I would be untruthful not to admit taking some satisfaction in news that Hal Turner was arrested on federal charges. His spew of hate and inciteful advocacy of violence is utterly toxic; if he’s been found in violation of the law, I want him arrested, charged and convicted of his alleged crimes.
But what’s odd here is that in January 2008, evidence emerged that Turner was making his violent threats while on the payroll of the FBI.
What is really going on here?
Today, FBI agents went to the New Jersey home of white supremacist blogger/radio host Hal Turner and arrested him “on a federal complaint filed in Chicago alleging that he made internet postings threatening to assault and murder three federal appeals court judges in Chicago in retaliation for their recent ruling upholding handgun bans in Chicago and a suburb,” according to a statement released by the Justice Department. A summary of Turner’s dangerous tirade against the judges:
Internet postings on June 2 and 3 proclaimed “outrage” over the June 2, 2009, handgun decision by Chief Judge Frank Easterbrook and Judges Richard Posner and William Bauer, of the Chicago-based 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, further stating, among other things: “Let me be the first to say this plainly: These Judges deserve to be killed.” The postings included photographs, phone numbers, work address and room numbers of these judges, along with a photo of the building in which they work and a map of its location.
better to see extreme right wing violence being prevented than inflicted. still scary to see extreme right wing violence at all.
Source: abbyjean
