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Holocaust Museum Shooter a Socialist who Hated Christianity, Conservatives, Jews
LifeSiteNews ^ | 6/12/09 | Hilary White

Posted on 06/13/2009 11:36:34 AM PDT by wagglebee

WASHINGTON, June 12, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The online ravings of the man who shot and killed a security guard in Washington’s Holocaust Memorial Museum on June 10th show that he does not fit the description of the “right wing” or “conservative Christian” extremist that has been portrayed in the liberal mainstream media since the shooting. 

In one of many online tirades, the shooter, 88 year-old James von Brunn wrote, “Christianity and the Holocaust are hoaxes. ‘Christianity’ destroyed Roman Civilization. The ‘Holocaust’ Religion is destroying Western Civilization.” Between them, he said, they destroyed the “Aryan gene pool.”

He wrote, “socialism represents the future of the West.”

Before he was stopped, von Brunn, a white supremacist and neo-Nazi, killed Stephen T. Johns, a 39 year-old security officer at the museum. Von Brunn was well known to federal authorities for his long history of violence and extreme anti-Semitic views.

Von Brunn entered the Holocaust Memorial Museum on Washington’s National Mall carrying a .22-caliber rifle and shot Johns at close range. He is in critical condition after being shot by two other security officers and is facing charges of murder and weapons violations. The FBI is also investigating possible civil-rights and hate-crimes charges.

Von Brunn wrote that he believed Christianity is a cult created by St. Paul and proliferated by Jews. Christianity’s set of “dangerous, imbecilic, concepts, tenets, and teachings, often treasonous, destroyed the Roman Empire and drenched the soil of Europe with Aryan blood for almost 2000 years!”

Left-leaning news media in the US have pounced on the shooting, blaming it on the proliferation of “hate” and “divisiveness” brought about by the political and religious conservatism of the Bush administration. Pundits were quick to link the Holocaust Museum shooting with the killing of late-term abortionist George Tiller, as evidence of the kind of “right wing extremism” identified as a threat to national security in a government report in April by the Department of Homeland Security.

Michelle Kraus, in an editorial in the Huffington Post, wrote, “Hate is out of control in the post Bush years.”

“The Bush years,” Kraus wrote, “are the gift that keeps on giving. They were masters of the message deeply infiltrating the culture with seeds of fear and hate ... Every major issue facing this country has been tarnished by their polarizing messaging -- whether it is climate crisis legislation, nuclear proliferation, Mid East peace, stem cell research and treatment, women's reproductive rights, health care reform, or gay marriage.”

Martin Sieff wrote for UPI, “[Von Brunn’s] attack came not long after a doctor who performed late-term abortions was killed in Wichita, Kan., allegedly by a man with anti-abortion-rights beliefs ... It is ironic that the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano were all severely criticized recently for an internal report that listed right-wing extremism as a likely source of terrorist violence.”

But efforts by the left to paint Von Brunn as a “right wing extremist” ignore the evidence that the shooter was not a “conservative,” but a self-admitted “Aryan” socialist who hated Christianity and America’s conservative political class as well as the Jews. Ben Johnson, Managing Editor of FrontPage Magazine, noted von Brunn’s own internet rants against Christians and “neo-cons” as part of a vast Jewish conspiracy to undermine the white race.

Von Brunn’s confused racist fanaticism and conspiracy-laden views defy reasonable political classification, said Ben Smith, writing for the Politico website. Smith noted that after the shooting, two FBI agents had visited the offices of the Weekly Standard, a popular US conservative political magazine, and told staff the magazine’s address had been found on a piece of paper associated with von Brunn, and asked whether the Standard had received any threats. 

Smith writes that von Brunn’s “white supremacist roots put him under the rubric of a ‘right-wing extremist,’ but the substance of his views ... are too far on the fringe to fit into conventional political classification.”


Read related LifeSiteNews.com coverage:

Homeland Security Pulls Report Calling Pro-Life Activism Sign of Violent "Rightwing Extremism"
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/may/09051509.html



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In one of many online tirades, the shooter, 88 year-old James von Brunn wrote, “Christianity and the Holocaust are hoaxes. ‘Christianity’ destroyed Roman Civilization. The ‘Holocaust’ Religion is destroying Western Civilization.” Between them, he said, they destroyed the “Aryan gene pool.”

He wrote, “socialism represents the future of the West.”

As usual the left has ignored or changed the facts to suit their agenda.

1 posted on 06/13/2009 11:36:35 AM PDT by wagglebee
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To: wagglebee

Nothing to see here....move on.


2 posted on 06/13/2009 11:38:07 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (Too many conservatives urge retreat when the war of politics doesn't go their way.)
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To: wagglebee
“socialism represents the future of the West.”

