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Sept. 17 (Bloomberg) -- Hal Turner, the Internet “shock jock” radio host in prison for threatening federal judges, was acquitted by a jury of inciting his blog readers to injure three Connecticut government officials.
A state jury in Hartford, after a trial that started Sept. 15, found Turner not guilty yesterday of writing threatening comments on the Turner Radio Network website because he was upset at what he saw as anti-Catholic legislation. The three government officials were never attacked.
“I never said go attack these men,” Turner, 49, who represented himself at the trial, told the jury in his closing argument yesterday. “I said put down this tyranny by force. It’s an abstract concept. You can’t go to a supermarket and buy a can of tyranny. I did not say go kill those men.”
Turner, of North Bergen, New Jersey, was convicted last year in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, of threatening three Chicago-based U.S. appeals judges because of their ruling upholding a gun ban. Turner, who has appealed his federal conviction, is serving a 33-month prison sentence.
His federal conviction came after two previous juries couldn’t reach a verdict.
“I’m disappointed with the verdict,” Senior Assistant State’s Attorney Thomas R. Garcia, who prosecuted Turner in Connecticut, said in a phone interview. Turner was acquitted of a felony count of inciting injury and a misdemeanor count of threatening.
First Amendment
“He’s not charged with violating the First Amendment, as much as he wants to wrap himself in it,” Garcia told the jury in his closing argument yesterday. “Politicians deserve protection under the law.”
Turner has advocated violence against blacks, Jews and immigrants on his website and Internet radio show, according to the Anti-Defamation League, created in 1913 to monitor anti- Semitism.
In April 2009, the U.S. Treasury Department was forced to deny Turner’s blog post that said most of the U.S.’s largest banks were insolvent and that sent down financial-sector stocks when it was cited by Theflyonthewall.com.
In his June 2, 2009, blog post, Turner exhorted readers to injure state Senator Andrew J. McDonald, state Representative Michael Lawlor and Thomas K. Jones, Connecticut’s ethics enforcement officer, prosecutors said. He promised to announce their home addresses on his next radio show, which he never did, according to court papers. He was arrested June 11, 2009.
‘Take Up Arms’
“TRN advocates Catholics in Connecticut take up arms and put down this tyranny by force,” Turner wrote on his website, according to court papers. “It is our intent to foment direct action against these individuals personally.”
Turner was protesting a bill that would have replaced priests and bishops with boards of lay people to oversee the finances of Roman Catholic parishes, according to court papers.
“If any state’s attorney, police department or court thinks they’re going to get uppity with us about this: I suspect we have enough bullets to put them down too,” Turner wrote, according to the government.
McDonald and Lawlor, Democrats who sponsored the legislation, now work in Governor Dannel P. Malloy’s administration. Jones had opened an investigation into the Bridgeport Diocese because it hadn’t registered as a lobbyist to oppose the bill, according to the government.
‘Big Bad Government’
“This was not an abstract reference,” Garcia told the jury. “He named them personally. This is not a battle between big bad government and little Hal Turner.”
McDonald and Jones testified at the trial. Turner presented no witnesses.
On Sept. 6, Connecticut Superior Court Judge Carl Schuman ruled against Turner’s request to toss the case both on free- speech grounds and because Connecticut had no jurisdiction over him as a New Jersey resident.
“In the United States of America, we are supposed to be able to express our opinions,” Turner told the jury. “The state is prosecuting me simply for uttering words.”
Last week, while the jury was being picked, Turner fired his lawyer, John L. Stawicki, a public defender. He represented himself with Stawicki advising him.
Turner was convicted of threatening federal judges Frank Easterbrook, Richard Posner and William Bauer because of their ruling, also in June 2009, upholding handgun bans in Chicago and Oak Park, Illinois. A lower court previously dismissed the National Rifle Association’s challenge to the ordinances. The U.S. Supreme Court overturned the handgun bans last year.
The case is State of Connecticut v. Turner, CR09-63265-T, Superior Court of Connecticut (Hartford). The federal case is U.S. v. Turner, 09-cr-00650, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York (Brooklyn). Turner’s appeal is U.S. v. Turner, 11-196, 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (Manhattan).
--Editors: Mary Romano, Andrew Dunn
To contact the reporters on this story: Thom Weidlich in Brooklyn, New York, federal court at tweidlich@bloomberg.net; Alix Boyle in state court in Hartford, Connecticut, at alix_boyle@sbcglobal.net.
