Anonymous’ No Facecreates Hate Published As a Public Service by Freedom Magazine

WHEN CRIME HASHow ‘ANONYMOUS’ NO FACECREATES HATE Published as a Public Service by FREEDOM Magazine This publication aims to inform the public of the nature of the hate group known as “Anonymous” and the damage it has caused. The documents presented are only examples of the harassing tactics used by Anonymous, and by no means purports to represent a complete collection of all such tactics. WHEN CRIME HAS NO FACE HOW ‘ANONYMOUS’ CREATES HATE Table of Contents Behind the Facade of the Anonymous Hate Group.______________________________ 1 Anonymous: In Their Own Words__________________________________________________________________ 5 Anonymous Racism & Religious Hatred_.____________________________________________________9 Anonymous Use of Violent Language and Imagery______________________________15 Murders & Suicides______________________________________________________________________________________________17 Cyber-Terrorism and Terrorist Threats________________________________________________________21 What the Press Has Reported_________________________________________________________________________31 Anti-Gay Propaganda__________________________________________________________________________________________35 Anonymous Use of Pornography___________________________________________________________________37 Glossary_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________39 1. Behind the Façade of the ‘anonymous’ HATE GROUP Introduction devoid of any type of soul or conscience,” who A grandmother in Texas, visited by her live in a place “where taboos do not exist” and two biracial grandchildren, is plagued by have formed “a nameless, faceless, unforgiving abusive phone calls, online harassment and a mafia.” racist flyer posted in her neighborhood. The hatred and violence generated by A 14-year old boy in Pasadena, California, Anonymous is not limited to the virtual world. who created a “no-cussing” club is deluged Pekka-Eric Auvinen posted a threat on an with hate e-mails and death threats—nearly Anonymous forum before going on a shooting 50,000 per day. rampage, stating he was going to “kill people … in the name of anonymous.” He murdered A hip-hop website is hacked and defaced nine people before taking his own life. Jarrad with Nazi symbols, fake headlines and Willis, after posting a threat on an Anonymous pictures saturated with racial slurs. forum to carry out a shopping mall massacre, The common denominator in these committed suicide the day before he was to incidents? “Script kiddies”* and cyber bullies appear in court on related charges. calling themselves “Anonymous,” who get their Certain high-profile members of kicks from ruining other people’s lives. Anonymous have come forward with details For the past few years, Anonymous has of the group’s behind-the-scenes criminal mounted hate campaigns against selected activities. Included in this publication are a targets, ranging from massive attacks that few excerpts from the story that unfolded. render websites inaccessible to spreading Their motto could be summed up in these obscenities and degraded imagery on the Net. words, taken from a video posted by an Anonymous members have infested the Anonymous member on YouTube in response Internet with postings encouraging suicide to a Fox News exposé in July 2007: and murder. They also have engaged in cyberterrorism and more conventional forms of harassment such as telephone bomb “We ruin the lives of other threats and vandalism. According to a YouTube posting from people simply because we can.” an Anonymous member, they are “people * Script kiddie: a derogatory term used to describe those who use malicious scripts and programs developed by others to attack computer systems and networks. How Did Anonymous Begin? Anonymous was born on an online image board called 4chan.org, created in 2004. Anonymous congregated on a an online forum known as “/b/”1, where nothing is off-limits, including mutilated bodies and bestiality. Later, some Anonymous members moved from 4chan to 7chan because 4chan had “deprived us of our jailbait,” (referring to child pornography). While Guy Fawkes mask 7chan no longer exists, Anonymous has created several other “chan” image boards Anonymous claims to have no leaders, but where they post porn, denigrating and there is clearly a hierarchy within the group. obscene comments and racial slurs. Why do Anonymous members hide behind In December 2004, Encyclopedia anonymity and pretend to have no leaders? Dramatica2 was created, and Anonymous It is a convenient facade for perverse and material began appearing there. According sometimes criminal activity on the Internet. to Wired Magazine, Encyclopedia One prominent member and organizer is Dramatica