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

[bear at moscow.com]

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ALL: Please insert the word "blame" between the "can" and "the" in the
first sentence. Otherwise I'll sound like a republican!

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> Roger,
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> Not sure you can ( INSERT BLAME HERE)  the "american left wing
ideologues" of the 1920's for
> that one, especially with such followers as  Marie Stopes, H. G. Wells,
> Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, Emile Zola, George Bernard Shaw, John
> Maynard Keynes, William Keith Kellogg, Winston Churchill, Linus Pauling
> and Sidney Webb.
>
> Do you really think that Woodrow Wilson, Teddy Roosevelt and Winston
> Churchill were left wing ideologues?
>
>
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>> 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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