Jeff Weise - Minnesota Killer Resented Reservation Life - A must read

[mzmolly]

for those wishing to gain insight.

"He described the reservation in Internet postings as a place where people "choose alcohol over friendship," where women neglect "their own flesh and blood" for relationships with men, where he could not escape "the grave I'm continually digging for myself."

In his dark and self-pitying depictions of life on the reservation, Weise appears to have drawn from his troubled personal history: When he was 8, his father committed suicide on the reservation after a standoff with police. About four months later, his mother suffered severe brain damage in an alcohol-related car accident.

Before that accident, while Weise was living with her in the suburbs of Minneapolis, his alcoholic mother often locked him out of her house and her boyfriend locked him in a closet and made him kneel for hours in a corner, said his grandmother, Shelda Lussier, 54, in whose home on the reservation the boy had lived since age 9.

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"I'm living every mans nightmare," Weise wrote online in January. "This place never changes, it never will."

Very interesting article by MSNBC - I highly suggest reading the entire article. Be sure to see "Ethnic Hardships" to get a perspective on the plight Native Americans face when compared to other groups.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7290810/

It's tragic to read about this childs life, especially knowing there are so many others like him who are at the mercy of f-ed up parents and a society that does'nt really give a sh*t.

My apologies for not starting another thread about Terry Schaivo. I never tire of the grumbling about how the MSM isn't covering this story like they did Columbine - blah, blah, blah .. when apparently there is so little interest about it here? UGH.