A white supremacist hate blogger and internet radio host from N.J. was arrested by the FBI on Monday after he urged the killing of three Chicago-based federal appellate judges for declining a court ruling to overturn a ban on handguns in Chicago and a nearby suburb.
On a June 2nd web posting, Hal Turner, 47, called the decision an “outrage” and said that the judges “deserved to be killed”. He is being charged with threatening to assault and murder the judges in retaliation for performing their official duties.
“In a second posting on June 3, Turner provided the names, work addresses, phone numbers and photos of the three judges on the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago who were on the panel that made the decision. Chief Judge Frank Easterbrook, Judge Richard Posner and Judge William Bauer were the three judges named. National Rifle Association v. City of Chicago (pdf), nos. 08-4142, 08-4243 and 08-4244. Turner said the judges “ignored” the Second Amendment’s right to bear arms and disregarded U.S. Supreme Court rulings.”
“We take threats to federal judges very seriously. Period,” said U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald
“Turner also made a reference to the 2005 murders of U.S. District Judge Joan Lefkow’s husband and mother by a plaintiff whose case against doctors and a Chicago hospital over his treatment as a cancer patient she had dismissed.”
And to top it off, he posted a photo of the Federal Building in Chicago where the judges work and included some arrows pointing to “anti-truck bomb barriers” that surround the building, and a map showing exactly where the building is located.
He was also arrested earlier this month for making similar threats to Connecticut state lawmakers.
This guy is a ticking time bomb.
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