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Anonymous Begins Publishing Ku Klux Klan Member Details Online
An anonymous reader writes: Anonymous has begun releasing the personal details of members of the Ku Klux Klan, escalating its cyberwar against the white supremacist group. Last week the hacktivist group promised to reveal the identity of 1,000 members of the KKK after getting possession of the private information through a compromised Twitter account. A press release from Anonymous reads in part: "After closely observing so many of you for so very long, we feel confident that applying transparency to your organizational cells is the right, just, appropriate and only course of action. You are abhorrent. Criminal. You are more than extremists. You are more than a hate group. You operate much more like terrorists and you should be recognized as such. You are terrorists that hide your identities beneath sheets and infiltrate society on every level. The privacy of the Ku Klux Klan no longer exists in cyberspace. You’ve had blood on your hands for nearly 200 years. You continue to inflict civil rights violations, commit violent crimes and solicit others to commit violent criminal acts. You seek to intimidate and/or eliminate those that are different from you and those that you dislike by any means possible. You seek to terrorize anyone and anything that you feel is a threat to your narrow view of the 'American way of life'."
The crux of the matter comes down to this: is it a burning issue?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
The real fun will be to see how many of these people are active politicians.
the ironing is delicious
I feel this comment left me a little flat.
There are dark times ahead for the KKK.
First they came for the pedophiles. I was not a pedophile, so I did nothing.
Then they came for the Klansmen. I was not a Klan member, so I did nothing.
Then they came for the Anonymous Cowards who post on Slashdot.
There was nobody left but me and my buddy CowboyNeal and we were no match for The Legion.
What, not you too CowboyNeal. Nooooooo!!!!!!!
I felt pressed to respond and let off some steam.
--Anonymous also inadvertently published the identities of all the developers of the KDE Desktop. Presumably this was an error.
I like how you made it a trifecta by posting that as anonymous coward.
and not just sunburned on the back of his neck due to working outdoors with a short haircut,
That makes no sense, rednecks have mullets.
Do we get to make fun of the ultraliberal Democrats on the list like the mayor of Knoxville or do we just get to hate the Republicans?
A buddy and I were going to go to one of their rallies. We were too drunk to drive and unable to actually figure out how to make the pointy hats with sheets - and his girlfriend, at the time, was not impressed with what we did to the linen. It is at this point that I should also share that I'm mixed, racially, and that one of those mixes is black and my friend, whom I was in the Corps with, was so black his nickname was "The Grape Ape" 'cause he was almost purple black - from the Dominican Republic by heritage. We were late to our Klan meeting.
This is probably for the best. We were in Virginia at the time. We'd probably have been lynched or at least had a good brawl on our hands.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."