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- DooM, on 04/24/2009, -2/+135So apparently Twitter is a nutcase early warning system... much easier to identify the loons BEFORE they do something stupid when they're broadcasting their weirdness globally than when they're sitting at home yelling at walls.
- LonesomeFighter, on 04/24/2009, -3/+129what an idiot. i was expecting some teenage internet thug, but nope, it a 52 year old man.
- CaptainNoPants, on 04/24/2009, -0/+90Psychotic disorder + computer access = busted.
- ironhide, on 04/25/2009, -6/+91Don't worry teabaggers, I'm sure he was working for ACORN....right?
- everymahn, on 04/24/2009, -8/+83His Twitter feed is still available as of today:
http://twitter.com/CitizenQuasar
A must read for all right-wing, paranoid, Rush Limbaugh ditto-heads... - shupy, on 04/25/2009, -11/+82"Dude has 26 followers. Twenty-six. Not a million like @Akplus, not 100,000, not 1,000, not 100. The FBI should know the difference credible threats and un-credible and unsubstantial statements"
Threats are threats. Online diatribes threatening extreme violence should not be ignored. The FBI has monitored civil rights groups and anti-war groups. Why should right wing nut jobs be immune? Anyone threatening violence should be taken seriously. If this had happened in the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing, or 9/11, no one would be defending this guy. - DooM, on 04/25/2009, -1/+71Yeah.. I'm gonna have to go ahead and disagree with you there, Bob. Telling many, many people that you intend to go to a specific place, at a specific time in order to kill people is and should be a crime. If someone were to say here that they know where you live and they're coming to Virginia to kill you then you should really not have to wait for help until they actually try or succeed in killing you.
- freedomjoe, on 04/25/2009, -10/+72All of the sudden, angry white men from across the nation are screaming about "profiling", "mandatory coverage of dissenting opinions" and "dissent is patriotism" -- Oh, and they don't want to support the troops. I mean, our taxes support the troops while they serve and when they get home, but the angry white tea baggers don't want to pay. They just want to put a flag on their house and stick a bumper sticker on their car and call themselves patriotic. Oh, the irony.
- ryan83189, on 04/25/2009, -0/+56Are you joking? Free speech cases are 100% about context. It is like yelling fire in your shower verses yelling fire in a theater. How many people does one need to tell the threat to for it to become valid? The saturation of the threat is irrelevant, unless of course NOBODY heard it, and the same goes for ability/intent to carry it out. A threat is a threat, but taking the steps to carry out the threat put it in the class of conspiracy. He is not guilty of conspiracy, but it was obvious that his message was intended to instill fear in people in the government.
- ThsGuyRightHere, on 04/24/2009, -1/+55And they wonder why the FBI took an interest.
- shupy, on 04/25/2009, -1/+50Threatening to kill people in Oklahoma city?
This country has seen that before. Stupidity is not a crime, but stupidity with a weapon is bad stuff waiting to happen.
The police did the right thing. Just because he didn't have a weapon in his home, doesn't mean he might not have the means to commit violence. - Ghoztt, on 04/25/2009, -1/+48I enjoy yelling "Theater!" in a crowded fire.
- DooM, on 04/25/2009, -0/+45" If they went to a judge, got a warrant, searched his home, and base an arrest on evidence of a bomb plot found in his home... that would be the proper way to go."
Ok, well they did that - see the papers the FBI filed below to get a warrant to search his house and computer below. They served the warrant, arrested the guy and are now going through his computer, etc. to determine if he was crazy or planning something. This is exactly how the FBI should handle this stuff.
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/files/daniel_knig ... - mediablitz, on 04/24/2009, -13/+53His myspace page is an Alex Jones/Ron Paul paranoia pie...
I expect the apologists to arrive any minute now. FREE SPEECH and all that claptrap. - commentposted, on 04/25/2009, -0/+39Haha, this quote from his twitter:
"There are two things that I am not sure are infinite. The Universe and human stupidity. I am NOT sure about the second. -Albert Einstein
12:25 AM Apr 12th from web"
Next twitter:
"OOPS!There are two things that I am not sure are infinite. The Universe and human stupidity. I am NOT sure about the first. -Albert Einstein
12:26 AM Apr 12th from web"
Well, we know stupidity is alive and well, Mr Quasar. - USArugula, on 04/25/2009, -0/+38As is his Digg account: http://digg.com/users/Citizenquasar/history
- kmom5, on 04/25/2009, -0/+37It should come as no surprise that online threats of violence are taken seriously. In the end the guy might or might not be deemed an actual threat, but considering the times we live in, you can't be too careful. What if everyone reading his tweets had thought he was a full of ***** nutcase and he had turned around and actually done what he was talking about?
- DooM, on 04/25/2009, -0/+36This man committed a crime - specifically, he is in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 875(c) which forbids interstate communication to threaten to kill or injure specified or unspecified persons. He PUBLISHED his threats INTERNATIONALLY. That is a crime. I'll be the first to cast stones at the authorities but they did the right thing in investigating this guy - if he turns out to be a kook; great, take that into consideration in court. If he turned out to seriously mean harm to people what would you be saying if the authorities ignored his published and specific threats after people were killed..? This isn't a "I'm gonna kill that guy" overreaction - this guy posted insane stuff that you HAVE to take seriously.
