Man Arrested After Making Threats On Twitter

Some idiot, who made threats on Twitter, was arrested by the FBI. The man claimed he would turn a protest into a bloodbath and stated he was willing to be the first to die. Daniel Knight Hayden, 52, was arrested by FBI agent after he was confirmed to be the person behind a Twitter name of CitizenQuasar. The man continued to post tweets stating he wanted a war against the government.

In a news article it states the following information concerning the arrest:

In addition to the threats, many of Hayden’s tweets fixated on another Oklahoma City man whom he erroneously believed was in charge of the city’s tea party demonstration.

“He seemed to know stuff about me, but I don’t know how or why,” says Earl Shaffer. “He called me a few days before that tea party and let me know somehow he got my name as one of the organizers. I don’t have the energy.”

Shaffer told Hayden that he wasn’t a tea party organizer, but Hayden continued to tweet baffling messages about the 58-year-old retiree, posting his phone number in one.

Hayden’s penultimate tweet at 12:49 AM on April 15 returned to the subject of his martyrdom.  “Locked AND loaded for the Oklahoma State Capitol. Let’s see what happens.”

But this one statement makes one believe that this man may be mentally unstable:

Hayden was arraigned on the 16th,  and ordered released to a halfway house pending trial — a move that suggests the magistrate judge does not consider him a genuine threat. Hayden’s attorney declined to comment. California-based Twitter did not respond to an inquiry by Threat Level.

Which does goes to show that no matter which social network you use, we all must take care in those we deal with on the Internet.

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