Domestic Terrorist Kills Holocaust Museum Guard

The Justice Department and Homeland Security are busy these days as agents respond to a second act of domestic terrorism over the past couple of weeks. This time it was white supremacist James W. Von Brunn, 88, who shot and killed 39-year-old Stephen Tyrone Johns.

This is not Von Brunn's first incidence of violence. In 1981 he was convicted of attempting to kidnap members of the Federal Reserve Board. At the time of his arrest he was carrying several weapons.

I fear that as the economy continues to flat line, we will see more of these incidents. Terrorists like Von Brunn needed someone to blame for their economic problems, and his personal history indicated it was African Americans and Jews.

The first thing that came to mind when hearing about this, and Von Brunn's background, is why was this person allowed to own a weapon? And how can we get weapons out of the hands of individuals who so openly display their propensity for violence? How do we balance Second Amendment rights with protecting citizens from such clear domestic terrorists?

What do you think?

Full of Hate and No Place To Go

Troy Newman, the president of Operation Rescue, has a problem. Seven years ago he moved his family and his entire hate-filled movement to Wichita for the express purpose of harassing Dr. George Tiller. Newman did such a good job inciting people to violence that one of his terrorists took a gun into a church to kill Dr. Tiller. Now the group is all full of hate, with no place to go.

For the first time in years, only a Wichita police car has been waiting outside the abortion clinic of Dr. George R. Tiller, who was shot to death a week ago. Gone are the trucks bearing enormous images of bloody fetuses, the signs offering the home addresses of clinic workers, the crowd of protesters yelling to women as they enter.

Over almost 20 years, a vocal, diverse constellation of anti-abortion forces has grown up in this conservative city with an intensity rarely seen elsewhere, converging around Dr. Tiller’s practice. With his death, its future suddenly seems uncertain, too.

This city of 358,000 people, once the focal point of protests because of four abortion clinics — most significantly Dr. Tiller’s, which provided rare late-term abortions — last week had no abortion facility open for business, no target in chief, no immediate reason for this network of anti-abortion forces to be based here.

“I don’t know what the future holds,” said Troy Newman, the president of Operation Rescue, one of the most well-known anti-abortion organizations. Seven years ago, Mr. Newman moved his organization’s national headquarters, its leaders and his family from Southern California to Wichita to focus a national spotlight on Dr. Tiller, whom he described as “the flagship” of the country’s abortion business.

“I think it’s too early to say what comes next,” he said.

If your community has a physician who provides abortion services be on the lookout. Operation Rescue extremists might be heading your way.

The only question left to ask is how long Justice and the Department of Homeland Security is going to allow this domestic terrorist ring to exist?