He should be working for our Fearless Leader.

3 posted on 06/13/2009 11:39:00 AM PDT by reg45 (Be calm everyone. The idiot children are in charge!)
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To: wagglebee

Of course it’s the liberal “fallacy” (Code word for “lie”) that NAZIs are “right-wing” clearly this guy exposed a NAZI (as in real nazi, socialism-racism) and he is LEFTWING!!


4 posted on 06/13/2009 11:43:24 AM PDT by JSDude1 (DHS, FBI, FEMA, etc have been bad little boys. They need to be spanked and sent to timeout!)
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To: wagglebee

.22 caliber?

I don’t know guns, but isn’t that a step up from a pea shooter?


5 posted on 06/13/2009 11:44:35 AM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: wagglebee

Sounds like a real right-wing extremist, doesn’t he? I’m so glad we had the media to clear that up for us.


6 posted on 06/13/2009 11:45:09 AM PDT by phrogphlyer (The only moderate Taliban is a dead Taliban.)
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To: Erik Latranyi

I agree. Thousands and thousands of people are shot and killed every year, and the MSM cherry-picks two shootings to illustrate a trend, even though one of the two ‘right wing extremests’ they’re profiling is leftist enough to have his own show on MSNBC. Amazing...


7 posted on 06/13/2009 11:46:32 AM PDT by joejm65
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To: wagglebee

More than that, he hated God and most of all Himself.


8 posted on 06/13/2009 11:46:44 AM PDT by fish hawk (The trouble with Socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples money.)
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To: Beowulf9

A .22 can easily kill, especially when fired from a rifle and at close range, .22s have long been favored by the Mafia.


9 posted on 06/13/2009 11:51:31 AM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: Beowulf9

Yeah you’re right .22 step up from pea shooter. Only problem is they are deadly....if shot in the head the bullet doesn’t have enough velocity to exit the skull. Therefore, it tumbles around your brain creating havoc.


10 posted on 06/13/2009 11:52:20 AM PDT by missanne (That's all I can stands and I can't stands no more”? This is one of those days!)
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To: wagglebee

What was his DU name?


11 posted on 06/13/2009 11:53:02 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: reg45
He should be working for our Fearless Leader.

From what I have seen of "the One", he is "fearful" not "fearless" and I have not seen any leadership qualities. Dictatorial attitude, but no leadership qualities.

12 posted on 06/13/2009 11:58:52 AM PDT by Texas Fossil (Once a Republic, Now a State, Still Texas)
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To: Texas Fossil
Sorry! I left off the </sarcasm> tag.
13 posted on 06/13/2009 12:00:51 PM PDT by reg45 (Be calm everyone. The idiot children are in charge!)
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To: phrogphlyer
Aren't you glad the MSM gatekeepers and filters kept the truth in their reporting unlike the internet? /extreme sarcasm
14 posted on 06/13/2009 12:01:47 PM PDT by GeronL (http://libertyfic.proboards.com <----go there now,----> tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com)
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To: reg45

I really did understand.

We are on the same page.

The “fearless leader” thing I understand and use it in a mocking tone.


15 posted on 06/13/2009 12:02:18 PM PDT by Texas Fossil (Once a Republic, Now a State, Still Texas)
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To: Beowulf9

More on the rifle:http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2270858/posts


16 posted on 06/13/2009 12:11:48 PM PDT by LRS (Just contracts; just laws; just a constitution...)
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To: wagglebee; All

See, to you all on this forum, it’s not shocking that a Neo-Nazi is actually ANTI-Christian. None of you are probably surprised either that he’s a rabid socialist... but 99% of the public that hears these facts would suffer from massive brain meltage. They would explode at the very revelation that Nazis were a national socialist party and would probably faint from shock to discover that Nazis were not only NOT Christians, but followed multiple forms of paganism.

I really wish that more Americans would take the time to get their facts straight. Anyone else find this incredibly frustrating?


17 posted on 06/13/2009 12:12:14 PM PDT by Valkyrie927 ("This is the way the world ends; not with a bang but a whimper." -TS Elliot)
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To: GeronL
I guess it's not just the MSM - see this link.

And I used to think Charles was on our side. I'm pretty much done with LGF.

18 posted on 06/13/2009 12:20:17 PM PDT by phrogphlyer (The only moderate Taliban is a dead Taliban.)
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To: Valkyrie927

I know exactly what you mean. Fascism/Nazism is as far-LEFT a movement as any in history.


19 posted on 06/13/2009 12:20:51 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: phrogphlyer

LGF has gone off its rocker


20 posted on 06/13/2009 12:20:53 PM PDT by GeronL (http://libertyfic.proboards.com <----go there now,----> tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com)
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