Update: Mass FBI raids target pro-WikiLeaks ‘Operation Payback’

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UPDATE: Following the arrest of five people in Britain in connection with the “Operation Payback” cyber-attacks in support of WikiLeaks, the FBI announced mass raids across the United States in connection with the case.

“FBI agents today executed more than 40 search warrants throughout the United States as part of an ongoing investigation into recent coordinated cyber attacks against major companies and organizations,” a bureau press release states.

Though the bureau did not say if any individuals were arrested during the raids, it did confirm a link between the US raids and the arrests in Britain. The bureau said suspects, if charged, could face up to 10 years in prison.

The police actions indicate that governments on both sides of the Atlantic are determined to prevent hacktivists from taking revenge against companies that ceased to do business with WikiLeaks following the release of US State Department cables late last year.

ORIGINAL STORY FOLLOWS BELOW

Five men have been arrested in the United Kingdom for their involvement in “recent and ongoing” attacks by an online “non-group” of hacktivists that calls itself “Anonymous.”

Three teenagers aged 15, 16 and 19 along with two men, aged 20 and 26, were arrested by authorities Thursday morning in connection with offenses under the Computer Misuse Act, BBC News reported.

“These arrests, and comments by ACPO threatening ‘more extreme tactics’ to deal with hacktivists represent a worrying ratcheting up of confrontation,” Loz Kaye, Leader of Pirate Party UK, said in a statement. “Many in the online community frankly feel under siege. It is time for engagement from mainstream politicians, or otherwise radicalization can only increase.”

In a campaign known as “Operation Payback” those participating in “Anonymous” succeeded in taking down the online operations of PayPal, MasterCard Worldwide, Visa, Swiss bank PostFinance and others using a technique called “distributed denial of service” (DDoS) attacks. The companies were targeted after they dropped their financial services to WikiLeaks.

DDoS attacks flood websites with meaningless web traffic to slow them down and can knock websites offline entirely.

Using Twitter and Facebook, “Operation Payback” invited thousands of people to voluntarily install a tool called LOIC (Low Orbit Ion Cannon), which was used to perform DDoS attacks on selected websites.

“As traditional means of protest (peaceful demonstrations, sit-ins, the blocking of a crossroads or the picketing of a factory fence) have slowly turned into nothing but an empty, ritualised gesture of discontent over the course of the last century, people have been anxiously searching for new ways to pressure politicians and give voice to public demands in a manner that might actually be able to change things for the better,” the group said in a statement (.pdf).

“Anonymous has, for now, found this new way of voicing civil protest in the form of the DDoS, or Distributed Denial of Service, attack.”

“Anonymous” noted that, unlike hacking, DDoS attacks do not involve “unauthorized access to a computer or network.” Evgeny Morozov, a visiting scholar at Stanford University, compared DDoS attacks to a digital sit-in. “Both aim at briefly disrupting a service or an institution in order to make a point,” he said. “As long as we don’t criminalize all sit-ins, I don’t think we should aim at criminalizing all DDoS.”

“It is clear then, that arresting somebody for taking part in a DDoS attack is exactly like arresting somebody for attending a peaceful demonstration in their hometown,” the statement continued. “Furthermore, the maximum sentence these 5 anons could be given under the Computer Misuse Act is 10 years imprisonment and a fine of up to £5000. We want you to realize just how ridiculous these sentences are, especially given the exact nature of a DDoS attack.”

In early December, a Dutch teenager was arrested for participating in the cyber attacks. Unconfirmed sources said that the 16-year-old boy operated an “Operation Payback” chat room and was known under the nickname “Jeroenz0r.”

Researchers in the Netherlands, at the University of Twente, found that using the LOIC exposed users to being identified unless traffic was routed through anonymous relay software, like Tor.

‘Anonymous’ takes aim at government websites

Late December, the Zimbabwe African National Union (Zanu-PF) website, Zimbabwean government website and Zimbabwean Finance Ministry website, were all targeted by “Anonymous” after Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s wife, Grace Mugabe, sued a newspaper for publishing a WikiLeaks cable that alleged she was connected with illicit diamond trade.

After successfully attacking the websites of the Zimbabwean government, “Anonymous” defaced the website of the Tunisian government with an open letter critical of the nation’s censorship of the web.

“Remember, remember, that the tighter you squeeze the more your citizens shall rebel against your rule,” the open letter stated. “Like a fistful of sand in the palm of your grip, the more you squeeze your citizens the more that they will flow right out of your hand.”

Massive pro-democracy protests in Tunisia eventually forced Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali to flee to Saudia Arabia.

On Wednesday, “Anonymous” expressed their support for protesters in Egypt by calling for cyber attacks on websites run by the Egyptian government.

Tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets across Egypt this week, facing down a massive police presence to demand the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak in protests inspired by Tunisia’s popular uprising.

After reports said that social media websites Twitter and Facebook had been restricted in the country, the “Anonymous” Facebook page “Operation Egypt” issued a dire warning to the Egyptian government.

“To the Egyptian Govt : Anonymous challenges all those who are involved in censorship,” the group wrote. “Anonymous wants you to offer free access to uncensored media in your entire country. When you ignore this message, not only will we attack your govt websites, we will also make sure that the international media see the horrid reality you impose on your people!”

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  • Anonymous

    I wish I knew that much about hacking so I could join the fight. I would be more specific in my attacks. I’d likely start with D.H.Koch and his brother.

  • http://twitter.com/llotek Daniel Enright

    Kids. Kids are doing more for our freedoms than all the aging adults in politics could have dreamt. And we make them criminals. there are laws and systems in place to keep people safe, then there are laws and systems in place to ensure people cant rise up against oppression. Anonymous may have broken laws, but they are laws that need to be broken or our voices would never be heard, which is why those laws were created in the first place. Support for Anonymous and their brave, yet very young fighters. Gerald Celente has predicted that this year will see huge increases in youth protest, and these 5 who have been aressted are exactly what he is talking about. The Arab world is changing, and so will our messed up, North American systems. Keep it up

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  • P Matthews

    McLean, Virginia — Unfortunately, our Neocon Department of Justice has made it hazardous for Americans to join in peace activism. There is no reasonable expectation that if one attempted to give any support, or even aid and comfort, to Anonymous he wouldn’t be arrested by the FBI on trumped-up charges . . .

  • P Matthews

    McLean, Virginia — Unfortunately, our Neocon Department of Justice has made it hazardous for Americans to join in peace activism. There is no reasonable expectation that if one attempted to give any support, or even aid and comfort, to Anonymous he wouldn’t be arrested by the FBI on trumped-up charges . . .

  • Anonymous

    Civil disobedience is a way of creating change. It can be violent – like Jared Loughner – or it can be non-violent like Anonymous. One is highly destructive and one leads to change, sometimes peacefully and sometimes, not so peacefully as in Tunisia. It has been used in this country over the last 50 or so years to create a variety of changes, and internationally for even longer.

    It has been said that wars end up being started and ended by the young and the very old. I believe that the generation to which these young people belong are starting to fight a war – and it is aimed at those of us who have forgotten that young people have minds and rights, just like their parents. They also have something that many adults today lack – inquisitive minds. They are using these minds to discover what we have worked so hard to ignore – how our governments work; how our society is functioning; what we have deprived them of in our own striving to be the Me Generation; and in seeking ways to hold us accountable for what and who we have become. While I do not applaud anyone who breaks the law, these young people have more courage to stand up to those who are harming this world than their parents do, or we as adults have shown in a long while. We should be following their example of civil disobedience, and start demanding better education for our children, not one-size-fits-all testing and charter schools; healthier foods overall in our society; social programs that help people without degrading them; ends to war for profit and imperial goals; better policy for the environment, energy, Internet access, financial responsibility, etc., etc., etc.. We have many problems to deal with in this country, and being stymied by a gridlocked Congress and ignorance of our own government is not finding solutions. And our young people know this.

    These young people broke the law and the law will deal with them, but maybe it is time we did not leave them to fight this battle alone. Maybe it is time we took on this fight ourselves, and do what parents are suppose to do – defend and protect our children and their futures.

  • Anonymous

    Civil disobedience is a way of creating change. It can be violent – like Jared Loughner – or it can be non-violent like Anonymous. One is highly destructive and one leads to change, sometimes peacefully and sometimes, not so peacefully as in Tunisia. It has been used in this country over the last 50 or so years to create a variety of changes, and internationally for even longer.

    It has been said that wars end up being started and ended by the young and the very old. I believe that the generation to which these young people belong are starting to fight a war – and it is aimed at those of us who have forgotten that young people have minds and rights, just like their parents. They also have something that many adults today lack – inquisitive minds. They are using these minds to discover what we have worked so hard to ignore – how our governments work; how our society is functioning; what we have deprived them of in our own striving to be the Me Generation; and in seeking ways to hold us accountable for what and who we have become. While I do not applaud anyone who breaks the law, these young people have more courage to stand up to those who are harming this world than their parents do, or we as adults have shown in a long while. We should be following their example of civil disobedience, and start demanding better education for our children, not one-size-fits-all testing and charter schools; healthier foods overall in our society; social programs that help people without degrading them; ends to war for profit and imperial goals; better policy for the environment, energy, Internet access, financial responsibility, etc., etc., etc.. We have many problems to deal with in this country, and being stymied by a gridlocked Congress and ignorance of our own government is not finding solutions. And our young people know this.

    These young people broke the law and the law will deal with them, but maybe it is time we did not leave them to fight this battle alone. Maybe it is time we took on this fight ourselves, and do what parents are suppose to do – defend and protect our children and their futures.

  • Anonymous

    Like it or not, the truth is that the activities of Anonymous ARE most closely equated to a terrorist mindset. They are apparently too lazy to pursue legal means to accomplish what they want and so resort to violence and sabotage. To say it is “only” on-line violence does not change the mindset and it does not change the fact that many innocent people suffer collateral harm as a result of their attacks. Anonymous’ justifications for this sound just like the justifications of all terrorists.

  • Anonymous

    Let’s have a looksee….

    When financial institutions target individuals/groups with denial of service — that’s okay.
    When individuals/groups target a financial institution with denial of service — that’s a crime.

    Why’m I not surprised?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_DCLOMC65UOVXMU6MI2PPVXOBXE Burn

    Everything you have said is total crap.

    Put down the crack pipe.

  • Johnny Warbucks

    While the British Gestapo arrests these youngsters, they lay down the red carpet for Sonny Mubarak and his bastard family. The Brits are just as bad as their Amerikan spawn.

  • Anonymous

    The proper way is to find a wi-fi public access point (so a laptop might be a necessity, but there are other possiblities as well) which is configured with DHCP temp IP addresses — NOT static IP addresses — which could be tracked back to you the individual user.

    Next, download the LOIC — or whatever is being used at that time — next begin.

    With a public wi-fi access place and DHCP temporarily assigned IP addresses, they might be able to track it back to the public place, but couldn’t prove it as to the individvual involved.

  • Johnny Warbucks

    According to Webster’s Dictionary, the definition of terrorism is: The systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion.

    How are Anonymous’ actions “terrorism” again?

  • Johnny Warbucks

    Jared Loughler was committing an act of civil disobedience? Murder is civil disobedience now? And when did this turn into civil disobedience? All along, I thought (because the media told me and the sheep agreed) that it was ‘mental illness’? Where did I go so wrong with this?

  • Anonymous

    From the Financial Commission Inquiry Report, pg. 13 of Chapter 1, Before Our Very Eyes:

    Cox, the former Minnesota prosecutor, and Madigan, the Illinois attorney general,
    told the Commission that one of the single biggest obstacles to effective state
    regulation of unfair lending came from the federal government
    , particularly the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), which regulated nationally chartered
    banks—including Bank of America, Citibank, and Wachovia—and the OTS, which
    regulated nationally chartered thrifts. The OCC and OTS issued rules preempting
    states from enforcing rules against national banks and thrifts
    . Cox recalled that in
    2001, Julie Williams, the chief counsel of the OCC, had delivered what he called a
    “lecture” to the states’ attorneys general, in a meeting in Washington, warning them
    that the OCC would “quash” them if they persisted in attempting to control the consumer
    practices of nationally regulated institutions.

    http://c0182732.cdn1.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/fcic_final_report_full.pdf

    Dood, when the super-crook fraudsters write and control the laws, you show yourself just to be another lackey of the Wall Street banksters.

    Pipe down, sonny…..

  • Anonymous

    The way to start a revolution is by alienating the young and actually threatening them. It worked great in the Vietnam era. I guess governments never learn. Aren’t they paying attention to Tunisia and Egypt?

  • Anonymous

    JUst what “legal’ means might that be?

  • Anonymous

    The Social Singularity

    A few years back, a poster in the U.K. mentioned he believed a social singularity of sorts had taken place as the power elites, or the Transnational Corporate Class, which owns and controls most of everything, now had such power that real dissent and protest was almost impossibly, as most people were completely and totally flamboozled.

    Back around 2007, the private equity firms (private banks) began buying up a considerable number of the telecoms around the world. This past year we have witnessed the draw-down, or shrinking, of Scandinavian news outlets and their international distribution. Just recently, we see the Comcast deal taking place in North America, designed to eventually lead to the ironclad control of that Internet sector. Just the other day we saw the shrinking, or drawing down of BBC’s international coverage.

    All this is designed for global control of news content, distribution and communications.

    With Wikileaks we have witnessed Social Singularity Pushback, which has set off a global chain of events of dissent and protest. True, such corruption was always known, but the recently released details of such perverse corruption has certainly been a triggering point.

    True, there are chatterbots*** on the Web for some time now, occupying the humans time and resources. These chatterbots, dispatched from outfits paid for by the Business Roundtable, Business Council, National Association of Manufacturers and similar organizations, tie up people’s otherwise valuable time and should be avoided.

