An Oklahoma City man named Daniel Knight Hayden, 52, posted threats against the government on Twitter under the name CitizenQuasar including the suggestion that he would kill police if they approached his home. The FBI has arrested him around April 15 in response to the threats, including a final tweet describing himself as “locked and loaded” and ready to “see what happens.” Oh, and he has a MySpace page, too.
Wired paints the picture of a zealot who might not have all of his screws tight.
UPDATE – In deference to the non-crazy protesters, I changed the headline.
“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.”
Sadly, he’s doing this in Oklahoma City, which many of you will remember solely for the bombings last decade by similarly enthusiastic anti-government zealots.
Hayden is apparently out at a halfway house right now, pending trial, and there is seemingly little proof that he would have made good on his threats.
Here’s an interesting video from his MySpace page.
What makes him a “teabagger”?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/14/tea-bag-terror-protests-c_n_186596.html
the huffington post is no more a news source than the daily kos or Bill O’reilly. The constantly print false information and openly skew news to a far left stance.
Are you really that clueless? “Teabaggers” is their self-claimed name. Read or watch the news once in a while.
You mean like the CNN, ABC, NBC, MSNBC pick and choose what parts of the news to spin in their far-left liberal extremist direction?
EH: When the Huffington Post was launched on May 9, 2005, it was made as a commentary outlet and liberal alternative to conservative news aggregators like the Drudge Report. That was the founding message they stated that.
Want proof of sloppy journalism? Ok.
The Huffington Post used altered YouTube video clip of John Gibson, which voiced over Gibson’s voice. -source: baltimore sun
In their coverage of the Team Party they used posted video of “teabaggers” who were later discovered to be plants, voiceing opinions not of their own in an attempt to belittle the group.
Look:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/12/tea-party-insanity-burn-a_n_185991.html
Dont even get me started on the Daily Kos: they posted before the protests the following:
[Start]
“Tomorrow, my husband and I will be venturing into the wilds disguised as a news crew to do some in person interviewers with teabaggers here in Rhode Island (if we can find any). We?ve got some questions lined up to ask, but I?d love to get suggestions!
The great thing about owning professional video equipment is that armed with it, you can pass yourself off as being a professional news crew pretty easily.
So tomorrow, ?WSFR? is going to send a cameraman and on air news personality out into the field to cover this ?teabagging? phenomenon.
We?re going to ask open ended questions that seem to have a slight conservative bent to (hopefully) get them to open up and just start ranting. Then, we take any examples of racism, hatred, ignorance, and stupidity that we catch on camera and make a little movie out of it. Probably a YouTube special.
Here?s the list we have so far
* What are you celebrating (The Boston Tea Party), and can you explain its historical relevance? [We're hoping to get some hilarious flubs from this one]
* Is this your first time teabagging? [OK, so, a juvenile one, but worth it]
* Do you approve of Michael Steele?s plan to expand the GOP through a ?hip-hop urban-suburban marketing strategy?? [hoping to get some juicy racist stuff from this question]
* (as an intentional misunderstanding/follow up, presuming that someone complains about wasteful government spending) ?So you disapprove of your tax dollars going to the Iraq War?? [should elicit some confusion]
Anyways, it?s a start? but I?d love to have some suggestions for questions that sound fine, but should prompt an outpouring of crazy.
Thanks in advance, and I?ll be sure to post a link to the finished video when it?s available!***”
[End]
If huffingtonpost.com “constantly” prints false information, then you should easily be able to provide a few examples.
Chas: I did above. try reading.
First and foremost, “teabagger” is a very derogatory term and those in the gay community know this.
I came to this site to get news on cloud computing and tech stuff. It seems that the tech industry is replete with the mental disorder of liberalism.
What does one man have to do with a whole movement…nothing. This man is just one person who said some very stupid things and deserves to held accountable. STOP your liberal BS and get a clue.
Calm down.
It’s about tech, even if your politics are clouding your viewpoints.
This is about how the government, can, has, and will read what you do on the internet and could take action based on what they read.
I personally think that’s tech news.
Not too hard to do consider it was publicly posted for public consumption, with intent of propagating a public sense of fear. In other words, terrorism (though a lame and minor case).
glenn beck. this guy is a member of the glenn beck army of chicken shittz.
you know, guys who never had the sand to join the military but think we should send those who did whenever the true elite can make a dollar off of it.
what gets me about the tea-bagger movement is that 95% of the morons that are protesting are getting a tax cut – but the puppet masters have convinced these idiots to vote against their best interests. its painful to watch.
if you are making over $250k (regularly, after deductions) – i have nothing bad to say about you – you have a very real reason to be pissed…and you should continue tea-bagging those dems.
