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On the shootings in DC
Well, here's a surprise. The shooter is a white supremacist nutball who had priors.
To wit (from the New York Times):
"Mr. von Brunn, whose latest address is believed to be in Eastern Maryland, was convicted in 1983 of trying to kidnap members of the Federal Reserve Board two years earlier. In that incident, he was captured by a guard in the board’s headquarters after running to the second floor, where the board was meeting. He was carrying a revolver, a hunting knife and a sawed-off shotgun in a shoulder bag, the police said."
Riiiiiiiight.
And as usual, all the kook tics were out in force:
"Law enforcement officials and others who track conspiracy theorists have long been familiar with Mr. van Brunn, in part because he maintains a Web site. He has claimed variously to be a member of Mensa, the high-I.Q. fraternity; to have played varsity football at a Midwestern college, where he earned a degree in journalism; to have been a P.T. boat captain in World War II, and to have been victimized by a court system run by Jews and black people."
Hmmmm. Boasting, waving military experience around like it serves as a defense against anything you did after
you marched your last klick, and paranoid conspiracy theories. Seems like he hit the trifecta.
Unfortunately, somebody died for the sake of this guy's neuroses.
To wit (from the New York Times):
"Mr. von Brunn, whose latest address is believed to be in Eastern Maryland, was convicted in 1983 of trying to kidnap members of the Federal Reserve Board two years earlier. In that incident, he was captured by a guard in the board’s headquarters after running to the second floor, where the board was meeting. He was carrying a revolver, a hunting knife and a sawed-off shotgun in a shoulder bag, the police said."
Riiiiiiiight.
And as usual, all the kook tics were out in force:
"Law enforcement officials and others who track conspiracy theorists have long been familiar with Mr. van Brunn, in part because he maintains a Web site. He has claimed variously to be a member of Mensa, the high-I.Q. fraternity; to have played varsity football at a Midwestern college, where he earned a degree in journalism; to have been a P.T. boat captain in World War II, and to have been victimized by a court system run by Jews and black people."
Hmmmm. Boasting, waving military experience around like it serves as a defense against anything you did after
you marched your last klick, and paranoid conspiracy theories. Seems like he hit the trifecta.
Unfortunately, somebody died for the sake of this guy's neuroses.