    But we have to fully realize how easily manipulated we are at all levels, especially in America. When people donate to the League of Conservation Voters, they believe they are doing something positive, not contemplating as to why such an outfit would vociferously support that latest Wall Street-Oil Cartel shadow banking scam, cap-and-trade.

    When people donate to the Nature Conservancy, they believe they are doing a good deed for the enviroment, not bothering to follow up on those purchased tracts of land for conservation’s sake. Had they done so, they would have found they had been sold to foreign companies for pennies on the dollar. Some of those companies — through a long chain of holding companies — are owned by American-based multinationals; others are owned by foreign multinationals and involed in tradeoff deals with American corporations.

    Again, and again, they use our charitable and survival instincts against us.

    When warrantless wiretapping was in the news a few years back, it was knocked off the front pages again and again by national immigrant marches. Those marches had been organized by Spanish-language radio stations — but who thought to ask who owns those stations?

    The Blackstone Group, of course, and they don’t do anything for charity, but to take from the rest of us. One way or the other, they control and manipulate us, as sane people seek not to have power over others nor be in the power of anyone; it is always those irrational and sociopathic types which seek power over others.

    ***Chatter bot explanation:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatterbot
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chatterbots

  • Anonymous

    Figure it out for yourself. You are proving my point. You are too dim to answer your own question and use your ignorance as a justification for illegal methods.

  • Anonymous

    conspiracy theory much, doood?

  • Anonymous

    You didn’t get it the first time. That’s your problem.

  • Anonymous

    Ok, it’s down. Now, do you have a question?

  • Anonymous

    See defintion of chatterbot…..

  • Anonymous

    See defintion of chatterbot…..

  • Anonymous

    See defintion of chatterbot…..

  • Anonymous

    See defintion of chatterbot…..

  • Anonymous

    See defintion of chatterbot…..

  • Anonymous

    See definition of chatterbot…..

  • Anonymous

    See definition of chatterbot…..

  • Anonymous

    See definition of chatterbot…..

  • Johnny Warbucks

    Here’s the latest from Anonymous. Even I am impressed and apologize for thinking of them as a bunch of aimless punks:

    Egypt protest leaflets distributed in Cairo give blueprint for mass action

    Anonymous flyers provide practical and tactical advice for confronting riot police, and besieging government offices

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/27/egypt-protest-leaflets-mass-action

    Egyptians have been urged to come out after Friday prayers tomorrow and demand the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak’s government, along with freedom, justice and a democratic regime.

    Anonymous leaflets circulating in Cairo also provide practical and tactical advice for mass demonstrations, confronting riot police, and besieging and taking control of government offices.

    Signed “long live Egypt”, the slickly produced 26-page document calls on demonstrators to begin with peaceful protests, carrying roses but no banners, and march on official buildings while persuading policemen and soldiers to join their ranks.

    The leaflet ask recipients to redistribute it by email and photocopy, but not to use social media such as Facebook and Twitter, which are being monitored by the security forces.

    Protesters in Cairo are advised to gather in large numbers in their own neighbourhoods away from police and troops and then move towards key installations such the state broadcasting HQ on the Nile-side Corniche and try to take control “in the name of the people”. Other priority targets are the presidential palace and police stations in several parts of central Cairo.

    The leaflet includes aerial photographs with approach routes marked and diagrams on crowd formations. Suggested “positive” slogans include “long live Egypt” and “down with the corrupt regime”. There are no signs of slogans reflecting the agenda of the powerful Muslim Brotherhood. It advises demonstrators to wear clothing such as hooded jackets, running shoes, goggles and scarves to protect against teargas, and to carry dustbin lids – to ward off baton blows and rubber bullets – first aid kits, and roses to symbolise their peaceful intentions.

    Diagrams show how to defend against riot police and push in waves to break through their ranks. “The most important thing is to protect each other,” the leaflet says.

    It is important to prevent policemen penetrating the ranks of demonstrators, it adds. If they do, they should be persuaded to change sides and reminded that their own families could be among the people.

    Banners and posters should be hung from balconies and windows, it advises, and it provides handy models for posters – one showing a visor-helmeted riot policeman flanked by an elderly woman in traditional peasant dress and a younger one in modern clothes over the slogan “Police and people together against the regime”.

    The president’s son Gamal – often thought likely to succeed his father – is labelled “Cowardly Mubarak”, with the words “Where’s Daddy now?” Another idea is the country’s national symbol of an eagle with “Egypt’s Liberation Day” underneath it.

  • Johnny Warbucks

    Here’s the latest from Anonymous. Even I am impressed and apologize for thinking of them as a bunch of aimless punks:

    Egypt protest leaflets distributed in Cairo give blueprint for mass action

    Anonymous flyers provide practical and tactical advice for confronting riot police, and besieging government offices

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/27/egypt-protest-leaflets-mass-action

    Egyptians have been urged to come out after Friday prayers tomorrow and demand the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak’s government, along with freedom, justice and a democratic regime.

    Anonymous leaflets circulating in Cairo also provide practical and tactical advice for mass demonstrations, confronting riot police, and besieging and taking control of government offices.

    Signed “long live Egypt”, the slickly produced 26-page document calls on demonstrators to begin with peaceful protests, carrying roses but no banners, and march on official buildings while persuading policemen and soldiers to join their ranks.

    The leaflet ask recipients to redistribute it by email and photocopy, but not to use social media such as Facebook and Twitter, which are being monitored by the security forces.

    Protesters in Cairo are advised to gather in large numbers in their own neighbourhoods away from police and troops and then move towards key installations such the state broadcasting HQ on the Nile-side Corniche and try to take control “in the name of the people”. Other priority targets are the presidential palace and police stations in several parts of central Cairo.

    The leaflet includes aerial photographs with approach routes marked and diagrams on crowd formations. Suggested “positive” slogans include “long live Egypt” and “down with the corrupt regime”. There are no signs of slogans reflecting the agenda of the powerful Muslim Brotherhood. It advises demonstrators to wear clothing such as hooded jackets, running shoes, goggles and scarves to protect against teargas, and to carry dustbin lids – to ward off baton blows and rubber bullets – first aid kits, and roses to symbolise their peaceful intentions.

    Diagrams show how to defend against riot police and push in waves to break through their ranks. “The most important thing is to protect each other,” the leaflet says.

    It is important to prevent policemen penetrating the ranks of demonstrators, it adds. If they do, they should be persuaded to change sides and reminded that their own families could be among the people.

    Banners and posters should be hung from balconies and windows, it advises, and it provides handy models for posters – one showing a visor-helmeted riot policeman flanked by an elderly woman in traditional peasant dress and a younger one in modern clothes over the slogan “Police and people together against the regime”.

    The president’s son Gamal – often thought likely to succeed his father – is labelled “Cowardly Mubarak”, with the words “Where’s Daddy now?” Another idea is the country’s national symbol of an eagle with “Egypt’s Liberation Day” underneath it.

  • Johnny Warbucks

    Here’s the latest from Anonymous. Even I am impressed and apologize for thinking of them as a bunch of aimless punks:

    Egypt protest leaflets distributed in Cairo give blueprint for mass action

    Anonymous flyers provide practical and tactical advice for confronting riot police, and besieging government offices

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/27/egypt-protest-leaflets-mass-action

    Egyptians have been urged to come out after Friday prayers tomorrow and demand the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak’s government, along with freedom, justice and a democratic regime.

    Anonymous leaflets circulating in Cairo also provide practical and tactical advice for mass demonstrations, confronting riot police, and besieging and taking control of government offices.

    Signed “long live Egypt”, the slickly produced 26-page document calls on demonstrators to begin with peaceful protests, carrying roses but no banners, and march on official buildings while persuading policemen and soldiers to join their ranks.

    The leaflet ask recipients to redistribute it by email and photocopy, but not to use social media such as Facebook and Twitter, which are being monitored by the security forces.

    Protesters in Cairo are advised to gather in large numbers in their own neighbourhoods away from police and troops and then move towards key installations such the state broadcasting HQ on the Nile-side Corniche and try to take control “in the name of the people”. Other priority targets are the presidential palace and police stations in several parts of central Cairo.

    The leaflet includes aerial photographs with approach routes marked and diagrams on crowd formations. Suggested “positive” slogans include “long live Egypt” and “down with the corrupt regime”. There are no signs of slogans reflecting the agenda of the powerful Muslim Brotherhood. It advises demonstrators to wear clothing such as hooded jackets, running shoes, goggles and scarves to protect against teargas, and to carry dustbin lids – to ward off baton blows and rubber bullets – first aid kits, and roses to symbolise their peaceful intentions.

    Diagrams show how to defend against riot police and push in waves to break through their ranks. “The most important thing is to protect each other,” the leaflet says.

    It is important to prevent policemen penetrating the ranks of demonstrators, it adds. If they do, they should be persuaded to change sides and reminded that their own families could be among the people.

    Banners and posters should be hung from balconies and windows, it advises, and it provides handy models for posters – one showing a visor-helmeted riot policeman flanked by an elderly woman in traditional peasant dress and a younger one in modern clothes over the slogan “Police and people together against the regime”.

    The president’s son Gamal – often thought likely to succeed his father – is labelled “Cowardly Mubarak”, with the words “Where’s Daddy now?” Another idea is the country’s national symbol of an eagle with “Egypt’s Liberation Day” underneath it.

  • Johnny Warbucks

    Here’s the latest from Anonymous. Even I am impressed and apologize for thinking of them as a bunch of aimless punks:

    Egypt protest leaflets distributed in Cairo give blueprint for mass action

    Anonymous flyers provide practical and tactical advice for confronting riot police, and besieging government offices

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/27/egypt-protest-leaflets-mass-action

    Egyptians have been urged to come out after Friday prayers tomorrow and demand the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak’s government, along with freedom, justice and a democratic regime.

    Anonymous leaflets circulating in Cairo also provide practical and tactical advice for mass demonstrations, confronting riot police, and besieging and taking control of government offices.

    Signed “long live Egypt”, the slickly produced 26-page document calls on demonstrators to begin with peaceful protests, carrying roses but no banners, and march on official buildings while persuading policemen and soldiers to join their ranks.

    The leaflet ask recipients to redistribute it by email and photocopy, but not to use social media such as Facebook and Twitter, which are being monitored by the security forces.

    Protesters in Cairo are advised to gather in large numbers in their own neighbourhoods away from police and troops and then move towards key installations such the state broadcasting HQ on the Nile-side Corniche and try to take control “in the name of the people”. Other priority targets are the presidential palace and police stations in several parts of central Cairo.

    The leaflet includes aerial photographs with approach routes marked and diagrams on crowd formations. Suggested “positive” slogans include “long live Egypt” and “down with the corrupt regime”. There are no signs of slogans reflecting the agenda of the powerful Muslim Brotherhood. It advises demonstrators to wear clothing such as hooded jackets, running shoes, goggles and scarves to protect against teargas, and to carry dustbin lids – to ward off baton blows and rubber bullets – first aid kits, and roses to symbolise their peaceful intentions.

    Diagrams show how to defend against riot police and push in waves to break through their ranks. “The most important thing is to protect each other,” the leaflet says.

    It is important to prevent policemen penetrating the ranks of demonstrators, it adds. If they do, they should be persuaded to change sides and reminded that their own families could be among the people.

    Banners and posters should be hung from balconies and windows, it advises, and it provides handy models for posters – one showing a visor-helmeted riot policeman flanked by an elderly woman in traditional peasant dress and a younger one in modern clothes over the slogan “Police and people together against the regime”.

    The president’s son Gamal – often thought likely to succeed his father – is labelled “Cowardly Mubarak”, with the words “Where’s Daddy now?” Another idea is the country’s national symbol of an eagle with “Egypt’s Liberation Day” underneath it.

  • Anonymous

    We can assume you don’t have a good solution either.

    What Anonymous are doing is tantamount to picketing.

    It’s not violent and doesn’t result in anything being destroyed.

    Care to misrepresent anything else?

  • Anonymous

    We can assume you don’t have a good solution either.

    What Anonymous are doing is tantamount to picketing.

    It’s not violent and doesn’t result in anything being destroyed.

    Care to misrepresent anything else?

  • Anonymous

    We can assume you don’t have a good solution either.

    What Anonymous are doing is tantamount to picketing.

    It’s not violent and doesn’t result in anything being destroyed.

    Care to misrepresent anything else?

  • Anonymous

    We can assume you don’t have a good solution either.

    What Anonymous are doing is tantamount to picketing.

    It’s not violent and doesn’t result in anything being destroyed.

    Care to misrepresent anything else?

  • Anonymous

    The embassy cables reveal a lot, including the fact that fascism is alive and well and that assholes from big corporations can effectively write laws not just for Amercia, but globally, through blackmail carried out under the guise of diplomacy. The Special 301 watchlist is one such example of this, there are more but just looking at who Obama made AG a few days ago should serve to make it clear who influence the law most. The people don’t stand a chance, not if they can be offset by the wealth of the few.

  • Anonymous

    The embassy cables reveal a lot, including the fact that fascism is alive and well and that assholes from big corporations can effectively write laws not just for Amercia, but globally, through blackmail carried out under the guise of diplomacy. The Special 301 watchlist is one such example of this, there are more but just looking at who Obama made AG a few days ago should serve to make it clear who influence the law most. The people don’t stand a chance, not if they can be offset by the wealth of the few.

  • Anonymous

    The embassy cables reveal a lot, including the fact that fascism is alive and well and that assholes from big corporations can effectively write laws not just for Amercia, but globally, through blackmail carried out under the guise of diplomacy. The Special 301 watchlist is one such example of this, there are more but just looking at who Obama made AG a few days ago should serve to make it clear who influence the law most. The people don’t stand a chance, not if they can be offset by the wealth of the few.

