Mother Of White Supremacist Matt Hale Wishes He Kept His Mouth Shut
By Chuck Sudo in News on Jan 15, 2014 11:00PM
Matthew Hale
Because it couldn't have anything to do with being convicted in 2005 of trying to have Judge Joan Lefkow killed. Compared to that, being a loquacious bigot seems tame.
Evelyn Hutcheson told the Sun-Times she believes Hale's racist rants drew the attention of authorities and that his life would have been much better if he received his license to practice law like he dreamed.
“I wish he would have kept his mouth shut," Hutcheson said.
Hale graduated from Southern Illinois University in May 1998 and passed the bar exam two months later, but he was denied a law license in December 1998 because the Illinois Bar Committee on Character and Fitness believed he lacked the moral fiber to be a lawyer. In other words, he was a virulent racist.
Hale appealed his ruling, which was rejected June 30, 1999. A member of the World Church of the Creator, Benjamin Smith, resigned and went on a three-day shooting spree of synagogues in West Rogers Park two days later, killing nine Orthodox Jews and Northwestern University men's basketball coach Ricky Byrdsong. It's believed Smith went on his spree because Hale didn't get his law license. Hale used the national attention to go on television and espouse his disdain for "mud races" and said "We do urge hatred. If you love something, you must be willing to hate that which threatens it."
Hale later solicited an undercover FBI agent to kill Lefkow, the judge in a trademark infringement case brought against Hale's church by another group. It's worth noting here that Lefkow found in favor of Hale in 2002 but her ruling was overturned on appeal. Lefkow later ruled against Hale in the case.
Hutcheson said Hale “would have been practicing law for 10 years” if he simply kept his big racist mouth shut.