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Why the metal detectors?
WASHINGTON – A frustrated artist and an angry man, the suspect in the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum shooting once tried to kidnap members of the Federal Reserve board, a "caper" thwarted when a guard captured him outside a board meeting carrying a bag stuffed with weapons. James Von Brunn, 88, a white supremacist and Holocaust denier, describes the assault with apparent pride on his Web site, the source of fulmination against Jews and races other than his own.
Von Brunn was sentenced in 1983 to more than four years in prison for attempted armed kidnapping and other charges in his Fed assault. He was released in 1989.
"The subject resides in my memory like old road-kill," he wrote. "What could have been a slam-bang victory turned into ignoble failure. Recalling all of this presents an onerous task. I am getting near the end of the diving board."
Despite the revolver, sawed-off shotgun and knife found in his bag that day, Von Brunn insisted he was trying to place the board under "legal, non-violent citizens-arrest."
A self-described artist, advertising man and author living in Annapolis, Md., Von Brunn wrote an anti-Semitic treatise, "Kill the Best Gentiles," that he said no one would publish. He decries "the browning of America" and claims to expose a Jewish conspiracy "to destroy the White gene-pool."
Von Brunn also wrote, "The 'Holocaust' Religion is destroying Western Civilization. The Aryan gene-pool dies, 'unwept, unhonored and unsung.'"
His lengthy, often rambling online biography aside, law enforcement officials are trying to piece together details of Von Brunn's life.
Two law enforcement officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the case, said investigators are trying to better understand time he spent in Idaho, and how he acquired the .22-caliber rifle used in Wednesday's attack. At the request of the U.S. Park Police, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives is tracing the weapon. Under federal law, convicted felons cannot purchase firearms.
In his account of his "Federal Reserve caper," the St. Louis native relates his "character shapers" — among them a schoolyard bully who beat him up, vacation days on the Mississippi River, his service on a PT boat in World War II, and what he said was his first trouble with the law — a year in jail for tussling with a sheriff on Maryland's Eastern Shore in 1968, the year he moved to the area from New York City.
Von Brunn applied to have his art shown at the Troika Gallery in Easton, Md., around the time the gallery opened about 12 years ago, two of the owners, Laura Era and Jennifer Wharton, told The Associated Press. They said they turned him down because it was not up to their quality and that made Von Brunn angry.
"He stomped out," Wharton said. "You don't normally get that reaction from artists."
They say his work was not strange or violent, but the artists they show have many years of professional experience.
Era and Wharton said they had heard that Von Brunn had been in jail because of his political beliefs and knew that he had prejudices. They did not feel comfortable around him, but said they didn't want to make him an enemy.
One time Von Brunn arrived at the gallery livid because he had just seen a mixed race couple getting married at the garden of the historical society nearby, Era and Wharton said.
Von Brunn was not around for years, but turned up a year or two ago. He did not spend as much time at their gallery as before and they did not encourage him to, the women said.
They said Von Brunn's work depicted images such as horses and buffalo in the American West or an eagle with the U.S. flag.
Von Brunn's biography on the artists' directory askart.com says his father, Elmer, was superintendent of Scullin steel mill of St. Louis, and their family, on both sides, migrated from Germany and Austria in 1845 or near that year. He is listed as producing portraits, illustrations, graphics and more.
Von Brunn's accounts of what shaped his character as a boy and young man are heavy with dark episodes blamed on Jews and other minorities. After each account, he draws a "moral."
Among them:
"Life and Death are opposite sides of the same coin. Fate flips the coin."
"Things to be proud of often involve high risk. You can't hide from death. It always finds you."
"It's better to be strong than right — unless you like dying. Crowds hate good guys."
cpschult- Quantity over Quality
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My heart goes out to the families of the two guards. From what I can make of the news casts, Von Brunn's mind was melting itself since the early 70's. Too bad he couldn't take that out on himself and felt it necessary to take people with him.
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Drago, Jessi and I all went to a Holocaust museum in skokie last saturday. To get in you had to pass through a metal detector. I questioned it.
Now I understand why.
Now I understand why.
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Wow, that is messed up. He killed two guards? Or just injured?
Why didn't you guys tell me you were going to the Holocaust museum? I would have loved to go!! LAME!
Why didn't you guys tell me you were going to the Holocaust museum? I would have loved to go!! LAME!
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i asked matt if you wanted to come! We went down to skokie last weekend for my/ my brother/ my sisters graduation party. lame matthew!
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ok...this is crap. Tictac, it was your party, you had lacey's number and i already invited Phil, i didn't want to keep inviting people...i'm no free loader!
Lacey...want to go shooting some weekend? I may have some time next week during the week.
Lacey...want to go shooting some weekend? I may have some time next week during the week.
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HEY JESSIE STOP USING MATT AS YOUR ROLADEX
SUP
SUP
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cpschult wrote:HEY JESSIE STOP USING MATT AS YOUR ROLADEX
SUP
Stop spelling my name wrong every time!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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tictac wrote:cpschult wrote:HEY JESSIE STOP USING MATT AS YOUR ROLADEX
SUP
Stop spelling my name wrong every time!!!!!!!!!!!!!
stop thinking you know how to spell your own name
cpschult- Quantity over Quality
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How do you spell it Tictac? Jessie looks like a pretty normal spelling to me.
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NO E! just I. Its pretty normal unless you tell a guy 3 times and he keeps spelling it wrong.
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tictac wrote:NO E! just I. Its pretty normal unless you tell a guy 3 times and he keeps spelling it wrong.
i'm pretty sure ill spell it how i want to spell it
k thnx bye
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carter wrote:ok...this is crap. Tictac, it was your party, you had lacey's number and i already invited Phil, i didn't want to keep inviting people...i'm no free loader!
Lacey...want to go shooting some weekend? I may have some time next week during the week.
yes please
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