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Media Portrays Suspected Holocaust Museum Shooter as “Antigovernment Extremist”
Kurt Nimmo
Prisonplanet.com
June 10, 2009
“An elderly gunman opened fire with a rifle inside the crowded U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum on Wednesday, gravely wounding a security guard before two other officers returned fire. The assailant and his victim were both hospitalized,” the Associated Press reports this afternoon. “The episode unfolded inside the museum, which maintains a heavy security presence, with guards positioned inside and out. All visitors are required to pass through metal detectors at the entrance, and bags are screened.”
The suspected gunman, James Von Brunn, is described as a white supremacist “whose Web site is full of anti-government and anti-Semitic rants,” according to the New York Daily News.
In 1981, von Brunn entered the Federal Reserve with a shotgun to make a citizens arrest, he later said, to protest high interest rates. He was sentenced to 11 years in jail. “Von Brunn attempted to place the treasonous Federal Reserve Board of Governors under legal, non-violent, citizens arrest,” is how Von Brunn later described his action in the third person.
“Brunn, a WWII veteran, also wrote a screed on President Obama’s citizenship that was re-posted to popular right-wing blog Free Republic,” the Soros-funded Think Progress reports. “A Department of Homeland Security report leaked earlier this year — and subsequently retracted — warned of right-wing extremists ‘that are primarily hate-oriented (based on hatred of particular religious, racial or ethnic groups).’”
The DHS document — “Right-wing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment” — states that “threats from white supremacist and violent anti-government groups during 2009 have been largely rhetorical and have not indicated plans to carry out violent acts.” The DHS made a point of conflating white supremacists with “anti-government” groups and individuals “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.”
The report cited the April 4 shooting of three police officers in Pittsburgh as an example of “right-wing extremist” terrorism. In the wake of that incident, the corporate and the so-called progressive media attempted to link the deranged shooter to radio talk show host Alex Jones and the patriot movement.
On May 31, the late-term abortionist George Tiller was shot and killed in Wichita, Kansas. A mentally ill man, Scott Roeder, was arrested and charged for Tiller’s murder. Roeder had been a member of the “anti-government” Montana Freemen group and was convicted in 1996 on explosives charges after police discovered a fuse cord, a pound of gunpowder and nine-volt batteries in the trunk of his car.
According to the Anti-Defamation League, Roeder was a member of the Sovereign Citizen Movement, which believes that the United States government is illegitimate. ADL National Director Abraham Foxman stated that “Roeder’s attachment to extreme causes extended beyond anti-abortion extremism. His extremism cross-pollinated between anti-government extremism and anti-abortion activism and led to violence and murder.”
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In the wake of the Pittsburgh shooting, the ADL attempted to link Alex Jones to the accused shooter, Richard Poplawski. “One of Poplawski’s favorite places for such conspiracy theories was the Web site of the right-wing conspiracy radio talk show host Alex Jones. Poplawski visited the site, Infowars, frequently, shared links to it with others, and sometimes even posted to it,” an article dated April 8, 2009, on the ADL site states.
The DHS report and specifically a likewise report issued by MIAC (Missouri Information Analysis Center) leans heavily on ADL propaganda. “I believe we can also assume that the source of all of these reports is either Morris Dees and his Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) or the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), or both,” former presidential candidate Chuck Baldwin wrote on April 17, 2009. The MIAC report specifically describes supporters of presidential candidates Ron Paul, Chuck Baldwin, and Bob Barr as “militia” influenced terrorists and instructs the Missouri police to be on the lookout for supporters displaying bumper stickers and other paraphernalia associated with the Constitutional, Campaign for Liberty, and Libertarian parties.
Sam Stein, writing for the Huffington Post this afternoon, states that the “heavily criticized Department of Homeland Security Report on right-wing extremism that was released in April warned precisely of the type of violent anti-Semitic activity that occurred at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C.”
It’s been several months now since that DHS report was issues and, sadly, the study is proving increasingly prescient. In addition to the Von Brunn shootings, there has been the killing of abortion provider George Tiller, another type of ideologically-driven killing that Napolitano warned against.
