Holocaust Memorial Museum Attack – Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.)

DC Public Remembers Attack on U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum

On a hot and rainy day in Washington DC, on Sunday, June 13, 2010, volunteers of diverse religions, races, ethnic backgrounds, genders, and age groups came together to remember the June 2009 attack on the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and to remember the tragic death of museum guard Stephen Tyrone Johns a year ago on June 10, 2009.

We Remember June 10, 2009 Attack on U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (Photos: Left - AP, Right - USHMM) — We Remember June 10, 2009 Attack on U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (Photos: Left – AP, Right – USHMM)

The public remembrance at Washington DC’s Freedom Plaza was organized by Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.), a human rights volunteer group that pulls together coalitions of volunteers from among the public for activism and public awareness on human rights issues. Among R.E.A.L.’s core issues are religious freedom/pluralism and racial equality, which R.E.A.L. saw the June 10, 2009 attack on the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum as defying such freedoms, urging “Never Again” to hate.

Speakers from among the public included R.E.A.L.’s Jeffrey Imm, Elisa Tetreault, Mrs. N. Washington, and Damanga Executive Director Mohamed Yahya. Other volunteers came to help organize, record, and promote the event among the public. Attendees included an employee of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum who attended as a private individual, and who expressed his appreciation for the volunteers’ public remembrance. Media attendees included FOX 5 News and a contributor to the Washington Jewish Week.

The event began with a brief rain shower, but the location of the event on the east side of Freedom Plaza provided some natural protection by nearby trees, and the shower quickly passed. With a breeze that periodically gusted, volunteers held signs reading “We Remember June 10 Attack on U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum,” “We Remember Stephen Johns,” “Together for Love and Tolerance,” and “Choose Love, Not Hate, Love Wins.”

FOX 5 News Video

R.E.A.L. YouTube Video of Excerpts of Public Remembrance

Jeffrey Imm spoke of the need to have a public remembrance on the June 10 attack and the murder of Stephen Tyrone Johns, in addition to the museum’s private remembrance on the morning of June 10. He stated that the volunteers had gathered to share the grief of Mr. Johns’ family and also to stand united to defy hate and to urge “our fellow human beings to Choose Love, Not Hate.” He also stated that he recognized that some had told him that they were afraid to come to a public remembrance, but we should not let fear terrorize us from standing up for equality, liberty, dignity, and love for our fellow human beings.

He stated that “Some believe that this attack was someone else’s problem. They believe that the attacker James Von Brunn’s white supremacist hate is only a problem for non-whites, and has nothing to do with the Jewish public. Some believe that his Holocaust Denial is only a problem for those remember the Holocaust, and this is only a problem for the Jewish world. But the fact is that terrorist attack on the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum was attack based on hate. No one could possibly doubt that an attack on the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum was a attack on all Jews – not just one type of Jew, American Jews, or Jews in Washington DC – but an attack on all Jewish people everywhere around the world. Moreover, the attacker’s Holocaust Denial is an attack against the terrible truth of the Holocaust itself. No one could possibly doubt that this attack by a white supremacist also was hatred against black Americans.”

“But the attack was not just against Jews and black, not just in Washington DC, and not just Americans. The attack was one motivated by hate itself. The terrorist Von Brunn himself documented his philosophy in writing to a Nazi sympathizer in Germany, stating that hate was ‘natural, normal and necessary,’ and that ‘compassionate nations’ would ‘die.’ Such an attack of hate was one that speaks to the violence against all people that have compassion, all people that defy genocide, all people that seek justice, and yes all people that seek to love their fellow human beings. The cancer of hate leads to that much destruction. We stand here today united, not just to remember that attack on June 10, 2009, but also to reject that hate that motivated it. We stand here today to remember the awful consequences of allowing hate to go unchallenged. We stand here today to say ‘Never Again’ to such hate, not just in others, but also in ourselves. But in our challenge to hate, in our unwillingness to be afraid, we don’t offer an upraised fist, but we offer an outstretched hand. We urge those who hate to drop the burden of hate from their hearts. We urge them to Choose Love, Not Hate. Love Wins.”

Jeffrey Imm Speaks on Remembering Attack on U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum

Elisa Tetreault that all “men and women are equal before the law, without discrimination because of sex, blood, language, social origin, or religion. Equality is not something that you should practice because it is the law, but something you should practice because it is right.” She urged others “to take a look at who we are, take a look at who we are standing next to. It can be men, women, gay, straight, black, white, Latino, Asian, Christian, Jewish, Muslim. Each of us are fighting for justice in different ways.”

