religious fanatic terrorist arrested for planning death of US official

[sisyphusshrugged]

Why, that man's not swarthy

The leader of a white supremacist group was arrested Wednesday on charges he tried to have a federal judge murdered.

Matt Hale, 31, was taken into custody by agents of an FBI-led terrorism task force as he arrived at Chicago's federal courthouse for a contempt of court hearing in a trademark infringement lawsuit.

The East Peoria man is head of the World Church of the Creator. A former member of the racist organization, Benjamin Smith, went on a deadly shooting rampage against minorities in Illinois and Indiana in 1999. Smith killed two people and wounded several others before killing himself.

Hale was indicted on charges he tried between Nov. 29 and Dec. 17 to get someone to kill U.S. District Judge Joan Humphrey Lefkow.

Lefkow has been presiding over the trademark case involving Hale's use of the name World Church of the Creator. She had recently ordered the organization to stop using the name and turn over all printed materials reading "World Church of the Creator" because the name infringed on the rights of an Oregon group, the TE-TA-MA Truth Foundation. But Hale refused to comply.

On Dec. 13, the judge ordered Hale to show why he should not be held in contempt.

Bonus: the COTC was started by a Democrat from a northeastern industrial state!

No, just kidding. It was a southern Republican elected official, after he became disenchanted by the Republicans and the John Birch Society for talking the talk about race but not walking the walk and decided they were really jewish.

Felt right at home for years, though, until he started talking about his racial theories outside the group.

via Atrios