Someone Figures Out Dennis Markuze is Dangerous

I too got threats from DM. The man is clearly unhinged and needs some kind of evaluation.

“…has allegedly been issuing death threats to American science journalists and bloggers over the course of the past three years”

Three years? PZ reports he’s been dealing with this nutter for FIFTEEN years.

What I find hilarious is that Mabus has started spamming the comments on the poll calling for the police to take action against him as well as including the Montreal police in his twitter ranting.

After ‘only’ two death threats on the mayor of Toronto (an ignorant Canadian Tea Partier if there ever was one) and only one week passing, an arrest was made.

But 18 years and thousands of threats later, Markuze still walks free … In the city where the infamous Ecole Polytechnique mass murder happened.

Oh Canada. The country where the police acts only to protect themselves and the government.

“…has allegedly been issuing death threats to American science journalists and bloggers over the course of the past three years”

Three years? PZ reports he’s been dealing with this nutter for FIFTEEN years.

“allegedly”?

Unless hundreds of otherwise reputable and reliable people are conspiring to forge emails, tweets, etc, there’s nothing “alleged” about it. Morons.

“Apparently the fact that he’s been making threats for so long and hasn’t done anything but bluster electronically proves that the threats aren’t serious.”

Except that he’s escalated to showing up in person at atheist conferences. I don’t take that as a good sign.

Over at Slacktivist — Slacktivist of all places, a liberal evangelical blog — Markuze has been leaving inflammatory and threatening messages involving beheading, execution, and similar such things for years. So it’s not only non-theists that this kid has been harrassing, it’s anyone he gets into his head disagrees with his world view

So it’s not only non-theists that this kid has been harrassing, it’s anyone he gets into his head disagrees with his world view

Honestly, Markuze’s targeting seems to work like a game of Humans and Zombies. If he, through any means, no matter what the content, finds his way to a site or blog, that site is tagged and he includes it in his death threat barrages.

This is an opportunity for news media in both the US and Canada. Instead of waiting until someone dies violently and then lamenting with headlines like: “THEY MISSED ALL THE SIGNS,” media should be exposing the phenomenon of authorities ignoring death threats.

I could see a Newsweek cover with: “IS LAW ENFORCEMENT BRUSHING OFF EMAIL THREATS” in large red letters and sidebar stories as:

“Where does free speech criticism cross the line to death threat?”

“Does internet anonymity bring out truculent behavior?”

On second thought strike that last one, its already a truism.

Although I consider Dennis Markuze to be a potentially dangerous person who needs to be securely confined to a psychiatric facility and treated for whatever condition he is afflicted with, I have a considerable amount of sympathy for him. He never asked to end up this way. He can’t help that psychological demons are torturing him.

There is no biblical hell, but that does not mean Markuze is not living in his own hell. Looking through his tortured mind’s eye at the world is not something I would wish on anyone. I hope Markuze gets the help he so desperately needs, but I kind of doubt he will get it. That the Montreal Police and his own mother are so blase as to the seriousness of what’s going on tells me Dennis Markuze will remain alone, trapped in the hellishness of his own mind, for a long time. All one can do is to keep publicly shaming the Montreal Police Department, while hoping Markuze’s behavior doesn’t escalate even further than it already has.

I wrote about a another Canadian using the net to make threats back in 2008. He’s still at it, despite numerous complaints from different people to the police.

Dennis Markuze is not violent or dangerous. How do I know? Because I am.

I hunt for sport and own knives and guns. My nickname is Killer. I enjoy a good kill like most people enjoy a good bubble bath.

On the other hand, Markuze is a crazy, spineless mumma’s boy who types letters on the internet. He’s hardly a threat.

If I spotted him at a convention I could easily stalk him like prey, till he was alone somewhere far away from the venue, then put my rubber gloves on, come up behind him and open up his throat like a little lamb. I would enjoy it, too. And never get caught.

Why? Because I’M NOT A FUCKING MORON LIKE DENNIS FUCKING MARKUZE. He doesn’t deserve to die, but I’d kill him because I just don’t like him. Come on, be honest, you feel the same way!

This will probably never happen, unfortunately, because I live a world away from Montreal and plan to keep it that way.

But I still can’t help but think that you should all just turn on your spam block and STFU.

He’s annoying, and you’re trying to use legal routes to stop an annoyance. Never trust the cops to do this job for you.

If you want a lump of biological trash like Markuze gone you just need to find someone like me. Problem solved.

But you’re all so deluded as to believe the police will help. I have to laugh at that. Loudly.

Okaaayyy…

Clearly, Markuze in’t the only crazy, potentially dangerous psycho on the internets.

Eddy Spillane at 3:58: My nickname is Killer.

“They should have called him the dork!”

“They call me Mr. Tibbs”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zklu9zyFlv4

Everybody remembers that line as being more dramatic than it actually is. IMO Sidney Poitier screwed up the line big time. He should have been screaming and slamming desks or something. That’s how people remember it. (And then they go look at it and wonder what the hell.)

I hunt for sport and own knives and guns. My nickname is Killer. I enjoy a good kill like most people enjoy a good bubble bath.

On the other hand, Markuze is a crazy, spineless mumma’s boy who types letters on the internet. He’s hardly a threat.

Organized legal hunting is not strongly associated with violence against humans. In fact, many of the states with the highest rates of hunting have the lowest rates of homicide.

Threatening other human beings is associated with violence against humans.

As a general rule, if there is any association between such things as hunting skill, martial arts expertise, physical fitness, military training, etc, and homicide, relative to an appropriate control group, it is weak.

Mentally ill people as a group aren’t dangerous, but those whose mental illness compels them to constant threats of violence need to be taken seriously. People like Seung-Hui Chu or Jared Lee Loughner don’t act out because they’re “tough”, they act out because they are driven by severe mental illness.