She stated that: “On June 10, 2009, Stephen Tyrone Johns was shot to death by a white supremacist and Holocaust Denier. It is tragic when anyone loses their life, especially at the hands of hate. It is hard to believe that the actions of one person can cause so much hurt. The truth is that all it takes is one person. What I have learned is that we all make a difference. A wise man once said ‘I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.’ This is what we are here for. This is what we are fighting for. It does not matter your skin color or the religion you practice or your sexual orientation, we are all equal, we all bleed the same color. I stand here before you to say that one person can make change. Act as if what you do makes a difference, because it does. Remember to Choose Love, Not Hate.”

Elisa Tetreault Speaks on Remembering Attack on U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum

Damanga Executive Director Mohamed Yahya has great experience in fighting against hate in the ongoing genocide in Sudan’s Darfur. Mr. Yahya spoke of his sympathy and grief for Stephen Tyrone Johns in his efforts to protect the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum as a real hero and a great, great man. He spoke of how America is viewed around the world as a nation that prizes freedom, equality, liberty, and compassion toward others – freedoms and dignity that is lost in many other parts of the world, including his war-torn home of Darfur and Sudan. Mohamed Yahya has been recognized as a leading fighter against genocide by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Mohamed Yahya Speaks on Remembering Attack on U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum

Mrs. Washington spoke of the importance of remembering the attack on the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum was not a random act of violence, but was a targeted attempt to attack and terrorize Jewish Americans and to deny the reality of the Holocaust itself. Mrs. Washington also pointed to the importance of where this public remembrance was being held – Freedom Plaza, and the important symbolic nature of this location. The Freedom Plaza in Washington DC is named in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr., who worked on his “I Have a Dream” speech in the nearby Willard Hotel. In 1988, a time capsule containing a Bible, a robe, and other relics of King’s was planted at the site.

Mrs. Washington urged the public to stop and take a moment to reflect on such critical issues for our freedom as the need to stand defiant against hate and the need to understand that an attack on the human rights of one of us represented an attack on such rights for all of us. Mrs. Washington pointed to the need to continue to realize this dream of equality and liberty, dignity, respect, and love for all of our fellow Americans and fellow human beings.

Mrs. Washington Speaks on Remembering Attack on U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum

The volunteers stood together at the Freedom Plaza area to urge others to Choose Love, Not Hate.

Volunteers Urge All to Choose Love, Not Hate

Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) applauds the efforts by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum to continue to record and share the concerns and sympathies of the public regarding this terrorist attack, and urges the public to also publicly pledge their support against hate. R.E.A.L. also urges all to make a gift to the USHMM Stephen Tyrone Johns Summer Youth Leadership Program Endowment Fund.

Freedom Plaza - Washington DC - 14th and Pennsylvania Avenue NW - Site of April 11 Rally for Chinese Freedom — Freedom Plaza – Washington DC – Open Air Plaza on Pennsylvania Avenue – Between 13 and 14th Streets NW – Site of June 13, 2010 Public Remembrance of Attack on US Holocaust Memorial Museum

Love Wins: Volunteers Offer Love, Tolerance to White Nationalist Heckler at Holocaust Memorial Museum Remembrance

On June 13, 2010, volunteers from the Washington DC area joined together to have a public remembrance of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum attack on June 2009 and to remember the tragic murder of museum guard Stephen Tyrone Johns by white supremacist, Holocaust Denier James Von Brunn. We also remember that there were those whose hearts were burdened by hate, who praised Von Brunn’s terrorism, and that the struggle against white supremacism and anti-Semitism continues.

Near the end of the public remembrance of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Musaum attack, two members of a Charlottesville, Virginia-based “white nationalist,” anti-Semitic group, Occidental Dissent, sought to heckle speakers at the public remembrance. The Occidental Dissent group claims to seek “the creation of a Jew-free, racially exclusive White ethnostate in North America.” The group also has a history of seeking to deny women’s rights, and has publicly stated its goals are to infiltrate political organizations to promote “white nationalism.” The visitors included the group’s leader who calls himself the pseudonym “Hunter Wallace” or “Prozium” (based on the movie “Equilibrium”) and Mike Capatano (who left after a moment). The group’s leader “Hunter Wallace” remained behind, wearing a yellow Gadsden Flag shirt.

White Nationalist from Anti-Semitic Occidental Dissent Group Visits Public Remembrance of U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Attack

The group leader briefly heckled Mohamed Yahya, who is a well-known leader in fighting against genocide who has been recognized by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. The group has previously criticized the efforts of Mr. Yahya and others in struggling against genocide, as well as those defying racial hatred.

As shown in a video of our encounter with the visitor, Mohamed Yahya’s response was “I love you… if you hate me, I give you love.”