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Michael Hytha at mhytha@bloomberg.net.
The Singapore Sling is a cocktail that was developed sometime before 1915[1] by Ngiam Tong Boon (嚴崇文), a bartender working at the Long Bar in Raffles Hotel Singapore. The original recipe used gin, Cherry Heering, Bénédictine, and fresh pineapple juice, primarily from Sarawak pineapples which enhance the flavour and create a foamy top.
Most recipes substitute bottled pineapple juice for fresh juice; soda water has to be added for foam. The hotel's recipe was recreated based on the memories of former bartenders and written notes that they were able to discover regarding the original recipe. One of the scribbled recipes is still on display at the Raffles Hotel Museum.
Recipes published in articles about Raffles Hotel before the 1970s are significantly different from current recipes, and "Singapore Slings" drunk elsewhere in Singapore differ from the recipe used at Raffles Hotel.
The current Raffles Hotel recipe is a heavily modified version of the original, most likely changed sometime in the 1970s by Ngiam Tong Boon's nephew. Today, many of the "Singapore Slings" served at Raffles Hotel have been pre-mixed and are made using an automatic dispenser that combines alcohol and pineapple juice to pre-set volumes. They are then blended instead of shaken to create a nice foamy top as well as to save time because of the large number of orders. However, it is still possible to request a shaken version from bartenders.
By the 1980s the Singapore Sling was often little more than gin, bottled sweet and sour, and grenadine. With the move towards fresh juices and the re-emergence of quality products like Cherry Heering the cocktail has again become a semblance of its former self.[2]
Singapore Sling
The Singapore Sling was created at Raffles Hotel at the turn-of-the-century by Hainanese-Chinese bartender Mr Ngiam Tong Boon. Till today, in the Hotel'd museum, vistors may view the safe in which Mr Ngiam locked away his precious recipe books, as well as the Sling recipe hastily jotted down on a bar-chit in 1936 by a visitor to the Hotel who asked the waiter for it. My Ngiam Tong Boon concocted the very first cocktail to achieve global fame by mixing the ingredients and serving as shaken, not stirred, on ice in a cocktail glass.
...How to make:
30ml Gin
15 ml Cherry Heering
120 ml Pineapple Juice
15 ml Lime Juice
7.5 ml Cointreau
7.5 ml Dom Benedictine
10 ml Grenadine
A Dash of Angostura Bitters
Garnish with a slice of Pineapple and Cherry
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| SINGAPORE SLING | |
| The Singapore Sling was created at Raffles Hotel at the turn-of-the-century by Hainanese-Chinese bartender, Mr. Ngiam Tong Boon. | |
| In the Hotel's museum, visitors may view the safe in which Mr. Ngiam locked away his precious recipe books, as well as the Sling recipe hastily jotted on a bar-chit in 1936 by a visitor to the Hotel who asked the waiter for it. | |
| Originally, the Singapore Sling was meant as a woman's drink, hence the attractive pink colour. Today, it is very definately a drink enjoyed by all, without which any visit to Raffles Hotel is incomplete. | |
| Recipe 30ml Gin 15 ml Cherry Brandy 120 ml Pineapple Juice 15 ml Lime Juice 7.5 ml Cointreau 7.5 ml Dom Benedictine 10 ml Grenadine A Dash of Angostura Bitters Garnish with a slice of Pineapple and Cherry |
UPDATE 9:16 10:33PM ET - I CAN'T WAIT TO POST THE PICTURE OF THIS RAPID ANIMAL WHO KILLED THIS LITTLE KID.HE WILL BE DUBBED, "THE NEW POSTER BOY FOR THE DEATH PENALTY"! A 19 YEAR OLD GANGBANGER, A REAL HEADSHAKER. THE BASTARD!
UPDATE 9-16-11 9:19AM ET 19 YEAR OLD BRANDON TARAY BARNES ARRESTED-RIDING HIS BICYCLE! 2 BLOCK FROM SHOOTING SCENE. COPS TAKE HIM INTO CUSTODY FOR "HIS OWN SAFETY", AS SAN BERNADINO RESIDENTS WOULD SHOW THIS PRICK THE SAME MERCY HE SHOWED TO NYLAH FRANCO-TORREZ, THE 3 YEAR OLD WHO HAD HER BRAINS BLOWN OUT BY THIS ANIMAL. DA NOT RELEASING MUG SHOT YET UNTIL HE GOES THROUGH LINEUP AND WITNESSES CAN POSITIVELY ID THIS DIRTBALL.
