FBI Arrests Far-Right Radio Host Hal Turner

6:53 pm EST June 24th, 2009 | Uncategorized | 15 Comments

Threatening the lives of federal judges? I’ve heard that show before.

Hal Turner, an intermittent Internet radio talk show host and blogger, was arrested today by FBI agents at his home in North Bergen, N.J., 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.

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.

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 p.m. 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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15 Responses to “FBI Arrests Far-Right Radio Host Hal Turner”

  1. Randy Brown says:
    June 24, 2009 at 7:42 pm

    What do you think of your pal Harold NOW, Hannity?

    WELL??!!

    Too bad this will be buried by the Sanford mess…

  2. News Reference says:
    June 24, 2009 at 8:23 pm

    Republican Senator John Cornyn implied violence to Judges was inevitable if Judges didn’t rule in ways that favored the right wing.

    Republican Representative Tom DeLay also implied violence would happen to Judges that didn’t rule as he wished.

    It’s aberrant and abhorrent when right wing trolls say such things, but Republican John Cornyn was and still is a sitting SENATOR.

    (And disgraceful Republican Tom DeLay has been a Houdini staying out of jail considering all of his ethical lapses.)

    THAT’S the Republican leadership: Violent thugs that think violence is their final solution to achieving their goals.

  3. durablend says:
    June 24, 2009 at 8:56 pm

    No doubt Dennis or Jay or one of their many sockpuppets will soon be by to decry this silencing of free speech…

  4. Indeed says:
    June 24, 2009 at 11:03 pm

    The DHS report is looking prescienter and prescienter. Thanks, wingnutz.

  5. gruntled atheist says:
    June 24, 2009 at 11:31 pm

    Absolutely fantastic. Throw away the key.

  6. C.S.Strowbridge says:
    June 25, 2009 at 5:59 am

    What? The Right-wing ‘tards haven’t shown up to defend this guy yet? After all, he’s racist and a Republicans. He’s their kind of guy.

  7. Randy Brown says:
    June 25, 2009 at 6:20 am

    CSS, I read that Hannity isn’t even taking Turner’s calls to his show.

    The bright light of exposure shines on the cockroaches of the right, and the scurrying begins…

  8. Masson’s Blog - A Citizen’s Guide to Indiana » Death Threat Arrest Related to Seventh Circuit Handgun Decision says:
    June 25, 2009 at 7:31 am

    [...] Threat Arrest Related to Seventh Circuit Handgun Decision By Doug The FBI has apparently arrested a right wing radio host and blogger by the name of Hal Turner. Mr. Turner apparently made threats against 7th Circuit Court [...]

  9. jr says:
    June 25, 2009 at 8:44 am

    None of the “liberals” on Fox will mention Sean’s ties to Hal

  10. durablend says:
    June 25, 2009 at 11:45 am

    Didn’t you guys get the memo? Hal’s a (D) now.

    Fox said so, so it must be true!!!!!!!

  11. sumday says:
    June 25, 2009 at 12:20 pm

    wow all the liberals want acceptance and free speech, and when someone states his opinion of a judge he is arrested and the liberals want to burn him at the stake. Typical hypocritical liberals, they will probably try and find him guilty of having an opinion that disagrees with them and call this a hate crime.

  12. Duros62 says:
    June 25, 2009 at 12:33 pm

    Excellent. I hope the Capitol Police add a few more charges against Congresspeople.

  13. sumday says:
    June 25, 2009 at 12:38 pm

    Judges take absolutely no responsibility for the effects their ruling have on society, and then get special treatment and protection, at the tax payer expense, against someone stating their opinion. How do you think these judges would rule if someone said I think so and so deserves to die? I’m betting the judges would throw the case out based on freedom of speech, but when it is said against them they have the guy arrested. Typical hypocritical judges.

  14. Wareq says:
    June 25, 2009 at 6:51 pm

    LOL, V&
    /in after personal army

  15. canadian bacon says:
    June 28, 2009 at 10:06 am

    Finally.