Weise wrote, "I can't go 5 feet" without hearing someone "blasting some rap song over their speakers" and said that under a National Socialist government, the official name of Hitler's Nazi party, "things for us would improve vastly."
Weise openly identified himself by name on the forum, something few others did.
"What brings me to this forum?" Weise asked in a message posted at 1:15 a.m. on March 19, 2004, after he was told that there were no age restrictions. "Well, I stumbled across the site in my study of the Third Reich . . . I guess I've always carried a natural admiration for Hitler and his ideals."
Weise said he despised communists and, last May, said he had won a "fist fight" with a communist. He was encountering hostility because of his beliefs in Nazism, he said, "but because of my size and appearance people don't give me as much trouble as they would if I looked weak."
A month after school authorities had suspected him of wanting to attack the school, the threat passed and Weise wrote: "I was cleared as a suspect, I'm glad for that. I don't much care for jail, I've never been there and I don't plan on it."
One member of the Nazi group hoped Weise would stick with them, to which the teenager responded, "Once I commit myself to something, I stay until the end."
The group espouses positions on a number of issues but tends to return to racial purity and the elimination of certain individuals. Blaming overpopulation for environmental degradation, for instance, the group's platform proposes to "pick from among us those who have excelled and encourage them to breed while others do not. This ensures that every future generation will be stronger, smarter and of better character than the last."
Weise clearly admired some of the core beliefs of the group but disagreed with others. The group advocated crackdowns on Jews, demanded that African Americans and Asians be repatriated to Africa and Asia, and said mixed racial groups should be sent to North Africa or the Middle East.
Weise said in one posting that he was Native American but also had German, Irish and French Canadian blood.
In another posting, he wrote: "Breeding out the purity in all races is not the way to go . . . I disagree with you on that, as well as your idea to create a 'master race.' "
Staff writer Ceci Connolly in Red Lake, Minn.; special correspondent Patrick Marx in Bemidji, Minn.; and research editor Lucy Shackelford contributed to this report.
