The White House issued the following statement Wednesday evening from President Obama:
“I am shocked and saddened by today’s shooting at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. This outrageous act reminds us that we must remain vigilant against anti-Semitism and prejudice in all its forms. No American institution is more important to this effort than the Holocaust Museum, and no act of violence will diminish our determination to honor those who were lost by building a more peaceful and tolerant world.“Today, we have lost a courageous security guard who stood watch at this place of solemn remembrance. My thoughts and prayers are with his family and friends in this painful time.”
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It is very shade for the victem family. R I p to him.
The toll mounts, first 3 policeman killed because the killer thought President Obama was going to take his guns away.
Then an army recruit is killed because of a "religious jihad" for his new religion..
A doctor that performs abortions is killed and the killer is "thankful:
Now, this White Supremacist goes after folks at the Holocaust Museum.
It is time for radio host,s political pundits, supposed "christians" and cable chatter bobble-heads to stop fanning the flames of hate, racism and bigotry in this country or this will only get worse.
What happen at the Holocaust Museum was a act of cowardice. It will only make this country more resilient. Our prayers go out to the slain hero.
I prey and hope that something can be done about the hateful white supremacy groups that are in America. Perhaps an amendment to the first amendment to out law such evil gathering, all need to be done is to out law any group that has ties to any one who is a white supremacist.
I have been to this museum, and it humbled me. What Hitler managed to make people do for him was inhuman and pure evil.
Now we have Rush and Hannity screaming about gun rights while people are being killed on our streets for no reason other than the gunman (why is it always a man?) disagreed with something. I do wish the Republican Party would grow up and stop this fear-mongering, incitement to riot approach. No liberal will come after YOU with a gun, and you know that...but some nutty Conservative might.
You can thank the likes of lush limpaugh, hannity, palin, newt, and coulter for this crime and those similar. The republicans are the American Taliban.
In other news, Obama gives his blessing to Iran gaining nukes as long as they use them in a "peaceful" way. Paving the road for a second Holocaust.
man i find it odd that nearly every comment either says something bad about the republican or democratic party arent we all americans here come on people
Why did he choose not to make a statement about teh army recruitment station shootings not too long ago? Was that nto an outrageous act? Somethign to ponder over a nice glass of kool-aid
JUST LAST WEEK IN CAIRO, Obama said:
****"because we reject the same thing that people of all faiths reject: the killing of innocent men, women, and children"****
WHAT IS OUR GOVERNMENT DOING TO STOP THE KILLING OF INNOCENT BY:
1. Home grown Terrorists.
2. Gangs and Drug Dealers.
3. White Supremacists.
4. Addicts and Insane.
WHAT IS THE GOVERNMENT DOING ON GUN CONTROL.
These Cowards only kill the innocent.
Right wing replublicans neo-nazi nuts are at work again. Fox snooze Rush Liebot Sean hannity Bil Oreally have been preaching hate for years and getting away with it. America needs to do something about this.
Mr. President, you said it best.
Terror does not come from the Middle East, it can come from our own back yard...We have so much hate out there. It goes all the way back, tell me how many nationalities were going to be extinct. I cannot express how I feel. I feel numb. I feel anger, but that does not mean I am going out there to shoot someone... To Much Hate....
Mighty fancy talk coming from the man in charge of the law enforcement institutions designed to uphold our vigilance.
"This outrageous act reminds us that we must remain vigilant against anti-Semitism and prejudice in all its forms..."
Where was the FBI? Where was the NSA? Where was the DHS? Why were these people standing around while this Nazi got away with murder. They all knew about him.
They gave him a pass because he's white and a Christian. The fault for this latest act of terrorism lies squarely at the foot of government and law enforcement. This poor guard, this hero, did not have to die.
We allowed this to happen through our acquiescence.
We must make sure it never happens again.
My prayers go to the family of the slain security officer.
Right Conservatives or Republicans need not use this forum to rationalize or justify their beliefs or those of their brethren.
Their campaign rhetoric served as the fuel for actions such as the shooting at the Holocaust Museum; even if it came out of the mouth of a ‘pretty woman’.
The Republican/Conservative/Right has run out of options. All that remains for them is violence. This is a proud day for them; especially the Palin Lynch Mob.
Jeremiah Wright calls it totally awesome!
A shield that protects is a shield I will honor this day . Please give this man a moment of Prayer............................................................................... ........................................................................... And God Bless.
