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James von Brunn was charged Thursday for the Holocaust Museum shooting, and new reports suggest his anti-Semitism was tied to theories about Obama that flourish on the Web. Why von Brunn’s network of online extremists are increasingly dangerous, and becoming violent.

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Astrid Riecken, The Washington Times / Landov
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Among other things, alleged Holocaust Museum killer James von Brunn is a “birther”—someone who subscribes to one of the many elaborate conspiracy theories regarding how Barack Obama is constitutionally ineligible to be president, because supposedly he isn’t a natural-born American citizen.

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