Federal Judge Finds Two Dead in Chicago Home [In her own home--Neo-Nazi situation update.]

Reuters ^ | 28FEB05 | Reuters

[familyop]

CHICAGO (Reuters) - A federal judge who was the target of a death plot by a jailed white supremacist returned to her home on Monday to find two people dead inside, police said.

Chicago police spokesman Pat Camden would only say there was a "death investigation" under way and released no names. But the Chicago Tribune on its Web site said the dead were the husband and mother of the U.S. District Court judge, Joan Lefkow, and that their bodies were found lying in blood.

Last year a jury convicted Matthew Hale, founder of the "World Church of the Creator," with trying to hire someone to kill Lefkow, who had been presiding over a case that involved him on another matter.

Hale has been in jail and was due to be sentenced later this year.

In July of 1999 one of his alleged followers went on a shooting rampage in the Chicago area and in nearby states, killing two people and wounding nine others. His targets included blacks and Jews.

Hale was not charged in relation to that crime. His "church" may have existed mainly as a Web site and it was never clear how many followers he had.

[A Jovial Cad]

Ummmm...that was my point. Just what you posted.

I assume you were agreeing with me? If so, thanks.

[nathanbedford]

Go educate yourself on your own quotation:

The deadlock was broken behind closed doors when Southern Democrats agreed to support Hayes' claim for the Presidency if he would support increased funding for Southern internal improvements and agree to end Reconstruction, thus guaranteeing home rule -- meaning white control -- in the South. Hayes became President and the Southern Democrats could reverse with impunity the gains that blacks had made during Reconstruction.

You might educate yourself on the period before you dismiss the insurrection which was carried on in the south until the Tilden Hayes compromise which ended Reconstruction with precisely the political result the Klan wanted. In effect, the forces represented by a terroristic organization triumphed against the whole force of the federal government. But you can maintain your bravado if you like, and ignore history. Why do you think the North gave up the whole effort of Reconstruction and reversed every gain the Radical Republicans made on behalf of Blacks? It was not merely to gain the oval office. Most of the troops had been withdrawn by then from all but four states of the deep south.

My point remains, no society, is immune to destruction from terrorism.

[GaltMeister]

Elwood: Illinois Nazis.

Jake: I hate Illinois Nazis.

[texasbluebell]

In July of 1999 one of his alleged followers went on a shooting rampage in the Chicago area and in nearby states, killing two people and wounding nine others. His targets included blacks and Jews.

Unfortunately, I remember this all too well. One of the murdered victims lived within a couple of miles of where I was living at the time. He was a basketball coach at Northwestern U., IIRC, not to mention husband and father of young children.

[justshutupandtakeit]

No she ruled against him and he threatened her. She has been a federal judge since 1982. Wonder if she had any cases with the Islamofascists. Hale thought she or her husband were Jewish though they were actually Methodist.

[Cultural Jihad]

The Federal Government, and especially the Judiciary, are seizing more and more power, giving the fringe elements more and more to gripe about.

Supposedly we ought to listen to their cry of "Just everyone leave me alone!" to go about their murderous and hateful ways. No, in a civilized world we stand up to thugs and bullies and petty tyrants who want to infringe on other's rights. These loons do not need any reason for hating and murdering. Anyone who claims that we are somehow forcing them to do so is like claiming we are forcing terrorists to attack us by our opposing them.

[Cultural Jihad]

The fact of obvious inadequacies of this system adds more fuel to the fire of taking the law into their own hands(Enron - Skilling/Lay go to trial in 2006?!?)

OMG! Enron executives go to trial next year, and therefore haters are going to be hating even more! (sheesh)

[Cultural Jihad]

The only ones who claim that Enron was a defining moment for our nation are liberals.

[muawiyah]

The other litigant in that trademark case has a website at: http://www.churchofthecreator.org/TM/TMindex.html

Read it and tell me what Judge Leftkow's INITIAL decision said? Else, why would the "Foundation" need to take this case to an appeals court?

Leftkow was ordered by the Appeals Court to issue a new decision in the matter.

Hale then threatened to kill all sorts of people including Leftkow. He got convicted of that.

[justshutupandtakeit]

That is correct. I was going on the last decision.

[Dumb_Ox]

Apparently my mother, a native of Chicago, knew this woman. She mentioned last night that in addition to the white supremacists, this judge had also worked on a case in which goverment folks were selling fake drivers' licenses to the highest bidder. Mom says the scandal contributed to the discrediting of the last governorship. I suppose it's possible the white supremacist link is a red herring.

Anyone else hear about the drivers' licenses? I'll ask my mom about her source later tonight.

[motexva]

You know, something doesn't add up here. Picture one of two scenarios -

1) Hale hired a professional hitman. PROBLEM - Why would a professional have killed non-targets?

2) Hale recruired a fanatic who was inexperienced. PROBLEM - Why didn't they wait around with the bodies until the judge came home?

Apparently the daughter came home and retrieved a bag or something, and noticed nothing amiss. Did she scare off the killer? PROBLEM - Why didn't they just kill her?

Another complication, especially if the actual triggerman isn't found - when the prosecutors try to pin it on Hale, his defense can argue that his prosecution for conspiracy provided cover for the actual killer who had a different revenge motive.

In any event, expect the libs to use these poor people's murders as an excuse to push for gun control.