An old pal of Sean Hannity may go to jail. I encountered a few of Hal's friends who swarmed to my posts for the SPLC....good to see him get what he deserves...hope his fans (White Supremacists) follow him.

"Hal Turner GUILTY: Blogger Convicted After Threatening Judges Over Chicago Gun Ban

First Posted: 08-13-10 05:44 PM | Updated: 08-13-10 05:47 PM

Conservative shock jock and blogger Hal Turner was convicted Friday for making death threats against federal appeals court judges in Illinois.

A New York City jury deliberated less than two hours Friday before finding Hal Turner guilty of threatening the judges, reportedly in retaliation for their 2009 ruling upholding handgun bans in Chicago and Oak Park.

According to a release from the FBI, Turner was arrested and charged in June of 2009 after expressing "outrage" over a handgun decision by Chief Judge Frank Easterbrook and Judges Richard Posner and William Bauer, of the Chicago-based 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

"Let me be the first to say this plainly," Turner wrote. "These Judges deserve to be killed."

The FBI reports that Turner 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.

The three judges testified in Brooklyn Wednesday, saying that their staff told them about Turner's postings.

Patrick J. Fitzgerald, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, issued a statement about the case Friday:

"There is no place in society for threatening federal judges with violence. Period. We are grateful that the jury saw these threats for what they were and rejected any notion that they were acceptable speech."

Turner's defense had argued that his rants were "political trash talk" protected by the First Amendment.

Two previous trials ended in hung juries.

Turner, who was previously free on bond, was taken into custody pending sentencing, according to the FBI.

He faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/0..._n_681881.html

i guess it's ok to scream out kill white babies, but to threaten a federal judge....

none of it is ok..but your constitution guarantees a persons right to express themselves freely..no matter how much in bad taste it appears to be...saying a judge deserves to be killed is way different from saying Im going to do it...
one is an expression
the other is a threat

I suppose what is up for debate is the intent of what was said...like passing a camel through the eye of a needle...but N.Americans seem to really excell in that....

well, they are sending him to jail for saying the judge deserves to be killed... and the guy on the video said they need to start killing white babies... these chickensh*^ judges are so biased its not even funny

well they are, afterall, "judges"..and while they have the law to guide them, its always an interpretation and totally subjective...I never could understand why people always get so worked up over judges..hell, even their rulings are called an "opinion"

lol - they all agree don't threaten a judge!

Hell, I have seen people in these forums here say worse things then that......

And people wonder what's wrong with 'activist' judges who legislate from the bench ...

Civics! It was a JURY trial. FOCKS must not have mentioned that...but hey did Hannity mention anything about his buddy Hal being convicted?

This place...groan.

I am torn on this, if it had ONLY been a stupid comment I would oppose the ruling

the comment COUPLED with names and addresses of those 'deserving to die' is a bit further than what I think any part of the constitution should cover


if a woman offers someone money to kill her husband, she has committed a crime even though she may have only spoken the words,,,,,its a touchy scenario

I can wish someone dead and verbalize it but I think the law has limits on how far we can go to implement that wish

I think no matter who you are if you are threatning to kill someone the police will take is seriously and you will go to jail.