Dacia Iluministă

(Shortly after our forum and comments page went live, they were attacked by the “hacktivist” group that refers to itself as Anonymous. The following is our response to their attack.)

In the movie V for Vendetta, an army of heroic, principled individuals wearing the mask of Guy Fawkes brought to an end a vicious, totalitarian government.

A group called “Anonymous” adopted the idea of a noble, anonymous army attacking the privileged elite and the enemies of free speech. So far, so good. Yet within an extremely short period, the liberators became the tyrants. How did it happen?

This article provides an analysis of how a group that embarked with the most honourable of intentions became the same as the fascist dictatorship it initially opposed. How did this tragedy happen to Anonymous, and is it a stark warning to all other groups that seek to bring to an end the rule of the Old World Order?

******

VENGEANCE AGAINST ANONYMOUS – HACKING SCUM.

“I believe in justice. I believe in Vengeance. I believe in getting the BASTARDS!!!” –Meritocratic New Model Army

Who are we? We are the Meritocratic New Model Army. Who are “Anonymous”? – fascist, hacking scum who sabotaged a forum for free speech on our website and are trying even now to close down this website. Two Argentinians and one Spaniard, none of whom can speak English, are the members of Anonymous currently attacking this site.

******

Here’s what went wrong with Anonymous. The qualities it regarded as its greatest strength proved its greatest defect, and it was obvious from the outset that this would be the case. It embraced the idea of a leaderless, grassroots movement where everyone who felt they were in tune with a broadly expressed agenda was welcomed on board. Any new recruits, completely unvetted, were free to call themselves “Anonymous” and to act in the name of Anonymous. This of course immediately made the organisation a hostage to the quality of people who chose to associate themselves with Anonymous. A chain is only as strong as its weakest link and if you apply no quality control to your chain, you end up with innumerable weak links. Anonymous is now such a chain, snapping everywhere.

Any group that has no commitment to quality and standards will inevitably slide down into the world of the lowest common denominator, of junk and crazy people. How does Anonymous prevent itself from attracting psychopaths? It has no mechanism for stopping vicious, destructive, cretinous nutcases from attaching themselves to the group. The self-indulgent, gleeful, destructive hacking in which these psychos engage then defines the Anonymous “brand” and quickly the world is able to see it for the monstrosity it is. In any system hostile to quality, the “wisdom of crowds” swiftly succumbs to the “madness of mobs”.

We offered a forum and comments section to people who wished to engage in a debate about how to change society for the better and overthrow Abrahamism and privileged elites. Because of Anonymous – a group of fascist hackers opposed to free speech – we have had to remove these facilities. We apologise to all of those who have been denied their right to speak, but that’s entirely the responsibility of the totalitarian “vigilantes” of Anonymous. They are like the Nazi stormtroopers of the 1920s and 30s who attacked any political groups that dared to oppose them.

Anonymous – like all fascists – have appointed themselves the judges of what is acceptable content on the internet. “Acceptable” is whatever they approve and “unacceptable” is whatever they dislike. The Old World Order did no damage to our website in four years of activity. Despite their myriad failings, they did not attempt to shut down our site regardless of our relentless critique of them. Anonymous, on the other hand, attacked us and tried to shut us down the very moment an opportunity came their way – and their chosen tactics were sleazy porn, viruses, and JavaScript sabotage scripts (their juvenile preoccupation with sex is all too reflective of their “philosophy”; Anonymous name their operations things like “Operation Tit”). It’s now obvious who is on the side of free speech and who isn’t. Anonymous are worse than the disease. In fact, they ARE the disease.

We declare ANONYMOUS excommunicate and anathema. We cast them into the outer darkness. We judge them damned, with the Devil and his fallen angels and all the reprobates, to eternal fire and everlasting pain.

