Holocaust Museum Shooting, More Domestic Terrorism
Extremism and domestic terrorism seem to be on the rise, or at least more prevalent.
At U.S. News:
A month before a suspected white supremacist walked into the Holocaust Memorial Museum in downtown Washington and opened fire, the Department of Homeland Security warned that domestic right-wing extremism was the most pressing domestic terrorist threat that the country faced.
Conservatives were outraged that the DHS analysts had singled out antiabortion and antitax radicals for scrutiny. But the report was part of a series that DHS compiles on domestic dangers from all sides of the political spectrum, an area that’s taken a back seat to overseas threats.
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The man authorities say was the shooter at the Holocaust Museum, James von Brunn, was a well-known white supremacist who had railed against blacks, Jews, and the power of the federal government. In 1981, Brunn walked into the Federal Reserve Board with a shotgun, according to news reports. In another incident in early April, three police officers in Pittsburgh were killed by another reported white supremacist.
This upsets me for obvious reasons. Additionally, as you may have seen in my recent post “Why the Proposition 8 Ruling Matters to Atheists“, I mentioned a visit to the D.C. Holocaust Memorial Museum. We went on a class trip to D.C. in high school. Among our amalgam of activities, we walked through said museum. And I walked alone. (I intentionally walked ahead of my friends, trailing behind other classmates. I wanted to be able to take it all in by myself.)
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I was watching the breaking news on CNN at the gym today. William Cohen happened to be there and, poor guy, had to spend the rest of the day at the CNN studio as punishment. But my main gripe is this: so this 88 year old struggling novelist goes to this museum, shoots a guard, and now we have to read his nutty writings that he posted on the web? Do they REALLY have to display these ugly, racist comments over and over and over again? Was it really necessary to do that? Did Mel Gibson make a call to CNN or something?
On the bright side, I doubt if struggling novelists everywhere will try similar tactics to get their prose on the air.
Really? I haven’t seen his writings posted, but its best I don’t go looking for it. It’s probably just because its “news” and its a way of exposing how awful this guy is.
The corporate media censors analysis of how rightist terrorism is part of a coordinated propaganda campaign by rightist hate radio and tv.