Mohamed Yahya Responds to White Nationalist Heckler: "If you hate me, I love you"

Volunteers Stand United in Love and Tolerance - Urging All to Choose Love, Not Hate

R.E.A.L. founder Jeffrey Imm quickly reached out to the Occidental Group group leader, as one of our brothers and sisters in humanity who we must work to reach, and indicated this demonstrated an important reason why we held such a public remembrance. The R.E.A.L. founder pointed out that we do not offer an upraised fist against white supremacism and anti-Semitism, but we offer an outstretched hand to all to choose love, not hate. R.E.A.L.’s Jeffrey Imm then in fact extended such an outstretched hand to the group’s leader and urged him to choose love, not hate.

Volunteers Offer an Outstretched Hand, Not an Upraised Fist - to White Nationalism and Anti-Semitic Group Leader - Choose Love, Not Hate — Jeffrey Imm, Mohamed Yahya, and Mrs. Washington Offer an Outstretched Hand, Not an Upraised Fist - to White Nationalism and Anti-Semitic Group Leader - We Urge Choose Love, Not Hate

R.E.A.L. Video to White Nationalists at Holocaust Memorial Museum Attack Remembrance – Choose Love, Not Hate

A prayer was later said to call upon us all to remove the burden of hate from all of our hearts.

Choose Love, Not Hate. Love Wins.

June 13: If it Rains, We Will Meet in Front of National Theater – Across the Street

On June 13, at 2 PM, for our public remembrance of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Attack and the tragic death of Stephen Tyrone Johns, if it rains we will meet under the marquee of the National Theater across the street from Freedom Plaza. There are no shows at the National Theater on June 13, and we submitted an Assembly Notification to the Washington DC Police for that location as alternative. The National Theater is at 1321 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20004

— Map Showing Location of Freedom Plaza in Washington DC

— Street Level Photographic View of Freedom Plaza Area

The photo below shows Freedom Plaza on the RIGHT and the National Theater marquee on the LEFT. We just walk across the street.

What if it Rains? If we have a brief thunderstorm, will stand under the shelter in front of the National Theater (Left), which is right next to Freedom Plaza (Right)

— Freedom Plaza is an open air plaza which is in front of The National Theater, whose address is 1321 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20004. Directions to Freedom Plaza are essentially not much different than going to the front of the National Theater (National Theater driving directions, street map of area, parking directions, Metro directions).

National Theater Marquee: Rain Plan Location Alternative - Across the Street from Freedom Plaza - National Theater Address: 1321 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20004 — National Theater Marquee: Rain Plan Location Alternative if Rain - Across the Street from Freedom Plaza - National Theater Address: 1321 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20004

A Terrorist Attack We Must NOT Forget

A year ago, on June 10, 2009, in Washington DC, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum was attacked by a white supremacist, Holocaust denier James Von Brunn, who sought to enter the museum with a rifle to kill Jews. In his murderous rage, he shot and killed black security guard Stephen Tyrone Johns, who was in Von Brunn’s way. The terrorist James Von Brunn was shot and stopped by security guard Harry Weeks and other security guards, and Von Brunn died in a prison hospital on January 6, 2010.

Bullet strikes are seen in one of the doors to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum after a shooting left a security officer dead and the gunman wounded in Washington Thursday, June 11, 2009.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon) — June 10, 2009 Terror Attack (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) has been reporting on the growth of white supremacist and anti-Semitic hatred (as well as other identity group hatred) long before last year’s attack, and long after it. We have continued to report on the June 10, 2009 Holocaust Memorial Museum attack news reports, as well as the related news not reported by major media outlets. We pointed out how some sought to use the terrorist attack to prevent hate crime laws from being passed. We pointed out out those who supported Von Brunn’s terrorism and called for further acts of hate and violence. We pointed out those who sought to promote racial hatred in America’s national capital. Moreover, we didn’t just passively report such issues, but we held public events to raise awareness on these issues, and we actively protested such hate. We felt that was part of our obligation in being “responsible for equality and liberty.”

We don’t see anything “left-wing” or “right-wing” about defying such hate. We just view defying hate as simply following the truths that we hold self-evident as Americans, and the dignity that we should all enjoy as human beings.

We know that the June 10, 2009 terrorist attack was motivated by HATE.

The terrorist Von Brunn himself documented his philosophy in writing to a Nazi sympathizer in Germany, stating that hate was “natural, normal and necessary,” and that “compassionate nations” would “die.”

This philosophy of terrorist hate should give us all pause to reflect. If anything were to be learned from the June 10, 2009 terrorist attack, it is the cancerous destruction that hate will cause.

In our support for our universal human rights of equality and liberty, we offer another approach. While we defy hate, we also offer an outstretched hand, not an upraised fist, to those who hate. We urge those who hate to release such burden of hate from their hearts and to join us in defending our human rights, which are also their human rights.