Mr. Stein should take care. An earlier report issued by the DHS warned of the threat posed by “left-wing extremists,” including people who embrace “anticapitalist” and “antiglobalization” ideas. “Many leftwing extremists use the tactic of direct action to inflict economic damage on businesses and other targets to force the targeted organization to abandon what the extremists deem objectionable,” the DHS report reads. “Direct actions range from animal releases, property theft, vandalism, and cyber attacks — all of which extremists regard as nonviolent — to bombings and arson.”
As with the “rightwing extremism” report, the DHS’ assessment of “leftwing extremism” conflates legitimate anti-globalist activism with the bombings and arson of a radical — and possibly government-sponsored — fringe.
Liberals need to understand that the government holds no ideological bias and is determined to demonize and attack any political activity that challenges its authority, no matter what side of the false right-left construct that behavior hails from.
Addendum: Holocaust Museum Shooter “9/11 Truther”
A sampling of things to come in regard to Von Brunn can be sampled in a post on the Examiner website. Kathy Shaidle, a neocon follower of former Marxist David Horowitz, writes that the elderly James von Brunn was a “truther” and — here is the remarkable part — his avowed white supremacy is an attribute of the “left,” not the “right.”
Ms. Shaidle is determined to stretch the false right-left paradigm out of shape in order to dump the emerging image of Von Brunn on her ideological enemies. According to this poor deluded young woman, “James von Brunn’s advocacy of 9/11 conspiracy theories also gives him an additional commonality with individuals on the far-left.”
In fact, members of the so-called “far-left” dismiss out of hand the fact the attack launched on September 11, 2001, was an inside job, as evidenced by the public pronouncements of Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn. But then Horowitz and his minions are certainly not beyond twisting the facts in order to mischaracterize and slander their opponents. A rather obvious example of this twisting and delusional thinking can be witnessed in Horowitz’s assertion that the globalist George Soros is a Marxist.
It would seem Horowitz and his small stable of neocons have a lot in common with the Department of Homeland Security, not surprising really when you consider that Horowitz’s operation is funded and supported by the CIA operative Richard Mellon Scaife.
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June 11th, 2009 at 5:31 am
Why are you stupid sheeple so surprised? Ten bucks—this was a set up—THE ONLY SOLUTION—IS A MASSIVE WORLDWIDE REVOLUTION..
It is Very Simple Reply:
June 11th, 2009 at 5:19 pm
Unbelievable! How about doing a little research before writing an article where you stick up for a total nutjob who has written horrendous anti-semitic articles for decades Kurt? A small sample here (but it is all over the place – there is so much of it – it cannot be missed):
http://www.arsenalofhypocrisy.com/blog/?p=463
“HITLER’S WORST MISTAKE:
HE DIDN’T GAS THE JEWS.
JAMES VON BRUNN
http://WWW.HOLYWESTERNEMPIRE.ORG
Remember, the Federal Reserve Act (1913) gave JEWS control of America’s MONEY. Followed by control of America’s main sources of information .”
Just because he once did something that your article implies you admire (going into the Federal Reserve with a rifle to make a citizen’s arrest), does not mean he was a good guy! The 911 truth movement should keep people like this out, the end the fed movement should keep people like this out. You SHOULD be complaining to the neo-nazi Von Brunn, for making the good movements look bad, instead of trying to pretend that he wasn’t a Jew hating piece of trash!
Former US Marine Reply:
June 11th, 2009 at 10:03 pm
What is an Extremist?
A jew who wants a pure race state based on geneology
A jew who wants a 2 state solution for their bigot beliefs
A jew who thinks god gave him land
A jew who thinks he is of a chosen race
A jew who belongs to the racist religion called Judaism based on geneology
A jew who hates Christians
A jew who hates Muslims
A jew who supports diversity in all other countries but their own race state
Zionism is the ultimate in extremist ideologies.
This is extremism and bigotry in full force. Jews call others what in reality they are. Its how they win and end a conversation; by turning the tables and calling you what they are.
For example, Arabs are semites (a semite is simply one who speaks a semitic language) yet Jews try and take away who they are and turn it against them, when in fact, most Jews in America cannot even speak a semitic language and are thus not Semites.) These nasty traitors are masters at word manipulation and propaganda.
