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Anonymous Joins The Wisconsin Protests By Taking Out Americans For Prosperity
The cyber protest group Anonymous has joined the protesters of Wisconsin and Americans all across this country in the battle against what they described as the “Koch brothers attempt usurp democracy.” The opening salvo in Anon’s OpWisconsin occurred today when the Koch brothers funded Americans for Prosperity was knocked offline in an attempt to take a small slice of the Internet back from the liberty stealing propagandists.
In a press release Anonymous put the Koch brothers on notice, “It has come to our attention that the brothers, David and Charles Koch–the billionaire owners of Koch Industries–have long attempted to usurp American Democracy. Their actions to undermine the legitimate political process in Wisconsin are the final straw. Starting today we fight back.”
They continued, “Koch Industries, and oligarchs like them, have most recently started to manipulate the political agenda in Wisconsin. Governor Walker’s union-busting budget plan contains a clause that went nearly un-noticed. This clause would allow the sale of publicly owned utility plants in Wisconsin to private parties (specifically, Koch Industries) at any price, no matter how low, without a public bidding process. The Koch’s have helped to fuel the unrest in Wisconsin and the drive behind the bill to eliminate the collective bargaining power of unions in a bid to gain a monopoly over the state’s power supplies.”
Anonymous made their support for the Wisconsin patriots clear, and called for a boycott of Koch Industries products, “Anonymous hears the voice of the downtrodden American people, whose rights and liberties are being systematically removed one by one, even when their own government refuses to listen or worse – is complicit in these attacks. We are actively seeking vulnerabilities, but in the mean time we are calling for all supporters of true Democracy, and Freedom of The People, to boycott all Koch Industries’ paper products. We welcome unions across the globe to join us in this boycott to show that you will not allow big business to dictate your freedom.”
The members of Anonymous are highly intelligent and some of the most technically sophisticated people on the planet, so when they put out a press release telling anyone that they are coming after them, you’d best batten down the hatches and get your house in order, because a whole lot of cyber pain is heading in your direction.
It appears to have taken Anonymous a matter of minutes to find the vulnerability in the website for the Koch brothers’ AstroTurf front group Americans For Prosperity, because the site was knocked down with a DDOS attack. I would think that whoever the webmaster is for Americans For Prosperity would have at least tried to make it a challenge for Anonymous to knock them down, but the power of the grassroots and the individual yearning for freedom was too strong for even the money of the Koch brothers to be able to stop.
Anonymous is helping to lend voice and cyber muscle to those who have been silenced by our democracy for sale to the highest bidder political system. What started in Madison, Wisconsin as a protest among public sector employees has spread to protests across the country. Now the battle has moved to the Internet. The Koch brothers and Gov. Scott Walker have unleashed a powerful force that won’t be denied.
Anonymous has fired their opening shot and just like the Wisconsin protesters their cries in the name of freedom will be heard. They can’t be silenced. They won’t be denied.
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116 Responses to Anonymous Joins The Wisconsin Protests By Taking Out Americans For Prosperity
Bluerinse666
Feb. 27th, 2011 at 7:04 pm
Best news I have heard all day!
Pam
Feb. 28th, 2011 at 10:03 pm
Anonymous we all thank you for standing with us here in Wisconsin. The nation thanks you as well. We also in return are backing you so keep up the awesome things you are doing.
Opinionated Progressive
Feb. 27th, 2011 at 7:20 pm
that is great news indeed!! You would think someone with that level of income would have world-class internet protection.
Insanity
Feb. 28th, 2011 at 12:19 am
I’m sure they do have world class protection. But that won’t stop them. You’re talking about the guys that have taken down many bank sites, wiped ipads remotely, and then some. There is no stopping these guys, they know what they are doing.
matt
Feb. 28th, 2011 at 1:32 am
This is not sophisticated hacking. This is simply a DDOS attack in which a large group of people collectively send massive amounts of data to their servers and flood their computers with so much data they crash. You could do this is if you wanted to, but it is illegal and easily traceable.
Richard Mongler
Feb. 28th, 2011 at 9:05 am
good luck; the smart ones are behind at least 7 proxies.
Oldsun
Feb. 28th, 2011 at 12:45 pm
First, Mongler hiding behind a proxy and using LOIC is a kin to firing an RPG at your neighbor’s house and forgetting about your fence the only that goes boom is your fence. Second, Matt if it was so easy to trace then why only a few have been caught using an easily available WIFI connection setting up you IP address and MAC to change every few seconds and no problem.
