Anonymous Goes After Donald Trump

HughPickens.com writes: CBS reports that hot on the heels of its campaign against ISIS, the shadowy hackers' collective known as Anonymous is going after a new target: Donald Trump. The latest Anonymous operation — #OpTrump — was announced in a YouTube video featuring a masked activist claiming to speak for the group. In a computer-generated voice, he takes aim at Trump's proposed ban on Muslims entering the United States, claiming "This is what ISIS wants." He goes on to say that "the more the United States appears to be targeting Muslims, not just radical Muslims," the more ISIS will be able to recruit sympathizers. The video concludes with Anonymous' now-familiar threat: "You have been warned, Mr. Donald Trump. We are Anonymous. We are Legion. We do not forgive. Expect us."

After a video message was posted, the website of Trump Tower in New York City went down for at least an hour. However the campaign has yet to have much success. Despite the group's apparent distributed-denial-of-service attack, which aimed to take down a web server by flooding it with fake traffic, the Trump Tower website was up and running by 11 a.m. and the alleged damage might not have been apparent, to visitors to the page, because a cached version of Trump's site was programmed to hold the fort in the event of an attack or maintenance issues.

Comments

Re: Democracy

[Anonymous Coward]

These are liberal demoncraps. In their "minds" (I use this metaphorically, as liberal demoncraps are more akin to dumb animals than sentient beings), your right to vote ends where their right to have their way begins. These people will vote for Shillary cLIEnton. Don't look for logic in their dealings - there be dragons.

Documents that made him look like an stupid jerk?

[raymorris]

Damning documents that do what? Make him look like a moron? A jackass? He already appears to be clueless; that doesn't matter to his supporters, who are mostly uneducated themselves. (His support among Republican voters with college degrees is pretty small, among those without a diploma or degree it's very high.)

I'm disappointed that the party I tend to support also has so many uninformed people who support Trump. If he ends up being the nominee that'll be sad.

More illegals being removed than ever

[PeterM from Berkeley]

I don't like rule by diktat, however, at least on immigration, Obama is doing a better job of removing illegals than Bush ever did.

http://dailycaller.com/2014/02...

There's plenty to criticize about Obama's administration and policies without making up lies. Please don't do it. it discredits and drowns those who are have legitimate beefs.

--PM

Re:More illegals being removed than ever

[swillden]

Obama is doing a better job of removing illegals than Bush ever did.

This is actually normal. Republicans complain about illegals but don't actually want to keep them out. Democrats speak supportively of illegals, but deport them. From a political perspective, illegals are good for Republicans to use to rally their base, while Democrats get more mileage from speaking supportively to rally the minority voters who identify with the illegals... but Democrats don't actually benefit from having illegals in the country because they can't vote, and deporting them helps to take the issue away from the Republicans.

This is one of a few areas in which both parties make a habit of saying one thing and doing the opposite.