Holocaust Museum Shooting Should Teach Conservatives To Tone Down Their Rhetoric
By John Aloysius Farrell, Thomas Jefferson Street blog
James von Brunn has been an idiot all his long, hate-filled life, so it is hard to blame the right-wing wack jobs at Fox for luring this particular insect out from the baseboards.
At the Holocaust Museum in D.C. yesterday, von Brunn allegedly walked in with a rifle and started shooting. A 39-year-old security guard, doing his job, protecting the visitors and tourists, was shot before von Brunn was wounded and captured.
Mr. von Brunn, a lifelong white supremacist, has done time in prison for previous acts of political terrorism, so (barring some further revelation about what apparently spurred him into action yesterday) it's probably not accurate to claim that Bill and Sean and Laura and their ranting, paranoid pals fueled this incident.
But maybe we can all be a little less hysterical the next time that Janet Napolitano's team at Homeland Security issues a warning about increasing dangers from right-wing terrorism.
An abortion doctor. The Holocaust Museum. It is clear now that the DHS report was not an attempt to stifle dissent, as conservative commentators insisted at the time, but an accurate warning about what was to come.
Before we are all treated, as at Oklahoma City, with photographs of firemen carrying bloodied toddlers from the ruins of a bombed federal day care center, the Right should think less about ratings and ratchet down its rhetoric.
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Tone "down" their rhetoric?
Actually, such shootings should teach the liberals to turn up their OWN rhetoric.
Radical Lefts Order of Battle
Free breakfast for inner city chilcren in U.S cities like Oakland,Chicago .Sounds like compassionate if not noble undertaking does'nt it? Except for the side order of indoctrination that came before ,or after the gnawing hunger was satisfied. Which proved more effective? The objective was to instill unquestioning loyalty in their future urban soldiers fighting in the streets of U.S.cities .Did Eldridge Cleaver & the Black Panther Party have automomy to devise strategy or was it the KGB Directorate in Moscow ? This is something that the Media should give just as much ,if not MORE attention to ,not just a handful of reactionay flippouts off their meds.
the progressive left should tone down its hate speech
von Brunn doesn't fit the "right wing" mold as much as the author attempts to force him into it.
Von Brunn was anti-bible, an evolution advocate, those tend to be left views.
The 9/11 conspirist can be either but it seems to be brought up more on progressive left sites, the same with the jews are evil and the anti-Bush line.
The white supremist view is neither progressive left or far right, rather it seems to be a separte view that attempts to attach itself to other movements at time.
So what was Von Brunn? He doesn't fit into either but is closer to the left then the right though some of his views, such as white supremist, conflicted with the left and right both.
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