‘ Like Scott Roeder, the man charged in the shooting of the Wichita, Kan., doctor George Tiller nearly two weeks ago, James von Brunn, the white supremacist charged with killing a guard in an attempted shooting rampage at the Holocaust museum in Washington on Wednesday, doesn’t have any current, overt links to extremist groups. Yet his violent hatred — of Jews, blacks, the government — echoes throughout the universe of right-wing extremists, who just a few years ago hailed and revered him as a “White Racialist Treasure.” ‘ — Judith Warner (New York Times)
From the get-go, media coverage of the Holocaust Museum shooting dwelled on the terms ‘lone gunman’ and ‘acted alone’, but in an information-immersed world one has to realize that that has little meaning. Earlier today, there was an extensive discussion thread lionizing von Brunn on the Storm Front website, but access is now denied to outsiders without a login. (One commenter lauded von Brunn’s action by saying that the real terrorism is the indoctrination of Americans into the myth of the Holocaust. Imagining that the Holocaust Museum will now be closed to school groups, the writer observed taht now the indoctrination will be less successful and pervasive because it will be restricted to adults.)
