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

[Joe Campbell]

Sorry but hating Bush/Chaney does not make one left. You get the Neo- 
Nazis.

Joe Campbell

On Jun 11, 2009, at 7:43 PM, "g. crabtree" <jampot at roadrunner.com>  
wrote:

> Von Brunn hated Bush/Cheney, reviled Israel and the Jews, sided with  
> the Palestinians and Hamas, and despised big corporations such as  
> Wal-Mart. The better question would have to be, Is left  wing  
> terrorism on the rise?
>
> g
>
> (or could it be that this nut job belonged to no ideological end of  
> the spectrum other than straight up crazy)
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Joe Campbell
> To: Moscow Vision 2020
> Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 10:24 AM
> Subject: [Vision2020] Fwd: CNN - Holocaust museum shooting suspect  
> to becharged with murder
>
> Is right wing American terrorism on the rise?
>
> Joe
>
>>
>>> Holocaust museum shooting suspect to be charged with murder
>>>
>>> <Picture>
>>>
>>> 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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