NY Times: Tracing Xenophobic Internet Chatter to Its Roots in New Jersey Town

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Tracing Xenophobic Internet Chatter to Its Roots in New Jersey Town

By KAREEM FAHIM and NATE SCHWEBER
Published: June 30, 2009


The words of Hal Turner, incendiary and provincial as they might seem, have echoed far beyond the small Internet radio studio in his home in North Bergen, N.J., where, until his arrest last week, a neighbor knew him to be cordial if frequently confrontational.

Once an aspiring politician, Mr. Turner has become a controversial blogger and Internet radio host who has attracted attention from civil rights monitoring groups for his anti-immigrant and anti-Semitic pronouncements, and from authorities in Connecticut, where he was charged earlier this month with inciting violence against state lawmakers.

In April, Mr. Turner was suspected of playing a role in briefly driving down bank stocks after he claimed to have been leaked the results of bank stress tests conducted by the Treasury Department.

Last week, Mr. Turner achieved a new level of notoriety after federal authorities charged him with threatening in blog posts to assault and murder three federal appeals court judges. .......(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/30/nyregion/30radio.html?ref=nyregion

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1. Gee, his right to "free speech" ended when he started tossing threats!

Lock him up. Putz. Hateful little shit. He looks angry, too:

These judges deserve to be killed,” Mr. Turner wrote on his Web site, turnerradionetwork.com, which has since been taken down. “Their blood will replenish the tree of liberty.” He also posted the names, photos, phone numbers and work addresses of the three judges.

Mr. Turner’s words, which will test the boundaries of free speech, have emerged from an unlikely place: a three-story brick building across from a car wash in North Bergen, where many of his neighbors are Hispanic. Federal agents arrested him there last week, finding three semiautomatic handguns and a shotgun, along with 350 rounds of ammunition.

At a hearing on Thursday, prosecutors said they would consent to letting Mr. Turner remain under house arrest after posting bail if he surrendered all his broadcasting equipment and Internet access. The police planned to monitor his home computers to ensure that he stayed off the Web. He would also have to submit to a mental health evaluation and not travel outside New Jersey and northern Illinois, where he is charged.

The judge, Michael A. Shipp, said: “Quite frankly, after reading all the information I’m concerned about the defendant’s threat to the community.” ....On Monday, a note from Mr. Turner, apparently written in jail, was posted on his Web site. In it, he asked his supporters for money to pay a lawyer and to post bond.

“I’ve been jailed in protective custody on account of the U.S. marshals because I’m the only non-Hispanic white guy in the prison,” the note said. Visitors to his Web site are now directed to a blog run by his mother.

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2. "I’m the only non-Hispanic white guy in the prison,” To him, evidence he was wronged?

To me, evidence of something else, perhaps?

No white criminals? I seriously doubt that.

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3. Just another right wing coward arm chair soldier.

Sitting on a small arsenal if this dosshbag had had the courage of his convictions and really believed that what he said was right and true he would have made good on his tough guy blow hard rhetoric, defended his speach and gone out in a blaze of glory when the GUMMINT came to take him and his toys away.

Instead all of the "prying it out of my cold dead hands" shit went out the window and this phony right wing blow hard went put his tail between his legs and went peacefully.

Typical of these assholes. All talk. (except for the TRULY crazy ones that shoot up innocent unarmed people at churches and in medical clinics)

Fuck him.