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Anonymous' Barrett Brown Raided By FBI During Online Chat
SternisheFan sends this excerpt from Wired:
"For the second time this year, self-proclaimed Anonymous spokesman Barrett Brown was raided by the FBI. The latest dramatic incident occurred late Wednesday evening while Brown and another woman identified by some as his girlfriend were participating in an online chat on TinyChat with other individuals. Two minutes into the recorded chat session, loud voices could be heard in the background of Brown's residence in Texas while the woman in the room with him was in front of the computer screen. She quickly closed the computer screen, but the audio continued to capture events in the room as the FBI appeared to strong-arm Brown to put handcuffs on him. Brown could be heard yelling in the background. A spokeswoman in the Dallas County sheriff's office confirmed to Wired that Brown was raided last night and was booked into the county jail around 11 p.m."
(Warning: the video embedded with the article contains mature language.)
In my opinion every individual has a right to defend himself when an intruders (or intruders) suddenly busts down the door and puts you in fear for your life. I would have no problems if a resident shot & killed the intruders.
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"In other news, the spokesperson for an organization responsible for dozens of high profile electronic attacks, distributing classified data, and hundreds of other felonies was taken into custody today..."
Agree or disagree with Anonymous, it shouldn't be a surprise that he took the ride.
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So uh what are the charges?
U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A.!
Barrett Brown is not Anonymous. Most of the Anons I know worth their salt think of him as a fraud. This is the problem of a leaderless, hierarchyless political movement: anyone can claim affiliation. All Barrett did was claim to orchestrate some invisible campaign against Mexican drug gangs, of which no evidence was ever actually presented, and idiot reporters lined up to print his lies verbatim.
Barrett Brown claimed affiliation with Encyclopedia Dramatica, another Internet community, on Twitter recently. Current and former ED admins lined up to denounce him as never being known there.
Barrett Brown is a liar and a fraud. His days are up now that he's finally committed the crime of threatening an FBI agent. There's no way he's getting bail.
Any version anywhere where you can actually understand what they are saying/yelling?
Didn't he threaten the FBI the other day to reveal all kinds of information unless he got his laptops back from the FBI taken in the first raids? There were two videos on his Youtube channel (can't check now).
Maturity is highly overrated.
or to release sensitive data. and if he's spokespersoning for Anonymous, he's an accessory at the least. they could also go RICO (Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organization) on Anonymous, it's a great little Swiss Army Lawbook for repeat offenders. so it's definitely FBI material, and Brown might well find himself without much of a legal defense.
if this is supposed to be a new economy, how come they still want my old fashioned money?
I'd question calling offensive language "mature", when that's not really the case.
Not that I'm saying that adults don't often talk like that... I know many that do. But in my own experience, it really seems to me that such offensive language is far more frequently used by younger people than by older.
It reminds me of how some kids will sometimes start smoking because they think it's "grown-up", whereas almost everybody who smokes these days actually started before they even turned 18.
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
It's too bad this guy went down the conspiracy and lies route...he could have been on hell of a speaker for a legitimate (i.e., not made up in his own head) movement.
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Curb stomp him and throw his dead body on his mom's lawn.
or to release sensitive data. and if he's spokespersoning for Anonymous, he's an accessory at the least. they could also go RICO (Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organization) on Anonymous, it's a great little Swiss Army Lawbook for repeat offenders. so it's definitely FBI material, and Brown might well find himself without much of a legal defense.
How can one be a "spokesman" for an "organization" that doesn't actually ...you know... exist?
Anyone got a transcript of this guy's ramblings so I don't have to spend twenty minutes on the video to figure out where he fucked up? Thanks.
http://thescoopblog.dallasnews.com/2012/09/anonymous-spokesperson-barrett-brown-raided-arrested-in-dallas.html/
So that's why he's being cuffed and treated as threatening.
Maybe you should ask Barret Brown if we've stopped being civil?
http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/8/20/95
If it's true that he was raided by the FBI they don't just do that. They are likely going to make him an offer he cannot refuse.
