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Scurrilous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-10-09 03:40 PM
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Holocaust Museum shooter James Von Brunn's ex-wife says his racism 'ate him alive'
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"The ex-wife of the racist who stormed the U.S. Holocaust Museum described him as an abusive alcoholic whose hatred against Jews and blacks "ate him alive like a cancer."

"It's all he would talk about," the ex-wife said of James von Brunn, 89, who was wounded in a firefight with museum guards.

"When I questioned him, he would get very angry and abusive."

The woman, who asked that her name not be used, said when she learned von Brunn allegedly acted on his anti-Semitic impulses, she thought about something he used to say when they were married.

"He used to make the statement that he was going out with his boots on," she said."

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GodlessBiker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-10-09 03:42 PM
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1. Now it looks like he will be going out with his paper prison slippers on.
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notadmblnd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-10-09 03:48 PM
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2. didn't the authorities kill him?
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GodlessBiker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-10-09 03:52 PM
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7. I thought the museum guard died, not him. (Reports say terrorist in critical condition.)
Edited on Wed Jun-10-09 03:54 PM by GodlessBiker
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-10-09 03:54 PM
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10. I doubt he'll survive the shooting n/t
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Oregone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-10-09 03:48 PM
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3. removed
Edited on Wed Jun-10-09 03:54 PM by Oregone
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Stinky The Clown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-10-09 03:50 PM
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4. What are you talking about?
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Oregone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-10-09 03:53 PM
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9. WRONG THREAD!
Hah. Some person is turning this into a gun control issue. Ill repost!
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thunder rising Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-10-09 03:52 PM
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5. Consider this another case for the PUBLIC OPTION ... maybe the guy needed some counseling and meds
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Catherine Vincent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-10-09 03:52 PM
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6. Going out with his boots on? What does that mean? nt
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Scurrilous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-10-09 03:57 PM
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12. From wikipedia:
"To "die with one's boots on" means to die from violence as opposed to from natural causes (to "die in bed")."
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spoony Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-10-09 04:26 PM
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29. Oh! I thought
he said that when he was leaving the house, like it meant he was going to find some ass to kick or something. D'oh.
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hfojvt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-10-09 03:58 PM
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13. means he wanted to die fighting
in a huge battle against the forces of evil
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LeftishBrit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-10-09 04:01 PM
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17. It means to die fighting.
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Catherine Vincent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-10-09 04:09 PM
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22. Thank y'all!
:hi:
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Raksha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-10-09 03:53 PM
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8. It could turn out that he was recently diagnosed with a terminal illness.
"He used to make the statement that he was going out with his boots on," she said."

The thought crossed my mind earlier, but her statement tends to reinforce it. Why else would an 89-year-old man finally decide to act on a lifetime of hatred?
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lunatica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-10-09 03:56 PM
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11. His dog died and he didn't have anything to kick in order to vent his anger
Who the fuck knows why crazy people do anything?
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hfojvt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-10-09 04:05 PM
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18. I love the Michael Bolton song 'Everybody's crazy'
Don't you know that the mentally ill are more likely to be VICTIMS of violence than perpetrators of it? Think of the homeless person stumbling down the street mumbling to himself. Then think of the supposedly sane group of young thugs who beat him up or douse him with kerosene and start him on fire just for kicks. Then think of Bush and Cheney who are seemingly sane, but kill hundreds of thousands in Iraq just to reap the war profits.
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MiniMe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-10-09 05:02 PM
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30. He watches Faux Noise and he thinks the country is going socialist
And we elected a black President, and he is a democrat. OMG. I'm sure something finally got to him from Hannity, or Rush.
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flvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-10-09 03:59 PM
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14. I hope he lives to see trial on charges of premeditated murder, a hatecrime and domestic terrorism
and he rots in jail for whatever life he has left.

