~UPDATE~
Anonymous Denies Writing Letter to WBC
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Took a while for this to get on the radar screen.
On February 16, 2011, “Anonymous”–self-proclaimed “hacktivist” who defended Wikileaks and who attacked scientology–wrote an open letter to the Westboro Baptist Church.
The Westboro Baptist Church, made famous by their hateful anti-homosexual propaganda, often protests at funerals of soldiers and homosexuals. Their website domain name alone (please don’t click it, we don’t want to give them the web traffic) www.godhatesfags.com is outright disgusting. Headed by homophobe and moron Fred Phelps, the Westboro Baptist Church is the epitome of insensitivity and ignorance. Read the Anti Defamation League Report about WBC. If you aren’t familiar with their hateful protests, you might be familiar with their protest signs.
pretty sickening, right?
You can read the full letter, here. I’ve included the two most passionate and relevant sections, below.
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TO THE CONGREGANTS OF WESTBORO BAPTIST CHURCH:
We, the collective super-consciousness known as ANONYMOUS – the Voice of Free Speech & the Advocate of the People – have long heard you issue your venomous statements of hatred, and we have witnessed your flagrant and absurd displays of inimitable bigotry and intolerant fanaticism. We have always regarded you and your ilk as an assembly of graceless sociopaths and maniacal chauvinists & religious zealots, however benign, who act out for the sake of attention & in the name of religion.
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ANONYMOUS cannot abide this behavior any longer. The time for us to be idle spectators in your inhumane treatment of fellow Man has reached its apex, and we shall now be moved to action. Thus, we give you a warning: Cease & desist your protest campaign in the year 2011, return to your homes in Kansas, & close your public Web sites.
Should you ignore this warning, you will meet with the vicious retaliatory arm of ANONYMOUS: We will target your public Websites, and the propaganda & detestable doctrine that you promote will be eradicated; the damage incurred will be irreversible, and neither your institution nor your congregation will ever be able to fully recover. It is in your best interest to comply now, while the option to do so is still being offered, because we will not relent until you cease the conduction & promotion of all your bigoted operations & doctrines.
The warning has been given. What happens from here shall be determined by you.
WE ARE ANONYMOUS.
WE ARE LEGION.
WE DO NOT FORGIVE.
WE DO NOT FORGET.
EXPECT US.
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Pretty crazy, right?
What do you think about this?
Is Westboro Baptist Church worthy of a swarm of hackers destroying their virtual existence? Would such an attack violate freedom of speech?
I’ll moderate the comments, below.
Sam
Keith
Matt
Michael
joemart24
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thecheerfulphilistine
