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.