Shiva (Moderator)
Feb. 28th, 2011 at 12:58 pm
Its traceable only to the computers that have been strapped to the network of attack.
david d Lucas
Mar. 1st, 2011 at 6:19 am
There is nothing easy about tracing an attack when the servers go down…. yea the ISP might be able to do something about it if they were informed before hand to watch the traffic output but by the time they find out whats going on the people responsible are long gone from were the hacking was done. OH and it was more then just a simple DDOS…. Cant say more but trust me in the days to come the network admins of those servers will either be fired or quit themselves and most of the servers will have to be replaced…
Roxy Martin
Feb. 27th, 2011 at 7:36 pm
Anonymous are my heroes!!
ZDog
Feb. 27th, 2011 at 7:58 pm
I’m inclined to believe this is a mistake by Anon. The battle in Wisconsin is about public perception and winning over the voters, especially those in the middle. Before, Scott Walker was the aggressor and the public was on the side of the public workers. By attacking back, Anon appeases the Union supporters but is put off a little by the middle of the line voters. It’s like MLK and Gahndi with peaceful non-violence, which takes being a martyr and a few beatings without fighting back. I normally would love this but I don’t like that Anon associated it with the Wisconsin battle. People have a tendency to pull on false equivalence, and this gives fuel for the logical fallacy.
Shiva (Moderator)
Feb. 27th, 2011 at 8:13 pm
I dont know, Anonymous is quite a folk hero. And quite frankly, I would be more concerned about the Koch Brothers than I would be Anonymous
John
Feb. 27th, 2011 at 10:03 pm
A major hurdle we in Wisconsin are facing IS public perception, thanks to the Americans for Prosperity twisting the media around. This should level the playing field plenty
Blue Rose Maiden
Feb. 27th, 2011 at 10:13 pm
Americans for Prosperity – but they never say *whose* prosperity, do they?
Karen
Feb. 27th, 2011 at 10:31 pm
Nice point Blue Rose Maiden. :)
No they never do say – but I have a feeling they are saving it for the “Real” Americans. pbfft on them.
I love Anonymous!
Zac in VA
Feb. 28th, 2011 at 10:05 pm
Glad to hear it!
That makes me that much happier to hear about this.
Lol
Mar. 1st, 2011 at 2:54 am
So now, Anon is the ‘hero’ because they’re attacking what the state voted for in electing Walker? Everyone knew he wasn’t going to play ball like the rest, he wanted to balance the budget and help bring things back to proportion.
Personally I don’t agree with unions anymore, they’re no longer necessary with all the regulations employers have to jump through now. There is no reason to not have to pay your fair share like every other working man/woman.
Too bad they don’t tax welfare, that’d balance the budget REALLY fast!
Shiva (Moderator)
Mar. 1st, 2011 at 8:00 am
I would ask you to tell me what regulations there are for wage standards, for healthcare standards and for collective bargaining. I would also ask you to consider the fact that wherever there are union shops the nonunion shops in the area pay higher wages than they would if there were no union shops. They give more benefits as well because they are trying to attract workers. Once you lose this weight standards that the union set, the nonunion plants or facilities will no longer be competing and will not be bound to paying decent wages or even giving healthcare. Nonunion people will suffer as much if not more than union people if collective bargaining is not considered sacred
Jocken
Mar. 4th, 2011 at 10:03 am
You raise a valid point. Non-violence garners a great deal of power in the form of public opinion, which is of the utmost importance here. However, causing monetary damage and business interruption (also monetary damage) is still removed from personal violence, which Anon is not committing. It’s a very complicated situation, but I can’t help but feel that those who buy democracy should not be able to count on things like this not happening. Because in the purest peaceful scenario that they’ve become accustomed to in the US mainland, their money gives them power over most any opposition; since it seems to have been demonstrated over the past decades that opinions may often be purchased.
Reynardine
Feb. 27th, 2011 at 8:02 pm
Damn! Sixties in the sky, with Star Treck!
Bob
Feb. 27th, 2011 at 8:06 pm
Thanks Anonymous!
SJ
Feb. 27th, 2011 at 8:06 pm
Thank you, Anonymous! Keep going!
