Posted on 06/11/2009 8:56:37 PM PDT by kristinn
SNIP Those who Googled immediately were able to find him: a personal Web site claiming Jewish "conspiracies," diatribes posted on message boards. But those who started their hunt just a few hours later would have found only empty holes -- information that was scrubbed away as Web sites figured out how to address the fact that they had once hosted the words of an accused murderer.
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In the immediate aftermath of the shooting, which resulted in the death of one security guard, several items were unearthed online that appeared to be written by von Brunn: a piece titled "Obama Is Missing," which questioned the president's citizenship, on conservative forum FreeRepublic.com. A Wikipedia user bio page (von Brunn had edited only sporadically), in which he wrote that Judaism is "the Enemy of Mankind." A long-stagnant personal site, HolyWesternEmpire.org, which included links to a novel.
Throughout Wednesday afternoon, these links began to disappear. Clicking on the personal site resulted in an error message. The Wikipedia user page vanished. The Free Republic link was also removed -- at least for a while. Current events Web site Daily Kos remarked on the removal, and a few hours later, the post reappeared.
By way of explanation, Free Republic spokesman Kristinn Taylor says that when "Obama Is Missing" -- which had been re-posted from another site -- was brought to a moderator's attention, the moderator "removed it to review it," which Taylor says is a common practice on the site. After Free Republic determined that the post didn't contain racist or anti-Semitic remarks, which Taylor says would have violated the site's user agreements, the post was uploaded again. "There was no need to look like we were trying to hide something that we weren't trying to hide," Taylor says.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
They try to dig so deep....Only to come up with one post.
"He was not a FReeper. There was one obscure article by him copied from some Norwegian news source website that was posted a while back. There was not hint at his antisemitism in it, it was a Birther rant and no one had any idea who he was. We pulled it initially just to review what it was but restored it pretty quickly so folks like those at MSNBC couldn’t lie and say we had racist rants by the guy.
Anyone can join, but any racist or antisemitic rants like this guy made would have him zotted quickly. He would not find any friends here."
I think we should start telling people that Al Gore and Barack Obama are Freepers, since we have posted articles from both of them here.
Well said, Kristinn. The left would like imply that this nut was a “right-wing” extremist to deflect from the FACT that he held strong liberal views which historically align with theirs.
The shooter was a....
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
He didn’t have one. He was not a Freeper.
They have to be kidding.
Kos remarked on it? Oh, well then.
Good to know.
Funny how Kos, Huffington, DU and MoveOn are never smeared by any of the crazies there that have or go on to do bad things, but just posting a thread from James von Brunn makes us Storm Front.
The guy who shot up the museum has a manifesto straight outta MSDNC. His obssession with “neocons” borders on the venom Chris Matthews spews on MSDNC daily.
Well, they almost got your words right.....at least it’s neutral and not a hit piece.
Ive started to feel kinda racist lately ...rich white guys bug me
(Is that ok?)
Don’t worry - Obama is taking care of the problem, LOL.
Your response was tactfully done. Perhaps these other biased sites could learn from you & FR in the way things are handled without having to start a scandal.
Well done Kristinn!
I am hoping Obama caps the salaries of these Hollywood actors and actresses, they make too much $
Our critics are our friends, they show us our faults. - Ben FranklinIn that spirit, please accept Free Republic's reciprocal constructive criticism of the Washington Post.
Right.
Because everyone on Freerepublic believes everything this guy wrote and is planning on pulling off shootings ourselves. *rolls eyes*
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