Anonymous have proved themselves the enemies of quality, high standards and merit, of a new meritocratic society free of Abrahamic brainwashing. They have declared war on the global meritocratic movement. They stand for nothing but nihilistic destruction of anything that annoys them. How could these cretins and imbeciles ever hope to comprehend the work of Pythagoras, Leibniz, Goethe and Hegel? They are retards. They don’t even know what their cause is. To “defend” free speech, they attack any sites they find objectionable. Yeah, real smart, you fucking zombies. Since when did anyone appoint you the arbiters of what people can read and do on the internet? Fascist fuckers.

Anonymous are counter-revolutionaries. By attacking us, they have shown themselves to be on the side of the Abrahamic brainwashing machine and the Old World Order elite families of dynastic privilege who have dominated our world for millennia.

When has Anonymous ever done anything constructive? Can anyone point to any creative achievements on their part? Their “track record” is one of relentless, malicious hacking and sabotage. There is no evidence whatever that they are capable of doing anything other than hacking. Where is there grand online project to transform the world, to bypass the corporations and stop feeding the bank accounts of the billionaires like Mark Zuckerberg? No such project exists. These retards are capable solely of destruction. Their “skills” are those of the pure, destructive hacker, and we have seen over the years that nearly all of these people are autistic.

They lack “theory of mind” and empathy. They are barely human. Any person who spends all of their free time teaching themselves how to hack computers is about the saddest cunt you could ever imagine. Think of all the great subjects you could spend your time on. Would learning the tricks of the hacking trade ever appear on the list of worthwhile activities that have enriched the human condition?

The members of Anonymous are practically retarded. They never contribute positively to anything. They never construct. They never create. We have spent years building an edifice of 2,000,000 words. We have CREATED. We, the creators, define the world. The hackers are destroyers, so, self-evidently, they have to wait until the creators have built something before they can spring to life and into “attack and destroy” mode. They are parasites. They are full of envy and jealousy of all those who can create things. In their helpless, despairing, nihilistic rage at their own absolute inadequacy, they lash out at what others have built. They themselves build nothing. After all, what the fuck could a hacker ever build? You don’t become a hacker because you are creative and constructive. You do so for the opposite reasons.

We, and all other creators, could be said in a manner of speaking to control Anonymous. Without us, without the efforts we put in, they would have nothing to hack and sabotage. They are like cave people. They are Luddites. Every meritocratic, creative person should condemn these fascist hackers. Are they acting in YOUR name? So in whose name are they acting? Who are the puppetmasters behind the scenes? Are Anonymous now a vehicle of the OWO to attack the enemies of the OWO? Are CIA hackers now part of the Anonymous machine? It’s not as if the “leadership” of Anonymous have any idea who is acting in their name and what they are doing. There are no controls at all. Anonymous has afforded the perfect opportunity to the authorities to sabotage any controversial site such as ours that attacks everything the establishment stands for.

“We are Anonymous. We are Legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. Expect us.”

You are Jerks. There are millions of you (jerks are in plentiful supply). You’re autistic (hence why you don’t forget). You have no empathy and theory of mind (hence why you never forgive). And we expect you to keep on hacking since you have no other skills. What else to geeks do with their time?

Who are the “regular” operatives of Anonymous (i.e. those not working on behalf of the Power Elite to attack anyone who opposes the Power Elite)? Can we profile them? Of course we can. They are overwhelmingly teenage boys fascinated with computers. They all use Unix and Linux operating systems. They’ve taught themselves hacking techniques and they all know JavaScript.

They are typically put upon by the real world. They are bullied at school and struggle to find jobs because employers rightly regard them as “weird”, illiterate and socially inept. They have subnormal emotional intelligence. Many of them are on the autistic spectrum and suffer from obsessive compulsive disorder. While being skilled at computing, they are practically useless at all other subjects. They are ignorant of art, literature, philosophy, mathematics, psychology and science. They spend most of their time with computers and are fanatical video gamers.

The only power they have in life comes from their obsession with computing. Without that, they would be literally talentless. So, their whole identity is invested in computing. They express themselves through computing. Without computers, they are lost.