Corpsman1
Feb. 27th, 2011 at 8:13 pm
I just bought my Anonymous costume and am wearing it to all Wisconsin support rallies, bank and corporate protests for them not paying any taxes (there really is no economic shortfall you know if all corps and banks paid their fair share), and protests against the occupations in Iraq and Afghanistan. The corporatocracy and the military/industrial/security complex, as exemplified by the brothers/bastards David and Charles Kock (misspelling intended), and Erik Prince, are well on their way to taking control of this country — but we Anonymous types, are not done and finished until we are dead — and good luck with that!!!! We live forever! Kill one and two or more spring up from their corpses… ~V
Shiva (Moderator)
Feb. 27th, 2011 at 8:24 pm
Its nice you got a costume but lets slow down on the kill stuff. We are not the GOP here
jim brown
Feb. 28th, 2011 at 9:11 am
Violence is never ok, even in rhetoric. Leave terms like ‘blood’, ‘bastards’ and ‘kill’ to the other side, we neither want nor need them. The hallmarks of the Wisconsin protests are nonviolence and civility, and we intend to keep it that way.
Good Cop / Bad Cop
Feb. 28th, 2011 at 12:52 pm
I don’t know if MLK and the Civil Rights Movement would have been as effective without the Panthers, X and entire neighborhoods burning down. At some point, peaceful people are the only ones that will continue to talk. We do need peaceful people to be front and center letting the Tea Party know it’s OK if they were on Koch, but it’s not to late to join the real uprising. It’s not just about Wisconsin. — Thanx Anonymous.
Bob
Feb. 27th, 2011 at 8:15 pm
ZDog,
I’m from Wisconsin. I understand your concern. But I think most folks here will just think, “Well, it’s some outside agitating group.” Actually it’s been pretty impressive to the local folks that there have been no arrests among the tens of thousands protestors at the Capitol over the last week and a half.
Blue Rose Maiden
Feb. 27th, 2011 at 10:00 pm
I think the free pizza helps. :-)
proudfoot
Feb. 27th, 2011 at 8:15 pm
Anonymous, let’s knock the unpatriotic Kochroaches – destroyers of American democracy out the box.
I stand with you Anonymous!!!
Shiva (Moderator)
Feb. 27th, 2011 at 8:20 pm
Something to think about, the Koch power companys are also vulnerable. I dont advocate any such thing but lets face it, there is hardly a power company that cant be manipulated. Something Obama is trying to stop and something the wannabe conservatives boo hoo him for.
Any website can be taken down given enough time. Banks, financial securitys etc. Just takes time to get in is all.
This may not win the fight, but its another step for the people that the Koch brothers are trying to screw.
Nebs
Feb. 27th, 2011 at 8:50 pm
Anonymous, how can we thank you?
Anon
Feb. 28th, 2011 at 1:30 am
Pizza
Richard Mongler
Feb. 28th, 2011 at 9:07 am
*cheese* Pizza! Yum!
Lori
Feb. 27th, 2011 at 8:54 pm
we are calling for all supporters of true Democracy, and Freedom of The People, to boycott all Koch Industries’ paper products.
A list of these products (as well as any & all others) would be oh-so helpful.
Sarah Jones
Feb. 27th, 2011 at 9:11 pm
for starters, Quilted Northern, Angel Soft, Sparkle, Brawney, Mardi Gras and Dixie. For Europe, they were Demak’Up, Kitten Soft, Lotus / Lotus Soft, Tenderly, Nouvelle Soft, Okay Kitchen Towels, Colhogar, Delica, Inversoft and Tutto
GeorgiaBlue
Feb. 27th, 2011 at 9:33 pm
Also any Georgia Pacific product.
Blue Rose Maiden
Feb. 27th, 2011 at 10:05 pm
Okay Kitchen Towels? There’s a fertile imagination at work. :-p
Good Cop / Bad Cop
Feb. 28th, 2011 at 1:17 pm
Not environmentally friendly products are they ?
I use the discount post consumer brands for the butt & never use Dixie cups or kitchen towels… Cloth towels & sponges cost less when you wash them and use them over and over. I bet I’m not the only poor boy progressive to take a pass on convenient / luxury paper products long ago. I fear a boycott will not make a dent… but I’m in.
