Racist Rally Organizer’s Call for “Lynchings” in Kalamazoo Part of a History of Extremely Violent and Racist Statements

Racist radio talk show Hal Turner, who lives in New Jersey and is an associate of various white supremacist groups, has planned a rally for next month in Kalamazoo. The rally, billed as a “Rally Against Black Terrorism” against what Turner claims are targeted killings of white residents by African-Americans, is expected to be attended by representatives of many of the prominent organizations on the racist right, possibly making it the largest white supremacist gathering in Michigan since the National Socialist Movement (NSM) rally in Lansing last year.

Hal Turner has a history of extremely violent statements in which he calls on his supporters and members of the racist right to consider violent attacks against people of color. With regard to the Kalamazoo rally, Turner has commented that he believes Kalamazoo needs “a couple of lynchings” and that “savages are attacking, beating, and killing” whites. For his part, Turner has indicated that his violent rhetoric goes beyond the level of being idle talk, and has suggested that he is willing to undertake the violent acts that he regularly advocates. In an email, Turner told an activist that “I advocate what I am willing to do,” stating “what keeps me out of jail is that I do things alone and, unlike so many others, I don’t tell anyone I’ve done something illegal.”

What follows is a small selection of Turner’s statements over the years, culled from a variety of Internet sources and presented here as a means of arguing that this speech cannot be ignored and must be addressed for what it is, a call for genocide towards people of color that must be aggressively challenged and critiqued.

In regard to the current immigration debate, Turner has threatened to assassinate politicians supporting immigration reform:

ANY MEMBER OF CONGRESS WHO INTRODUCES, CO-SPONSORS OR VOTES IN FAVOR OF ANY SUCH AMNESTY WILL BE DECLARED A DOMESTIC ENEMY AND WILL BE CONSIDERED A LEGITIMATE TARGET FOR ASSASSINATION.

Turner first made this threat just before the November 2006 elections, arguing that violence might be needed to “turn things around” for white people:

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.

Focusing on undocumented immigrants, on April 1, 2006 Turner claimed that Mexicans are “sub-human” and advocates machine gunning immigrants at protests:

These filthy, disease ridden, two-legged bags of human debris are too stupid to believe… Just think, America, if we bring enough of them here, they can do for America exactly what they did for Mexico! Turn our whole country into a crime-ridden, drug infested slum….These people are sub-human. I would love it if folks who do have such weapons, used them on the crowds on April 10 [at immigration rallies]. I advocate machine gunning these invaders to death at their rallies!

On March 26, 2006, Turner advocated so-called “Lone Wolf” attacks against immigrants in which racists would individually kill immigrants in order to avoid the attacks being associated with a particular group:

Clean your guns. Have plenty of ammunition. April 10 is the day we fight….Wherever thousands of illegal aliens gather is the place. This is the perfect scenario, opportunity and obligation for LONE WOLF action….Go to the area well in advance, scope out several places to position yourself then do what has to be done….I think it would be correct for Military members to fly strafing runs against the assembled hordes. They wouldn’t have to worry about being Court Martialed and sentenced to death; the U.S. Military hasn’t executed a member since April 13, 1961!….I would love to see private pilots come in low, dump their fuel over the crowds and someone near the crowds throw a flare to ignite the fuel!

In December 2005, Turner argued advocated lynching African-Americans whom he described as a “beast” “species” that is different due to genetics:

How many times do these things have to happen before the rest of America wakes up to the fact that whites and blacks are totally incompatible? We are two separate species that simply cannot exist together because our very genetics make us so different. This beast should be LYNCHED!

In December 2005, Turner warned the world that rioting by African Americans unhappy with the Tookie Williams verdict should warrant this response:

IF YOU RIOT WE WILL GUN YOU DOWN IN THE STREET LIKE THE SAVAGE APES THAT YOU ARE…The days of filthy nigger savages running riot are OVER.

On November 6, 2005, turner commented on North African immigrant riots in France and once again argued that Africans have a genetic make-up that makes it impossible for them to live the “civilized” world:

I love the way the media tries to divert attention from who is really doing all this harm: SAVAGE NEGRO BEASTS! They are allowed into a civilized, white, first-world country. They cannot fit in because they simply do not have the genetic make-up to assimilate properly. Then they get angry that they cannot keep up; with rioting, pillaging and burning the inevitable result. When will the politically-correct crowd realize this irrefutable fact and stop pushing their stupid multi-culturalism on the civilized world?