While Gingrich, Limbaugh and company have played ugly semantic games, gleefully deriding Judge Sotomayor as "racist," the reality of race-hatred and political violence remain a deadly threat. The flames of hatred are fanned in no small part by that element of the GOP that has decided to exploit white resentment and self-pity in its quest to retake power during the next two election cycles. Every day, talk radio and Fox TV find ways to suggest that whites (especially white men) are "victims" of the current administration; every day, white rage is treated as something legitimate and real and even revolutionary. All those folks who were buying up guns and ammo after the election were bound to make their presence felt sooner or later; in the environment the right has created, we should expect more tragedies like the murder of Dr. Tiller and the slaying of the museum guard today.
One can't help but wonder if all these recent "hate crime" attacks are a result of all the hatred spewing from the far right in this country, particularly from the likes of Limbaugh, Hannity and O'Reilly.
I'm disgustted by the violence going on in this country in recent months. We need to do more to shed light to hate speech and put a stop to this violence. The media need to be in the forefront and discuss this issue honestly to make this a public service. There's too many hate groups out here causing chaos and the media doesn't do the American people any favors by not opening up an honest dialogue. The report of Homeland security discussed these issues but some folks called it prejudice because it highlight extremist from the right. Imagine if we took the time to talk about these issues we could of save a life. CNN I respect your reporting of this news and I hope people are taking notes and maybe someone out there would think twice about killing another human being.
Obama comments on the museum shooting the same day, It took him three or four days to comment on the Army soldier who was gunned down in the streets of Little Rock a couple of weeks ago.
On this one.., President Barack Obama is absolutely right. What a 'despicable' act. Acutally, a 'coward'. Mike in Montana
This is so sad .....Maybe Hannity Rush Cheney and Newt will stop spreading Hate and Stop Bashing President Obama It is alot of Sick People in America!!!
How can anyone in their right mind be dismayed at anyone shooting anyone else in a country that seemingly won't settle for anything other than gun vending machines at every corner in america. Enough with the argument that people kill people, not guns. WRONG!
We ought to change the saying "a chicken in every pot" to "a couple of Uzzi's in every home"
Both Campbell Brown and John King had to conver to Judaism just to get a show. So the information and everything controlled by jewish people.
It is good to finally have a President who understands the core values of our country, who teaches them with his words, and who promotes them with his actions.
I do not agree with President Obama on everything he has done, but his character and integrity are raising the bar for all future office holders.
I join him in offering my prayers to the friends and family of the security guard killed by the Neo-Nazi movement.
Perhaps the Department of Justice, FBI, ATF, and Homeland Security will finally dismantle these extended networks of racist terrorists (Neo-Nazis, Skinheads, Militias, New Black Panthers, Operation Rescue, Five Percent Nation, etc) that have grown across the country since 1865 (check out the most recent data in the Southern Poverty Law Center's list of extremist hate groups).
As a Minister and Chaplain I neither condone nor accept the words of this man. Surely a "true" man of God would accept that Jesus was a Jew and his references to 'them jews" are offensive and extremely distasteful. This man disrespects both the faith that he professes to celebrate, the people whom he supposedly shepherds, and the racial group from which he seeks his "fame" and so-called "celebrity" status. Is it any wonder that he continually loses both credibility and support.
I wish someone would tone down the hateful rhetoric both on tv and in the on-line blogs and websites.
I believe they will make more of an effort now to trace those who speak hate and incitement. I sure hope so.
I am so sorry for these reminders of hate that is still so rampant within our own country; and the weight and pains in which are continually being placed upon your shoulders to bear Mr. President Obama! WE, the American public and people want to express our deepest sorrow and shame for such ignorance acted and spoken in a country which creates its own harmful barriers that only prevents working together to enrich lives with the blessings that we all carry and can offer as a gift to the future of this great Nation and the World we leave behind! As our President, you give me the skills and hope to witness peace without fear in my lifetime. May God continue to Bless Us.
Why does the Media and the education system of America keep insisting that there were Six Million jews killed in the Holocaust...when there were not even that many jews living in that geographical area that could have been killed, even if they ALL had been killed? Which they were not. They were not ALL killed. Which makes the official story all the more implausible. Kind of makes you wonder, doesn't it?
Could it be, that the whole business of grossly exagerating the holocaust has been used to justify the creation of the jewish state. Wow, people will believe absolutely anything they are spoon-fed by the media, with no questions asked. It's amazing, simply amazing. The holocaust simply could not have killed as many jews as being told, under any circumstances or theory of the imagination. It is just not possible, it is not physically possible. Why are people like sheep, they just go with the herd, and believe what the herd is told they are supposed to believe.
