THE SENTENCE: HAL TURNER GETS 33 MONTHS

And he’s off. Hal Turner has been given a little over 2 1/2 years in the federal pen to think about if this whole white power bad boy thing was worth it. If there is one thing that never stops ringing true is if you screw with good people, sooner or later, good people will screw with you back! Turner made it a staple in his internet radio career to threaen those he hates with murder over the airwaves, from us to politicians to 5-year-old girls. But three judges in Chicago weren’t going to let it slide, and now Turner is a convicted felon. And it’s not over either. He still has charges pending from when he did the same thing to state legislators in Connectcuit, and whatever time he has in the federal pen is only going to be extended if they net a conviction there. He would have been better off putting his money where his mouth is and actually carry out one of those threats. Then someone could have shot him to death in self defense and put him out of his misery.

NY Daily News

Internet radio shock jock Harold (Hal) Turner was sentenced Tuesday to 33 months in prison for threatening three federal judges.

Federal Judge Donald Walter sentenced Turner after the right-wing talk show host ranted in Brooklyn Federal Court for an hour about his innocence, the three criminal trials it took to convict him and over-zealous prosecutors.

“The three trials were more like a three-ring circus and you were a ringmaster,” Turner told Walter.

Prosecutors asked the judge to slam Turner with six years in prison for writing on his blog that three appellate judges in Chicago “deserved to die” for overturning a local ban on handguns.

Turner posted their photos on the Web, a photo of the courthouse and a map showing its location.

The first two trials ended in hung juries. The case was transferred to the Eastern District of New York because Judges Frank Easterbrok, Richard Posner and William Bauer presided in the courthouse where Turner would have been tried in Chicago.

Turner, 48, a former snitch for the FBI and U.S. Marshals Service, claimed his government handlers at the time had urged him to make provocative statements and advocate for violent resistence to smoke out domestic terrorists.

“I love America, I’ve made America safer,” he said. “Honest to God, I don’t believe I violated the law.”

After he’s released from prison, Turner is also barred from participating in Internet or satellite radio programming for three years.