Free Republic silent on their buddy and poster Von Brunn.

As reported (Huffington Post and MSNBC) the Holocaust Museum murderer is a Freeper. Jim Robinson pulled all of the posts and he is trying to hide their true colors but those who keep an eye on them know the deal. Right wing nuts on FR screamed when Homeland Security correctly identified the right wing as a violent threat to this country. Now they don't have a thing to say.

go to other posters there, cutting and pasting his shit.

pull them. He posted under the very clever screen name "Von Brunn". I am a regular lurker over there and remember the screen name (caught my eye as I had lived in Huntsville, Al where Von Braun is a revered name).

But oddly, you can't buy a thread concerning this topic over there. I guess, maybe, had the security guard ever once worked as security at an abortion clinic, they'd be posting non-stop in favor of the shooting.

I think I saw a clip of it on another station.

There is no proof that von Brunn himself is a freeper. It was a "birther" thing that was linked. DUers link to Coulter, Malkin, and Limbaugh among others. I seriously doubt that anybody on DU would claim Malkin, Coulter, or Limbaugh as a DUer.

He's not relating his statement to recent events, but to his long time lurking of that site and has seen his posts in the past. That is why his post is something else. Sure there it's true there could have been someone else---however von Brunn is not an common name.

Just like he did with all the other domestic terrorists who posted there, once they were arrested, like Roeder or the guy who mixed up the fake anthrax in his mommy's basement.

It always amazes me that people are willing to put so much passion and energy into hating people they haven't even met. Have they nothing else to do?

The level of craziness on FR is pretty high, and the site is well known, so I expect that each new incident of right-wing terrorism will be followed by a selective scrubbing of that scary, awful site.

Ain't freedom of speech great?

of violence or censorship, but good ol' American capitalism.

I lurk there regularly and noticed that their last quarterly fundraiser was a near disaster. The first quarter fund raiser ended on May 26, only days before the second (next) quarter.

Be a shame if Jim Robinson (head whacko) had to get a job!

who can't keep her mits off a sensational crime, particularly if a blonde girl goes missing somewhere, completely ignored the shooting. My mouth was gaped open. I never watch their shows but I turned on just to see how they would handle it. They handled it alright. By ignoring it. Too busy Obama bashing.

n/t

Wow.

I figured he'd at least do something along the lines of "Obama is making people angry", which is their usual take on this kind of stuff.

..... they never cared before, why should they care now?

(and needless to say, *I* do not consider the guard just "some black dude" ... he's a hero and the world's a bit darker without him)

officially call it a terrorist website and shut it down. I call it a terrorist website already.

Vigilence will help neuter conservo-terrorists!!!!!

Their brand of hatred has consequences after all.

They're done for. They'll either check their posts or tone. What's worse is that they're past posts are all over that site so in the end most of them had made the secret service and FBI hit list already.

In the pre-Internet days, people would seek to join real clubs and organizations. Often those organizations had a system for admitting members that might determine a person's fitness for doing so, but most organizations had a system for disinviting people who were disruptive, unbalanced, violent, or otherwise off the deep end.

In the virtual world, anybody can facelessly post on just about any website. It's like finding that a child rapist used Facebook or MySpace, then saying that such social networking sites should be banned because bad people can use them to do bad things.

Did Roeder and Von Brunn visit Free Republic? No doubt. Did they telegraph their plans to kill, then get cheered on by freepers? I don't think so. I lurk over there every once in awhile, their moderators are pretty quick to squash overt racism, and specific threats of violence against targets in America.

When this thing went down there was a lot of overt racism towards muslims and veiled threats. They didn't clean up a thing. I'm sure they'll do it now. But they weren't on top of it then and I'm sure there's plenty there.

if someone wants to talk about lobbing a nuke into Mecca, they're down with it over there, but if someone wants to torch a mosque in New York, that post gets fried.

There are a lot of keyboard commandos over at Freeperland, but the really overt racism gets nuked, and violence as a way of dealing with domestic problems is subject to deletion as well. They're gung-ho for war against Muslims, but being as none of them are the Commander in Chief, it ain't gonna happen, so they vent there.

.... well hello! Even if that were the case, shouldn't it BOTHER them that anyone would confuse those two sites? That a member of their board would ALSO be a member of stormfront? Sheesh!!

(Stormfront is a white supremacist web site.)

It wouldn't suprise me, but there is no proof. A FR poster linked to some birther article by von Brunn. No proof that von Brunn himself was a poster.

immediately after the killing. MSNBC ran graphics of the posts on the FR page.

True, I did not see finger prints on his key board or analyze his hard drive.

Somebody with the screename wannabegeek linked something by the guy that was signed with von Brunn's real name. And the post was a "birther" post. The post was not by von Brunn. People link Malkin and Rush here all the time, or quote them. That doesn't mean that they are DU members.

It's a breeding ground for domestic terrorism.