Jesus is Lord Reply:
June 12th, 2009 at 12:03 am
Seems like you need to rethink your position. There are nutty people in every group – just being Jewish does not make someone an extremist. Jesus was Jewish – and by the way, God did give the land to the Jews and when Jesus returns the land will fully established as theirs because of the promises that God made to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob – not because they are so great.
June 11th, 2009 at 5:31 am
Land of the Fear…Home of the debt slave…
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meanjean Reply:
June 11th, 2009 at 1:13 pm
Hi Uncle, went to your site; which cutie are you???
June 11th, 2009 at 6:05 am
white extremists fighting are totally corrupted useless criminal government
June 11th, 2009 at 6:06 am
white extremists fighting our totally corrupted useless criminal government
June 11th, 2009 at 6:31 am
How convenient that this bozo tried to kidnap Fed Reserve board members just as we are finally making some headway in holding the Fed accountable.
You really have to wonder about these kinds of events always playing right into the hands of the media.
A Patriot Reply:
June 11th, 2009 at 10:23 am
Agreed! – Quite the fortunate Coincidence…
And – are all White Supremistists so friggin’ incompetent?? – I mean – many other appraches would have done a ton of more damage and he’d been off to his next target.
(not that I support his dillusional world view – I mean what kinda f*ck kills his fellow serfs?)
Methinks this seems highly manipulated…
Macy Reply:
June 11th, 2009 at 11:29 am
I saw that too! Interesting timing.
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June 11th, 2009 at 3:47 pm
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June 11th, 2009 at 6:50 am
Yesterday the state House of Representin’ of Missouri had its first committee hearing about MIAC. Things are MUCH WORSE than we thought. -More to come
Jim Lunsford Reply:
June 11th, 2009 at 7:42 am
Mild, what is this hearing on the MIAC to cover? It’s legitimacy, it’s constitutionality? It’s legality? Do you know?
Mild1776 Reply:
June 11th, 2009 at 8:09 am
The validity of its practices.
Watch this second video. Dangerous Sherriff
http://ky3.blogspot.com/2009/0.....ports.html
Mild1776 Reply:
June 11th, 2009 at 8:09 am
The first video is of LRP’s Catherine. http://www.libertyrestorationproject.org
June 11th, 2009 at 7:01 am
The media labels some people “truthers”. Obviously, the media LOVES lies & disinformation. Shouldn’t the media be “truthers”????? By using this label, the media has shown their true colors.
June 11th, 2009 at 7:09 am
Why is the media so interested in this story? There are hundreds of other shootings each day around the country.. just because it happened at some jewish place does not make this a story. WTF?
"Shrugs." Reply:
June 11th, 2009 at 9:18 am
…Or he could be a mentally crumbling 88 year old man who lost it, was a victim of his own belief system, and who alone bears responsibility for his heinous act. I don’t see the anti-government connection. Rather, perhaps a connection to dementia? The man was 88.
dig Reply:
June 11th, 2009 at 11:34 am
I’d say that is a good possibility…dementia can make ordinary people angry.
Just plain Joe Reply:
June 11th, 2009 at 1:36 pm
Slow news week? Has some things that make a good story…racism, death heroic law men…good guys vs bad guys. Stop thinking of news as news (at least of TV) and start thinking of it as a Movie.
Just remember news is about supplying viewers for their advertisers. Its not about bringing you the story..blah blah blah. Its about getting you to sit down and listed long enough for them to show viewer data to there advertisers so they can charge the prices they do for certain time slots. Where have you been?
Just plain Joe Reply:
June 11th, 2009 at 1:41 pm
Oh, but I should say…Bringing you the stories that those that over look them (FCC and those that can help or hinder there financial interests) deem ok. There are some things they wouldn’t dare air not matter how much viewers it would get. It is just not in their “financial interest” to be truthful or forthcoming. Not in this day and age.
June 11th, 2009 at 7:16 am
I won’t be surprised if they use this incident for more gun control.
Beavis Reply:
June 11th, 2009 at 10:27 am
That’s the first thing that was mentioned. Surprise, surprise.
June 11th, 2009 at 7:22 am
How in the world did the shooter gain access to the museum carrying those weapons?
Don’t the metal detectors work properly?
