I watched that story, and the fact that you consider that community to be “domestic terrorism” shows how paranoid and narrow-minded you are. There are far more compounds throughout the US with ARMED militias who openly claim to be training to oppose the government, but they are not touched because they are white and Christian.

I wish the SPLC would shine the light on domestic terrorists like these:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pw-ieB796g4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....re=related

I do however thank you for sharing your views. As with Von Brunn he used the internet to his benefit to further his political agenda. White supremacy, Ku Klux Klan and other Neo Nazi groups since the birth of the internet have used it as their main recruiting tool — supplementing it as you say with face to face meetings at gun shows and other political rallies. Up until now the internet and web has been one of their strongest tools to perpetuate their proganda. I still clearly remember David Duke running for political office and somehow trying to “normalize” himself and the Klan to non-believers. So, in response, one misunderstanding in thinking does not an illiterate make.

So basically it is a lie to claim that the Nazis or WNs are 180 degrees the opposite of mainstream conservatives.

However, “right-wing” and “conservative”, historically, are associated with wanting to preserve the status quo, whereas left-wing implies revolution, change, and a more equitable society. By that internationally recognized standard, Nazism is indeed right-wing. Aside from the fact that the actual economic policies of the NSDAP favored big industrialists and the rich, while punishing workers and stripping them of their rights, the general Nazi rationale for their bizarre form of “socialism” was that failure to implement some kind of social welfare system would inevitably assist the rise of Communism. In other words, the NSDAP used socialism as a way to draw the working class away from the Communists, and there were few candid letters and conversations when Nazi leaders like Goebbels admitted that it was all a sham. In fact the Night of Long Knives was organized to prove to the aristocrats in the army that Hitler would not tolerate any kind of left wing deviation in his party.

The idiocy of claiming that Nazism or Fascism is left-wing is a lot easier to see if one takes the more clear cut example of Spain. The Spanish army uprising which led to the civil war was not led by Fascist, but otherwise apolitical right wing army officers. They were highly religious, anti-liberal, anti-communist, anti-worker, and pro-authority. Naturally, the real Fascist movement in Spain, the Falange, gravitated toward their side. But I digress.

The point is, as one fat gasbag once said, “words mean things”. That includes words like right, left, and socialism. You cannot just throw them around at will and make inaccurate analogies based on insignificant common points. Common parts do not make a common whole.

It is easy to lump these supremacists into the “Right Wing” political/social category but is just as important to know they’re not – this being said it does not make them any LESS EVIL.

You stated that you “do not know if it was an act of terrorism.” Why not? because he is Caucasian? I’m pretty sure if he was of the Muslim faith or Middle Eastern you Hannity, Beck, Limbaugh, Coulter, Savage, Kaufman, Caribou Lipstick Piglet Palin, Buchanan and Hunchback Cheney would have labeled him a terorist and demand the death penalty!

http://www.lyonresearch.com/index.html

I believe that there are some people who are addicted to rage. Psychologists have documented that this can happen. Rage causes certain physiological responses, just like a drug. And, just like a drug, the rage junkie can get accustomed to his rage so that it requires higher and higher doses to get their fix.

I should know. I used to be married to a woman who I beleive was a rage addict. She used to fly off the handle on a regular basis, oftentimes for no reason whatsoever. Afterwards she claimed that she had “just blacked out.” Typical of addicts.

You would be in the minority.

All recent polls show less and less support for his ideas on this issue.

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Folks need to stop trying to link Von Brunn to the Left or the Right. He was pretty much an equal opportunity hater, and it cheapens the life of the slain security guard to try to score political points from this tragedy.

I would also like to point out that there is little point in designating certain crimes as “terrorism” and others as simply “criminal actions.” The end results are the same, and the rubric of “terrorism” is often the method by which government can target peaceful groups that disagree with the state of the nation.

Look at the way the government has targeted anti-war and civil rights groups in the past (even the not-so-distant past). It’s always done in the name of “domestic terrorism” and a need for security.

This is domestic terrorism, far, far worse than any pathetic “eco-terrorists” who target only property. These right wing Republicans target people — that makes them terrorists.

You’re trying to say that this is not a “terrorist act?” But you obviously do not know the definition of an act of terrorism…. which is “the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear”

And if you still believe your statement is correct, you are in denial… This act was CLEARLY motivated by politics, a difference in ideologies, and religion…. That’s 3/3…. I guarantee… GUARANTEE! That if an AMERICAN, American Muslim had committed a similar crime in a Christian environment, automatically, he or she would be labeled a “terrorist…”

As a country, as a people, we MUST look pass the differences we share because focusing on them will only lead to the fall of this country… AND we MUST begin to acknowledge when people are being hateful and not be biased because they are “Americans..” The man was a terrorist… Whether he was white, black, middle eastern, he committed a hateful crime with religious and political beliefs in mind… When will everyone be able to see that terrorist come in all shapes and sizes…. IT IS NOT JUST MIDDLE EASTERNs, so how about we kill the stereotype…

‘We know what Mr. von Brunn did yesterday at the Holocaust museum. Now it’s our responsibility to determine why he did it,’ said Joseph Persichini, assistant director of the Washington FBI field office.

The Homeland Security Department said the shooting does not appear to have a connection to terrorism, according to a joint Homeland Security and FBI assessment, though Persichini characterized it as ‘domestic terrorism.’”

Von Brunn Charged In Holocaust Museum Slay – CBS News

Regarding your second comment, I believe that fed, state, & local law enforcement and security forces can monitor terrorist/extremist internet & other “chatter”, AND help to improve the security defending the people and structures that are more likely to be targeted.

Not being a security expert myself, I don’t know whether it’d be more effective to focus more on one or the other, though I can say that I’d prefer that we stop acts while they’re in the planning stages, rather than on site, at the last possible minute. And, it seems to me that many of the attacks cited as having been prevented in the last few years never made it to the place and time the act was going to occur, so there is something to be said for monitoring & other preventive measures done before the fact, offsite.

I’m hoping Obama keeps most of his promises including the ones about guns.

What a sick man.

The real issue is why was this man able to get into the Musuem in D.C., a very secure town with security everywhere we look, with a long rifle on him without being stopped? Shouldn’t the security be on the OUTSIDE of the building and highly visible as a deterent.

It’s very sad what happened. I don’t condone it by any means and I like many on this forum hope Mr. Von Brunn gets the justice he deserves. But let’s not pin this event on the FBI or their ability to monitor websites. Let’s work to improve the security of buildings like this so not anyone with a .22 rifle can just walk into the place unfettered.