3 Men Shot at Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC [UPDATED]

By Steve Huff in assault, domestic terror
Wednesday, Jun. 10 2009 @ 1:41PM

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UPDATE

In the interest of being helpful, I captured and preserved James Von Brunn's Dec. 2, 2008 post to the conservative online forum, FreeRepublic.com. The original was deleted, but I was able to save it via Google's cache. Von Brunn's post was about the president, and it was titled "Obama is missing!" It listed documents relevant to Barack Obama that were supposedly not available to the public. Then Von Brunn wrote, in part:

WHY DON'T WE SEE ONE WORD OF THIS IN ANY OF THE MEDIA?

Love him or hate him, we all remember how the press went to great lengths to find out every move that President Bush made ... finally unable to come up with anything factual, so they created it! When their accusations were proven empty, they refused to retract one word of the fraud they perpetrated on the American people.

Dan Rather lost his job over fraudulent documents, because common people like you & me reached out and ripped CBS to pieces. They couldn't stand the loss of sponsors OR viewers!

The same Media went to great lengths to scandalize & destroy Sarah Palin. She maintains a 91% approval rating among voters from all parties, thanks to the Internet and investigative journalists who don't work for the mainstream media.

NOW ------- The Supreme Court has scheduled a Conference for Dec 5th about Obama's

U. S. Citizenship. STILL, not a word about any of this from the Media. If it were not for the Internet and talk radio, American citizens would become the servants of a dishonest & conspiratorial Media.

THINK ABOUT IT. IT DIDN'T USED TO BE THIS WAY! How much longer are we going to sit on our hands & say not a word?

AND DON'T THINK THE MEDIA SIMPLY DOESN'T KNOW - THEY ARE GETTING POUNDED WITH EMAILS ABOUT IT!!!

Obama could not get a simple security clearance with the information the government has on him ---- NOBODY COULD!

NOW he is privy to every top secret America has!

What is going on??? WHERE ARE THE GOOD PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY - ARE YOU OUT THERE???

Submitted by: James W. von Brunn 

UPDATE

CNN is reporting that a guard struck by gunfire today at the Holocaust Museum has died. His name was Stephen Tyrone Johns.

Original Post

The following is from the Washington Post: "A security guard and two other people were shot today inside the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in downtown Washington, authorities said." Live reports on cable news indicate a sudden attack that drew an immediate response from museum security guards.

One witness interviewed on CNN described a guard shot in the back and bleeding on the floor. US Park Police Public Information Officer David Schlosser said in a press conference that a man entered the museum armed with a "long gun" around 10 minutes till 1. A security guard confronted the man and the armed man opened fire. Two other security guards returned fire. Both the guard and gunman are in the hospital, their conditions are unknown at this time.

The London Times has reported that the shooter was 89-year-old avowed white supremacist James W. Von Brunn. Von Brunn had connections to anti-government and hate groups and wrote quite a bit. Some work authored by Von Brunn about the "Jew Conspiracy to destroy the white gene pool" can be found at HolyWesternEmpire.org. From the beginning of Von Brunn's book promoted on that site, just a sample of his brand of hate:

The purpose of this book is to present to WHITE YOUTH factual information conventionally

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James W. Von Brunn/ArsenalofHyprocrisy.com
suppressed or distorted by the mass media, and denied them by schools and universities -- which are forced to promulgate the Marxist line or lose their government subsidies. Appearing throughout the text are quotes from world authorities whose credentials appear in the bibliography. Upon reading TOB SHEBBE GOYIM HAROG! (KILL THE BEST GENTILES!) you will understand that -- despite loud protests of denial -- an age old CONSPIRACY does exist to destroyWestern Civilization. At this moment we are engaged in a deadly war with the HISTORIC ENEMY to determine whether or not our Nation will endure. We are losing that war because an Iron Curtain of censorship has descended over the landscape abrogating the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. Without Freedom of Speech our system of government cannot function. The hour is late. You and your family are in grave danger. We will present the FACTS then discuss what actions must be taken. Best wishes, James W. von Brunn Post Office Box 2821 Easton, Maryland 21601 8 June 1999 (Remember the U.S.S. Liberty.

