. He was known to wear a dark trench coat to school all year round; he was also known to have a notebook into which he drew what has been described as "evil and dark.. According to the New York Public Library Desk Reference:. Although no clear motive has been attributed to Weise's actions yet, he was described as a loner, who was bullied – possibly due to his appearance. the Philippines, also use this method to fold their flags.

Weise allegedly had a history of trouble at the school, including fist-fights. Former American territories, e.g. This execution of one of the safety procedures established by the school (most likely as a result of the Columbine massacre of 1999) meant that many lives were saved. The final triangle shape result is said to invoke the image of the three-point hats popular during the American Revolutionary War. An attempt to break into an English classroom was thwarted by a quick-thinking teacher who had taken the precaution to lock the door. Flags, when not in use, should be folded into a triangle shape. Once in there, he was said to be "waving and smiling" as he shot students at random. Instead, the flag should be moved so it is not touching the ground.

When the police first arrived, Weise briefly opened fire on them before proceeding into the building. Contrary to a commonly believed urban legend, the flag code does not state that a flag that touches the ground should be burned. Wearing a reservation-police-issued bulletproof vest, likely taken from the stolen reservation police patrol vehicle, he shot the third victim (the security guard) immediately upon arriving at the school. In other countries and places, local etiquette applies. CST. jurisdiction. Weise then drove a patrol vehicle (a truck or SUV believed to be his grandfather's) to the high school, propelling it into the building at around 3:00 p.m. This etiquette is as applied within U.S.

The incident apparently began at home in the afternoon when Weise allegedly killed his grandfather and Sigana. These are guidelines, not laws; there is no penalty for failure to comply with them. Two handguns and a shotgun that belonged to his grandfather were believed to be used in the shootings. There are certain guidelines for the use and display of the United States flag as outlined in the United States Flag Code of the federal government. After briefly exchanging fire with police officers following the murders, Weise committed suicide. According to Heft, his teacher did keep to their agreement and changed his grade to an "A" for the project. As many as 15 others were wounded in the school shooting. Heft's flag design was chosen and adopted by presidential proclamation after Alaska and before Hawaii was admitted into the union in 1959.

Later he shot and killed seven people at Red Lake High School, including a teacher and a security guard. After discussing the grade with his teacher, it was agreed (somewhat jokingly) that if the flag was accepted by Congress, the grade would be reconsidered. First he killed his grandfather and grandfather's wife, 32-year old Michelle Sigana, who was his grandfather's police force partner. He originally received a "B-" for the project. On March 21, 2005 Weise killed a total of ten people. His mother was a seamstress, but forced Heft to do all of the work on his own. He also apparently inflicted injuries upon himself and, according to a schoolmate, attempted suicide in early 2005. He was 17 years old at the time and did the flag design as a class project.

He was apparently taking medication for depression and was seeing a therapist. The current 50-star flag was designed by Robert Heft in 1958 while living with his grandparents in Ohio. Troublesome behaviour eventually led the school to put him in a home schooling program in 2004. It gives the colors by reference to "Standard Color Cards of America" maintained by the Color Association of the United States, Inc., as. Weise expressed frustration with being forced back to the Red Lake region and was considered an outsider by many there. According to Flags of the World, the colors are specified by the General Services Administration "Federal Specification, Flag, National, United States of America and Flag, Union Jack," DDD-F-416E, dated November 27, 1981. Paul area with his mother and two aunts, but was forced to move back to the reservation after the accident happened. Presumably E and F are approximations of 7/130 = 0.0[538461], and G and H are approximations of 0.76/12 = 0.06[3].

Jeff had been living in the Minneapolis-St. The specification gives the following values:. As a result, she was forced to live in a nursing home in Minneapolis as of 2005. The design of the flag is specified by United States Code title 4, chapter 1, section 1 [1]. Joanne Weise, Jeff's mother, alleged to be a heavy drinker, suffered brain damage in a 1999 alcohol-related car accident. A book about the flag published by the Congress in 1977 gives further symbolism for the flag:. The senior Lussier had attempted to intervene in that event, but was unable to bring the standoff to a peaceful end. ^{[USGov 4]}.

