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

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: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard

Both were atheists. Satanists are theists.


61 posted on 06/11/2009 11:57:28 AM PDT by Borges
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To: GOPJ
James von Brunn is a registered Democrat.

I have seen this posted numerous times, but cannot seem to find an original source.

Can you point me to the source of this information?

62 posted on 06/11/2009 11:58:57 AM PDT by CharacterCounts (November 4, 2008 - the day America drank the Kool-Aid)
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To: Borges

Hitler was an occultist, not an atheist. He was associated with the Thule Society when tried to resurrect Odinist occult religions.


63 posted on 06/11/2009 11:59:53 AM PDT by mnehring
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To: mnehring
Von Brunn's white supremacist roots put him under the rubric of a "right-wing extremist,"

Nonsense. The Jim Crow south, the Klan in general and the Confederacy were all primarily Democrat.
64 posted on 06/11/2009 12:01:44 PM PDT by BJClinton (One Big Ass Mistake America)
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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.<<

is this anywhere in print?
It would really be helpful to have that so it can be posted and not refuted.


65 posted on 06/11/2009 12:03:26 PM PDT by Munz ("We're all here for you OK? It's a circle of love" Rham Emanuel)
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To: Munz
I checked the Easton, MD voter registration. He's not a voter there.
66 posted on 06/11/2009 12:09:17 PM PDT by WakeUpAndVote
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To: mnehring

Fair enough.


67 posted on 06/11/2009 12:10:01 PM PDT by Borges
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To: Borges

I know the difference. I’ve read enough from both to convince me they believed in and served lucifer.

The letters from Marx’s father suggest he believed the same thing about his son.


68 posted on 06/11/2009 12:11:24 PM PDT by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
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To: MrB

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

Oh, really? Try this: Christians who are knowledgeable of their religion see themselves as part of a sect that owes its very existence to our Jewish forefathers. Christians who are unsure of their faith have a compulsion convince everyone else to believe EXACTLY as they do or their whole little narrow-minded world will self destruct. See “Die Heretic Scum” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6Wu8iplJ1E


69 posted on 06/11/2009 12:11:36 PM PDT by QBFimi (When gunpowder speaks, beasts listen.)
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard

Do you think the same of Marx’s biggest influences Hegel and Kant?


70 posted on 06/11/2009 12:12:32 PM PDT by Borges
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To: MrB

Kind of like Jews who want Christians to renounce Christ?


71 posted on 06/11/2009 12:15:20 PM PDT by drubyfive
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To: drubyfive
Kind of like Jews who want Christians to renounce Christ?

Why would a Jew want a Christian to renounce Christ?

72 posted on 06/11/2009 12:23:17 PM PDT by SJackson (G-d da*n America, Jeremiah Wright---Don't tell me words don't matter!, Barack Hussein Obama)
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To: mnehring

The leftwing media is responsible. I think Chris Matthews and Keith Olberman should be investigated. Their constant Bush bashing may have incited this Bush/Cheney hater.


73 posted on 06/11/2009 12:30:19 PM PDT by mojitojoe (All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.)
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To: raven92876

ping


74 posted on 06/11/2009 12:30:39 PM PDT by stylecouncilor (The black man is keeping me down!)
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To: WakeUpAndVote

thank you :-(


75 posted on 06/11/2009 12:31:39 PM PDT by Munz ("We're all here for you OK? It's a circle of love" Rham Emanuel)
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To: icwhatudo

Will post this here as well:

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

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That’s impossible. MSNBC, CNN, CBS, NBC , such reliable, honest new organizations said he is a right wing conservative./dripping with sarcasm


76 posted on 06/11/2009 12:32:07 PM PDT by mojitojoe (All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.)
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To: SJackson
Why would a Jew want a Christian to renounce Christ?

Few do—prostlytizing is not part of the tradition, which is one reason many Jews don't like it when they are told they should accept Jesus (or be condemned to burn in Hell).

77 posted on 06/11/2009 12:34:43 PM PDT by drubyfive (ell)
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To: MrB

I have yet to meet a “conservative” anti-semite
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Neither have I and especially not here on FR. We constantly defend Israel. It over in DUmmie land that you will hear the Israel bashing and before they could scrub it, I copied them and saved them with screen shots.


78 posted on 06/11/2009 12:34:50 PM PDT by mojitojoe (All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.)
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard

I boldly copied your post to Politico without attribution it was so good.

Sorry about the plagerism.


79 posted on 06/11/2009 12:35:57 PM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: Jewbacca

MSNBC has claimed that it was his right wing radical views and right wing extremism.


80 posted on 06/11/2009 12:41:10 PM PDT by Blue Turtle
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