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June 10, 2009

White Supremacist Wounds Kills Security Guard at U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum

From the April Department of Homeland Security report that assessed the threat of “right wing extremists":
Rightwing extremism in the United States can be broadly divided into those groups, movements, and adherents that are primarily hate-oriented (based on hatred of particular religious, racial or ethnic groups), and those that are mainly antigovernment, rejecting federal authority in favor of state or local authority, or rejecting government authority entirely. It may include groups and individuals that are dedicated to a single issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration.
First Dr. Tiller, Poplawski, then Dr. Tiller, now this.

Napolitano should have never apologized.

Lots on the background of the shooter at Talking Points Memo and AMERICAblog.

UPDATE:
From Think Progress: "Brunn has been approvingly cited on Stormfront, a national white supremacist website." If you recall, Poplawski kept an account at Stormfront.

UPDATE II:
Officer Stephen Tyrone Johns, security guard at U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, has died of his injuries.

Can we all agree that shooting up a Holocaust museum is the very definition of evil?
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3 comments:

Joshua said...

Just let this point sit in your head for 10 seconds: the shooter was 88 years old. Again, let me repeat: EIGHTY-EIGHT years old. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?!!

Maria said...

I know! WTF????

Tenisha Mercer said...

As a provider of contract security guards in Atlanta, I'd like to express my sincere condolences to security guards killed in the line of duty.