What is wrong with our Country but, thank God for our security Guards. I office my prayers to this young man family
Did Obama issue a statement when the recruiter was shot last week.
Gary's Comment is:
I guess Rev. Wright got tired of talking to him self and decieded to
come out into the open to spread more hate and bad words toward
the World. Rev. Wright go back into our cave and be quiet you were
doing so well.
President Obama is a decent man and a Christian man whose first inclination is to reach out to his enemies, to heal, and to forgive. But its time for him to remind folks that our nation operates under the rule of law. He should unleash the FBI to track down violent domestic hate groups with the same vigor being applied to foreign terrorists. He should have those leaders of the previous administration who broke laws brought up on charges. He's gone out of his way to bring all of these miscreants back into the American fold. Now he needs to remind those who consider themselves above the law that there are serious consequences. The carrot is fine, but its time for the stick.
Obama never misses a chance to go for a vote from a group – like the Jewish lobby, But Obama will sell Israel out to be liked by the muslim world
New drinking game!: one whiskey shot per "Rev. Wright is prejudiced" comments brought up by the Hannity crowd and.... GO!
Thank you, Mr. President. I feel you speak for me in this, and I hope for the vast majority of American voters who put their confidence in you.
I agree this act is despicable and unconscionable.
This isn’t meant to sound disrespectful, but it raises another question, where is Mr. Obama's outrage at the solder killed and another shot and wounded in front of a recruiting station by a radical Muslim extremist? Is it he doesn’t really care about our solders or is it he MUST ignore the obvious existence of Islamic fundamentalism or both?
Mr Obama what is it you realy think, you have been sadly silent in this tragedy.
It's astonishing how some people can be so blinded by their own self-deluding hatred and bigotry that they deny historical evidence right in front of their faces. That, or else they do it for political gain, as we're seeing among some extremists in the Middle East. I've never understood supremecists, except that they are pathological.
The combination of an NRA, awell organized White Supremacy movement,a "beloved" second Amendment, adding up to a few hate crimes per week,; Only in the USA,you say? PITY!.
Edmonton,Can.
Isn't it strange that the president didn't use the same adjective to describe the senseless murder of a united states serviceman by a muslim extremist..but of course according to the annointed we are a muslim nation..even though less than one percent of the population are muslim..the person who committed this act deserves to fry
Why are you shocked, President Obama?
The right-wing talk show hosts have been inciting their listeners to acts of violence. It was bound to happen.
Keep guns legal!
President Obama wants to unite America, while others fear his positive message: and have only negative, hate-filled remarks. No names need be mention because they know who they are. May God touch their souls!
When someone is off in hate land it doesn't take much to ignite the hate.
While a very appropriate reaction to the museum event, why did the President not immediately condemn the shooting of the Army recruiter in Arkansas?
What doesn't someone cut this Ass's tongue out! The hatred and racism he spews is dangerous!! Where are the assassins when they are reallly needed!!!
Terrorist have struck America. This savage who killed U.S. citizens just to hunt for our Jewish friends, is disgusting. This vile creature is part of a larger picture of terrorism in our country. This disgusting act is tied to the other savage act of terror against the Dr. who performed abortions. This is a growing threat to America. We must combat this terror with all the forces in our possession. We should start profiling all those who fit the description of this growing radical organization. Thugs, terrorist, radicals and evil savages populate this demographic.
If anybody sees anyone fitting the description of these savages, please contact your local authorities.
Good thing it wasn't the Rev. Wright huh Obama!!!!
And yet, at the same time, his pastor Rev. Wright makes racist Jewish comments.
Two domestic terrorism acts in 2 weeks.
Janet Napolitano is owed an apology. And should be allowed to do her job going forward.
he was a brave guy
Yes, President Obama....this is a totally outrageous act and we have learned nothing from history. Secretary Napilitano should retract her apology to the right wing regarding the Government study which reported on the proliferation of extremism. What can we expect when we have non elected entertainers like Limbaugh, Beck, Cheney, Coulter and Gingrich, and elected officials like Bachman, Boehner, Palin, Posner plus others who spew rhetoric of hate and intolerance. They are culpable of inciting these acts. It must stop. This is Domestic Terrorism!