  • Anonymous

    The embassy cables reveal a lot, including the fact that fascism is alive and well and that assholes from big corporations can effectively write laws not just for Amercia, but globally, through blackmail carried out under the guise of diplomacy. The Special 301 watchlist is one such example of this, there are more but just looking at who Obama made AG a few days ago should serve to make it clear who influence the law most. The people don’t stand a chance, not if they can be offset by the wealth of the few.

  • Anonymous

    The embassy cables reveal a lot, including the fact that fascism is alive and well and that assholes from big corporations can effectively write laws not just for Amercia, but globally, through blackmail carried out under the guise of diplomacy. The Special 301 watchlist is one such example of this, there are more but just looking at who Obama made AG a few days ago should serve to make it clear who influence the law most. The people don’t stand a chance, not if they can be offset by the wealth of the few.

  • Johnny Warbucks

    No, son. I think it is you who doesn’t get it. Period.

  • Johnny Warbucks

    No, son. I think it is you who doesn’t get it. Period.

  • Johnny Warbucks

    No, son. I think it is you who doesn’t get it. Period.

  • Johnny Warbucks

    No, son. I think it is you who doesn’t get it. Period.

  • Anonymous

    Because Watcherman says so… don’t you get it, regardless of logic, fact and rational… things are just what he says they are because he says so.

    I think you’re expecting way too much cognition from him. ;)

  • Anonymous

    Because Watcherman says so… don’t you get it, regardless of logic, fact and rational… things are just what he says they are because he says so.

    I think you’re expecting way too much cognition from him. ;)

  • Anonymous

    Because Watcherman says so… don’t you get it, regardless of logic, fact and rational… things are just what he says they are because he says so.

    I think you’re expecting way too much cognition from him. ;)

  • Anonymous

    Because Watcherman says so… don’t you get it, regardless of logic, fact and rational… things are just what he says they are because he says so.

    I think you’re expecting way too much cognition from him. ;)

  • Anonymous

    Because Watcherman says so… don’t you get it, regardless of logic, fact and rational… things are just what he says they are because he says so.

    I think you’re expecting way too much cognition from him. ;)

  • Anonymous

    I’m all for youthful rebellion, but no, Daniel, you cannot justify illegal actions by saying those are laws that “need to be broken or our voices would never be heard.” First of all, Anonymous individually and collectively delude themselves about their accomplishments. You think you are doing more for “our” freedoms than all the aging adults . . . ? Go talk with Nelson Mandella — who did not hide anonymously in his basement and “bravely” send out internet messages. If you really want to change things for the better, good. But don’t be lazy and say you “have to” use illegal methods. And if you are so hot on human rights, how about cleaning up the child porn that is all over 4chan. You don’t think those children have any rights?

  • Johnny Warbucks

    Oh, heavens! I’m used to the type. They come at me from every angle. I usually carry a crowbar to pry their mind open with it. ;)

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_UJ4XRIA3A3E6MYGK755EGWLN4Q Dani A

    anonymous isnt some group, its everyone :P so no they arnt aimless punks, they are anyone with an agenda who doesnt want the credit.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_UJ4XRIA3A3E6MYGK755EGWLN4Q Dani A

    anonymous isnt some group, its everyone :P so no they arnt aimless punks, they are anyone with an agenda who doesnt want the credit.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_UJ4XRIA3A3E6MYGK755EGWLN4Q Dani A

    anonymous isnt some group, its everyone :P so no they arnt aimless punks, they are anyone with an agenda who doesnt want the credit.

  • Anonymous

    FYI Wikileaks isa Mossad operation rube.

  • Anonymous

    FYI Wikileaks isa Mossad operation rube.

  • Anonymous

    FYI Wikileaks isa Mossad operation rube.

  • Anonymous

    Exactly in the way that the Government chooses to say they are.

  • Johnny Warbucks

    Yep. It’s Doublespeak

  • Johnny Warbucks

    Sorry to hear you didn’t understand what I wrote.

  • Anonymous

    This is utterly revolting. Pun intended.

  • Anonymous

    Wouldn’t it be great if the FBI went after real criminals like this?

  • Anonymous

    They are so lucky to have your esteem

  • Gnat K. Coal

    You mean WAR CRIMINALS like George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Doug Feith, and Barack Obama?

    Good luck with that.

  • Gnat K. Coal

    You mean WAR CRIMINALS like George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Doug Feith, and Barack Obama?

    Good luck with that.

  • Benway for the Nova Police

    There is no such thing as “Webster’s Dictionary.” The name lost its trademark status ages ago.

  • Benway for the Nova Police

    There is no such thing as “Webster’s Dictionary.” The name lost its trademark status ages ago.

  • Benway for the Nova Police

    The American Revolution was illegal under British law.

  • Benway for the Nova Police

    The American Revolution was illegal under British law.

  • Anonymous

    None of these killers will ever see a day behind bars but try stealing a loaf a bread to feed your kids and see what happens. No wonder people are cynical.

  • Anonymous

    None of these killers will ever see a day behind bars but try stealing a loaf a bread to feed your kids and see what happens. No wonder people are cynical.

  • http://twitter.com/llotek1 Daniel Enright

    Just amazing. thanks for the post. Im just shocked at how well Anonymous has dispersed around the world. stunning. and between them and wikileaks, they are actually creating change, right before our eyes. Congratulations to all those working for a better world. just amazing!

  • http://twitter.com/llotek1 Daniel Enright

    Just amazing. thanks for the post. Im just shocked at how well Anonymous has dispersed around the world. stunning. and between them and wikileaks, they are actually creating change, right before our eyes. Congratulations to all those working for a better world. just amazing!

  • Benway for the Nova Police

    And I’m the representative of the Galactic Investigation Agency. Turn around so I can handcuff you and take you off in my flying saucer.

  • Benway for the Nova Police

    And I’m the representative of the Galactic Investigation Agency. Turn around so I can handcuff you and take you off in my flying saucer.

  • ofb2632

    Wall St almost breaks the United States with all the corruption, and the FBI spends their time doing this????? bought and paid for!!!!

  • ofb2632

    Wall St almost breaks the United States with all the corruption, and the FBI spends their time doing this????? bought and paid for!!!!

  • Benway for the Nova Police

    The real criminals bite back.

  • Benway for the Nova Police

    The real criminals bite back.

  • Anonymous

    I was just thinking the same thing.

  • Anonymous

    I was just thinking the same thing.

  • Johnny Warbucks

    Amazing, ain’t it? That exactly was my comment. At first, I thought they were just a bunch of aimless punks but I’m truly impressed. They surely do know what they’re doing and are very much focused and on top of things. Impressive!

    You did hear that they arrested 5 of them in the UK and the FBI is blanket-targeting them over here, right? The Nazis are hell-bent in quashing all dissent. By whatever the means.

  • Johnny Warbucks

    Amazing, ain’t it? That exactly was my comment. At first, I thought they were just a bunch of aimless punks but I’m truly impressed. They surely do know what they’re doing and are very much focused and on top of things. Impressive!

    You did hear that they arrested 5 of them in the UK and the FBI is blanket-targeting them over here, right? The Nazis are hell-bent in quashing all dissent. By whatever the means.

  • Johnny Warbucks

    Yeah, imagine that.

  • Johnny Warbucks

    Yeah, imagine that.

  • Anonymous

    But what about this statement:

    “Researchers in the Netherlands, at the University of Twente, found that using the LOIC exposed users to being identified unless traffic was routed through anonymous relay software, like Tor.”

    Tor is necessary anyway, right, because some users who believe they are using a temp IP, are in fact using a static one, unknowingly, because HS has been monitoring them through their ISP monitoring requests? (Can you tell from your location if your IP is static or temp if this is the case?)

    Just one nerd to another nerd…..nothing to see here HS….

  • Anonymous

    But what about this statement:

    “Researchers in the Netherlands, at the University of Twente, found that using the LOIC exposed users to being identified unless traffic was routed through anonymous relay software, like Tor.”

    Tor is necessary anyway, right, because some users who believe they are using a temp IP, are in fact using a static one, unknowingly, because HS has been monitoring them through their ISP monitoring requests? (Can you tell from your location if your IP is static or temp if this is the case?)

    Just one nerd to another nerd…..nothing to see here HS….

  • Johnny Warbucks

    Well, they keep calling themselves that and, for as long as it doesn’t affect me, I go along with it. And absent anything else, that’s all we’ve got.

  • Johnny Warbucks

    Well, they keep calling themselves that and, for as long as it doesn’t affect me, I go along with it. And absent anything else, that’s all we’ve got.

  • Anonymous

    I am still waiting for reasons from the companies for the so-called service policy violations. Nothing was ever refered to nor given.

  • Anonymous

    I am still waiting for reasons from the companies for the so-called service policy violations. Nothing was ever refered to nor given.

  • Anonymous

    Watchman been watching too much Faux News I fear.

  • Anonymous

    Watchman been watching too much Faux News I fear.

  • Anonymous

    By the way. Where is Karl Rove? Cheney? Kissinger & Rumsfeld?

    Any luck mister FBI agent?

  • Anonymous

    By the way. Where is Karl Rove? Cheney? Kissinger & Rumsfeld?

    Any luck mister FBI agent?

  • Anonymous

    “Evgeny Morozov, a visiting scholar at Stanford University, compared DDoS attacks to a digital sit-in. ‘Both aim at briefly disrupting a service or an institution in order to make a point,’ he said. ‘As long as we don’t criminalize all sit-ins, I don’t think we should aim at criminalizing all DDoS.’”

    Even Mandella’s “rebellions” as you call them, had “sit-ins,” one of THE most non-violent methods of protest. For God sakes, we’re talking about “sit-ins!” (And yes, I do think children have rights—all human rights are sacrosanct. Period.)

    BTW-Mandella is hospitalized in serious condition in SA: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/27/nelson-mandela-hospital-south-africa. He may be very ill. I wish him well, and hope for his recovery.

  • Anonymous

    “Evgeny Morozov, a visiting scholar at Stanford University, compared DDoS attacks to a digital sit-in. ‘Both aim at briefly disrupting a service or an institution in order to make a point,’ he said. ‘As long as we don’t criminalize all sit-ins, I don’t think we should aim at criminalizing all DDoS.’”

    Even Mandella’s “rebellions” as you call them, had “sit-ins,” one of THE most non-violent methods of protest. For God sakes, we’re talking about “sit-ins!” (And yes, I do think children have rights—all human rights are sacrosanct. Period.)

    BTW-Mandella is hospitalized in serious condition in SA: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/27/nelson-mandela-hospital-south-africa. He may be very ill. I wish him well, and hope for his recovery.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_MSVG73USMG342DWORQKIEJ6HVQ Bob

    It’s too bad the US government can’t pursue the war criminals within it’s own ranks with the same vigor they use to persecute those who perpetrate peaceful acts of civil disobedience.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_MSVG73USMG342DWORQKIEJ6HVQ Bob

    It’s too bad the US government can’t pursue the war criminals within it’s own ranks with the same vigor they use to persecute those who perpetrate peaceful acts of civil disobedience.

  • http://www.socialistcafe.com SocialistCafeDOTcom

    Bush, Obama and the rest of the war criminals should be in jail, not these people.

    We’re stuck in a never-ending ‘opposite day’.

  • http://www.socialistcafe.com SocialistCafeDOTcom

    Bush, Obama and the rest of the war criminals should be in jail, not these people.

    We’re stuck in a never-ending ‘opposite day’.

  • Anonymous

    You had no point.

  • Anonymous

    You had no point.

  • Anonymous

    “The police actions indicate that governments on both sides of the Atlantic are determined to prevent hacktivists from taking revenge against companies that ceased to do business with WikiLeaks following the release of US State Department cables late last year.”

    So….the governments of the UK and US are arms of corporate enforcement?

    “Odd”, isn’t it, that these brave law enforcement fascists aren’t going after the criminals that Wikileaks exposed, but rather target the moral and ethical protesters of these abominations?

    Is there any further need to demonstrate that the US is war mongering fascist state?

    Is there?

  • Anonymous

    “The police actions indicate that governments on both sides of the Atlantic are determined to prevent hacktivists from taking revenge against companies that ceased to do business with WikiLeaks following the release of US State Department cables late last year.”

    So….the governments of the UK and US are arms of corporate enforcement?

    “Odd”, isn’t it, that these brave law enforcement fascists aren’t going after the criminals that Wikileaks exposed, but rather target the moral and ethical protesters of these abominations?

    Is there any further need to demonstrate that the US is war mongering fascist state?

    Is there?

  • Anonymous

    “Three teenagers aged 15, 16 and 19 along with two men, aged 20 and 26, were arrested by authorities Thursday morning in connection with offenses under the Computer Misuse Act, BBC News reported.”

    While Bloody Blair the War Poodle walks free…..

  • Anonymous

    “Three teenagers aged 15, 16 and 19 along with two men, aged 20 and 26, were arrested by authorities Thursday morning in connection with offenses under the Computer Misuse Act, BBC News reported.”

    While Bloody Blair the War Poodle walks free…..

  • Anonymous

    We have to realize this is no longer the people government.
    It is OWN by these Global Monopolies both Foreign and Local…
    Mostly Foreign.
    They deal with overseas businesses like Blackwater , Halliburton , Exxon , BP , China , India and so on.

