Posted on 06/10/2009 12:06:22 PM PDT by steve-b
An 89-year-old white supremacist who has long ranted against Jews started a firefight inside Washington's somber and well-secured Holocaust Museum on Wednesday afternoon.
The gunman, James Von Brunn, shot and critically wounded a guard and was then shot by museum guards, law enforcement officials said.
Von Brunn, whose Web site is full of anti-government and anti-Semitic rants, was sentenced to 11 years in prison for carrying guns into the Federal Reserve in 1981....
(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...
No doubt.
Sure.
It’s obvious that he was a white supremacist.
But, a guy who converts to islam, takes the islamic name, becomes radicalized in islamic schools, and then shoots two soldiers in the name of islam, and he isn’t an “islamist”?
WTF?
I know that conservatives are upset over Napolitano’s remarks. I don’t like the woman, but, to be honest, I can’t really argue with what she said.
Any of us who watched what McVeigh and his co-hort(s) did in OKC have to be aware that there are evil people planning to do evil things, and they’re not all left-wing, or radical Muslim, or right-wing nutjobs. They come in all colors and are of many delusions.
Napolitano was talking about BAD PEOPLE. I am not a bad person. Rational FReepers —and those who think like us politically —are not bad people. Therefore, she was not talking about us, and we should not be offended.
Remember that, OK?
This thread is about a terrible person who did a terrible thing in Washington, D. C. today.
Why are you trying to change the subject?
Is CAIR going to come to his support?
I’m not.
I’m making a comparison about how the MSM is so quick to identify somebody that’s perceived to be “right wing” while ignoring a very similar story.
The subject is what it is.
Otherwise, why have any thread on it at all?
Probably.
“I hate it that its scary these days to go to a popular public place without looking over your shoulder for the unhinged.”
It’s getting more like Beruit and Afganistan, isn’t it? Well, if you gotta make the world equal, then you need to spread strife around.
Here’s my problem with what you said:
In this sad and crazy world, I think we all feel somewhat discouraged and alone and afraid. It’s easy to grow a chip on our shoulder.
One of the things that creeps me out about Obama is the dishonest way he twists facts to make his point, the “straw man” arguments he inserts in his speeches that are, frankly, just plain false.
I don’t like it when we do it, either.
It’s common knowledge that the bad guy who did the Arkansas shooting was a Muslim. And, yes, the MSM has reported it. The shooter’s ideology was not ignored, as you said. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/03/us/03recruit.html
So please make sure that what you say is true before you let your aggravation affect your credibility. I think that’s what you did in the original post — you let that chip on your shoulder show.
We have enough rock-solid facts on our side. We just need to argue them honestly and fairly. We don’t need to make them up.
No kidding.
I understand what you are saying, however, the current base of the Democratic Party is the lunatic fringe left. The same people who paint us as Nazis (the Nazis were of the left, and Jonah Goldberg’s book Liberal Facism has an excellent explanation why), lump us with Timothy McVeigh and all that. Just give a listen to Air America Radio, MSNBC (w/ Madcow and Obermaniac), and Toxic Katie Couric. Don’t forget to shower afterwards.
Still looking for the words “islamist” and “terrorist”.
Not a chip.
A fact.
This could be a set up—a Reichstag fire—so Obama can take full control and cancel all future elections due to safety. he can rule as President for life with the Constitution suspended for the “emergency”.
Yeah, I am sure that is it. /sarcasm
How many threads recounting the same information are you going to start? Normally a “search is your friend” comment would apply, but that every practical duplicate thread is started by the SAME PERSON implies something ain’t right upstairs.
Do a google search and you will see he was a very bad POS. I would say he was a SICKO!
Look at what the Daily KOS is putting out now on this issue!
OK, fine.
If “an American convert to Islam “
and
“Mr. Muhammad has been charged with one count of capital murder and 15 counts of terroristic acts ... “
and
“Mr. Muhammad stated that he was mad at the U.S. military because of what they had done to Muslims in the past ...
don’t satisfy you, that chip is so big it’s affecting your brain. Good luck managing the disability.
BINGO !
Thanks.
I’ll try.
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