The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum is intended to remember the worst atrocity committed against an identity group in human history. When such a place is itself the target of terrorist hatred, it should be a severe warning signal for Americans and all human beings. But that warning signal has been scrupulously ignored, as has the terrorist attack itself been largely forgotten. Even worse, some have sought to rationalize hate against other identity groups themselves, and sadly like Von Brunn, have come to view that compassion is only for the weak.

The cancer of hate has continued to spread. Months after the June 10, 2009 terrorist attack, I saw some people with signs in the streets of Washington DC promoting racial hatred, some carrying signs with swastikas, and some with signs spewing vulgar and obscene messages. Racial supremacist and anti-Semitic groups have sought to promote their cause in our nation’s capital and around the country. On our public airwaves, there are those openly call for bombing houses of worship, who openly promote racist views, who question American legislation designed to guarantee our civil rights, and who ultimately believe that hate is the answer to our nation’s and to the world’s problems.

The lesson that has been taught by the Holocaust has been summarized as “Never Again.”

The lesson that the June 10, 2009 terrorist attack on the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum must teach us is “Never Again to Hate.”

That is a lesson that too many are not interested in hearing about. But if we ever seek to be responsible for equality and liberty, it is our most vital lesson to be learned.

For many reasons, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum terror attack must not be forgotten. But on June 10, 2010, a year later, there was little interest in remembering it. Washington DC area mainstream newspapers only posted AP wire reports to their web sites buried in the “local news sections,” and the private remembrance by staff of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum was covered primarily by Washington DC television stations on their web sites that cover “local” news. Such a terror attack of hate is no longer viewed as “national” news.

In addition to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum‘s private event, the USHMM has also urged citizens to make a donation to the Stephen Tyrone Johns Summer Youth Leadership Program Endowment Fund, and it has posted a web link to some of the comments by Americans over the past year about the attack and the murder of Stephen Tyrone Johns. We applaud their efforts to remember.

We Will Remember Stephen Tyrone Johns (Photo: U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum)

In terms of public activism, however, we believe that American citizens also have an obligation to do their part, in remembering this terrorist attack. We are holding a public event to remember the event. We also urge those who seek to express their commitment to challenging hate to share your thoughts with us at info@realcourage.org, and we will share your statements on our web site.

On Sunday, June 13 at 2 PM, Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) is hosting a public remembrance in Washington DC of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum attack and the murder of Stephen Tyrone Johns. We have invited the public to join us in this public remembrance, and to share their testimonies of the need to promote tolerance, dignity, respect, and equality for our fellow human beings.

We will hold this public remembrance at Freedom Plaza in Washington DC, near where Martin Luther King, Jr. worked on his speech “I Have A Dream.” We too, have a dream, of human dignity, of human rights, and of equality and liberty – not just for all American, but also for all human beings. We have a dream of our fellow human beings united to be responsible for equality and liberty.

But we know that we cannot begin to make that dream a reality without defying and denying the cancerous growth of hatred in our nation, in our society, and around the world.

On June 13, when we publicly remember the terrorist attack on the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, our united message will be “Never Again to Hate.”

Choose Love, Not Hate. Love Wins.

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June 13 – “Never Again” to Hate Public Remembrance

Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.)
https://www.realcourage.org/never-again/

On Sunday June 13, 2010, at 2 PM, Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) invites Washingtonians to a public event to remember the June 10, 2009 attack on the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and to remember the loss of Stephen Tyrone Johns. Choose love, not hate.

We will recall the attack by white supremacist and Holocaust denier James Von Brunn on the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum on June 10, 2009, and urge our fellow American to commit to “never again” to such hate and violence. (Flier for distribution: Microsoft Word format flier 1, Adobe Acrobat format flier 1, Word format flier 2, Adobe Acrobat format flier 2).

We will meet at the Freedom Plaza in Washington DC, near where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. worked on his speech “I Have a Dream,” and will stand united in our diverse religions, ethnicity, and races. We will stand united for equality. We will also say “Never Again” to hate.

We will remember black security guard Stephen Tyrone Johns who was shot to death on June 10, 2009 while on duty defending a museum that stands in remembrance to the Holocaust. We vow that his death will not be in vain, but that such sacrifices will remind us of the need to be ever-vigilant and defiant against the forces of hate that seek to spread in Washington DC and throughout America.

As those who promote hate seek to create ever-increasing numbers of hate groups in America, our message to them is that America will never retreat on hate. But we don’t answer hate with hate. Instead of an upraised fist, we offer outstretched hands and hearts to those who do hate, to urge them to release the burden of hate from their hearts, and join us in defending the universal human rights and dignity of all people.

We urge all – Choose Love, Not Hate. Love Wins.

We also urge all to make a gift to the USHMM Stephen Tyrone Johns Summer Youth Leadership Program Endowment Fund.