    Blackwater moves it headquarters overseas.
    http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102×4507776#4507792

    Halliburton’s contemptuous move
    http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103×269308

    Feds probe Blackwater links to arms smuggling
    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17149369/

    Outsourcing War: The Rise of Private Military Contractors (PMCs)
    http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2010/01/19/outsourcing-war-the-rise-of-private-mili

    Whistleblowers’ stomach-curdling story.
    Halliburton serves contaminated water to troops
    http://www.halliburtonwatch.org/news/contamination.html

    Halliburton: $61M Overcharge?
    http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/12/12/politics/main588216.shtml

    KBR Told Victim She Could Lose Her Job If She Sought Help After Being Raped, She Says
    http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=3977702&page=1

    If you believe we have a say in our government actions.
    Then think again… They are stopping Corporations from paying any taxes or having any oversight or laws to keep them in check.
    If their crimes and corruption gets them in trouble ,,, No problem , the government just takes our money even borrows it on a credit in our name and gives it to them.
    You do not see the government investigating their IRA forms , their illegal OFF shore accounts or their statements about their profit and losses.
    NO the laws in this country are created for keeping the little people in check and Obama is expanding Bush’s illegal spying on us while the government protects these Global Empires.
    The class war is over and WE have lost our a…

  • Anonymous

    We have to realize this is no longer the people government.
    It is OWN by these Global Monopolies both Foreign and Local…
    Mostly Foreign.
    They deal with overseas businesses like Blackwater , Halliburton , Exxon , BP , China , India and so on.

    Blackwater moves it headquarters overseas.
    http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102×4507776#4507792

    Halliburton’s contemptuous move
    http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103×269308

    Feds probe Blackwater links to arms smuggling
    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17149369/

    Outsourcing War: The Rise of Private Military Contractors (PMCs)
    http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2010/01/19/outsourcing-war-the-rise-of-private-mili

    Whistleblowers’ stomach-curdling story.
    Halliburton serves contaminated water to troops
    http://www.halliburtonwatch.org/news/contamination.html

    Halliburton: $61M Overcharge?
    http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/12/12/politics/main588216.shtml

    KBR Told Victim She Could Lose Her Job If She Sought Help After Being Raped, She Says
    http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=3977702&page=1

    If you believe we have a say in our government actions.
    Then think again… They are stopping Corporations from paying any taxes or having any oversight or laws to keep them in check.
    If their crimes and corruption gets them in trouble ,,, No problem , the government just takes our money even borrows it on a credit in our name and gives it to them.
    You do not see the government investigating their IRA forms , their illegal OFF shore accounts or their statements about their profit and losses.
    NO the laws in this country are created for keeping the little people in check and Obama is expanding Bush’s illegal spying on us while the government protects these Global Empires.
    The class war is over and WE have lost our a…

  • http://wikileakssecret.com/fbi-knocks-down-40-doors-in-probe-of-pro-wikileaks-attackers-wired-news-blog/ FBI Knocks Down 40 Doors in Probe of Pro-Wikileaks Attackers – Wired News (blog) | Wikileaks Secret

    [...] cut off services to Wikileaks, …FBI conducts searches tied to WikiLeaks cyber attacksReutersMass FBI raids target pro-WikiLeaks 'Operation Payback'Raw StoryFBI serves 40 warrants in search of WikiLeaks 'hacktivists'McClatchy Washington [...]

  • Anonymous

    Oh HELL! NOW it makes sense, it is about LEAKS!!! Look:

    Documents reveal FBI transgressions, abuses of power

    By Sahil Kapur
    Thursday, January 27th, 2011 — 12:44 pm
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    fbilogoafp Documents reveal FBI transgressions, abuses of powerLeaked internal FBI documents reveal dozens of employee transgressions ranging from sex-related misconduct to felonies involving the abuse of power and classified information.

    One employee gave sensitive information to his girlfriend, who was a journalist, and later threatened to release a sex tape of the two after they had broken up. The employee lied under oath during the inquiry.

    Another employee became obsessed with a co-worker and continued to press for a closer relationship despite “clear indications” that the colleague wasn’t interested and persisted even after receiving orders to cease contact.

    A third FBI employee shoplifted two ties from a local store.

    In another instance, an employee obtained FISA-derived information from over 1,500 unauthorized searches of the FBI database and shared it with a non-FBI employee.

    The revelations came in quarterly emails (.pdf) between January 2008 and January 2009 — and some dated January 2011 — from the FBI Office of Professional Responsibility, which were leaked to CNN.

    Other examples of employee misconduct included domestic violence, improper sexual relations with sources, misuse of government property, illegal firearms transactions, and driving under the influence of alcohol. In all cases, the employees were punished either with dismissal or suspension for up to months.

  • Anonymous

    Oh HELL! NOW it makes sense, it is about LEAKS!!! Look:

    Documents reveal FBI transgressions, abuses of power

    By Sahil Kapur
    Thursday, January 27th, 2011 — 12:44 pm
    submit to reddit Stumble This!
    119Share
    4diggsdigg

    fbilogoafp Documents reveal FBI transgressions, abuses of powerLeaked internal FBI documents reveal dozens of employee transgressions ranging from sex-related misconduct to felonies involving the abuse of power and classified information.

    One employee gave sensitive information to his girlfriend, who was a journalist, and later threatened to release a sex tape of the two after they had broken up. The employee lied under oath during the inquiry.

    Another employee became obsessed with a co-worker and continued to press for a closer relationship despite “clear indications” that the colleague wasn’t interested and persisted even after receiving orders to cease contact.

    A third FBI employee shoplifted two ties from a local store.

    In another instance, an employee obtained FISA-derived information from over 1,500 unauthorized searches of the FBI database and shared it with a non-FBI employee.

    The revelations came in quarterly emails (.pdf) between January 2008 and January 2009 — and some dated January 2011 — from the FBI Office of Professional Responsibility, which were leaked to CNN.

    Other examples of employee misconduct included domestic violence, improper sexual relations with sources, misuse of government property, illegal firearms transactions, and driving under the influence of alcohol. In all cases, the employees were punished either with dismissal or suspension for up to months.

  • Anonymous

    Hahahaha, the FBI is DETERMINED to punish those that exposed…THEM as CRIMINALS.

    I feel a breeze….a change of direction……there is a whiff of something coming…..and these fascists won’t be facing off against teenagers with laptops……

    Right Cass Sunstein? YOU will be who I wish to speak with. Personally.

  • H.P. Loathecraft

    FYI zzjj is a Wikileaks is a Mossad operation rube birther

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/GQQIJ5U6H3BDGSXIMPCJSHHUPY Pee Pee

    window dressing nonsense

    this means nothing at all

  • H.P. Loathecraft

    Watcherman is secretly aware of a secret justice system that is available to those who know the secret.

  • Anonymous

    As long as the US refuses create public money and continues to borrow Bankster money, we will always be under the thumb of the Banksters. The thought is nice, but the reality is the US government will not prosecute their lender. This is not meant to be any type of personal attack but a general statement to anyone whose knowledge about William Jennings Bryan limited to the “Scopes monkey trial” is missing out on a great wealth of information on his take on how we have been manipulated by the banksters. Please take a couple hours of time to see a great documentary on what we are dealing with and what he fought for. “The Secret of Oz. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U71-KsDArFM

  • Anonymous

    Get ready for another Chicago Seven trial.

  • yvonneo

    How much are you getting paid to WATCH these boards, watcherman? The few (and recent) comments in your activity are only about this specific subject, which makes you sound suspiciously like a govt-paid troll. So who do you work for? The FBI? Homeland Security?

  • iRead

    I agree with you. Those goddamn kids may save us yet.

    “Adults” have, for the most part, altogether failed to preserve our freedoms as guaranteed in the Constitution.

  • Jaimie11

    “”It is clear then, that arresting somebody for taking part in a DDoS attack is exactly like arresting somebody for attending a peaceful demonstration in their hometown,” the statement continued.”

    This is solid logic to my mind.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/XIWZRWAXJQKAJ4QEHKMVMCMLAY brian

    Think more, addition to guantanamo.

  • Anonymous

    Can we stage our own DDoS attacks at home just by everyone say who reads RAW picking one website and repeatedly hitting reload for 5 or 10 minutes?

  • Jaimie11

    Who sent you, Egyptian Homeland Security?

    You do have to break illicit laws, that’s how you get free. Just because repression makes a law it does not mean that law is valid. And anyway, DDoS attacks ARE valid demonstrations, the people’s right to petition their government. DDoS attacks do not leave damage and destruction in their wake. The internet IS the life blood of the global freedom movement – you can’t stop it. If you try you will be brought down.

  • iRead

    I like to look at them as patriots loyal to the rights humans hold in common, and as people brave enough to demand the things we have all been told we already have.

    Are you terrorized by freedom of speech?

  • Jaimie11

    Civil disobedience is not a crime. What Loughner did was a CRIME!

  • Jaimie11

    Go back to your office at the Pentagon.

  • Jaimie11

    Your government is the only terrorist!

  • Jaimie11

    Your government is the only terrorist!

  • Anonymous

    So corporations can screw up, cost people their lives, cost us the entire economy, fuck with things they DON’T have any business fucking with, buy our congress, buy our courts, get themselves tax breaks for destroying our manufacturing sector, and THAT’S okay. No charges even contemplated there. But if WE, THE CITIZENS, act out and do something to display our INTENSE displeasure with their actions in about the ONLY way we’re left, and WE get 10 years in the slammer? FUCK THIS NOISE! Goddamn, this country has it’s HEAD UP IT’S OWN GODDAMNED ASS.

    If they keep this up, I DO fear that violence is the ONLY answer they will get in return. How is it that these IDIOTS don’t understand that their own actions are having worse results than ANYTHING any of US would or could do? It’s revolt and revolution that they fear, and yet they are doing everything they can think of to MAKE SURE IT HAPPENS! And I’m going to be sitting there telling them “I TOLD YOU SO, YOU FUCKING ASSHOLES” when they come to tell me to join up to protect the most evil, selfish, childish, and IDIOTIC gov’t we’ve ever seen. They can rot in hell if they think this is gaining them a gram of respect from ANYONE out here.

  • Anonymous

    So corporations can screw up, cost people their lives, cost us the entire economy, fuck with things they DON’T have any business fucking with, buy our congress, buy our courts, get themselves tax breaks for destroying our manufacturing sector, and THAT’S okay. No charges even contemplated there. But if WE, THE CITIZENS, act out and do something to display our INTENSE displeasure with their actions in about the ONLY way we’re left, and WE get 10 years in the slammer? FUCK THIS NOISE! Goddamn, this country has it’s HEAD UP IT’S OWN GODDAMNED ASS.

    If they keep this up, I DO fear that violence is the ONLY answer they will get in return. How is it that these IDIOTS don’t understand that their own actions are having worse results than ANYTHING any of US would or could do? It’s revolt and revolution that they fear, and yet they are doing everything they can think of to MAKE SURE IT HAPPENS! And I’m going to be sitting there telling them “I TOLD YOU SO, YOU FUCKING ASSHOLES” when they come to tell me to join up to protect the most evil, selfish, childish, and IDIOTIC gov’t we’ve ever seen. They can rot in hell if they think this is gaining them a gram of respect from ANYONE out here.

  • Anonymous

    Ok, you have your battle orders soldier… Whatcha gonna do?

    The revolutions are here. The protests and other peaceful civil disobedience actions are calling for your support..

    Like all things of this nature, there are rules and tactics you should be aware of before facing the tear gas and stun cannons…

    Anonymous is calling you to action.. Or are you too busy with American idle?

  • Anonymous

    Ok, you have your battle orders soldier… Whatcha gonna do?

    The revolutions are here. The protests and other peaceful civil disobedience actions are calling for your support..

    Like all things of this nature, there are rules and tactics you should be aware of before facing the tear gas and stun cannons…

    Anonymous is calling you to action.. Or are you too busy with American idle?

  • Anonymous

    There are ways to protect yourself. Information is available, you need only seek the info out.

  • Anonymous

    There are ways to protect yourself. Information is available, you need only seek the info out.

  • Jaimie11

    Oh that tired old tactic. It won’t work spyman. It’s been dissembled by logic. Read David Ray Griffin – Cognitive Infiltration: An Obama Appointee’s Plan to Undermine the 9/11 Conspiracy Theory, Olive Branch Press, September 2010.

    http://tinyurl.com/64nx3pj

  • Jaimie11

    Oh that tired old tactic. It won’t work spyman. It’s been dissembled by logic. Read David Ray Griffin – Cognitive Infiltration: An Obama Appointee’s Plan to Undermine the 9/11 Conspiracy Theory, Olive Branch Press, September 2010.

    http://tinyurl.com/64nx3pj

  • Anonymous

    When you see the riot police in the streets…. i hope you have the good sense to have brought weapons yourselves… Fear is an epic weapon ….. bout time you wielded it against them, and not the other way around.

  • Anonymous

    This is 5th generation warfare. The dissidents need only survive to achieve victory.

    And bottom line, the governments can’t get all of them no matter what is done…

    Remember, those arrested are only the guys who didn’t know enough to hide themselves.. The rest of anonymous obviously knows how to hide themselves well from the teeth of leviathan.. I bet they would train anybody willing to learn…

    I wonder, how could you get information and training from a web based entity?

    Now excuse me while I mumble incoherently and tap my head against the wall like the brain-dead American idle watcher I am…

  • Jaimie11

    Still, DDoS attacks should be equivalent to peaceful demonstrations. And the laws, the sentences should reflect that equivalence and not give 10 year sentences to these teenage boys.

    But I will seek and find. Any suggestions?

  • Anonymous

    Except these people aren’t really demonstrating they’re running computer programs while they’re off living their lives, staging sit ins requires you to actively put your life on hold for a cause and to put your face out there as a face hurt by injustice. Anonymous does none of that and let’s not pretend that people have not used the Anonymous banner for some terrible things in the past, harassing an 11 year old girl and posting her personal information, facilitating harassment of people who merely have different opinions as them (The No Cussing group for example, disagree with the idea doesn’t mean he should have his personal information posted with encouragement of harassing him), and have launched attacks on Feminist websites and encouraged harassment there. Look they’ve done a lot of wonderful things but to portray Anonymous has super heroes of the modern age is scary and really where do we draw the line?

