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'David Mabus' Arrested By Montreal Police Over Online Death Threats

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First Posted: 08/17/11 04:52 PM ET Updated: 10/17/11 06:12 AM ET

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MONTREAL - Montreal police say they've made an arrest in a case involving alleged threats made for nearly 20 years against atheists and secular scientists around the world.

In a curt news release, they say they've arrested a suspect but have few other details.

Police started investigating 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 pseudonyms, has been at it for nearly two decades.

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MONTREAL - Montreal police say they've made an arrest in a case involving alleged threats made for nearly 20 years against atheists and secular scientists around the world.In a curt news release, they...
MONTREAL - Montreal police say they've made an arrest in a case involving alleged threats made for nearly 20 years against atheists and secular scientists around the world.In a curt news release, they...
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Mian Chen
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03:34 AM on 08/30/2011
Should I start anonymize myself to avoid such thread in the future? He's been able to do that for the past 20 years!!!

Oh *#&$*# I just used my REAL name.
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Inannawhimsey
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12:29 AM on 08/28/2011
A good demonstration of the power of Twitter :3
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kwinter
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05:13 PM on 08/19/2011
That's it ... 5 sentences?

I've been following this story for a while now. It's gotten almost no coverage other than on the science and atheist blogs.

This guy is/was a terrorist ... but no one seems to be interested in those, when they belong to the majority religion.

If this guy was an atheist (targeting Xians) ... instead of a Xian (targeting atheists) ... this story would have been everywhere.
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Brittany Lock
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10:01 PM on 08/27/2011
I guess he needed to go on a killing spree first.
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Inannawhimsey
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12:34 AM on 08/28/2011
Hopefully he'll be able to get some help.
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04:32 AM on 08/19/2011
Awful. Just awful. I condemn this sort of hatred against fellow human beings with no equivocation. I'm glad the man is arrested, and since these threats were done in the name of God, I condemn them, and on behalf of Christians, I ask all of you for forgiveness. It is unacceptable to threaten or use violence in the name of God. It is the complete opposite of what Jesus teaches. I am so sorry one of us did this to all of you.
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dtrobert
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01:21 PM on 08/18/2011
Here's a good rundown on how the case came about:

http://skeptools.wordpress.com/2011/08/17/case-study-notorious-spammer-brought-down-twitter-tumblr-social-media-mabus/
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PiperSniper
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09:40 AM on 08/18/2011
Oh, but he sounds like a good Christian
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PiperSniper
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09:40 AM on 08/18/2011
And? Isn't there a little more info that perhaps could have been provided? A smidgen even? This reads like an introduction, for CS!
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srooge
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08:56 PM on 08/17/2011
oh no words we better lock him up, Canada the new police state but they will let terrorist travl freely through their country.
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wonderweirdo
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04:13 PM on 08/18/2011
If someone here were to threaten to hurt or kill you or a member of your family right now, wouldn't you be worried? You can't tell me you wouldn't call the police to report it. This man has confronted people face-to-face and seeking out people. You think it's a police state when they arrest a man for a death threat, then why don't you go live in Saudi Arabia or Iran where it's legal to threaten a person who doesn't believe in god.
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kwinter
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05:17 PM on 08/19/2011
"... they will let terrorist travl freely through their country."

No, they arrested the terrorist.

It was right in the headline ... "'David Mabus' Arrested ...".
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srooge
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01:42 AM on 08/21/2011
Mabus is the possible name of the Anti-christ. I am talking about those nice Saudi gentlemen who dance through great white north and ended up in Boston to up a few planes around the date 9/11.
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srooge
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01:44 AM on 08/21/2011
P.S. there is no why some goof ball Canadian coule catch the Anti-christ let alone no what to do with him if they had it.
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dtrobert
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07:47 PM on 08/17/2011
FINALLY!!!!!! It took a deluge of emails to get the police to finally act, after numerous official complaints to the RCMP, the SQ as well as Montreal police, but they finally did the right thing and arrested this madman.
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Cameron Hodge
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07:46 PM on 08/17/2011
According to other sources the guy's real name is Dennis Markuze.. for anyone who might have been looking to this article for some basic information...
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nomore1984
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06:24 PM on 08/17/2011
What is unusual about this story is not that it took the Montreal police 20 years to do something but that they finally decided to act. All I can think of is that one of the threats must have been made against a Tim Horton employee, where the police hang out most of the time.
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waldopepper
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03:41 AM on 08/18/2011
I believe your facts are wrong. The article mentions that he has been threatening people for 20 years. Not that the Montreal authorities have been on the case for that long. The 3000 people who signed the petition clearly did not do so 20 years ago. It took time to organize such a congregation. Similarly, it took some further time for the Police to develop a strong case against the defendant. Reality is not like on Law and Order. Reality takes longer and is more messy.
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dtrobert
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06:55 AM on 08/18/2011
Formal complaints had been filed against Dennis Markuze aka David Mabus multiple times with the RCMP, the SQ as well as the Montreal Police. They all passed the buck, saying it was someone else's jurisdiction, until people got fed up after the latest round of threats, which were getting even more intense, and decided to form the petition. The police only acted because they were shamed into doing something about someone who clearly needs medical help, but who would likely have gone on to enact his violent fantasies had he not been stopped.
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dtrobert
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06:57 AM on 08/18/2011
The other fact that is not mentioned in all these stories is that Dennis Markuze showed up at last year's AAI conference in Montreal stalking well-known atheists. Moving on to meet targets in person is a known part of the pattern of a mission killer.
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