Rally Logistics:

— Date: Sunday, June 13, 2010
— Time: 2 to 4 PM Eastern Daylight Savings Time
— Location: Freedom Plaza, Washington DC, 20004 – on Pennsylvania Avenue NW between 13th and 14th Streets NW
— Contact: Jeffrey Imm, info@realcourage.org, 301-613-8789

The Freedom Plaza in Washington DC is named in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr., who worked on his “I Have a Dream” speech in the nearby Willard Hotel. In 1988, a time capsule containing a Bible, a robe, and other relics of King’s was planted at the site.

Directions:

— Map Showing Location of Freedom Plaza in Washington DC

— Street Level Photographic View of Freedom Plaza Area

— Washington DC Metro Subway Stop: Metro Center (Central Station – for Red, Blue, Orange Lines)
— Washington DC Metro Subway Planner Tool

Walking Directions for Metro Center Subway:
— Metro Center Metro Station to Pennsylvania Ave NW & 14th St NW:
1. Exit station through 13TH ST NW & G ST NW entrance.
2. Walk approx. 1 block S on 13th St NW.
3. Turn right on Pennsylvania Ave NW.
4. Walk approx. 1 block W on Pennsylvania Ave NW.

— Parking lots: the nearby National Theater reports the following parking lot areas include:
— PMI
— 1220 E Street, NW – Enter on E Street between 12th and 13th Streets
— 424 11th Street, NW
— 1325 G Street, NW – Enter on G Street between 13th and 14th Streets
— QUICK PARK
— 1301 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW – Enter on 13th Street between E and F Streets

June 13 – Washington DC: “Never Again” to Hate – Freedom Plaza

Stephen Tyrone Johns Will Not Die in Vain (Photo: U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum) — We Will Remember Stephen Tyrone Johns Sacrifice and Courage (Photo: U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum)

The attack by white supremacist and Holocaust denier James Von Brunn on the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum on June 10, 2009, was based on hate. We will urge our fellow Americans to Choose Love, Not Hate. We will urge our fellow Americans to say “Never Again” to such hate.

(Flier for distribution: Microsoft Word format flier 1, Adobe Acrobat format flier 1, Word format flier 2, Adobe Acrobat format flier 2).

We urge all – Choose Love, Not Hate. Love Wins.

We also urge all to make a gift to the USHMM Stephen Tyrone Johns Summer Youth Leadership Program Endowment Fund.

Rally Logistics:

— Date: Sunday, June 13, 2010

— Time: 2 to 4 PM Eastern Daylight Savings Time

— Location: Freedom Plaza, Washington DC, 20004 – on Pennsylvania Avenue NW between 13th and 14th Streets NW

— Contact: Jeffrey Imm, info@realcourage.org, 301-613-8789

Directions:

— Map Showing Location of Freedom Plaza in Washington DC

— Street Level Photographic View of Freedom Plaza Area

— Washington DC Metro Subway Stop: Metro Center (Central Station – for Red, Blue, Orange Lines)

— Washington DC Metro Subway Planner Tool

Walking Directions for Metro Center Subway:

— Metro Center Metro Station to Pennsylvania Ave NW & 14th St NW:

1. Exit station through 13TH ST NW & G ST NW entrance.

2. Walk approx. 1 block S on 13th St NW.

3. Turn right on Pennsylvania Ave NW.

4. Walk approx. 1 block W on Pennsylvania Ave NW.

— Driving Directions (see end of posting for Driving Directions to National Theater)

— Parking lots: the nearby National Theater reports the following parking lot areas include:

— PMI

— 1220 E Street, NW – Enter on E Street between 12th and 13th Streets

— 424 11th Street, NW

— 1325 G Street, NW – Enter on G Street between 13th and 14th Streets

— QUICK PARK

— 1301 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW – Enter on 13th Street between E and F Streets

— Freedom Plaza is an open air plaza which is in front of The National Theater, whose address is 1321 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20004. Directions to Freedom Plaza are essentially not much different than going to the front of the National Theater (National Theater driving directions, street map of area, parking directions, Metro directions).

What if it Rains?

It is summer. It rains, and hopefully it will not be raining at 2 PM.

But if we get caught in a thunderstorm, we will simply walk across the street under the cover of the National Theater marque, which is literally across the street at 1321 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20004.

If we have to speak there on the street, then we can also do that as well. The National Theater has no shows that day, and we have submitted an Assembly Notification for that location with the Washington DC police, as a fallback alternative.

The photo below shows Freedom Plaza on the RIGHT and the National Theater marquee on the LEFT. We just walk across the street.