Crossbow_Sniper Reply:
June 11th, 2009 at 7:26 am
It had to have been an inside job but they’ll make up some BS story and expect everybody to buy it.
meanjean Reply:
June 11th, 2009 at 11:12 am
I think you are right on the mark, Crossbow. More and more incidents are happening around the country, and we will all be disarmed soon. And “legally” too. Well, I still have my claws!
June 11th, 2009 at 7:28 am
Surely indiscriminate violence serves no purpose. But what if your a parent that is having your child going to be raped by cps? and you know it, I mean I think there are situations where violence is sane.
June 11th, 2009 at 7:41 am
FOR GOD’S SAKE THE MAN WAS ALMOST 90 YR’S OLD.HEwas fed up with the lie’s,corruption,deception.HIS TIME WAS ENDING,wanted our corrupt gov. to listen! THE way the media acted,and goverment offical’s talked you would think there ’s allout invasion. ONE man who’s is90 yr’s old,just fed up,like the rest of us. WHAT upset’s me the guy who wrote a book on domistic terroism, shot his mouth off, on progreessive dem’s or really anyone who speak out about OBAMA’advisor’s who are jewish,i don’t care if they are alien’s from space. plain&simple thay are corrupt,the guy levin who wrote the book,how dare him call us terroist’s. DAM HIM,where he is going with this,do not question the gov. JUST because there are jewish american’s there.WHAT GET’S ME IS NEVER QUESTION ISERAL,THAT’S WHAT HE BELIVE’S DON’T GIVE ANY AMMO TO THE ENEMY,EVEN IF ISERAL IS WRONG. I NEVER SEEN ANYONE WHO WILL STAND UP TO ISERAL WRONG DOING’S HE RATHER ,CALL AMERICAN’S TERROIST’S,THAN STANDING UP TO ISERAL. WHO SIDE IS HE ON?? I GUESS I’AM A TERROIST BECAUSE WHAT I WROTE ABOUT HIM AND ISERAL!! I’AM A PATRIOT,FOR(WE THE PEOPLE)&(U.S.CONSITITUTION)& AND ALWAY’S OUR CHILDRENMR. LEVIN SIR, WHEN YOU ARE WRONG, YOU ARE WRONG. YOU ARE NOT SPEAKING THE TRUTH, THE SAD THING YOU KNOW IT.
June 11th, 2009 at 8:32 am
The old nutcase doesn’t represent you or me.
But, the media will connect us, IE: anyone that does not agree with our criminally insane govt. or the thieving banks, with him.
Convenient for them, make us look crazy.
Kelly Reply:
June 11th, 2009 at 9:43 am
Exactly! Now people will equate 9-11 truthers with racists
There are jerks in every movement, but they are the exception NOT the rule in 9-11 truth.
wildcat Reply:
June 11th, 2009 at 3:05 pm
This has been done two years ago:
http://wwwwakeupamericans-spre.....night.html
(Stopping here for a second for a little side note.. His companion, Preston Wiginton is associated with Stormfront, which is a white supremacist website that endorses Ron Paul, who also has ties with other white supremacist characters, such as Alex Jones, the 9/11 Truther leader, where recent news shows that Ron Paul’s campaign has paid Alex Jones $1,300 for services. [Correction- Paul's campaign, allegedly, sent the $1,300 as a "partial refund on Jone's original donation]
June 11th, 2009 at 8:38 am
Jews do control the media, tv, magazines and books in the USA.
How else do you explain the biased coverage of all “Jewish” topics.
meanjean Reply:
June 11th, 2009 at 11:14 am
They’ve got their nasty fingers in our finances and government too. Look at all the Jews in sock-puppet Obama’s cabinate.
Thompson Reply:
June 11th, 2009 at 5:01 pm
Why are you insulting sock-puppets?
I have never seen sock-puppets stealing my money by over taxation or inflation taxation.
Besides sock-puppets don’t support Marxism.
Please respect them.
meanjean Reply:
June 12th, 2009 at 10:46 am
Am so dreadfully sorry, Thompson. All sock-puppets from now on shall have my utmost respect. Can you find it in your vast heart to forgive me?
June 11th, 2009 at 12:49 pm
Nimmo,
Not all in the “far left” dismiss 9/11 was an inside job. Most of the Hollywood types that believe it was an inside job can be considered to some extent to be of the Hollywood left and that would include Rosanne Barr and Charlie Sheen, among others. Naom Chomsky does not speak for the entire’ left’ community. PLease look beyond the left/right paradigm you so often discuss but fail to adhere to in this particle article.
