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Weekly Standard (Conservative Magazine) may have been shooter (Von Brunn) target
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Posted on 06/11/2009 10:45:16 AM PDT by 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.


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To: a fool in paradise

Any honest Christian who is knowledgeable of his/her religion would like to see Jews accept Jesus.

Unfortunately, that concept is seen by some as anti-semitic.


41 posted on 06/11/2009 11:27:25 AM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, save Bowman for later)
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To: Conscience of a Conservative
...it's clear that this von Brunn nutcase is not right-wing/conservative (he rants against freedom and democracy), but also that he is not left-wing/liberal (he repeatedly rants against Democrats and liberals/liberalism).

Lyndon LaRouche's followers are old Democrats, as opposed to New Democrats (of the Obama-Ayers crowd, post 1968).

Lyndon LaRouche's followers are rabidly anti-semitic and conspiracy minded kooks to boot.

But Lyndon LaRouche continues to run as a DEMOCRAT as do his supporters.

42 posted on 06/11/2009 11:27:27 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (June 4, 2009 - the day Barack Obama threw all of America under the bus.)
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To: TC Rider

Yeah, he’s real independent... Anytime he talks politics it is slanted heavily against the GOP.


43 posted on 06/11/2009 11:29:46 AM PDT by amishman (0bama=the reincarnation of Jim Jones)
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To: Eva

It’s from Marx’s “On the Jewish Qustion”.

Hitler’s “Final Solution” was the answer to Marx’s question.


44 posted on 06/11/2009 11:30:47 AM PDT by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
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To: a fool in paradise
9-11 truthers found a welcome home in the Ron Paul 2008 campaign.

Indeed. And you'll find that almost all anti-Semites (like David Duke, von Brunn, Ahmadinejad, etc.) also deny the official story of 9/11 (though I certainly don't believe the reverse it true -- not all truthers are Jew haters, but almost all Jew haters are truthers)

In Ahmedinejad's own words:

There was an event called September 11, the cause of which remains unknown and, like the Holocaust, a true investigation was not permitted.

Directly or indirectly, Islamic extremists and white supremacists believe that 9/11 and the Holocaust are both Jewish conspiracies. They (yeah, I'm talking about you, Rev Wright!) use the codeword "Zionist", but we all know what they mean.

45 posted on 06/11/2009 11:34:27 AM PDT by ikeonic
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard

The difference being that Marx (who was born Jewish) saw Judaism as cultural and Hitler saw it as racial.


46 posted on 06/11/2009 11:37:20 AM PDT by Borges
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To: All
Von Brunn's white supremacist roots put him under the rubric of a "right-wing extremist,"

Pick up a F^#&ing history book and open it! The KKK has been since the day it was formed a militant wing of the Democrat party.

White Supremacist are Left wing nuts, not right wing. The Left has done such a good job of painting the Right with lies over the past 8 years that those lies are now accepted and reported as fact.

 Pay attention you idiot leftist reporters, here are pictures to make it easy:

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Martin Luther King, Jr. - Right wing, Conservative, Republican

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Bull Conner - Left wing, Liberal, Democrat.

47 posted on 06/11/2009 11:39:14 AM PDT by txroadkill (Vote Democrat - it's easier than working!)
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To: mnehring

I think MSNBC will focus in on the fact that he had the Weekly Standard address in order to renew his subscription. Cementing their premise that he was in fact a right wing terrorist.


48 posted on 06/11/2009 11:43:07 AM PDT by sox_the_cat
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To: icwhatudo

And a Birther? Ah, ha! He’s a Hillary Clinton supporter.


49 posted on 06/11/2009 11:43:56 AM PDT by Jim Robinson (Rebellion is Brewing!! Tea Party Express/Taxpayer March on DC 09.12.09!!)
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To: amishman

Handelman and ‘Brad and Britt’ are Curtis Media’s insurance against the Fairness Doctrine.

Handelman is like the flaming homosexual whe continually refuses to come out of the closet. Obvious to all around him that he’s a full bleeding heart liberal, whenever he opens his mouth, but refuses to admit it.


50 posted on 06/11/2009 11:48:49 AM PDT by TC Rider (The United States Constitution - 1791. All Rights Reserved.)
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To: mnehring

Isn’t it the liberal left who are typically pro-Palestine, anti-Israel? Why would an anti-semite automatically be assumed far right?


51 posted on 06/11/2009 11:49:58 AM PDT by Kimberly GG (PALIN - Supports a "path to citizenship" for ILLEGAL ALIENS.........../.......... Sanford '12)
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To: Jim Robinson

Yep, a lot on the left forget that the Birther movement was started by Hilldog’s folks, specifically Democrat Philip Berg. It was a movement that really was founded in Hillary’s camp, not the right.. the right only picked up on it after it had gained momentum.


52 posted on 06/11/2009 11:50:36 AM PDT by mnehring
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To: mnehring
James von Brunn is a registered Democrat. This story is going to fall off the MSM cliff ... the press doesn't got after teacher's pets - even when they're hateful killers.
53 posted on 06/11/2009 11:51:14 AM PDT by GOPJ ("Any 'jokes' about raping my 14-year-old are despicable." - Todd Palin)
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To: GOPJ

Do you have a link regarding his registration? that really will put the nail in the coffin of their whole theory.


54 posted on 06/11/2009 11:51:53 AM PDT by mnehring
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To: Emmett McCarthy
Most people that age are up to gardening at best as far as physical activity.

I'd have to rate pulling a trigger as less strenuous work than gardening.

55 posted on 06/11/2009 11:53:26 AM PDT by nina0113
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To: GOPJ

“James von Brunn is a registered Democrat. This story is going to fall off the MSM cliff ... the press doesn’t got after teacher’s pets - even when they’re hateful killers.”

Sad truth!


56 posted on 06/11/2009 11:53:31 AM PDT by AuntB (The right to vote in America: Blacks 1870; Women 1920; Native Americans 1925; Foreigners 2008)
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To: Borges

Hitler and Marx were both satanists. Their war against the Jews was their war against God.

First the Saturday people... then the Sunday people. Just like the mohammedans.


57 posted on 06/11/2009 11:54:16 AM PDT by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
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To: mnehring

Do you know if convicted felons can vote in Maryland?


58 posted on 06/11/2009 11:55:08 AM PDT by jennyjenny
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To: VanDeKoik

>>Keith Olberman is directly responsible for this.<<
You *just* had to go there didn’t you?

We all know that is BS .. it was Chris Matthews and everyone knows it!


59 posted on 06/11/2009 11:55:17 AM PDT by Munz ("We're all here for you OK? It's a circle of love" Rham Emanuel)
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To: icwhatudo

>>Updated leftwing beliefs of the shooter:

Registered Democrat (needs confirmation)
Christian hater
Jew Hater
FOX News’ Orielly hater
Weekly Standard hater
Bush hater
Neo-con hater
9-11 was an inside job
artist
Stated that “SOCIALISM, represents the future of the West”
Stated that the Apostle Paul destroyed Rome by undermining its pagan virility.
Hated corporations<<

You mean he worked for Obama in DHS?


60 posted on 06/11/2009 11:56:54 AM PDT by Munz ("We're all here for you OK? It's a circle of love" Rham Emanuel)
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