Oklahoma Man Arrested for Twittering Tea Party Death Threats

[maddezmom]

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 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.



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[thereismore]

1. Put him in a room with rubber walls. nt

[spanone]

20. put him in a room with glenn beck

[glinda]

31. Put him in a room with MSNBC on all the time. Well most of the time....

[izquierdista]

2. Oklahoma City.....Oklahoma City...

Seems I remember something else there that was connected to domestic terrorism..... :think:

[CBGLuthier]

6. wow you are so fucking funny

you make a lot of 911 jokes too sunshine?

BTW the connection we had was a couple of assholes from other states came here to war against the federal government.

[proud2BlibKansan]

13. Don't think that was joke

It was my first thought as well. I would imagine the OK City coos are a tad bit sensitive to this kind of crap.

[dashrif]

21. +1

they where not from oklahoma

[eShirl]

9. yes

I'm sure McVeigh was one of his personal heroes

[lapislzi]

3. This makes no sense to me.

APRIL 11? This was last year, then? How strong was the tea party movement a year ago?

I haven't had enough coffee yet. Somebody please hit me over the head, because I'm not grokking this.

[maddezmom]

4. here is a youtube of the event last year

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfqWvENjVgs

[no limit]

5. The fox news promotion of the tea parties was in full swing at that time.

[ShrimpScampi]

7. Good.

Serves him right. These monsters need to know they are NOT above the law, and that actions and personal choices have consequences. Crush these terrorists utterly, and without apology.

[Hepburn]

8. Glad that there was an arrest...

...there need to be many more arrested for threats of violence.

[GoCubsGo]

10. Television hypnosis???

This guy sounds batshit crazy. He belongs in a psychiatric hospital, not jail.

[OnionPatch]

11. Television hypnosis??

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

I'm sorry, I know nutjobs like this are seriously dangerous, but the television hypnosis part cracked me up.

[havocmom]

15. I dunno; ever talk to people who only watch FAUX news?

Trance-like density is not all that uncommon with a lot of them. Might be something to this. ;)

Perhaps, somewhere deep inside, this deranged soul has an inkling that SOMEBODY has been making suggestions he do something.... but he just can't face the fact about who it is leading his weak mind around.

[RaleighNCDUer]

25. The force can have a powerful influence on the weak minded.

Darth Beck is the new apprentice.

[The Genealogist]

19. The lizard people from Planet Zeeblab told him that, so it must be true!

Lizard people from Planet Zeeblab = the idiot brigade over at FAUX SNOOZE. We slither, you decide.

[DCKit]

34. It's why they made us switch over to HD. It's more effective. Series. I read it on the Internets. nt

[NeedleCast]

12. Good, start throwing a few of these slack jaws in prison and this shit will die quickly

[druidity33]

14. was he arrested recently?

Or is this from April of last year entirely? If it is, i'd rather see some eveidence of more recent prosecutions. And what ever happened to this guy? And what's up with the Right wingers and their 3 names? Or is that just assassins?

:shrug:

[Kingofalldems]

16. K and R for the teabaggers

Damn you are stupid

[druidity33]

17. upon further googling...

i can find no evidence that this ever went to trial... not sure how to check court dockets, but the only news reports are from when it happened LAST YEAR.

One site has this to add:

"
On April 15 at 12.49AM, Hayden posted a final announcement on Twitter:

“Locked AND loaded for the Oklahoma State Capitol. Let’s see what happens.”

FBI arrested him at his home later that day. He was arraigned on April 16 and released to a halfway house pending trial.
"


I wonder if he served any time?


:shrug:

[maddezmom]

18. he was sentenced to 8 mos

A 52-year-old man- Daniel Knight Hayden- of Oklahoma City, has been sentenced by United States District Judge Tim Leonard to eight months in prison for sending threatening communications via Twitter.

According to evidence at trial and from Court records, on April 14, 2009 the Federal Bureau of Investigation became aware various postings had been made on Twitter, a social networking site, by an individual using the name “CitizenQuasar” that made a threat to kill or injure police officers at a public tax protest assembly called a “Tea Party” scheduled for April 15, 2009, at the Oklahoma State Capitol.

The investigation also revealed that an individual with a username of “Citizen Quasar” had a MySpace account containing similar anti-government rhetoric. Based on the threat, the FBI arrested Hayden on April 15.

http://ratevin.com/story.php?title=twitter-threatening-communications-oklahoma-man-daniel-knight-hayden-sentenced-by-united-states-twitter-threat&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+RateVin+%28RateVin.com+%2F+Published+News%29

[druidity33]

22. hey thanks...

couldn't seem to locate any current info for him. I assume he's out now. Wonder if he's stoking any fires anywhere and if anyone's keeping an eye on such potential domestic terrorists..

[RaleighNCDUer]

26. 8 months, huh?

I reckon that means he's been released, just in time for the April 19th celebrations.

[glinda]

32. good point

[CoffeeCat]

23. These feral idiots will now use this situation...

...to justify their paranoia. This man's arrest will be
seen as evidence that the government is going to arrest people
and send them to re-education camps.

These people do not think. They are not rational. They are
whipped up into a Glen Beck froth of fear and crazymaking.

Watch now, as this rabid thug becomes a victim and their hero.

:eyes:

[DevonRex]

24. Oh my. Television hypnosis? I almost pity him. nt

[malaise]

27. They'll soon be filling up the prisons

A change is coming.

[and-justice-for-all]

28. Yeah, he is insane...nt

[HopeHoops]

29. Sounds like he's got a future as a regular FOX commentator.

[Javaman]

30. blogging and tweeting from the insane asylum. nt

[walldude]

33. "Send the cops around. I will cut their heads off"

So where are all the heads? The FBI came and got him, I thought he was going to "cut off all their heads"..

Fuck, so are people going to get it now? That these blowhards are nothing but empty threats? No.. we're going to write a million more OP's about the horrible wave of "violence" which amounts to a few bricks through windows. It's like people are hoping there is another McVeigh out there so they can prove their point.

Funny when I posted about the "wave of violence" the thread fell without a single response. Of course maybe that's because it was a REAL wave of violence and 40 civilians in Iraq died just trying to vote.

[TomCADem]

35. The Fact That There Is No Fox News Backlash As These Crazies...

Scream the same talking points is beyond me. I guess the MSM protects its own.