It’s $250k for a couple,
$125k for an individual. But Obama’s got you lying for him so it’s okay.
Republicans just can’t stop lying, period.
Under $250k per family is a qualifier for a tax cut. No mention of the individual rates, no matter how you spin it.
“Middle class families will see their taxes cut – and no family making less than $250,000 will see their taxes increase. The typical middle class family will receive well over $1,000 in tax relief under the Obama plan, and will pay tax rates that are 20% lower than they faced under President Reagan. According to the Tax Policy Center, the Obama plan provides three times as much tax relief for middle class families as the McCain plan.”
http://www.barackobama.com/taxes/
@alien
Remember tax increases even for the highest income earners will hit others. The claim that tax increases will only hit those that pay taxes presupposes that behavior will not be affected. That is like arguing that sales taxes and other consumption taxes will only hit merchants, and will not be detrimental to consumers. Under the more realistic assumption that productive efforts are reduced as a result of this tax increase, this will reduce the supply of goods and services and so raise prices of these goods and services and so reduce the purchasing powers of people earning less than $250,000 per year as well.
The increased carbon taxes are also going to affect lower income earners.
@cglace:
Try all you want and engage in sophistry, but you can’t successfully for any length of time, not without subjugating common sense to pseudo economics that only exist to obscure simple facts. Live in your discredited trickle-down, morally and – surprise, surprise – financially bankrupt world, if you can. Eventually and without exception, you must resort to deception.
So, once again: despite of what you initially claimed, there is no proposal to increase taxes on families earning $250K a year or less, period. If you’re single, it’s $250K a year as well.
You are right about how ignorant people have been tricked into supporting the republican party despite their own economic interests. A lot of them support the party to further their own hateful agenda with Council of Conservative Citizens, hatred and intolerance of gays, blacks, hispanics, asians and others. A party based on mostly hate, ignorance and mostly anti-government sentiments. Truly sad. There are tons of these idiots in OK too as well.
>> Sadly, he’s doing this in Oklahoma City, which many of you will remember solely for the bombings last decade by similarly enthusiastic anti-government zealots.
Uh actually, Timothy McVeigh was a government operative and most of the damage was done from bombs planted inside the Murrah building by the FBI, although several of them did not go off and had to be smuggled out again by th BATF as part of the cover-up. Get your facts straight.
>> Sadly, he’s doing this in Oklahoma City, which many of you will remember solely for the bombings last decade by similarly enthusiastic anti-government zealots.
Uh actually, Timothy McVeigh was a government operative and most of the damage was done from bombs planted inside the Murrah building by the FBI, although several of them did not go off and had to be smuggled out again by th BATF as part of the cover-up. The explosives in the Ryder truck barely cracked the concrete on the street underneath the vehicle. Get your facts straight.
The video is not loading in this post, is the same one which is available on his myspace page?
It’s one of the videos. There are lots.
Why exactly does this belong on crunchgear.com? I’m having a hard time understanding that. I mean, I could understand some political nut posting this story on some crap site like http://www.f2bbs.com but I did not expect this here.
Same here, are you trying to alienate your readers who disagree with run away budgets and high taxes? I’m fine if you support higher taxes and run away budgets and I promise I won’t make fun of you for what you believe.
Run away budget? This one is much more comprehensive than any Bush did. THey actually include the wars we’re in. If anything, I’ve heard that the budget over calculcates costs, so that they can say they saved later. Which is a bit dishonest, but at least we’ll under spend rather than overspend.
Don’t forget, Bush was the first one to start these bailouts…with the extreme spending after surplus years.
Now when we NEED to spend money, i hate that conservatives are now standing up. You’re supposed to save during economic prosperity, not spend away so you don’t have money when you need to create jobs. Jerks.
Dude, I did not bring up Bush or the war or whether it’s honest or not and frankly I don’t care. I made a simple statement. We have a runaway budget and I just want it fixed. Obama’s budget is not fixing it. If you disagree with that, you are crazy.
It’s the first of many instances to come of law enforcement using Twitter to spot, stop and or prosecute crimes.
Interestingly enough I actually see people on Twitter freely talking about their pot smoking and organized gambling in clubs/bars (games of 500 ppl & Twitterer states I just won 3K). Both actions are against the law, even though society as a whole thinks such actions are harmless.
If it’s illegal don’t Twitter. It maybe held against you in a court of law later.
You compare smoking dope and online gambling to threats of violence?? Is that something like us lefties trying to compare getting your pole smoked to committing illegal torture during an illegal war?
