Hal Turner update: North Bergen blogger accused of threatening federal judges is held without bail

Hal Turner, 47, of North Bergen, N.J., represents too great a danger to the community to be freed from custody, U.S. Magistrate Judge Martin C. Ashman said.
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Turner called the judges “scum” and said “their blood will replenish the tree of liberty.”

His attorneys say he never advocated the judges’ murder but merely gave his opinion, which was constitutionally protected free speech.

At the hearing, prosecutors acknowledged that for several years Turner was a paid FBI informant, saying in a letter to his lawyers he had supplied information on “right-wing white nationalist and white supremacist groups.”

Turner turned a .22-caliber silencer kit sent to him over to the FBI in July 2007, saying it was “the perfect item for an assassin.”

He also e-mailed agents in November 2007 with word that Ku Klux Klan members were planning an arson at Middle Tennessee State University because a student there had been “willfully antagonizing folks in the pro-white movement.”

Odd.