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ramoss Member  Posts: 3039 Joined: Member Rating: 2.7 |
For those people who have seen rants here, a piece of news http://www.cbc.ca/.../2011/08/17/twitter-threats-arrest.html Montreal police say they've made an arrest in a case involving threats made on the internet. The threats allegedly target atheists and people in the scientific community. In a news release, police say they've arrested a suspect but have few other details. They launched an investigation into the online activity of a Montreal man following a deluge of complaints from around the world about his alleged habit of threatening people online. More than 3,000 people signed a petition calling on police to investigate reports of death threats against atheists and secularists. Some people allegedly being threatened said the Montrealer, who goes by the online moniker "David Mabus" among a number of pseudonyms, has been at it for nearly two decades. Police were so inundated with complaints about the man last week that they pleaded with the public to stop contacting them and promised to investigate. Edited by Adminnemooseus, : Put the "a" into "Mbus" in topic title.
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Dr Jack Member  Posts: 3506 From: Leicester, England Joined: |
Wow.
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fearandloathing Member (Idle past 1674 days)  Posts: 990 From: Burlington, NC, USA Joined: |
Moose provided a good link with lots of info in this Message 18. Here it is again below. http://skeptools.wordpress.com/...-tumblr-social-media-mabus I hope he gets some help and meds, but if the legal system in Canada is the same as here then he will probably fall through the cracks and get a little jail time or maybe just probation. Jails here are full of crazy people who receive minimal mental health treatment. A lot of homeless people have mental problems, these same problems that keep them from being able to hold a job and lead a normal life also end up putting them in jail or prison, although it seems DM has held a job. It is truly sad that it took so long for police to act, and now that they have he may still not get the help he needs. I feel sorry for whoever might have to share a cell with him. Edited by fearandloathing, : fix link "No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride...and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well...maybe chalk it off to forced conscious expansion: Tune in, freak out, get beaten." — Hunter S. Thompson Ad astra per aspera Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione.
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fearandloathing Member (Idle past 1674 days) Posts: 990 From: Burlington, NC, USA Joined: |
quote: Well at least he might get some help. "No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride...and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well...maybe chalk it off to forced conscious expansion: Tune in, freak out, get beaten." — Hunter S. Thompson Ad astra per aspera Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione.
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ProtoTypical Member  Posts: 1753 From: Ontario Canada Joined: Member Rating: 3.5
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jar Member  Posts: 29363 From: Texas!! Joined: Member Rating: 3.2 |
Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!
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ProtoTypical Member Posts: 1753 From: Ontario Canada Joined: Member Rating: 3.5 |
Oh, I see my problem. I will have to get these fixed.
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Hyroglyphx Member (Idle past 20 days)  Posts: 5512 From: Austin, TX Joined: |
"Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it" -- Thomas Paine
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bluegenes Member (Idle past 6 days)  Posts: 3119 From: U.K. Joined: |
I think they know that. When the Montreal police got involved in the twitter discussion, Mabus, in the course of automatically including all addresses involved on his mailing list, ended up inadvertently sending them his little works of art. No kidding! Although sickness isn't a funny subject, it's hard not to laugh at that little episode. The cops got the dead crow picture, BTW, amongst other stuff.
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subbie Member (Idle past 236 days)  Posts: 3508 Joined:
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Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. -- Thomas Jefferson We see monsters where science shows us windmills. -- Phat It has always struck me as odd that fundies devote so much time and effort into trying to find a naturalistic explanation for their mythical flood, while looking for magical explanations for things that actually happened. -- Dr. Adequate Howling about evidence is a conversation stopper, and it never stops to think if the claim could possibly be true -- foreveryoung
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Omnivorous Member (Idle past 497 days)  Posts: 3808 From: Adirondackia Joined: |
My younger brother has lived with paranoid schizophrenia for almost 40 years. Keeping him on his meds--and off intoxicants--is an endless, frustrating battle. "If you can keep your head while those around you are losing theirs, you can collect a lot of heads."
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subbie Member (Idle past 236 days) Posts: 3508 Joined: |
Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. -- Thomas Jefferson We see monsters where science shows us windmills. -- Phat It has always struck me as odd that fundies devote so much time and effort into trying to find a naturalistic explanation for their mythical flood, while looking for magical explanations for things that actually happened. -- Dr. Adequate Howling about evidence is a conversation stopper, and it never stops to think if the claim could possibly be true -- foreveryoung
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Omnivorous Member (Idle past 497 days) Posts: 3808 From: Adirondackia Joined: |
I know many states in the U.S. have laws that permit some form of compulsory treatment, but I don't think they have the long-term, amply-funded programs that would be effective. Like many other weary relatives of schizophrenics, I've found myself thinking, "Why can't they just make him take his meds?" But I'm also leery of allowing the state to force mind and mood altering drugs on anyone. "If you can keep your head while those around you are losing theirs, you can collect a lot of heads."
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ramoss Member Posts: 3039 Joined: Member Rating: 2.7 |
They managed to get medicade when they moved here, and as soon as they started the meds, they had no desire to drink anymore.
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