A death threat even on Twitter will get you arrested

It was inevitable that even the looney tunes would discover and stake out their corner of Twitter. Case in point is the recent craziness of one Oklahoma man who said on Twitter that he was going to turn April 15th (tax day in the US) into a start of a war with the government. It turns out that the F.B.I. takes this kind of talk seriously, even on Twitter, and arrested (.pdf) Daniel Knight Hayden, 52, on that fateful day.

Hayden, whose MySpace page is full of right wing anti-government ramblings, through his Twitter persona (@CitizebQuasar) started his diatribe on the 11th of April with a challenge to the cops to come and get him.

"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."

Source: Threat Level

Hayden was arraigned on the 16th and released into a halfway house.

[screen capture of Twitter stream via Threat Level]

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