Posted on 06/25/2009 5:52:20 PM PDT by STARWISE
Chicago Breaking News (CBN) reports that U.S. Attorney's office alleges that blogger Hal Turner publicly called for the killing of three federal appeals court judges who serve on the 7th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Chicago. The U.S. Attorney's office says that Turner's web site included photos of the judges and addresses for them, with statements such as:
"Let me be the first to say this plainly; These judges deserve to be killed."
Although the federal charges against Turner were brought in Chicago, he will appear in U.S. District Court in Newark, N.J. on Thursday, June 25.
Lotta looks, not many posts.
Maybe more people will post.
“These judges deserve to be killed.”
That’s completely out of line. I value right to free speech, but he crossed the line to inciteful (and crazy) speech.
He doesn’t get to say “they deserve to be killed”...for a gun ban? You might say a criminal should get the death penalty, but it’s abhorrent to make pronouncements like that.
Glad they are cracking down, hopefully some on a few other sites I visit will start to tone it down. They can be so mean spirited towards conservatives. *Here’s my disclaimer, Yes I know some on the right can be over the top at times. Hope every one is happy will my fair and balanced view. LOL
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That’s troubling. That you don’t have a problem with someone saying judges should be killed and giving out their addresses and showing their pictures. You may have a problem with their ruling, but death? Seriously.
That’s REALLY troubling.
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Oh man...calling for death? Libs are the worst! Some I’ve seen publicly would kill all the Fox News personalities, Rush, Sarah Palin...the list goes on.
But that is the “assimilate or be eliminated” mindset of groupthink liberals.
People thinking that posting addresses, pictures and a pronouncement of a pseudo-death penalty on people is ok had better be prepared to live with the kind of anarchy they are advocating.
I guess you didn't learn much when you were tossed from that show. No wonder Frank from QUeens and John from Staten Island went their own way.
Uh, when are they going to arrest Alec Baldwin for threating former Rep Henry Hyde and his family?....anyone?
The guy is a buffoon.
Laws don’t apply equally anymore.
I don’t think they’ve applied for a long time. I’m wondering when it changed? FDR? Lincoln?
This is WAY out of line. And he also cited the case of someone who murdered a judge and called for imitations.
Calling for an armed citizenry and the right to bear arms is not the same thing as calling on people to kill judges. These judges made a bad decision, but that is no excuse for something like this.
When I saw the headline, I thought maybe they had misread what he said or twisted it. But they did not.
That, more than anything else, is responsible for people going over the edge, I believe.
Probably sometime just after the Revolutionary War. I wonder if it's always been this way.
Sounds like the guy was ‘out there’ for sure. You can’t go around threatening people and calling for someone’s death. I don’t have a problem with the FBI going after someone like this.
If he had uttered the same words to an assembled crowd, pitchforks and torches in hand, the situation would likely be judged differently (although how Al Sharpton has managed to stay out of jail for his incitement of the crowd leading to the deaths at Freddie's Fashion Mart)...
Of course, having studied the law, the attorneys who brought the charges against the guy almost certainly know that his speech is protected by the First Amendment, but since when has a determined prosecutor allowed either the Constitution or the Law to get in the way of their efforts?
I thought he was in CT. NJ extradicted him there for threatening CT Reps.
Turner is a lib. He aligns himself with the Neo Nazi’s which is the National Socialists.
Ok. Looks like he’s really pro 2nd Amendment, though. Huh.
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