Shiva (Moderator)
Feb. 28th, 2011 at 1:42 pm
you make an excellent point about the discount post consumer stuff. And I agree with the boycott but I also have mixed feelings about such an action. The products are made overseas that I don’t have any problem boycotting. But the products are made in the United States who are we really boycotting? Were boycotting the people that make the products and get paid a paycheck. but if the boycott is significant to the profits of the koch suckers that I think it seriously has to be looked into
Voice of Democrocy
Feb. 28th, 2011 at 9:13 pm
I am all for democracy that is why me and many other people in Wisconsin, you know the ones who are showing up and working for a living, are hoping the democrats will show up and do their job. First they can get rid of the legislation that says the state can sell power plants at any amount then cut ties with the union. I know it means losing lots of money but lets be honest and tell it how it is. Walker may be beholden to the Koch’s but the democrats are beholden to the unions and if they show up and vote, which will save thousands of jobs, democracy will be preserved and be alive and well.
Shiva (Moderator)
Feb. 28th, 2011 at 9:59 pm
Voice, why do you think they left? They are a minority. The instant they walk into the congress there, that deal is done and Koch brothers have the power plants. Democracy will not be preserved beucase thousands of workers just lost their rights. Democracy would be compromised
Tammy
Feb. 27th, 2011 at 8:58 pm
I love it. Americans have waken from their long apathy.
Gotta love the geeks
Iman Azol
Feb. 27th, 2011 at 9:01 pm
So, they support publicly shitting pants, fleeing the state, and disrupting the legislative process against one’s oath, thus leading to MINORITY rule through lack of quorum, as “democracy”?
I also like the part about, “The members of Anonymous are highly intelligent and some of the most technically sophisticated people on the planet,”
That’s the most interesting way I’ve seen of phrasing, “The members of Anonymous are basement-dwelling Aspie virgins” I’ve ever seen.
Yawn.
All thud and blunder, signifying nothing.
If the unions really want honest wages, they might try doing honest work. In the meantime, hopefully they’ll be on street corners with signs proclaiming, “Will perform obscene acts with dogs for food.”
Shiva (Moderator)
Feb. 27th, 2011 at 9:31 pm
Hilarious! The wages have all been agreed on, as well as the benefits and insurance.
The issue is they are trying to take the rights of workers away to collective bargaining.
Jebus, dont you ever read anything? You are entirely clueless.
BTW, this effects a large number of skills. And its obvious you have no idea what they are. Go away
LB
Feb. 28th, 2011 at 12:09 am
What’s wrong with being an Aspie? It doesn’t preclude “highly intelligent” or “technically sophisticated” — in fact, it’s more likely.
Beast
Feb. 28th, 2011 at 1:58 am
Do you even know what honest work is much less done it? Most likely not. Your type are the obscene acts and the dogs are your overloards.
Steve K
Mar. 1st, 2011 at 3:18 am
Gee, from your first paragraph I thought you were describing the actions of the Republican Party during the first two year’s of Obama’s presidency.
Part of democracy is the ability to organize to achieve a common goal. It would seem that rather than ask, “Why are the unions getting more than me?” the question should be, “How do I get what the unions are getting?”
It’s interesting that “elections have consequences” only applies when the GOP wins. The election of 2008 was a massive win for Obama and the Democrats, and the “Party of No” spent the following two years not listening to the people they now say are speaking.
Diana N.
Feb. 27th, 2011 at 9:15 pm
You can run, Koch Brothers, but you can’t hide! (Not from Anonymous!)
Lawful Koch opposition
Feb. 27th, 2011 at 9:18 pm
That’s funny and all – but it’s only giving a very big, peaceful and legitimate opposition
to Koch / Walker / Fox / GOP / Tea, a bad name.
Guess what Anonymous. We got this. Nobody needs you breaking laws to take down corrupt Republicans.
stormkite
Feb. 27th, 2011 at 9:57 pm
Give `em credit for meaning well, but this isn’t helpful.
It’s kinda like Shrub and the Patriot Act… If this is the level we have to operate on, the battle doesn’t matter any more. The bad guys won.
joe eight pack
Feb. 27th, 2011 at 9:35 pm
Not that I would ever encourage anything illegal, but wouldn’t it be more effective to cripple their infrastructure n some manner rather than a DDOS attack? Sure that’s annoying, but people like the Koch brothers only care about something that actually affects their bank accounts.
