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Did Anonymous Strike Again and Target Mitt Romney’s Tax Returns?
The mysterious hacktivist group may have struck again and this time, Mitt RMoney’s taxes may have been the target. RMoney’s taxes were given to Gawker,
According to Wikipedia:
Gawker Media is an American online media company and blog network, founded and owned by Nick Denton based in New York City. It is considered to be one of the most visible and successful blog-oriented media companies. As of March 2012, it is the parent company for 8 different weblogs: Gawker.com, Deadspin, Lifehacker, Gizmodo, io9, Kotaku, Jalopnik, and Jezebel. All Gawker articles are licensed on a Creative Commons attribution-NonCommercial license.
Not naming their sources, hundreds if not thousands of pages of RMoney’s taxes were given to Gawker. Some of the investment at quick glance seems shady, but that’s what accountants are for. Yet how can a group of hackers actually get RMoney’s taxes? By using an SQL-inject code to find a file in a database. But lets find out who these hackers are.
Anonymous is not an organization per se, nor do they have a leader. Much like the Occupy movement, any action is based upon an electronic democratic vote to perform any action. An action is when an individual or group feel something needs to be addressed. The call-to-action is done either on Facebook or Twitter. A person would use hashtags to call upon hacktivists to gather to have a vote for an action. If approved, the group would either use a DDOS or Distributed Denial of Service attack on a site or use SQL-inject to find a file on a database.
Just before the action, instructions are usually given on various sites on what the action would entail. On the other hand, if approval for the action does not have a majority support, then the issue dies or those who supported the action, create their own Affinity group, which has no tie to Anonymous.
The definition of an Affinity Group according to Occupy Wall Street “Although we work for a common cause in Occupy, we may not all agree or work well together. AG’s offer a solution as groups can autonomously organize around their commonalities and priorities while still supporting, working in solidarity with, and collaborating with other affinity groups and individuals.”
There is an odd affinity. Though many of the Occupy members may not be an LGBTQ, the group is allowed to promote LGBTQ rights and garner support from straight folks as well as protest injustices.
Anonymous does the same.
The file-dump of RMoney’s taxes may have been executed by an Affinity Group, and Gawker may have been the recipient of RMoney’s files. Had Anonymous been responsible, a video of a person wearing a Guy Fawkes mask would have explained what and how they did the action. Neither Anonymous nor their counterpart Lulzsec claimed responsibility…yet.
On the other hand, maybe the file dump was the result of RMoney’s campaign group releasing selected files to the media, to assuage any attempt to demand RMoney’s taxes. Now that his taxes are exposed, the RNC can get back to work.
Or maybe, someone deep inside RMoney’s campaign or the RNC or yes, John McCain, who chose Sarah Palin and not Mitt Romney for Veep released the files. No one knows for sure. Why is that? The mantra Anonymous espouses:
Anonymous has no leaders.
Anonymous is not organized by anyone.
Anonymous can be anything, or it can be nothing at all.
Anonymous isn’t simply a group of internet hackers.
Anonymous has no form.
Anonymous is everyone, yet it can be no-one.
Anonymous does nothing for recognition.
Anonymous is a concept, not a group. Don’t forget that.
It can be Ann RMoney too. But in case it was Anonymous who did the hacking and file dump, one word of advice for those wish to hide, cheat, steal this coming election:
We are Anonymous. We are Legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. Expect us.
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24 Responses to Did Anonymous Strike Again and Target Mitt Romney’s Tax Returns?
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j
Aug. 25th, 2012 at 1:57 pm
Apparently Diaper Dave Vitter has been tweeting a young girl, of course he knows nothing about it and it must be a staffer. Of Course !!!!!
And what is that republican chief of police in NY been doing with the training of his policemen. The 9 injured by gunshots in the latest mass shooting were shot by the police – all of them!!!
jlt
Aug. 25th, 2012 at 2:24 pm
The pertinent years are 2007 to present…Mccain would not have had those years! That is when the Swiss Amnesty happened and the Stock MKT world wide melted down!
