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Andrew Anglin
Daily Stormer
March 22, 2015
Following two years in prison and a multi-year ban on owning a website or hosting a radio show, FBI informant and “shock jock” Hal Turner is scheduled for a triumphant return to radio.
Turner plans to launch the “Hal Turner Show” on Oct. 7 on WBCQ, an international shortwave radio station based out of Monticello, Maine. The station carried Turner’s show prior to his arrest in 2009, and Turner promises to tear into the U.S. government for how he was treated.
“There will be a reckoning of what was done to me,” he told NJ Advance Media on Wednesday. “They will hear my wrath.”
In 2009, authorities accused the North Bergen talk show host of threatening to kill three Chicago federal judges who upheld a handgun ban. Turner “expressly threatened” the judges when he wrote on his website that they “deserved to be killed,” and bragged in an earlier post that he knew how to “get it done,” according to authorities. After two trials ended with hung juries, he was convicted and spent 28 months in prison and four and a half months in a halfway house.
Leading up to his arrest, Turner’s radio show was popular with white supremacists, neo-Nazis and other racist groups. According to a Supreme Court brief filed by the U.S. Department of Justice in 2013, his popularity with extremists prompted the FBI to enlist Turner as an informant from 2003 to 2007 to report on any planned acts of violence.
Before news of his double life as an FBI informant surfaced, various news organizations described Turner as a xenophobe and hate-monger. The Southern Poverty Law Center’s website describes Turner as a “white supremacist true believer,” and has a full page dedicated to explaining the designation. But Turner said on Wednesday that he isn’t a white supremacist and never was, that he only learned about the demographics of his audience when the FBI approached him. He described himself as a conservative-republican, who specializes in “robust talk radio” that flouts political correctness.
Turner has criticized authorities for arresting him for the kind of writing that closely mirrored stories he said were encouraged by the FBI to further stoke his supremacist fan-base. Though, the 2013 brief states that the FBI warned Turner about his own violent writing.
He has repeatedly challenged his 2010 conviction, to no avail. In October, the Supreme Court declined to hear his petition, which claimed that the statements he made on the website were protected by the First Amendment. Now he’s taking his fight back to the radio waves.
Turner was a rat, not because he turned in people who wrote him advocating violence – that is simply avoiding being prosecuted as an accomplice – but because he literally encouraged people to write in and say they were planning acts of violence and then after that turned them in.
This is just the nutty way the FBI works sometimes. They actually try to create criminals so that they can arrest them. They do this same thing to Moslems. Though with Moslems it probably takes less energy.
I am shocked Turner is returning though.
