Much Is Being Made…
…Of the deranged act of a career crazy in Washington today. An 88-year old, notorious white supremacist did enter the Holocaust Museum and open fire with a rifle, killing a guard and being severely wounded by return fire.
An elderly gunman known to authorities as a white supremacist fatally shot a private security guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in downtown Washington today before being wounded by guards who returned fire, officials said.
The security guard, who was identified by police as 39-year-old Stephen Tyrone Johns of Temple Hills, Md., and the gunman were both taken to George Washington University Hospital.
Johns died at the hospital, authorities said later, and the gunman was reported to be in critical condition. A third person sustained minor injuries in the incident, according to police.
President Obama condemned the shooting, which he said underscored the need for vigilance against anti-Semitism.
Personally, this hits a little closer to home for me than for most people writing about this today. My youngest son was at the Holocaust Museum last Thursday while on a class trip to Washington. There but for the grace of God.
Still, I’m glad to hear Barack Obama denounce anti-Semitism in such resounding terms. Perhaps now he will publicly denounce his former pastor:
“Of course I voted for him; he’s my son. I’m proud of him,” Wright said. “I’ve got five biological kids. They all make mistakes and bad choices. I haven’t stopped loving any of them.
“He made mistakes. He made bad choices. I’ve got kids who listen to their friends. He listened to those around him. I did not disown him.”
Asked if he had spoken to the President, Wright said: “Them Jews aren’t going to let him talk to me. I told my baby daughter, that he’ll talk to me in five years when he’s a lame duck, or in eight years when he’s out of office…
The shooter was a career anti-Semite and was well known to police as such. Jeremiah Wright is also, quite frankly, a career anti-Semite who happened to be Barack Obama’s pastor for many, many years.
Time to kick that one to the curb, Mr. President. You would not during the campaign, now you really have to.