Von Brunn was once called a "White Racialist Treasure" by posters on the white supremacist website Stormfront.org. According to several sources, Von Brunn wrote a great deal for ArsenalofHypocrisy.com. Check out his work here. A sample, from a post Von Brunn wrote in September, 2008:

JEWS ARE PROUD TO BE CALLED BIG GODDAMN LIARS.

JEWS profit extremely well within Aryan nations where LYING is considered DIShonorable. JEWS are no different than card-sharks playing poker at a PTA meeting,Edit Entry - True Crime Report | Movable Type Enterprise or with a Sunday-school class . Guess who ends up with all the chips.

YOU PLAY BY ONE SET OF RULES, JEWS BY ANOTHER.
IN ALL THINGS.

And so on. He's pretty predictable.

Von Brunn was quite the Internet Troll, on the whole. Using the e-mail address vonbrunn@goeaston.net, he went after many targets, not just Jews alone. Google, for instance. Someone helpfully recorded some of Von Brunn's thoughts about the evils of Google at - where else? - Stormfront.org:

From: "James Von Brunn" <vonbrunn@goeaston.net>

Subject: GOOGLE Origins.


GOOGLE was thought up in 1995 as a research project Ph.D. candidates Sergey Brin and Larry Page at Stanford University. Brin was born in Moscow and came to the US at age six, along with the 800,000 other Russian Jews who flooded into the US under the 1974 Jackson-Vanik Amendment. Page was born in East Lansing, Michigan, to University of Michigan Professors Carl and Gloria Page. Sergey's father Michael was a Professor at University of Maryland, and mother Eugenia also was a researcher there. All have a great sense of humor, as their web postings (above) reflect (click image for full picture)
I ATTENDED a conference in San Francisco in 2000, on Web directories and search engines. One of the founders of Google was there, Sergey Brin (a Russian Jew). His partner Larry Page is also Jewish, I suspect. And they were funded by Jews.
"The growth of Google Early investors also quickly saw the promise of this new search technology. After just 30 minutes of discussion and a brief demo, Andy Bechtolsheim, co-founder of Sun Microsystems and current vice president at Cisco Systems, wrote a check on the spot for $100,000."And, "By June 1999, Google had gained momentum as a viable startup, capturing headlines and attention in an already crowded industry. Venture capitalists Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sequoia Capital invested an additional $25 million."
What is surprising is not their pro-Israel, anti-truth bias, but rather that it has taken so long for their true colours to be manifested.

This wasn't the first time Von Brunn went to DC to make some sort of statement through any means necessary. In 1981, the then-61-year-old Von Brunn was convicted in the District of Columbia Superior Court of attempting to kidnap members of the Federal Reserve.

We're moving into a dreadful new phase of American history - when the hate-filled lone wolves all begin charging out of the woodwork to make their own blood-soaked statements.

This post will be updated and revised.

Village Voice: Yeah, About Those Planned "Terror Attacks" in NYC

By Steve Huff in domestic terror, terrorism
Thursday, May. 21 2009 @ 5:39PM

UPI "man on the street" report about the NY terrorism plot.

The Village Voice has raised some questions about FBI Agent Robert Fuller, who is front and center in the investigation into four black muslims arrested yesterday in New York, charged with planning attacks on some New York synagogues. From the Voice's "Runnin' Scared," a post by Graham Rayman: "Special Agent Robert Fuller, whose name appears at the top of the federal criminal complaint in the case, had a hand in the FBI's failure to nab two of the 9/11 hijackers, had one of his informants set himself on fire in front of the White House, and was involved in misidentifying a Canadian man as a terrorist leading to his secret arrest and torture -- a case that is now the subject of a major lawsuit..." Rayman goes onto explore Fuller's experience with apprehending terrorists since 9/11, and the end result is this - you start wondering if this newest development in the War on Terror is as dramatic as it seems.

[UPDATED] Richard Poplawski: Accused Pittsburgh Cop Killer, Possible White Supremacist

By Steve Huff in domestic terror, homicide, mass shooting
Saturday, Apr. 4 2009 @ 6:51PM

UPDATE 2, SUNDAY, 4/5/09

This is already all over the Web - it's an old MySpace kept by Richard Poplawski under the screen name RichieDelicious. This is Poplawski's now-infamous MySpace blog post from the same account. A copy has been saved here.

