Pathetic Face of Hate

James von Brunn

My grandmother used to say that there is no fool like an old fool. (What she actually said was, there was no fool like a damned old jackass but, you get my drift here.) Yesterday, an 88 year old James von Brunn proved to be just that... not an old fool but, what my grandmother said.



Guard Stephen T. Jones, an African American, was shot to death Wednesday by Holocaust denier James von Brunn, who left his car outside the entrance of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and walked in holding a rifle at his side, District Police Chief Cathy Lanier said at a news conference. von Brunn started shooting immediately, exchanging fire with two other guards who shot and critically injured him, Lanier said.

In his car, officers found a notebook with a handwritten note that read, "You want my weapons, this is how you'll get them. The Holocaust is a lie. Obama was created by Jews, "according to a court affidavit.

Von Brunn's .22-caliber rifle held 10 more bullets. Investigators found more in his car and at an apartment in Annapolis, MD that he shared with son and his son's fiancee. Security guards fired at von Brunn at least eight times, hitting him in the face.

The museum remained closed on Thursday and flags flew at half-staff in honor of Johns, 39, who had worked at the museum for six years. Bouquets of roses, lilies, and other flowers were left outside the museum walls. The entrance where the shooting occurred was still cordoned off by police tape.

You know...If this guy wasn't so full of hatred, vile, and so wrong-headed, I could almost feel a little sorry for him. His woman had left him... apparently, she had enough of his constant anti-Black, anti-Jewish diatribe. According to her "James could talk about little else." He had very little money, was semi-employed, down to his last few dollars and had no medical coverage. In his mind, all of the blame for this lies at the feet of those damn "Negroes and Jews",
especially the Jews.

Like a lot of these right-wing knuckle draggers, had several blogs and publications in circulation in which he spewed his hatred and vile around. I had heard that for a while, he was actually making a few dollars selling his books and periodicals at Gun shows, senior citizen centers, and swap meets.

Ahhh, but now we've got an African-American President don't we? And, everybody is saying that this is "post racial" America. What exactly does that mean? That we are free to meet and mix with like minded people that want to meet and mix? I imagine one huge interracial orgy! (I'm just kidding.) The thing about it is, people like von Brunn really believe that. They believe it and a half-dozen other half-baked conspiracy theories.

They say that this man was a near genius (he was a member of Mensa). For someone 88 years old, he was far better on the internet than a lot of people in their forties. So, why? Why is someone who obviously had a brain, so warped and so wrapped around such half-baked and hate-filled ideologies? Another unanswered question and another pathetic waste of a human life... both his and the innocent man he killed.