These are the rank and file of Anonymous, and all of them have been given “permission” to attack anyone and anything that they personally deem hostile to the aims of Anonymous. Of course, no debates are undertaken. There’s no considered analysis or judgement. A person’s individual tastes and opinions are all that matter. If one geek in a bedroom doesn’t like something, he attacks it in the name of Anonymous. He feels proud of himself when he creates disruption. He has exercised POWER in the real world, and how intoxicating it is. Very quickly, he grows addicted to it. He loves destroying things, vandalising things, making the world that ignores him pay attention. Because otherwise he would be literally invisible. No one looks at these people in broad daylight. No one sees them. They cast no reflection, nor shadow. It’s as if they’re not there at all.

Such a person now becomes an exponent of V for Vendetta in the truest sense. He simply attacks whatever he dislikes; anyone and anything against which he has a personal vendetta. There’s no ideology behind his attacks, no nobility, no honour, no philosophy, no cause. He simply attacks because he CAN. Anyone who irritates him, no matter how slightly, feels his WRATH. And such people are always wrathful because their lives are vacuums. They are HOLLOW MEN, devoid of any commitment to any overarching cause. Their cause is nothing but their own vendettas, their own grudges, their own scores to settle.

But, remember, they never act in their own name – always in that of Anonymous. Slowly but surely, Anonymous becomes a vehicle for attacking anything that geeks, nerds and dorks find offensive. It becomes a fascist group dedicated to closing down anything to which its geek members object. They deny others free speech – in the name, would you believe it, of free speech! They wreck things not because those things are wrong but just because they don’t like them. They appoint themselves judge, jury and executioner. They are criminals. Real criminals. They have no constructive intent and nothing positive to say or contribute.

The Anonymous members who attacked our site had the opportunity to present their case against us via our free speech forum. But of course that would require intelligence, creativity and having something to say. The morons of Anonymous have no interest in that. They’re hackers and hacking (destroying) is the only thing that gives them LULZ (as these brain-dead cretins like to say). They stand for nothing other than hacking. Hacking is their drug and God because it is their single avenue to power in this world. They have no philosophy to announce to the world.

Anonymous is now just an organisation of out and out hackers wrecking anything they disagree with. There is no CAUSE. They’re a bunch of sad teenagers in their bedrooms venting their personal animus against the world.

The members of Anonymous inhabit the nerdosphere. They support dorkocracy and geekarchy. They are the uncoolest people imaginable. They are the sad losers at the back of the class. They’re despised by the smart, academic kids and equally despised by the street kids. No one wants anything to do with them. They’re the eternal losers. They have become so bitter that they’ve created ANONYMOUS to strike back against the whole world. But all they can do is hack. That’s their one and only “skill” and it ain’t much to write home about, is it? They’re not freedom fighters, they’re frustrated geeks wanting the world to take them seriously. But no one ever will because they have precisely zero to offer. Go back to your bedrooms and masturbate over your pictures of anal sex, you fucking halfwit wankers.

So, are you still on the side of free speech, you geek retards? Free speech means that you have to accept opinions you don’t like. It means you have to accept personal criticism. You cunts don’t accept any criticism at all. You are 100% fascists. Sure, by hacking websites, you can silence your critics, but all you have actually done is expose your fascist agenda. You should give yourselves a new name – The Fascist Troll Collective opposed to free speech.

Anonymous like to say: “The Corrupt Fear Us, the Honest Support Us, the Heroic Join Us.”

You lying cunts. You are totally corrupt and totally dishonest psycho hackers who destroy free speech sites for LULZ – as if that’s some kind of justification. No “hero” would ever join Anonymous. You are a fascist organisation of teenage autistic hackers. You have no agenda and no manifesto other than destructive LULZ which you try to dignify as some sort of attack on corporations. You are moronic retards. You ought to be in psychiatric wards. You have no contribution to make to the New World Order of justice, freedom and merit. You are the enemies of all of those things.

