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 always liked Bill Kristol...glad he’s okay.
Keith Olberman is directly responsible for this.
notice how the left/media do not mention that the shooter is left wing or he is a registered Democrat.
like many on the left they are driven by hate and intolerance
Says who? The far left?
We already know that this Nazi piece of sh*t was a self-proclaimed socialist (like all fascists).
A socialist, democrat, pagan neocon-hating loon.
DUer. Koskid.
I personally think he was a LEFT WING radical.
Will post this here as well:
Registered Democrat (needs confirmation)
Christian hater
Jew Hater
FOX News’ Orielly hater
Weekly Standard hater
Bush hater
Neo-con hater
9-11 was an inside job
artist
This gets to the heart of Jonah Goldberg’s “Liberal Fascism”.
The premise is that “Nazi’s” are right-wingers, despite their rejection of free markets, liberty and God.
Not just personally. He is a self-described Socialist, PAGAN, Neocon-hater!
Self-proclaimed Socialist and Pagan.
This guy was old enough to have been a contemporary of Hitler’s. Having these kind of violent homocidal tendencies and acting them out at 88 years old? And how many people that age are shot - wasn’t it twice? - and survive to get to a hospital? Most people that age are up to gardening at best as far as physical activity. I just find it all very weird and have to wonder what we’re not hearing about this guy.
Hated big corporations
The list keeps growing...
And, you forgot “registered democrat”... apparently... from another post.
” Von Brunn’s white supremacist roots put him under the rubric of a “right-wing extremist...Says who? The far left?”
Yup, and the near left, too. The MSM and govt schools have been pimping the line that Nazis and white supremacists are just to the right of Republicans for decades. This despite the facts (”National SOCIALIST” anyone?) They’ve been doing it so long that it’s largely accepted as fact by the general populace...
In the N.C. town I grew up in, it was well know that the majority of the elected Democrats were “former” KKK members.
Updated leftwing beliefs of the shooter:
Registered Democrat (needs confirmation)
Christian hater
Jew Hater
FOX News’ Orielly hater
Weekly Standard hater
Bush hater
Neo-con hater
9-11 was an inside job
artist
Stated that “SOCIALISM, represents the future of the West”
Stated that the Apostle Paul destroyed Rome by undermining its pagan virility.
Hated corporations
Those are the beliefs of Democrat Underground and many Obama supporters.
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