88-year-old gunman kills guard at U.S. Holocaust Museum

Thursday 11th June, 07:13 AM JST

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Badsey at 11:08 PM JST - 11th June

People need to start listening:

Why are we leasing all our money from The Federal Reserve (a private corporation, with no accountability and pays no taxes) when the Constitution forbids it. -This was this mans main arguement.
elbudamexicano at 11:13 PM JST - 11th June

88 years old? And still to damb stupid to not understand the Jews are just human beings, regular people like me and you? This is sickening! I have many good Jewish friends and I feel so sorry for them, but we must be vigilent of all these idiot Rush Limbaugh loving KKK, Nazi dorks! We must exterminate them like cockroaches!
buddha4brains at 11:45 PM JST - 11th June

This was this mans main arguement.

So where is it written he has the right to murder?
Taka313 at 12:32 AM JST - 12th June

The only group this guy represents is the criminally insane.

Thank you, superlib. You are absolutely correct.

Taka
Taka313 at 12:36 AM JST - 12th June

What I do know is that von Brunn is a part of the political culture in America and it bodes ill that 3 political killings have occurred in the past 3 weeks. Killing for ideology is not a good sign for America.

Thank you Buddha4brains. You are absolutely correct also.

I do believe that perhaps those who were angry with the DHS's recent report need to reassess their opinions. The report specifically addressed the possibility of violence from anti-abortion radicals and anti-Semitic extremists.

Taka
smithinjapan at 12:37 AM JST - 12th June

"The only group this guy represents is the criminally insane."

SuperLib seems to be somewhat the voice of reason on this thread.
Madverts at 12:55 AM JST - 12th June

"The only group this guy represents is the criminally insane."

I'll, er...third that.

What the hell happened to the debate here?
Hopfly at 04:55 AM JST - 12th June

The guard who was killed opened the museum door to let in what he thought was a harmless old man. His act of courtesy cost him his life. He was simply a target of opportunity. So very sad. The nutters make their presence known, when the economy goes pear shaped.

zurcronium at 11:35 AM JST - 12th June

Right you are hopfly, but there is one other reason for the increase in hate crimes and it falls to the immigration debate as flamed by the right wing radio jocks.

Last month the Department of Homeland Security issued a report on the expansion of right wing extremist groups, saying those organizations are being fueled by the economic downturn and the election of Barack Obama.

But experts say it is the immigration debate that is most significantly contributing to the rise of hate groups, an issue that is exacerbated by the shaky economy.

"These groups have really successfully exploited the immigration issue," Potok says. "For them it's ‘brown skin people are coming into this country to destroy us.'"

The immigration backlash has led to a surge in hate crimes against Hispanics, up 40 percent between 2003 and 2007, according to FBI statistics.

Last November, 37-year-old Ecuadorian immigrant Marcelo Lucero, a 16-year resident of the U.S., was attacked while walking near his home in Patchogue, New York. Prosecutors say a group of seven teens taunted Lucero with racial slurs, beat him, and fatally stabbed him in the chest. The reason? According to prosecutors they were "beaner hopping": attacking Hispanics for sport. All of the defendants have pled not guilty.

"In that moment, the world collapsed on my shoulders and everything changed," says the victim's brother, Joselo Lucero. "I don't want my community, my people suffering anymore. Because everyday people wake up to work and they don't know if they're going to come back."

Makkun70 at 01:40 PM JST - 12th June

We're seeing the Right rise again in the UK, it's important that we give these people enough copy and airtime, in order show them in the light they they are, nationalist, racist and politically inept. I really hope the liberals can handle that approach, the more we attack the Right, the more we run the risk of making martyrs out of them and their cause. It's best to let them have enough rope, no matter how uncomfortable that makes us.
mael at 06:44 PM JST - 12th June

You are seeing 'Right Wing' rising because it's what the people want!
Walkimio at 07:10 PM JST - 12th June

You seeing theRight Wing rising although in Europe. The thinking part of people wants it everywhere.
zurcronium at 12:57 AM JST - 13th June

"The much-maligned DHS report on the rise of right-wing extremism in America, released last April by Secretary Napolitano to conservative cries of outrage, appears to have been pretty much on the button. Three days before the report was made public, three Pittsburgh police officers were shot to death by a right-wing gun-ownership extremist who believed President Obama was coming for his guns. One month after the report was made public, an anti-choice zealot named Scott Roeder gunned down Dr. George Tiller in the vestibule of Tiller's church in Kansas while his wife sang in the choir. On Wednesday, a security guard was shot and killed at the Holocaust Memorial in Washington, DC, by James W. von Brunn, a right-wing conspiracy theorist who filled pages on his blog with screeds about a Jewish world conspiracy and, you guessed it, Obama's so-called 'false' birth certificate."

Hard times, a black president and rush limbaugh and the republican party pandering to winger fringe is leading to home grown terrorism.
Hopfly at 04:44 AM JST - 13th June

In any society, at any time, there will always be malcontents. Home grown terrorism is not new to the US. Remember Timothy McVeigh?
jessssicaaa at 05:00 PM JST - 17th June

aww.. who cares.