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Von Brunn Promoted Work Of Legendary Anti-Semite
It looks like James Von Brunn tried to use Wikipedia to promote the work of Willis Carto, the right-wing Holocaust denier and founder of the Liberty Lobby.
Just last month, a Wikipedia user James Von Brunn asked the site's adminstrators:
How do I get user: James W. von Brunn on Wikipedia website. Also I have a letter from Professor Revilo Oliver pertaining to Willis Carto that I want to attach. ???????"
According to his Wikipedia page, Carto has been accused by some observers of doing more than just about anyone to keep anti-Semitism alive as a political movement in the US during the 50s, 60s, and 70s.
Late Update: The Southern Poverty Law Center, which says it added Van Brunn's website as a hate site last year, adds:
In the 1980s or early 1990s, von Brunn was employed by Noontide Press, a part of the Holocaust denying Institute of Historical Review, which was then run by Willis Carto, one of America's most prominent anti-Semites.
So Von Brunn's ties to Carto appear to go far deeper.
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And Republican officials and ex-officials are yelling that Obama is un-American, hates America, a secret Muslim, not born here, ad nauseam: this van Bruun guy was apparently wearing a Confederate cap when he opened fire. Did anyone ever stop to think how "Republican" values are fully aligned with those of the losers of the Civil War, that they are keeping that un-American flame alive?
June 10, 2009 5:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
The posters at ThinkProgress have been following the frantic postings by the Freepers. Apparently freerepublic took the thread down with after the vile bilge poured in by racists, Muslim-haters and white supremacists trying to spin the story into von Brunn being a liberal who voted Democratic in 1968.
June 10, 2009 7:43 PM | Reply | Permalink