Yes, President Obama….this is a totally outrageous act and we have learned nothing from history. Secretary Napilitano should retract her apology to the right wing regarding the Government study which reported on the proliferation of extremism. What can we expect when we have non elected entertainers like Limbaugh, Beck, Cheney, Coulter and Gingrich, and elected officials like Bachman, Boehner, Palin, Posner plus others who spew rhetoric of hate and intolerance. They are culpable of inciting these acts. It must stop. This is Domestic Terrorism!
CNN: Please print my comments
Well GOP, what do you think of the monsters you have created? Thank God for Obama, he is more representative of the American dream than the GOP will ever be.
Oh he does now? What about killing babies? Does Mr. "O" not think that is outrageous, immoral and more? What about his pathology of lying and cheating and steeling from the American people? What about his wreckless spending, and his constant flying all over the country and going on "dates?" at taxpayer's expense. Outrageous.
The big "O" is OUTRAGEOUS.
How many times does Obama need to denounce Holocaust deniers before the paranoid freaks on the far right will leave him alone?!
I was watching Campbell Brown about whether we are too soft on terrorists, felons, etc. I think that persons such as the shooter of the security guard lost his rights when he became a felon. I also think that when a person preaches bodily harm, killing, etc. he loses his right to freedom of speech. He took someone else's freedom to live. I definitely think we are too soft on law breakers such as terrorists and the like.
This heinous act had to be perpetrated by a right wing gook!! Most of these type of crimes are committed by people with extreme right wing views!! It is getting really scary!!
Good thing the shooter wasn't a muslim supremacist, we would never had heard about it
There are hundreds of hate crimes in the US every week. There are dozens of hate-crime related killings every month. Why is it only this one that made the news or caught the President's ear? If the media got off their lazy bums and paid attention people wouldn't be so complacent about them, and we could have easily reduced these incidences, and maybe even prevented this one incident from ever happening!
This is a result of hours of Rush Limbaugh using code words to stir up the unstable and feeble sick mind of White Supremicist and it is sad to say they are more to come. He constantly scare these people over the edge with code words like "Obama and the democrats are RAPING you children money"....a racist and hater will take it upon themselves to carry out lone acts. What america do not realize the Republican aim is to turn groups agaings group and begin pockets of terrosits in our nation...Newt, Rush, Dick and the GOP do not care about Americans, they only care about their only personal agenda which is to get a government like the last 8 years who do not pay attention to the ones who were robbing americans banks, stock market, bonds and funds. They want the good old days when Bush lie stayed drunk and dumb.
Domestic terrorism worries me much more than foreign terrorists. Racists, right-wing lunatics, anti-abortion activists, and religious fundamentalists do not believe that I have a right to disagree with them. They do not believe that Congress has a right to pass laws that they disagree with. They do not believe that I have a right to express my opinion if they disagree with it. My own right-wing lunatic Governor Perry proposes that Texas secede from the Union.
I personally am tired of humoring these nuts, listening to them while they refuse to listen to me. I'm tired of pretending that the opinion that they just made up is as well thought out as the opinion I formed after reading a few books on the subject. More than anything else, I am tired of the lackwit leadership that the vote for ruining my country.
Enough!
We are all saddened by this, President Obama. Thank you.
Perhaps the President could mention the potential links between radio hate talk and these types of hate-filled attacks. The AG needs to aggressively investigate all links and contacts with this domestic terrorist.
Isn't this the same press release he issued after North Korea fired off their most recent missile? And, wasn't that the same press release as when Iran fired off a missile? Seems like an awful lot of meaningless talk and platitudes coming from the One with "Change we can believe in".
Well said, Mr. President. That's right to all the racist, Mr. President Barack Obama, a Black man!
These racist don't mind a Black, Hispanic, Jew, Muslim, Indian or any race going to a so called war to die for the country. Just don't expect fair treatment. Wait, this sounds like the Republican party. Racist Old White Men.
R=racist N=nutty C=coots (RNC)
Normally you'd only hear in tasteless racists jokes the story that a nazi walks into the Holocaust museum to kill a black man. But it's reality, people. Open your eyes, we live in a racist country! The mainstream, corporate media is encouraging racism and hate and even defends these terrorists just to get people frightened, watching, and get more advertisement dollars. And people don't even care. They write a few angry notes, but in the end forget about it by next week when the media prints stories again about Sarah Palin again whining to get people's attention. We shouldn't let this happen. Racism happens every day, everywhere, not just when somebody gets killed in a national museum!
May God comfort and bless the family and friends of the Officer who lost his life . Such a shame that people have to resort to this. You can disagree with people but why do people have to kill innocent people.
