Holocaust Shooter was a "Birther"

[grassfed]

Joan Walsh:
“James von Brunn just happened to be a ‘birther,’ one of the nuts who believe that Obama wasn’t born here, his birth certificate is fake, and he thus isn’t eligible to be president,” writes Salon’s Joan Walsh. She continued:
Ironically, a great example of the right-wing echo chamber’s bullying came when they managed to smack down the release of a Department of Homeland Security report about the rise of right-wing extremism. Judging from the right’s rhetoric, you’d have thought Janet Napolitano was suggesting rounding up Rush and his dittoheads and putting them in an old Japanese-American internment camp or something. But in fact, as Susan Page explained today on “Hardball,” the calm nine-page report merely looked at warning signs for extremism, based on history: They include a prolonged economic downturn, the demonization of immigrants, the election of the first black president, fears about losing the right to own guns, a banking crisis inciting age-old paranoia about “Jewish cabals” and the return of many veterans to the States suffering from PTSD and other conditions while getting insufficient care …
Will any of them apologize to Napolitano now? Dream on.
And who will apologize to the family of Stephen Tyrone Johns, the brave security man at the Holocaust Museum shot by von Brunn?
http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/politics/2009/06/10/von_brunn/

Rachel Maddow:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x341023

[n2doc]

1. of course he was

It all goes together as a package, bundled up by the likes of Beck and Rush and pushed constantly.


I wonder if the idea that W stole the election in 2000, was a coke snorting dropout who avoided service in Nam and who's wife was a drunken killer, was pushed 24/7 on cable and radio in 2001, if there would have been the same level of violence. Probably not, since he was white and there actually was evidence for those things.

[Clintonista2]

2. I already said on DU that birthers are a threat to national security, and I was berated for it

Guess I've been vindicated.

[billyoc]

3. And, of course, like all neo-nazis, a Truther.

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2009/06/von-brunns-anti-semitic-conspiracies-911-google

[Kalyke]

4. Ummm.... lots of Truthers aren't neo-Nazi's.

But, if you want to believe 110-story building fall at near-free-fall into their own footprint after burning at temps that don't melt steel for an hour, go right ahead.

:shrug:

(I do believe planes hit the buildings, fwiw)

[RaleighNCDUer]

5. rounding up Rush and his dittoheads and putting them in an old Japanese-American internment camp

Hmmmm.

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[Maru Kitteh]

8. *snort*

Yer quick!

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

9. Never give up, never surrender. -nt

[Maru Kitteh]

10. By Grabthar's hammer, by the suns of Warvan, you shall be avenged! n/t

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

11. I see this is Alan Rickman Week at DU.

I approve of this. :thumbsup:

[Maru Kitteh]

7. We have a birther here on DU too.

It's amazing to think that a birther would want to be here. I really CAN'T imagine why... but we do indeed have one.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6069620#6070108

[TexasObserver]

12. Recommend. All these rightwing terrorists need to be exposed as Fox/Limbaugh types.