DRIVING DIRECTIONS TO NATIONAL THEATER:

FROM MARYLAND AND NORTH OF D.C.
ROUTE #I- 95 SOUTH
Pass Capital Beltway (I-495)
EXIT #22 – BALTIMORE-WASHINGTON PARKWAY
EXIT RIGHT TO ROUTE #50 WEST – TOWARD WASHINGTON
Becomes New York Avenue
Continue about 10 miles
LEFT ON 4TH STREET, NW
RIGHT on E STREET, NW
Parking lots on E Street between 12th and 13th, and on 12th or 13th between E and F Streets.
E Street becomes Pennsylvania Avenue at 13th. The National is at 1321 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW.

FROM SPRINGFIELD AND SOUTH OF D.C.
ROUTE #95 NORTH
EXIT ROUTE #395 NORTH
EXIT 12TH STREET, NW
Stay in Left Lane
LEFT ON E STREET, NW
Parking lots on E Street between 12th and 13th, and on 12th or 13th between E and F Streets.
E Street becomes Pennsylvania Avenue at 13th. The National is at 1321 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW.

FROM BALTIMORE AND EAST OF D.C.
BALTIMORE-WASHINGTON PARKWAY – ROUTE #295 TOWARD WASHINGTON
EXIT RIGHT TO ROUTE #50 WEST – TOWARD WASHINGTON
Becomes New York Avenue
Continue about 10 miles
LEFT ON 4TH STREET, NW
RIGHT on E STREET, NW
Parking lots on E Street between 12th and 13th, and on 12th or 13th between E and F Streets.
E Street becomes Pennsylvania Avenue at 13th. The National is at 1321 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW.

FROM SOUTH ARLINGTON AND ALEXANDRIA
RTE #1 NORTH OR #I-395 EAST
EXIT (Or from Route #I-395 Continue) ONTO 14TH STREET BRIDGE INTO DOWNTOWN D.C.
RIGHT ON PENNSYLVANIA AVE, NW
LEFT ON 13TH ST. NW ONE BLOCK TO E STREET, NW
Parking lots on E Street between 12th and 13th, and on 12th or 13th between E and F Streets.
E Street becomes Pennsylvania Avenue at 13th. The National is to the left at 1321 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW.

FROM ANNAPOLIS AND THE EASTERN SHORE AND ROUTE #50
ROUTE #50 WEST TOWARDS WASHINGTON
Becomes New York Avenue
Continue about 10 miles
LEFT ON 4TH STREET, NW
RIGHT on E STREET, NW
Parking lots on E Street between 12th and 13th, and on 12th and 13th between E and F Streets.
E Street becomes Pennsylvania Avenue at 13th. The National is at 1321 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW.

UPPER MARLBORO, ANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE AND SUITLAND AREA
SUITLAND PARKWAY WEST
EXIT ROUTE #395
Follow signs toward Maine Avenue and Richmond/Downtown exit)
EXIT 12TH STREET NW – DOWNTOWN
LEFT ON E STREET, NW
Parking lots on E Street between 12th and 13th, and on 12th or 13th between E and F Streets.
E Street becomes Pennsylvania Avenue at 13th. The National is at 1321 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW.

FROM FREDERICK, GAITHERSBURG, WEST OF D.C.
ROUTE #270 SOUTH
At the Beltway – Route #495, follow the signs to Northern Virginia
Cross Bridge.
EXIT RIGHT TO GEORGE WASHINGTON PARKWAY.
EXIT RIGHT AROUND TO THEODORE ROOSEVELT BRIDGE ON LEFT
STAY IN MIDDLE LANE TO CONSTITUTION AVENUE
Go 12 blocks.
LEFT ON 12TH STREET, NW
LEFT ON E STREET, NW
Parking lots on E Street between 12th and 13th, and on 12th or 13th between E and F Streets.
E Street becomes Pennsylvania Avenue at 13th. The National is at 1321 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW.

FROM UPPER D.C., CONNECTICUT AVENUE OR 16TH STREET
SOUTH TO H STREET, NW – OR FROM 16TH STREET SOUTH TO K STREET, NW
RIGHT ON 13TH STREET, NW
Parking lots on E Street between 12th and 13th, and on 12th or 13th between E and F Streets.
E Street becomes Pennsylvania Avenue at 13th. The National is to the left at 1321 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW.

FROM FAIRFAX, NORTHERN VIRGINIA SUBURBS, AND ROUTE #66
ROUTE #66 EAST TOWARD D.C.
CONTINUE STRAIGHT ONTO THEODORE ROOSEVELT BRIDGE
STAY IN MIDDLE LANE TO CONSTITUTION AVENUE
LEFT ON 12TH STREET, NW
Go two blocks
LEFT ON E STREET, NW
Parking lots on E Street between 12th and 13th, and on 12th or 13th between E and F Streets.
E Street becomes Pennsylvania Avenue at 13th. The National is at 1321 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW.