Weise's father, Daryl "Baby Dash" Lussier, Jr., had committed suicide in July 1997 after a day-long police standoff. Reid suggested that the number of stripes be set at thirteen to represent the original 13 colonies and that only the number of stars be set to the number of states. Weise was a Ojibwa (Chippewa) Native American who lived on the Red Lake reservation in north-central Minnesota with his 58-year old grandfather, Red Lake Police Department officer Daryl "Dash" Lussier, Sr. Naval Captain Samuel C. . During the debate that eventually resulted in the Flag Act of 1818, U.S. He left many postings across the World Wide Web on websites such as nazi.org, offering an unusual level of public insight into his thoughts and the hardships in his life that led to his depression and fascination with dark imagery in the months and years prior to the shootings. However, this became unwieldy as states were added to the union.

Jeffrey James Weise (August 8, 1988 – March 21, 2005) was a high school student of Red Lake, Minnesota responsible for the shooting deaths of his grandfather and his grandfather's partner and the Red Lake High School massacre, a school shooting in which he killed seven people and injured more than a dozen others before committing suicide. Originally, both the number of stripes and the number of stars were supposed to represent the number of states. Saint Paul Pioneer Press. Thomson. Troubling Internet postings clash with family's view of a happy Weise. Rather, the meanings were a matter of contemporary fashion and personal preference on the part of Mr. David Hanners and Beth Silva (March 24, 2005). Meanings were attached to the colors (which, contrary to popular misinformation, is not part of any of the rules of heraldry).

Star Tribune. However, on June 20, 1782, Charles Thomson, the secretary of the Continental Congress, gave a report to the Congress defining the new Great Seal of the United States. Jeff Weise: A mystery in a life full of hardship. When the Second Continental Congress proposed the Flag Resolution on June 14, 1777, there was no particular symbolism attached to the colors or their arrangement on the flag. Chuck Haga, Howie Padilla, and Richard Meryhew (March 23, 2005). Some groups concerned by these actions have proposed a Flag Burning Amendment that would give Congress the authority to outlaw burning the flag in disrespect or protest. Story written by Weise, about a school massacre. Burning the flag has also been used as a deliberate act of disrespect (flag desecration), at times to protest actions by the United States government, or sometimes in displays of anti-Americanism overseas.

Smoking Gun: School Killer's Animated Terror. Then the three pieces are typically placed on a pyre as "Taps" is played. Seattle Times: 15-year-old shooter "seemed lost in life". The flag is cut into three pieces: first a horizontal cut is made between the seventh and eighth stripes, then a vertical cut separating the star field from the seven shorter stripes. Jeff Weise's 30 second mass murder cartoon from 2004 (in Flash format). The approved method of destroying old and tattered flags consists of burning them in a simple ceremony. JeffWeise.com. Declaration of Independence.

Perhaps most of all they see it as a symbol of individual and personal liberty like those put forth in the U.S. Constitution and its Bill of Rights. They have seen it as representing all of the freedoms and rights guaranteed in the U.S. citizens, their flag symbolizes many things.

To many U.S. war dead. On Memorial Day it is common to place small flags by war memorials and next to the graves of U.S. Many institutions, and some homeowners, display the flag year-round, while some reserve flag display for civic holidays like Memorial Day, Veteran's Day, Presidents' Day, Flag Day and the Fourth of July.

. flag is described as "A banner Gules, 6 bars Argent; the canton Azure charged with 50 mullets Argent.". In blazons (a vexillological description using flag terminology), the U.S. The United States flag is commonly called the "the Stars and Stripes" or "Old Glory," with the latter nickname coined in 1831 by Captain William Driver, a Salem, Massachusetts shipmaster.

The 50 stars on the flag represent the 50 states and the 13 stripes represent the 13 original colonies. The flag of the United States consists of 13 equal horizontal stripes of red (top and bottom) alternating with white, with a blue rectangle in the upper hoist-side corner bearing 50 small, white, five-pointed stars arranged in nine offset horizontal rows of six stars (top and bottom) alternating with rows of five stars. Rectangle of stars: 48, 35, 30, 28, 24, 20. Chessboard pattern: 51, 50, 49, 45, 15, 13 (standard).

