Right-Wing Terror Returns [Here we go...]

The Daily Beast ^ | June 10, 2009 | Benjamin Sarlin

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Wednesday's shooting at the Holocaust Museum in D.C.—the second attack by a domestic terrorist in two weeks—killed one and left others injured. As details on the suspect, a white supremacist leader, come to light, a controversial government memo on right-wing terror earlier this year deserves another look.

To the nation's horror, a much-maligned Department of Homeland Security memo on right-wing extremism is looking more accurate by the day. With news of a horrific incident of domestic terrorism Wednesday at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., the second major attack by a far-right gunman in less than two weeks, the government's warnings may have been dismissed too easily by critics who decried them as a smear against conservatives.

The shooter at the Holocaust Memorial Museum was James W. Von Brunn, an 88-year old neo-Nazi with a passionate hatred for all things Jewish. One security guard killed; another was wounded in the attack, in addition to Von Brunn, who was shot by security guards. Von Brunn's Web site includes a long list of anti-Semitic and xenophobic statements and notes that he served several time in jail after he "was tried in a Washington, D.C. Superior Court; convicted by a Negro jury, Jew/Negro attorneys, and sentenced to prison for 11 years by a Jew judge."

With high-profile attacks allegedly by far-right lunatics occurring within a week of each other, it seems the government's warnings deserve a second look and its critics may owe Homeland Security officials an apology.

The museum attack comes ten days after the assassination of George Tiller, the Kansas physician whose abortion procedures made him a national focus of the pro-life movement. In that case, a longtime antiabortion extremist, Scott Roeder, targeted Tiller in a church, according to officials who charged him with first-degree murder.

The two cases closely mirror hypothetical examples provided by a recent Department of Homeland Security memo, which many right-wing commentators attacked as a deliberate indictment of mainstream conservatives. The memo warned that the election of a black president, combined with hardening economic times, could lead to a repeat of the 1990s, when “white supremacists’ longstanding exploitation of social issues such as abortion, inter-racial crimes, and same-sex marriage" successfully led to new recruits and a surge in violence that culminated in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. The report cited as evidence a deadly attack on three police officers in April by a man claiming to be concerned that the president would take away his weapons and herd people into concentration camps under a Jewish-controlled government, all of which were longtime tropes of right-wing militia groups. That attack is looking disturbingly more like a sign of things to come than an aberration.

At the time of the memo's release, conservative commentator Michelle Malkin (whose Web site's latest post, in a tragic coincidence, features a mashup of Obama's name with a Nazi eagle) described the piece as a "hit job on conservatives" and Newt Gingrich described the memo as "smearing" conservatives and veterans. Although the Homeland Security study was originally begun by the Bush administration, some went so far as to accuse the White House of deliberately concocting the memo in order to delegitimize “Tea Party” protests, which here held to oppose Obama's economic policies.

With high-profile attacks allegedly by far-right lunatics occurring within a week of each other, it seems the government's warnings deserve a second look and its critics may owe Homeland Security officials an apology.

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Benjamin Sarlin is a reporter for The Daily Beast. He previously covered New York City politics for The New York Sun and has worked for talkingpointsmemo.com.

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Only a nitwit at a third-rate site like this could extropolate "right-wing" terrorism from a mental patient (Scott Roeder) and a anti-Semitic registered democrat (James von Brunn). Funny, no mention of the Army recruiter's aide gunned down in Arkansas by a black Muslim convert. Must've slipped his mind.

[roses of sharon]

No more commie propaganda on FR!

[2banana]

And NAZI stands for what...

[joejm65]

I think the use of ‘domestic terrorist’ is a bit much. First of all, I thought that The Magic Kenyan had the word ‘terrorist’ replaced with something else. Second, Americans don’t delve into the political background of every person in this country who pulls a trigger and commits murder. What were the political leanings of the kids who engineered the Columbine massacre? How did ‘The Son of Sam’ vote? No, I don’t know either...

[TankerKC]

...Wednesday's shooting at the Holocaust Museum in D.C.—the second attack by a domestic terrorist in two weeks...

I guess he didn't hear about the muzzie killing a soldier n Arkansas.

[enduserindy]

Can we file a class action law suit for this crap as Freepers or conservatives? Take a page from their book.

[PetroniusMaximus]

There’s only “right wing terror” when the leftists are in office.

[ETL]

Above: Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov signs the Nazi-Soviet Non-aggression Pact while German Foreign Minister Von Ribbentrop and Soviet leader Stalin look on under a portrait of Lenin, August 23, 1939. News of the Pact stunned the world and paved the way for the beginning of World War Two with Hitler assured the Germans would not have to fight a war on two fronts.
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/pact.htm
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"...at the time of the Nazi-Soviet Pact, the Communists suddenly transformed the 'Anti-Nazi League' into the "Hollywood Peace Forum," calling for American neutrality and using the slogan 'Let's Skip the Next War.'..."
--Ronald Radosh, from his book, Red Star Over Hollywood: The Film Colony's Long Romance With the Left
http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=4251
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"[Pete] Seeger was antiwar during the period of the Nazi-Soviet Pact; pro-war after the Soviet Union was the ally of the United States; and anti-war during the years of the Cold War and Vietnam. To Nichols -a rather dense left-winger -it is good form to acknowledge that perhaps 'Stalin was a bad guy,' and then simply get over it, and move on to campaign for very American socialist causes." --Ronald Radosh (former communist)
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=01133F31-CE9A-40BC-B797-47CBB0023EF4
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"We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration At The Lincoln Memorial"

"We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration At The Lincoln Memorial"
http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/4Jfw6fON_zH/One+Obama+Inaugural+Celebration+Lincoln+Memorial/1NNi5cTZF2d/Bruce+Springsteen
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Here's a must-see YouTube of Springsteen performing with communist icon, Pete Seeger, at Obama's inauguration. There's a flash of Obama singing along from his seat:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YlLtmMV8zs

[popdonnelly]

Yeah, how can the author avoid the third terrorist attack by a muslim on U.S. soldiers, or the various muslim plots that have been discovered? I am not going to defend these murderers in any way, shape, or form, by I think to argue that conservatives are involved in senseless, pointless violence and endorse it is wrong. In fact, it’s a libel.

