Shooting at National Holocaust Museum Updated: Museum guard dies; shooter wasn’t “left” or “right,” just plain loony
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Details just coming in.
Via FoxNews: “At least two people were shot at the national Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., Wednesday, an official told FOX News. Other media reports said a man walked into the museum and shot a security guard. Another guard returned fire, wounding the alleged shooter. ”
AP bulletin here.
Tom Elia is tracking.
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Update: The shooter…
The suspect in Wednesday’s shooting at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum is James von Brunn, an 88-year-old white supremacist from Maryland, two law enforcement officials told CNN.
Von Brunn served six years in prison on federal attempted kidnapping, assault and firearms charges after what he called a citizen’s “legal, nonviolent citizens arrest” of members of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors.
On his Web site, “Holy Western Empire,” von Brunn said he was “convicted by a Negro jury, Jew/Negro attorneys, and sentenced to prison for eleven years by a Jew judge.”
“He is in our files going back way into the 1980s,” said Heidi Beirich, a researcher for the Montgomery, Alabama-based Southern Poverty Law Center.
“He has extremely long history with neo-Nazis and white supremacists. He’s written extremely incendiary publications, raging about Jews, blacks and the like.”
The suspect and a security guard were wounded in Wednesday afternoon’s shooting at the museum, U.S. Park Police said.
District of Columbia police and the FBI said the shooting appeared to have been the work of a single gunman and there was no prior indication of the attack.
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Inevitable: The blame game has already begun. Here’s Kos implicating the Tea Party movement.
Ditto Donald Douglas: “The spin on the left is that the suspect, James Von Brunn, is an agent of the GOP’s “Christian-fascist” base. The truth is, via Melissa Clouthier, this guy’s a deranged Holocaust denier. He represents no one on the conservative right – not me, nor any of those with whom I associate.”
Melissa Clouthier: “Remember, Markos, it’s our President who is wanting to meet with another Holocaust denier, President Ahmadinejad.”
Francis Beckwith notes that Von Brunn was an all-inclusive nutball hater who bashed both Jews and Christians.
Milblogger Greyhawk at Mudville Gazette notes the veteran-bashing claims of vindication by reporters citing the DHS right-wing extremism report. (Aside: Has anyone actually verified the lunatic gunman’s claims that he is a veteran? Update: Verified here according to Navy records.)
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Update: Heroic museum guard dies. Keep him in your prayers:
The security guard who was initially targeted was wounded; he was taken to George Washington University Hospital, where he died from his injuries, high level D.C. police sources told ABC 7′s Jennifer Donelan.
Sources say the gunman remains in critical condition at George Washington University Hospital.
The guard’s name was Stephen Tyrone Johns. Don’t forget.
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More from Kathy Shaidle about the shooter — a 9/11 Truther who hated “neo-cons:”
The man accused of opening fire at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC on June 10, James W. von Brunn, left a trail of unhinged writings around the internet.
The anti-semitism of von Brunn is the first thing one notices when visiting these bizarre websites. However, like those of most “white supremacists”, many of von Brunn’s political views track “Left” rather than “Right.” Clearly, a re-evaluation of these obsolete definitions is long overdue.
For example, he unleashed his hatred of both Presidents Bush and other “neo-conservatives” in online essays. As even some “progressives” such as the influential Adbusters magazine publicly admit, “neoconservative” is often used as a derogatory code word for “Jews”. As well, even a cursory glance at “white supremacist” writings reveals a hatred of, say, big corporations that is virtually indistinguishable from that of anti-globalization activists.
James von Brunn’s advocacy of 9/11 conspiracy theories also gives him an additional commonality with individuals on the far-left.
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Kos and the lunatic gunman today and the lunatic gunman who killed Pvt. Long share more in common that the rest of us — their world view is centered on contempt for what this nation stands for and are consumed with an abiding hatred of George W. Bush and the “neocons.”
Geoffrey Dickens at Newsbusters:
Salon.com Editor-in-Chief Joan Walsh, on Wednesday night’s “Hardball,” cited “conservatives” like Rush Limbaugh, Michelle Malkin and Bill O’Reilly for “whipping up” a climate that sparks the likes of alleged Holocaust Museum shooter James Von Brunn and “Hardball” host Chris Matthews wondered if access to guns were to blame for the tragedy as he cried, “It’s easier to get your hands on a gun than to get somebody to make you a waffle.”
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anyone wanna guess what religion they are? So, move along, nothing to see here…like the black panther thugs…..Eric Holder is on the case.
OK anybody want to venture a guess who did it?
I hope to people who were shot will recover. And I hope the shooter rots in hell.
