Oklahoma Teabagger Arrested for Twitter Threats
Via Wired.
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.
And so it goes. I will say again — and will likely say many more times — there will be more of this, not less. And while we wait for the usual deafening silence from wingnuts everywhere in response to this event, remember that just a couple of weeks back they were definitively against the FBI watching guys like this or the DHS considering this kind of thing to be domestic terrorism. It is terrorism and if the right wanted had any dignity at all, they’d be working to purge these people from their ranks instead of idolizing them.
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WTF, Cassandra? CitizenQuasar is clearly insane and needs to be put away. But, at times, I think the only difference between his lunatic rhetoric and yours, is that he shows a propensity for violence.
Where is the Republican Party leadership?
Isn’t there anyone who can walk the lunatics back from the edge by appealing to their basic humanity? Where is one effing national Republican leader who can put the country ahead of GOP talking points and dial the heat down?
…and there is is. There is no leadership, because there is no stomach in the GOP base for normalcy.
Thanks Miscreant.
Miscreant,
You’re saying Cassandra is a lunatic who needs to be put away? What a wonderful person you are.
Janet Napolitano sure is mean for allowing people to point out that right wing extremists could be violent. I have no idea where she got that idea.
CitizenQuasar is clearly insane and needs to be put away.
Sure, you say that after shots were fired. But the insanity was there in his rhetoric, which is the same rhetoric used by a significant minority of the teabaggers. And of course their rhetoric is driven by the Becks and Hannitys. Are you willing to call out the rest of them for insanity, or are you going to wait for shots to be fired?
shots were fired
Threats I meant; “shots” are from other cases.
“You’re saying Cassandra is a lunatic who needs to be put away?”
Clearly not. Do you have comprehension issues? By summarily comparing and assigning an extreme idiot like CitizenQuasar to the “right” she merely exudes lunacy, but doesn’t seem like she would act out on it.
“Janet Napolitano sure is mean for allowing people to point out that right wing extremists could be violent.”
Not really, the report was fairly accurate. Other than thoughtlessly stereotyping veterans, I had no real objection to the latest assessment. Don’t even bother to argue it, she apologized for her carelessness.
“And of course their rhetoric is driven by the Becks and Hannitys. Are you willing to call out the rest of them for insanity, or are you going to wait for shots to be fired?”
Nothing like a good straw man to start the day. I don’t listen to Beck or Hannity, so I certainly can’t speak to their, or your nonsense.
“Thanks Miscreant.”
You’re welcome, Jason. I hope you don’t mind if I wait until you make a coherent statement before I respond.
So, in Miscreant’s world the difference between ‘lunatic’ and not, is whether you have a television show?
I didn’t compare this guy to the right, but I did include him in the right, as does the Wired article I linked to. If he’s participating in a teabagging event on 15 April he’s fringe right something — either republican or libertarian. Even you would have to concede that someone having on about these:
“New World Order,” gun control as Nazi fascism, and Barack Obama’s covert use of television hypnosis,”
is quite unlikely to be a leftwing lunatic. The news, however, is still thin on this, so we could all be wrong. But anon is right in that this kind of violent rhetoric is exactly the refuge of the worst of the current wingnuts and exactly why they got their outrage on over the DHS report. You can’t protect your own bullying and violent speech without having to cover for the terrorists in your midst too.
CitizenQuasar is clearly insane and needs to be put away. But, at times, I think the only difference between his lunatic rhetoric and yours, is that he shows a propensity for violence.
I think my reading comprehension is just fine.
Miscreant,
I’m sure that you understood that the “thank you” meant “thanks for proving my point about the lack of stomach among Republicans for civil disagreements instead of civil war talk.”
I know you got it – why the pretending?
“I know you got it – why the pretending?”
Sure I “got it” but, inasmuch as you didn’t have a coherent *point*, there absolutely way I could have proved it. Regarding “pretending” not to “get it”… I’m willing to concede that I may have subconsciously learned that technique here on Delaware Liberal, where it has been cultivated into a fine art. I promise to do better, if you do too.
Whatever.
Where is the Republican leadership bringing these nut bags down to Earth?
Where…?
Okay then. It is Republican policy to egg these nit wits on. I know you are indy, so it is okay for you to agree with me that the GOP is playing with fire.
I’m sorry, but to say the report” thoughtlessly stereotypes vets” is just a lame attempt to deflect scrutiny from the violent acts and hate speech consistently emanating from the American far right.
In the report, wasn’t the point about vets is that they are disproportionately targeted by Stormfront, the KKK, et al, because they have the desired skill-set they are looking for? And I’m sure the lack of support (once soldiers return home) is a major factor for getting sucked into those groups too….
Not quite certain about any rhetorical technique being used on this site or in liberal circles, but I do know false equivalency and faux outrage IS the fine art of conservatives politics.
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comment moderation sucks! grrr…
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“CitizenQuasar is clearly insane and needs to be put away”
IN other words, he should not be legally entitled to own guns. Which means he was right — we DO want to take his guns.
I am POA. I am Miscreant. I am Miscreant I am POA….
I have lost myself in my online obsessions… I don’t know who I am or what I stand for really. All I have left is insults and not so cleaver retorts.
I am POA. I am Miscreant. I am Miscreant I am POA….
I am POA. I am Miscreant. I am Miscreant I am POA….
I am POA. I am Miscreant. I am Miscreant I am POA….
I am eternally floating in my own hell.