SolidSquid
Feb. 28th, 2011 at 8:00 am
In a previous attack from Anonymous, the law company ACS:Law had a huge number of emails leaked because a DDOS revealed a vulnerability in their web infrascructure which gave Anonymous access. This ended up with British Telecom (the biggest telecoms company in the uk, and who had been helping them) to end up with the possibility of heafty fines under the data protection act.
You do have a point though, a DDOS by itself won’t do much. It would be interesting to see if they could access any emails between AforP and the Kochs though
Shiva (Moderator)
Feb. 28th, 2011 at 8:07 am
A DDOS attack is more of a message than anything else. Certainly it is effective for taking a website down for a period of time but that’s about all it does. I would not doubt for a second the an anonymous as a group is working on what it can get from the Koch brothers in various places. I don’t think the recent attack is the last we’ve heard of this
Bob
Feb. 27th, 2011 at 9:36 pm
Great news — one of the Wisconsin Republican Senators has decided to not vote for the Walker bill! Now we just need 2 more. This is great.
Someone needs to call Walker and tell him his refrigerator is running.
www.democraticunderground...
Lawful Koch opposition
Feb. 27th, 2011 at 9:40 pm
One of the defecting Dems predicted this last week. Walker didn’t go to the GOP gov’s convention either, just 2 days after reaching out to them for support. He’s turning radioactive.
And he’s an idiot.
Shiva (Moderator)
Feb. 27th, 2011 at 9:59 pm
Excellent find!
enkelin
Feb. 27th, 2011 at 10:32 pm
If he/she is a republican I wouldnt believe them. Prbably lying to try and get the dems to show up. Repubs never tell the truth. especially before elections or important votes
Mark Antony
Feb. 27th, 2011 at 9:53 pm
It seems to me, as with any abuser of power, any tyrannical government, any enamored status quo atrocity ingrained in a culture, it will always take a show of incredible strength to impede its monstrous like growth and continuation. To quote boner: So Be It!
Eva
Feb. 27th, 2011 at 9:58 pm
Annonymous Rules!
Huzzah, Cyber Geeks down Corporate Personshoods!
They read my non geek, techno challenged brainpan and Made It So!
LOL.
Tom Treder
Feb. 27th, 2011 at 10:06 pm
Anonymous — if you really did this — please don’t.
Much as I love heaping embarrassment and frustration upon the Koch Brothers and their apparatchiks, I do not appreciate vigilantism on our behalf. The oligarchs have a high threshold for embarrassment. They’ll saturate the airwaves with transparent falsities backed up with the flimsiest of evidence. An actual attack on the oligarch’s private property — as opposed to, say, a boycott of Georgia Pacific — is actually a huge gift to them. The last thing we need is for the general population to associate us with actual crimes.
Of course, it remains to be seen whether this isn’t another self-perpetrated hoax. Last week Westboro Baptist Church falsely claimed Anonymous had targeted them, only to be quickly exposed. Maybe Koch Bros etc thought they’d give it a go. We can only hope.
mors
Feb. 28th, 2011 at 12:57 pm
Tom, what do you suggest instead?
david d Lucas
Mar. 1st, 2011 at 6:21 am
I dont care what public opinion is if these scumbags are trying to abuse the system its every americans job to prevent it. standing by and watching it happen is worse then doing something illegal to prevent it….
edhino
Feb. 27th, 2011 at 10:09 pm
thank god my prayers have been answered give them hell i,m to old dont let america fold we have fought to hard toturn back no don let the the koch sucker teabagkkkers destroy our nation
greg patterson
Feb. 27th, 2011 at 10:33 pm
save the planet !!!!!!!!! can anonymous see the state of our world ????? we are billions
quark
Feb. 28th, 2011 at 12:30 am
I think that they can and we are starting to see the Movement! Go ANON!
Good Cop / Bad Cop
Feb. 28th, 2011 at 1:27 pm
over 9000 for sure
James C Petersen
Feb. 27th, 2011 at 10:45 pm
“A clause that would allow the sale of
publicly owned utility plants” !!
and you titled this
“Anonymous joins . . .”
