Evil Came Our Way

James Von Brunn was a disaster waiting to happen. He was a man of hate and he got his wish. He was able to murder an African American man in the Holocaust Museum. He killed a black man and he hated black men. He killed in a precious place to people within Judaism because this museum forces people to remember a dreadful and evil event that James Von Brunn did not believe happened.

Steven Johns, a guard, opened the door for an old man and was shot in the chest for his kindness. Johns, a guard, was on the front line; totally vulnerable. Thankfully for so many, other guards were able to shoot Von Brunn before he could kill some more.

On this day, Jeremiah Wright was quoted as saying “Them Jews” won’t let President Obama talk to him.

The Holocaust Museum is the place in our nation’s capital that receives the most threats of violence and threats of vandalism. To say that this is shameful is beyond comprehension. To question the very existence of the Holocaust is to have the ability to suspend belief in reality. The extermination of Jews, by the Nazis, was an event the Nazis maintained careful and detailed records of. They were PROUD of what they were doing.

Dwight Eisenhower made the American troops take a great deal of photographs, preserve the records, and film what they saw. Eisenhower believed that there would come a day when people would deny the atrocities of the era. Little did people realize how wise Eisenhower was.

Von Brunn was a right-winged extremist, not to be confused with a person who considers himself or herself conservative. Von Brunn hated pretty much everyone. He took conservative positions on things and perverted them to make them all aspects of hate----and he was a man who hated. He was not a man of ideologies; he was a man of name-calling and hatred till the point of becoming a lone gunman in a one manned vendetta against the world.

People ought not be trying to make political hay about this. It would take a person of despicably low character in order to do so. Thus far the only person I have heard was, of course, Rush Limbaugh he argued that Von Brunn was actually a leftist, a point so bizarre that it is laugh out loud funny. But Limbaugh tried to make political hay out of it which, of course, seeing his level of character, is no surprise. Of course, Wright’s words coming out today, though somewhat unrelated, are equally bizarre and despicable. As a person who once greatly admired Jeremiah Wright for the good work he once did, I grieve about what he seems to have become.

It strikes me that anti-Semitism is not confined to political ideologies. People seem to find their own unique reasons to hate our Jewish brothers and sisters. I do not understand it and frankly, I do not want to understand it.

My hopes and prayers for this world are that the Von Brunn’s of this world are kept away from everyone else, and that the families of those who have died are consoled in their grief, and that the rest of us truly learn how totally evil hating others is.