Washington – The son of the elderly, Jew-hating madman who attacked the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC, blasted his father as an evil “coward” who deserved to die.
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Erik von Brunn, 32, said “my father’s actions are unforgivable” and openly wished that it had been his dad — infamous bigot James von Brunn — who died in the attack and not hero security guard Stephen Tyrone Johns.
“I cannot express enough how deeply sorry I am it was Mr. Johns, and not my father, who lost their life,” Erik said in letter to ABC News. “It was unjustified and unfair that he died, and while my condolences could never begin to offer appeasement, they, along with my remorse, is all I have to give.”
James Von Brunn stormed into the solemn museum Wednesday with a .22-caliber rifle and quickly shot Johns dead, before other guards opened fire and seriously wounded him.
The younger von Brunn said that he has long been embarrassed by his dad, who has for some 50 years been a vocal and prominent white supremacist who kept a hate Web site and wrote a book filled with anti-Jewish slander.
“My father’s beliefs have been a constant source of verbal and mental abuse my family has had to suffer with for many years,” he told ABC News. “His views consumed him, and in doing so, not only destroyed his life, but destroyed our family and ruined our lives as well.
yemach shemio
I dunno, kibbud av is still a value. No matter how bad the son thinks his father is, does he have the right to say so in public? If he can’t say anything nice about his father (which is understandable) then he should keep quiet. Even a mamzer, whose parents ruined his life, is obligated to respect them.
The guy should change his name. He’ll never be able to escape the association. This is a very strong statement…it must have been terrible to live with evil like that.
I dunno. The guy may be nutty or evil, but he’s still his father, and kibbud ov is still a virtue. Even a mamzer has to honor the parents who ruined his life. If this son can’t think of anything good to say about his father (and that’s understandable) then he shouldn’t say anything at all.
By the way, are the press still playing this guy up as some sort of right-winger because he hates Obama, rather than a left-winger because he hates Bush?
I applaud the son, this cannot have been easy to live with and now he has to live with this too.
this young man has courage and integrity…i can just imagine the misery that he went through having such a monster as a father. The only silver lining? The father’s Jew hatred made his life absolutely miserable. Imagine what was going through his deranged brain when a black president payed tribute to Jewish suffering at Buchenwald
Do we not learn in the Gemara that the sons of Haman HaRasha taught Torah in Bnai Brak? Well, this son was traumatized by his Father’s sickness and he repudiates his Father’s murderous deeds. What kibud Av could there possibly be? Cite a source for that my friends. I learned Kiddushin and it is not mashma there…
Milhouse:
Do YOU have nothing else to comment about other than this guy’s obligation to honour his ‘murderous, beastly father’?
kibud av is not a mitzvah l’bnei noach. Why would he be obligated? Do you object to to the children of Nazis disavowing the actions of their parents?
you do not have to honor your father if he is a rasha