A white supremacist in New Jersey was arrested on charges of threatening to assault or murder three federal appeals court judges in Illinois.
Hal Turner, a blogger and internet radio show host, published a map showing the judges’ Chicago office, along with the statement,
“Let me be the first to say this plainly: These judges deserve to be killed.”
The post included photos, contact information and room numbers of the judges along with a picture and map of the building in which they work.
Turner promised to post a map of the judges’ home addresses in the future. He was angry that the judges had refused to overturn a handgun ban.
Turner, an anti-Semitic white nationalist who denies the Holocaust and disputes the right of Israel to exist, has said that Jews and Mexicans should be “rounded up” and “shot.” Hal Turner counts Sean Hannity among his personal friends and previously appeared on Hannity’s show. He garnered attention last year when he called for the assassination of Barack Obama.
Turner has threatened federal judges and others in the past. In 2005, Turner publicized the names and addresses of three federal court judges who handled lawsuits involving imprisoned white supremacist Matt Hale.
How refreshing. Finally, law enforcement authorities arrest a dangerous person who issues credible threats over the internet before someone is injured or killed. There is a difference between free speech and open season.
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If we examine the work of federal agencies, especially our own gestapo-like DHS along with FBI and CIA, their most favorite modus-operandi is the “sting.” They love nothing more than creating a fake personality or fake business to attract “persons of interest”, thereby allowing the feds to entrap or lure others into prosecutable acts. Of course, under the Bush regime, they skipped most of the subterfuge and just tossed citizens in jail without charges or trial, but that is another story.
Most of the federal sting programs, although well disguised, can be revealed by noting how this person or fake business entity emerged from “nowhere” and always seems to be well organized and funded.
The “Hal Turner” effort emerged back when the Clinton Administration was trying to identify abortion clinic stalkers and “White Supremacists.” The Turner character has trolled the web for over a decade and his inflammatory rhetoric has been used to draw citizens of a wide variety of political positions to Turner’s site and therefore under scrutiny by federal agents.
Readers may recall that the Obama administration has recently announced a renewed focus on domestic enemies. It follows that Hal Turner would need to be held out as a martyr for the cause to increase his notoriety and give him the credibility to become more marketable to the various angry factions, on a nation wide basis.
At this point, it is impossible to say if Turner is, in fact, just a federal program. However, whether he is genuine or not, there is no doubt that he is being used as the proverbial flame to which the moths are drawn to their doom.
The question that democratic-minded citizens should be asking is: Why is someone who advocates for improved conditions for Black people considered, “community organizers” while someone who advocates on behalf of the 44 MILLION White Americans who live in poverty today, is labeled by our federal government as “White Supremacists?”