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pcosmar
12-08-2010, 10:40 PM
Presented for consideration.
On face value.


A Letter from Anonymous

Our Message, Intentions, and Potential Targets


"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves."

- Abraham Lincoln

"He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither."

- Benjamin Franklin

Hello World. We are Anonymous. What you do or do not know about us is irrelevant. We have decided to write to you, the media, and all citizens of the free world at large to inform you of the message, our intentions, potential targets, and our ongoing peaceful campaign for freedom.



"True, This! —
Beneath the rule of men entirely great,
The pen is mightier than the sword. Behold
The arch-enchanters wand! — itself a nothing! —
But taking sorcery from the master-hand
To paralyse the Cæsars, and to strike
The loud earth breathless! — Take away the sword —
States can be saved without it!"

- The Cardinal
Richelieu; Or the Conspiracy by: Edward Bulwer-Lytton



The message is simple: Freedom of Speech. Anonymous is peacefully campaigning for Freedom of Speech everywhere in all forms. Freedom of Speech for: The Internet, for journalism and journalists, and citizens of the world at large. Regardless of what you think or have to say; Anonymous is campaigning for you.

The recent news of our campaigns has been, at best, misinformed. Anonymous is not always the same group of people. The Constitution of the United States is said to be a living document, because it can be edited, amended; changed at the will of the people to suit the peoples' needs. In that same vein, Anonymous is a living idea. Anonymous is an idea that can be edited, updated, remanded, changed on a whim. We are living consciousness.

We are not a terrorist organization as governments, demagogues, and the media would have you believe. At this time Anonymous is a consciousness focused on campaigning peacefully for Freedom of Speech. We ask the world to support us, not for our sake, but for your own. When governments control freedom they control you. The Internet is the last bastion of freedom in this evolving technical world. The Internet is capable of connecting us all. When we are connected we are strong. When we are strong we have power. When we have power we are able to do the impossible. This is why the government is moving on Wikileaks. This is what they fear. They fear our power when we unite. Do not forget this.



"...Now, we must all fear evil men. But there is another kind of evil which we must fear most, and that is the indifference of good men."

- Monsignor, Boondock Saints



Anonymous' intentions are very clear. We are not vigilantes, regardless of the sentiment of quoting Boondock Saints, we are people on a campaign for freedom. Anonymous' intentions are to change the current way the governments of the world and the people view true Freedom of Speech and The Internet. Anonymous is willing, ready, and able to campaign for the freedom for all. We are campaigning right now as you read the news, watch the television, fight with your significant other, love your children, hate your neighbor, criticize the man or woman next to you. We are campaigning.

The goal is simple: Win the right to keep the Internet free of any control from any entity, corporation, or government. We will do this until our, proverbial, dying breath. We do this not only for our selves, but for the world and its people at large.



"Truth is treason in the empire of lies."
- Ron Paul

Anything attributed, credited, or tagged to Anonymous is not always what we do. We are not always the same consciousness on a yearly, monthly, or even hourly basis. Do not believe everything you hear or read on the news. Anonymous is often credited with actions that are not campaigned for by Anonymous. The true core of Anonymous is here to help the free world for now. Anonymous wishes to represent the truth and ask that you as a citizen, media organization, or government do the same.


Pay attention citizens, governments, and the world. Anonymous' peaceful campaign will focus on any organization, corporation, government, or entity until the Internet is truly free. Anonymous is doing what many successful campaigns have done in the past; a sit-in. It may be hard to comprehend, but a digital sit-in is our most effective method to show that all of us deserve Freedom of Speech and a free Internet. Our methods may appear, on the outside, to be cruel to those the entities that we are campaigning against, but remember buy supporting censorship they are denying everyone a basic human right. Any person, corporation, government, or miscellaneous entity that stops supporting censorship and starts promoting Freedom of Speech and a free Internet will become our allies. Anonymous, at this time, wants to persuade our counterparts rather than hurt them. We are campaigning for freedom for everyone, even the opposing side.