As for this sick assclown’s video reference to taxation without representation, it’s called Congress, or the State House, etc. and you ARE represented by your vote. Just don’t vote for people who are either stupid, criminals, or both.
The thing that gets me is that he only threatened violence if someone else trespassed on his property. Seems like another case where the government just wants to flex its muscles.
This young man’s misguided perspective on American values should be taken seriously. I observed the Tea Bag Party in Atlanta, Georgia and came away with the impression that this group was very dangerous to the American way of life. You may read my report at (http://theharveyjournal.blogspot.com)
52 is hardly young.
Haha good point. How can we trust his oh-so-wise observations if he can’t even get the guy’s age/generation right?
And Harold Michael Harvey:
1 – why the three names? ego trip?
2 – I checked out your blog. ego trip?
3 – I’ve been to far worse demos. I can’t say I agree with the teabaggers, but they’re far from violent or dangerous.
John Wayne Gacy
Lee Harvey Oswald
Henry Lee Lucas
George DUBYA Bush
Holy shit… it all makes sense now
And for the record….I held my nose and voted for Nader. I couldn’t stomach the thought of either Obama (too weak to be a decent socialist) or McCain (I liked Palin – more mothers should be represented) winning, but I decided to toss my vote away for a party that really could use it.
Wait, by saying that, does it make me a racist, HMH? I mean, I said I didn’t like Obama. Forget that I’ve gone toe-to-toe with skinheads and volunteer with an organization that gathers and disseminates information on white-nationalist and neo-skin organizations, or that I work alongside people of color in my *gasp* community organizing work.
In my simple view of things, people from all walks of life are fed up with the a$$hats in DC. Its not the Republicans and its not the Democrats – its BOTH!
52 is young; if you’re 53 or older.
ha ha ha…you must be a “kid” to make a comment like that. omg, what do you define age 35 as??
my next birthday
Thanks for letting me know that I am a dangerous person to the US. I was at a Tea Bag Party in NY and I’ve never seen a more respectful demonstration and I have been to quite a few anti-war demonstrations myself so I have something to compare to. Why is it that when the left holds a protest they are speaking truth to power but when the center or right does so, they are “dangerous?” The truth is that “dangerous” is in the eye of the beholder because powerful movements are always a danger to the status quo. If you believe that the Obama admin is right, then these tea bag demonstrations are a threat to what he is doing. If you feel the economic choices the administration is making are a risk to this country’s future (as I most certainly do), then you see it as your duty to protest. At the heart of this country’s first amendment rights is the right to protest and to call these meetings a threat to the American way of life is to make light of the first amendment.
I would not have to work hard to come up with examples of dangerous nutcakes and loons that show up to left wing rallies. Jeez, you now have animal rights activists showing up on the FBI’s most wanted lists. Yet the country has survived and it will survive any right wing fruitcakes.
Will the tea bagging movement result in anything worthwhile? Personally, I have my doubts because it is very poorly organized at this point, although that could change. However, it is providing an outlet to voices that are extremely worried about where this country is heading. To belittle them or to paint them all as crazies simply shows how worried the left is about their potential.
First the “teabag” came to light(CNN,MSNBC) from a College who was using the Tea Party protest’s as a cover for saying they were teabaging. The term teabaging comes from both online FPS games, when you shoot someone you walk over their head with your character and squat, as well as a crappie name to call someone who is gay.
The Tea Party I went to was respectful, followed all the laws of the land, people were having a good time and we had all gathered to protest, not the collection of taxes but they way the money is being spent by both parties. 787 billion dollar bill that was not read ? Come one.
Now on with Crunch Gear, why you felt the need to post this the way you did is beyond me. I come here for news on tech, not the left or right slant.
Great post that a person was arrested for threats of violence, because he was doing it with Twitter.
Leave the slant out.
do you see the alternative life stye of so people,,the need to say( hey look at me platform) yes.
Not quite as bad as the anti-capitalist violence during the G20 summit. For some reason I don’t remember seeing stories like this after the Tea Party protests.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/GCA-G20/idUKTRE5302SN20090402
Yea, this guy simply THREATENED violence. The anti-capitalist nutcakes actually carry it out.
NO, people protesting in freedom against this government is how this country started. What does happen in these instances is it gives an opportunity for the crazies to come out – you know like liberals “come-out” all the time. But all liberals aren’t like that, right?
So a “tea bagger” is now any whack-job who doesn’t like the government? What does any of this have to do with Tea Party supporters? I thought this was a tech blog???
