In 1996, long before he became a Speechy warrior, and pre-Heritage Front, Marc Lemire, who Connie Fournier now regrets banning from Free Dominion, and who Mark Steyn once described as having done "sterling work" in his Section 13 constitutional challenge, was flogging audio-tapes of Ernst Zundel's Zundel Radio broadcasts over Toronto FreeNet, a kind of clumsy pre-Internet BBs service that I remember well (they also had a writer's forum).
In any case, several of the interviews Ernst recorded (and Marc presumably profited from the sale of) were:
# 57 and # 58. James von Brunn, American artist and businessman, talks with EZ about his failed attempt to arrest, at gun point, the Board Members ofthe Federal Reserve in Washington. Von Brunn was arrested, tried andconvicted to 8 years' imprisonment in a federal penitentiary byquestionable legal maneuvers.
(Note: if you click through the link to Nizkor, scroll way down, as its a big file.)
And, yeah, its our guy--"artist", Holocaust denier, and murderer James W. von Brunn; the incident he is talking about is described in greater detail here. In that piece, Michael Tomasky asks:
So this is the second act of right-wing terror, the first being the murder of Dr. Tiller, in a mere three weeks. These are terrorists, as surely as Zawahiri is. Will Rush Limbaugh and the other demagogues like him call them that?
And I would just add: does that mean that all the folks above--Connie, Mark, Marc, and so forth-- have (admittedly tentative) connections to right-wing terror?
We'll just let that question hang in the air, and hum some ominous music.
And I would just add: does that mean that all the folks above--Connie, Mark, Marc, and so forth-- have (admittedly tentative) connections to right-wing terror?
ReplyDeleteThere was a period around 2006 that I suspected these people (except for Marc Lemire, who's just plain old nuts) would not have minded at all if some extremists had been goaded into creating some kind of civil emergency that would have served to mobilise public opinion to more firmly support some glorious "clash of civilisations" (either against liberal democracy or the Muslims, or some weird combination of the two). I still believe that and I believe, eventually, they'll own up to it when they realise the unintended consequences of their irresponsible actions. Of course, I've never really gotten a handle on the degree of moral imbecility and depravity that characterises these people, so I could be wrong about that.
I do believe they support terrorism. But, like every other form of violence they support, they'll get others engage in it for them, whether it be state terrorism in the form of illegal military invasions or right wing violence.