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Harold "Hal" Turner (born March 15, 1962) is an American White Nationalist Internet radio talk show host from North Bergen, New Jersey. His program, The Hal Turner Show, was broadcast from his home in North Bergen via the Internet on Wednesday evenings. He is also the owner and operator of the Turner Radio Network (not related to Ted Turner's Turner Broadcasting networks such as TNT, TBS, CNN, etc.).

In 2000, Turner sought the local Republican Party nomination for election in his local congressional district but lost to Democrat Bob Menendez and six other candidates, including another Republican, Theresa de Leon.

Turner was also the campaign manager for Libertarian Murray Sabrin, who is Jewish, in a number of campaigns in New Jersey in the 1990s according to various sources including Sabrin's website. Turner has made monetary contributions to the Sabrin campaign as recently as 2000, according to the Federal Election Commission.

Viewpoints

Turner describes himself as "so far to the right he makes Rush Limbaugh look like a liberal and Sean Hannity seem like a girlie-man." On his official website, Turner frequently rails against what he calls niggers and "savages," referring to the current urban African American culture, although he does not generally believe all black people are such. Turner makes frequent references to crimes committed by "negroes" and "spics" against white people on his site and radio program. Turner strongly opposes illegal immigration and the war on drugs. He is vehemently anti-Semitic and opposes the existence of Israel. Turner has stated that he believes assassination and overthrowing the government is an acceptable action, and that the current United States government is corrupt beyond repair. However, he has endorsed Ron Paul for president in 2008.

"Rally against violence"

On November 19, 2005, a rally was organized in response to the assault of a 14-year old white student, seriously injured by an older black student at Kingston High School. The white student's injuries required several reconstructive surgeries, and Turner made much of the suffering of the child on his radio show, often even engaging the child's mother on the air to discuss her sadness and outrage. While Turner occasionally implied that the black student "did not face any sanction" on his radio show, the 16-year old was in actuality charged as an adult with two felony counts, assault and attempted assault.

According to the mother of the victim, the assailant referred to the victim as a "white nigger" prior to the assault. A grand jury investigated the incident, and found that race was not a factor in the assault. Nonetheless, Turner aggressively pursued his "Rally Against Violence" by appealing to "pro-whites" with unsubstantiated allegations of black students terrorizing white students throughout the high school in the town; Turner claimed to have received many emails from "students in that high school that tell me these things are so terrible that they are afraid to go to (school)", marketing the appeal of the rally jointly not only to white supremacists, but also to anyone who misperceived the rally as indeed a rally "against violence." While the victim's mother at first suggested that she would attend the event, she ultimately declined, indicating that she is "not a racist".

Fight with Jaime Vazquez

On April 12, 2006, Turner had a physical altercation with Jaime Vazquez, a former Jersey City Deputy Mayor and member of the Jersey City Council; at the time Vazquez was Jersey City Commissioner of Veterans' Affairs. Vazquez, a disabled, Purple Heart-awarded Vietnam War veteran, was conducting a protest in front of Turner's house in response to Turner's hiring an airplane to carry a banner with an anti-Mexican slur over a political rally at Jersey City's Liberty State Park, and to comments he made about the rally. The North Bergen Reporter quoted Turner as saying "(t)he illegal immigrants are breaking the law, and people like me should break the law as well by shooting them down." In response, Vazquez protested with a sign that stated: "Hal Turner -- shoot me! Racists and bigots like you are cowards." Turner confronted Vazquez and a fight ensued, in the course of which Vazquez hurt his back and fractured his wrist.

Turner and Vazquez filed criminal charges against each other, but a Municipal Court Judge of the North Bergen Municipal Court subsequently found neither man criminally liable on July 16, 2006. Judge Joseph "Jay" Romano stated in his ruling:

"Frankly, I find both witnesses to be credible. I find both witnesses to be vehement in espousing their views and because their views diverge, there has to be some tension. Who pushed who is something this court cannot determine beyond a reasonable doubt."

