Judge Frank Easterbrook took the stand today in the case against Hal Turner.
Turner really wanted to be Glenn Beck, but all he ever amounted to was a guy with a small cancelled radio show and a website he used to convey his views about white supremacy. He was a Holocaust denier who acted for a time as an informant for the FBI against his own kind.
It turns out that Turner was just a bit miffed at Easterbrook’s decision in NRA v. Chicago last June, and his reaction was quite intemperate:
Let me be the first to say this plainly: These judges deserve to be killed. Their blood will replenish the tree of liberty. A small price to pay to assure freedom for millions.
He then provided the home addresses of 7th Circuit Judges Frank Easterbrook, Richard Posner and William Bauer to his readers.
Does this constitute an actual threat or conspiracy? Continued...