[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.

[Winstons Julia]

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.

[blueyon]

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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[Tanniker Smith]

Hal, when you were just "Hal from North Bergen" locally calling in on The Bob Grant Show, you were barely tolerable. Once you started on local radio, you became a horse's arse.

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.

[MissouriConservative]

Uh, when are they going to arrest Alec Baldwin for threating former Rep Henry Hyde and his family?....anyone?

[pissant]

The guy is a buffoon.

[Cicero]

"Let me be the first to say this plainly: These Judges deserve to be killed," said the postings, which also included photographs, phone numbers, work addresses and room numbers of the judges, along with a photo of the building in which they work and a map of its location.

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.

[The Electrician]

The guy is an idiot and a nutcase. And IANAL. But it would surprise me if the authorities can make these criminal charges stick (if he can get a skilled lawyer to defend him), in light of the First Amendment and prior Supreme Court rulings regarding protected speech vs. "fighting words"...

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?

[Calpernia]

I thought he was in CT. NJ extradicted him there for threatening CT Reps.

[Yosemitest]

Meet ‘em at the door, with a loaded forty-four!

[April Lexington]

Violence is not the answer. Volence only begets more violence. Gandhi didn't use violence. Martin Luther King didn't use violence, Havl didn't use violence. Even the Soviet wall collapsed without real violence. Conservatives must win on ideas if the victory be sustainable.