June 16, 2009 5:34 PM

Shooting Highlights Growth Of Hate Groups

By
Bob Orr
(CBS)  Federal investigators in Washington, D.C. are scouring the troubled history of 88 year-old shooting suspect James Von Brunn - an anti-Semite with a lifelong grievance against the government who found allies on white supremacist Web sites.

On his own site, holywesternempire.org, Von Brunn promotes his Internet book "'Kill the Best Gentiles'... a new hard-hitting expose of the JEW CONSPIRACY to destroy the White gene-pool."

Chapters are titled "The Holocaust Hoax," "The Negro," and "The Aryan Force." In writing fondly about Nazis, Von Brunn claims, "Hitler, as American boobs are beginning to learn, was not all wrong."

Von Brunn, who claims to be a genius and a U.S. Navy World War II veteran, spent six years in federal prison. He was convicted for breaking in to Federal Reserve headquarters in Washington in 1981, armed with a revolver, sawed-off shotgun and hunting knife. Von Brunn said he wanted to kidnap then Fed Chairman Paul Volcker for failing to curb rising interest rates.

He later ranted, "Remember, the Federal Reserve Act (1913) gave JEWS control of America's MONEY."

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Police and federal agents today converged on Von Brunn's apartment complex in Annapolis, Md., looking for potential evidence.

But, he's moved around in white supremacist circles, living for a while in Hayden, Ida., the same community that was home to the founder of the Aryan Nation.

The Holocaust Museum shootings came 11 days after another hate crime, the murder of Kansas abortion doctor George Tiller. The suspect in that shooting, Scott Roeder, is described as an anti-abortion rights radical.

The violence underscores a troubling trend. In the past eight years, the number hate groups in America has exploded - up 50 percent from 602 in 2000 to 926 last year.

Sources say Von Brunn apparently acted alone and police know of no other targets. But, they're keenly aware that the hatred he spewed is at the base of a wider on-going threat.

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by faylabouiver June 11, 2009 9:30 PM EDT
HATE GROUPS CAN NOT SHOW ANY FEELINGS FOR ANYONE EVER, THEY ARE NOT CAPABLE OF DOING THESE AS THEY ONLY HAVE ONE FEELING THEY CAN SHOW AND THAT'S HATE AND MORE HATE. OH THEY SAY THEY LOVE THERE SELVES BUT THESE IS NOT TRUE AT ALL, HOW CAN THEY EVER LOVE WHEN ALL THEY KNOW AND HAVE EVER KNOWN IS HATE?? THE ONLY THING THEY LOVE IS HATE AND MORE HATE. VERY UNHAPPY WITH THEMSELVES AND ARE NOT CAPABLE OF EVEN HAVING A LASTING RELATIONSHIP WITH ANYONE EVER. faylabouiver
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by rigsbyt June 11, 2009 7:59 PM EDT
He maybe leftist, or rightist, but he got heard for better or worse...
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by faylabouiver June 11, 2009 7:53 PM EDT
IN OUR HEARTS AND MINDS WE SHALL NEVER FORGET THE HOLOCAUST!!!!!!!!!
FAYLABOUIVER
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by cbsblogger June 11, 2009 7:16 PM EDT
Actually there are many, many hate groups all over America. Many of them meet in the board rooms of the big American corporations. Unfeeling, uncaring except for profits and they own both political parties. They rape and pillage the American people without any fear of retribution (so far).
Posted by noloyalisti at 2:23 PM : Jun 11, 2009

So true. They also almost destroyed the world's economy due to their greed, lack of ethics and scruples and then they were rewarded by handouts from the Federal Reserve and US Treasury who gave them trillions owed by future generations. They have names like Federal Reserve, Lehman and Goldman Sachs and they knew exactly what they were doing when they created the housing and usury credit bubble that ended with the stolen retirements and the homes from many.
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by naj1953 June 11, 2009 7:14 PM EDT
I totally agree.....
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by ToolMangler1 June 11, 2009 6:23 PM EDT
Actually there are many, many hate groups all over America. Many of them meet in the board rooms of the big American corporations. Unfeeling, uncaring except for profits and they own both political parties. They rape and pillage the American people without any fear of retribution (so far).
Posted by noloyalisti at 2:23 PM : Jun 11, 2009



Well said and true!!!!
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by sunspro June 11, 2009 5:24 PM EDT
Dang, that jerk makes Caucasians look bad.
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by noloyalisti June 11, 2009 5:23 PM EDT
Actually there are many, many hate groups all over America. Many of them meet in the board rooms of the big American corporations. Unfeeling, uncaring except for profits and they own both political parties. They rape and pillage the American people without any fear of retribution (so far).
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by whatithink-2009 June 11, 2009 5:05 PM EDT
"You people really believe the only hate groups in America are in the South? Good Grief!
Naive as hell
Posted by jodyrae4 at 1:49 PM : Jun 11, 2009
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I concur. The KKK was founded in Idaho.
Posted by blog_fever2 at 1:53 PM : Jun 11, 2009 "



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Pulaski, Tennessee
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by blog_fever2 June 11, 2009 4:53 PM EDT
You people really believe the only hate groups in America are in the South? Good Grief!
Naive as hell
Posted by jodyrae4 at 1:49 PM : Jun 11, 2009
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I concur. The KKK was founded in Idaho.
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