Brown isn't going to remain active in Anonymous for much longer if he ever was to begin with.
Barrett Brown is not Anonymous. Most of the Anons I know worth their salt think of him as a fraud. This is the problem of a leaderless, hierarchyless political movement: anyone can claim affiliation. All Barrett did was claim to orchestrate some invisible campaign against Mexican drug gangs, of which no evidence was ever actually presented, and idiot reporters lined up to print his lies verbatim.
Barrett Brown claimed affiliation with Encyclopedia Dramatica, another Internet community, on Twitter recently. Current and former ED admins lined up to denounce him as never being known there.
Barrett Brown is a liar and a fraud. His days are up now that he's finally committed the crime of threatening an FBI agent. There's no way he's getting bail.
What I mean is he will never again be considered a part of any serious activist movement. Once they know he got raided by the FBI they know he's the new FBI bitch. Many people suspected that Sabu was the FBI bitch after he got raided but somehow people still trusted him and look what happened there?
If an activist gets raided by the FBI they need to find a new profession because their activism days are over. They can look forward to lifetime surveillance from that point on and pressure potentially for 10 or 20 years straight by the FBI to cooperate and that is if they don't go to prison. Since I doubt Mr. Brown will be going to prison it's much more likely that he will cooperate and what does that mean?
Anyone with common sense at this point will watch what they say and do around Mr. Brown or anyone associated with him. You can bet if the FBI raids someone they had that someone under surveillance for a long time and will continue to have that someone under surveillance or control for the foreseeable future.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49031630
are you saying he shouldn't be arrested for that?
From this point on Mr. Brown is irrelevant. He's part of the system now.
Intellectual or cognitive maturity is highly underrated.
FTFY. When I was growing up, the mantra was, "Don't trust anyone over thirty." I was nowhere near thirty, yet still I thought that was one of the stupidest things I'd ever heard. Charles Manson was ca. 34 when Sharon Tate was murdered. Alexander the Great was ca. 33 when he died. Physical age has nothing to do with pretty near everything.
Maturity is highly overrated.
You must mean that in a way that I don't recognize. Marie Curie was ca. 67 when she died.
"Tongue tied and twisted, just an Earth bound misfit
Sending in a paramilitary force to arrest some guy for a crime that is of the same degree of violence as stealing a stapler from a workplace really just shows a lack of professionalism and a willingness to waste resources on overkill. I wonder what the real soldiers think of these idiots playing soldiers in such minor situations. What good is a SWAT team if they are diluted so much that their members are unlikely to meet situations where they are actually required? A hundred curb stomp situations is a pointless amount of experience for a group that you want to rely on when there is a real threat of something requiring a paramilitary response.
You are not in the right when you threaten to somehow commit violence on another person. It's the law, and it's a damn good law. Brown, whose brain appears to not have yet recovered completely from his drug using days, crossed that line. He brought this attention on himself. He's not a hero, he's not rational, he acts pretty deranged. What he really is is another good example to young people why they should not allow themselves to get involved with opiate consumption of any sort, heroin or it's legal prescription pill form. If you're hooked on it now seek help and treatment, before you end up like this poor tortured soul. Heroin addiction is not cool, and it causes you to make some real bad life decisions. Like this guy has. Life's 'heros' are, imho, the people who live within the law, all other's are just 'posers'.
https://rt.com/usa/news/indiana-shooting-law-state-591/
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For the Europeans amongst us: That's what you get in return for the freedom to bear arms.
For the US citizens amongst us: See your hard earned tax dollars at work.
We get the ability to shoot some percentage of assholes who were "just following orders".
As a European, you've heard of Nuremberg, right?
Maturity is highly overrated.
Vulgar, foul language is not an indication of maturity. On the contrary, it seems to be more closely associated with the pot-smoking, meth-addled, lip-ringed, tongue-pierced, ear-stretched, purple-haired, and tattooed youth of today who can't even keep up with today's abysmally low educational standards, or hold down a job even if the world's economy depended on it.