We challenge the leadership to justify their attack on our site. State your case. If you can’t then you are nothing but a rogue hacking machine with no “intelligence”, no platform, no agenda other than LULZ. Your operatives must have had a reason for attacking us. What is it? If they have no reasons then YOU are the enemies of the people and you must be destroyed. You are fascists. You are the enemies of all decent, honourable, meritocratic people campaigning for a new society.

We placed a forum for free speech on our website and it was quickly attacked by a “member” of Anonymous from Buenos Aires in Argentina (backed up by two other Spanish-speaking Anonymous members; one in Cordoba in Argentina and the other in Barcelona in Spain who monitor our website round the clock. The Spanish cunt accesses our site every fifteen minutes: that’s what it takes to be a hacker – you must have severe Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and autism). The Argentinian had no rational arguments to make. He attacked an English-speaking site even though he can’t speak English and therefore had no idea what the site says. He posted pictures of anal sex and of a man with female breasts – so sophisticated, huh? Such pictures are of course highly revealing about the contents of his own mind. He has extreme body image issues – he’s probably morbidly obese – and he’s obsessed with anal sex because life metaphorically fucks him up the ass all of the time.

He posted all of the usual Anonymous junk – like anyone actually cares! – and then infected the webpage with a virus to make it unusable (characteristically, it was a virus-contaminated image of anal sex – this jerk certainly has serious concerns over his sexuality!). So, the page was destroyed and he succeeded in depriving others of the free speech.

He continued to hang around to gloat, although of course he never had anything meaningful to say. He was completely unable to offer any philosophical justification for his actions. He was manifestly a person of subnormal intelligence. Like autistic savants, computer hackers can be highly skilled in this one arena and functionally retarded in every other aspect of their life. This was such a person.

He has disgraced the entire Anonymous Movement and exposed it for what it is – an out of control group of teenage hackers who now think they have the right to dictate to the rest of the world and decide what can and cannot be said. They are the absolute enemies of free speech. They have become like the Borg from Star Trek. They are a collective mind, a hive intelligence (as they describe themselves) of people with extremely high hacking skills and correspondingly low, subhuman skills in every other field. They engage in groupthink, share almost identical tastes and believe themselves “gods” in the context of computers. The more that life laughs at them and mocks their inadequacies, the more they rage against the machine. Everyone is to blame except them.

Many people deploy a cloak of anonymity to allow them to exercise free speech in a repressive world; but Anonymous don’t actually have anything to say. They have no manifesto. We gave our Anonymous troll many opportunities to articulate a position. But he couldn’t. He had zero philosophy. He was a nihilist, a destroyer, a cipher. Anonymous is full of these clowns. It has become a gigantic circus, but no one’s laughing.

Drunk on their own power over the billions of people who couldn’t care less about computing, these hackers (and how dare they claim to be anything other than that – their true character is now revealed for all to see) are waging a war against free speech and against anyone who opposes them in any way. It’s not too strong to say that they are a terrorist organisation. Terrorists destroy buildings in real space – these terrorist hackers destroy infrastructure in cyberspace. They dress up their terrorism as some sort of noble cause when in fact it’s sheer pettiness, vindictiveness and teenage rage against the world. They’re pathetic, a joke. They have as much to do with the true message of V for Vendetta as Mussolini’s black-shirted fascists.

Anyone who has read George Orwell’s Animal Farm will recognize the process. The animals, led by the pigs, ousted their human oppressors, but by the end of the novel, the pigs were fraternizing with their old human masters, to the dismay of all the non-pigs: “The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”

Thus it is with Anonymous. The pigs have become the oppressors. Theirs is the mask of the fascist, of the terrorist hacker, determined to silence everything that their tiny autistic minds find distasteful. They have no “position” to articulate, no cause to fight for, no philosophy to espouse. They are just cyber hyenas attacking anything they dislike. They are a plague of cyber locusts.

But who cares? Go ahead. Destroy our site. Feast on it until the bones are bleached. The day we start giving a shit what a morbidly obese, retarded Argentinian hacker thinks about anything will be the day they sell ice cream in hell. Go and eat more paella, you fat fuck.