Do not fear us. Anonymous' campaign does not intend to harm the individual citizen, any organizations, any websites, or government, that supports true freedom of speech. Anonymous' past is not our present. We are here for all of you; to campaign for all of you. Where others have made this promise and failed; we make this promise and aim to keep it for everyone.

cswake
12-08-2010, 10:45 PM
Nice to have the RP quote. :D I think this is the original source: http://asspirate.pastebin.com/AT5sgJBp

tremendoustie
12-08-2010, 10:45 PM
They actually quote RP? Wow. Maybe their consciousness is evolving after all.

pcosmar
12-08-2010, 10:50 PM
Nice to have the RP quote. :D I think this is the original source: http://asspirate.pastebin.com/AT5sgJBp

Perhaps.
But also here.
http://piratepad.net/SDt0w4bxHe

Kylie
12-08-2010, 10:50 PM
huh.

Kludge
12-08-2010, 10:52 PM
Interesting analogy. I was having trouble finding something accurately comparable, but a sit-in is fairly close.

cswake
12-08-2010, 10:54 PM
Looks like they finalized it and are sending it around to news agencies... their edits had an interesting comment:


Please less Obama hating, we know the republican alternative is way worse. They all suck. Except possibly Ron Paul. (unless he does a mysTERious 180 when the bank leaks hit)

pcosmar
12-08-2010, 10:58 PM
huh.

That is likely to be Washington's reaction.

:(

Bruno
12-08-2010, 11:02 PM
Wow!! This is even bigger than I thought! Wikileaks first announcment was the tip of the iceberg, and like the RP movement, this will have a life of its own. I hope we all look back and think, "remember when that Blackhawk video came out? That's when it all started..."

Drudged it, do the same. :)

CableNewsJunkie
12-08-2010, 11:08 PM
Did they fix the grammatical error(s)?

"Our methods may appear, on the outside, to be cruel to those the entities that we are campaigning against, but remember buy supporting censorship they are denying everyone a basic human right."

Bruno
12-08-2010, 11:10 PM
Perhaps.
But also here.
http://piratepad.net/SDt0w4bxHe

What is this, Peter?

axiomata
12-08-2010, 11:12 PM
Wow!! This is even bigger than I thought! Wikileaks first announcment was the tip of the iceberg, and like the RP movement, this will have a life of its own. I hope we all look back and think, "remember when that Blackhawk video came out? That's when it all started..."

Drudged it, do the same. :)

Unfortunately they don't understand the theory of the living constitution. The theory is a lot more than an ability to amend it. That analogy fails.

pcosmar
12-08-2010, 11:16 PM
What is this, Peter?

Collaboration.

Bruno
12-08-2010, 11:27 PM
Unfortunately they don't understand the theory of the living constitution. The theory is a lot more than an ability to amend it. That analogy fails.

I agree.


Collaboration.

Thanks, the pad wasn't loading for me before, and I could only see the chat on the side.

pcosmar
12-08-2010, 11:35 PM
Unfortunately they don't understand the theory of the living constitution. The theory is a lot more than an ability to amend it. That analogy fails.

Many folks, from all over the world.not all are students of American history or the Constitution.
Still they see it as (at least once) a beacon.

That document was a collaboration of many folks with varying political backgrounds.
They do share a similar goal of freedom.
:cool:

dannno
12-09-2010, 12:28 AM
typo.


buy supporting censorship

buy instead of by.

the consciousness apparently lacks perfect proofreading skills.

cswake
12-09-2010, 12:46 AM
Letter showed up on their Twitter:
http://twitter.com/anonops

susano
12-09-2010, 01:09 AM
PayPal has just released the remaining funds in the account associated with WikiLeaks today, after restricting access to the account last week, according to a PayPal blog post.

The release of funds follows a number of denial-of-service attacks earlier this week that were aimed at the document-leaking site’s providers.

http://emoney.allthingsd.com/20101208/paypal-releases-funds-to-wikileaks-as-supporters-strike-back/?mod=ATD_rss

Mini-Me
12-09-2010, 02:11 AM
typo.



buy instead of by.

the consciousness apparently lacks perfect proofreading skills.

