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From Bloomberg:

June 24 (Bloomberg) -- A New Jersey man described as an Internet radio talk show host and blogger was arrested for allegedly threatening to kill three U.S. Appeals Court judges in Chicago who earlier this month upheld a law banning handguns.

Hal Turner, 47, of North Bergen was arrested by U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation agents at his home today, according to a statement issued by Chicago U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald.

In the days after the judges’ June 2 decision to uphold a lower court’s dismissal of a National Rifle Association lawsuit challenging the ban, Turner posted on his Web site their names, photographs, phone numbers and work addresses, together with a picture of the courthouse delineating stanchions he called “anti-truck bomb barriers,” according to Fitzgerald.

“Let me be the first to say this plainly: These judges deserve to be killed,” Turner allegedly said in one Web site posting, according to Fitzgerald.

“We take threats to federal judges very seriously. Period.” the prosecutor said....

“These judges deserve to be made such an example of as to send a message to the entire judiciary: Obey the Constitution or die,” Turner reportedly wrote on his Internet site, according to a 10-page affidavit by FBI agent John Marsh, appended to the criminal complaint filed against Turner in Chicago federal court.


Simple enough? I thought so.

Comments

Anonymous said…
It is about time they got this guy. He has been threatening people and running his hate site for years. He had become pretty adept at skating close to the edge separating hyperbole and threats. I guess he finally went over it.

I like that it is Patrick J. Fitzgerald, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois and Scooter Libby's prosecutor, who is now going after Turner.

anonone

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