FROM GEORGETOWN and KEY BRIDGE
M STREET, NW, EAST
M STREET BECOMES PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE AS IT ANGLES OUT OF GEORGETOWN
LEFT ON 17TH STREET, NW
Go one block
RIGHT ON H STREET, NW
RIGHT ON 13TH STREET, NW
Parking lots on E Street between 12th and 13th, and on 12th or 13th between E and F Streets.
E Street becomes Pennsylvania Avenue at 13th. The National is to the left at 1321 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW.

Remember Stephen Tyrone Johns with Donation to USHMM

As we remember the loss of Stephen Tyrone Johns this week in the June 10, 2009 terrorist attack on the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), the USHMM also urges all to make a gift to the USHMM Stephen Tyrone Johns Summer Youth Leadership Program Endowment Fund.

“Museum Launches Fund to Honor Slain Guard”

Baltimore Jewish Times reports:

“Museum Launches Fund to Honor Slain Guard”

“The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum has established an endowment fund in memory of a security guard slain there.”

“Stephen Tyrone Johns was gunned down last June 10 by 88-year-old white supremacist James Wenneker von Brunn of Maryland during an attempted raid on the museum. Johns died from his injuries shortly after the attack.”

“To pay tribute to the officer, the museum has established the Stephen Tyrone Johns Summer Youth Leadership Program Endowment Fund. Under the program, 50 Washington-area teens will participate in a summer program to learn about the lessons of the Holocaust.”

“A fund established to assist the Johns family was closed last October.”

“Von Brunn was shot and critically wounded in the exchange of gunfire at the museum. He died Jan. 6 while awaiting trial in the case.”

Stormfront: Nazis Eulogize Terrorist Von Brunn, Praise His Actions, Call for Hate

The White Supremacist Nazi Stormfront organization, whose leader Don Black has attended previous American Renaissance / New Century Foundation conferences in Washington DC suburbs, is now eulogizing white supremacist terrorist Von Brunn, who died on January 6, 2010.

The Nazi Stormfront members are posting to their web site praising terrorist Von Brunn, stating:

“He will be remembered. Expect another article from the Jewish supremacist group the ADL to ensue full of lies, half-truths and the typical tactics to keep White Americans hating one of their own” and that “Every man or woman who expresses opposition to ZOG and dies in ZOG’s hands is a martyr, automatically.”

Others are calling Von Brunn’s death as “Jewicide.”

Others are defending Von Brunn’s terrorism as the acts of a man who “gave his life in the only way he saw fit. That’s a lot more than we can offer. The Palestinians throw their lives away just to take down a few Jewish grunts, and we sit here and do nothing. If you’re White, act White…” [and calling for Stormfront members] “to hate with violent passion…”

Images from the Stormfront organization members eulogies for terrorist Von Brunn:

Nazi Stormfront Organization Eulogizes White Supremacist Terrorist Von Brunn (part 1)

Nazi Stormfront Organization Eulogizes White Supremacist Terrorist Von Brunn (part 2)

Nazi Stormfront Organization Eulogizes White Supremacist Terrorist Von Brunn (part 3)

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White Supremacist Terrorist Von Brunn Dies – Attacked U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Murdered Guard

News media are reporting that white supremacist terrorist James Von Brunn died today at 1 PM at a local hospital in Butner, North Carolina, AP reports from “Denise Simmons, the spokeswoman for the federal prison where von Brunn had been held.” AP reported that Von Brunn received medical care at the North Carolina prison complex, which is used for aging and sick inmates. His death is being eulogized by white supremacists and Nazis who are praising him as a “martyr” and an example for others to “act White.”

Von Brunn had been wounded by return fire, after he shot and killed black security guard Stephen Tyrone Johns at the U.S. Holocaust Museum in Washington DC on June 10, 2009. Von Brunn murdered Johns while Johns was holding the museum door open for Von Brunn. AP also reported that “Officials at the prison hospital had previously said chronic medical problems had complicated a psychiatric evaluation for the suspect, who prior to the shooting had written racist and anti-Semitic screeds on the Internet.”

USHMM Security Guard Stephen T. Johns Murdered in Von Brunn's Terrorist Attack

The New York Times reported that “At the time of the Holocaust museum shooting, the F.B.I. said it knew he had an ‘established Web site that expressed hatred of African-Americans and Jews.’ ” Von Brunn had left a note in his automobile on the day of his terrorist attack on the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum stating that “The Holocaust is a lie… Obama was created by Jews. Obama does what his Jew owners tell him to do. Jews captured America’s money. Jews control the mass media.”

As previously reported, witnesses saw white supremacist terrorist Von Brunn wearing a Confederate soldier’s cap and long coat at the time of the attacks. Von Brunn was also linked to German Neo-Nazis. In a report by Der Spiegel, Von Brunn wrote Horst Mahler defending hate as “natural, normal and necessary.” At a preliminary hearing in September 2009, AP reported that Von Brunn was “nonchalant and even smiled when a prosecutor said he wanted to kill as many people as possible in the June 10 attack.”