C’mon guys, I almost missed it
sp
Feb. 27th, 2011 at 10:58 pm
Way to go anonymous. While you’re at it, why don’t you take down the Hannity and Limbaugh sites. They’re both a perfectly good waste of CPU anyway. :-)
scurv of pagan centered podcast
Feb. 27th, 2011 at 11:02 pm
Anonymous may be some SoB’s, But they are OUR SoBs. tiss not good to attract the attention of anonymous is such a manor. I have mixed feelings about there tatics. But as it has been observed ” Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy
As a us citizen, vetern and a loyal patriot it pains me to see our internal politics at this point. I only hope that the powers that be, Will sence the will of the people and listen to it rather then the lobbying….but perhaps the people should vote for Anonymous in the next election
Ken Thompson
Feb. 27th, 2011 at 11:51 pm
Well if this is the case I stand with the vigilantes because the government WI is corrupt.
mostlyanon
Feb. 27th, 2011 at 11:55 pm
This is how it must be.
This is why anon works.
We are a faceless mass of anger disgusted at the current state of things.
We are everyone.
We are legion.
Anonymous is not some elite invite only group.
Anyone can take up the mantle of anon, join us and add your voice and ideas to the collective.
We don’t even require you to be active in the attacks, we are perfectly willing to accept just your voice and your ideas. The only thing that can stop anonymous is apathy.
www.anonnews.org www.anonops.net
Tom
Feb. 28th, 2011 at 12:29 am
The Sleeping Giant has just begun.The Repugnants have no idea what they’ve started.
Septemer Meadows
Feb. 28th, 2011 at 12:29 am
Come on Kotch brothers! Sock it to ‘em Walker! I want you guys to kick butt and take names!! :D
Nikolai
Feb. 28th, 2011 at 12:34 am
I can proudly say I HAVE NOT bought ANY Koch products since they began their monkey business in WI. And, RIGHT ON ANON!
P.S. Don’t get on any small planes, Kochs-uckers
BrotherRog
Feb. 28th, 2011 at 1:04 am
FYI, as I understand it, Conoco gas is a Koch subsidiary.
So, another biz. to boycott.
Kimberly Berst
Feb. 28th, 2011 at 1:31 am
No more Quilted Northern! No more Angel Soft! No more Sparkle, Brawney! No more Mardi Gras! And I ain’t singin’ Dixie no mo’!!!
808hawaii
Feb. 28th, 2011 at 1:39 am
I think its funny, but what if the Koch’s start taking down our favorite sites, or the whole internet?
novenator
Feb. 28th, 2011 at 2:15 am
The Koch brothers corporate front group AFP is better called “astroturfers for corporate prosperity”
Laurel
Feb. 28th, 2011 at 2:50 am
Another little known fact buried in Walker’s Budget Repair Bill is a $37,500 pay increase for himself. He wants State employees to take a pay cut while he gives himself a pay raise. Hypocrisy at its finest.
john
Mar. 2nd, 2011 at 12:03 am
can you tell me where in the bill this can be found? thanks!
hoopz
Feb. 28th, 2011 at 2:53 am
Better check if americansforprosperity.co... is still down…. yup. Still down. Still down. Still down. Still down.
Nikki Jenkins
Feb. 28th, 2011 at 7:38 am
@808Hawaii…More chance of the whole www going down via Anon than Koch’s taking it out, don’t cha think? It’s as easy to take a site down as it is to put it up.
Vulnerable people need their rights protected BUT not sure this is the way of doing it!
Anon V’s The Koch’s = Ability V’s Money/Power.
Pulls out popcorn and chair for the duration :)
Silk
Feb. 28th, 2011 at 8:05 am
“The members of Anonymous are highly intelligent and some of the most technically sophisticated people on the planet,”
I honestly had to laugh at this. Has the auther ever met anyone from Anonymous?
(Not that I dislike Anon. I just wouldn’t call them the most intelligent or technically sophisticated bunch. At least not most of them).
Shiva (Moderator)
Feb. 28th, 2011 at 8:24 am
I would suggest that you Google a profile of the group of anonymous. You will find that all of them work in the IT fields. We are not talking about people sitting in their basement hacking into other peoples property. We are talking about professionals who work with computers, the Internet, databases and information transfers on a daily basis.
Joe
Feb. 28th, 2011 at 9:59 am
Try checking out anon’s website, 4chan.org, to get an idea how sophisticated they are. Their ‘random’ board is particularly interesting.
ds
Feb. 28th, 2011 at 3:16 pm
Yeah their message board is sophisticated if you consider transvestites, child porn, and over played memes sophisticated.