is a “wikified lexicon of all Gregg Housh, who was convicted in 2005 3 things /b/.” for conspiracy to violate copyright laws--for “The Sekrit Code of Anonymous” was his part in a software piracy operation. In published on Encyclopedia Dramatica, October 2008 he was ordered by a court stating: “Anonymous is devoid of in Boston to stay away from the Church of humanity, morality, pity, and mercy.” Scientology, after admitting to disturbing When Anonymous members engage in religious services. He was warned that he their so-called real-life “raids,” they hide could face incarceration if he further violated behind masks, such as the image of 17th his probation. century anarchist Guy Fawkes, to conceal At least two Anonymous members have their identities while infringing upon the been convicted for making terrorist threats. rights of others. Other criminal cases are pending. 1. /b/ is a “random” category on 4chan.org, meaning that users can use this forum to post any kinds of images. It can also refer to a state of mind typified by /b/. 2. Encyclopedia Dramatica is a collection of obscenities, racist images and anti-Semitic, irreverent postings, sometimes referred to as a “spoof” of Wikipedia. 3. “Mutilated Furries, Flying Phalluses: Put the Blame on Griefers, the Sociopaths of the Virtual World,” Julian Dibbell, Wired Issue 16.02, Jan 18, 2008 Stated goal of Anonymous The “Anonymous Manifesto of Philosophic Condition” states: The following words are taken from online postings by Anonymous • “Right or wrong? No. We destroy for members. While some members may destruction’s sake.” claim other goals and intentions, or claim • “Welcome to nihilism made manifest these are merely a “joke,” they cannot divorce themselves from the hate that in Western Civilization.” Anonymous threatens and promotes. • “Strong were the Nazis, who worshiped “We will stop at nothing until we’ve might and power to destroy.” achieved our goal. Permanent destruction of • “Strong nihilism has emerged in the identification role.” resentment of a superfluous society.” “Anything standing in our way, • “Anonymous has achieved a persona. doesn’t deserve to live. We are void of Anthropologists would call it a human restraints, taught to never forgive. ‘death cult.’ We have subjugated our Answering the question of who we are individuality for our thirst for hatred. is a must. We are Anonymous, indeed. ... We have shattered lives.” Therefore, Expect us.” In short, Anonymous is poisoning the Anonymous doctrine Internet with their subversive writings. In a “Message to New Anon from Old Racism & Religious Hatred Anon,” Anonymous members state: Anonymous has targeted Blacks, Jews • “Some maladjusted Asian shoots up his and Muslims with their hate propaganda. university, we laugh. Fifty-thousand die They have denigrated people of all faiths in North Korea, we laugh. AIDS ravages for their religious beliefs with a barrage of a continent, we laugh.” demeaning images and obscenities. • “We are human nature unencumbered In one instance, Anonymous launched by pointless ethics, foolish moralities or an online attack on two popular hip-hop arbitrary laws and restrictions.” • “We have no culture, we have no laws, written or otherwise. We are “Anonymous is devoid of an autonomous collective, each an insignificant part of a whole. … We humanity, morality, pity and do not feel remorse. We will tear you apart from outside and in, we mercy.” have all the time in the world.” websites, defacing them with swastikas and is in fact a “death cult” as stated in the racial slurs against blacks. The hackers also Anonymous Manifesto. stole personal information on employees of Who can say how many deaths may have one of the sites. resulted from Anonymous postings? Racist, anti-Semitic and other anti- Cyber-Terrorism & Terrorist Threats religious images and postings abound on Fox News aired a special report Anonymous sites. Some examples are exposing Anonymous in July 2007, after included herein; others were so offensive Anonymous hacked a MySpace account they were left out. and plastered it with images of gay Calls for Violent Action, Murder & pornography. Suicide In response, Anonymous assaulted Fox Anonymous members have directed News computers with massive attacks debased and perverse postings to young from multiple computers, designed to people, often emotionally vulnerable, overload Fox’s computers and make them goading them to take their own lives. inaccessible--known as a Distributed They have posted photographs and Denial of Service, or “DDoS” attack. instructions online encouraging suicide —and murder. In early 2008, Anonymous launched 141 million malicious hits against Church They have exploited the grief of a family of Scientology websites, in an attempt to who

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