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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>g</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>(or could it be that this nut job belonged to no
ideological end of the spectrum other than straight up crazy)</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=philosopher.joe@gmail.com href="mailto:philosopher.joe@gmail.com">Joe
Campbell</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">Moscow Vision 2020</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, June 11, 2009 10:24
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Vision2020] Fwd: CNN -
Holocaust museum shooting suspect to becharged with murder</DIV>
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<DIV>Is right wing American terrorism on the rise?<BR><BR>Joe </DIV>
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<DIV><B>Holocaust museum shooting suspect to be charged with
murder</B><BR><BR>
<DIV align=center><IMG
src="cid:48DFEC2D36BA4077897D2CCAB23C2F75@gmc"></DIV><BR>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.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>The U.S.
Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington remained closed Thursday, its
flags lowered to half-staff in tribute to Johns.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>"Our thoughts and prayers go out to Officer
Johns' family," the museum said.<BR><BR>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."<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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."<BR><BR>One of many questions is whether von Brunn, as a
convicted felon, should have turned in his weapons or been barred from
owning them.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>An FBI
official said there was no warning or threat against the
museum.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>"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.<BR><BR>The Southern Poverty
Law Center, which tracks hate groups, said von Brunn has "an extremely
long history with neo-Nazis and white supremacists."<BR><BR>Witnesses to
the shooting described blood on the floor and chaos within the museum's
halls.<BR><BR>Visitor Maria Hernandez told CNN she heard five shots and
saw the wounded security guard.<BR><BR>"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."<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>"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."<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>"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."<BR><BR>The shooting sent shock waves throughout
the nation's capital and elsewhere.<BR><BR>"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.<BR><BR>"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."<BR><BR>Israel issued a statement through its embassy,
expressing sadness and condemning the attack.<BR><BR>The Anti-Defamation
League said the shooting "reminds us in the starkest way where the spread
of hatred can lead."<BR><BR>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."<BR><BR>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."<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
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