UPDATE 9-15-11 4:55 ET SUSPECT ARRESTED! A GANGBANGER! HERE'S THE LA TIMES UPDATE:San Bernardino police on Thursday said they had arrested a suspect in Monday’s shooting that left a 3-year-old girl dead and a pregnant woman and her young daughter seriously wounded.
The suspect fired shots at a crowded front porch apparently in an act of revenge, police said. An hour before, a Good Samaritan who lived in the house saw the suspect beating a woman down the street and stopped the assault, allowing the woman to escape.
Photos: San Bernadino shooting
Police spokeswoman Lt. Gwendolyn Waters said more details about the suspect and investigation would be released at a 3 p.m. news conference.
[Updated at 10 a.m.: Waters said the suspect in custody is 19 years old and was arrested at 5:09 p.m. Wednesday just two blocks from where the shooting occurred.
She declined to provide the suspect’s name or details of what led to his arrest, saying police and county prosecutors were discussing what information could be released without jeopardizing the case.
Members of the city’s gang unit made the arrest, Waters said.
"It wasn’t a tip, it was really good investigative work by our detectives," Waters said. "They got this guy identified and in custody less than 48 hours after the shooting."]
San Bernardino Police Chief Keith Kilmer had called the shooting "tragic, senseless and despicable."
The shooting happened about 7:45 p.m. Monday in the 1300 block of D Street, just six blocks from the police department, as relatives gathered at the home of Sophia Cardona were about the sit down for dinner.
Nylah Franco-Torres, 3, was shot in the head and pronounced dead at a hospital.
Cardona said her granddaughter La-Donna Howie, 21, and Howie's daughter Justine, 3, were the others wounded. Howie, who is five months' pregnant, was listed in stable condition at Arrowhead Regional Medical Center in Colton. Her unborn child was unharmed and in good condition, police said. Justine was in extremely critical condition at Loma Linda University Medical Center with a head wound.
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (KABC) -- Authorities say a Good Samaritan may have been the intended target of a shooting in San Bernardino on Monday that left a toddler dead and two others injured.
In a press conference Tuesday, authorities said prior to the shooting a man from the targeted house witnessed an African-American man hitting a woman. He intervened in the dispute, allowing the woman to escape.
"Somebody from that residence did a good thing and intervened and tried to save another woman from being assaulted," San Bernardino Police Lt. Gwendolyn Waters said.
Police believe the man involved in the dispute approached the house in the 1300 block of North D Street about 8 p.m. by foot and fired multiple rounds at the front porch while two children were playing.
A 3-year-old was shot in the head and rushed to the hospital by relatives where she was pronounced dead.
A 22-year-old pregnant mother, who was also on the porch, was shot in the neck and jaw. Her 3-year-old daughter was also shot in the head. The woman is five months pregnant. Both are in critical but stable condition. The unborn child is also in stable condition.
WHENEVER I HEAR A STORY LIKE THIS I INSTINCTIVELY KNOW IT WAS A BLACK PERP. CRIMINAL BLACK MALES ARE CUNNING, VICIOUS AND REMORSELESS. THE COPS ARE LOOKING FOR A BLACK SUSPECT IN THIS CASE OF COURSE. THIS IS BEYOND INSANITY. THE S.O.B. WHO PULLED THIS OFF, SHOULD HAVE HIS BRAINS SCRAPED OUT AND HIS ORGANS DONATED. THIS SO CALLED, "HUMAN BEING" WHO DID THIS IS NO MORE THAN A RABID ANIMAL WHO NEEDS TO BE DESTROYED! THE DO-GOODERS WILL MAKE ALL KINDS OF EXCUSES AS TO WHY THIS MONSTER ACTED THIS WAY AND BEG THE JUDGE FOR MERCY. THIS PRICK NEEDS THE GAS CHAMBER, ELECTRIC CHAIR OR LETHAL INJECTION! WHEN ARE AFRICAN-AMERICANS GOING TO PATROL THEIR OWN RACE? THE REST OF AMERICA IS SICK OF BLACK CRIME, MURDER, THUGGERY AND MAYHEM.
