First Posted: 06-24-09 06:33 PM |Updated: 06-24-09 06:59 PM
Hal Turner, New Jersey's top white-supremacist internet-radio show hosting was arrested for threatening public officials with bodily harm.
This time out, Turner's called for vigilantism ranging beyond the Tri-State area to Chicago.
Super Station WGN has the news:
Hal Turner, an occasional talk show host on Internet radio and blogger, was arrested today by the FBI in his New Jersey home on charges he threatened to murder three federal
appeals court judges in Chicago following their recent ruling upholding handgun bans.
appeals court judges in Chicago following their recent ruling upholding handgun bans.
According to the U.S. attorney's office postings on Turner's web site included photos of the judges and addresses for them, with statements such as: "Let me be the first to say this plainly; These judges deserve to be killed."
A day after Turner posted the first threat telling listeners that "it appears another lesson is needed," he posted an update with the names of the judges, along with photographs, phone numbers, and work addresses, right down to office numbers.
In the update, Turner provided the judges official public work addresses and a map of their work area. He promised their home addresses and maps to their homes. He stated, “Behold these devils."
Now he's run afoul of U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald the man who charged former Governor Rod Blagojevich with corruption charges.
Turner's Internet postings on June 2 and 3 proclaimed "outrage" over the June 2, 2009, handgun decision by Chief Judge Frank Easterbrook, Judges Richard Posner and William Bauer of the Chicago-based 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. He further stated among other things: "Let me be the first to say this plainly: These Judges deserve to be killed."
Turner, 47, of North Bergen, N.J., was arrested this morning after FBI agents went to his residence to execute a search warrant. He was charged with threatening to assault and murder three federal judges with intent to retaliate against them for performing official duties in a criminal complaint filed today in U.S. District Court in Chicago. He is scheduled to have an initial court appearance at 12:30 pm. tomorrow (Thursday) before U.S. Magistrate Judge Michael A. Shipp in U.S. District Court in Newark.
"We take threats to federal judges very seriously. Period," said Patrick J. Fitzgerald, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, who announced the charges with Robert D. Grant, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Chicago Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The United States Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey and the FBI Office in Newark are providing local assistance.
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