[Vision2020] Fwd: CNN - Holocaust museum shooting suspect to be charged with murder

Thu Jun 11 11:46:28 PDT 2009

Roger --

Let me clarify. You've fallen so deeply into your right-wing alternate
universe that you believe Hitler was a left-winger?

-- ACS

On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 10:50 AM, lfalen <lfalen at turbonet.com> wrote:

> Joe
> Don't try to shove your nut cases off on to the right, we have a enough of
> our own. The Nazis were National Socialist. Hitler got his ideas about
> Eugenics from the the american left wing ideologues of the 1920s. One of
> those was Margaret Sanger.
> Roger
> -----Original message-----
> From: Joe Campbell philosopher.joe at gmail.com
> Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 10:24:54 -0700
> To: Moscow Vision 2020 vision2020 at moscow.com
> Subject: [Vision2020] Fwd: CNN - Holocaust museum shooting suspect to be
> charged with murder
>
> > Is right wing American terrorism on the rise?
> >
> > Joe
> >
> > >> Holocaust museum shooting suspect to be charged with murder
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> The suspected gunman in the fatal shooting of a security guard at
> > >> the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum will be charged with murder,
> > >> authorities announced Thursday.
> > >>
> > >> James von Brunn, an 88-year-old white supremacist known for racist
> > >> and anti-Semitic writings, also will face charges of possession of
> > >> a firearm at a federal facility, said Chief Cathy Lanier of the
> > >> District of Columbia's Metropolitan Police Department.
> > >>
> > >> Lanier said Officer Stephen Tyrone Johns was trying to help the man
> > >> arriving at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum around 12:40 p.m.
> > >> Wednesday by opening the door for him. The man then raised a rifle
> > >> and killed him.
> > >>
> > >> The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington remained closed
> > >> Thursday, its flags lowered to half-staff in tribute to Johns.
> > >>
> > >> Officials said after von Brunn entered the crowded and solemn
> > >> Holocaust museum and shot Johns, guards returned fire and wounded
> > >> him. Von Brunn is in the hospital in critical condition, officials
> > >> said.
> > >>
> > >> Sirens blared as emergency vehicles converged on the area, which is
> > >> near the Washington Monument and other popular tourist attractions.
> > >> The museum was full at the time, with a "couple of thousand" people
> > >> inside, said William Parsons, chief of staff at the museum.
> > >>
> > >> A six-year veteran of the museum's security staff, Johns "died
> > >> heroically in the line of duty," said Sara Bloomfield, director of
> > >> the museum.
> > >>
> > >> "Our thoughts and prayers go out to Officer Johns' family," the
> > >> museum said.
> > >>
> > >> Von Brunn is a Holocaust denier, well-known to human rights groups
> > >> for decades, who created an anti-Semitic Web site called "The Holy
> > >> Western Empire." The Southern Poverty Law Center, which focuses on
> > >> human rights, said von Brunn has "an extremely long history with
> > >> neo-Nazis and white supremacists."
> > >>
> > >> He has repeatedly claimed "The Diary of Anne Frank," an iconic
> > >> diary written by a teenage girl who was hiding from Nazis with her
> > >> family, was a hoax. The guard died on the day the museum was to
> > >> stage a play based on Anne Frank and two days before what would
> > >> have been her 80th birthday.
> > >>
> > >> Investigators found a notebook in the suspect's car listing other
> > >> locations in Washington that he might have considered as targets, a
> > >> federal official told CNN.
> > >>
> > >> Von Brunn served six years in prison for trying in 1981 to kidnap
> > >> Federal Reserve Board members because of high interest rates. He
> > >> blamed his prison term on a "Negro jury, Jew/Negro attorneys" and
> > >> "a Jew judge," he said on his Web site, "Holy Western Empire."
> > >>
> > >> One of many questions is whether von Brunn, as a convicted felon,
> > >> should have turned in his weapons or been barred from owning them.
> > >>
> > >> The U.S. Park Police has asked the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,
> > >> Firearms and Explosives to trace the firearm, an effort that is
> > >> expected to provide its original sale and ownership.
> > >>
> > >> An FBI official said there was no warning or threat against the
> > >> museum.
> > >>
> > >> Both Johns and von Brunn were taken to George Washington University
