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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…
Hayden’s penultimate tweet at 12:49 AM on April 15 returned to the subject of his martyrdom. “Locked AND loaded for the Oklahoma State Capitol. Let’s see what happens.”
The FBI arrested him at his home later that day, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Oklahoma City, which otherwise declined to comment on the case.
Warms the cockles of your heart to see a nutball truly deserving the title.
#58 that was very telling… an extremist personality, gone from one extreme to the other… very illuminating Alfie.
#60 61 Irrational to ignore the people robbing you, and bark at BUSH like a moonbat in heat
Obama & crew are robbing us blind…their changing the subject to anything BUT what they are doing with our money, is MISDIRECTION…
And you are either too stupid…or too drunk on the kool aid…to notice.
Actually I think it the latter.
Being a radical hating “the man” is easy…just drink the lefty kool aid, close one’s eyes to reality, and throw the bombs…
Alfie, I don’t expect you to understand this, but not everyone is like you, so black and white. Some of us actually voted for Obama and think he’s doing a good job overall, but still dislike some things he does. We don’t fanatically love him, like you fanatically hate him. We like some of the things he does, and we dislike other things he does.
The point of asking whether McCain would have been better, is that if the answer is no, Obama is the best we have. And you can have more effect on what he does by curbing the blind hatred (which makes you look unhinged and not someone to be listened to) and acting like there’s a possibility that he could do something good.
But I suspect that’s much less satisfying than blind hatred.
#40, Phydeau said,
“The almighty dollar cares not for war.”
Har! You’ll need to do some homework on that one. Be sure to include firms like Lockheed, Boeing, Blackwater, Chrysler, GM, Beechcraft, Cessna, TI, etc.
What fun!
#63 McCain is irrelevant…my motives/likes dislikes…are irrelevant…
The same crooks (Bernanke, Geithner) were retained by Obama…in spite of their ties to Bush…
350 BILLION is missing, actually, much more…that sum is documented however.
WHERE IS IT?
Why did Obama go with the flow…
Why did both houses, Democrats, Republicans…go with the flow
WHY are NONE of them demanding to know where each and every dollar of that 350 billion…is?
This is not about me…its about you…
why are YOU not asking where that 350 billion is?
#65, Alphie,
You keep repeating that $350 billion is missing. Where do you get that number from?
As Phydeau pointed out, no one in their right mind would trust the organizer of an event to be truthful about the attendees. It is in FOX SPEWS’ interest that they have some token blacks and Democrats show up. That doesn’t mean they did.
# 2 Hmeyers said, in part:
“But the Republican party message will fail because they are trying to appeal with a message only the biggest dimwit flatheads would buy into and that anyone with an ounce of education would reject.”
It has been a _long_ time since I met anyone under 30 who could speak in complete sentences or evince a single complete idea. Education in this country is so bad… ["How bad is it?"]
So bad that the majority of respondents believe Joan of Arc was Noah’s wife. [BaDumpBump!] In other words, an entire generation ripe for the Faux News message…
#66 Evidently I transposed figures…the amount missing is 78 billion, out of 350 billion:
http://gretawire.foxnews.com/2009/02/06/fleeced-to-the-tune-of-78-billion-dollars/
Like paying thousands for a toilet seat…the money went somewhere to be sure.
Every dollar needs to be accounted for.
Who got it, needs to be known.
And what about all those billions that went overseas…
Tea parties were about this missing TARP money, as well as other missing money…it was about Bailouts that are AGAINST and IN SPITE OF the stated desire of taxpayers like myself…
We email our congress and senators to reject the bailouts, overwhelmingly…
And they voted it in…
You folks can misrepresent us, claim we don’t know history, but we know when we are getting fleeced…and that is taxation without representation…its against every taxpayer’s will their money is wasted.
There were all sorts of people at the demonstrations, it was not a partisan event.
If the Teabagger movement was anything more than astroturfers trying to harness real anger at the government into a bullshit protest with no real traction because it is all built on bullshit.
If there was a real sentiment among the populace at any real level, the last post on the AMerican Tea Party Website wouldn’t be almost a week old, and there would have been marches in all the cities this last week.
Where is the movement now? WHat is their platform? “We’re scared of future taxes” sounds a little stupid, and “big government is bad” ignores the evidence of the last 8 years.
#68, Alphie,
You effen moran!!! You didn’t even read your own effen link. Read what you linked to then come back and tell us $350 billion, or $78 Billion, or whatever is missing. Even FOX SPEWS can’t find their story that $350 Billion is missing.
Jesus H. Christ girl!!! You’re making Lyin’ Mike look pretty good right about now.