On October 27, 2005, Turner threatened to send the “black community” back to Africa in chains. Turner cited the United States’ success in annihilating the Native Americans as proof that such a plan could succeed:

What I want to say to Black Americans, and I mean this, I mean this…your ancestors came here against their will in chains. If the Black community does not clean up its act and reign [sic] in its hoodlums…all of you and I mean *all* of you, can leave here the same way. That’s right, against your will and in chains. Think we can’t do it? Look at the Indians. All we have to do is play cowboys and Indians..see where they are? Well, the time is rapidly approaching where we’re going to play cowboys and niggers. Get the picture.

On October 11, 2005, Turner advocated killing undocumented immigrants and expressed hope that his rhetoric would inspire killings:

For the second time in a week, multiple Mexicans have been found shot dead just inside the U.S. Border. ! I ADVOCATE KILLING MORE OF THEM! For years I have been publicly advocating on my radio show and this web site, that Mexican illegal aliens be SHOT DEAD as they cross into the U.S. illegally. Now, they ARE being shot dead! I hope my rhetoric contributed to their deaths. I plant the seeds verbally and the seeds grow in the minds of others…I am proud to advocate even MORE killings! Illegal aliens should be KILLED as soon as they cross the border into the U.S…. Water stations placed in the desert should be poisoned. When enough of the illegals are KILLED, the rest will get the message not to come here. Death is a great deterrent! Even better is that it takes around 36 hours before cops even find the dead bodies. You can go on “safari” to kill dozens of these brown-skinned, sub-human animals and be long gone before the cops ever find your handy work.

In July 2005, turn advocated “violence” as the only means to achieve the goals of the racist right:

If you want social change in this country, if you want the homos shoved back in the closet, if you want the border with Mexico sealed, if you want the illegal aliens rounded up and deported out of the country, if you want the niggers and the spics to stop beating up, raping, robbing white people; well, guess what folks, it’s going to take violence. … That’s the reality. It is going to take violence.

On June 3, 2005, Turner advocated killing elected officials and judges:

Let me blunt; by ‘violence’ I mean KILLING elected officials and judges whose sinister, evil exercise of power has struck at the very heart of what America really is : A Constitutional Republic based upon White Christian values…I am ready to do what’s needed. Are you?

On May 15, 2005, Turner advocated killing undocumented immigrants:

I urge the hunting and killing of all illegal aliens as they cross the border into America. I implore Americans to arm themselves with sniper rifles and night vision scopes and kill every Mexican man woman and child who illegally crosses the U.S border. I advocate extreme violence against illegal aliens… I think it would be terrific to trap them by their ankles in steel bear traps then beat them to death when you return and find them in the trap. After they’re dead, they should be decapitated and their heads put on spikes as a warning to other Mexicans. I advocate putting poison in desert drinking water stations they use. They deserve to be doused with gasoline and set on fire. Another great idea is to shoot at them from planes and helicopters. Oh, if any American sides with the illegals- like a bigmouth politician or a politically-correct, ass-kissing local Sheriff, lawyers, Judges or the like – it would be a real public service to kill them too! If they side with the enemy, they should share the enemy’s fat.

On February 8, 2005, Hal Turner encouraged people to kill African-Americans in honor of his birthday:

I think a full day of violence against blacks … would be a really nice thing … complete with lynchings, church burnings, drive-by shootings and bombings to put these subhuman animals back in their place.

On September 25, 2002, Turner advocating killing Jewish Americans:

It is time to start killing Jews in the United States, cut their throat as they walk down the street, drive by and blast them with a shotgun…throw Molotov cocktails through their jewelry store windows and then Israel can ask us to stop.

On October 22, 2002, Turner encouraged his listeners to consider killing undocumented immigrants:

If the INS can’t do its job, and round up these illegal aliens, then in my opinion, we people who are here legally, should maybe think about drive-by shootings with machine guns in front of every Mexican Consulate and kill every single one of these invaders.

On August 28, 2000, Turner praised the apartheid government of South Africa and argued that the country is now unable to integrate into “civilized” society:

South Africa was a civilized society that was governed by white people who did what they knew was necessary to keep their indigenous population from killing themselves and from destroying the country. And because the left wing in this country thought that that was a terrible thing, they systematically went about depriving the South African government of its ability to do business in the world; and as a result the South African government stopped its system of apartheid and allowed ‘one man one vote.’ What they didn’t count on was that the one man that they were giving the vote to was a savage who had no idea how to exist in a civilized society.

In August 1998, Hal Turner asserted on Sean Hannity’s radio show that if it were not for white people, “black people would still be swinging on trees in Africa.”

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