The Exploitation Of The Holocaust Museum Shooting

The recent murder of a security guard in the Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C. by James Von Brunn was immediately exploited by many political pundits and organizations to further their political agendas. Left-wing partisans used the tragedy to bash Conservatives and blamed it on right-wing talk radio. Front Page magazine, a Neo-con publication tried to claim the man was a leftist. Fox News Pundit Glen Beck used the event to compare 9/11 truthers to terrorist and called for war against Iran by comparing the shooter to Iran's President Ahmadinejad. Partisan Republican talk show host Rush Limbaugh went as far as to blame the mans actions on the Obama administration policies. Rabbi Dr. Morton H. Pomerantz blamed President Obama for creating a climate of anti-semitism.

Bonnie Erbe who is an editor for US News & World Report and hosts PBS's weekly news analysis program wrote a recent article titled "Round up hate promoters now", where she said "isn't it time we started rounding up promoters of hate before they kill?"


The man who committed the murder fits the ideal profile of individuals groups like the Anti-Defamation League and Southern Poverty Center go after. These organizations have tried to connect those who are against Zionism, immigration, Globalism, and the Federal Reserve as well as 9/11 truthers with racist and terrorist. This individual was a perfect poster boy for their agenda since he shared all those views, while at the same time committed an act of violence and held strong hatred against Jews and non-whites. The ADL and SPLC have kept a file on the individual over a long period of time.

White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel said, "never let a crisis go to waste." Just like 9/11 was exploited by the Neo-cons to pass the Patriot Act and wage war against Iraq this tragedy will likely be exploited to push further gun control and thought crime legislation. The Federal Government also used the Oklahoma City bombing to crack down on civil liberties and demonize the patriot movement. The Holocaust has also been exploited to excuse Israel's oppression of the Palestinians in order to preserve Israel's Jewish demographic majority while at the same time demonizing European and American Nationalist who want to stop immigration.

Violent acts especially against the innocent will always harm the individuals cause, especially if it is opposed to the powers that be. It will only be used by the government and establishment to push their political agenda and suppress civil liberties. Within every ethnic and political group you have violent individuals. However the media and political pundits choose to exploit certain tragedies to further their agendas such as the museum shooting and murder of Dr. Tiller while covering up others that do not fit into their political politically correct agendas, such as the Knoxville and Witchita cases that involved Black on White rape, torture, and murder. Where was their outrage over our government's assault on Waco and Israel's on Gaza?

Having a strong political and emotional reaction to a tragedy is a perfectly natural human response and we are all guilty of using tragedies for a political agenda at some point. We should be aware of the double standards and the power in the media to exploit tragedies for political gain.

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