How many days will it take THE ONE to issue a weak-asped statement deploying THIS shooting…????
The shooter will either be a convert to the “Religion of Peace,” or a right-wing Christian clinging to his bible and his handgun.
Yeah, and with a rifle. Excellent security for a museum in one of the most violent cities in the world. Those gun banners should now refocus their efforts to making shooting people in museums illegal.
Thankfully, they got him. Bet ya if his name is Mohammed, we’ll never hear about it.
If it’s the former, expect to hear nothing about it.
If it’s the latter, expect anyone who is a conservative Christian to bear the blame.
ALCU to defend the misunderstood murder in 5,4,3,…
Great minds….!
should have replaced C with an F.
The dear leader will cross his arms and, looking like a rabbit in the head lights, mumble something about not wanting to run the car industry.
The MSM reports nearly every shooting as being with an “assault rifle”. I’d wait to see…
Hope the guard’s ok.
on second though, American Liberal Crackhead Union works too.
We’ll know it was a Muslim as soon as the officials announce that it was not a terrorist incident.
First, this won’t be labeled a “hate crime” by the MSM. Instead it’ll be a “random act of gun violence”, as if the gun alone is to blame. Second, in spite of the (eventual) realization that the shooter was a whack-job, this won’t stop liberals from bleating on endlessly about how all guns should be banned. Third, a hearty “Great shootin’!” to the security guard who downed the assailant in the midst of a confusing live-fire moment!
I’m sure this had NOTHING to do with the “Regigion of Peace”… /sarc off
I thought firearms were illegal in D.C.
The shooter must’ve been Amish. That would fit the pattern, right?
Well geez if they’d just ban those dawgone guns…… dontcha know……
sarc/
Liberals to blame Rush Limbaugh in 5… 4… 3…
…and so it continues. I’m sure Holder will ask Odumbo for a Museum Czar to follow-up w/this latest man-caused disaster.
Speedy recovery for the victims.
Phil we already know his religion, since it is not being reported.
MSNBC is covering the story with a map of Washington state as a graphic.
Liberals to call for disarming museum guards for fear of hurting the poor, misunderstood, oppressed gunman in 5… 4… 3…
BTW-I never grow tired of the “Liberal Countdown” jokes… because they’re so predictable!
we all know this is the fault of BOOOSH-CHENEY and HALIBURTON!!!!
More “Liberal Countdown” jokes in 5…4…3…
What’s best for the children?
Horrible.
The terrorist attack on the hotel in Pakistan hardly got a blip yesterday.
That speech THE ONE gave in Cairo has certainly been paying dividends…
You must be mistaken. Gun aren’t allowed in DC.
I am waiting for some libtard commentator to ask why was this museum allowed to be built in such a sensitive area.
How many times must we say it? When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns.
DC gun ban on handguns? Suspect used an “assault weapon”? I’m betting that the “assault weapon” will turn out to be a standard magazine-equipped hunting rifle of some sort or another.
Guns don’t kill people. People kill people. Personally, if I’d been the second guard, I’d have kept firing at the gun even after he was down. Leave no chance that the perp would ever get up again. Period.
Would certainly have saved the US on court costs, incarceration, and legal defense…
Same as in Iraq and Afghanistan. Best way to end Guantanamo is to not take any prisoners.
I know this is O’Reilly/Hannity/Beck’s fault!
/sarc
OOOHHHH, ME, PICK ME!
The shooter is a White, Republican, Right-Wing Christian Extremist who served in the Military, listens to Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck who is mad because his Orthodox Jewish Girlfriend aborted his baby at Tiller’s Kansas clinic last month IN the last month before the expected due date.
How’d I do? Do I get a hand grenade or a shoulder-propelled rocket launcher?
This is all Alito’s fault for striking down gun laws!
whoa …. Jake Tapper says it’s white guy born in 1920
They have been quick to report that it was a “white supremacist” that did the shooting. Had it been otherwise, it would take weeks to find out.
Oh, and this doesn’t warrant “breaking news” email from CNN, but I get one about some washed up actor’s death in Thailand.
corona said:
Words fail me — some white guy born in 1920
Ehh, it was just the Jews’ museum. Nothing important. Move along, folks.
(snicker)
Since we’re not allowed to state the obvious anymore, I’m declaring that this was the first salvo in the long-awaited global Eskimo uprising (they are so-o-o-o sneaky )! Of course, I may be wrong. It’s obviously not a Muslim terrorist incident.
The shooter is probably one of those smelly tourists that Reid talks about.
James Von Brunn
Fox News is saying the shooter, James von Brunn is an anti-semitic with ties to white supremacy websites.
