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Blogger's Case May Test Limits of Free Speech
N.J. Man Said Judges Should Be Killed

By Peter Slevin
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, August 16, 2009

CHICAGO -- Internet radio host Hal Turner disliked how three federal
judges rejected the National Rifle Association's attempt to overturn a
pair of handgun bans.

"Let me be the first to say this plainly: These Judges deserve to be
killed," Turner wrote on his blog June 2, according to the FBI. "Their
blood will replenish the tree of liberty. A small price to pay to assure
freedom for millions."

The next day, Turner posted photographs of the appellate judges and a
map showing the Chicago courthouse where they work, noting the placement
of "anti-truck bomb barriers." When an FBI agent appeared at the door of
his New Jersey home, Turner said he meant no harm.

He is now behind bars awaiting trial for threatening the judges, deemed
by a U.S. magistrate as too dangerous to be free.

Turner's case will likely test the limits of political speech at a time
when incendiary talk is proliferating on broadcast outlets and the
Internet, from the microphones of well-known commentators to the
keyboards of anonymous webizens. President Obama has been depicted as a
Nazi and slain Kansas abortion doctor George Tiller as "Tiller the
killer." On guns and abortion, war and torture, taxes and now health
care, the commentary feeds off pools of anger that ebb and flow with the
zeitgeist.

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