The mainstream media outlets and liberal bloggers are in a near frenzy to brand Von Brunn, the Holocaust Museum shooter, as a ‘right winger’, which is myth-making at its worst. To fully dispel this notion, an in depth analysis of the facts surrounding Von Brunn would be in order. Fortunately, this has already been done in an article titled, Holocaust Museum Shooter: Christian-Hating Socialist, by Ben Johnson.

As Johnson points out:

A review of his lengthy associations reveals Von Brunn hardly fits the stereotype of a Religious Right, GOP precinct captain. He denounced the Christian faith as a dastardly Jewish conspiracy, a “HOAX” invented by the Apostle Paul to “DESTROY ROMAN CULTURE” from within by undermining its pagan virility. (All screaming capitalization and grammatical errors in this piece appear in the original.) Like others on the racist fringe, the shooter proclaimed clearly: “SOCIALISM, represents the future of the West.”

I don’t know of any conservatives who deprecate Christianity nor welcome socialism. To state that socialism “represents the future of the West,” sounds more like a campaign slogan from a liberal politician, or something a humanities professor would say.

As many authors have shown, fascism is a totalitarian ideology concentrating all power in the hands of the State and thus not a conservative ideology but a creature of the Left. This holds true in the present as well as the past. The AN’s “Platform for the Aryan National State” includes these collectivist provisions (all quoted):

• Promote and preserve the industry and livelihood of the citizens.
• [E]liminate the current practice of damaging and poisoning life and environment.
• Provide honest aid to farmers and other business people, and shall restore to all citizens rightful land ownership.
• Make the necessary provisions for the aged, who have been impoverished by fraud (inflation).
• Confiscate all unearned wealth, stolen by fraud or usury and that which is gain from war.
• Nationalize all monopolies and multi-national interest[s].
• Immediately bring about land reform….”

Notice the typical left-wing policy preferences concerning nationalizing businesses, confiscating “unearned” wealth, and environmentalism. Many of the beliefs and goals of racist organizations are strikingly similar to those of mainstream liberal politics, which is not surprising when you realize both are, to varying degrees, derivatives of Marxism.

All have seized on the shooting in an attempt to salvage the reputation of Janet Napolitano, claiming the two (or four) eruptions confirm the Department of Homeland Security’s retracted assertion “that lone wolves and small terrorist cells embracing violent right-wing extremist ideology are the most dangerous domestic terrorism threat in the United States.” No one can deny Von Brunn’s danger, but neither should anyone be confused about his collectivist history and deeply held totalitarian ideology.

Unsurprisingly, many on the Left are exploiting this incident, and others, to smear all conservatives. How strange is it, that immediately following 9/11 these very same liberals were all clamoring about how we shouldn’t lump all Muslims in with the terrorists. But they don’t apply that same principle to lone shooters and conservatives, for which there is no logical connection to begin with, unlike terrorists and Muslims.

Von Brunn apparently self-published a book called, “Kill the Best Gentiles, a title supposedly derived from secret Jewish instructions to slaughter the goyim. (You can download the first six chapters here.)” It received very little attention by the media because it reveals Von Brunn to be an “anti-religious socialist.”

His “book” and writings share what many deranged manifestos also possess, in that they are sprinkled with occasional truths, but are so twisted in his interpretations as to have lost any sane meaning. Von Brunn also worked at a bookstore run by a Holocaust-denying group called the Institute of Historical Review. The bookstore also doubled as a publisher, and distributed books of the famous liberal Noam Chomsky:

The “bookstore” that employed the museum shooter was Noontide Press, the brainchild of Willis Carto, often named the most influential anti-Semite in the country. In addition to Holocaust denial material and conspiracy theories, the firm printed and peddled left-of-center volumes by more conspicuous figures, among them the most cited academic in the United States. In the 1980s, Noontide published Noam Chomsky’s book The Fateful Triangle. Chomsky became a hero of Jew-haters for his quasi-conspiratorial views of American society, his defense of Holocaust denier Robert Faurisson, and his distaste for Israel. Noontide’s catalog once carried a number of Chomsky materials out of appreciation. Alongside the linguist on Noontide’s roster stood far-leftist Holly Sklar’s volume Trilateralism: The Trilateral Commission and Elite Planning for World Management and the lecture Palestinian writer and centenarian Sami Hadawi delivered to the IHR entitled, “Who Are the Palestinians?”[5] Noontide also publishes statist works of bygone days, including Gen. Smedley Butler’s “War is a Racket,” a Nye Commission-era screed blaming war on capitalist “war merchants.” One perusing its catalog may also find, for example, reprints works of Depression-era “radio priest” and Nazi plagiarist Fr. Charles Coughlin (whose rallying cry was “A Just and Living Wage”) and his contemporary, fascist theorist Lawrence Dennis (among whose works is Is Capitalism Doomed?).[6]

I suggest reading the full article to get a better understanding of Von Brunn’s intense hatred for Christianity, capitalism, and indeed, most American values.

The ideology of Von Brunn and his contemporaries does not comport in any way with conservatism. Yet the Left chose to exploit the death of a black man as a paraphrase of Rahm Emanuel’s dictum; they never let a tragedy go to waste. …One can expect no more decency when a self-proclaimed socialist murders a minority in cold blood in a shrine to one of collectivism’s most shameful accomplishments.

The vanguards of modern liberalism are, like Von Brunn, ideological descendants of collectivist and totalitarian belief systems, which incorporate a great deal of racism and racialism, both overt and covert. Therefore, if Von Brunn is to be assigned a place on a political scale, he should be placed on the far left where he belongs.