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Title: Hal Turner Arrested for threatening Judges...Faces up to 10 years
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Wired
URL Source: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/20 ... ned-to-murder-judges-feds-say/
Published: Jun 24, 2009
Author: David Kravets
Post Date: 2009-06-24 21:51:50 by Old Friend
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Views: 2119
Comments: 76
A white supremacist blogger and internet radio host was arrested and charged Wednesday with threatening to kill judges, the authorities said. Hal Turner was arrested at his apartment in suburban New Jersey. According to court documents, after a three-judge panel of the Chicago-based 7th U.S. Circuit of Appeals upheld a Chicago handgun ban, he blogged that the judges should be “killed.” “Let me be the first to say this plainly: These judges deserve to be killed. Their blood will replenish the tree of liberty. A small price to pay to assure freedom for millions,” he wrote on his blog (tunerradionetwork.blogspot.com) on June 2, the day of the ruling, according to court documents. A day later he posted addresses, photos, maps and other identifying information about Chief Judge Frank Easterbrook and Judges Richard Posner and William Bauer, the authorities said. An FBI agent said (.pdf) Turner told the authorities “he did not intend to injure the judges but believed he would be criminally responsible if someone reading his website acted on what he posted to his website.” The banner on his Turner Radio Network site includes this logo: “Free Speech: No Matter who Doesn’t Like It!” Turner, who is to appear in New Jersey federal court Thursday, faces a maximum 10-year term if convicted. “We take threats to federal judges very seriously. Period,” said Patrick J. Fitzgerald, the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Illinois. State charges are also pending against the 47-year-old Turner in Hartford, Connecticut, where he is accused of inciting readers to “take up arms” against state lawmakers. Two years ago, Turner’s site allegedly was the victim of denial of service attacks by the group, Anonymous. Hackers also claimed he was an FBI informant after posting e-mail allegedly between Turner and an agent.
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#1. To: Old Friend (#0)
i doubt the veracity of that statement. i don't think Hal would be dumb enough to say that. at any rate, this should put to rest the accusation that Hal himself is a fed.
On the contrary this is exactly what the govt would do if they were trying to repair the damaged rep of one of their own. Let's see if he somehow escapes conviction or serving any real jail time, and if he continues his campaign calling for the murders of public officials and minorities. If he's the real thing he'll be convicted and sentenced and as a condition of his release (or suspended sentence) he will be forbidden to operate on the net as before or make threats of any type, and any violation would result in incarceration. I'm betting that he won't be jailed (or they may put him up for 90 days in some penthouse, but he certainly won't do any hard time in any real prison) and that he won't stop running his intel collection service. Sadly, some folks will still foolishly believe that he was freed because some jury believed in his "1st amendment rights" and failed to convict him. If he beats state and federal charges, or one or the other declines to prosecute because the other is and he then beats the remaining rap we'll know that he's one of them....
I think what Dawg said is possible. It is what I was thinking as I read you folks comments yesterday.
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Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/LatestAn FBI agent said (.pdf) Turner told the authorities “he did not intend to injure the judges but believed he would be criminally responsible if someone reading his website acted on what he posted to his website.”
#6. To: christine (#1)
...at any rate, this should put to rest the accusation that Hal himself is a fed.
#10. To: HOUNDDAWG, Jethro Tull, Christine (#6)
On the contrary this is exactly what the govt would do if they were trying to repair the damaged rep of one of their own.
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