Washington police and the FBI said the shooting appeared to have been the work of a single gunman, and there was no prior indication of the attack.
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If James von Brunn is critically injured, how did the FBI interview him in a meaningful way? I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but I think the FBI ought to be looking into James von Brunn's connections before issuing their statements. Am I wrong?
(I posted much of this in comment last nightto clammyc's diary)
I am also not an IT techie, so I can't vouch for this, but The website holywesternempire.com used by the alleged Holocaust Museum shooter James von Brunn is apparently owned/domain registered by a guy named Steve Reimink in West Olive, MI, (west Michigan near Grand Rapids)and a woman named Patty Thompson ?aka Patty Anyanwu. Patty also lives in West Olive, MI; when a Grand Rapids TV reporter visited Reimink's home, a woman answered the door...is this person Patty Thompson/Anyanwu? Thompson is elsewhere listed as both a Ron Paul activist and a 'state coordinator' for a group called We the People.
At the WTP website we see that the group is running a series of meet-ups called Continental Congress 2009. They are protesting, among other things, the Obama birth certificate nonsense.
We the People is also supporting a movement called the Freedom Movement Coalition, which is the Federal Reserve nonsense, apparently the ideas that von Brunn was involved in per his website, and which got him sent to prison in 1981.
In December 1981, angered by what he called the "treacherous and unconstitutional" acts of the Federal Reserve, von Brunn entered the central bank's Washington headquarters armed with a pistol, a shotgun, a knife and a mock bomb, according to court records. He claimed to be a photographer who wanted to shoot pictures of the boardroom, and bolted up the stairs when security guards told him to wait.
While being subdued, he claimed to have planted a bomb, which forced the building's evacuation, court records state. He told officers he was upset over high interest rates -- then well into double digits -- and the state of the economy, which was in a recession.
Von Brunn, then 62, was sentenced to 11 years in prison on attempted kidnapping, second-degree burglary, assault and weapons charges.
His conviction was appealed:
Though von Brunn did not attend... oral argument before the D.C. Court of Appeals, several of von Brunn's supporters did -- "people who call themselves patriots, before they had militias and all that white supremacy stuff ... "
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The most recent meeting of the Freedom Movement Coalition/Fed conspiracy protesters was at Jekyll Island, Georgia May 21 and 22. They list a large number of participants/supporters, including a wide variety of paramilitary, warming denier, "sovereignist," tax denier and other fringe groups.
Is there nothing here for the FBI to investigate before issuing a whitewash statement? have they been to West Olive, MI? do they have IT people? do they think this 88 year old REALLY put up that website without any help? or are they too busy tapping everyone's phones and emails and selling fake rockets to dopes, to investigate real crime and terrorism?
UPDATE: von Brunn apparently transferred his website to Steve Reimink on June 1, per TPM/Southern Poverty Law Center. What conversations were going on at that point?