Weekly Standard (Conservative Magazine) may have been shooter (Von Brunn) target

Politico ^

[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.

[MrB]

Any honest Christian who is knowledgeable of his/her religion would like to see Jews accept Jesus.

Unfortunately, that concept is seen by some as anti-semitic.

[a fool in paradise]

...it's clear that this von Brunn nutcase is not right-wing/conservative (he rants against freedom and democracy), but also that he is not left-wing/liberal (he repeatedly rants against Democrats and liberals/liberalism).

Lyndon LaRouche's followers are old Democrats, as opposed to New Democrats (of the Obama-Ayers crowd, post 1968).

Lyndon LaRouche's followers are rabidly anti-semitic and conspiracy minded kooks to boot.

But Lyndon LaRouche continues to run as a DEMOCRAT as do his supporters.

[amishman]

Yeah, he’s real independent... Anytime he talks politics it is slanted heavily against the GOP.

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

It’s from Marx’s “On the Jewish Qustion”.

Hitler’s “Final Solution” was the answer to Marx’s question.

[ikeonic]

9-11 truthers found a welcome home in the Ron Paul 2008 campaign.

Indeed. And you'll find that almost all anti-Semites (like David Duke, von Brunn, Ahmadinejad, etc.) also deny the official story of 9/11 (though I certainly don't believe the reverse it true -- not all truthers are Jew haters, but almost all Jew haters are truthers)

In Ahmedinejad's own words:

There was an event called September 11, the cause of which remains unknown and, like the Holocaust, a true investigation was not permitted.

Directly or indirectly, Islamic extremists and white supremacists believe that 9/11 and the Holocaust are both Jewish conspiracies. They (yeah, I'm talking about you, Rev Wright!) use the codeword "Zionist", but we all know what they mean.

[Borges]

The difference being that Marx (who was born Jewish) saw Judaism as cultural and Hitler saw it as racial.

[txroadkill]

Von Brunn's white supremacist roots put him under the rubric of a "right-wing extremist,"

Pick up a F^#&ing history book and open it! The KKK has been since the day it was formed a militant wing of the Democrat party.

White Supremacist are Left wing nuts, not right wing. The Left has done such a good job of painting the Right with lies over the past 8 years that those lies are now accepted and reported as fact.

 Pay attention you idiot leftist reporters, here are pictures to make it easy:

 

Martin Luther King, Jr. - Right wing, Conservative, Republican

 

Bull Conner - Left wing, Liberal, Democrat.

[sox_the_cat]

I think MSNBC will focus in on the fact that he had the Weekly Standard address in order to renew his subscription. Cementing their premise that he was in fact a right wing terrorist.

[Jim Robinson]

And a Birther? Ah, ha! He’s a Hillary Clinton supporter.

[TC Rider]

Handelman and ‘Brad and Britt’ are Curtis Media’s insurance against the Fairness Doctrine.

Handelman is like the flaming homosexual whe continually refuses to come out of the closet. Obvious to all around him that he’s a full bleeding heart liberal, whenever he opens his mouth, but refuses to admit it.

[Kimberly GG]

Isn’t it the liberal left who are typically pro-Palestine, anti-Israel? Why would an anti-semite automatically be assumed far right?

[mnehring]

Yep, a lot on the left forget that the Birther movement was started by Hilldog’s folks, specifically Democrat Philip Berg. It was a movement that really was founded in Hillary’s camp, not the right.. the right only picked up on it after it had gained momentum.

[GOPJ]

James von Brunn is a registered Democrat. This story is going to fall off the MSM cliff ... the press doesn't got after teacher's pets - even when they're hateful killers.

[mnehring]

Do you have a link regarding his registration? that really will put the nail in the coffin of their whole theory.

[nina0113]

Most people that age are up to gardening at best as far as physical activity.

I'd have to rate pulling a trigger as less strenuous work than gardening.

[AuntB]

“James von Brunn is a registered Democrat. This story is going to fall off the MSM cliff ... the press doesn’t got after teacher’s pets - even when they’re hateful killers.”

Sad truth!

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

Hitler and Marx were both satanists. Their war against the Jews was their war against God.

First the Saturday people... then the Sunday people. Just like the mohammedans.

[jennyjenny]

Do you know if convicted felons can vote in Maryland?

[Munz]

>>Keith Olberman is directly responsible for this.<<
You *just* had to go there didn’t you?

We all know that is BS .. it was Chris Matthews and everyone knows it!

[Munz]

>>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<<

You mean he worked for Obama in DHS?