Let THAT eat you like a cancer, fucko.
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Occam Bandage Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-10-09 04:17 PM
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27. He'd just blame the "Negro jury," "Jew lawyer," and "Jew judge" like he did the last time
he went to jail for an (attempted) act of right-wing terrorism.
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DinahMoeHum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-10-09 04:00 PM
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15. "Ex-wife" - Says it all.
Edited on Wed Jun-10-09 04:04 PM by DinahMoeHum
"Alienation of affection" and all that jazz.

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She married von Brunn in the mid-1960s and they divorced 10 years later. She said he sipped red wine all day and frequently lashed out with verbal assaults.

"He would talk about what the world would become in 20 or 30 years - that most of the country would be governed by black governors and that the Jewish people owned the media," the ex-wife said.

"That's why I divorced him - because he was eaten alive with a cancer with this matter."
(snip)

:evilfrown:
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-10-09 04:05 PM
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19. It does? I have TWO "ex-wives" ... and no intention to shoot anyone.
Both marriages ended due to "incompatible sleeping habits" (they were sleeping with other men).

How about taking that broad brush and shoving it where the sun don't shine?
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notadmblnd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-10-09 04:13 PM
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24. I didn't read that the same way that you did.
I could be wrong but I don't think the poster was saying his ex wife caused him to kill. I think the poster was saying that the ex wife gave us his reason for killing.
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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-10-09 05:11 PM
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31. I think the point was that almost anybody's ex will say horrible things about them.
Mine would probably swear that I kidnapped the Lindbergh baby, if you asked.

Not that this guy's not a nutter of the first order, but I'd hate to judge anybody by what their ex says about them.
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CreekDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-10-09 06:52 PM
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35. this seems to be corroborated
in numerous ways.
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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-10-09 07:02 PM
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36. I know.
I was just pointing out that one's ex generally isn't a reliable source.
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DinahMoeHum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-10-09 06:47 PM
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33. Hey, TN, I was referring to that racist pig shooter, OK ???
Not you.

And FWIW, I don't know anything about your marital past - and I don't care. You're the one who brought it up, not me.
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walldude Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-10-09 04:07 PM
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20. Um.. she knowingly married a racist.
What the fuck did she expect?
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DinahMoeHum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-10-09 06:48 PM
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34. Maybe she thought she could change his ways.
Edited on Wed Jun-10-09 06:50 PM by DinahMoeHum
Love overcomes, and all that. Unfortunately, that failed.
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napoleon_in_rags Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-10-09 04:00 PM
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16. That's the effect of participating in the hate culture.
You find at a lot of those sites. I'm not surprised about his FreeRepublic posts. Its like a drug, really. The high is redirection away from the fact that life is difficult because its difficult, instead with hate you get relief, the idea that there is this one person or group who is preventing life from being good. Its easy. Its not your fault. It takes the blame away from faceless existence, it take your focus away from the load of hard work it actually takes to make things better.

To hell with hate.
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Tempest Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-10-09 04:08 PM
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21. That's exactly what Roeder's ex-wife said about him and the abortion issue

We need to see a serious crackdown on these rightwing lunatics.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-10-09 04:09 PM
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23. This may be aiming low, but I'm so grateful he didn't kill anyone today.
Edited on Wed Jun-10-09 04:09 PM by EFerrari
My brother is in DC right now, and the museum is on his list to take his girls to tomorrow. :(
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Occam Bandage Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-10-09 04:15 PM
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25. The security guard he shot died. nt
Edited on Wed Jun-10-09 04:17 PM by Occam Bandage
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theHandpuppet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-10-09 04:16 PM
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26. Huh?
The security guard DIED and the museum will be closed tomorrow in honor of his memory.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-10-09 04:24 PM
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28. Oh,no! I didn't know that.
:(
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RFKHumphreyObama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-10-09 05:21 PM
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32. I can't believe I'm saying this but I hope he lives
Not so much for humanity's sake -the world would be a better place for not having him in it -but just so his sick, perverted dream of going out in a blaze of glory is not fulfilled and so he can spend the rest of his life staring at the bars of a prison cell.

I can feel no compassion, mercy or sympathy for this creep or any of his fellow idiots.
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