He did it on twitter. it could have been any group, from PETA to the National Coalition to Put Doilies on the Nice Chair. Extremism works its way into everything.
Not necessarily hating the government, just either want no tax or a low flat tax rat. And it has to do with tech blogging because it was on Twitter just like when they did the story on Obama liking his BB so much or when CNN used the 3D interviewing setup during the election (I forgot what it’s called). Still has somewhat of a tech reference.
John, I think you are correct “Extremism works its way into everything.” Technology can be helpful or it can be used to harm us and your articles tend to give it to us both ways. Thanks for the post.
Harold said…
This young man’s misguided perspective on American values should be taken seriously.
This nutter misrepresents what teabaggers were protesting against. The teabaggers right to protest is something that is constitutionally protected. This is what the US founding fathers had in mind. The government’s actions must be checked by the people that elected them (government officials) . Simply agreeing with every decision that lawmakers put into law is surrendering your individual rights to the government, which is not what the constitutions was intended to be. This is just being doing a Simon Says by the people to everything the government commands, even violating those individual rights which the government’s primary role is there to protect.
The teabaggers were simply voicing their concerns about the government’s over-taxation . They didn’t advocate for violence at all and this nutter doesn’t represent the true teabaggers. There are those who already had a grudged against the government and they use any types of peaceful protest out there as a vehicle for their vile misguided beliefs.
From Not PC blog quote:
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Take to heart the words of Samuel Adams (US Founding Father), who during his retirement years was fond of saying that the War for Independence was a consequence of the real American Revolution. The real revolution, he declared, had taken place in the minds and hearts of the colonists in the fifteen years prior to 1776. According to Adams, the American Revolution was first and foremost an intellectual revolution.
This was exactly what Samuel Adams stood for and fought for, exactly what the teabaggers had protested against the government for over-taxation. I bet that if Samuel Adams, is resurrected today, he would have joined the teabaggers’ protest, because it is something that he held dearly (individual rights) when he got involved in drafting the most important document that mankind had ever seen/achieved, ie, the US Constitution.
he sounds like a frustrated American to me
“true teabaggers” hahahahaha!!
The gay-slang term “Teabagger” is offensive to all those who actively and peacefully participated in a national movement to oppose ever-increasing taxes.
Please change the headline and text to show respect for your fellow Americans, even if you have an opposite view.
What is his case? Threat? How many years will he be sentenced?
It would be interesting to find out what other checks were carried out before his arrest. I’m sure the FBI are too sophisticated to arrest someone for their tweets alone. At least, I’d like to think so.
This news reminded a story of a multinational company guy who updated on twitter about how he made his manager fool in attempt of taking a leave and caught red handed. This American guy washer joking or want some popularity.Things went wrong and know he is in jail.
Vegan Atheist , it’s the name that my parents gave me. I am proud of my name and my family. I am so proud of it that I will post any public article in my own name. I will not hide behind an iconic name. Why want you do the same? You should go back and reread my post again. I certainly hope I am wrong and the nation does not have anything to fear from tea bag party goers.
Falafulu Fisi said “There are those who already had a grudged against the government and they use any types of peaceful protest out there as a vehicle for their vile misguided beliefs.”
I agree with much of what you have said. And I believe that you are correct about groups who have a grudge against the government etc, etc, etc, I believe I witness a larger number of these types at the party that I attend and thus the Paul Revere call to America. I hope I am wrong.
I always thought a threat was a part of free speach or was that also taken away from us under the patriot act.
The Wolfman
Nancy pelosi and all the Democrates know what is best for us as long as we keep paying taxes.
The Wolfman
A threat is not, and never has been, a part of free speech.
He apparently likes Alex Jones, the Malkin-baiting truthist nut. (There’s a link to an interview with Jones on his site.) That doesn’t sound right-wing to me.
I think he’s just one of those unclassifiable genuine loonies.
Vegan Atheist, why are you playing the race card. I voted for Ronald Regan once, does that make me a racist? You have, I’m sure, good reasons for voting for your choice for president. The Tea Bag Party that I observed was not a racist event. There was however, a strong anti-government undertone that went further than a disagreement over public policy. That is the thrust of the article that you read on my site. It was neither a Democratic or Republican crowd. It was comprised of many different factions. Albeit on the backdrop of a previous story I had written about this event where people got the mistaken impression that the Tea Bag Party was a racist crowd. It was not and I did not intend to leave that impression. The Tea Bag Party is a movement unlike anything the Republicans or Democrats have seen. It is a force on the political landscape that can not be easily dismissed.
