Anonymous, relatively dormant since just before the launch of Occupy Wall Street, has risen in multiple forms again to publicize National Bank Transfer Day, to fight Mexican drug cartels and now to launch “Night of a Thousand Masks.”
In recent weeks, Anonymous has undergone something of a regeneration (of course, they might argue the opposite), publicizing National Bank Transfer Day, declaring war on the Mexican drug cartels and now launching “Night of a Thousand Masks,” which is a mysterious event scheduled for 11-11-11.
What is known? Thousands of Guy Fawkes masks are being bought and it would seem that Anons and others will be wearing Guy Fawkes masks on 11-11-11. From what can be gathered, the event was organized by individuals in the UK.
To what end, though? It seems, from the comments on the AnonOps website, that masked individuals will gather “everywhere” in the spirit of OWS. This, of course, will likely precipitate not a few arrests.
The accompanying video was posted on YouTube by The Black Triangle Network, or simply ▼, ”for Anonymous, Team Poison & ▼”, with the description reading:
THE NIGHT OF A THOUSAND MASKS ..SPREAD AND SHARE .. WE ARE ANONYMOUS …WE ARE LEGION..EXPECT US ..!!!..11.11.11…..JOIN OUR EVENT HERE- the night of a thousand masks.
The video features footage from amongst other things, “Equilibrium” (a “1984″-esque dystopian action film starring Christian Bale) and “V for Vendetta,” with the deft move of including Charlie Chaplin’s fiery monologue from “The Great Dictator,” which reads:
I’m sorry but I don’t want to be an emperor. That’s not my business. I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone if possible; Jew, Gentile, black men, white. We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each others’ happiness, not by each other’s misery. We don’t want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone. And the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way.
Greed has poisoned men’s souls; has barricaded the world with hate; has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge as made us cynical; our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost. The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in man; cries out for universal brotherhood; for the unity of us all.
Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world, millions of despairing men, women, and little children, victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people. To those who can hear me, I say “Do not despair.” The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.
Soldiers! Don’t give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you and enslave you; who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think and what to feel! Who drill you, diet you, treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder! Don’t give yourselves to these unnatural men—machine men with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines! You are not cattle! You are men!
Head over to the “Night of a Thousand Masks” Facebook page for (slightly) more information.
November 08, 2011 at 11:38 am, Tim Giangiobbe said:
This will be VETERANS DAY TOO and quite the eye opener
The Tea Party is Green with envy
The Occupy Wall Street movement needs clarity
and a REJECTION of total anarchy nut welcoming of civil unrest if that is what it takes.
I share some of the anger that Anarchists have but Love America and will fight for Real Change instead of the Rhetoric that Obama regurgitates
Obama has the chance to take charge
Instead of capitulating to the One Percent
What deals were made at Bohemian Grove ?
Notice how the GOP fall short of having a VIABLE CANDIDATE.
Please it was Obamas Turn he is an Ivy League Shill who may defect yet from the plan of the Alluminati and that Wild Pagan Skull and Crossbones Wing Ding.
JFK was assassinated for resisting the elite.
The Revolution will not be televised.
It will be streamed.
November 08, 2011 at 1:45 pm, Anonymous said:
Let this be a warning to the corporate citizens of Corporate America! You make fun of the poor, the homeless, the handicap and the mentally ill ! Your indifference is worse than the emotion of hate! You sold your souls for wealth, material objects that you think will bring you happiness and the illussion of power! You have allowed yourself to be enslaved into a system that thrives on greed that has highjacked the American Dream! Greed is a cancer that needs to be surgically removed! A cancer that only brings suffering, torture, war and death! The Corruption of the recent wars holds true to profits of corporations at the expense of human life! A Political system that can be bought by the highest bidder! It costs one billion dollars to run for President! The winner becomes the puppet for the puppetmasters! The puppetmasters know their time is short! A new movement is in the wind! Their corruption exposed to the world and the sillyness the corporate citizens has valued above that of love and humanity! This shall to pass and a world with out the shackles of the corporate ball and chain! Victory will be at hand! Anonymous are the heroes of the free world! Fighting the good fight between good and evil! The Night of a Thousand Masks will send shivers down the spine of 1% because it’s something they can not control!
November 09, 2011 at 5:22 pm, AL said:
If you are reading and you live in Bristol, UK- come to college green, 11/11/11, 8PM, bring a mask if you have one. Peaceful but meaningful protest. Bring friends. Make a difference, perhaps… (we can but try)