The difference between us is that we stand for something while you are a vacuum, an empty space, an absence, a void. Nothing will ever cure you. You’re already eternally fucked, and you know it better than we do – because you have to live with yourself every day. And what hell could be greater than that?

Why don’t you write a JavaScript routine to print out what a sad, fat fuck you are, what a retarded failure of a human being? You’re the all-time loser, a pathetic cunt hiding in your bedroom. Nothing’s going to change that. Put on your Anonymous mask all day long, retard, because no one wants to see your face, you fucking sad freak.

Hey, amigo, you have a serious problem. We’re very smart and you’re very dumb. We’re highly articulate and all you can do is code viruses. We stand for something while you don’t stand for anything (other than puerile hacking for LULZ). A computer geek can never win an argument. All they can do is sabotage the forum in which the argument takes place. They try to shut down free speech because free speech is no use to geeks – who can barely speak at all. Have you ever tried talking to one? But the debate goes on regardless. All of the material on this website is already available on Amazon (look up Adam Weishaupt, Michael Faust and Mike Hockney). So, even if Anonymous destroy our free speech site, anyone interested in our work, in our free speech, can get it there instead (but unfortunately you’ll have to pay for it rather than getting it free as at present). This article will itself soon be immortalised on Amazon to provide a permanent record of what a bunch of geek freaks Anonymous are. They are the definition of “uncool” and total losers. By the way, how considerate of you to think of our hard-pressed bank balance – and our bank manager passes on his fond regards (he thinks it’s insane to impart the secrets of the world for free).

So, amigo, do you think you’ve done a bang-up job for Anonymous? Are you a geek hero, a conquering dork, the veritable King of the Nerds? Or have you made a fool of yourself and the rest of your hacking gang and exposed your fascist freak squad for what they truly are? You’re a fat, anally fixated mummy’s boy locked in your bedroom 24/7 with all your anal porn magazines. Why don’t you do something useful like learning English? The Spanish Inquisition has been out of action for centuries, you fascist Franco fucker.

Did you know that these sad freaks spend their lives looking up IP addresses and server vulnerabilities, finding “back doors” and ways to infect computers with JavaScript routines and viruses? What a sad and pathetic way to spend your life. That’s almost the definition of a failed and futile life. Only autistic OCD sufferers would spend their lives that way. One word will be written on their tombstone – GEEK! – and everyone will snigger.

Never forget – the Geek shall never inherit the earth. Adios, LOSER!

TO ANYONE WHO IS SERIOUS ABOUT CHANGING THE WORLD, JOIN OUR NEW MODEL ARMY. WE DON’T GO AROUND HACKING OR POSTING PORN LIKE FIVE- YEAR-OLDS. WE’RE CREATING THE BLUEPRINT FOR A BRAND NEW HUMANITY, FREE OF ALL OF THE MISTAKES OF THE PAST. THE OLD WORLD ORDER WILL NEVER FEAR AUTISTICS IN MASKS. THEY WILL FEAR A NEW POLITICAL PARTY – THE MERITOCRACY PARTY – COMMITTED TO INTRODUCING 100% INHERITANCE TAX TO REMOVE THE MONEY FROM THE PRIVILEGED DYNASTIC ELITES AND REDISTRIBUTE IT AMONGST THE PEOPLE. IN THE USA, 400 ELITE PEOPLE HAVE THE SAME WEALTH AS THE 150 MILLION POOREST AMERICANS. 400 VERSUS 150 MILLION!!! ISN’T IT TIME TO INVEST IN THE 150 MILLION? ISN’T IT TIME FOR JUSTICE?

WE ARE THE MOVEMENT!

******

Deconstructing “Anonymous”.

