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Sunday, April 26, 2009

Because not even dangerous lunatics should get in the way of a cheap laugh
Posted by Jill | 9:37 AM
OK, I know that this is a serious story, and worthy of attention, but I can't blame the editors at Wired one bit for this headline:
FBI Arrests Oklahoma Teabagger For Twitter Threats

An Oklahoma City man who announced on Twitter that he would turn an April 15 tax protest into a bloodbath was hit with a federal charge of making interstate threats last week, in what appears to be first criminal prosecution to stem from posts on the microblogging site.

Daniel Knight Hayden, 52, was arrested by FBI agents who identified him as the Twitter user CitizenQuasar. In a series of tweets beginning April 11, CitizenQuasar vowed to start a "war" against the government on the steps of the Oklahoma City Capitol building, the site of that city's version of the national "Tea Party" protests promoted by the conservative-leaning Fox News.

"START THE KILLING NOW! I am willing to be the FIRST DEATH!," read a tweet at 8:01 PM that day. "After I am killed on the Capitol Steps, like a REAL man, the rest of you will REMEMBER ME!!!," he added five minutes later. Then: "Send the cops around. I will cut their heads off the heads and throw the[m] on the State Capitol steps."

Hayden's MySpace page is a breathtaking gallery of right wing memes about the "New World Order," gun control as Nazi fascism, and Barack Obama's covert use of television hypnosis, among many others.


But I thought guys like this were just good, patriotic 'muricans exercising their right to free speech. Unlike those dirty fucking hippies who got visits from the Secret Service for doing things like wearing "No Bushit" T-shirts while standing in line in the Express lane at the local Publix.

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Blogger PurpleGirl said...
I'd bet that he thought it okay for the government to tap and record phone calls, internet activity, etc.
4/26/09, 12:30 PM  
Blogger Bob said...
Yesterday, on a NJ.com story about an immigration reform rally in Elizabeth, a poster suggested dropping a bomb on the city. I happen to reside in Elizabeth. Some of our fellow patriotic citizens want to turn American cities into Baghdad.
4/26/09, 5:18 PM  
Blogger Spocko said...
I heard on KSFO from Melanie Morgan that the people at the events were very well behaved and any scuffles were caused by "Acorn types" who were harrassing them. I also heard the same thing from Mark Lavine.

But of course they won't mention this. Of if they do, Spin city!
4/27/09, 12:36 AM  
Blogger Spocko said...
Nobody could have predicted this, (Except me.)

http://www.spockosbrain.com/2009/04/will-there-be-blood
4/27/09, 12:38 AM  
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