Latest News on Turner:
From www.nj.com (edited by me)
New Jersey blogger Hal Turner, whose views have been labeled racist, anti-Semitic and anti-government, was arrested on a warrant obtained by Connecticut's Capitol Police Department Wednesday after he urged readers to "take up arms" against two lawmakers and a member of the state ethics office.
Taken into custody at North Bergen police headquarters, Turner, 47, was later transferred to the Hudson County Correctional Center in Kearny, where he remains pending extradition to the Constitution State. No bail has been set.
Turner's lawyer, Michael Orozco, said today his client will fight extradition, a process that could take a month or longer. Orozco declined further comment.
In a commentary posted on his website Tuesday, Turner railed against Connecticut state Rep. Michael Lawlor and state Sen. Andrew McDonald for their support of a controversial bill that would have given lay people more power over governance of Roman Catholic churches. Amid an outcry, the bill was withdrawn in March.
Turner also singled out Thomas K. Jones, a state ethics official, for launching an investigation into whether church leaders violated state lobbying guidelines in connection with their campaign against the measure.
"It is our intent to foment direct action against these individuals personally," Turner wrote. "These beastly government officials should be made an example of as a warning to others in government: Obey the Constitution or die."
He wrote that he planned to release the home addresses of the three officials during his next internet radio broadcast. Turner was arrested before the broadcast took place. In a statement, Capitol Police chief Michael Fallon said Turner's comments amount to a clear threat.
In the next paragraph, Turner added: "If any state attorney, police department or court thinks they're going to get uppity with us about this, I suspect we have enough bullets to put them down too."
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Turner was charged with inciting injury to persons or property, a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison, with a minimum one-year sentence.
Provocative and confrontational, Turner has routinely placed the home addresses of his targets on his website, along with maps to show the way. A day before his arrest, he singled out three federal appellate judges who had upheld a ban on handguns in Chicago.
"Let me be the first to say this plainly," Turner wrote. "These judges deserve to be killed."
So apparently, when the heat is on government officials, instead of just ordinary citizens, the effected parties will take action. Absent that, we're pretty much on our own.
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