Someone above raised a concern about the term Tea Bag. This term gained life when party organizers asked their supporters to send tea bags to the White House in protest of government spending practices. In my mind it has nothing to do with sexual preferences. In fact at the party I attended in Atlanta, I did not see any signs of this life style in attendance.
In deference to the non-crazy protesters, I changed the headline.
Representing those who prefer low taxes and responsible budgets (I.e. non-crazy protesters) we thank you.
All of the “teabaggers” are crazy, especially the ones who claim Obama is a fascist and Hitler.
ALL the tax protesters are crazy? You must be a kid that hasn’t tried running a business or held a decent job long.
Just wait until you make something of yourself and have to watch the government use your success to “equalize” the so called social injustices put upon the less fortunate.
You will look at your tax and spend liberal representatives in a grown up light then.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascist#Economic_policies
Daren; There is far more to Fascism than just economic policies. Just pointing to one point of that ideology doesn’t mean O is fascist because most of the other planks don’t follow.
Sadly, the sane people get crowded out most movements, the people that get the attention and press are the ones that resort to preposterous hyperbole and other means of getting attention.
Let’s see – Obama used the Constitution for toilet paper with his selection of Hitlary Clinton as Secretary of State…Obama controls the media…Obama has a huge cult of personality…Obama is having the government take over corporations….Obama’s press lies for him about his opponents….
What, exactly, is the difference between Obama and a fascist dictator? *If* he leaves office, that will be the *first and only* difference.
Sorry Golly,
I personally think that torturing and wiretapping are constiutionally intolerable crimes. Which I don’t think Obama has changed enough on. But I disagree on anything Obama has done himself. …changing the tax structure which has been standard throurough history. I mean we’re not even back to Reagan levels of taxation yet.
Obama doesn’t control anything.
I just love the overreactions on the right, after dealing with losing for the first time in 8 years.
You’re right, it is constiutionally intolerable. But didn’t Obama vote to keep the Patriot Act in place, and continue with support of secret kidnappings & torture?
Thank you for the headline change.
Ive heard worse when the anti capitalists protest but whatever.
This guy is a nut no doubt but is this newsworthy because of his political leanings relative to the Dept of Homeland Securities recent memo??
No suprise. I grew up in Oklahoma City and there are a lot of crazy bible thumpin’ right-wingers there!
Why is this on Crunchgear? WTH does this have to do with the typical content written about on this site?
Editorial commentary formed as news is why the newspapers are dead.
How disappointing.
As witnessed by the NYTimes, when journalists and editors let their personal political biases infuse their reporting on news and more importantly dramatically impact the selection of and titles of stories they write about, the journalists inevitably lose all credibility.
Unfortunately it is a slow and painful demise and the reader must simply endure it to find some relevance of tech news somewhere here in the writing.
Let’s get this out of the way: There are far too many nuts in the world — many left wing AND right wing nuts — eco terrorist abound, capitalist haters are at a multitude. Not to be outdone, there are right wing nuts as well — anti-abortion terrorists and atheist haters.
But this really isn’t the point. We need to wipe the political personal views of the writer and his selection of what constitutes “political news” from these pages and replace them with tech news — sans personal political agendas.
What we have above — and what we have seen before on these pages — is just sloppy political editorial opinions masquerading as journalism and truth seeking. Nothing could be further from the truth.
I recall multiple instances on these pages regarding extensive editorializing and exaggeration against conservative social positions ala gay marriage and political cartoons, to name only a few.
I think we have the clear picture.
The decaying of reporting here has set in.
I hope someone is adult enough — and has what used to be called journalistic integrity — to stop further political editorializing and start the focus on tech news stories.
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I’d rather be a teabagger-totaller than upholding the practice of being ‘in-my-cups’.
Any idea what was the alerting circuit?
Is the FBI/CIA/Police directly listening to Twitter or it is just a twitter user who alerted the FBI?
Btw, Funny this story. I’ve just said on a TC Fr post about Twitter that after Facebook, it was another CIA dream that came true.
Anyway, I am new to twitter and I love it.
Oh, I guess you renamed yourselves “CNN-II.” Is that better than reading about how social networking will change my life…………………and all the other platforms given lots and lots of promotion on TechChrunch? Hmmm, is everyone who gets such wide-coverage related?