  • http://wikileakssecret.com/fbi-executes-40-warrants-tied-to-pro-wikileaks-cyber-attacks-eweek/ FBI Executes 40 Warrants Tied to Pro-WikiLeaks Cyber-Attacks – eWeek | Wikileaks Secret

    [...] with WikiLeaks. …FBI Knocks Down 40 Doors in Probe of Pro-Wikileaks AttackersWired News (blog)Mass FBI raids target pro-WikiLeaks 'Operation Payback'Raw StoryUK police arrest WikiLeaks backers for Web [...]

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/RepublicConstitution?feature=mhum TruthRegimes

    Good old Obama standing up for what we really need, lol.

  • yvonneo

    I think the best nonviolent method of fighting back that could make a difference is to launch a national strike. Why feed the corporate/govt beast that is out to destroy and devour the rest of us? And if that doesn’t work, then a violent revolution will no doubt be inevitable. The bottom line is that the masses worldwide are very displeased with their govts and the corporate powers that lord it over them, and who are destroying our planet in the process.

    I see the acts of Anonymous as being a form of nonviolent dissent and protest, but I’m sure that the reactions by the PTB will end up sparking violent revolutions similar to Tunisia and Egypt–because instead of reaching out to the unhappy masses in a conciliatory manner, suppression through imprisonment and/or violence seems to be their answer for everything.

    The aristocrats (old money) and their new friends, the plutocrats (new money) never seem to learn from history–they always repeat the same old mistakes and of course the same results inevitably occur. Greed and power blinds the greedy and powerful to the realities around them. When people no longer have anything left to lose, they lose it.

    (One thing though–the way things are going worldwide, a person with an entrepreneurial spirit could probably make some short-term monetary gains in the guillotine-making business.)

  • Anonymous

    “By their deeds you shall know them”…

    It’s getting pretty obvious who is who.

  • Johnny Warbucks

    Well, the thing with governments is that repress so much, commit so many horrors that they end up quenching all dissent thru sheer terror. I’ve lived thru it and now how the game is played. Let’s hope it doesn’t happen to these kids.

  • Anonymous

    Now that’s transparency … sigh

  • Anonymous

    One mans terrorist, one mans freedom fighter…

    You obviously support the status quo.

    Watchermans labeling of anything anti-status quo sounds like all government goons labeling of anything anti-status quo as terrorism…

    So, what are you watcherman? GS-11 or better? Must suck realizing it’s the beginning of the end for your species: Governmentus moneysuckus.

    Welcome to the KT barrier dinosaurs.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Chris-W-Roads/629696293 Chris W Roads

    FTG……Fuck the goverment

  • Anonymous

    Doesn’t watchermans secret awareness negate the secret of the secret justice system secret?

    Or did the secret of the secret destroy the secret when it became secret?

    Let me guess: I’m not cleared for that secret.

  • Anonymous

    Hey, watcherman, meet me in the break room at lunch.. We need to brush up on your prolespeak.. “Doood”?!

    Oh wait, that’s right, you don’t have clearance yet for the break room…
    Honestly, I can’t BELIEVE you were honest enough to put THAT down on you background check form.. It was stuff your mom did in brazil long before you were born.. How did THAT conversation come up at thanksgiving dinner?

    Anyways, keep up the good work. Seems nobody here knows you work for the A.S.S. and H.A.T.

  • Anonymous

    He works for some alphabet-soup agency hidden as a dildo factory..

    They realized if they were honest enough about what they really make, nobody would figure them out.

    You could say he’s trying to get the “buzz” out…

  • Anonymous

    “Update: Mass FBI raids target ‘Operation Payback’”

    Wow, for a moment I thought they were going to throw the mortgage gangsters in jail and forgive the bad loans.

  • Anonymous

    They’re only postponing the inevitable. Corrupt governments WILL fall, the US included. It’s as inevitable as the fall of the Berlin Wall and way more overdue. I will never stop reminding people of this phrase from the Declaration Of Independence. “It is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.”

  • Anonymous

    They’re only postponing the inevitable. Corrupt governments WILL fall, the US included. It’s as inevitable as the fall of the Berlin Wall and way more overdue. I will never stop reminding people of this phrase from the Declaration Of Independence. “It is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.”

  • Anonymous

    They’re only postponing the inevitable. Corrupt governments WILL fall, the US included. It’s as inevitable as the fall of the Berlin Wall and way more overdue. I will never stop reminding people of this phrase from the Declaration Of Independence. “It is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.”

  • Anonymous

    I guess with executing those warrants and fucking with people the Fucking Bungling Idiots were too busy to investigate the Bush Cabal for War Crimes.

    Apparently with the Fucking Bungling Idiots it’s businesses come first, fuck everyone else!

  • Anonymous

    I guess with executing those warrants and fucking with people the Fucking Bungling Idiots were too busy to investigate the Bush Cabal for War Crimes.

    Apparently with the Fucking Bungling Idiots it’s businesses come first, fuck everyone else!

  • Anonymous

    I guess with executing those warrants and fucking with people the Fucking Bungling Idiots were too busy to investigate the Bush Cabal for War Crimes.

    Apparently with the Fucking Bungling Idiots it’s businesses come first, fuck everyone else!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PCHLMPBJKYTW3LJBHZEZMO3TXQ What Ever

    Are Bush and the bankers next? Silly me……

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PCHLMPBJKYTW3LJBHZEZMO3TXQ What Ever

    Are Bush and the bankers next? Silly me……

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PCHLMPBJKYTW3LJBHZEZMO3TXQ What Ever

    Are Bush and the bankers next? Silly me……

  • http://www.promovare-website.info/rn/war/fbi-and-uk-police-arrest-suspects-tied-to-wikileaks-cyber-attacks/ FBI And UK Police Arrest Suspects Tied To Wikileaks Cyber Attacks | Read NEWS

    [...] LevelFBI serves 40 warrants in search of WikiLeaks ‘hacktivists’ — McClatchy NewsUpdate: Mass FBI raids target pro-WikiLeaks ‘Operation Payback’ — Raw [...]

  • Anonymous

    Looks like there is a limit to cyber-dissent, so the script-kiddies need to beware.
    DDoS attacks will get you 10 YEARS in club Fed according to the article.
    Me thinks the “Wild West” days of the WWW are OVER….
    It was fun while it lasted.

    Now back to your regularly scheduled erectile dysfunction pop up ad….

  • Anonymous

    Looks like there is a limit to cyber-dissent, so the script-kiddies need to beware.
    DDoS attacks will get you 10 YEARS in club Fed according to the article.
    Me thinks the “Wild West” days of the WWW are OVER….
    It was fun while it lasted.

    Now back to your regularly scheduled erectile dysfunction pop up ad….

  • Anonymous

    Looks like there is a limit to cyber-dissent, so the script-kiddies need to beware.
    DDoS attacks will get you 10 YEARS in club Fed according to the article.
    Me thinks the “Wild West” days of the WWW are OVER….
    It was fun while it lasted.

    Now back to your regularly scheduled erectile dysfunction pop up ad….

  • Anonymous

    “The bureau said suspects, if charged, could face up to 10 years in prison.”
    If charged? I can remember when one had to be convicted of a crime to be required to serve time in prison.

  • Anonymous

    “The bureau said suspects, if charged, could face up to 10 years in prison.”
    If charged? I can remember when one had to be convicted of a crime to be required to serve time in prison.

  • Anonymous

    “The bureau said suspects, if charged, could face up to 10 years in prison.”
    If charged? I can remember when one had to be convicted of a crime to be required to serve time in prison.

  • Anonymous

    Meanwhile, corporations that edit/censor news stories to protect criminals and keep the public ignorant will still be fully protected by the police.

  • Anonymous

    Meanwhile, corporations that edit/censor news stories to protect criminals and keep the public ignorant will still be fully protected by the police.

  • Anonymous

    Meanwhile, corporations that edit/censor news stories to protect criminals and keep the public ignorant will still be fully protected by the police.

  • Anonymous

    That was before “The War On Terror.” Now, just like Bradley Manning, you can rot in jail (and be tortured) without charges, simply for exposing the many crimes of New World Order governments.

  • Anonymous

    That was before “The War On Terror.” Now, just like Bradley Manning, you can rot in jail (and be tortured) without charges, simply for exposing the many crimes of New World Order governments.

  • Anonymous

    That was before “The War On Terror.” Now, just like Bradley Manning, you can rot in jail (and be tortured) without charges, simply for exposing the many crimes of New World Order governments.

  • http://skydancingblog.com/2011/01/27/late-night-drifts-2/ Late Night Drifts « Sky Dancing

    [...] FBI has announced “mass raids” of people involved in “Operation Payback,” the anonymous group hackers’ group that has been using cyber-attacks to support Wikileaks. [...]

  • Anonymous

    DDoS attacks flood websites with meaningless web traffic to slow them down and can knock websites offline entirely.

    Well what a double standard. The little guys sends meaningless traffic and they can get ten years, meanwhile bullshit govt Britain and the U.S can send meaningless bullshit to the public so as to drag everyone into a meaningless bullshit war and that is A Okay.

    Why Rove violated the Hatch Act and fat boy gets to walk because that is A Okay.

    Aren’t we just one be happy fucking Royal Family on top in good old England and the good old U.S Of Fucking A. One big happy Royal Family where our men on duty look the other way and go after the little guy. Did I say little guy? I sure fucking did.

    Who do we call when we catch our royal family fucking the public? Do we call 411?

  • Anonymous

    DDoS attacks flood websites with meaningless web traffic to slow them down and can knock websites offline entirely.

    Well what a double standard. The little guys sends meaningless traffic and they can get ten years, meanwhile bullshit govt Britain and the U.S can send meaningless bullshit to the public so as to drag everyone into a meaningless bullshit war and that is A Okay.

    Why Rove violated the Hatch Act and fat boy gets to walk because that is A Okay.

    Aren’t we just one be happy fucking Royal Family on top in good old England and the good old U.S Of Fucking A. One big happy Royal Family where our men on duty look the other way and go after the little guy. Did I say little guy? I sure fucking did.

    Who do we call when we catch our royal family fucking the public? Do we call 411?

  • Anonymous

    DDoS attacks flood websites with meaningless web traffic to slow them down and can knock websites offline entirely.

    Well what a double standard. The little guys sends meaningless traffic and they can get ten years, meanwhile bullshit govt Britain and the U.S can send meaningless bullshit to the public so as to drag everyone into a meaningless bullshit war and that is A Okay.

    Why Rove violated the Hatch Act and fat boy gets to walk because that is A Okay.

    Aren’t we just one be happy fucking Royal Family on top in good old England and the good old U.S Of Fucking A. One big happy Royal Family where our men on duty look the other way and go after the little guy. Did I say little guy? I sure fucking did.

    Who do we call when we catch our royal family fucking the public? Do we call 411?

  • dk504

    These weenies whining about denial of service are going to cry to their mommy, the gubment, they couldn’t carry on commerce. So it’s such a GREAT BIG crime in this Corportacracy. It will not be tolerate, that is the greatest sin in this country.
    A peaceful sit-in the riot police would be there in a heart beat beating the crap out of us and Wall St. laughs. WJM51 is right, it is nearly lights out for us if we don’t do something.

  • dk504

    These weenies whining about denial of service are going to cry to their mommy, the gubment, they couldn’t carry on commerce. So it’s such a GREAT BIG crime in this Corportacracy. It will not be tolerate, that is the greatest sin in this country.
    A peaceful sit-in the riot police would be there in a heart beat beating the crap out of us and Wall St. laughs. WJM51 is right, it is nearly lights out for us if we don’t do something.

  • dk504

    These weenies whining about denial of service are going to cry to their mommy, the gubment, they couldn’t carry on commerce. So it’s such a GREAT BIG crime in this Corportacracy. It will not be tolerate, that is the greatest sin in this country.
    A peaceful sit-in the riot police would be there in a heart beat beating the crap out of us and Wall St. laughs. WJM51 is right, it is nearly lights out for us if we don’t do something.

  • Anonymous

    But that would make too much sense to be allowed. This way starkly highlights and reinforces the fact that the injustice system is only directed against all “the little people” and any small acts of defiance they may wish to give to their overlords.

  • Anonymous

    But that would make too much sense to be allowed. This way starkly highlights and reinforces the fact that the injustice system is only directed against all “the little people” and any small acts of defiance they may wish to give to their overlords.

  • Anonymous

    But that would make too much sense to be allowed. This way starkly highlights and reinforces the fact that the injustice system is only directed against all “the little people” and any small acts of defiance they may wish to give to their overlords.

  • Anonymous

    Fuck them. They don’t have shit on these guys. It’s the equivalent to a cyber-sit in. So if they pull this shit, fuck them. They’ll get theirs.

  • Anonymous

    Fuck them. They don’t have shit on these guys. It’s the equivalent to a cyber-sit in. So if they pull this shit, fuck them. They’ll get theirs.

  • Anonymous

    Fuck them. They don’t have shit on these guys. It’s the equivalent to a cyber-sit in. So if they pull this shit, fuck them. They’ll get theirs.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_TTCYMSQW7E5EVBYYMS2YSNCSAM Anonymous

    I am VERY proud of Nelson Mandella, but he was lucky that he wasn’t killed quietly in that horrific cell they stuck him in for so much of his life. Ask the Chinese how well peaceful protest works out in some other parts of the world. Check out the Wikipedia article for Falun Gong to see what I’m talking about.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_TTCYMSQW7E5EVBYYMS2YSNCSAM Anonymous

    I am VERY proud of Nelson Mandella, but he was lucky that he wasn’t killed quietly in that horrific cell they stuck him in for so much of his life. Ask the Chinese how well peaceful protest works out in some other parts of the world. Check out the Wikipedia article for Falun Gong to see what I’m talking about.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_TTCYMSQW7E5EVBYYMS2YSNCSAM Anonymous

    I am VERY proud of Nelson Mandella, but he was lucky that he wasn’t killed quietly in that horrific cell they stuck him in for so much of his life. Ask the Chinese how well peaceful protest works out in some other parts of the world. Check out the Wikipedia article for Falun Gong to see what I’m talking about.