Gaf
Feb. 28th, 2011 at 8:30 pm
Child porn, huh? Yes, Anonymous murdered my baby and raped my mother. They’re also the ones who will be administrating Obama’s death panel, for which your Grandmama is the first on the list. These guys are bad news. They even smell funny and bring fruitcake to Christmas parties.
Sarah Jones
Feb. 28th, 2011 at 9:33 pm
I keep asking why Obama is taking so long with the FEMA camps……:-)
LB
Mar. 1st, 2011 at 2:09 am
4chan and Anonymous are not quite the same. While some of the intitial get-togethers were organized at 4chan, most channers are not part of Anonymous.
Anonymous mostly hangs out at IRC, to the best of my understanding.
Dan Skinner
Feb. 28th, 2011 at 9:08 am
I have to say…this did make me smile. The nerds are taking over…lol
Reginald Fessenden
Feb. 28th, 2011 at 11:49 am
Hey Anonymous! Set up a loop to repeatedly click on paid Google ads from the Tea Party. Run their bill through the roof!
Wolfinapce
Feb. 28th, 2011 at 3:01 pm
Only bad thing about this is that the Koch Brothers are one of the biggest employers in the State of Wisconsin so by doing this they are hurting many workers who may be supporting the unions. In fact many of the employees for the Koch Brothers are union employees so I think someone in that group messed up their research.
/b/lackup
Feb. 28th, 2011 at 4:05 pm
It can now be said that Anon has delivered!
ad
Feb. 28th, 2011 at 7:44 pm
not really the site works fine after checking it right now.
Azyress
Feb. 28th, 2011 at 6:40 pm
Long live anonymous! :) HTP!
Buck Dana
Feb. 28th, 2011 at 7:57 pm
Man the anonymous, good concept – anyone can help out of their own accord.
Thank you anonymous. You are us, and we are you. We may be too afraid to do what we wish we had the courage to try (yet). You give us confidence. The spirit of protest to hegemony and plutocracy lives. Shout out to Immortal Technique, Shabtai Zisel ben Avraham, Langston Hughes, John Steinbeck, on and on till the break of dawn….
Oh by the way Wisconsinites are sometimes critisized as being too conventional and reserved but in this case those qualities will serve to fight the erratic behavior of the gov. and his pseudofeudalistic aristofatcats. Like that? I’ll sell it to ya one penny a word like Dickens!
Oh another thing, lets not let this distract us altogether from more important issues like Libya, the rape of the 3rd world and the continued abuses praticed against African America and Native America (among others).
d0x
Feb. 28th, 2011 at 8:03 pm
Yes a DDOS attack isnt going to really hurt but you can bet thats not all they are doing. The LOIC does its job while the heavy hitters do theirs.
Google HBGary for some of Anons most recent work.
Conservative Thinker
Feb. 28th, 2011 at 9:12 pm
Puppets! You are all puppets tied to your liberal masters in the Unions. What everyone seems to miss much the Teachers union is lying to you. The Unions want collective barganing because without it they stand to lose MILLIONS in union dues that they funnel directly to the Democrats running for office. It’s crazy… Colective barganing in a public union (as opposed to private) means the union bosses bargin for the public workers with the larger publics money yet the majority of said public HAS NO SAY IN IT!
Now the Republicans tried to pull a fast one on everyone with this Kosh deal. Typical polotics where big money talks and little poloticians walk lock step in place to whatever they are told to do. Republicans are pretty dumb when it comes to taking bribes like this. They need to watch the master, President Oboma in action and take notes.
The solution is pretty simple. It is obvious the cuts need to happen and the unions have already agreed to all of the cuts because it would do them no good if Govenor Walker were to have to lay off all of the extra workers. They would lose the dues they need anyway so what choice did they have. The collective barganing aspect needs to stay in place and let the rest of the bill pass. Let me be clear though, I am totally against collective barganing in a PUBLIC union because the average joe paying taxes to fund these unions, does not have a voice in the matter. Who’s barganing for them?
As for the computer geeks attack, that is just childish and uncalled for. Funny how when the left has people come out and call for riots, violence and blood they are touted as heros to whatever movement is hot that week, but if a conservative even hints that they might be displeased with the way things are going, the left pulls out the race card or calls them a warmonger, baby killer, or says they are enfringing on the rights of the people. They attack without mercy and seem to forget that they are supose to be tolerant and non violent because most of the hate speach is started by the left.
