Weekly Standard (Conservative Magazine) may have been shooter (Von Brunn) target

Politico ^

[mnehring]

FBI agents visited the offices of the conservative Weekly Standard magazine yesterday after a shooting at the Holocaust Memorial Museum and told employees they'd found the magazine's address

A senior Standard staffer confirmed the visit but declined to discuss it in detail. An FBI spokeswoman, Katherine Schweit , also declined to comment on the investigation.

Two other sources said two FBI agents arrived shortly after 5:00 p.m. Thursday at the 17th Street offices of the magazine. They told staffers that they had found the address of the magazine on a piece of paper associated with the shooter, James von Brunn, and asked whether the Standard had received any threats.

The magazine is about a mile north of the Holocaust Museum, and there's no other indication that von Brunn had targeted it. Von Brunn's published rants included attacks on "neocons," and the Standard has been at the heart of the neoconservative movement.

The suggestion that the Standard may have been a target complicates any view of the racist shooter in contemporary left-right terms. Von Brunn's white supremacist roots put him under the rubric of a "right-wing extremist," but the substance of his views -- which included everything from believing that President Bush may have been in on the September 11 attacks to denying that President Obama is an American citizen -- are too far on the fringe to fit into conventional political classification.

The focus on the Standard, though, appears to be of a piece with his central motivation: Anti-Semitism. In one essay, Von Brunn attacked "JEWS-NEOCONS-BILL O’REILLY," and the suggestion that neoconservatism is a specifically Jewish conspiracy is common on the racist fringe.

[Jewbacca]

“Kind of like Jews who want Christians to renounce Christ?”

I’ve never seen that.

The (most common) Jewish belief is that Christianity is a fine -— nay, the finest -— Noahdic religion for a non-Jew to have.

The basic morals and preaching of Christianity are wonderful, and fully in-tune with Jewish ideals.

The worship of the G-d of Abraham, Issac, and Jacob is similarly wonderful.

[SE Mom]

Where did you discover he’s a self-proclaimed socialist? Thanks in advance:)

[cake_crumb]

"Do you think the government will show the video from the Holocaust Museum’s exterior surveillance cameras of the 90 year old man getting out of his car with a ‘long gun’ — and the video that would show him shuffling down the sidewalk as he made his way to the museum’s entrance?"

Only if it makes the JOOOOOOOZ look bad.

[SolidWood]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2269560/posts

[cake_crumb]

Nice spelling, eh?

[Jewbacca]

“Where did you discover he’s a self-proclaimed socialist?”

http://www.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=35192

among many other articles.

Direct quote from the shooter “SOCIALISM, represents the future of the West”

Reminds me of this quote:

“We are socialists, we are enemies of today’s capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly evaluation of a human being according to wealth and property instead of responsibility and performance, and we are all determined to destroy this system under all conditions.”

-— Adolf Hitler

[Borges]

My point was that Dialectical Materialism was an outgrowth of various schools of thought coming out of the Enlightenment and has nothing to do with Satanism.

[ResistorSister]

Sorry, I don’t get your joke.

[cake_crumb]

It wasn’t a joke. Heard much about this from the insidious Obama? “The government” won’t show anything unless it makes the JOOOOOZ (that’s us) look bad.

[manc]

correct

[ResistorSister]

Do you have a link to the quote?

[SJackson]

Ha, no, that was a pretty damned good smackdown.

Not really meant that way, just pointing out that there's no reason for Jews to want Christians to renounce Christ, thus there aren't any.

[cake_crumb]

What quote?

[RatsDawg]

Haven’t really been following it too much, but I would like to know where the links are to what you are saying, so I can prove one of my friends on Facebook wrong. Especially about his pagan beliefs and Christian hating.

A liberal friend of mine posted on Facebook the following, and I want to show her up.

“I am more concerned with the threat from the Christian-identity groups than the homegrown Islamic terrorists. It’s a disaster waiting to happen. The fact that this guy did what he did may be symptomatic of things to come. - Maria Haberfeld, a professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, on yesterday’s shooting at the U.S. Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. I say amen to that!!”

[headstamp 2]

“notice how the left/media do not mention that the shooter is left wing or he is a registered Democrat.

like many on the left they are driven by hate and intolerance”

Listened to Dave Ross commentary on WCBS radio today effectively associating Free Republic with Nazis and the white supremacist movement.

[cake_crumb]

Right: if it’s not anti-Semtic for Christians to want Jews to accept Christ, then it can’t be anti_Christian for Jews to want Christians to renounce Christ. Considering the current state of US-Israel relations, it seemed like a good reply.

[Emmett McCarthy]

Well, sure, but the stress is one hell of a lot lower. And then he got shot, too, which he certainly must have expected, but lived. I’m a good bit younger than 88 but just the shock of geeting shot might kill me even if the wound itself didn’t.

[Cinnamon Girl]

The term "neo-cons" as a euphemism for JEWS is used by the extreme left and the extreme so-called right.

Maybe if Bill O'Reilly wants to do something purposeful, he can have his people scour the left-wing websites for angry references to "neo-cons" as the source of some push for war and support of Israel.

The new anti-semitism says "neo-cons" and "zionists" instead of Jews.

The new anti-semitism equates Israeli soldiers with nazis:

The new anti-semitism marginalizes Jews who are politically conservative by suggesting that their loyalties are not with America.

G-d should please protect and keep safe our holy brother.

[icwhatudo]

Be glad to send it later tonight. For now Google his name and the quotes I mentioned to find them.

I’ll update my list with clickable links. Many of us are on other site where we do “battle” and I know how important this info is.

[SJackson]

You've had multiple attacks and attempted attacks from prison converts, going back to the shoe bomber. There's no indication yet that this guy was a Christian Identity member, but even if you lump CI and neonazis together, there are a limited number of incidents, with the CI connection at best tangential. I agree there's a disaster waiting to happen out there, you can always check back with her in 6 months, you'll have an answer then. Or if perchance she's a liberal with global conscience, check back in 6 weeks and compare global attacks by Muslims with attacks by neonazis. The likelihood is you’ll be comparing mayhem with a few cemetery and Synagogue desecrations. That’s not to say these people shouldn’t be condemned, but it’s not necessary to ignore a real threat to life to do that. Tell her she can condemn both, it’s easy. In many ways they’re the sides of a coin.