I actually don’t think TechCrunch should be reporting this story… its not about technology, its about criminal behavior by a poor unfortunate individual who has lost his grip… But its the #1 story in the TechCrunch newsletter. Also, reporting these kind of stories if anything just encourages others to simulate or copycat, by showing the publicity they will get. (not that the TC readership is necessarily vulnerable to this behavior, but…) This is just my knee jerk reaction sitting here in a hotel room in Beijing… there are a lot more interesting stories to cover… for instance… DYK: Chinese internet/telco giant ‘tencent’ (SEHK 00700) has >891.9 million IM user accounts… and heard tonight that they have >900M SMS users! That’s interesting tech news, compared to someone Twittering a bloodbath threat, WTF? That’s just like an event you might tweet about, maybe… if you were feeling morbid.
Worst TC comment thread ever.
is it incredibly ironic or just an odd chance that the Google ad under this news piece offers “background checks”?
I’m giong to try to repost this. These people doing these tea parties don’t realize how good we have it in the USA.
No GST, no law 101 or language laws. No first nations. No Queen as our leader.
cic.gc.ca/English/citizenship/cit-ceremony.asp
“I swear (or affirm) that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second, Queen of Canada, Her Heirs and Successors, and that I will faithfully observe the laws of Canada and fulfil my duties as a Canadian citizen.”
sen.parl.gc.ca/rlavigne/Senate.htm
“There shall be one parliament for Canada consisting of the Queen, an Upper House styled the Senate, and the house of commons.”
parl.gc.ca/information/about/people/senate/Monarchy/SenMonarchy_15-e.htm
“Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada”
This is what happened to the losers.
The losers have to pay 15% sales tax. If you want to order from Tiger Direct or Ebay in Ontario from Alberta, you have to pay sales tax even though you bought out of state, like losers. If you want to buy from the US, NAFTA does not apply and you have to pay 30% tax plus a minimum $80 brokerage fees because the govt knows that the people there have no means to produce good people want and have to resell US imports at 100% markup. That’s what happens when you don’t throw tea into the harbor.
travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/cis/cis_1082.html#medical
“Canada’s medical care is of a high standard but is government-controlled and rationed”
“Access to a specialist is by only by referral and may take months to obtain. Emergency room waits can be very long. Some health care professionals in the province of Quebec may speak only French.”
The losers have no choice but to buy into a horrible health system where there is no dental and the government rations care to those it favors. The losers have laws where if they post a sign in English or another language than French they will get imprisoned or fined. Or if they DARE write computer software in the wrong language. Because “her majesty” needed troops to fight the 13 “rebel colonies”
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec#The_Quebec_Act
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d8/Constitution-of-quebec-1775.png
“In 1774, fearful that the French-speaking population of Quebec (as the colony was called) would side with the rebels of the Thirteen Colonies to the south, the British Parliament passed the Quebec Act giving recognition to French law, Catholic religion and French language in the colony; ”
This is what happened to the losers.
Say you have a business and you want your own workers compensation because your business is low risk, like say software development. NOPE. You have to pay the same $5000+ per month to the government that a construction company does which has people on beams 2500 feet off the ground.
If you kept yourself in shape, you have to pay the same health insurance premiums as somebody who smoked every day of their life, and you will get horrible treatment.
If you want a job with the government you have to swear allegience to the monarch of another country.
If you want a loan with the BDC which takes 70% income tax from you per year, you can’t because the crown corporations under the queen’s money is given to the italian mafia instead.
cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2008/08/30/gagliano-farm.html
Because the Mafia scares them because they took away ordinary people’s rights to have guns.
They took away the ordinary people’s rights to free speech. They took away everybody’s liberty and taxed them to death.
Look at what happened to our poor northern neighbors.
This guy has very little to complain about living in the USA.
I’m giong to try to repost this. These people doing these tea parties don’t realize how good we have it in the USA.
No GST, no law 101 or language laws. No first nations. No Queen as our leader.
cic.gc.ca/English/citizenship/cit-ceremony.asp
“I swear (or affirm) that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second, Queen of Canada, Her Heirs and Successors, and that I will faithfully observe the laws of Canada and fulfil my duties as a Canadian citizen.”
sen.parl.gc.ca/rlavigne/Senate.htm
“There shall be one parliament for Canada consisting of the Queen, an Upper House styled the Senate, and the house of commons.”
parl.gc.ca/information/about/people/senate/Monarchy/SenMonarchy_15-e.htm
“Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada”
This is what happened to the losers.
The losers have to pay 15% sales tax. If you want to order from Tiger Direct or Ebay in Ontario from Alberta, you have to pay sales tax even though you bought out of state, like losers. If you want to buy from the US, NAFTA does not apply and you have to pay 30% tax plus a minimum $80 brokerage fees because the govt knows that the people there have no means to produce good people want and have to resell US imports at 100% markup. That’s what happens when you don’t throw tea into the harbor.
travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/cis/cis_1082.html#medical
“Canada’s medical care is of a high standard but is government-controlled and rationed”
“Access to a specialist is by only by referral and may take months to obtain. Emergency room waits can be very long. Some health care professionals in the province of Quebec may speak only French.”