UPDATE, SUNDAY, 4/5/09

Let's all congratulate The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on catching up with True Crime Report. I broke the news of Poplawski's association with Stormfront.org in this post yesterday. This is from the Post-Gazette's article published today:

[Poplawski's] online profile suggests someone at once lonely and seething. He wrote of burning the backs of both of his hands, the first time with a cigarette, the second time for symmetry. He subscribed to conspiracy theories and, by January 2007, was posting photographs of his tattoos on white supremacist Web site Stormfront. Among his ambitions: "to accumulate enough 'I punched that [expletive] so hard' stories to match my old man."

I haven't checked to see if the Post-Gazette's IP shows up in this blog's stats, but then again, everyone knows how to use Google now, or should. Either way, you heard it here, first.

ETA: Many thanks to Crooks & Liars for acknowledging this blog's sleuthing in this case. In the interest of balance (because I try to keep my political views out of this blog), thanks to Kurt Nimmo from InfoWars.com for his link to this post as well.

Original Post, 4/4/09, 6:51 p.m. ET 

News segment about the triple cop shooting in Pittsburgh.

Richard Poplawski's buddy Eddie Perkovic told the press that his friend feared that President Obama would ban guns. Perkovic seemed to think this had some bearing on the crime for which Poplawski stands accused: the shooting deaths of Pittsburgh, PA police officers Eric Kelly, Stephen Mayhle and Paul Sciullo III.

According to the Associated Press, Poplawski was wearing a bulletproof vest and 'laying in wait' for the cops early Saturday when law enforcement responded to a domestic disturbance call at the residence Poplawski shared with his parents. Between SWAT teams who responded to the standoff that ensued after the initial gun battle and the shooter himself, more than 100 rounds were fired, overall. Poplawski suffered non-fatal injuries to his extremities.

Eddie Perkovic was interviewed after the tragedy, and he said that his friend feared "the Obama gun ban" that he felt was "on its way." Poplawski also "didn't like our rights being infringed upon."

I checked out Perkovic's MySpace profile (won't link because a: it's easy to find and b: he might make it private, anyway) and found that he had a friend with this profile:

http://www.myspace.com/richp

Apparently, Richard Poplawski. Folks elsewhere online have photos from that page, but it was private by the time I found it. I did find Poplawski's Stumbleupon account. Stumbleupon is mainly for bookmarking interesting web pages, and Poplawski's account may be worth a close look just to get some idea of what he liked.

When I searched the full URL of Poplawski's apparent MySpace profile, though, I happened onto a thread at StormFront.org. It is a message board for folks who believe in "White Pride World Wide." Someone using the screen name "Braced For Fate" wrote the following:

as much as I HATE myspace

I do still have a page left over from when it was an okay site (circa late '04 early 05)

http://www.myspace.com/richp

BTW, OP, it requires your last name or email address to be able to add you as a friend, not the best setup if you're trying to expand your friend base

Google's cache of the StormFront thread, made in late February of this year, showed that at that time, "Braced For Fate's" screen name was "RichP."

Eddie Perkovic, for his part, clearly must share some of Poplawski's views, as his profile revealed a fear of "Zionists" and some kind of ethnic takeover of America. Among Perkovic's recommended reads were "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" and The Turner Diaries.

The longer I do this crime blogging thing, the more I try to shy away both from editorializing and from fear-mongering. But I can't help but feel we'll hear from more Richard Poplawskis in the years to come. There are changes happening in the world that they, to say the least, don't like very much. After all, prior to 9/11/01, the worst modern act of terrorism committed on American soil was committed by Americans. And one of those Americans, Tim McVeigh, happened to have pages from The Turner Diaries with him when he was arrested. 

I'm just saying: while we were searching for the key to eliminating Al Qaeda, guys like Richard Poplawski didn't go anywhere. Hell, they may have even multiplied. Just remember that.

Explosion in West Memphis: Who Blew Up Dr. Trent Pierce?