No symmetry: 43. Both, hence also point symmetry: 50, 48, 46, 45, 44, 37, 36, 34, 33, 32, 28, 26, 24, 20, 15, 13 (standard). Symmetry with respect to vertical axis: 51, 50, 48, 46, 45, 44, 37, 36, 35, 34, 33, 32, 31, 30, 29, 28, 27, 26, 25, 24, 23, 21, 20, 15, 13 (standard and Betsy Ross). Symmetry with respect to horizontal axis: 50, 49, 48, 46, 44, 38, 37, 36, 34, 33, 32, 30, 28, 26, 24, 20, 15, 13 (standard).

It is assumed however that Apollo 11's flag was knocked down by the force of return to lunar orbit. In addition, the American flag is presumed to be in continual display on the surface of the Earth's Moon, having been placed there by the astronauts of Apollo 11, Apollo 12, Apollo 14, Apollo 15, Apollo 16, and Apollo 17. By custom, at Mount Moriah Cemetery in Deadwood, South Dakota. By custom, at the United States Capitol since 1918.

By custom, at the plaza in Taos, New Mexico, since 1861. By custom, at the Worcester, Massachusetts war memorial. By custom, at the home, birthplace and grave of Francis Scott Key, all in Maryland. Washington Camp Ground, part of the former Middlebrook encampment, Bridgewater, New Jersey, Thirteen Star Flag, by Act of Congress.

First raised July 4, 1917.[2]. Mount Slover limestone quarry (Colton Liberty Flag), in Colton, California (Act of Congress). Grounds of the National Memorial Arch in Valley Forge State Park, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania (Public Law 94-53, approved July 4, 1975). By order of Richard Nixon at United States Customs Service Ports of Entry that are continuously open (Presidential Proclamation No.4131, May 5, 1972).

4064, July 6, 1971, effective July 4, 1971). (Presidential Proclamation No. Flags are displayed continuously at the Washington Monument, Washington, DC. Fifty U.S.

The White House, Washington, DC (Presidential Proclamation No.4000, September 4, 1970). Lexington, Massachusetts Town Green (Public Law 89-335, approved November 8, 1965). 3418, June 12, 1961). United States Marine Corps War Memorial (Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima), Arlington, Virginia (Presidential Proclamation No.

Flag House Square, Albemarle and Pratt Streets, Baltimore, Maryland, 15-star/15-stripe flag (Public Law 83-319, approved March 26, 1954). 2795, July 2, 1948). Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine, Baltimore, Maryland, 15-star/15-stripe flag (Presidential Proclamation No. flag.

Only the United Nations flag and a Navy chaplain's church pennant may be flown higher than the U.S. In a display of multiple flags, the American flag should be at the center of and above the other flags. Capitol flies over the body in session (House or Senate) and remains there, lit, day and night. The flag at the U.S.

When the flag is completely folded, only a triangular blue field of stars should be visible. The triangular folding is continued until the entire length of the flag is folded in this manner. Turn the outer end point inward, parallel to the open edge, to form a second triangle. Make a triangular fold by bringing the striped corner of the folded edge to meet the open top edge of the flag.

Fold the flag again lengthwise with the blue field on the outside. Fold the lower half of the stripe section lengthwise over the field of stars, holding the bottom and top edges securely. To properly fold the flag, begin by holding it waist-high with another person so that its surface is parallel to the ground. It should not be lowered into the grave.

When used to cover a casket or coffin, the flag should be placed with the union at the head and over the left shoulder. flag is otherwise flown at half-staff (or half-mast, on ships) when directed by the President of the United States or a state governor. The U.S. The flag is to be flown at half-staff in mourning for designated, principal government leaders.

On Memorial Day, the flag is displayed at half-staff until noon and at full staff from noon to sunset. The flag is to be raised again to the peak for a moment before it is lowered. To place the flag at half-staff (or half-mast, on ships), hoist it to the peak for an instant and lower it to a position half way between the top and bottom of the staff. The salute is directed to the flag, if displayed, otherwise to the music.

When the national anthem is played or sung, citizens should stand at attention and salute at the first note and hold the salute through the last note. The Pledge of Allegiance should be rendered by standing at attention, facing the flag, and saluting. Members of organizations in formation salute upon command of the person in charge. Citizens not in uniform salute by placing their right hand over the heart and men with head cover should remove it and hold it to left shoulder, hand over the heart.

Those in uniform give the appropriate formal salute. To salute, all persons come to attention.