Posted on 06/11/2009 10:45:16 AM PDT by mnehring
FBI agents visited the offices of the conservative Weekly Standard magazine yesterday after a shooting at the Holocaust Memorial Museum and told employees they'd found the magazine's address
A senior Standard staffer confirmed the visit but declined to discuss it in detail. An FBI spokeswoman, Katherine Schweit , also declined to comment on the investigation.
Two other sources said two FBI agents arrived shortly after 5:00 p.m. Thursday at the 17th Street offices of the magazine. They told staffers that they had found the address of the magazine on a piece of paper associated with the shooter, James von Brunn, and asked whether the Standard had received any threats.
The magazine is about a mile north of the Holocaust Museum, and there's no other indication that von Brunn had targeted it. Von Brunn's published rants included attacks on "neocons," and the Standard has been at the heart of the neoconservative movement.
The suggestion that the Standard may have been a target complicates any view of the racist shooter in contemporary left-right terms. Von Brunn's white supremacist roots put him under the rubric of a "right-wing extremist," but the substance of his views -- which included everything from believing that President Bush may have been in on the September 11 attacks to denying that President Obama is an American citizen -- are too far on the fringe to fit into conventional political classification.
The focus on the Standard, though, appears to be of a piece with his central motivation: Anti-Semitism. In one essay, Von Brunn attacked "JEWS-NEOCONS-BILL O’REILLY," and the suggestion that neoconservatism is a specifically Jewish conspiracy is common on the racist fringe.
This is the news forum, not the religion forum, so I don't want to belabor this. But surely you must understand that a Jewish apostate is different than a Christian, and that a Jew counceling a family member who has left the faith, for any religion, not just Christianity, as to the reprecussions is quite different that the statement I responded to, which was that Jews try to convince Christians to abandon Christ, or some such nonsense. I didn't bother to go back and quote it.
really
like Gandhi said
first they ignore you
they then make fun of you
they then attack you
then you win
A woman I thought I knew up there in NY city said that the republicans were Nazis, I then told her that you do know that the Nazis were left wing not right.
she told me no they were not and she knows as she is Jewish
Now if you understand that mentality then well done because I do not
like I said I thought I knew her
first they ignore you
they then make fun of you
they then attack you
then you win
Great quote. Never seen that one before. It's gonna apply to FR even more these days if we step up our offensive to combat the media and rescue Sarah's reputation, too.
I figure Don Curtis picked up a failed FM station for a song, made it FM talk. It's defineately a second tier for talkers. Curtis has RUSH/HANNITY/LEVIN on WPTF in Raleigh. The Burlington station carries into the Raleigh market.
Boortz and Savage are their heavyweights, but their local guys are not conservative at all.
I do enjoy the Dan Rather parody in the morning, they have it dead on.
Where can I read that he was a registered Democrat? Interesting. I’m kinda out of it news wise - working 7 days per week and can’t really log on anyplace. Thanks!
I studied Marxism pretty extensively in Grad school. It’s primarily a theory of History with no govermental aspects. The actual practical side was filled in by others.
Mark Levin was saying he’s a Socialist-not just a Dem.
Obviously I woulddn’t mind reporting pointing out he voted Dem-Obama.
agreed the media have been in overdrive the last year or two.
I truly believe that we have to inform others, let others know that obama isn’t a messiah and that the media is lying.
In any public place I make a comment for others to hear about obama
Thanks!
BUSH HATER
(Last two paragraphs)
The site that was posted at "supports Chavez, quotes Ahmadinejad at length and is very upset by America supporting Israel’s “genocide” against those poor innocent Palestinians”
ANTI CHRISTIAN WHO POSTED ON ATHEIST SITE
“What better way to destroy a Nation -- any Nation -- than to undermine her hubris; her gods, ethics, mores, history, her gene-pool -- in short, Saul would DESTROY ROMAN CULTURE. Saul created a bogus a la Spielberg docu-drama stuffed with lies, miracles, guilt trips, betrayal, virgin birth, eternal damnation, salvation -- a scenario appealing to the superstitious, vulnerable, ignorant yearning sheep -- he named his hoax "Christianity." …CHRISTIANITY AND THE HOLOCAUST are HOAXES.” ANTICHRIST.COM
NEO-CON HATER
1st large paragraph
9-11 TRUTHER
(7 or 8 paragraphs from bottom)
HATES FREE TRADE
Top of page 110
JEW HATER (DO WE REALLY NEED A LINK FOR THIS?)
SUPPORTS SOCIALISM
Top of page 110
FOX NEWS’ O'REILLY HATER
1st large paragraph
WEEKLY STANDARD HATER
Conservative Magazine Targeted By Shooter
THINKS THEM JEWS ARE KEEPING HIM FROM OBAMA
Ooops, thats Rev Wright, Not Brunn
CHEERED THE KILLINGS OF US CONTRACTORS IN IRAQ
Ooops, that was Democrat Underground
Still waiting on more proof he was a registered democrat other than the claim on this blog
OMGosh - He is an OBAMA SUPPORTER!
sounds like a rightwinger huh.... right
bttt
I was reading some of the lefties posting on it. They want an apology for this guy. I’m like, hey, he ain’t ours. Even called out FR saying he posted on here. One person said that, well he was shown to be a registered democrat, but thats not us. I was like um, you do know that the NAZI party was a leftist organization. Not a “right-wing” organization. I would so have loved to seen how they would have reacted to Lee Harvey Oswald.
Remember one of the things the NAZI party ran on was a government run welfare system instead of letting the churches run it
“GOP just will not respond, just laying there like a lazy dog in the hot afternoon.”
Hoping they will be spared.
No doubt.
Who needs to pay attention though when we can create history to suit our intentions? /s
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