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James von Brunn, terrorist

Thursday June 11, 2009

Categories: The Neverending Story
The shooting at the Holocaust Museum yesterday was a chilling reminder that domestic terrorism is real, and was just the latest in a disturbing trend of increased political violence from right-wing extremists. What these fanatics have in common is...
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Matthew
June 11, 2009 1:16 PM

The problem I see with your analysis is that he hates Jews, hates Bush (left wing), hates McCain(left wing), hates neo conservativism(left wing), believed in National Socialism(left wing), hated capitalism(left wing), was a collectivist(left wing).

Aziz
June 11, 2009 1:55 PM

Its pretty clumsy and pointlessly futile to try and paint von Brunn as a leftfwinger - he posted at Free Republic, not Democratic Underground after all. I think denial of his righ-wing origins is pointless because he does not reflect on the intellectual honesty of modern conservatism in any way.

I know plenty of conservatives who have solid, conservative critiques of Bush, McCain, Israel, Neocons, and globalization. Start with Daniel Larison, the group over at League of Ordinary Gents, look at Rod Dreher and Ross Douthat, Frum, and many more from across the spectrum. I’ll grant you that Repblicanists (the type who are partisan beyond all reason – for example, the crew at RedState) are definitely pro-Bush, Israel, Neocons and globalization in a knee-jerk fashion.

Your assertion that hating jews is exclusive to the left is risible.

hootie1fan
June 11, 2009 2:27 PM

Remember after 9/11 when people we ranting in favor of racial profiling because back then EVERYBODY knew that terrorists were all named something like Mohammed and looked like they came from the Middle East?

I knew better. Besides the fact that too many can’t tell the difference between a person from Saudi Arabia, India, Puerto Rico, etc., there have always been homegrown “REAL AMERICANS” who were willing to kill other non-real Americans and those domestic terrorists look like you and me, can be young and old and just as capable of committing horrific deeds against the innocent.

Taha Raja
June 11, 2009 2:53 PM

I personally think the word terrorist is loosely used to represent any heinous crime including hate crimes.

I personally see a disturbed person who went out on a rampage at a dusk of his life.

Yes people were killed and yes Aziz points out like any criminals he should have been watched. But at the end of the day this was a criminal act and the person committed murder. Last I checked this is punishable by the most severest penalties under our laws.

The rhetoric gets emotional and it clouds our judgement as we try to group people as "terrorists". Fear starts controlling our decisions. Look "terrorism" as we define it today.

I personally think these "terrorism" cases should be treated for the crime that was committed AND as a society we need to strive to educate people more and more to increase tolerance. That is the true way out of this mess not with guns.

Cynthia Gee
June 11, 2009 3:11 PM

Von Brunn IS a bonafide advocate of terrorism --he also has close ties to Battle of Baghdad dissident Captain Eric May, and it appears that May himself may have ties to Steve Reimink (the real owner of Von Brunn's website), and to various Islamic groups:

http://www.geocities.com/onlythecaptain/

http://ca.groups.yahoo.com/group/ghosttroop/message/6356

http://www.spiritone.com/~ghosttroop/Captain_Eric_H_May.html

Now, get a load of THIS comment by Von Brunn, followed by May's response, where Von Brunn called for a group of "five or six well equipped martyrs" to take action against our government:

http://ca.dir.groups.yahoo.com/group/ghosttroop/message/6012

Re: Pravda Article - WTC and Bush

james von brunn wrote:

BY THE WAY, YOU'RE A VERY FINE WRITER, AMONG OTHER VIRTUES.

I'm of the opinion that only a military coup d'etat can save our once great Republic. And soon. However, a coup is doubtful as the military too has been infected by the Marxist/Liberal/Jew virus.

Perhaps we must settle for a team of Special
Forces, say six (6) well-equipped martyrs. Count me in.
jvb
www.holywesternempire.org

I'm most obliged at your praise, Mr. Von Brunn! Writers always have their vanities, even when they're doing military missions. For what it's worth, I called for a military coup d'etat on the night of July 28, 2005, when the Bush Boyz tried to blow up Texas City last time.

You can find it in an article published shortly afterwards at http://www.vfvs.com/GhostTroopCaptainEricMay.html or you can listen to it as I called for it, in the second of the two interviews at http://www.cloakanddagger.de/media/Captain%20May/capt1.htm

Again, thanks for the encouragement. I'm sure that you've endured the same kinds of frustrations that I have in the course of your infowar, whenever it began. I'd sure like to turn the Texas City Inquest into a public tribunal for the Jewish Zionists and the Bush Boyz who took their advice and used their media like (embedded) whores. Yours, CPTMAY

David
June 12, 2009 9:15 PM

examiner.com has an interesting look at von Brunn's cyberfootprint...the information he leaves behind on the internet. It includes some things I haven't seen elsewhere, like his arrest for beating up a sheriff in Maryland, or his claim to have been a captain of a PT boat. There's also a sort of movie-starish publicity photo of him from the 1960's.

Article is at: http://tinyurl.com/l95xhe

al- Shamz
June 15, 2009 12:40 AM

Von Brunn was a sick man under the delusion of some paranoid fantasies such as blaming all our current woes on “the Jews” rather than, say 'decadence' or perhaps even 'the bankers'. The world of instant gratification IRC chat and the mind-world that it creates certainly fed his paranoia. Hopefully the widow of the guard he murdered will sue for his estate. That being said, there was an element of truth to what he said, and if not, the paranoia couldn’t have been fed. That kernel of truth is that the Nazi death machine consisted solely of ’starvation camps’ and shootings, not the fabled gassings that we’ve been led to believe. Although no less horrific, maybe more so, if the facts were to be uncovered without the purile labelling of “holocaust denial” then perhaps such paranoiacs would be at last stopped in their tracks.

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