Yours might, but that is because you are inferior. Do not fear, child; you have been reported, and the purge will cleanse all. ;)

Liberty4life
12-09-2010, 02:26 AM
reported for what? child you might as well start taking names to give to the teacher.
reported laff fucking dork

Mini-Me
12-09-2010, 02:35 AM
reported for what? child you might as well start taking names to give to the teacher.
reported laff fucking dork

Hahahaha...whaaaaaat? I was just messing around with dannno, silly.

Liberty4life
12-09-2010, 02:55 AM
ok sorry

Bruno
12-09-2010, 06:43 AM
bump for the morning crew

QueenB4Liberty
12-09-2010, 07:03 AM
Is this exciting for anyone else?

fisharmor
12-09-2010, 07:04 AM
Hm.

The typos/ grammar thing: let's not forget that the majority of Anonymous, despite its claimed hourly turnover, is guaranteed to be the product of public schooling.

Also, the thing I don't think anyone is considering here is that when they say they're choosing peaceful means, they're telling the truth. Anonymous actually is playing nice at this point, just like Wikileaks is. If anyone thinks that all Anonymous has up its sleeve is a couple DDoS attacks, you're mistaken. I'm assuming they have quite an arsenal at their disposal and are choosing not to cause real monetary losses at their targets... yet.

fisharmor
12-09-2010, 07:05 AM
Is this exciting for anyone else?

Yeah, I've spent the last 24 hours with a shit-eating grin on my face.

tangent4ronpaul
12-09-2010, 07:06 AM
Is this exciting for anyone else?

yes

pcosmar
12-09-2010, 07:10 AM
Is this exciting for anyone else?
Exciting, no
Encouraging, yes. To know that there are many worldwide that are actively joining the fight for freedom. And that support is growing.


Hm.

The typos/ grammar thing: let's not forget that the majority of Anonymous, despite its claimed hourly turnover, is guaranteed to be the product of public schooling.

Also, the thing I don't think anyone is considering here is that when they say they're choosing peaceful means, they're telling the truth. Anonymous actually is playing nice at this point, just like Wikileaks is. If anyone thinks that all Anonymous has up its sleeve is a couple DDoS attacks, you're mistaken. I'm assuming they have quite an arsenal at their disposal and are choosing not to cause real monetary losses at their targets... yet.

It might be good to remember that not all these folks are American, nor are they all English
speaking.
This is international.
:cool:

pcosmar
12-09-2010, 07:18 AM
Take that letter together with this,

YouTube - anon (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcpTyrW8yJY)

Text

Greetings.
These days have been interesting for all of us, and especially for every dictator, and every authoritarian regime. The one and only protector of the freedom of speech has devolved into one of its worst. Yes, U.S.A. We are looking at you. We became very disappointed when we saw how you treated not only our fellow anon, but one of the greatest defenders of free speech in the modern world.

The earthly world may be your domain, but we can assure you, and never forget, that the web belongs to us, and we will protect it by all means necessary. You have, over the last few days, gotten a taste of what we are able to do with small resources. Over these few days, however, we have grown several hundred percent, and we will grow further as the news spreads.

We have taken down several of your servers with DDoS attacks. We have defaced your websites. We have raped your bandwidth to such an extent that you may face problems when paying your bills. And most of all, we have shown the world how exposable you really are.

We are the author of the hjoly book of "dirty tricks."
We do not only know every single "dirty trick" in the book; we are the inventors of them.

Many have tried to defeat us before and failed. Miserably. Go ask the church of Scientology if they are up for a new fight. Some of us may fall, but on the way, all of you will fall. You may get one or five convicted. Ten or twenty arrested. On the way, you will not only lose all pride, but also money.

Your world needs our world to work.
You are here as our guests.
Behave as such.
Your time here is limited.

We demand that you leave Julian Assange and Wikileaks alone. Open his bank accounts. Arrest the lying Swedish tramps.

Don't disappoint us again.
Consequences will NEVER be the same.

We are anonymous. We are legion.
We do not forget.
We do not forgive.

Expect us.

Tennanja
12-09-2010, 07:31 AM
Doesn't really sound like the anonymous I know, but they are now the target of a 2 minute hate sponsored by the same people who are bringing you the continuing hate for a man who dared to shine light into a dark place and expose what hides within.