Website controversies

On December 31, 2006 a message was posted on his blog stating that he is "as of now, DEFEATED", due to alleged ongoing attacks against his web site by various individuals, who Turner claims are working together against him. He claimed to file suits against these individuals, the details of which are available on PACER. However, he soon edited his blog post to state that his show will continue to be aired on the radio even if presently unavailable on the Internet, and his intention to rebuild his Internet presence with better hosting services. His site has undergone numerous periods of downtime, as of February 1, 2007, it has been removed from its original data center, and was briefly re-hosted until members of the One People's Project sent the host a notice that Turner's site was in violation of the AUP. Turner claims that his was the brunt of a widespread DDoS attack, organized by individuals against his cause. Three hosting centers have canceled their contracts with him short, due to the massive amounts of traffic, which affects not just Turner's server, but their other customers as well. Others are refusing to allow his server to be collocated with them at all. Currently, although the show's webpage may still be hosted, it requires user authentication, preventing any access to the site, suggesting breaches of the host's Acceptable Usage Policy.

From early March, plans were made to escalate the Internet pranking into a real-life demonstration outside Turner's home. Turner reported that raiders want to invade his home and harm his family. He has asked his fans to come to his support saying "I hereby grant permission for you to bring rifles, shotguns, handguns and other weapons to my home." However, the "raid" did not garner many numbers, and turned out to be a non-event.

Hal Turner's radio show was taken offline in February 2007 after a number of incidents on the Internets. A posting on his show's blog, dated April 8, 2007 , stated that the website will return by April 15th (and has). The posting also states "The site will change from a free site to a subscription-based site for news, message forums, visitor comments and tuning-in to the radio show." However, as of April 25, after several pleas for donations, Turner has decided to keep his site free for the general public for the time being.

"Assassination schedule"

On December 6, 2006, Turner announced on his website,

We may have to ASSASSINATE some of the people you elect on Nov. 7! This could be your LAST ELECTION CHANCE, to save this Republic... Sorry to have to be so blunt, but the country is in mortal danger from our present government and our liberty is already near dead because of this government. If you are too stupid to turn things around with your vote, there are people out here like me who are willing to turn things around with guns, force and violence. We hope our method does not become necessary.

According to news reports, the Secret Service would not comment and the FBI had no statement about ongoing investigations of Hal Turner.


References

  1. "Congressional Races". Center for Responsive Politics. Retrieved 2007-01-01.
  2. murraysabrin.com
  3. "F.E.C. IMAGE 20020212929 (Page 13 of 25)". Retrieved 2007-01-01.
  4. Hal Turner Show: Ron Paul Excluded
  5. ^ Fairchild, Mary (2005-12-14). "KHS teen indicted for assault, not hate crime". DailyFreeman.com. Retrieved 2007-01-01. Cite error: The named reference "DailyFreeman-assault" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  6. ^ Paul Kirby (2005-11-08). "Supremacist vows KHS rally". DailyFreeman.com. Retrieved 2007-01-01. Cite error: The named reference "DailyFreeman-rally" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  7. "Media do not agree about Hal Turner's Kingston Rally". national-socialism.us. 2005-11-20. Retrieved 2007-01-01. (Warning: this site might be illegal to view in Germany and other countries)
  9. UPI Wire Hate Talker's Assault Trial Delayed The Post Chronicle May 19, 2006
  10. Jim Hague No charges in case of ex-councilman v. white supremacist Hudson Reporter/NorthBergenReporter.com July 16, 2006
  11. The US PACER Site
  12. Official show blog
  13. Hal Turner's blog
  14. "Official Hal Turner Raid Forum"
  15. Hal Turner Show homepage
  16. Dallas Morning News. Hate-talk radio host down in mouth. 6 February 2007
  17. ^ 'Assassination' schedule announced for Congress: Radio-show host says leaders won't be allowed to 'betray' nation World News Daily, December 6, 2006

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