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Posted 06/10/09 at 07:42pm

Extremism Watch: The Holocaust Museum Shooter and Immigration

HateIn "Holocaust Museum Shooter Raises Concerns About ‘Crazed Conspiracies’ From Hate Groups," the Wonk Room's Andrea Nill reports:

Shortly after opening fire at the National Holocaust Museum today, James Wenneker von Brunn, the suspected shooter, was identified as a white supremacist with a “history of associations with prominent neo-Nazis and Holocaust deniers,” according to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). Brunn’s hateful rhetoric followed by today’s violent outburst chillingly echoes a controversial warning issued by the Department of Homeland Security concerning a rise in “rightwing extremist activity.”

Groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center have consistently documented the links between white nationalism, anti-immigrant activism, and the rising tide of extremism in the United States, but their warnings are only now gaining wider visibility. When the Department of Homeland Security released their report on "rightwing extremism" back in April, warning the public:

Rightwing extremism in the United States can be broadly divided into those groups, movements, and adherents that are primarily hate-oriented (based on hatred of particular religious, racial or ethnic groups), and those that are mainly antigovernment, rejecting federal authority in favor of state or local authority, or rejecting government authority entirely. It may include groups and individuals that are dedicated to a single issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration.

At the time, the report created great controversy with conservative media, especially among immigration-hardliners like Michelle Malkin. Now political bloggers like AmericaBlog's John Aravosis are asking, "Will Republicans Admit That Their Partisan Outrage Over The DHS Report Was Misplaced?

Media Matters Action Network quotes a number of top Republicans, including Gingrich, Bohener and Bachmann trashing the Department of Homeland Security report on domestic extremists, that now [seem] quite prescient.

Political questions aside, unbridled extremism has enjoyed a solid enclave within our nation's immigration debate. Chilling tragedies like this today's should force a long look in the proverbial mirror at what our nation stands for and what we are willing to accept. This is especially crucial as we prepare to tackle an immigration overhaul.

As Imagine2050.net's  Rev. David L. Ostendorf writes:

Silence is not an option. Not when it comes to people’s lives and to fundamental threats to democracy itself.

 

Comments

It smells like any conspiracy in it. May be FBI find it. Lets watch what happened

It smells like that there is any conspiracy in it. May be FBI find it out. Lets watch what happened in it.

This would be the second act of domestic terror committed by someone specifically mentioned in the DHS report that the agency pulled after the GOP and the religious right criticized them.

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Christian extremism if left unchecked would be worse than Islamic extremism. can we afford letting those fanatics run our lives and impose their version of “morality” on the rest of us? shouldn’t we make sure that the new generations are better educated and more civilized then the previous ones?

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