White Supremacist Terrorist James Von Brunn "smiled when a prosecutor said he wanted to kill as many people as possible in the June 10 attack." (AP Photo/Talbot County Sheriff Office, File)

White supremacist Von Brunn was active in American white supremacist movements through his hate web site. White Supremacist terrorist Von Brunn also attended white supremacist events in America, which included speakers such as former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke and BNP racist Nick Griffin (who has called the Holocaust the “Holohoax”.)

On June 11, the day after white supremacist terrorist James Von Brunn’s attack on the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum where he shot and killed black security guard Stephen T. Johns, the “white nationalist” “hate group” VDARE published an article using the attack to condemn plans for new hate crimes legislation. In VDARE Peter Brimelow’s article condemning hate crimes legislation “Holocaust Museum Hullaballoo Reveals ‘Hate Crimes’ Hypocrisy,” Brimelow described Von Brunn as “by all accounts an intelligent man.” (R.E.A.L. protested VDARE’s comments on Von Brunn at an event in McLean, Virginia on June 20 where VDARE’s Peter Brimelow spoke.)

VDARE is now promoting a “white nationalist” event to be held near the Dulles International Airport in the Washington DC suburb of Fairfax County, Virginia scheduled for the weekend of February 19-21. The “white nationalist” event led by the “hate group” American Renaissance / New Century Foundation has had David Duke at previous events, and this year’s American Renaissance conference has the BNP’s Nick Griffin as a scheduled speaker. Nick Griffin and Neo-Nazi Stormfront leader Stephen “Don” Black have also appeared together at previous American Renaissance events.

Both David Duke and Nick Griffin spoke at a previous white supremacist event attended by white supremacist terrorist Von Brunn.

David Duke (left) and Nick Griffin (right) - Appeared at White Supremacist Event Attended by Terrorist Von Brunn (Duke Photo by Richard Ellis/Getty Images; Griffin Photo by Mirror.co.uk) — David Duke (left) and Nick Griffin (right) - appeared at White Supremacist event attended by terrorist Von Brunn (Duke Photo by Richard Ellis/Getty Images; Griffin Photo by Mirror.co.uk)

The February 2010 American Renaissance “white nationalist” event, where Nick Griffin will once again be speaking, will take place near a major U.S. international airport, previously used by the 9/11 attackers to launch their attacks on America.

Web Image from "White Nationalist" Hate Group American Renaissance

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Update: The White Supremacist Nazi Stormfront organization, whose leader Don Black has attended previous American Renaissance / New Century Foundation conferences in Washington DC suburbs, is now eulogizing white supremacist terrorist Von Brunn. The Nazi Stormfront members are posting to their web site praising terrorist Von Brunn “He will be remembered. Expect another article from the Jewish supremacist group the ADL to ensue full of lies, half-truths and the typical tactics to keep White Americans hating one of their own” and that “Every man or woman who expresses opposition to ZOG and dies in ZOG’s hands is a martyr, automatically.” Others are calling Von Brunn’s death as “Jewicide.” Others are defending Von Brunn’s terrorism as the acts of a man who “gave his life in the only way he saw fit. That’s a lot more than we can offer. The Palestinians throw their lives away just to take down a few Jewish grunts, and we sit here and do nothing. If you’re White, act White…” [and calling for Stormfront members] “to hate with violent passion…”

Images from the Stormfront organization members eulogies for terrorist Von Brunn:

R.E.A.L. Postings on Racial Supremacism

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Related R.E.A.L. Postings:

January 4, 2010 – Virginia: “White Nationalist” Hate Group to Meet in Dulles Area — February 19 through 21

September 29, 2009 – DC: Von Brunn Moved to Prison in North Carolina for Competency Evaluation

September 2, 2009 – DC: White Supremacist/Nazi Von Brunn Denied Release, Smiles at Mention of “Killing as Many As Possible”

June 20, 2009: R.E.A.L. Protests McLean, Virginia Conference with VDARE Speaker Peter Brimelow
– June 11, 2009: VDARE’s Peter Brimelow describes Holocaust Memorial Museum terrorist Von Brunn as “an intelligent man”

June 19, 2009 – Holocaust Memorial Shooter Von Brunn: “Child porn on museum suspect’s computer, FBI says”

June 16, 2009 – Holocaust Museum Attack: Von Brunn Links to German Neo-Nazis

June 14, 2009 – Washington DC – FBI: Holocaust Museum suspect expected to survive

June 12, 2009 – Holocaust Memorial Shooter – SPLC says Michigan man recently took over racist site