> > >> Hospital, said D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty. Johns died at the hospital.
> > >> Von Brunn was in critical condition, Fenty said.
> > >>
> > >> Johns, 39, was a resident of Temple Hills, Maryland, according to a
> > >> statement issued by Wackenhut Services Inc., which has provided
> > >> security services at the museum since 2002.
> > >>
> > >> "Obviously there are no words to express our grief and shock over
> > >> the horrific event that took place at this museum today,"
> > >> Bloomfield, the museum director, said.
> > >>
> > >> The Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate groups, said von
> > >> Brunn has "an extremely long history with neo-Nazis and white
> > >> supremacists."
> > >>
> > >> Witnesses to the shooting described blood on the floor and chaos
> > >> within the museum's halls.
> > >>
> > >> Visitor Maria Hernandez told CNN she heard five shots and saw the
> > >> wounded security guard.
> > >>
> > >> "It was definitely a security guard; he was down bleeding on the
> > >> floor," said Hernandez, 19. "He was face down. His back ... blood
> > >> was coming out."
> > >>
> > >> Sirens blared as emergency vehicles converged on the area, which is
> > >> near the Washington Monument and other popular tourist attractions.
> > >> The museum was full at the time, with a "couple of thousand" people
> > >> inside, said William Parsons, chief of staff at the museum.
> > >>
> > >> "Never take your guard force and security people for granted," he
> > >> said. "They did exactly what they were supposed to do to protect
> > >> people in the museum."
> > >>
> > >> Dave Pearson, a sixth-grade teacher in the Washington area, said he
> > >> was on the museum's fourth floor when he heard a loud noise.
> > >>
> > >> "At the time, we're visiting and all of a sudden there's like a
> > >> boom, and all of a sudden they told us to stop where we're at," he
> > >> told CNN. "Only thing we heard was a boom, and that was it."
> > >>
> > >> The shooting sent shock waves throughout the nation's capital and
> > >> elsewhere.
> > >>
> > >> "I am shocked and saddened by today's shooting at the U.S.
> > >> Holocaust Memorial Museum," said President Obama, who just days
> > >> earlier had spoken emotionally about the Holocaust when he visited
> > >> Buchenwald, a former Nazi concentration camp with Holocaust
> > >> survivor and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel.
> > >>
> > >> "This outrageous act reminds us that we must remain vigilant
> > >> against anti-Semitism and prejudice in all its forms," Obama said
> > >> Wednesday. "No American institution is more important to this
> > >> effort than the Holocaust museum, and no act of violence will
> > >> diminish our determination to honor those who were lost by building
> > >> a more peaceful and tolerant world."
> > >>
> > >> Israel issued a statement through its embassy, expressing sadness
> > >> and condemning the attack.
> > >>
> > >> The Anti-Defamation League said the shooting "reminds us in the
> > >> starkest way where the spread of hatred can lead."
> > >>
> > >> Happening "at the very place that was created to remember and teach
> > >> about evil in the world," the attack "is an immediate reminder that
> > >> words of hate matter, that we can never afford to ignore hate
> > >> because words of hate can easily become acts of hate, no matter the
> > >> place, no matter the age of the hatemonger."
> > >>
> > >> The Council on American-Islamic Relations condemned "this apparent
> > >> bias-motivated attack" and said it stands "with the Jewish
> > >> community and with Americans of all faiths in repudiating the kind
> > >> of hatred and intolerance that can lead to such disturbing
> > >> incidents."
> > >>
> > >> The museum canceled a performance scheduled for Wednesday night of
> > >> a play about racism and anti-Semitism, based on a fictional meeting
> > >> between Anne Frank and Emmett Till, the teenage victim of a racist
> > >> killing in the United States.
> > >>
> > >> Attorney General Eric Holder and Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tennessee,
> > >> were among those planning to attend the play, which was written by
> > >> Janet Langhart Cohen, the wife of former Defense Secretary and U.S.
> > >> Sen. William Cohen.
> > >>
> > >> Langhart Cohen told CNN that Anne Frank's young life was ended by
> > >> people filled with hate. She said it was hard to see that same hate
> > >> manifest itself at this place of remembrance.
> > >>
> >
> >
>
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