Ethics

More Right Wing Extremist Violence

By Ed Brayton

While still reeling from the murder of Dr. George Tiller we get yet another case of right wing extremist violence, the killing of a security guard at the U.S. Holocaust Museum in Washington. The 88 year old shooter is a longtime neo-Nazi and white supremacist:

The suspect in Wednesday's fatal shooting at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum is James von Brunn, an 88-year-old white supremacist from Maryland, two law enforcement officials told CNN.

Von Brunn served six years in prison on federal attempted kidnapping, assault and firearms charges after what he called a "legal, nonviolent citizens arrest" of members of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on June 11, 2009 (boomark / email).