Anonymous Vows Revenge For ISIS Paris Attacks

An anonymous reader writes: As usual, Anonymous members are quicker to respond to threats than investigators and have announced #OpParis as revenge for the Paris attacks. Their action is similar to #OpISIS from this spring, launched after the Charlie Hebdo attacks. Previously Anonymous ousted thousands of ISIS Twitter accounts in #OpISIS. In a more conventional response, the government of France has been bombarding ISIS positions in Syria with airstrikes, and hunting for suspect Salah Abdeslam in connection with Friday's killings.

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[Anonymous Coward]

As usual, Anonymous members are quicker to respond to threats than investigators

That's because they don't have any requirement to perform due diligence or, well, investigate anything. Investigators do. Anonymous are more like instigators.

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[Anonymous Coward]

Why does anyone require 'due diligence' and fact-checking against insane violent assholes like these Sunni extremist fuckstains that laughingly call themselves the 'Islamic State'

Well, for a start, to make sure that's who's actually responsible. (Not saying they're not - or that they don't deserve action anyway, but if it weren't them, then another guilty party could be getting away with no action due to a lack of due diligence)

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[phantomfive]

Why does anyone require 'due diligence' and fact-checking against insane violent assholes like these Sunni extremist fuckstains that laughingly call themselves the 'Islamic State' (as if they have the skillset or civilized restraint to actually run a country peacefully)?

Mainly so you don't accidentally kill the neighbor of the insane extremist, when the neighbor is actually a rather nice guy.

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[Anonymous Coward]

Don't post angry, that's a bad idea. You may also want to consider other viewpoints than "exterminate them down to the last motherfucking one of them". Perhaps a quote from 'A man for all seasons' may help:

Roper: So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law!

Sir Thomas More: Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?

Roper: Yes, I'd cut down every law in England to do that!

Sir Thomas More: Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned 'round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man's laws, not God's! And if you cut them down, and you're just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake!

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Becomie a vigilante force to end another vigilante force and you have lost the battle, plain and simple. You are no better than them.

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[RDW]

Why does anyone require 'due diligence' and fact-checking against insane violent assholes

This is why: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

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[PopeRatzo]

Why does anyone require 'due diligence' and fact-checking against insane violent assholes like these Sunni extremist fuckstains that laughingly call themselves the 'Islamic State'

The due diligence isn't for checking whether ISIS is responsible, or a worthy target. The due diligence is for making sure that the people you're attacking are actually ISIS.

We've seen some pretty high-profile examples of Anonymous having some, shall we say, targeting mishaps in the past. And if you need a citation for that, you don't know enough about Anonymous to participate in this conversation.

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[Anonymous Coward]

You may also want to consider other viewpoints than "exterminate them down to the last motherfucking one of them".

Tell you what: If they're kicking in your door to drag you out into the street and cut off your gods-be-damned head, let's see how well quoting shit like that works for you, OK? It's really easy for someone like you, who no doubt is sitting nice and safe in your house, probably in a 1st-world country like the U.S., to spout shit like that, when halfway across the world right now what I desscribed above is actually happening: someone is getting their door kicked in by some asshole 'islamic state' fighter who doesn't give a rat's ass about another human life, and they're going to drag the men out into the street and fucking kill them, and take the women and children and fucking enslave them, because they can. I got news for you, friend: There is no reasoning with these gods-be-damned animals, if there was then that's what would be happening, and if you can't see that then you need to wake the fuck up and get your head out of the gods-be-damned sand! By their own actions they have made it amply clear that the only way to deal with them is to kill them all, and if you continue to deny that then you're just fooling yourself. There is no magical speech you can give that is going to 'change hearts and minds' of ISIS and make them stop cutting off people's heads; they want to burn the world down to the ground and remake it in their own fucked-up twisted version of Islam, and they will kill everyone and anyone who gets in their way. I'm sorry, it sucks, it's horrifying, it's anti-civilization, it's anti-human, it's anti-life even, they are like the Berzerkers of Fred Saberhagen's science fiction novels, they want one thing and one thing only and there is no reasoning with them about it. You can even sit there and try to tell me "it's our fault we created them" and it doesn't fucking matter, we either kill them or they will kill everyone and everything you love, eventually. It's too late for talk. It's time for bombs and bullets, and that's the only way this gods-be-damned bullshit is going to end. I suggest you make your peace with that and move on with your life as best you can.

To the guy who said this:

The Koran instructs that all Muslims must move to live under a Caliphate if there is one. ISIS has now created one. In order to be a proper Muslim who follows their own holy book, they gotta support the Caliphate and they gotta support ISIS. The Koran is also very clear about what to do to Muslims who don't do that.

The Quran, just like the Bible, is a very, very old book, written by just another human, and like the Bible, it's contents are incredibly out-of-date and not particularly relevant to living in the modern world. Just like fundamentalist Christians, who try to live strictly according to the Bible with no compromises, you're going to run into all sorts of trouble trying to live strictly according to the Quran. Of course this has little to nothing to do with these Sunni extremists who refer to themselves as the 'islamic state'; just like so many so-called Christian preachers do, they're using their own strict interpretation of the Quran as an excuse to be violent assholes, destroy people they don't want around, seize power and land, and generally get away with whatever animalistic violent bullshit they want to get away with. Honestly, if there was such a being as 'Allah', I'd hope he/she/it would erase these fuckers from the planet, for daring to commit such atrocities. Regardless any 'reasons' these violent assholes claim to have are irrelevant; they must be exterminated regardless, because they endanger and victimize the populations of entire countries in their bloodthirsty quest for power. 'No quarter asked or given' should be the gist of any Rules of Engagement with regards to them, since that's abou

Re:Well, at least they're hard to retaliate agains

[tsotha]

IS will ignore Anonymous, military, cops, and intelligence services in favor of unsuspecting theatergoers and people out for an evening at a cafe. Military and cops shoot back, and Anonymous is simply impotent against an organization like IS.

Uh-oh, this is not good.

[Anonymous Coward]

Those ISIS guys better watch now! Anonymous will be sending a barrage of pizzas to them that they didn't even order, and probably posting some dick pics on the their websites!

Re:if they really want revenge

[kheldan]

That's a rather simplistic viewpoint you have there. These Sunni extremists who call themselves 'Islamic State' are using social media on the Internet as a major component in their propaganda machine, and also using it to recruit useful idiots to their cause, often in a very literal sense. Some group that has little to no regard for the legality of their actions (unlike actual law enforcement and government military) that can hack their way into their Facebook, Twitter, and other Internet assets and expose the operators behind them (and maybe their physical location) would be extremely disruptive to their operations on that front. Meanwhile 'signing up for the military' really won't do shit except give these assholes more targets to shoot at. Personally I send all my best to this particular faction of Anonymous, and wish them good hunting and much success in disrupting these assholes as much as possible.

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[Feral Nerd]

IS will ignore Anonymous, military, cops, and intelligence services in favor of unsuspecting theatergoers and people out for an evening at a cafe. Military and cops shoot back, and Anonymous is simply impotent against an organization like IS.

That depends on whether Anonymous plans do useless stuff like tear down ISIS websites or something useful like hack the PCs of ISIS leaders and steal their financial records or details of their oil smuggling operation which would be most useful to the military and the cops even if it would probably embarrass Turkish president Erdoan and his AKP party pretty severely but then they have it coming.