Good vs Evil – Anonymous tackles Westboro bigots!

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The infamously vile Westboro Baptist Church, best known for its picketing the funerals of fallen soldiers in its campaign of hate and bigotry against gays, has received an ultimatum from the hacker collective Anonymous. The Phelps’ distasteful ministry has been able to continue on for so long because their hateful speech is protected by the Constitution and  a cavalcade of lawyers eager to sue any municipality that tries to stand in the way of their shameful demonstrations.

When the law no longer protects the helpless, it is a perfect opportunity for a hero to step in and administer vigilante justice.

In an open letter to the loathsome group, Anonymous demands that they go back to Kansas and shut down their websites or else be shut down from the outside.  With the considerable amount of skills that Anonymous possesses, this is no idle threat.

Here is the press release from Anonymous site– it is a thing of beauty.

Open Letter to Westboro Baptist Church

AN OPEN LETTER FROM ANONYMOUS

February 16, 2011

TO THE CONGREGANTS OF WESTBORO BAPTIST CHURCH:

We, the collective super-consciousness known as ANONYMOUS – the Voice of Free Speech & the Advocate of the People – have long heard you issue your venomous statements of hatred, and we have witnessed your flagrant and absurd displays of inimitable bigotry and intolerant fanaticism. We have always regarded you and your ilk as an assembly of graceless sociopaths and maniacal chauvinists & religious zealots, however benign, who act out for the sake of attention & in the name of religion.
Being such aggressive proponents for the Freedom of Speech & Freedom of Information as we are, we have hitherto allowed you to continue preaching your benighted gospel of hatred and your theatrical exhibitions of, not only your fascist views, but your utter lack of Christ-like attributes. You have condemned the men and women who serve, fight, and perish in the armed forces of your nation; you have prayed for and celebrated the deaths of young children, who are without fault; you have stood outside the United States National Holocaust Museum, condemning the men, women, and children who, despite their innocence, were annihilated by a tyrannical embodiment of fascism and unsubstantiated repugnance. Rather than allowing the deceased some degree of peace and respect, you instead choose to torment, harass, and assault those who grieve.
Your demonstrations and your unrelenting cascade of disparaging slurs, unfounded judgments, and prejudicial innuendos, which apparently apply to every individual numbered amongst the race of Man – except for yourselves – has frequently crossed the line which separates Freedom of Speech from deliberately utilizing the same tactics and methods of intimidation and mental & emotional abuse that have been previously exploited and employed by tyrants and dictators, fascists and terrorist organizations throughout history.

ANONYMOUS cannot abide this behavior any longer. The time for us to be idle spectators in your inhumane treatment of fellow Man has reached its apex, and we shall now be moved to action. Thus, we give you a warning: Cease & desist your protest campaign in the year 2011, return to your homes in Kansas, & close your public Web sites.
Should you ignore this warning, you will meet with the vicious retaliatory arm of ANONYMOUS: We will target your public Websites, and the propaganda & detestable doctrine that you promote will be eradicated; the damage incurred will be irreversible, and neither your institution nor your congregation will ever be able to fully recover. It is in your best interest to comply now, while the option to do so is still being offered, because we will not relent until you cease the conduction & promotion of all your bigoted operations & doctrines.

The warning has been given. What happens from here shall be determined by you.

WE ARE ANONYMOUS.
WE ARE LEGION.
WE DO NOT FORGIVE.
WE DO NOT FORGET.
EXPECT US.

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Anonymous
13 years ago

I think they should replace WBC’s website with something like gays in the military or gays for Jesus.

Barbara Russo
13 years ago

Way to go ANONYMOUS! Take them down and destroy these bastards:)

13 years ago

Thanks Mother Hen for putting this up.
I do so hope that Anonymous brings down their web & email service, or even better replaces their website with the Scientology one. Then they could end up hating each other?
I agree with Krell; don’t wait, do it now.

13 years ago

Nobody deserves the harassment more than that group of slime. Go ANON! Skip the slashed tires… go straight to the SQL injection.

dp1053
13 years ago

Westboro is no more than a pimple on the ass of humanity, time somebody popped them. GO ANON!

Stimpson
13 years ago

*sigh* Of course, the Google Ad I see with this post is for the Church of $cientology. For balance, a big shout-out to xenu.net and xenutv.com!

Michael John Scott
13 years ago

Burn the bastards down!!! GO ANONYMOUS!

13 years ago

Some might consider Anonymous Satan’s warriors bent on taking down the righteous. And some might consider Anonymous God’s angels purging his ranks of misguided souls. I prefer look at this as the way Nature takes care of things.

As reprehensible and awful I think the Westboro Church is, I cannot in good conscience consider this a good thing. But then I do not have to feel sorry for the homophobes either. They have brought this upon themselves.

The odd thing is, this threat will only galvanize their resolve. Nut jobs are like that. They live for this kind of thing.

13 years ago

I double WOW that. Westboro isn’t about love, which is what I THOUGHT churches were for. They are about HATE. I’ve been sickened by them in the past, but never more so than when I heard they were going to protest little Christina Green’s funeral.

13 years ago

This might be the only way to shut them up. There are no legal recourses. They have been tried.

The pasty-faced programmer idealists can foment a revolution- maybe it will be like this instead of like Egypt’s. I hope so.

(Anonymous should change its name to AnAwesomeness if it succeeds!)

Jess
13 years ago

I hope the Phelps’ keep on keeping on, just to see how Anon and 4chan will deal with them. Does this make me a bad person?

oso
Reply to  Jess
13 years ago

IMO it makes you a person who sides with justice.

Reply to  Jess
13 years ago

That makes you someone who has a burning desire to see someone get their ass whooped who very much deserves it. Without getting into the morality of it all, I’m with you, Jess.

Jess
Reply to  C.H. McDermott
13 years ago

Know what else I have been waiting on? I’ll give you these words, see if you can remember. Unopened bottle of Antiquary.

oso
13 years ago

WOW. I don’t know what to say,MH.This is incredible! Anonymous using its power for good, with the confidence that the warning can and will be carried out.Dang!

They drew a line,dared Westboro to step over it.Anonymous knows it has nothing to fear, and knows it can fulfill the warning.

Westboro’s a dead man walking. Cool MH, thank you!

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