Looks like the MSM will get its wish.
CULPRIT: ’89-YEAR OLD WHITE SUPREMACIST’
How long until the media blames this shooting on the culture of hatred created by Obama’s ex-pastor the honorable Rev. Wright, for his statement excoriating the “Jews” for keeping him from talking to “his son” Obama?
Wow. The old people are up in arms….
Now, if Congress would’ve just passed the ObamaCare bill, this guy would’ve been taken care of already….
Actually, I stand corrected. I just got the email.
PSRK, you might be right!
Seriously, hope the people who were shot make it..
When He!! freezes over or when Anderson Cooper/Chris Matthews/Keith Obermann go “straight”….
Not quite. When guns are outlawed, only the government will have guns.
Much more terrifying.
A white guy eh? We’ll NEVER hear the end of it. White Jew haters are news, Muslim ones are not.
Napolitano must be doing a Rumplestiltskin dance in her office.
Me, too Gladz. Prayer for all of them and the observers, too. (PTSD sucks…)
Except for the attacker. He can die. I’m fine with that.
And the security guard should get a medal.
Ahhh, yes, GreenFarie, the only use JaNo has for Jews: Furthering her claims that white people are all White Supremists and Government-hating Extremists.
Otherwise, they are sorry ole James missed the visitors. Rahm probably send the guy money for the ammo.
*g-r-r-r-r-r*
The mindless commenters at Huffpo started right off linking this whack-job to the entire right-wing / GOP….
What a glorious day for them.
How about we just give this guy life imprisonment in a straight jacket?
When government takes guns from the law abiding, government WILL BE CRIMINALS.
The “rings true” Fox fact seekers are quick out of the gate with their investigative reporting:
Misscheryl said (#1):
It turns out that it’s a Christian tea bagging anti-Semitic white guy.
Assuming that most white supremacists call themselves Christian, I’ve never understood how they could hate the Jew. Even a cursory reading of the Bible, and especially the NT, shows that salvation is from the Jews. Christians were “grafted into their tree”. The Jews are the Christians’ root. Without them, we are lost. Jesus was a Jew.
They are already calling this a “hate crime” unlike the shooting of the Army Pvt.
Holder is going to have a field day over this.
“Rightwing extremism in the United States can be broadly divided into those groups, movements, and adherents that are primarily hate-oriented (based on hatred of particular religious, racial or ethnic groups), and those that are mainly antigovernment, rejecting federal authority in favor of state or local authority, or rejecting government authority entirely. It may include groups and individuals that are dedicated to a single issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration.”
Still a “shoddy piece of propaganda” MM?
Just makes your day, don’t it, LGM?
Now this is a story the media will run with. There were no muslims doing the shooting. And the bonus for them is the shooter was a white guy so they can call it terrorism.
Obama will denounce it in short order, even though it was likely an anti-semetic attack. Which is a downside for Obama being an anti-semite himself. I wonder if he’ll have a press conference with Napolitano standing in the camera’s view?
lgm said:
Crawl back into your dung heap and fester there.
If Obama DOES issue a comment regarding anti-semitism, will he include Rev. Wright’s statement as well?
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm……
They are saying that as I write.
lgm, I very much doubt that this guy is a Christian. If he is, he is very disturbed and has been led astray. Any organization that promotes hatred of the Jew or anyone else, is by definition not following Christ’s teaching. In that, Islam, white supremacy, La Raza, the Black Panthers, etc, all share the common trait of systemic hate. So, I don’t see any difference between Islamists and mad-whites. They both want to kill Jews. They are the SAME religion.
Christians, true Christians, do not hate or wish harm to the Jewish people or Israel. This person last name, and age, tells me something and how some felt or feel about the Jews.
L
Yes, it is.
A shooting by a lunatic doesn’t make her gross generalizations legitimate.
I’m a regular follower / commenter at the opposition site, Huffpo, and am having a Louis Renault moment….
I’m SHOCKED – SHOCKED I TELL YOU – that Huffpo has posted this story as the Banner Headline and already has nearly 500 comments, when the recruiter death story didn’t hit their front page until nearly 11:00 pm the day it happened and was relegated to a lower-level spot, AND, ended up with fewer comments than this story does already….
No, it does not.
White, perhaps, but what does race have to do with anything?
Anti-Semitic, apparently.
What other part of your formulation has any verity?
Isn’t it just an example of your hate?