I think there is more coming..Huntsman SR. is for sure the Reid contact..as well as Gay! The White Shoe guys and Wall Street guys have told many that they are compiling a list to expose what they can without implicating themselves or their firms! He was never respected or liked on the Street! Note that NOT ONE ASSOCIATE OR SIBLING HAS STEPPED FORWARD TO SUPPORT WILLARD! His past opponents have grudgingly endorsed and only with a DEAL!
Gloria Lynn
Aug. 25th, 2012 at 7:23 pm
Romney gave Senator McCain 23 years of taxes; the ‘tax haven amnesty’ returns would have been given to him.
The rest of us have also asked that he release his returns for the last 12 years, as his father did; he thinks he does not need to show them because he is entitled to be appointed President for life.
SueinCA
Aug. 26th, 2012 at 2:32 pm
Walkaway
I agree it is the senior Huntsman. I suspected that from the get go. Romney is related to him, Huntsman jr and romney are cousins
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Ron
Aug. 25th, 2012 at 4:41 pm
The scariest part of it was the two policemen were less than 10 feet away from the perp.. How the hell did they miss at such a close range.???
Ken Ballard
Aug. 25th, 2012 at 10:15 pm
First, to A-Walkaway:
You have a good point. Republicans have a notorious reputation for their political gamesmanship. These could be falsified documents, and by ignoring them or any information gleaned from them, they may be waiting for those eager, and unwary, to upset the the Romney campaign to fall for this “trap.” These unwary citizens would be bulldozed under the onslaught that the RNC would unleash upon them, discrediting them for lying about their candidate, effectively diverting attention from the issue of the hidden tax returns, and certainly blaming the President”s campaign for such a dastardly tactic.
The lack of any of the major news networks reporting on this should also be considered. They must still be skeptical, holding back until they can be verified.
Right now, it looks like the new Romney campaign slogan is “ask me no questions, I’ll tell you no lies.” They sure did throw Congressman Akin under the bus, something that was surprising, considering he was only saying what the Republicans are really thinking. But they can not afford to alienate the women of the US any more than they have, so their actions showed that political expediency is their main priority now. They may be waiting until after the Convention in Tampa before they address this new wrinkle.(Their cup runneth over, eh?)They may be waiting until they are asked about the returns before they begin to deny their authenticity. Ignoring the demands for the tax returns, and Senator’s Reid’s accusation that Romney paid no taxes, at least during the fiscal crisis in 2007-2008, has seem to work well enough for the RNC that they may simply be hoping that by ignoring it, it will all go away. (HA)
That said, whatever they end up doing about it all, it is an intriguing idea that an associate or another Republican may be behind the release of the documents. After all, Senator McCain had 23 years worth of returns for the vetting of Romney for the VP position, and chose… Sarah Palin!
SinghX
Aug. 26th, 2012 at 9:31 am
Great points, well said.
We watched (and I use the term loosely), rather fast forwarded through “Game Changer” last night. It made us sick knowing that the handlers on the “business end” running “the show” decided that she was in no way capable of talking politics, let alone prepping.
So, the GOP “ad men” decided she was “an actress” and they were stuck with her; so, they give her a “script” to memorize for her debate. They cheered, like the back-room exec’s in “Network” when Palin “knocked it out of the park”…they knew all what she was/wasn’t. And, they didn’t care. That was frightening!
With that said, “team Romney” must create, invent “game changer” tricks in order to keep the press away from the issue and, keep riling up the base.
A Walkaway
Aug. 25th, 2012 at 2:53 pm
I’m thinking we’d better wait and see… because I wouldn’t put it past the Republicans to release false information in just such a way (killing two birds with one stone… tricking Anonymous AND giving false information to the people).
Tim From LA
Aug. 25th, 2012 at 3:04 pm
You may be correct. To this day, there is noting on the Anon/LulzSec front. And you notice RMoney isn’t saying a word about Anon/LulzSec and blaming Obama?