The losers have no choice but to buy into a horrible health system where there is no dental and the government rations care to those it favors. It took me 4 months to get a simple tube of acne cream because I had to see a dermatologist.
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The losers have laws where if they post a sign in English or another language than French they will get imprisoned or fined. Or if they DARE write computer software in the wrong language. Because “her majesty” needed troops to fight the 13 “rebel colonies”
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec#The_Quebec_Act
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d8/Constitution-of-quebec-1775.png
“In 1774, fearful that the French-speaking population of Quebec (as the colony was called) would side with the rebels of the Thirteen Colonies to the south, the British Parliament passed the Quebec Act giving recognition to French law, Catholic religion and French language in the colony; ”
This is what happened to the losers.
Say you have a business and you want your own workers compensation because your business is low risk, like say software development. NOPE. You have to pay the same $5000+ per month to the government that a construction company does which has people on beams 2500 feet off the ground.
If you kept yourself in shape, you have to pay the same health insurance premiums as somebody who smoked every day of their life, and you will get horrible treatment.
If you want a job with the government you have to swear allegience to the monarch of another country.
If you want a loan with the BDC which takes 70% income tax from you per year, you can’t because the crown corporations under the queen’s money is given to the italian mafia instead.
cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2008/08/30/gagliano-farm.html
Because the Mafia scares them because they took away ordinary people’s rights to have guns.
They took away the ordinary people’s rights to free speech. They took away everybody’s liberty and taxed them to death.
Look at what happened to our poor northern neighbors.
This guy has very little to complain about living in the USA.
Just to say that he has nothing to complain about. The country to the north of us has it way worse.
They will never have half the freedoms and low prices we have here thanks to the monarchy and it’s effects over 300 years.
You should also know that after the original tea party and war, the Canadians still weren’t happy with our refusal to pay interstate tax, virtual representation based tax, and GST.
They came back to Washington and burned down our white house to try to teach us a lesson.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_of_Washington
They of course lost again. They had even tried to dress up indians in red coats to make US armies believe that they had more soldiers. The same indians they had previously been killing years before.
When Louis Riel tried to come back to Canada after years of exile in the US to give the western people independence, he was hung and executed by the government of Canada.
The socialized medicine, the banning of the death penalty is a lie. They still refuse health care and kill people arbitrarily, they just don’t report it now.
I’d like to see you back up the claim that Canada still performs capital punishment. I can’t find any such case.
I’m glad these teabagging protests are over. Tax day is done .We can stop complaining about things we have no control over. Stock market will keep surging higher http://iamned.com/blog/ recession may be over.
These things don’t make headlines when a person stands on a street corner shouting threats, or leaves flyers or cars, or grumbles across the fence.
The Craiglist killer would still be a murderer even if he’d simply replied to the ads in the back of any city’s alternative weekly instead. He just wouldn’t get national attention.
This guy was crazy, Twitter or not. That he used a hot new technology doesn’t change his underlying insanity.
The story here is that the guy is crazy and threatened people, not that he happened to use the same technology that millions of others use. This is a local story about a local nut.
Stories about crazy people making threats are not really up TechCrunch’s alley, unless you’re now the MSNBC of tech journalism.
You’ll note that MSNBC is famous for using whatever minor unrelated issue they can find to smear and denigrate people who think differently than the ideology of the left.
Bad post, unworthy of this site.
Or is it? Perhaps it is what this site has become? Time will tell. Where’s the latest rah-rah Obama post?
You guys are so ignorant…why don’t you just go sacrifice more children to Satan and worship sex and money.
I mean honestly do you know any leftist who doesn’t have at least one STD? They all spend their time at bars having sex with different people and worshiping anyone who will tell them it’s ok to have more sex (Obama).
P.S. If any of you ever stop hating logic, reason and natural law you should educate yourselves on something other than Che or the sixties!
as far as i have seen, these teabaggers are nothigng but the offsprings of the old slave masters in these southern states and some isolated regions of the other states. these teabaggers are racists since i ddn’t see any asians,hispanics,african americans in these crowds. why are these guys protesting all of a sudden since most of these guys are getting a tax reduction if they are working? these teabaggers are against a president who happens to be half black. and thats they are peeved about. hell with these teabaggers. these teabggers belong to kkk and the mcveigh clans.
You say you didn’t see people of color. You saw only what the media showed you.
