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Internet radio shock jock Hal Turner sentenced to prison for threatening judges
New York Daily News ^ | 12/21/10 | John Marzulli

Posted on 12/21/2010 2:10:30 PM PST by Nachum

Internet radio shock jock Harold (Hal) Turner was sentenced Tuesday to 33 months in prison for threatening three federal judges. Federal Judge Donald Walter sentenced Turner after the right-wing talk show host ranted in Brooklyn Federal Court for an hour about his innocence, the three criminal trials it took to convict him and over-zealous prosecutors. (Snip) Prosecutors asked the judge to slam Turner with six years in prison for writing on his blog that three appellate judges in Chicago "deserved to die" for overturning a local ban on handguns.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: internet; jock; radio; shock
Turner, 48, a former snitch for the FBI and U.S. Marshals Service, claimed his government handlers at the time had urged him to make provocative statements and advocate for violent resistence to smoke out domestic terrorists.

Still working as a snitch Hal? Who you trying to smoke out now?

1 posted on 12/21/2010 2:10:36 PM PST by Nachum
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“claimed his government handlers at the time had urged him to make provocative statements and advocate for violent resistence to smoke out domestic terrorists”

Wow. That’s a heck of a statement.

Just wow.


2 posted on 12/21/2010 2:14:05 PM PST by Christian Engineer Mass (Leftys who zone in on Palin miss the point. America's not about single figures. That's for NK/Cuba.)
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To: Nachum

No handler who ever wants a search warrant approved in the future is going to tell one of their informants to call for the death of federal judges.


3 posted on 12/21/2010 2:17:07 PM PST by untrained skeptic
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Not directly, but he’s claiming that’s how he interpreted “make provocative statements and advocate for violent resistence”

And it’s a pretty specific claim. Most people, when they lie, tend to go for something general, something that everyone can understand.

They don’t tend to zero in on something incredibly specific like that.


4 posted on 12/21/2010 2:23:21 PM PST by Christian Engineer Mass (Leftys who zone in on Palin miss the point. America's not about single figures. That's for NK/Cuba.)
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To: Nachum
"..right-wing talk show host.."

They couldn't resist, the NY Daily New pricks! Hal Turner is a White Nationalist talk show host....when he isn't a Government informant.

Informers don't do well in the Joint. He better be in the Security Housing Unit (SHU).

5 posted on 12/21/2010 2:24:43 PM PST by Anti-Bubba182
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Actually, reading his Wikipedia page, which I should have done right at the outset, it makes more sense. I didn't realise this guy was a socialist jew-hater.
6 posted on 12/21/2010 2:27:30 PM PST by Christian Engineer Mass (Leftys who zone in on Palin miss the point. America's not about single figures. That's for NK/Cuba.)
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I didn't realize this guy was a socialist jew-hater.
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Sounds more like a Zero supporter.

7 posted on 12/21/2010 2:39:20 PM PST by 23 Everest (A gun in hand is better than a cop on the phone.)
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To: Nachum

Its illegal to say that you think “someone deserves to die?”


8 posted on 12/21/2010 3:07:38 PM PST by Husker24
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Only if you’re a conservative


9 posted on 12/21/2010 3:12:05 PM PST by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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A conservative that is pro gun control?


10 posted on 12/21/2010 3:19:07 PM PST by Ramius (Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
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“A conservative that is pro gun control?”

Possible an overzealous Liberal reporter wanting to blame conservatives somehow.


11 posted on 12/21/2010 3:29:45 PM PST by preacher (A government which robs from Peter to pay Paul will always have the support of Paul.)
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