James von Brunn spent most of the 1980s in jail after trying to take Paul Volcker hostage.

http://www.forbes.com/2009/06/10/james-von-brunn-face-museum-shooter.html

On Wednesday, 88-year-old white supremacist James von Brunn armed himself with a shotgun and wounded a security guard at the National Holocaust Museum. But this wasn't his first violent crime in the Capitol -- he spent much of the 1980s in jail for a similar attack on the Federal Reserve that, fortunately, didn't end in such turmoil.

An online biography about von Brunn says: "In 1981 Von Brunn attempted to place the treasonous Federal Reserve Board of Governors under legal, non-violent, citizens arrest. He was tried in a Washington, D.C. Superior Court; convicted by a Negro jury, Jew/Negro attorneys, and sentenced to prison for eleven years by a Jew judge. A Jew/Negro/White Court of Appeals denied his appeal. He served 6.5 years in federal prison."

But a short news account of the time, written Dec. 8, 2001, by a reporter for United Press International, paints a different picture of the incident. "A man complaining of the high interest rates and inflation threatened to take members of the Federal Reserve Board hostage today but was arrested without any shots being fired." The UPI article identified the weapon as a 38 caliber pistol. An abstract of a New York Times article from that day says that van Brunn was "disarmed after waving gun at security guard in Federal Reserve building in Washington."

According to the Factiva news database, there was no further mainstream press coverage of von Brunn's attempt on the Federal Reserve, the charges that were brought against him or his trial. According to the Bureau of Prisons Inmate Locator, he was held in Federal Prison until Sept. 15, 1989.

a member of MENSA.

He sounds pretty damn stupid to me. Taking Volker hostage by citizens's arrest???

That's something Barney Fife would try to pull.

A drunk guy takes a whiz on a tree in a park at night and he's branded a sex offender and stuck on a registry. But people like this guy are allowed to roam free with no follow-up once out of jail, even though politically-motivated criminals are probably just as likely to re-offend as a sex offender is, if not more so.

America, the land of the just.

*sigh*