Will the real Anonymous please stand up and fight these real-life trolls?
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The interwebs were ablaze this weekend with the news that the Anonymous hacktivists were after the pernicious real-life Trolls of Westboro Baptist Church. Phelps and Co. responded with a sharply worded, puerile chick-pamphlet style rebuttal, encouraging Anonymous to “bring it.”
Even twits use twitter
Much as all of us here would love to see a virtual cage-match between these two notorious players on the world stage, we may have to wait a little longer.
According to this article in Network World, it turns out that Anonymous has done a bit of backpedaling, claiming now that the original letter posted was not reflective of all of their opinions. In fact, Anonymous asserts it was not authored by them, but instead put up on their site as a “plant” to encourage attacks against WBC. Anonymous surmises, “You observed our rising notoriety and thought you would exploit our paradigm for your own gain. And then, you thought you could lure some idiots into a honeypot for more IPs to sue.”
The hatemongering family circle of loathsome lawyers has run short of funds so they might well be looking to entrap the collective. I find it difficult to imagine that the beauty of the original letter could have been authored by the repulsive likes of anyone on the Phelps compound, law school graduate or not.
But the fact remains that now Anonymous has a rebuttal to the “rebuttal”, parts of which serves more as a warning to its own than as a threat to WBC:
To Anonymous: It’s a trap. They’ve got their ports wide open to harvest IPs to sue. Don’t DDoS, and
boycott Operation Westboro. If you really want to continue messing with them, just send them a few
male prostitutes and faxes of goatse. Nothing more.
Ahh- if the whole world sent them faxes of Goatse…how might that make their lives more difficult!
The rebuttal letter in its entirety:
Dear Phred Phelps and WBC Phriends,
So we’ve been hearing a lot about some letter that we supposedly sent you this morning. Problem is,we’re a bit groggy and don’t remember sending it. Our best guess is that you heard about us on that newfangled TV of yours and thought we might be some good money for your little church.
You thought you could play with Anonymous. You observed our rising notoriety and thought youwould exploit our paradigm for your own gain. And then, you thought you could lure some idiots into ahoneypot for more IPs to sue.
This is not so foreign to us; as you may have heard, we trade in Lulz. You just do not have enough tooffer right now.
While Anonymous thanks you for your interest, and would certainly like to take a break and have some fun with you guys, we have more pressing matters to deal with at the moment.
But, we will keep this application on file, and will certainly contact you if any openings become available in future.
Next time, don’t call us. We’ll call you.
Additionally, as your “Press Release” failed to understand: When Anonymous says we support free speech, we mean it. We count Beatrice Hall among our Anonymous forebears: “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
Do some among our number hate you and your cynical exploitation of your human rights for monetary gain? Of course. But the MoralFags are also the first to admit that they are, in fact, your rights to exploit.
In closing, let us assure you: We are not BAWWWING sissies, nor are we afraid of your false god; we’re just really busy. Stay tuned, and we’ll come back to play another day.
We promise.
To the Media: Just because it was posted on AnonNews doesn’t mean every single Anon is in agreement, in fact in this case it doesn’t even mean a single Anon is in agreement. Next time, if you could give us a few minutes to put all our paperwork in order, we’ll be sure to let you know what we’re up to. (LOL)
To Anonymous: It’s a trap. They’ve got their ports wide open to harvest IPs to sue. Don’t DDoS, and boycott Operation Westboro. If you really want to continue messing with them, just send them a few male prostitutes and faxes of goatse. Nothing more.
(Note: This letter was written by more than 20 Anons, at the same time, and none of them were inbred family members. Unlike that other, shitty “Press Release”.)
We are Anonymous.
We are legion.
We do not forgive.
We do not forget.
Expect us.
Anonymous is itself in a state of alert, declaring an emergency warning to its hackers not to waste their time with the WBC because the “cost is too high and the gain is too low”.
Indeed there are bigger fish to fry- much bigger. Like Tunisia.
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Thanks MH. I was thinking this over last night,and came to the conclusion that Anonymous wouldn’t have issued a threat, they’d have just done it.
True, although Anon is a large group of people who are very good at “hacking.” As I understand it they are a “cellular” organization that is very much attuned to what is going on in the world.
WBC is the scum off the bottom of the fish pond. I would like to see ANON tackle the WBC problem but was a little surprised they would have set their sites so low.
Great post and coverage by MH!
Does this mean that I have to return my Commander Ackbar cereal?
You have Commander Ackbar cereal? Oh man!!
Great post MH!
I loved your coverage of this, MH.
Point taken, they do have bigger fish….. would be nice to see, tho. In fact, Anon is virtually right, since arguing with idiots, we learn over and over again, is insane.
WBC are sad, unevolved, fear based folks who survive on squabbling and acting out badly. Did I say that right?