Virtual Culture Wars Heat Up as Anonymous Hacks Family Florida Association Behind ‘All-American Muslim’ Boycott
Anonymous hackers are taking on the Florida Family Association for “All-American Muslim” boycott.
Here’s what the battle between America Future and America Past looks like: an Anonymous-related group has gone after the archaic, hateful Florida Family Association for boycotting “All-American Muslim.”
Home improvement giant Lowe’s received the most heat for joining what Anonymous calls FFA’s “racist stupor,” but Cyber War News now reports hackers under the Anonymous C/antisec rubric want the right wing group to “answer” for its actions.
“Florida Family Association feels the need to put hate at the forefront of what it stands for,” the group said in a statement posted on the ihazcAnNONz twitter account alongside some snagged data. “Your hatred, bigotry and fear mongering towards Gays, Lesbians and most recently Muslim Americans has not gone unnoticed!”
“Anonymous will not stand for hate and divisive vitriol to be spread across our country and whenever we can…we will stop it.”
From the sounds — and looks — of it, the hackers’ time on FFA’s website yielded a treasure trove of information about the group’s members and bank accounts. Anonymous C vows not to misuse this information, though, because they realize many of FFA’s members may be part of the 99%. But anyone associated with a violent group like the KKK will be exposed.
From Anonymous C’s warning:
I am going to assume most of the people who receive your newsletter, email you and make donations are potentially part of the 99%. They are likely lower middle class people who have been mislead by all of your bullshit and god talk…therefor they too are unwitting victims. So I will NOT share all of the Credit Card information I got.
I am though reading the emails and getting information on those who did donate to make sure they are not worthy of the scorn of Anonymous as well…if i find information such as anyone being a part of other hate groups such as the Klan or anything similar all bets are off for those people.
Also, I am looking for you Steve Ensley…and I will find you.
Steve Ensley’s heads up a Christian web security firm called American Family Online and proudly fights alongside organizations like the FFA.
In the late 1990s, Ensley took on CyberPatrol after the British filtering company deemed the American Family Association’s website “intolerant” for hideously homophobic content. Ensley, who lives in Florida, said at the time AFA was simply practicing their free speech.
His current website makes clear how Ensley merges his tech-savvy career and faith-driven activism: “As a Christian husband, father and grandfather, Mr. Ensley knows the critical need for personal holiness and has dedicated his company and his life to helping to protect families and individuals from the dark side of the Internet.”
One can only assume, based on his ideological affiliations, what the “dark side of the Internet” looks like — some of your best friends are probably over there.
The FFA is of course playing the victim card in all of this. RawStory reports the group posted a message that read, “Because of our real concern for the terrorism that is a way of life for some folks, we ourselves have become victims.”
They also claim that “because we urge others to be vigilant, we become the targets” and call on their followers to “take a stand before it is too late.”
So one side we have Christian fundamentalist group that prefers an 18th Century America in which gays don’t exist, Muslims live in a faraway land and anyone who’s not like them lives a caste below. And on the other side we have 21st Century hacktivist group that envisions a nation, and world, in which all people are accepted and bigotry is disdained. And they’re battling it out online. The Culture Wars are virtual, and the gloves are coming off.
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December 15, 2011 at 10:20 am, Anonymous said:
Beware the false prophets… ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes or thorns, figs or thistles…” Matthew 7:15-17
11-11-11 sent 11:11 pm EST:
GET THIS… After making their family fortunes on the backs of the American Working Class, American ideas/ingenuity and infrastructure paid for by the American TAXPAYER… these spoiled, Ivy League Aristocrats had the audacity to buy off our politicians and news media so they could ravage and expatriate most of our nation’s wealth and resources.
The greatest looting in the history of mankind happened during the Bush/Cheney disaster. A corporate crime wave of epic proportions and the Conservative wackos are stuck on stupid STILL blaming the Left.
WHY or HOW has this happened? Well it’s all about false prophets, lots and LOT’S of false prophets. Go to any Evangelical Christian Fundamentalist church in the USA and really LISTEN to the message.
Sermons from coast to coast seem to have basic underlying theme any right-wing primate could understand. (lol) “Liberal bad, Conservative good”. Ohhhh, and JESUS is a money changing, right-wing, war hawk who preached against abortion.
It might be the Conservative think tanks… It might be FOX News or AM Radio Free Conservative… What about all the foreigners like Rupert Murdock, Communist Chinese and Saudi Royals buying up American assets?
It may be the mailing lists. I’ll bet there isn’t a right-wing Christian in the WEST who hasn’t received a mailer hyping the famous Conservative transsexual Ann Coulter and her book “Godless Liberals”.
LISTEN to the mental sickness and low grade thought processes coming from the mouths of Republicans. See the right-wing Evangelical Christian Fundamentalists get played like pitiful fools. Like GOD would have anything to do with all the greed, racism, hate speech and environmental degradation. These people are so deluded they actually believe JESUS (Prince of Peace) and war profiteers are on the same side. That JESUS (the healer) would be against affordable healthcare for all. COME ON!
Christians need to learn a con is a CON! No matter in a back alley or from the Ivory Towers the trick is to RECOGNIZE IT… and not get played for a FOOL.
I’ve been saying for years a few fanatical terrorists who perverted Islam don’t scare me near as much as those FOOLS who believe Capitalism can survive without ETHICS, RESPOSNIBILITY and ACCOUNTABILITY! The FIGHT is here at home… everyone in the USA needs to come together and get involved BEFORE the silver spoon, trust fund baby aristocrats throw you in debtor’s prison. These bastards would bring back slavery if they could but inmates working for 23 cents a day is the next best thing. Republicans turned us all into the United Suckers of America.
Like I always tell my Conservative friends, this ain’t no Tea Party, this is a bleeping Class War”. I’ll tell you why the Republicans hate the US government so much. Our government is the only thing strong enough to hold this neo-con criminal enterprise accountable, but only if the people force the government to do IT’S JOB.” See jinnbad.blogspot.com for more.
December 17, 2011 at 12:37 am, Sharia Shiite said:
Er, did Anonymous DO THEIR RESEARCH BEFORE ATTACKING? DID THEY READ THIS FIRST? http://barracknow.blogspot.com/
December 17, 2011 at 12:39 am, Sharia Shiite said:
check out this SHOCKING TRUTH, THAT ANONYMOUS IS APPARENTLY EITHER UNAWARE OF OR IS PART OF: http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=48166
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