By Steve Huff in assault, domestic terror, unsolved
Wednesday, Feb. 4 2009 @ 9:26PM

An early, comprehensive news report from WMC Television in Memphis about the explosion that critically injured Dr. Trent P. Pierce. When this was broadcast, police still thought the explosion might be accidental.

At first, it looked like an accident. Perhaps Dr. Trent P. Pierce's hybrid Lexus had some sort of fault or malfunction. Perhaps that malfunction caused the vehicle to explode around 8 a.m. CST on Wednesday, critically injuring the well-liked physician. As the day progressed, however, it became clear that that the Chairman of the Arkansas State Medical Board was the victim of foul play. Someone planted a bomb in Trent Pierce's car.

Several hours after Pierce was airlifted to a Memphis hospital for emergency surgery, investigators say they found the remains of an explosive device close to the front of Pierce's Lexus.

West Memphis Police Chief Bob Paudert didn't mince words when he spoke to the press about the explosion that nearly killed the man who was also his own personal physician: "It was a terrorist attack on Dr. Pierce."

As of Wednesday evening there were no suspects in the case, and more than one federal agency was involved in the investigation.

Dr. Pierce was a family practitioner and his specialty was asthma. A survey of news stories about this morning's bomb attack as well as articles found in newspaper databases revealed nothing controversial. Only an Arkansas Supreme Court decision published January 22 this year [PDF] even hinted at any problems for Dr. Pierce. Fox News reported on the case:

The lawsuit was brought by the estate of a deceased woman, Norma Louise Ramsey, against Pierce, a senior citizens' medical facility company called Golden Living -- formerly known as Beverly Enterprises -- the Memphis Dermatology Clinic and other defendants.

Ramsey was 92 years old when she died in July 2004, according to her obituary in The Arkansas Democrat Gazette. There was no cause of death given.

In 2005, the state of Arkansas paid $1.5 million to settle 26 lawsuits brought against Beverly Enterprises. The suits stemmed from allegations of mistreatment and neglect of residents at 12 of its nursing homes.

It wasn't immediately clear whether the lawsuit naming Pierce as a co-defendant with Beverly Enterprises was among the 26 abuse cases. His medical license is listed as active.

The January 22 decision agreed with Dr. Pierce's motion to dismiss the Ramsey Estate's appeal in the case.

Was Trent P. Pierce targeted for reasons that just haven't been made public yet?

Or was he the victim of a random bomber?

The second question will determine how much more you hear about this case. If the answer to the latter question is yes, Chief Bob Paudert's declaration about a "terrorist attack" won't seem like so much hyperbole, anymore. 

A Cold Case Growing Hot? Tylenol Murders Back in the News...

By Steve Huff in cold cases, domestic terror, homicide, serial killers, unsolved
Wednesday, Feb. 4 2009 @ 5:08PM

Part 1 of 4: Cambridge-area broadcaster Roger Nicholson interviewing James Lewis.

The FBI showed up today at 170 Gore St. in Cambridge, MA. They were there to search the home of James and LeAnn Lewis.

He has faded from the public eye, but if you were following the 1982 Tylenol poisonings that took place in and around the Chicago area, you probably heard about James Lewis. He went to jail for several years for an extortion plot directly linked to the mysterious poisonings. Lewis was also the main suspect in the murders. It appears as though that's never really changed...

Read more "A Cold Case Growing..." >>

Joshua Turnidge's Father, Bruce Turnidge, Also Arrested in Bank Bombing

By Steve Huff in assault, domestic terror, homicide
Tuesday, Dec. 16 2008 @ 5:32PM

AP video short about the Dec. 14 arrest of Joshua Turnidge.

Police in Oregon have apprehended 57-year-old Bruce Turnidge. He is the father of former Navy Serviceman Joshua Turnidge, who is currently facing multiple counts connected to the deadly Friday, December 12 bombing of a bank in Woodburn, OR. The elder Turnidge was arrested not far from Jefferson, OR and charged with conspiracy to manufacture an explosive device. He has also been charged with conspiracy to possess an explosive device.

Court documents have also explained why the explosive device that took the life of State Trooper William Hakim and police Capt. Tom Tennant was inside the bank when it went off.

Simply put, the cops thought they were dealing with a hoax. They'd examined the green metal box as it sat outside the bank and William Hakim apparently felt confident that it was a fake. Tom Tennant was holding the box and Hakim was attempting to open it when it exploded.