Who are “Anonymous”? – Filthy, lying, hacking, fascist scum opposed to free speech. For days now, Spanish-speaking members of Anonymous have been attempting to destroy this site. They are probing this site 24/7 and we can track all of their infantile manoeuvres. This is a free speech site and these fascists are attacking us in the name of – would you believe it? – “free speech”! They are cretins. We shall now take a moment to deconstruct their official flag, which you can see, for example, on their Wikipedia entry.

Note that, according to their own design, they are headless, brainless, mindless and lacking any intelligence. They have a question mark where their head ought to be, demonstrating that they are clueless, don’t know what they’re doing and have no platform, manifesto or agenda other than LULZ – mindless hacking for kicks and to impress their equally retarded friends. The central figure is placed in front of a globe, revealing that they seek global domination. Note that the figure wears the suit and tie of the corporate world. Are they in the employ of the Old World Order? Are they the new sabotage unit of the Power Elite, wrecking any sites that promote an agenda of resistance to the corporate elite?

Read our article on the psychopathology of this terrorist, criminal, hacking group, followed by our article on the global meritocracy movement to free the world from the rule of the Power Elite. One group is full of children wrecking anything they don’t like, posting porn, viruses and anything else that gives them a giggle; the other is an adult political agenda. Make up your own mind as to which is which. Join a serious, constructive and creative movement for change. Hackers are destructive scum with nothing to offer the world. Hackers can’t build or create. The mindset of hackers is that of autistics and those suffering from obsessive compulsive disorder. They can devote 24/7 to their attempts to wreck websites via viruses, sabotage scripts and “denial of service”. These are the people who spam you and infect your machines with viruses. They are the people who try to hijack your browser, log your keystrokes, steal your identity and commit fraud against you. They are criminal gangs.

Defend Free Speech – Resist ANONYMOUS!!! Stand up against the fascists who seek to control what can be said on the internet. Resist criminal hackers trying to wreck the internet and steal from you.

“Anyone can lead where everyone will follow.” Anonymous
Also known as, “The blind leading the blind.”

******

Anonymous – The Autistic Collective.

“I am – like all hackers – a little bit autistic.” –Julian Assange

“The thrill [of hacking] was exorbitant. It was like the first time you beat an adult at chess. I’m amazed when I run into people who don’t understand the pleasure in this.” –Assange

“I was beginning to get the hacker’s disease: no sleep, bottomless curiosity, single-mindedness, and an obsession with precision…But in my mid- to late teens I could barely focus on anything that didn’t seem to me like a major breakthrough.” –Assange

“[Hacking] was certainly addictive. You’d dive down into a computer system…You’d take it over…It was like being able to teleport yourself…in order to walk around and take charge [of the computer]…It sounds ridiculous, but we found our own keyholes into the workings of [computer systems]…until we found we would be able to control their whole system.”

WikilLeaks is an admirable enterprise if its purpose is to expose corruption and hypocrisy. But Julian Assange’s unauthorised autobiography presents a rather a different picture. He’s a hacking addict, turned on by hacking, unable to live without it. So, he tries to turn his criminal desire to interfere with the work of others – anybody about whom he becomes curious – into some noble undertaking when in fact he’s just a self-serving addict, feeding his obsession and intoxicated by the power he feels when he has broken into a system. He’s driven by the LULZ.

Anonymous is full of criminal hackers who like to think they are motivated by a cause when in truth they are simply autistics who gets their few pleasures in life from cracking computer codes.

ANONYMOUS = HACKING = AUTISM = DEFICIENCY OF EMPATHY

We have observed with utter astonishment the endless attempts, day after day, by a growing group of Anonymous autistics to wreck our system. “Resistance is futile,” they say, quoting the inhuman Borg collective of Star Trek, with whom they closely identify. What is truly futile is how these autistics spend their lives. It’s actually rather disturbing that the computer age has given so much power to a group of people lacking in basic humanity. These people should be exposed to as much art, literature, poetry and creative writing as possible to counteract their medical condition. The worst possible outcome for them is to allow them to indulge their hacking addiction; it’s the equivalent of putting alcoholics in a bar or junkies in a shooting gallery.

