First Tweeter to Get Arrested for Micro-Threats was a Tea Bagger
Daniel Knight Hayden, 52 got arrested by the FBI for the content of his Twitter account. Which makes Hayden the first dude to get popped by the G-Men for micro-blogging.
AP/Huffpo writes:
An Oklahoma man was arrested by FBI agents earlier this month for posting a series of messages on his Twitter account threatening to use a tax day Tea Party protest to commit politically-motivated mass murder.
It’s a kind of odd self-fulfilling prophecy: Hate big government violently enough and they will come and lock you up.
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