Friends,
I am in the Bay Area and rocking with the San Francisco Bay View newspaper. But something quite insidious is happening and I think you should know immediately how it involves my friends and me.
Hot on the heels of my learning that the Georgia Green Party might have been described by the U.S. Government as a “terrorist organization,” it has just now come to my attention that a “journalist” who suggested that I be lynched was actually being paid by our own government to say that. Now, when I reported it to the FBI, how in the world was I to know that he was at that time on the FBI’s payroll? Interesting that charges stem from his comments against Connecticut lawmakers and Illinois judges, but not from the threat made against me, a sitting Member of Congress at the time! I wonder why. To whom can I or any other innocent citizen turn when the government, itself, is the instigator? John Judge, my Congressional staffer, is the one who reported the threat. Here is what John just wrote, along with the article that reports that Turner was on the FBI payroll at the time the threat was made against me, according to Turner’s attorney. See the green highlights below:
John Judge wrote:
This is the guy who announced a program topic suggesting that Cynthia McKinney be lynched on her way to the polls to vote in 2006 and published her campaign office address on the website. He asked how she would look swinging at the end of a rope and what message it would send to other “uppity” Blacks. I called NJ Homeland Security and FBI at the time sincee related to it as a death threat. The FBI agent I spoke to said “We know all about Mr. Turner”. Looks like they did. Now they say he was trained as an agent provocateur by the FBI to get others to participate in illegal acts. As Jim Garrison says in the movie JFK after interviewing Clay Shaw, “I think we got one”. Here is an excerpt _ JJ
“Prosecutors have acknowledged that Turner was an informant who spied on radical right-wing organizations, but the defense has said Turner was not working for the FBI when he allegedly made threats against Connecticut legislators and wrote that three federal judges in Illinois deserved to die.
“*But if you compare anything that he did say when he was operating, there was no difference. No difference whatsoever,*” Orozco said.”
Harold Charles “Hal” Turner is an American white nationalist and white supremacist from North Bergen, New Jersey. He was arrested in June 2009 over alleged threats to politicians, and is currently jailed without bail. Prior to Turner’s arrest his program, The Hal Turner Show, was a webcast from his home once a week, and it depended on listener donations.
According to the
Associated Press Hal Turner has exposed through his attorney that he worked for the
FBI from 2002 to 2007 as an “agent provocateur” and “his job was basically to publish information which would cause other parties to act in a manner which would lead to their arrest”
[3]Threats against judges and political figures
Attorney: FBI trained NJ blogger to incite others
By KATIE NELSON (AP) – 1 day ago
HARTFORD, Conn. — A New Jersey blogger facing charges in two states for allegedly making threats against lawmakers and judges was trained by the FBI on how to be deliberately provocative, his attorney said Tuesday.
Hal Turner worked for the FBI from 2002 to 2007 as an “agent provocateur” and was taught by the agency “what he could say that wouldn’t be crossing the line,” defense attorney Michael Orozco said.
“His job was basically to publish information which would cause other parties to act in a manner which would lead to their arrest,” Orozco said.
Prosecutors have acknowledged that Turner was an informant who spied on radical right-wing organizations, but the defense has said Turner was not working for the FBI when he allegedly made threats against Connecticut legislators and wrote that three federal judges in Illinois deserved to die.
“But if you compare anything that he did say when he was operating, there was no difference. No difference whatsoever,” Orozco said.
Special Agent Ross Rice, a spokesman for the FBI in Chicago, said he would not comment on or even confirm Turner’s relationship with the FBI.
Orozco spoke to reporters after a court hearing in Hartford on Tuesday. Turner, 47, of North Bergen, N.J., did not appear, because he is in federal custody in Illinois. His arraignment on the Connecticut charges was rescheduled to Oct. 19.
In June, Turner urged his readers to “take up arms” against Connecticut lawmakers and suggested government officials should “obey the Constitution or die,” because he was angry over legislation — later withdrawn — that would have given lay members of Roman Catholic churches more control over their parish’s finances.
He wrote in Internet postings the same month that the Illinois federal appeals judges “deserve to be killed” because they issued a ruling that upheld ordinances in Chicago and suburban Oak Park banning handguns. He included their photos and the room numbers of their chambers at the courthouse.
Orozco officially joined Turner’s defense team in the Connecticut case on Tuesday, with approval from Superior Court Judge David Gold. Orozco said his Newark, N.J.-based firm has been representing Turner for the past five years, including during his FBI informant years.
Turner’s Connecticut attorney, Matthew R. Potter, said it’s too early to tell which trial will move forward first. Orozco said he plans First Amendment defenses in both cases.
Randall Samborn, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney’s office in Chicago, said the office would not comment on Orozco’s statements.
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According to this article: Hal Turner worked for the FBI as an ‘agent provocateur’ to basically publish information that might cause other parties to act in a manner which would lead to their arrest.
One must wonder, how many other FBI ‘agent provocateurs’ at this moment might be agitating Muslims, right-wing extremists and others to commit serious crimes against Americans.
When FBI ‘agent provocateur’ Hal turner allegedly mentioned lynching Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, wasn’t it foreseeable to the FBI that might cause an extremist to harm Cynthia in some manner? The FBI’s distribution of hate information through an “Agent Provocateur”, is a method used by terrorists to motivate “lone wolfs” and members of leaderless groups to commit crimes that could include murder? Were the alleged actions of FBI ‘agent provocateur’ Hal Turner regarding Cynthia McKinney, representative of FBI policy, to intimidate or coerce Black and other civilian populations: or the work of a shadow government operating with its own agenda? Americans deserve an answer to that question.
Ironically the FBI/U.S. Justice after targeting Cynthia McKinney, in 2007 supported several pieces of anti-terrorist legislation to protect Americans from the same criminal acts, the FBI appears to have promoted using Hal Turner, e.g., see SB 1959 “The Prevention of Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Act”; referred to by Americans, as the “Thought Crime Bill.”
After revelations of an FBI Agent Provocateur targeting Cynthia McKinney, one can’t help recall the FBI’s investigative role in the 1993 Bombing of the World Trade Center: it was reported an FBI informant used a taping device provided by the FBI to also tape the FBI: recordings that allegedly revealed the informant urging the FBI to prevent the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993. One reference: see Los Angles Times article on 10/28/93 address this issue.
Government informants are out of control: Congress needs to pass legislation that provides stronger oversight of government informants. It appears obvious there is little or no prudent oversight of informants by police and government agencies. And too frequently informants lie to please their handlers.