Reynardine
Aug. 26th, 2012 at 9:29 am
And then they will further claim that the DNC hacked them and try to make a Watergate scandal out of it. A-Rovin’, a- Rovin’, a-Rovin’s been our roo-eye-in…
Andrew Rei
Aug. 25th, 2012 at 3:09 pm
The tax returns of Mittens the Liar Rmoney people REALLY want to see are 2000-2009; so much can be gleaned from them that Mittens is scared of the repercussions of their release. Remember that “an innocent man doesn’t withhold the evidence of his innocence”. If Anonymous can get to them, more power to them…
karen
Sep. 2nd, 2012 at 9:19 pm
If 2000 – 2009 are the important years they would
be part of the 23 years of taxes given to Senator McCain. You people are never going to stop throwing mud just to see how much will stick.
You are just trying to keep the convesation away from Obama. Let us start with not releasing his college records to his stimulus package which is the biggest theft of taxpayers money in history. How come he gets a pass on admitting to drug use he did 30 years ago but Romney get called a bully, a possible felon and God only knows what else. I only wish Obama’s policies matched the success rate of Bain.
Shiva (Moderator)
Sep. 2nd, 2012 at 9:25 pm
Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Thank god there are no mud slingers on the right.
You are hilarious in the fact that the RWNJ’s made a big deal of Obama smoking pot. As far as his grades, so what? Did Bush release his?
The CBO said without the stimulus our unemployment would have been far worse.
Bains success rode on the back of losing and sending jobs overseas. It also depended on startup money from South American drug cartels. Look it up and stop whining.
Grades www.factcheck.org/2012/07...
The number of presidents who released their college transcripts is still zero.
Trish
Aug. 25th, 2012 at 4:08 pm
So where’s the proof? I have read about this rumor a couple of times the past couple of weeks and the source was the same and was not a reliable news source.
If Anonymous did accomplish this you would think that we would have seen the documents and people would be screaming at the top of there lungs about internet security by now.
Tim From LA
Aug. 25th, 2012 at 5:49 pm
Trish, that’s why I asked if it was Anon. Who knows. But i believe they are capable of doing this.
Sally
Aug. 25th, 2012 at 4:09 pm
j,
From what I read about the NYC shooting, the two cops were following the shooter, who turned and pulled his gun on them. He was in a crowd, which tried to disperse when they saw the guns. The people who were hit were the victims of richcheted shots off the stone facades, and none of them is seriosuly hurt. The police did NOT fire at the people; just the shooter, whom they killed. I think under the circumstances, they did a great job. There could have been far more deaths.
Joseph Chastain
Aug. 25th, 2012 at 6:03 pm
Well apparently the returns were published and Romney wrote off spray on tans on his taxes. He’s a tax cheat of the highest order, and anyone who votes for him now needs their head examined.
Gary Vaughn
Aug. 25th, 2012 at 7:12 pm
I think you are going to see a lot more in September and October, I think Anon and disgruntled repubs are waiting till he is the real nominee before dropping bombs.
Doris
Aug. 25th, 2012 at 7:53 pm
What’s in the dark comes to the light….and I am tired of waiting for them taxes from the tax evader.
Tim From LA
Aug. 25th, 2012 at 8:41 pm
I wonder how long before the RNC calls Anon and Lulzsec Obama’s soldiers? I wouldn’t mind having them on my side
Ken
Aug. 25th, 2012 at 11:46 pm
The truth here will be of Romney’s own gaffs and blunders because if has any modicum of truth, Romney will expose it because of fear.
Louisa
Aug. 26th, 2012 at 12:45 am
Did Anonymous Strike Again and Target Mitt Romney’s Tax Returns?
One can only hope and pray.
SinghX
Aug. 26th, 2012 at 9:40 am
It appears that the timing to “release” is perfect– whoever it is undermining Mittens needs to do it before the convention. We all know that Mitten’s negotiated to “release” AFTER he got the nomination (slimy horse trader). We all know he has no shame and he will break his promise on cue…
Plus, now that “gawd” has taken retribution on the GOP convention, there’s a delay…perhaps there will be a rapid “development” that uncovers more returns.
The timing is perfect!
Carol Kernahan
Aug. 26th, 2012 at 11:23 am
Another great job, Jason.