(RW) Blogger (Hal Turner) gets 33 months for threatening judges

[sabra]

Source: Chicago Trib/AP

A right-wing New Jersey blogger has been sentenced to 33 months for making death threats against three federal judges in Illinois.

Hal Turner was sentenced today in Brooklyn federal court.

The case stemmed from the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling in 2009 by three judges that upheld a district court decision dismissing lawsuits that challenged handgun bans in Chicago and Oak Park.

Turner protested the decision with inflammatory remarks posted on the Internet. Prosecutors said he crossed the line by declaring, "These judges must die."

Turner had claimed his tirades were protected by the constitutional right to free speech.

Read more: http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2010/12/nj-blogger-gets-33-months-for-threatening-illinois-judges.html

[Hawkeye-X]

1. 33 months for threatening a judge?

Come on, please sentence him to life without parole.

Thanks!

Hawkeye-X

[Kingofalldems]

2. Sean Hannity is a friend of his, no?

[GeorgeMullins]

9. Will he rat Hannity out?

I just have to wonder if, while he's in stir, Hal Turner will rat out Hannity.

Ooooh, this should be interesting to see.

[monmouth]

3. Sean Hannity is sad....HA!...n/t

[Downwinder]

4. I can't find it in me to feel sympathy for an FBI provocateur.

[Poll_Blind]

5. Enjoy your stay in jail ya nasty fuck. n/t

PB

[sinkingfeeling]

6. Not long enough!

[bullwinkle428]

7. I'm sure Hannity will visit him in prison regularly...NOT!

[CLANG]

8. Turner had claimed his tirades were protected by the constitutional right to free speech.

There's that pesky constitution again...:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[maddezmom]

10. kick

[Still a Democrat]

11. Extremist (RW) radio host goes down swinging before 33 month sentence is set

Source: Boston Herald

HACKENSACK, N.J. — Harold C. "Hal" Turner, the Internet radio shock jock and ex-FBI informant, gave a judge and prosecutors a taste of his signature incendiary commentary Tuesday before he was sentenced to 33 months in prison for threatening three federal appeals court judges.

The ultra-right-wing talk show host and blogger, once popular with white supremacists, protested his innocence and blasted U.S. District Judge Donald E. Walter and the Chicago-based assistant U.S. attorneys who prosecuted him, saying they manipulated the legal system to finally win a conviction after three trials.

"The charge against me was a lie from the beginning, and the verdict was invalid because it was based on fraud," declared Turner, 48, of North Bergen, dressed in a dark gray prison jumpsuit.

In a rambling, nearly hourlong diatribe, Turner accused the judge of "legal skullduggery" for changing the legal definition of a threat and ignoring more than 40 years of Supreme Court case law on freedom of speech and advocating violence.



Read more: http://www.bostonherald.com/jobfind/news/media/view/20101222extremist_radio_host_goes_down_swinging_before_33_month_sentence_is_set/srvc=home&position=also

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[Xithras]

16. Nope, he'll spend it in protective custody or be killed.

While he unquestioningly crossed a line in threatening the judge, it's been established that he was actually working for the FBI as an informant against the Aryan Nation the whole time. The FBI has also admitted that most of his schtick was an act to gain listeners. The Aryans aren't going to forget that.

[Hawkeye-X]

17. He's going to a federal prison.. probably a minimum security...

or medium security, so it'd be one of the FCI's... and they don't do protective custody unless it's REALLY extreme...

Let him deal with the brothers there.

[Hawkeye-X]

18. I would personally laugh if he's assigned to FCI Otisville.

Trust me....

[SpiralHawk]

13. RepubliWankers like Turner just can't handle reality

...they just fester in a sour soup of their own fear, and then spew the hate that infests their twisted souls in plug-ugly little temper tantrums. Soooo republicon.

[left on green only]

20. Hear, hear! This person has a way with words, and they are also

in line with my own heart. Repeat after me: right wing, red neck, neo-fascist, nazi. Once you've said the term, you'll find that it just kind of rolls off the tongue very easily. Politically speaking, the nazis *are* the right wing. Perhaps once Turner arrives in the big house, his aryan bros will be able to...ah..."align" his thinking for him. I wish that man many tubes of Prep. H. He's going to need them.

[Ian David]

14. Here's a video of his speech to the court...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dv8tVxk6Nj4

[tomm2thumbs]

15. very funny, you had me going! hahahahah

[alfredo]

19. No, this is it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qS7nqwGt4-I

[LawnKorn]

21. I just love news of right wingers going to jail

The longer they are in for, the better.

[Javaman]

22. I see all his ranting got his sentence reduced to 33 months LOL nt