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.
I understand Obama’s former preacher, Rev. Wright made some choice comments just the other day that would make him sympathetic to Mr. Von Brunn.
I wonder if the MSM will SHUT UP NOW. When they see that he hated neocons.
“Neocons”, eh? How many times have I said on this forum that “neocon” is specifically used to denigrate a portion of conservatives that don’t meet Paulite standards?
Hey, maybe the FBI agents' GPS navigation system was broken, and finding that address was a major PITA. ;^)
LOL, pretty much. I can listen to him when he avoids politics. That is a strange radio station overall.
IS he a Democrat or a little “l” libertarian? It’s really hard to tell the difference sometimes.
No, no, no! They’ve got it all backwards! Everything Brunn ever wanted to learn about right wing extremism he learned FROM the Weekly Standard and terrorists like Bill Kristol, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly, etc.!!!!!
/liberal loonietoon
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.
Really. This should be our reply when the left brings this guy up. His views are more in line with Obama’s pastor Rev. Wright than with conservatives.
Somehow the MSM is their glorified wisdom is portraying him as a right-winger.
That he would want to go after the Weekly Standard confirms that fact.
And Bill Kristol should be interviewed on Von Brunn's malicious intentions.
I haven’t read enough Hegel or Immanuel Kant to say. I know many people believe Hegel was a satanist and insist he introduced Marx to satanism, but I’m not going to co-opt their belief just because I agree with them on Marx. I haven’t done the research, so I just don’t know.
Since Marx and Hitler were both influenced by Hegel to the extent they were, it’s certainly worthy of further examination.
That is a sentiment that is....really, really, CREEPY on the surface, and I speak as a Christian Khazar. I accept my Jidaeic heritage and will never give that up, thank you very much.
Without some sort of clarification, your post DOES INDEED seem anti-Semitic.
Precisely.
Do you think the government will show the video from the Holocaust Museum’s exterior surveillance cameras of the 90 year old man getting out of his car with a ‘long gun’ — and the video that would show him shuffling down the sidewalk as he made his way to the museum’s entrance?
No apology necessary. I’m glad you found it useful.
Ha, no, that was a pretty damned good smackdown.
Could you take “artist” off the list -that is a career choice not a leftwing belief. Grant it most artist are to the left but not all of us.
In this day and age, not only the security cameras, but cell phone cameras, tweets from when it was happening etc.. there where a lot of witnesses to this and once reviewed, I bet we’ll be seeing a lot of video of this freak.
I don’t view it as anti-semetic. I view it as his religious conviction. I view as rather nice that someone who doesn’t know me is actually concerned about my eternal rest.
Of course, I am not insecure in my religion.
Good point. Maybe I’ll replace with journalism student.
Where did the poster suggest you or anyone else give up their Jidaeic heritage?
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