. Just as Ron Paul (who also has never professed 9/11 was an inside job), does not speak to all Libertarians, thus is the same for the far lefters. I think you may be surprised to know just how many in the truth movement and 9/11 come from the so called “far left”:Traditionally distrustful of government and often anti-establishment.
June 11th, 2009 at 12:54 pm
Was this Museam a Federal Goverment agency? Why would a anti-goverment extremist attack a Museam? Sounds to me like he was a Nazi-psycho. What about the pro-nazi rally in St. Louis? Seems like if your going to lable someone attacking a Holocaust Museam it would be natural to label him with those guys not some people wanting a re-investigation into the 9-11 attack. Glenn Beck if you want to shut up these 9-11 truthers why dont you just rally to give a new investigation into the attacks to shut them up? Would be alot easier In my opinion.
Further More I dont understand how people can look at someone and tell they are Jewish I mean do they really look any different then any other white person? Call me blind if you want to but I personaly cant tell the difference. Glenn Beck You are white should I label you as a KKK member for being white? Did Jewish people stand together and kill millions of Germans? They dont seem that bad to me. I asked a teacher the other day why people hate Jews so much he said cause they horde their money. LOL sounds like Jews are smart to me.
What about all the Eugenisist? They seem like rascist extremist to me.
Jim Reply:
June 11th, 2009 at 8:09 pm
And even if a new 9/11 investigation is given Great! And 10 more years later another investigation is wanted then do it. I dont care if its a 100 years from now DO IT! New evidence appears in cases all the time. If you got nothing to hide Dont worry about it. This is america. I honestly dont know if it was a inside job but if someone else thinks so Im not going to demonize them. Truthfully Id like to see 10 different investigators Federal/State/Private all look at the evidence seperatly, and they better All come up with results that match. If the goverment doesnt want to pay for it fine. Get a donation fund going.
June 11th, 2009 at 12:55 pm
Stormfront, the White Supremisist ORg. is not at all pleased with this latest attack and have closed off their comment board since they likely know the Feds are sniffing it out just like they are probably sniffing out this site right now . They do like his book about the ‘Death to the Gentiles’ however.
June 11th, 2009 at 2:17 pm
Have a question – where can one put the following in a scale of 1 to 10:
a) Sanish Inquistion
b) KKK
c) White Superimist
d) Al Quida
e) Irish extrimists
The answer is all of them are at point 10, because killing one innocent man is like killinmg the entire humnan race.
Thompson Reply:
June 11th, 2009 at 4:56 pm
What kind of mentality leads your life by which you put Irish freedom activists as Al Qaeda?
If you want to talk about innocent massacres talk about Gulags in which filthy atheists exterminated tens of millions of people.
June 11th, 2009 at 2:22 pm
Blogger surrenders on Conn. lawmaker-threat charge
By PAT EATON-ROBB – 9 minutes ago
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A New Jersey blogger who urged readers to “take up arms” against Connecticut lawmakers and who suggested government officials should “obey the Constitution or die” surrendered Thursday on a charge of inciting violence.
Late Thursday afternoon, Turner’s blog had been taken down, apparently by the company that hosts it.
http://turnerradionetwork.blogspot.com
This blog is in violation of Blogger’s Terms of Service and is open to authors only.
June 11th, 2009 at 3:19 pm
HES A FUCKING DICKHEAD THATS WHO HE IS
June 11th, 2009 at 5:43 pm
Alex is a hyper, his constant urgency,,we’re under attack drum beat is like those cult leaders who keep their flock (sheeple) in a constant state of hype
The trouble is the real info gets lost in all this hype and extremism and sense of “danger” only fuels nut jobs
June 12th, 2009 at 12:01 am
This guy should have been fitted with an RFID chip when he was first arrested; as should every convicted felon. Every Government building (and all schools) should have perimeter defenses in place that would activate an alarm whenever a “chipped” individual compromises the protected area. That would be a cool iPhone app btw. But that would too wise an expenditure of tax payer dollars…
June 12th, 2009 at 2:13 am
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