  • Anonymous

    SEE HOW QUICKLY THEY COME TO THEIR MASTER’S AID?

    See how they allow corporations, banks, and politicians dictate our life, run rampant over laws, allowing them to continue to walk among the people, RAPING, STEALING, DEFRAUDING, TORTURING, MURDERING, WAR MONGERING, FEAR DRIVEN, SECRET RENDITION, ILLEGAL WARRING, PATRIOT ACT SYMPATHIZING, DU USING, ELIMINATION OF HABEAS CORPUS, DENIAL OF A TRIAL, and BASIC FRAUD in everything they do?

    See how you don’t matter? See how you are losing your rights, your buying power, your privacy, and your DIGNITY?

    THE GLOBAL REVOLTION HAS BEGUN!!!

  • Anonymous

    SEE HOW QUICKLY THEY COME TO THEIR MASTER’S AID?

    See how they allow corporations, banks, and politicians dictate our life, run rampant over laws, allowing them to continue to walk among the people, RAPING, STEALING, DEFRAUDING, TORTURING, MURDERING, WAR MONGERING, FEAR DRIVEN, SECRET RENDITION, ILLEGAL WARRING, PATRIOT ACT SYMPATHIZING, DU USING, ELIMINATION OF HABEAS CORPUS, DENIAL OF A TRIAL, and BASIC FRAUD in everything they do?

    See how you don’t matter? See how you are losing your rights, your buying power, your privacy, and your DIGNITY?

    THE GLOBAL REVOLTION HAS BEGUN!!!

  • Anonymous

    SEE HOW QUICKLY THEY COME TO THEIR MASTER’S AID?

    See how they allow corporations, banks, and politicians dictate our life, run rampant over laws, allowing them to continue to walk among the people, RAPING, STEALING, DEFRAUDING, TORTURING, MURDERING, WAR MONGERING, FEAR DRIVEN, SECRET RENDITION, ILLEGAL WARRING, PATRIOT ACT SYMPATHIZING, DU USING, ELIMINATION OF HABEAS CORPUS, DENIAL OF A TRIAL, and BASIC FRAUD in everything they do?

    See how you don’t matter? See how you are losing your rights, your buying power, your privacy, and your DIGNITY?

    THE GLOBAL REVOLTION HAS BEGUN!!!

  • Anonymous

    WIKILEAKS IS NOT A MOSSAD OPERATION.

    You made this up.

  • Anonymous

    Anonymous are people just like you and me. The reason it seems they are ‘Global’ is because they are. People, everywhere, are starting to stand up for their rights, starting to fight back, and this movement is brought to you by Anonymous. Soon, everyone will be standing against the oppression and tyranny, and taking back our dignity, respect, and freedom.

  • Anonymous

    I just noticed your pic of Major Frank Burns, from M.A.S.H., bears an uncanny resemblance to Speaker of the House Boner, orange skin and all.

  • Anonymous

    I just noticed your pic of Major Frank Burns, from M.A.S.H., bears an uncanny resemblance to Speaker of the House Boner, orange skin and all.

  • http://serpentsembrace.wordpress.com/2011/01/28/offener-brief-von-anonymous-an-die-britische-regierung/ Offener Brief von Anonymous an die britische Regierung | Serpent embrace's Blog

    [...] Rawstory [...]

  • H.P. Loathecraft

    Perhaps not but Watcherman is. “Eyes only”, you know.

  • H.P. Loathecraft

    Perhaps not but Watcherman is. “Eyes only”, you know.

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous
  • H.P. Loathecraft

    Your so busted, zzjj

  • H.P. Loathecraft

    Your so busted, zzjj

  • http://twitter.com/sacxtra sacxtra

    Boehner has a desert tan, Now John Kerry on the other hand has the orange going on.

  • http://twitter.com/sacxtra sacxtra

    Boehner has a desert tan, Now John Kerry on the other hand has the orange going on.

  • http://twitter.com/sacxtra sacxtra

    Continuing . . .

    When the establishment spys electronically on individuals/groups with no warrant — that’s okay.
    When individuals/groups spy on… hey wait a minute.

    When banksters steal individuals/groups life savings — that’s okay.
    When individuals/groups steal from a banke — hey wait a minute.

    When cops film individuals/groups — that’s okay.
    When individuals/groups film cops — 15 to life.

    Why am I tired of typing examples?

  • http://twitter.com/sacxtra sacxtra

    Continuing . . .

    When the establishment spys electronically on individuals/groups with no warrant — that’s okay.
    When individuals/groups spy on… hey wait a minute.

    When banksters steal individuals/groups life savings — that’s okay.
    When individuals/groups steal from a banke — hey wait a minute.

    When cops film individuals/groups — that’s okay.
    When individuals/groups film cops — 15 to life.

    Why am I tired of typing examples?

  • Anonymous

    It’s way past time to worry about DDoS attacks. It’s time to organize worldwide and provide these companies with a “Denial of Dollars” attack” and not stop until they stick to running their businesses and stay out of our politics. That is the only type of retaliation they will ever understand. Let that stock price drop a few points and they will behave and the next one will think twice before they act.
    Hit them in the pocket books it is the only thing they understand. Just a couple successful boycotts and next time the threat will be all that is necessary.
    Hey, they use our money against us it’s only logical to deny them the very weapon they use on us.
    IT’S TIME TO GET SERIOUS AND QUIT DICKING AROUND!!!

  • http://www.balmorheaprogressive.blogspot.com/ BaileyWuXiang

    It’s sad that we’ve come to this. But governments have become the oppressors of their own people on behalf of oligarchs and corporatists. Of course, this should surprise no one. I suppose the mistake they made was educating us to think of government in ideal terms — freedom, liberty, human and civil rights. The beacon on the hill for all the world see and rejoice in. Well it was all a lie and they should have never told it if they didn’t want to make it real because people are out in the streets and on their phones and on the internet wanting to make it real.

  • http://ladylibertyslamp.wordpress.com/2011/01/28/the-fbi-attempts-to-intimidate-the-internet/ The FBI Attempts to Intimidate the Internet! | The Liberty Lamp

    [...] devices as their conducted a blatant intimidation campaign against internet free-speech activists. Raw Story has the story here, but we have an [...]

  • Anonymous

    You got it right…

    but that ain’t gonna please the Establishment…

    ‘They are not amused’…

  • Anonymous

    Government actions having worse results are just fine…

    They enforce the cost of those actions onto the taxpayers whilst as usual they take all the benefits.

    The original double dip taken for granted by the implementors, the jew banksta gangstas of New York

    It’s just a happy business to screw the peons…

    Been going on for centuries.

  • Anonymous

    Only our corporate masters are allowed to engage in denial of service but if us plebs and peons do the same… even if it is just the new form of picketing… it’s criminal.

    To anyone wanting to use LOIC still, either use TOR or use a proxy (SOCKS proxies work well). Failing that, just make sure you delete your active copy of LOIC after each attack, claim you recently removed malware from your PC and beyond that… just play dumb.

    Corporations can pollute, cheat, steal, bribe, abuse… and face little to no accountability.
    We retaliate or protest and it’s time to bring in force and authority.

    I think we’ve seen enough, I hope people learn it’s time to throw themselves on the cogs of industry and bring the country to a screeching halt… at least until corporate personhood is destroyed and we are given some assurance that this stinking fascist bullshit will end immediately.

  • http://skirttheedge.wordpress.com/2011/01/28/mit-kanonen-auf-spatzen-schiessen-fbi-und-uk-verhafte-anonymous-user/ Mit Kanonen auf Spatzen schießen – FBI und UK verhaften Anonymous-User « Skirt The Edge

    [...] im Zuge der Untersuchungen der „Operation Payback“ verhaftet. Dies folgte auf fünf Verhaftungen in England, die am Tag zuvor unternommen wurden. Man kann diese Verhafutngen getrosts unter [...]

  • Anonymous

    10 years in prison!!! AHAHAHAHAAAAAAAA!
    Meanwhile, BP execs and Goldman Sachs banksters laugh themselves giddy over a lobster and champagne lunch.

  • Anonymous

    Yup different strokes for different folks it seems. Hackers can’t hide behind Multi-Billion Multi-National corporations for protection :(

  • Anonymous

    That’s Obama’s and Holder’s “justice” department. Self-admitted torturers like Bush, Gonzalez, Cheney, and Yoo walk free and truth seekers are subjected to “massive FBI sweeps.”

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_KYXM5QF7OHZNHXRRS7JX26NRQY Jamie Kelley

    WikiLeaks was the first site to suffer a DDoS attack. Has the FBI conducted any raids to see who was behind those attacks? This is purely a rhetorical question because we all know the answer: of course not. I wouldn’t be surprised if the US government itself was behind the attacks against WikiLeaks.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/6EX2KJ7LSZMDCBZWCH62Q7CABY Sandra

    These aren’t kids that are leading. They are in their 30′s and early 40′s. The kids aren’t quite focused on where to go, people like Assange give them a little guidance.

  • Anonymous

    No free speech zone? I read something the other day about our gummint now having the power to shut down the innertubes in an “emergency?”

  • http://twitter.com/btmfdrsheaven rebecca meritt

    we need the guys who found all these kids ,and most of them are kids with a backbone,anyway we need these brilliant FBI guys to find Bin Laden and his computer.

  • http://harry-canary.myopenid.com/ Harry Canary

    …..so that government of the corporations, by the corporations and for the corporations shall not perish from the earth.

  • http://philosophers-stone.co.uk/wordpress/2011/01/update-mass-fbi-raids-target-pro-wikileaks-%e2%80%98operation-payback%e2%80%99/ Update: Mass FBI raids target pro-WikiLeaks ‘Operation Payback’ | Philosophers stone

    [...] [more...] // [...]

  • Anonymous

    Yup, Droopy Lieberman is advocating an internet kill switch:

    http://www.americablog.com/2011/01/lieberman-still-promoting-internet-kill.html

  • Anonymous

    Here is an anonymous VPN connection ISP. https://www.ipredator.se/

  • http://twitter.com/xxdr_zombiexx Doc Zombie

    Attempting to change the status quo for “the better” is terrorism.

    Especially if you have a better world in which the obscenely rich aren’t as obscenely rich as they are now.

  • Anonymous

    Why are MY FKN tax dollars going to pay for FBI raids that defend FKN corporations that I do NOT FKN support!!!?

  • Anonymous

    Why are MY FKN tax dollars going to pay for FBI raids that defend FKN corporations that I do NOT FKN support!!!?

  • Anonymous

    doesn’t matter if you’re tracked if there’s no proof you installed the LOIC… things like that get on ppl’s hard drives all the time and they haven’t a clue.

  • Anonymous

    doesn’t matter if you’re tracked if there’s no proof you installed the LOIC… things like that get on ppl’s hard drives all the time and they haven’t a clue.

  • Anonymous

    The Iron Fist of this Military industrial complex slowly closes from All sides.

  • Anonymous

    The Iron Fist of this Military industrial complex slowly closes from All sides.

  • Anonymous

    Our Tax dollars at work…

  • Anonymous

    Our Tax dollars at work…

  • Rush Goofbaugh

    Americas and Britons war crimes must be covered up at all costs. No worries about breaking the law to do so FBI… Obomber only looks “foward” for you guys.

  • Rush Goofbaugh

    Americas and Britons war crimes must be covered up at all costs. No worries about breaking the law to do so FBI… Obomber only looks “foward” for you guys.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_S56AOTRDMJZ3ZZXZD6NEMAK3OA Bruce MacLean

    Sometimes you have to link 2 posts, like the one being discussed here, and this one:
    http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/01/documents-reveal-fbi-transgressions-abuse-power/

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_S56AOTRDMJZ3ZZXZD6NEMAK3OA Bruce MacLean

    Sometimes you have to link 2 posts, like the one being discussed here, and this one:
    http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/01/documents-reveal-fbi-transgressions-abuse-power/

  • http://womenborntranssexual.com/2011/01/27/update-mass-fbi-raids-target-pro-wikileaks-%e2%80%98operation-payback%e2%80%99/ Update: Mass FBI raids target pro-WikiLeaks ‘Operation Payback’ « Women Born Transsexual
  • http://womenborntranssexual.com/2011/01/27/update-mass-fbi-raids-target-pro-wikileaks-%e2%80%98operation-payback%e2%80%99/ Update: Mass FBI raids target pro-WikiLeaks ‘Operation Payback’ « Women Born Transsexual
  • Rush Goofbaugh

    Criminal thinking like yours is hard to miss… Are you actually going to apologize/justify american war crimes? You can start out by saying… “activities of a war criminal government ARE most equated to a terrorist mindset”. Ready… set… go… war pig.

  • Rush Goofbaugh

    Criminal thinking like yours is hard to miss… Are you actually going to apologize/justify american war crimes? You can start out by saying… “activities of a war criminal government ARE most equated to a terrorist mindset”. Ready… set… go… war pig.

  • Rush Goofbaugh

    more criminal thinking… on your part.

  • Rush Goofbaugh

    more criminal thinking… on your part.

  • Johnny Warbucks

    If you take a stroll by The Guardian and take the time to read the comments, you’ll see that the British subjects don’t think much more highly of their government than most of us do around here at RS.