******

UPDATE: We are now tracking numerous members of Anonymous attacking this site. There are several more from Spain, and some from Portugal and Mexico. Welcome to the party, you fascist retards. Why don’t you spend the rest of your lives here? Of course, none of them can read English; not that they concern themselves with such niceties as understanding what a site says before attacking it. These LULZ freaks just do it for the sake of doing it. Their autistic condition means they are incapable of letting go and trying to do something creative with their lives. “ANONYMOUS” – THE HACKERS’ COLLECTIVE FOR SUBNORMAL FASCIST GEEKS AND TROLLS. Several hackers’ forums are now discussing how best to “get us”. Of course, you would never discover these dunces discussing art, philosophy, mathematics or politics. This is proving a fascinating insight into the sad and depressing world of computer autistics. Their lives are so empty that they do nothing other than probe websites for weaknesses. Hey, morons, there’s a whole universe out there. You don’t have to stay in your bedrooms 24/7, masturbating, video gaming and hacking.

“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.” –Shelley

“An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.” –Mao Zedong

-AC

******

Trolls.

These sad people feed on negative energy. They spend their lives trying to wreck, sabotage, destroy, flame, annoy, and generally ruin everything they come across. Of course, their actions are a reflection of the terrible mental problems from which they suffer. Imagine going through life dedicated to upsetting others, irritating them and trying to stop them. What kind of life is that?

Trolls have nothing positive to offer. They can play no part in a constructive, creative world. Trolling equates to a kind of mental illness. It’s severely anti-social and ought to be turned into a form of conduct as wrong and illegal as drink driving. A fierce debate between committed opponents is always welcome; a deliberately malicious, nasty and underhand attack designed to offend and wreck must always be condemned.

******

Anonymous – the Good Guys?

Someone wrote to us in defense of Anonymous, saying that we had a lot in common with them.

Our Reply: We agree with almost all of your comments on Anonymous, and indeed we used to be supportive of Anonymous. However, the infantile Anonymous attack we suffered has radically changed our view of this organisation. Anonymous is closely associated with another group called LulzSec and Wikipedia says: “LulzSec draws its name from the neologism ‘Lulz’, (from LOLs – ‘laughing out loud’), which often signifies laughter at the victim of a prank.’

In our opinion, Anonymous, no matter its serious intent in some quarters, has identified itself with pranks, porn, trolling and sabotage just for the sake of it. Many people join Anonymous and LulzSec not because they have any political views but because it gives them some sort of sanction to indulge what they want to do – which is to have a laugh at other people’s expense. It’s clear that Julian Assange was much less interested in his political opposition to the Pentagon than he was in the sheer thrill it gave him to break through their security. Just as serial killers take a “trophy” from their victims, the information that WikilLeaks get from hacking is their trophy. But they would attack anyone who presented any hacking challenge, regardless of political stance.

Anonymous is increasingly a kind of street theatre on the one hand and cyber “trick or treating” on the other. It’s simply not serious and is rapidly becoming counter-productive. Unless it has a clear manifesto and political aims, and actively condemns the LULZ mentality that attracts so many of its members, we are more than happy to characterize it as we have done.

The world has to start getting serious. Whom will the elite most fear? – infantile hackers and pranksters in masks or a meritocratic political party threatening to remove all of their money and power from them in order to redistribute it amongst the people and to invest in the highest quality education for ordinary boys and girls from non-privileged backgrounds?

Serious members of Anonymous should come across to Meritocracy and ditch lulz and hacking. We want to present them with a clear choice. Moreover, the stance we have articulated makes it clear that we will accept no trolls, hackers or pornographers acting in our name.

Building a movement is based on two things: recruiting the right kind of people, and excluding the wrong type who damage what you are trying to accomplish. Anonymous has done nothing at all to distance itself from the trolls who act in its name. Our attack on Anonymous now gives them a dialectical opportunity to up their game and repudiate the trolls. Sadly, we don’t think they’re capable of it.
__________

5/8