[ETL]

From the Chicago Sun Times, November 13, 2008:

Ayers: Obama was 'family friend'
New afterword to 2001 book, Ayers describes Barack Obama as 'family friend'

http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/1278532,bill-ayers-barack-obama-book-111308.article#
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"Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at"
--Bill Ayers (1970), quoted in New York Times, September 11, 2001:

Article: "No Regrets for a Love Of Explosives; In a Memoir of Sorts, a War Protester Talks of Life With the Weathermen"
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F02E1DE1438F932A2575AC0A9679C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1
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'Guilty as hell, free as a bird—America is a great country,' he [Ayers] said."
August 2001, Chicago Magazine (article: No Regrets)
http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/August-2001/No-Regrets/
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"So, would Mr. Ayers do it all again, he is asked? 'I don’t want to discount the possibility',he said."
New York Times, September 11, 2001:
"No Regrets for a Love Of Explosives; In a Memoir of Sorts, a War Protester Talks of Life With the Weathermen"
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F02E1DE1438F932A2575AC0A9679C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1

[ETL]

Obama, Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, "intellectuals" (so they think)...

"Dig It. First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them, they even shoved a fork into a victim’s stomach! Wild!"
-Weather Underground leader and wife of Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, referring to the Manson murders

Article: Allies in War -by David Horowitz
FrontPageMagazine.com | Monday, September 17, 2001
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=63512670-BF7C-42A0-B41D-5D0FB9E09C09
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"Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at"
--Bill Ayers (1970), quoted in New York Times, September 11, 2001:

Article: "No Regrets for a Love Of Explosives; In a Memoir of Sorts, a War Protester Talks of Life With the Weathermen"
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F02E1DE1438F932A2575AC0A9679C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1
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The Center for Public Intellectuals & The University of Illinois-Chicago (UIC)
April 19th-20th, 2002, Conference
[Participants include: William/Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, Sen Barack Obama]

April 19th-20th, 2002
Chicago Illini Union
828 S. Wolcott

This conference is part of the Center's mission of helping to create a more engaged civil society, working towards social change, fostering coalitions between theorists and activists, and combating anti-intellectualism in contemporary culture. It will be both a celebration of ideas and a rigorous examination of the roles and responsibilities that intellectuals play in society.

I. Why Do Ideas Matter? (a keynote panel)

We introduce the “meta” theme of the conference by hearing “success stories” from diverse voices discussing their experiences intervening intellectually.

Timuel Black, Chicago activist; Prof. Emeritus, City Colleges of Chicago
Lonnie Bunch, President, Chicago Historical Society
Bernardine Dohrn, Northwestern University Law School, Children and Family Justice Center
Gerald Graff, UIC, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Richard Rorty, Stanford University, Philosophy

III. Lunch and Public Encounters

Alternative breakout tours led by Chicago activists. Tours of Bronzeville and other communities, and visits to organizations that are working on partnering theorists with activists.

IV. Intellectuals in Times of Crisis
Experiences and applications of intellectual work in urgent situations.

William Ayers, UIC, College of Education; author of Fugitive Days
Douglass Cassel, Northwestern University, Center for International Human Rights
Cathy Cohen, University of Chicago, Political Science
Salim Muwakkil, Chicago Tribune; In These Times
Barack Obama, Illinois State Senator
Barbara Ransby, UIC, African-American Studies (moderator)

The Center for Public Intellectuals
University of Illinois-Chicago (UIC):
http://www.uic.edu/classes/las/las400/conferencealt.htm

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National SOCIALIST German WORKERS Party/Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei

[Intolerant in NJ]

Right-Wing Terror Returns...Right Wing? -let's see - he's found with notes saying Obama is controlled by the Jews, almost word for word Rev. Wright's quote "Them Jews won't let me talk to him" - his notes also assert that "The holocaust is a lie" - one of the favorite themes of Ahmsjinahdn (or however you spell his name) - he thinks 911 was an inside job - the work of big oil or the CIA, no doubt - that he is a right-winger is just more sloppy, self-protective thinking by the loopy left.......

[cranked]

It’s becoming a sham how some fail to know the difference between rightwing and leftwing....yeah, talking about you, Mr. Sarlin.

Another Misinformed Liberal Ping.

[cranked]

And the “sham” was purposeful, not menat to be viewed as ‘shame’, kkthx.

[Thunder90]

They are going to use this as an excuse to ban guns.

[Still Thinking]

It’s dishonest to associate Nazis, neo- or otherwise, with the right. They’re “National Socialists”, like the Democrats. Leftards get away with associating them with the right all the time and no one stops to think it’s a lie.

[ExSoldier]

Wait a moment. So if it's an attack on Jews it's a "far right plot." But when the Administration turns it's back on ISRAEL and embraces the terrorists who seek to eradicate the Jewish state it's just policy.... and common sense policy at that.