I attended in Oklahoma City. I took over two hundred photos, and I can assure you, there were plenty of people of color.
But race means nothing, and has nothing to do with this issue. That you inject it is infantile and puerile. It is the first sign of a person with no facts, and the last refuge of the ignorant.
I pity you.
Headlines we never see:
“Crazy Man uses Interstate Highway System to Make Threats”
“Crazy Man uses City Water Pipes to Make Threats”
“Crazy Man uses Navigable Canals to Make Threats”
Why is this story here? Not because of Twitter, but because it makes a common ‘journalistic’ equivalence, “person who wants lower taxes” equals “crazy man who might kill you.” The subtext is that if you want to pay less to the government you’re crazy, or as our DHS secretary would say, a ‘threat’.
This is a ‘vehicle story’, upon which people who have an opposing view can ride their opinions through the imprimatur of ‘journalism’.
TechCrunch hates the Tea Party protests. Got it. In the original headline the message was that TC hates the tea parties and “(tee hee) they are so gay!”
TC should start an editorial section, and stop masking their views behind ‘tech’ reporting.
“Headlines we never see:
“Crazy Man uses Interstate Highway System to Make Threats”
“Crazy Man uses City Water Pipes to Make Threats”
“Crazy Man uses Navigable Canals to Make Threats””
What, do you live in La-La Land.
I see those headlines all the time.
Besides, you know the guy is nuts, not because he wants lower taxes, but ’cause he was twittering…
“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.”
I used to run a social network with tens of thousands of people that were complaining about GW Bush and the war.
If these people had to live in Europe or Canada, they would not even have the opportunity to voice themselves what so ever.
The original Boston Tea party was against a foreign enemy, not our own people.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Tea_Party
Unfortunately the Canadians took bribes, as they still do today. Their original prime minister MacDonald was an especially crooked and drunken man, but no more crooked or drunken than recent prime ministers.
What was the reason Tim Mcvey blew up the Fed Bulding after being in the military ?
Wow…
All of you people commenting to complain about the name “teabagger”
That is not a derogatory madeup name. The “teabaggers” came up with it themself. That is their self-title. They chose the name.
Yes, it is also a word for a sexual act. Apparently the “teabaggers” didn’t know that when they chose the name. The joke is on them.
Before you come on here with a righteous rant maybe you should know what you’re talking about.
If you tell somebody to go jump off the Brooklyn Bridge and they do can you be held liable ?
The Wolfman
Waterboading is not torture, if you want to know what torture is ask the terrorists they will be glad to show you.————The Wolfman——–
Really? The US used to prosecute Japanese and US officers that waterboarded, and they prosecuted it as torture. Just because there are worse methods doesn’t mean that that the “weaker” methods aren’t still torture.
The use of Twitter here qualifies this as tech news, but the juvenile use of “Teabagger” in the original headline kills the credibility of the author (and if there headline weren’t enough, the link to Huffington Post surely was).
I just started following this site on Twitter late last week, and this was one of the first headlines/posts I read as I caught up on the weekend. Though I was glad to see at least some commenters express the same disappointment I had, it is sad to see another technology/news site devolve into yet one more place for partisan bickering. If that’s what I were interested in, there are plenty of better places to find it besides here. Since I’m interested in tech news, I’ll keep looking in hopes of finding a place where grownups gather.
“You are no longer following TechCrunch.”
Agreed. I’ve already stopped following TC and a couple of their authors who were on my feed. I made sure to tweet it to others too. This kind of crap doesn’t belong anywhere, but especially on a tech blog.
Au revoire, all things Crunch (except those delicious berries).
A new low for TechCrunch… Straying off brand-proposition like this invites annoying BS comment stream… filling my inbox. – almost enough to make me cut the TC feed, after many loyal years.
You should start a political blog if you want to offend 50% of your visitors.
What a sad day for techcrunch with a small ‘t’.
Just so everyone knows: Techcrunch bans IP addresses of people they don’t agree with.
I had to log in to a proxy to post my comment because they don’t agree with my point of view.
Typical liberal censorship against views they don’t agree with.
When i read offensive or stupid comment i change blog,I expect them to have some quality
They ban?
I tried to make several posts over the last couple of day and none of them made it.
Not even my contests entries.
Does this post make it?
emo
I came to this site to get news on cloud computing and tech stuff. It seems that the tech industry is replete with the mental disorder of liberalism.
This story is on TC because that criminal had Twitter and MySpace account. That’s all. Guys, why don’t also report about criminals documented at http://www.perverted-justice.com/. All of them have AIM, Y! etc accounts.