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/blog/2011/jan/28/egypt-protests-live-updates?showallcomments=true#end-of-comments

  • http://thejoesteelblog.blogspot.com/ Joe_Steel

    The attacks on the People by the American and British governments do not bode well for us.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/3NVQSZZC5IM66JEOCSFJUV7FCE Jacques G

    Egypt’s internet traffic flow chart is an excellent model on how America will look when the government imposes it’s shutdown of the Internet. Should be a model to study should we get to that point.

  • http://thresholdtechnologies.net/blog/update-mass-fbi-raids-target-pro-wikileaks-%e2%80%98operation-payback%e2%80%99-raw-story/ Update: Mass FBI raids target pro-WikiLeaks ‘Operation Payback’ | Raw Story « Threshold Technologies LLC

    [...] Update: Mass FBI raids target pro-WikiLeaks ‘Operation Payback’ | Raw Story. [...]

  • Anonymous

    OK, now a lot of people have been wondering how Egypt managed to isolate itself on the Web. There are principally two ways this is done, first physically forcing the individual ISPs (ASN level) to halt all in and out-going IP traffice, but the second way is probably how they accomplished it. Let this be a warning to all who try.

    They would have had the site which is their top-domain registry, or .eg registry, perform editing of their country’s web sites by removing the terminating “.” to DNS records in the .eg zone.

    (That is, deleting the “.” following the lower level sites, indicating no “.se” was to follow.)

    As an example, were one to evilly hack into Sweden’s .se country registry (www.iis.se), and remove the terminating “.” after the main ASN sites, no IP traffice would be incoming or outgoing for that country.

    As an example, were one to evilly hack into the United Kingdom’s .uk country registry (www.nominet.org.uk), and remove the terminating “.” after the main ASN sites, no IP traffic would be incoming or outgoing for that country.

    As an example, were one to evilly hack into Switzerland’s .ch country registry (www.switch.ch/all), and remove the terminating “.” after the main ASN sites, no IP traffic would be incoming or outgoing for that country.

    Now, this is assuredly against the law, so be warned not do undertake any such operation — even if the global banking elite manages to have Assange of Wikileaks illegally extradited to Sweden to be later removed to some extreme rendition site.

  • Anonymous

    OK, now a lot of people have been wondering how Egypt managed to isolate itself on the Web. There are principally two ways this is done, first physically forcing the individual ISPs (ASN level) to halt all in and out-going IP traffice, but the second way is probably how they accomplished it. Let this be a warning to all who try.

    They would have had the site which is their top-domain registry, or .eg registry, perform editing of their country’s web sites by removing the terminating “.” to DNS records in the .eg zone.

    (That is, deleting the “.” following the lower level sites, indicating no “.se” was to follow.)

    As an example, were one to evilly hack into Sweden’s .se country registry (www.iis.se), and remove the terminating “.” after the main ASN sites, no IP traffice would be incoming or outgoing for that country.

    As an example, were one to evilly hack into the United Kingdom’s .uk country registry (www.nominet.org.uk), and remove the terminating “.” after the main ASN sites, no IP traffic would be incoming or outgoing for that country.

    As an example, were one to evilly hack into Switzerland’s .ch country registry (www.switch.ch/all), and remove the terminating “.” after the main ASN sites, no IP traffic would be incoming or outgoing for that country.

    Now, this is assuredly against the law, so be warned not do undertake any such operation — even if the global banking elite manages to have Assange of Wikileaks illegally extradited to Sweden to be later removed to some extreme rendition site.

  • DoDirty

    Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.”
    Frederick Douglass

    Never, absolutely no reason to sacrifice any of our rights because of fear, especially when one considers who’s doing the fear mongering. Sadly, there are some in or involved in our won government, as history can verify that are evil, it’s no secret!!!

  • DoDirty

    Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.”
    Frederick Douglass

    Never, absolutely no reason to sacrifice any of our rights because of fear, especially when one considers who’s doing the fear mongering. Sadly, there are some in or involved in our won government, as history can verify that are evil, it’s no secret!!!

  • Anonymous

    Be careful. Even though the IP address isn’t a static one your MAC (Media Access Control) address, unique to each computer, can still be used to determine which computer was using that IP at a given time.

    Anonymize! :)

  • Anonymous

    Be careful. Even though the IP address isn’t a static one your MAC (Media Access Control) address, unique to each computer, can still be used to determine which computer was using that IP at a given time.

    Anonymize! :)

  • Anonymous

    So if someone were to ask me for instructions on how to join Anonymous and their cyber sit-in, where should I send him?

  • Anonymous

    So if someone were to ask me for instructions on how to join Anonymous and their cyber sit-in, where should I send him?

  • Anonymous

    rally on alphabet boys rally on maybe you guys should just wear blackshirts.

  • http://gothlaw.blogspot.com Sarcasmlost

    If you answered that question, it’d send you to prison, since he’d most likely be a Fed/Agent Provocateur

  • http://gothlaw.blogspot.com Sarcasmlost

    Leave the good student-athletes at the University of Nebraska out of this!

  • http://gotomario.com/?p=13492 Gotomario.com – The Mario Solis Marich Show » UPDATE: MASS FBI RAIDS TARGET PRO-WIKILEAKS ‘OPERATION PAYBACK’

    [...] “FBI agents today executed more than 40 search warrants throughout the United States as part of an ongoing investigation into recent coordinated cyber attacks against major companies and organizations,” a bureau press release states. Though the bureau did not say if any individuals were arrested during the raids, it did confirm a link between the US raids and the arrests in Britain. The bureau said suspects, if charged, could face up to 10 years in prison. READ MORE… [...]

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_N6BJ56PKHQMYMIH3LYCOQC233I Sidd

    It’s amazing that installing a piece of software on your computer can get you 10 years in prison!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_N6BJ56PKHQMYMIH3LYCOQC233I Sidd

    It’s amazing that installing a piece of software on your computer can get you 10 years in prison!

  • Anonymous

    Where is that said?

  • Anonymous

    Where is that said?

  • Anonymous

    So, we see swift law-enforcement action taken against what are probably idealistic youngsters, and yet still nothing is done about torture, going to war under false pretenses,election-rigging, environmental devastation, etc. etc… yeah, whatever…

  • Anonymous

    So, we see swift law-enforcement action taken against what are probably idealistic youngsters, and yet still nothing is done about torture, going to war under false pretenses,election-rigging, environmental devastation, etc. etc… yeah, whatever…

  • Anonymous

    Every attack plan was made for the moment. Likewise, every counter attack plan is made for the next day. So, pay attention, and make your plans. Low tech drives these people nuts. Government is all about control, so they really love the “internet” they invented and put into operation. And, there is always codes within codes, which is why they own huge AIs to break codes. But, there is a cure for that, also.

  • Anonymous

    Denial of money and a few drop in points won’t give them pause. Denial of existence of a few special companies will get their attention, and they’ll start busting heads. Only denial of existence for all corporations will work. Delete the part of law that gives them the right to exist in that form. Send quite a few of their chief psychopaths to jail just like sex offenders. And, then put them on a public list.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/3ETFGMQ3B7VD4AAMILBBEVMCWE JasonA

    Easy targets…the kids. Let them go up against the Chinese or Russians and see how good they are.

  • Carol Davidek-Waller

    Time to take down the FBI’s crappy technology.

  • lilyannerose

    By all means I’m so happy that the FBI has their priorities straight. Yeah let’s go after these high school and college students for messing with corporations while ignoring the corporate criminals who destroyed our economy. America, land of Corporate privilege!

  • lilyannerose

    By all means I’m so happy that the FBI has their priorities straight. Yeah let’s go after these high school and college students for messing with corporations while ignoring the corporate criminals who destroyed our economy. America, land of Corporate privilege!

  • Anonymous

    It’s kinda like joining a 1% biker gang, if you gotta ask, you probably don’t really want to join..

    But that said, I’ll give you a hint: You are seeking information from a web based entity…
    .
    I’ve always found studying the history of something helpful…

    Ok, I’ve said enough, I don’t want them to unleash the pedobears on me…

  • Anonymous

    Actually Mossad is a Wikileaks operation and Julian Assange is David ben-Gurion’s grandfather, revived from cryogenic sleep.

  • Anonymous

    Greetings,

    Um, a “Denial of Dollars” wont hurt them because they can print all them money they need. Get this, only a small fraction of our money exits in any form we could possibly count. The rest of it, or so they tell us, lives in some digital realm. How much is there? Who is keeping track of it all?

    Why not just send one of those letters to everyone you know suggesting that they not “buy gas next tuesday” as that one always works.

    If we were at all serious we would have a national strike. Nothing moves, nobody works. Let them see what the world looks like if we bring the machine to a halt.

    That is how you show somebody you are serious.

  • Anonymous

    Looks like Anonymous has been “infiltrated” by CIA, since Wikileaks let the cat-out-of-the-bag today with the leaked cable that said the US was behind the uprising in Egypt, and Anon provided the day before with “how-to protest” fliers there.

    Also, the numbers of cellphone protest videos being downloaded to the media is telling–Vodefone is working a lot more than reported. I suspect Anon (CIA) had something to do with that as well.

  • Anonymous

    My understanding of Anonymous (in it’s present form) is this:

    Anonymous is a morphing, leaderless, structureless collective of netizens. A simple conversation about our online freedom under threat can result in a target being voted upon, a call to action surfacing and of course execution of the action by those willing to heed the call and participate.

    Becoming a member -> You don’t join Anonmous, you just be anonymous and join the Anonymous action whenever principal drives you to be, hell…. you could probably do a call to action yourself – as long as it’s something that many Internet users would strongly agree upon (defending our freedom seems to be universally popular of course).

    Joining “Operation Payback” -> Search for the LOIC tool, keep an eye out for calls to action on social networking sites, media sites (youtube, etc), filesharing communities, large forums, etc) and make sure you use TOR or proxies to anonymize your connection.

    At least, that’s how it seems to work from what I’ve observed in the news, etc.

  • surgethis

    Proof that organizations like the CIA and FBI are the tools of the corporations and the elite. They are not about the law … they are about protecting the powerful and the rigged system designed to keep the masses from holding the controllers accountable. Imagine what things might look like if for example the FBI went after Goldman Sachs and or Wall Street for the high crimes they are engaged in everyday. There is a reason these law enforcement powers are not unleashed against the big oil companies. It’s because they work for and are directed by the elite.

  • surgethis

    Proof that organizations like the CIA and FBI are the tools of the corporations and the elite. They are not about the law … they are about protecting the powerful and the rigged system designed to keep the masses from holding the controllers accountable. Imagine what things might look like if for example the FBI went after Goldman Sachs and or Wall Street for the high crimes they are engaged in everyday. There is a reason these law enforcement powers are not unleashed against the big oil companies. It’s because they work for and are directed by the elite.

  • surgethis

    In a society where law enforcement uses it’s resources to protect the high crimes of the government and the corporations, information becomes the biggest weapon against them. If the people become aware and begin to understand just exactly how they are being lied to and manipulated they will begin to fight back.

    It’s been repeated over and over throughout history. The greedy few hoard everything while the lower classes suffer until they are pushed too far. Goldman Sachs has just been found out that their bonuses have increased 3 fold. How much more will the people stand for.

  • surgethis

    In a society where law enforcement uses it’s resources to protect the high crimes of the government and the corporations, information becomes the biggest weapon against them. If the people become aware and begin to understand just exactly how they are being lied to and manipulated they will begin to fight back.

    It’s been repeated over and over throughout history. The greedy few hoard everything while the lower classes suffer until they are pushed too far. Goldman Sachs has just been found out that their bonuses have increased 3 fold. How much more will the people stand for.

  • http://voxmagi-necessarywords.blogspot.com/ VoxMagi

    If I wasn’t laughing at the hysterical notion of trained law enforcement agents pulling overtime to attack the people participating in the defense of Wikileaks revealing government and corporate crime instead of pursuing actual terrorists and criminals…

    …I’d be crying.

  • http://voxmagi-necessarywords.blogspot.com/ VoxMagi

    If I wasn’t laughing at the hysterical notion of trained law enforcement agents pulling overtime to attack the people participating in the defense of Wikileaks revealing government and corporate crime instead of pursuing actual terrorists and criminals…

    …I’d be crying.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_WEAPT7CBGVXZE6PI5TQJ4ONNPM ndasilva28

    http://www.thezeitgeistmovie.com
    watch “moving forward” if you want to see how the “system” works. don’t buy into their “scientific method” neither thou, TZM is just their next step in the “system” evolution.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_WEAPT7CBGVXZE6PI5TQJ4ONNPM ndasilva28

    http://www.thezeitgeistmovie.com
    watch “moving forward” if you want to see how the “system” works. don’t buy into their “scientific method” neither thou, TZM is just their next step in the “system” evolution.

  • Anonymous

    If the right to peaceful protest is protected by law, why is the right to peaceful protest by Anonymous not also protected?

    [Cyber-protest in the form of DDoS is a lot less harmful and costly than taking to the streets and burning cars and buildings.]

  • Anonymous

    If the right to peaceful protest is protected by law, why is the right to peaceful protest by Anonymous not also protected?

    [Cyber-protest in the form of DDoS is a lot less harmful and costly than taking to the streets and burning cars and buildings.]

  • Anonymous

    I wonder if the late revolutions perhaps connected to new world orders plan to get rid of all dictators and those who oppose it and keep only one dictator in the WH? lol

  • Anonymous

    I wonder if the late revolutions perhaps connected to new world orders plan to get rid of all dictators and those who oppose it and keep only one dictator in the WH? lol

  • Jaimie11

    Anonymous, the political activist group, is ethical. They are sworn to do no harm. Don’t confuse them with anonymous criminals.

  • Jaimie11

    Anonymous, the political activist group, is ethical. They are sworn to do no harm. Don’t confuse them with anonymous criminals.

  • Jaimie11

    That last sentence puts a different light on the issue. Criminality SHOULD be tracked and taken down, while exercising rights should not require our hiding our identities.

