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Federal Judge Finds Two Dead in Chicago Home [In her own home--Neo-Nazi situation update.]
Reuters ^ | 28FEB05 | Reuters

Posted on 03/01/2005 12:32:36 AM PST by 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.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chicago; hale; judge; lefkow; matthew; matthewhale
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1 posted on 03/01/2005 12:32:36 AM PST by familyop
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To: familyop

This type of activity will become all too frequent, I'm afraid.


2 posted on 03/01/2005 12:34:35 AM PST by clee1 (Islam is a deadly plague; liberalism is the AIDS virus that prevents us from defending ourselves.)
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To: clee1

why is that?


3 posted on 03/01/2005 12:37:13 AM PST by paul51 (11 September 2001 - Never forget)
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To: paul51

Because the nutcases are on the loose.

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

I predict that "homegrown" terrorism will be a bigger problem than Islamic terrorism in 10 years.


4 posted on 03/01/2005 12:42:59 AM PST by clee1 (Islam is a deadly plague; liberalism is the AIDS virus that prevents us from defending ourselves.)
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To: paul51
Because terrorism is a cheap window to power. This sort of terrorism is nothing less than a precursor of events which might threaten the whole of the rule of law and therefore the Republic.


5 posted on 03/01/2005 12:43:11 AM PST by nathanbedford (The UN was bribed and Good Men Died)
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To: familyop

Is this an update?


6 posted on 03/01/2005 12:48:38 AM PST by GeronL (Condi will not be mistaken for a cleaning lady)
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To: nathanbedford
I think that's why the American people won't have any more tolerance for them than islamofascists
7 posted on 03/01/2005 12:51:51 AM PST by paul51 (11 September 2001 - Never forget)
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To: clee1
"Supremacist Guilty In Chicago"
Cindy Sher and Minda Block Special to the Jewish Times
APRIL 30, 2004 Chicago
"Though Lefkow is not Jewish, in an e-mail letter to his followers regarding the trademark case, Hale refers to Lefkow as the 'judge with the Jew surname.'"

There's what Hale griped about. It's nicer that our government clamps down on terrorism than if the rest of us have to do it, instead, IMO. If the rest of us citizens had to do it, the outcome wouldn't be pretty at all.
8 posted on 03/01/2005 12:52:24 AM PST by familyop ("Let us try" sounds better, don't you think? "Essayons" is so...Latin.)
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To: GeronL

There's not much new information that I found, except for the bodies being those of the Judge's relatives and the background info.


9 posted on 03/01/2005 12:58:31 AM PST by familyop ("Let us try" sounds better, don't you think? "Essayons" is so...Latin.)
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To: paul51
If you consider the post bellum Reconstruction era Klan to be a terrorist organization, you might want to consider that those terrorists succeeded in America as Reconstruction was called off and Jim Crow triumphed.

My point is that terrorism can succeed here given the right circumstances and the right methods and ruthlessness, like mass murder with WMDs.


10 posted on 03/01/2005 1:08:00 AM PST by nathanbedford (The UN was bribed and Good Men Died)
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To: clee1
"The Judiciary, are seizing more and more power, giving the fringe elements more and more to gripe about."

Agree wholeheartedly. The irrational rulings of some Courts, often contradictory between Districts or at different levels, is only going to stoke these nutcases. 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?!?)

11 posted on 03/01/2005 1:08:39 AM PST by drt1
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To: drt1

That was exactly my point, thanks FRiend.


12 posted on 03/01/2005 1:12:07 AM PST by clee1 (Islam is a deadly plague; liberalism is the AIDS virus that prevents us from defending ourselves.)
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To: clee1; drt1
But the judge in this story ruled IN FAVOR OF Hale!

She was his big gumbah, so to speak.

13 posted on 03/01/2005 1:42:58 AM PST by muawiyah ( (no /sarcasm tag this time))
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To: muawiyah

Whoever said that nutcases were rational?

That's the problem with fanatics - they often lash out without any regard for where the blows land.


14 posted on 03/01/2005 1:45:25 AM PST by clee1 (Islam is a deadly plague; liberalism is the AIDS virus that prevents us from defending ourselves.)
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To: clee1

This is in the Chicago area. Odds are it's not a nutcase ~ just another criminal.


15 posted on 03/01/2005 2:03:02 AM PST by muawiyah ( (no /sarcasm tag this time))
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To: nathanbedford
If you consider the post bellum Reconstruction era Klan to be a terrorist organization, you might want to consider that those terrorists succeeded in America as Reconstruction was called off and Jim Crow triumphed

Odd, that silly suppostion. Here, go educate yourself:

The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow

That's how Reconstruction was ended: by a political decision made in Washington nearly a full twelve years after Appomattox, not a bunch of guys running around on horseback after hours that even the "Wizard of the Saddle" himself disdained to have anything to do with after they turned to violence.

16 posted on 03/01/2005 2:18:18 AM PST by A Jovial Cad ("I had no shoes and I complained, until I saw a man who had not feet.")
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To: A Jovial Cad

The end of Reconstruction was a compromise between the Democrats and Republicans. The Klan had little or nothing to do with that. However, for years after Reconstruction ended, white supremacists did have a reign of terror in parts of the country. The Federal government for the most part looked the other way while the Klan did whatever it wanted. Lynchings were an effective means of terrorism.


17 posted on 03/01/2005 2:48:49 AM PST by Wilhelm Tell
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To: familyop

The "dead relatives" were her husband and her mother.


18 posted on 03/01/2005 2:51:23 AM PST by Carolinamom
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To: familyop

Already posted here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1353091/posts


19 posted on 03/01/2005 2:58:31 AM PST by 7.62 x 51mm (• Veni • Vidi • Vino • Visa • "I came, I saw, I drank wine, I shopped")
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To: familyop

I remember looking up this "church" on the Internet after that lunatic shot those people. They literally are Nazis! I remember two or their slogans, "Racial Holy War" and "Our Race is Our Religion." Their website was filled with all sorts of vile slander against blacks and Jews. They also denounced Christianity and had unkind things to say about a Jew named Jesus. I don't know how many followers there are. They can't be very bright but they must be mentally unstable -- I don't think they could coordinate anything themselves but they would be useful idiots for Islamic terrorists. It would not surprise me at all if the Islamic terrorists were working with various fringe hate groups.


20 posted on 03/01/2005 3:12:44 AM PST by Wilhelm Tell
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