That is why the left hates the tea party, because not only did they start to voice an opposing opinion, they organized and really effected some serious change in the Country. You know what that’s called? Democracy at its finnest. Get used to it because I don’t think the Tea Party Movement is going away any time soon.
Shiva (Moderator)
Feb. 28th, 2011 at 9:57 pm
If you take the thinker off the end of your name, you may be close to what you are. Conservative and uneducated
Imperial
Feb. 28th, 2011 at 9:20 pm
Keyboard warriors unite!!!!!! I don’t know why you guys are fighting for your democrats, don’t think for a second they actually care about us peasants either. Oh yeah, it was Doyle’s administration who actually CREATED the debt anyways.
Sarah Jones
Feb. 28th, 2011 at 9:31 pm
Wrong. The state was in a surplus until Walker gave the tax cuts to the corporations.
Ken Forst
Feb. 28th, 2011 at 9:28 pm
While reading these comments, two separate visuals keep swimming up in my thoughts: The movie “WATCHMEN” and a little picture in my childhood encyclopedia and the accompanying Aesop’s Fable about the frogs and the rock-the frogs in the pond were told by the gods that the rock was their king, they endured it for a while, then really bitched about that to the gods, the gods said “OK, we’ll send you a new king”- who turned out to be a stork, and storks eat frogs. Moral: Be careful what you wish for.
But in this case, are we the frogs and is the stork the Brothers Koch, or is it Anonymous?
J
Feb. 28th, 2011 at 9:29 pm
Thank you Anonymous.
Ahmad Rashad
Mar. 1st, 2011 at 12:40 am
Hacktivists are integral in keeping the world fair and equal. Imagine that, the hackers are the ones doing what our elected representatives fail to do.
Ed
Mar. 1st, 2011 at 8:03 am
Thank you thank you. First scientology, now the kochs. Like Zorro or robin hood or masked super hero’s… thank you.
Randy Bletz
Mar. 1st, 2011 at 1:50 pm
Go Anonymous!! Thanks for standing up for middle-class Americans who work for a living. We could actually use your help in Ohio too. Governor Kasich is trying to push Senate Bill 5 through for voting which will be tomorrow or the next day. (Beginning of March) Same scenario. He wants to take away the unions for all state employees and especially their collective bargaining power. Thanks for all you do!!
srt
Mar. 2nd, 2011 at 12:09 am
Thank you from the bottom of my beer swilling, cheese eating, brat grilling, Wisconsin heart. We need all the help we can get.
Tony Fedel
Mar. 2nd, 2011 at 3:14 am
Thank you for your much needed support on this immoral and unethical bill . Greatly appreciated!!!!!!!!!!
Kelsonus
Mar. 2nd, 2011 at 6:21 am
Anon getting mixed up in politics is a mistake.
Looking at history, Public Sector Unions are a mistake.
The founders of the labor movement viewed unions as a vehicle to get workers more of the profits they help create. Government workers, however, don’t generate profits. They merely negotiate for more tax money. When government unions strike, they strike against taxpayers. F.D.R. considered this “unthinkable and intolerable.”
I can appreciate getting upset at sweetheart deals like the one supposedly described above, business and gov’t in collusion should be fought.
But this Union thing is socialist in origin and Anon lowers itself to include its voice.
Shiva (Moderator)
Mar. 2nd, 2011 at 7:51 am
it’s amazing how many people say socialist in origin and have absolutely no idea what socialism is. unions in the United States are not socialist. As Glenn Beck your leader says, you must do your own homework.
You should also understand the people have the right to make a living. And you should also understand that the government has the right to not give government union employees a contract. If you are knowledgeable on the subject you would understand that many teachers firemen and policemen etc. have worked without contracts until their contract was signed.
As for the founders of the labor movement’s motives, I really don’t think you should discuss it because you have absolutely no idea why unions were created.
Greg Jones
Mar. 6th, 2011 at 1:06 pm
Jean Jacques Rousseau The Social Contract.
What Our ,(and most European) Countries are founded on.
Greg Jones
Mar. 6th, 2011 at 1:01 pm
In the thirties and forties, Bonnie and Clyde, Dillinger, Baby face Nelson and Pretty Boy Floyd Were desperate bank robbers. But with the banks taking the farm, Most people Cheered them on.
Its the American way.