    I’ve thought always that timidity in exercising our rights weakens them. Unabashedly, shamelessly, positively exercising our rights preserves them. And the illicit laws making “do no harm” DDoS attacks criminal need to be broken and changed.

    I am most grateful to all those people who are willing to go through the ordeal of challenging those laws, thereby extending our freedom into areas government encroaches on it.

  • Jaimie11

    That last sentence puts a different light on the issue. Criminality SHOULD be tracked and taken down, while exercising rights should not require our hiding our identities.

    I’ve thought always that timidity in exercising our rights weakens them. Unabashedly, shamelessly, positively exercising our rights preserves them. And the illicit laws making “do no harm” DDoS attacks criminal need to be broken and changed.

    I am most grateful to all those people who are willing to go through the ordeal of challenging those laws, thereby extending our freedom into areas government encroaches on it.

  • http://freedomfighterradio.net/2011/01/29/mass-fbi-raids-target-pro-wikileaks-%e2%80%98operation-payback%e2%80%99/ Freedom Fighter Radio | Mass FBI raids target pro-WikiLeaks ‘Operation Payback’

    [...] Source: RawStory [...]

  • Anonymous

    Shortly after Mandela was released from prison, I read an article about his prison time. It seems that the guards tried like hell to break him during the first several years, but after a while, they realized that this was a man with extreme dignity and a spirit that would not be destroyed. The article said that after a fairly short time, the guards were treating him with more respect than they did the commandant of the prison. They started calling him Mr Mandela, and saw that they were the ones on the wrong side.

    This is a man that I respect far more than anyone in OUR gov’t.

  • Anonymous

    Shortly after Mandela was released from prison, I read an article about his prison time. It seems that the guards tried like hell to break him during the first several years, but after a while, they realized that this was a man with extreme dignity and a spirit that would not be destroyed. The article said that after a fairly short time, the guards were treating him with more respect than they did the commandant of the prison. They started calling him Mr Mandela, and saw that they were the ones on the wrong side.

    This is a man that I respect far more than anyone in OUR gov’t.

  • Anonymous

    Shortly after Mandela was released from prison, I read an article about his prison time. It seems that the guards tried like hell to break him during the first several years, but after a while, they realized that this was a man with extreme dignity and a spirit that would not be destroyed. The article said that after a fairly short time, the guards were treating him with more respect than they did the commandant of the prison. They started calling him Mr Mandela, and saw that they were the ones on the wrong side.

    This is a man that I respect far more than anyone in OUR gov’t.

  • Anonymous

    “FBI agents today executed more than 40 search warrants throughout the United States”

    I’m surprise those assholes took the time to get search warrants!

  • Anonymous

    “FBI agents today executed more than 40 search warrants throughout the United States”

    I’m surprise those assholes took the time to get search warrants!

  • Anonymous

    “FBI agents today executed more than 40 search warrants throughout the United States”

    I’m surprise those assholes took the time to get search warrants!

  • http://twitter.com/savagelight ThatBostonMan

    Didn’t I warn people not to be Wikileaks activists? That it would lead to this?

    This is just the beginning. Their lives are about to be turned upside down.

  • http://twitter.com/savagelight ThatBostonMan

    Didn’t I warn people not to be Wikileaks activists? That it would lead to this?

    This is just the beginning. Their lives are about to be turned upside down.

  • http://twitter.com/savagelight ThatBostonMan

    Didn’t I warn people not to be Wikileaks activists? That it would lead to this?

    This is just the beginning. Their lives are about to be turned upside down.

  • Anonymous

    You HAVE NO point. If you DID, then people wouldn’t have to ask you for clarification. You can’t just come in and spout bullshit without backing it up and NOT expect us to call you one it. The fact that then you come back with put downs and absolutely NOTHING else proves the point that YOU are an idiot with NOTHING to say of any validity. How much do they pay you for wasting everyone’s time here?

    You have NO point to prove, not by yourself or by anyone else.

  • Anonymous

    You HAVE NO point. If you DID, then people wouldn’t have to ask you for clarification. You can’t just come in and spout bullshit without backing it up and NOT expect us to call you one it. The fact that then you come back with put downs and absolutely NOTHING else proves the point that YOU are an idiot with NOTHING to say of any validity. How much do they pay you for wasting everyone’s time here?

    You have NO point to prove, not by yourself or by anyone else.

  • Anonymous

    You HAVE NO point. If you DID, then people wouldn’t have to ask you for clarification. You can’t just come in and spout bullshit without backing it up and NOT expect us to call you one it. The fact that then you come back with put downs and absolutely NOTHING else proves the point that YOU are an idiot with NOTHING to say of any validity. How much do they pay you for wasting everyone’s time here?

    You have NO point to prove, not by yourself or by anyone else.

  • http://twitter.com/savagelight ThatBostonMan

    It should be clear to everyone reading this, that all who took part in or who are associated with the group going by “Anonymous” are now under FBI surveillance. If you know someone is associated with Wikileaks or anonymous, disassociate, disconnect, and end all communication with that person.

    That person is now a targeted individual. http://www.targetedindividuals.com/gang-stalking/
    http://www.targetedindividuals.com/

    The government is known to use torture on targeted individuals. Anyway I warned RawStory before the FBI raids, and this is the warning for after the raids. If you do not want to be put on the target list, you’ll end all contact and association with political activist groups, and with anonymous and any members or associates of those groups.

  • http://twitter.com/savagelight ThatBostonMan

    It should be clear to everyone reading this, that all who took part in or who are associated with the group going by “Anonymous” are now under FBI surveillance. If you know someone is associated with Wikileaks or anonymous, disassociate, disconnect, and end all communication with that person.

    That person is now a targeted individual. http://www.targetedindividuals.com/gang-stalking/
    http://www.targetedindividuals.com/

    The government is known to use torture on targeted individuals. Anyway I warned RawStory before the FBI raids, and this is the warning for after the raids. If you do not want to be put on the target list, you’ll end all contact and association with political activist groups, and with anonymous and any members or associates of those groups.

  • http://twitter.com/savagelight ThatBostonMan

    It should be clear to everyone reading this, that all who took part in or who are associated with the group going by “Anonymous” are now under FBI surveillance. If you know someone is associated with Wikileaks or anonymous, disassociate, disconnect, and end all communication with that person.

    That person is now a targeted individual. http://www.targetedindividuals.com/gang-stalking/
    http://www.targetedindividuals.com/

    The government is known to use torture on targeted individuals. Anyway I warned RawStory before the FBI raids, and this is the warning for after the raids. If you do not want to be put on the target list, you’ll end all contact and association with political activist groups, and with anonymous and any members or associates of those groups.

  • http://twitter.com/savagelight ThatBostonMan

    Those are only the searches they announce. The feds have the power to search without a warrant. Anyone can be put under surveillance.

    Their next step will probably be to turn as many people into informants as possible and to use them against Wikileaks.

  • http://twitter.com/savagelight ThatBostonMan

    Those are only the searches they announce. The feds have the power to search without a warrant. Anyone can be put under surveillance.

    Their next step will probably be to turn as many people into informants as possible and to use them against Wikileaks.

  • http://twitter.com/savagelight ThatBostonMan

    Anonymous has no chain of command. It’s not controlled by the CIA. It might be infiltrated but every organization is infiltrated. And I would guess it’s infiltrated by all types of intelligence agencies, not just the CIA and FBI, but foreign agencies also.

  • http://twitter.com/savagelight ThatBostonMan

    Anonymous has no chain of command. It’s not controlled by the CIA. It might be infiltrated but every organization is infiltrated. And I would guess it’s infiltrated by all types of intelligence agencies, not just the CIA and FBI, but foreign agencies also.

  • http://twitter.com/savagelight ThatBostonMan

    Even better, these highschool and college students will be turned into informants and turned against their community.

  • http://twitter.com/savagelight ThatBostonMan

    Even better, these highschool and college students will be turned into informants and turned against their community.

  • http://twitter.com/savagelight ThatBostonMan

    They are. They’ll turn the Chinese and Russian kids against their parents.

  • http://twitter.com/savagelight ThatBostonMan

    They are. They’ll turn the Chinese and Russian kids against their parents.

  • http://twitter.com/savagelight ThatBostonMan

    Exactly.

  • http://twitter.com/savagelight ThatBostonMan

    Exactly.

  • Anonymous

    Agreed. Every organization is infiltrated. Controlled is an interesting concept and predicament to an organization that has no “chain of command,” but nevertheless makes decisions to act in a “one voice” kinda way. If say, for instance, they’re infiltrated with enough persons who have enough “voting rights” to move in x or y direction, wouldn’t the infiltrators effectively have “control” over which direction to take? Just sayin.

    Also, after reading interviews from two of the 40 people who were “targeted” by the FBI Anon raids this week, who publicly and adamantly claimed to be innocent of their involvement, and also quite perturbed by the “inconvenience” suffered, but whose residences were searched and all digital property confiscated anyway (including cameras,) I wonder what that was all about. Don’t you?

  • Anonymous

    Agreed. Every organization is infiltrated. Controlled is an interesting concept and predicament to an organization that has no “chain of command,” but nevertheless makes decisions to act in a “one voice” kinda way. If say, for instance, they’re infiltrated with enough persons who have enough “voting rights” to move in x or y direction, wouldn’t the infiltrators effectively have “control” over which direction to take? Just sayin.

    Also, after reading interviews from two of the 40 people who were “targeted” by the FBI Anon raids this week, who publicly and adamantly claimed to be innocent of their involvement, and also quite perturbed by the “inconvenience” suffered, but whose residences were searched and all digital property confiscated anyway (including cameras,) I wonder what that was all about. Don’t you?

  • http://jininvan.wordpress.com/2011/01/29/prosecution-persecutio/ prosecution > persecution « found in thought

    [...] Eric] Holder, who has launched a criminal probe and “personally authorized” a number of steps “to hold people accountable” for the document [...]

  • Anonymous

    All right chicken little. Who do you work for?

    Nobody is scared of you or your employers.

  • Anonymous

    You guys have alot of fingers, but theres getting to be too many pies for even you to keep up with.

    Either your the biggest coward on the web, or a government agent…

    No matter which you are, it’s YOU that is the problem.

  • Anonymous

    Not saying I support evil.

    BUT, you better take a closer look at your aversion to, how did you put it? “Criminality”…

    If it is a crime to do what you know is right, who’s the greater criminal? The law breaker, or the law maker?

    It’s times like these that having a mindset based in reason and logic along with a well understood moral compass proves critical.

    They can only subjugate you if you reason with emotion and or have a weak or misguided moral compass.

    If you find yourself living in conflict with something within yourself, check your premise.

    Exercising your rights is great, but even MORE important is the REASON you exercise those rights. It’s like going to the gym, getting super-muscular to the point you can’t even wipe your own ass.. Your strength has now become your weakness.. Make sure you do things so that they are right by YOU.. And you will find that not only will you not be standing alone on that fair ground, you will be surrounded by everybody you could ever truly love.

  • Anonymous

    BTW, the anonymous community uses the term “pedobear” to shame and shun those sick enough to deserve the shaming label.

    Whenever you create an environment of freedom, some sickos always show up..

    It’s one thing if the sickos show up and try to ply their sickness, it’s quiet another when you find yourself in a twisted system where the sickos are in control…

    I’m talking about torture, abu graib, guantanamo, and every sick action our government directly and indirectly engages in on a daily official level..

    A bunch of those pedobears were busted inside the pentagon just last year…

    Check your premise…

  • jack nichols

    I wouldn’t worry too much about the FBI. They are still working on arresting mob bosses from the 1970′s. From my prospective the FBI is about as worthless as their original director, the drag queen that repeatedly said that their was no Mafia, of course the so called mob bosses had pictures of him in drag. Now they are busy getting payback, for wikileaks exposing the massive dishonesty and corruption within our government. How does that work a couple of goons show up and shake down people suspected of supporting wilileaks. The FBI is the new Gestapo, out to do the dirty work of their masters in the government.

  • Anonymous

    Oh, it’s “ThatBostonMan” crying about evil fictional black-opsy style crap for the millionth time.

    “all who took part in or who are associated with the group going by “Anonymous” are now under FBI surveillance.”

    That is absolute BULLSHIT. I know it is and I suspect you know it is too.

    SOCKS proxies, ToR, etc. have helped to ensure over 70% of all nodes investigated are considered reasonably likely to be compromised evidence (eg. they don’t expose the true point of origin of the traffic)

    You’re either a lunatic that doesn’t understand the Internet as well as some of us other posters here do… or you do know the Internet enough to know this and are posting this nonsense because of an alterior motive.

    I don’t know if you’re a scared idiot… or a cog in a corrupt machine… either way, one thing is for sure… you post a whole load of bullshit far too frequently.

  • Anonymous

    Why isn’t this a headline? “Oh yeah by the way whatever you’re into right now, there have been these here 40 warrents and mass raids”

  • Anonymous

    Actually he’s right. We have to be prepared to pay the price for what we do. Or stay the hell out of it.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/XIWZRWAXJQKAJ4QEHKMVMCMLAY brian

    Which is why if you’re a 15 year old kid you should worry.

    The FBI would much rather arrest you than murderers.

  • http://twitter.com/savagelight ThatBostonMan

    Enjoy prison.

  • http://twitter.com/savagelight ThatBostonMan

    Wow so either I’m a terrorist or an agent. You are as bad as the government with that “you’re either with us or you’re with them” bullcrap.

  • Anonymous

    …or just have the common sense to cover one’s tracks before doing something of questionable legality.

    My point was that the FBI are not watching everyone involved, they don’t have the capability to do so.

  • Anonymous

    …or just have the common sense to cover one’s tracks before doing something of questionable legality.

    My point was that the FBI are not watching everyone involved, they don’t have the capability to do so.

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