Germany outlawed naziism after WWII. Why is it still legal in the US? Why do we always have to wait for a murder to see how dangerous it is? We need to shut down these hate groups before they terrorize Americans, not just wait around for another black man to get shot!
I am also shocked and saddened. And horrified. And sickened. A despicable act heaping violence upon violence by a deeply disturbed, sick and twisted ... individual. I can't even call him "human." Together with the recent fatal shooting at a church, it will take some long, hard looking to find any good in the wake of this terrible fear, hatred and loathing.
This guy was a nutcase. What he did was inexcusable. I guess all the anti gun nuts will jump on this. It is crazies like this who make it hard on law abiding hunters and gun owners.
why make a comment you won't print mine. cnn needs to go away along with msnnc.
well it is nice to know that the president doesn't feel like his old pastor. It would seem raceism is still with us. Enough. if we dont like abortion kill the doctor. If we don't like jews and blacks shot them. this is coming from our coservitive right. Need we say more
So am I Barack, what that man did was flat-out wrong, but the nation still awaits to hear your outpouring of sympathy over the killing of Pvt. Long by a Black Muslim terrorist (fresh out of terrorism school in Yemen)....so much for you keeping our country safe or even caring about it.
What sickens me is that you don't even try to hide it...why don't you just have Holder drop the charges ton he guy like you did for the Black Panthers in Philly.
I have no respect for clowns like you.
what happened today in washington is very sad. people who carry out these violent acts need to be prosacuted to the fullest extent of the law. this will make it clear that WE will not tolerate this type of ignorant backward behavior.
Sad thing to happen. When will people realized that violance only beggets violance we will not better ourselfs until this is realized
The right-wing nuts are crackin.
Now, will we start fighting our domestic terrorists, or pretend that they do not exist because they're white.
Two months ago, after the "Tea Parties", I was ridiculed when I warned that we would see a resurgence of the right-wing violence of the '90s.
Shortly thereafter, a Redflex worker here in Arizona was assassinated; then there was Doctor Tiller, and now this.
I fear that the bombings are not far off.
To all the Neo-Nazi and Nazi mentality guys: To all those who hate Blacks and Jews: To all Racists:
Today James von Brunn got shot back by the Secutiry Guard. Today is 2009, not 1940. Probably James von Brunn would be a Hero in 1940 for what he did today. But in 2009 he got shot back.
If you Nazis harm others, your asses will also get kicked. Hitler existed in 1940s. In 2009 Hitler would have been hiding in the Caves of Afghanistan like Bin Laden.
Hitler was the biggest coward in Human History. He killed innocent, women and childern. If he had balls, he would have dared Russia, America, England. Hitler never got out of Germany, except to countries that were weak and unable to defend themselves.
This is just more proof that the far right wing is out of control. Just last month we were warned that right wing extremists would come out of the shadows, and the homeland security secretary Janet N (sorry I cannot correctly spell her last name) was critized and forced to apologize! She was correct all along! This crazinest needs to stop. Limbaugh and Newt certainly are not helping matters either.
We still have a long way to go. It's a disgrace that this man was shot today.
Breaks my heart to see this...
9/11 was bad, but that was allegedly by foreigners. This was one of our own. The hate that has been spewed by our "loyal" opposition from Limbaugh, Palin, Chaney, the conservative media, and the religious right should share in the collective guilt and realize that their rhetoric has just taken a life.
The taking of one's life kills us all.
My prayers to the family...
i agree with the president, but it is a shame to have 1 foot in the grave and have that much hatred in your heart, where does he think his spirit will end up, if he doesn;t change.....
thanks rush limbaugh, thanks sean hannity, mark levin, sarah palin and others for stirring up so much hate, that the weak ones will go out and do something like this, i hope you all can sleep at night.....
Amen...My thoughts and prayers are with this guards family also.......As well as w/ the President who I pray will remain bold and safe through all this hate fueled rhetoric in our homeland.
What will this world come to when people act out their hatred instead of express it peacefully? Oh yea! You can't because hate and peace don't mix like oil and water.
My heart goes out to the brave guardsmen everywhere securing the people going in and out of these institutions.
This heinous act today reminds us all to stay vigilant and aware, and no matter where you're from and where you've been, hatred, prejudice, ignorance, and anti-Semitism lives and breathe all around us. From the lowest of class to the highest hierachial positions, it exists. Just live your lives with awareness, because although there's good law-abiding citizens, there's someone out there who wants to do nothing but hate and terrorize others.
May God rest the soul of the fallen security guard.