- AgeofMastery, on 04/25/2009, -0/+34Why does how many people listened to him matter? How many people did McVeigh have helping him?
- inactive, on 04/25/2009, -0/+34@ Dalhectar
The guy sounded serious to me. I don't understand why you would defend this person and his "freedom to post death threats online and expect to get away". I really don't understand you. - novenator, on 04/25/2009, -0/+32This seems reminiscent of another certain someone who wrote an angry letter a while back: please read http://digg.com/political_opinion/A_Letter_From_a_ ...
- novenator, on 04/25/2009, -3/+34I'm surprised he didn't think the internet was a big truck.
- booksnmore4you, on 04/25/2009, -2/+33From the Twitter page:
"AND, no matter WHAT happens, to post it on the internet IMMEDIATELY, AND send it to Alex Jones!!!!!!!!!!!!" - novenator, on 04/25/2009, -4/+34his comments history indicate certain psychosis as well. It seems he thinks the Oklahoma City bombing and 9/11 were both inside jobs.
- AgeofMastery, on 04/25/2009, -0/+28Then they'd all be screaming "Why didn't somebody do something!"
- woodsjransom, on 04/25/2009, -0/+28A 52 year old drama queen (maybe), he knows better and should get hassled for putting it in writing for all to see. Whether he meant it or not, he is over 18 and you can't threaten anyone with any kind of physical harm, you can't physically harm another person without the law getting involved. His profile on Digg would make one think he is a little disturbed not passionate. Its a thin line.
- mediablitz, on 04/24/2009, -4/+31Like I said. Expect the apologists with their straw man arguments.
- USArugula, on 04/25/2009, -3/+28"Dude has 26 followers. Twenty-six. Not a million like @Akplus, not 100,000, not 1,000, not 100. The FBI should know the difference credible threats and un-credible and unsubstantial statements."
Yes, because no one can kill without friends. - jasonresno, on 04/25/2009, -3/+27Dalhectar is getting dominated.
- Chooxo, on 04/25/2009, -3/+27"They asked me questions about how I heard about the tea party, and I told them I heard about it through that talk show host Glenn Beck."
Mmm, grass-roots movement. - booksnmore4you, on 04/25/2009, -2/+25@ Dalhectar
Get your GED and go to college.
Else, demand your college rescind your degree. None of it "took." - clvngodess, on 04/25/2009, -0/+21The Alex Jones part doesn't worry me, it's the totality of the syndrome going on in the thread. You can see the wind up of the loose screws into a psychotic state. Tap a few of his links too. Scary and sad stuff.
- asgardshill, on 04/25/2009, -1/+22Wonder what his freeper handle is?
- ironhide, on 04/25/2009, -8/+29Yeah, Paul is crazier.
- SpinningHead, on 04/25/2009, -0/+21It was probably digg's own loneranger
- MWeather, on 04/25/2009, -0/+20Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. - Voltaire
- MaxMWood, on 04/25/2009, -2/+22This is good. Remember the guy who posted videos on YouTube of himself with a bunch of guns and then went on a shooting spree?
- Sean42, on 04/25/2009, -1/+21Dude, You cannot make terroristic threats. Period.
It doesn't matter if he had the means to carry it out or not. - plumcider, on 04/25/2009, -1/+21Common sense says you don't threaten to kill people. Common sense says it's extra stupid to threaten to kill people in writing. Common sense says that it's extra specially stupid to threaten to kill people in writing and then post it where the general public can see it and alert the authorities. Common sense says that doing these things can lead to your arrest.
Common sense says don't make excuses for the idiots that do this, or you will look like a tool. - AgeofMastery, on 04/25/2009, -1/+20So they should have done nothing and hoped he didn't kill anyone.
And then you'd be whining about them doing nothing if he had actually killed people. - Kyan, on 04/25/2009, -1/+19He means that during the Bush W years, people other than white men were complaining about racial profiling and white men were saying dissent was unpatriotic.
And now that right-wing nuts are out of the white house, these white men feel they are being unjustly racially profiled and they say it is patriotic to dissent. - Fabbyfubz, on 04/25/2009, -1/+194chan - Anonymity = FBI Arrests
- k8cpa, on 04/25/2009, -1/+19Oy Vey..... all I'm saying.... Oy Vey.....
- JohnAdams999, on 04/25/2009, -1/+19What happened in Oklahoma in the 1990s from another right-wing radical?
Oh yeah, the oklahoma city bombing which killed almost 200 people. You're an idiot if you don't think people like this are a threat, they should be arrested. - Sean42, on 04/25/2009, -6/+24OK nutboy. Please cite some sources where people from the left have recently made terroristic threats and not been prosecuted.
Seriously, this has nothing to do with right/left. You cannot make terroristic threats, period. - Dralite, on 04/25/2009, -1/+18After I am killed on the Capitol Steps, like a REAL man, the rest of you will REMEMBER ME!!!
dude is coo coo... - jumpenjack, on 04/25/2009, -0/+17this kid at my high school, a few years back, made a list of all the people he wanted to kill at our school.posted it on myspace.
expelled. - sciencelovesyou, on 04/25/2009, -1/+17... and the last horse crosses the finish line.
- kmom5, on 04/25/2009, -4/+20If you read the article a little more thoroughly, you will see why the FBI responded and not the local cops.
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