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The FBI arrested Roanoke, Virginia resident Jeffrey Weaver, 47, this week after he made several threatening comments on the interwebs. Weaver, it seems, allegedly posted anonymous comments on InfoWars.com about Johannes Mehserle, the BART cop who allegedly shot and killed Oscar Grant on New Year's Day. According to Wired, Weaver reportedly went on a tirade on January 5th and 7th under the droll sobriquet "FuckThePigs.” Ahem: “Fuck the pigs and if I find out who the pig is then I will kill the pig who killed him,” is just one of the messages he angrily typed out against the disgraced cop. Anyway, Mehserle’s father saw the comments and contact the FBI. Then, "FBI agents subpoenaed [Alex] Jones, who runs InfoWars, to obtain IP addresses from which the messages were posted. They matched three addresses to a Verizon account owned by Weaver." Agents arrested Weaver and -- horror of horrors -- "found a 'green leafy substance' (.pdf) and 'a glass smoking device,' but no gun. Jones told Wired that there are worse comments on YouTube and other sites compared to InforWars, saying that he feels unfairly targeted.
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People make threats on the internet?
Now they're sending the FBI after people who write stupid crap on the internet when they're stoned? And I thought I was already way paranoid when I'm stoned.
I write plenty of dumb shit on the internet when I'm intoxicated (check the SFist archives), but I've never made murderous threats. I don't have a problem with the FBI looking into it.
Fuck the pigs. No seriously, if you're reading this and you're a male pig, I strongly recommend that you have intercourse with the nearest female pig. That way your species will survive another generation and you'll get a bunch of father's day cards from all your new little piglets.
I find this fairly disturbing. Slippery slope thing and all. Where does it end?
If you write something on the internet someone else considers threatening the FBI may eventually show up at your door and search your house?
"Fuck the pigs and if I find out who the pig is then I will kill the pig who killed him,” would probably be "consider[ed] threatening" by most.
If I wrote here that I "will fucking kill Chris Daly," I'd hope Brock would get a call from SFPD about my IP address.
to view a partial list of crimes committed by FBI agents over 1500 pages long see
http://www.forums.signonsandiego.com/showthread.php?t=59139
to view a partial list of FBI agents arrested for pedophilia see
http://www.dallasnews.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3574