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Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Crime Re: Shooting At Holocaust Museum

Posted by Jonah Spangenthal-Lee on Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 1:37 PM

Washington D.C. police have identified the alleged Holocaust Memorial Museum shooter as an octogenarian white supremacist author and World War II veteran:

From the Washington Post:

Police are confirming that the name of suspect is James Von Brunn, a white supremacist, born 1920. He claims to be a member of Mensa, "the high-IQ society," and in 1981 was convicted in D.C. Superior Court for an offense that is not made clear.

James Von Brunn has been a leading writer in the white supremacist fringe for many years. Several of the country's largest and most prolific producers of racist tracts and books have traditionally been based in the mid-Atlantic states, some of them centered for many years around the National Alliance, which was run from William Pierce's secluded West Virginia headquarters until his death in 2002. Von Brunn's online book, "Kill The Best Gentiles," is hundreds of pages of conspiracy theories that include Holocaust denial, the ancient hoax of the "Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion," and wild webs of fantasy seeking to link the Federal Reserve Bank, the Illuminati, Sigmund Freud and Karl Marx in a grand, centuries-long story of Jewish plotting against white people.

Von Brunn repeatedly wrote that the Holocaust never happened.

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And again, ex ww2 veteran becomes a holocaust denier. I guess anything can happen.

Posted by Todd on June 10, 2009 at 1:48 PM

Sorry to pick nits, but I'm pretty sure it's impossible to become an "ex-veteran." But yeah, that's pretty weird.

Posted by Grist

on June 10, 2009 at 2:23 PM

How are right-wing violent extremists in America any different than violent extremists in the middle east? These radical groups and individuals need to be monitored and handled appropriately by the federal government before these terrorist acts can take place.

Posted by Carollani

on June 10, 2009 at 2:41 PM

So when are the Republicans going to apologize to Janet Napolitano for objecting to her totally on target and prescient report on the threat of right wing extremists in the US???

Posted by kinaidos on June 10, 2009 at 3:04 PM

Sure hope the pumpernickel tooting pigfucker makes a full and complete recovery so he can stand tall and attract no pity at his upcoming capitol murder trial.

Posted by The Max on June 10, 2009 at 3:41 PM