Says you and your ilk. Trying to link MM to a straw man is one of the oldest tricks in the book. So anyone who advocates enforcement of our laws is hateful and a racist, right?
lgm – Knock. It. Off. with the stupid “tea-bagging” jokes. It’s juvenile and repulsive. (Hmmm… Just like you, I guess!) The difference here is that when a “right wing nutjob” does something like this, you’ll see conservatives be just as vocal in their condemnation of him/her as we would if it was a jihadist (or a loony lib). Whereas if this had been a jihadist (or a loony lib), the loony libs would be spending their time either (1) trying to figure out how to ignore that fact, or (2) trying to figure out how to blame his irrational actions on Boosh. I’m honestly now sure who I find more disgusting at this moment – you or the shooter.
Get a life.
So he’s a white supremacist, they say. That should put him under “right-wing extremist” category. I’m sure the far left congress will want to make more laws…oh, to protect us, of course. They’ve already thrown out the Bill of Rights and Constitution. The gunman is obviously mentally ill. Prison, with its gangs, is no place for him.
OT, but…
there is a report that US forces in Afghanistan are now reading “high value” captures Maranda rights.
This would be a TITANICALLY bad sign.
No wonder since Obambi has made it open season on Jews and Israel.
Wrong again moron. That man is no Christian but feel free to behave exactly the way we said you would. Are you as boring to yourself as you are to others?
TheOtherSide said:
You mean like the “New Black Panthers”, or “Code Pink” or “The Nation of Islam”, or “A.L.F.” or “P.E.T.A” groups like that?
If the reports are true, the shooter is in his eighties, served as a PT skipper in WWII, and has a history of incarceration for violent acts and a bur under his blanket regarding the federal government.
lgm;
Can you name any group in the US that has been…and is today…a more reliable and stalwart friend of Israel than Christians?
Include liberal Jews in your answer, BTW, especially in light of the current vogue of LEFTIST hatred for Israel.
One more thing lgm. Suggesting that a muslim try and kill Jews is sooo over the top. Where do we come up with this stuff. To suggest something so awful from a group so gentle is just…well it’s just crazy!
However, suggesting that you would lump all Christians together because this guy is white is pretty much par for your course. Once again, you didn’t surprise us.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2141655/posts
I hope this shooter, his organization, and his organization’s associations with other organizations, are thoroughly and completely – thoroughly and completely – investigated.
How much about what Jihad watch discusses about Timothy McVeigh’s and Terry Nichols’ associations did we hear about back in 1993?
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/014537.php
From the Jihadwatch link:
This is too much of a coincidence to be immediately accepted at face value, without a scouringly thorough, unobstructed investigaiton.
Agree…except that it may not necessarily be OT, until we know all – all – the facts..
Wonder if anyone will consider that this might well have been an attempted “suicide by police”?
You forgot to mention that he is a veteran.
James Von Brunn; what’s with the white supremest? Isn’t he a Nazi? Nazi sympathizer?
Maybe I’m just getting a bit too sensitive over color these days.
notice how NATIONAL SOCIALISTS, and FASCISTS are described as ‘right wing’ when the truth is they are SOCIALISTS…
left-wingers.
letget said (#68):
With all due respect, this isn’t true historically. The Catholic Church officially condemned the Jewish religion until recently. Many still pray every day for Jews to be converted. Martin Luther wrote a book called “The Jews and their Lies”.
Most Jews of my generation in America have experienced Christian Antisemitism.
Cut and paste about Jerry Falwell: ADL Condemns Falwell’s Anti-Muslim Remarks; Urges Him to Apologize
Moonshot (#82) – the thread (freeper) was pulled. What was it?
It seems Free Republic does not want it known that their members posted writing from this James Von Brunn and pulled the threads…such as this one.
http://www.dn.no/forum/?display=topic&forum_id=1&topic_id=7349&jgo=
Shep Smith is using this to demonstrate that Homeland Security was right to warn Americans about extremists.
I don’t recall if he made a similar statement when William Long was assassinated by ‘Abdul Hakim Mujahid Muhammad’.
What a loser. And lgm‘s post? That’s like calling Adolph Hilter a ‘christian’.
I know the answer just ruined your day.
from the times online…
so he’s a Darwiniac too! no surprise, typical nazi…
lgm – the operative word being “true.” Your reading comprehension sucks. Are you as selective when you view the world as you are interpreting what you read?
lgm, granted I selectively picked a piece of your statement but I think you would agree that:
is even remotely equal to outright hatred.
Fisher’s of men, lgm….
aaahhhh nopie! He’s just as sick as the muslims who try and cut the heads off of those who don’t follow allah.
LMBO!
Ragspierre said (#75):
In other words, an American soldier detains an Afgan and the first thing he does is prove beyond any doubt that America is a nation of laws where the innocent are protected, so different from the Taliban. What better way to export democracy?