Oklahoma City man arrested by FBI for death threats on Twitter.

[tiredofthisstuff]

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 micro blogging 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."

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[Oceansaway]

1. fruitcakes everywhere....n/t

[BlooInBloo]

2. Gotta love white American terrorists.

[skooooo]

3. what's white have to do with it?

[BlooInBloo]

4. Only that Americans characterize "terrorists" as swarthy brown people. Other than that...

nothing.

[skooooo]

6. Yep even McVeigh...

isn't called a terrorist.

[customerserviceguy]

5. Illegal tweets, huh

I'll bet he was turned in by a stool pigeon!

[NightWatcher]

7. now "twitter" can be his nickname in prison

[AspenRose]

8. Dumbass.

And an unpatriotic one at that. :eyes: