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Holocaust Museum shooter is a right wing extremist…NOT
Posted by Bigfoot on June 11th, 2009
Annapolis, Maryland resident James von Brunn, held in the fatal shooting of guard Stephen T. Johns at the National Holocaust Museum yesterday, is obviously a white supremecist and an anti-Semite. But while these beliefs are often thought of as being of the extreme right, Mark Tapscott of the Washington Examiner points out that von Brunn is not your typical right wingnut. Instead, his own writings show that he:
Hated Christians.
Despised Bush and McCain.
Posted lengthy rants about “Neocons” involved in Jewish conspiracies to alter U.S. foreign policy in favor of Israel.
He placed credence in 9/11 “truther” theories.
Tapscott’s post includes links to this information, and to his source, the blog Red State.
Ben Johnson, in FrontPageMag, goes into more detail about von Brunn’s beliefs.
A review of his lengthy associations reveals Von Brunn hardly fits the stereotype of a Religious Right, GOP precinct captain. He denounced the Christian faith as a dastardly Jewish conspiracy, a “HOAX” invented by the Apostle Paul to “DESTROY ROMAN CULTURE” from within by undermining its pagan virility. (All screaming capitalization and grammatical errors in this piece appear in the original.) Like others on the racist fringe, the shooter proclaimed clearly: “SOCIALISM, represents the future of the West.”
An extremist? You bet. Right wing? Doesn’t look that way to me.
June 11th, 2009 at 10:14 pm
:Tex4life:
I knew from the start that Brunn was a leftists hack. You’d be hard presed to find a Jew Hater on the Right. Thanks for the heads up.
June 12th, 2009 at 12:31 am
“SOCIALISM, represents the future of the West.”
Hardly seems like a rightwing nut to me. I was under the impression that socialism was anathema to “right wing” thought and ideology.
But maybe the leftists of the media and blogosphere want to throw this piece of human feces under the bus before America loses interest so that when the facts do come out (like about now) the average Joe on the street won’t realize he was in fact a fellowtraveler with the leftists because the average Joe’s attention span is a little longer than a gnat’s.
Good plan. And it’s working, by and large. Just like with another piece of socialist human feces that was elected to high office last year.
June 12th, 2009 at 4:19 am
Yes, this man could NOT be classified as a right wing extremist. This is just the spin coming from the MSM. It typical in cases such as these and to be expected.
Like the looks of this site and will return. Visit me sometimes at TOTUS.
June 12th, 2009 at 5:21 pm
When you get out to the extreme fringes, left and right converge, which is to say that left vs. right no longer becomes a useful distinction. The anti-Semitism, the hatred of our government, the propensity to believe in government conspiracies, hatred of Christians: we find this platform among White Supremacist groups* and also among Black separatist groups like Rev. Wright’s church. The former is associated with the “right” and latter with the “left” – which may have some historical validity, but in practice, the programs are virtually indistinguishable, just the players are different.
Indeed the Nazi party in the early years contained leftist and rightest elements and might have gone either way before the party sided with the industrialists and slaughtered its Communist/left supporters, moving it technically to the “right” – but really just confirming how distant it had moved from the mainstream of both “sides”.
What is dispicable is the effort of the media and left commentators to attempt to hang this around the neck of the mainstream right, rather than recognizing that these fringe groups are disowned bastard children of both. And even worse if this becomes the basis for a witchhunt.
Something we need to remember in dealing with Islamists that we don’t end up with a witchhunt against all Muslims. Of course, the current administration appears determined to close their eyes and deny the existence of Islamists in the U.S., but that is a different story with its own disastrous outcome.
*Of course some of these groups claim to be Christians, but they use that in the way that the Nazis dissembled by claiming to be Christian while they were fighting to rise to power.
June 12th, 2009 at 10:45 pm
Indeed, CT. When I was a stupid young pup, at one point I almost joined the Birch Society (much more conservative then than now). I didn’t because I realized how far off base their whole ideology was. Two years later I came just as close to joining the SDS, but didn’t because I realized that by interchanging a few words it was just like the JBS. Their aims and rhetoric were virtually identical.
If one views political ideology as circular instead of linear, it makes sense. I suppose that is why it was so easy for David Dukes to get so enamored of Russian politics.