As for primary suspect Joshua Turnidge, he was apparently tracked in part through tell-tale purchases he made at a Wal-Mart in Bend, Oregon. Turnidge was directly fingered, however, because a Wal-Mart security video caught him leaving the store and taking off in a blue 80s model pickup registered to his father, Bruce.

Joshua Turnidge made his first court appearance today. He is due back in court again the day after Christmas. As is too often the case, his neighbors seem utterly shocked by the whole thing.

Prosecutors have yet to reveal a motive in the case, but several media reports indicate banks were being targeted. So there's that. In these straitened times, it's surprising this kind of thing has only happened once, so far. [KPTV.com]

Suspect Joshua Abraham Turnidge Arrested in Connection With Woodburn Bank Bomb

By Steve Huff in assault, domestic terror, homicide
Monday, Dec. 15 2008 @ 6:49PM
pink503.jpgOregon authorities say they've arrested a suspect in the bombing of a Woodburn, OR bank on Friday. The alleged bomber is 32-year-old Joshua Abraham Turnidge, of Bend, OR. Per KATU.com, the charges against Turnidge are:

* Manufacturing and possessing a destructive device
* First- and second-degree assault
* Conspiracy to commit aggravated murder
* Two counts of attempted aggravated murder
* Six counts of aggravated murder
Turnidge was arrested shortly after Marion County Sheriff Russ Isham released suspect photos culled from bank security footage on Sunday. Police say Turnidge was not apprehended as a result of tips from the public.

Two police officers were killed in the blast on Friday and another officer was severely injured. The victims are: Capt. Tom Tennant of the Woodburn PD; William Hakim, an Oregon State Trooper; and Woodburn Police Chief Scott Russell, who remains in critical condition.

Police are keeping details of how they tracked the suspect close to the vest. Turnidge's motives remain elusive as well. Suffice it to say, though -- bomb-making is something that requires a bit of planning and forethought.

Turnidge had a low profile online. At least it seems that way, so far. I was able to find evidence that he'd been an active paintballer in the past, and he had a denuded MySpace account under the screen name, "pink503." Turnidge's last login was November 24 of this year and he had only 2 friends as of Monday night -- one of them MySpace's ubiquitous "Tom."

Any tips or suggestions about a possible online handle or profile for Joshua Turnidge are welcome -- post in the comments below or e-mail, using the address found in the sidebar.

Police say they'd still like tips in this case -- if you have something relevant to the investigation, you can call 1-888-780-5678. [KATU.com]

Alleged Oregon Bank Bomber Arrested

By Steve Huff in assault, domestic terror, homicide
Monday, Dec. 15 2008 @ 7:42AM
A suspect was arrested on Sunday in connection with the bombing at a Woodburn, Oregon bank on Friday. Two police officers were killed in the blast and another as critically injured. Marion County Sheriff Russ Isham told the media that the arrest was "the result of an intensive round-the-clock investigation" by local, state and federal agencies. The suspect, who has not been named, was arrested near Salem, Oregon. [CNN.com]

Bank Bombed in Oregon

By Steve Huff in assault, domestic terror, unsolved
Saturday, Dec. 13 2008 @ 12:40AM

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Google Street View of the West Coast Bank on Newberg Highway in Woodburn, OR.

Sometimes you spot a crime story and you just have to watch it, even though few details are available. This is one of those times.

A police officer was seriously injured inside a Woodburn, Oregon bank Friday night. He was on the scene investigating a suspicious device found outside the bank. The device had been taken inside the West Coast Bank on Newberg Highway after it was found in the parking lot outside. According to CNN, two bank employees also suffered injuries and trauma as a result of the blast.

Three law enforcement entities were actually involved in the investigation when the bomb went off -- the Woodburn PD, Oregon State Police and the FBI. It's probably no coincidence that a bomb threat had been called in earlier on Friday against the Wells Fargo branch located just a few yards from the West Coast Bank. Police checked that threat out around 10:30 in the morning and found nothing.

Bombers are serious business -- like I said, this may be a story to watch, unless the police can trace the bomb maker quickly. [CNN.com]