Jewhater

In December I wrote about my visit to the Holocaust Museum in our nation's capital. Now, the week after cold-blooded murderer Scott Roeder killed mercy abortion provider George Tiller in front of his wife in church, another member of the violent rightwing anti-government hate movement visits the Holocaust Museum and starts shooting, ultimately killed an African-American guard named Stephen T. Johns.

Add James Von Brunn to the infamous list of political assassins -- America's homegrown terrorists:

Von Brunn has a racist, anti-Semitic Web site and wrote a book titled "Kill the Best Gentiles."

In 1983, he was convicted of attempting to kidnap members of the Federal Reserve Board and served more than six years in prison. He was arrested two years earlier outside the room where the board was meeting, carrying a revolver, knife and sawed-off shotgun. At the time, police said Von Brunn wanted to take the members hostage because of high interest rates and the nation's economic difficulties.

Writings attributed to Von Brunn on the Internet say the Holocaust was a hoax and decry a Jewish conspiracy to "destroy the white gene pool."

"At Auschwitz the 'Holocaust' myth became Reality, and Germany, cultural gem of the West, became a pariah among world nations," it says.

This is a not-so-lone gunman -- he's got supporters of his brand of hatred. Some of his writings:

HITLER's WORST MISTAKE
HE DIDN'T GAS THE JEWS.
JAMES VON BRUNN
WWW.HOLYWESTERNEMPIRE.ORG

Remember, the Federal Reserve Act (1913) gave JEWS control of America's MONEY. Followed by control of America's main sources of information.

Interestingly enough, he's an arguably failed painter, much like the Fuhrer he admires so much. And, less and less of a surprise, he's a "birther":

Among the myriad of disturbing qualities of James Von Brunn, the 88-year-old man who shot and killed a security officer inside the Holocaust Museum on Wednesday, is his apparent belief that Barack Obama is not a citizen of the United States and therefore has no right to the presidency.

The reason it sticks out is that, even among Von Brunn's other characteristics -- including heavy streaks of anti-Semitism, disdain for the federal government, and threads of white supremacy -- being a "birther" has a modicum of political credibility.

Lots of these birthers showed up at the teabagger rallies, which seems more and more like a Fox News-licensed collection of insane people.

To Fox News' credit, their Shep Smith is allowed to speak the truth about how this movement of reactionary hatred is ginning itself up to the point of violence:



What happened when a Department of Homeland Security report on rightwing violence, commissioned by the Bush Administration but completed and released with the new Obama Administration, was released?:

When the 10-page DHS memorandum was made public, however, warnings like these largely took the back seat to charges that the department had been politically motivated in its assessments and writings. Indeed, a wide swath of voices in the conservative movement -- from Rush Limbaugh to RNC Chairman Michael Steele -- lashed out at DHS Secretary Napolitano over what they deemed an anti-Republican report.

"This is the height of insult here," Steele told Fox News. "I mean to segment out Americans who dissent from this administration, to segment out conservatives in this country who have a different philosophy or view from this administration, and labeling them as terrorists and then to call into question the service of the men and women who are right now standing on that wall defending our freedom and linking them to terrorism while you refuse to call the terrorists -- the real terrorists -- terrorists, to me it's the height of insult."

Apology due, Rush, Newt, Michael et al?

Oh, and in case you're thinking I'm letting anyone off the hook, anti-Semitism isn't just for those on the right:

Asked if he had spoken to the president, Wright said: "Them Jews aren't going to let him talk to me. I told my baby daughter, that he'll talk to me in five years when he's a lame duck, or in eight years when he's out of office."

God-daaamned you, too, Reverend Wright.

It's time to address the rhetoric of hate, especially in its wink-wink mainstream form, head on. Or should we start expecting one of these a week.

Minimum.