Anonymous' next target? Fred Phelps' Westboro Baptist Church

[mookiemookie]

I love these guys:

Anonymous, a notorious collective of unnamed Internet activists, has put the Westboro Baptist Church on notice. Tuesday, the group Anonymous released an open letter to Fred Phelps' Westboro Baptist Church (WBC). The letter is nothing short of an ultimatum: a cease and desist order against the Westboro Baptist Church.

http://www.examiner.com/humanist-in-national/anonymous-delivers-ultimatum-to-westboro-baptist-church

[Jimbuna]

Poetic justice :DL

[Schroeder]

While I usually don't think that blackmailing is a legit or moral way of achieving things I somehow can't get myself to condemn Anonymous for this.:DL

[krashkart]

So my bet is that the WBC ignores the Anonymous letter. Actually, I hope they ignore it. But something tells me that simply taking their web presence down won't stop them from raiding funerals. :lol:

Oh well. I'll just kick back and enjoy the show. :D

[Growler]

I wondered when this was going to happen. :D

:arrgh!:
This news warms the cockles of my dark little heart with pure joy; this will be so much better than the take on Scientology... it might even surpass yak-shaving day for the happy happy joy joy factor.:yeah:

[krashkart]

I wondered when this was going to happen. :D

:arrgh!:
This news warms the cockles of my dark little heart with pure joy; this will be so much better than the take on Scientology... it might even surpass yak-shaving day for the happy happy joy joy factor.:yeah:


ROFL :har:

You're pure evil, man. :03:

[Tribesman]

I wonder how Phelps aims to make money out of this.

[Onkel Neal]

Payback is a ..... :rock:

[Growler]

The Letter (http://anonnews.org/?p=press&a=item&i=449)

[Onkel Neal]

As typical with every religion, so many contradictions. God may have been quoted as abhorring homosexuals, but he didn't tell us to. Jesus said love your neighbor as you do yourself. Why can people follow the better way?

[Schroeder]

Why can people follow the better way?
Because we always need someone to blame for our inability to achieve what we want. And following someone else is always easier than using ones own brain.:dead:

[krashkart]

^^ Sad but oh so true. :nope:

As typical with every religion, so many contradictions. God may have been quoted as abhorring homosexuals, but he didn't tell us to. Jesus said love your neighbor as you do yourself. Why can people follow the better way?


Exactly. The WBC has it backwards, as do a number of other folks in the world. A person can preach all day and all night about the evils of homosexuality, but they won't be able to break through the things that I learned from religion -- which is to love thy neighbor and that God is forgiving. The two most basic things that I've carried with me my whole life.

[CCIP]

Well, don't expect this to be just limited to web presence, anon has a lot of ability to physically assemble people. They had some success with that at the height of the scientology protests, and I would say their ability to assemble has improved since. And of course anonymous protests are always hilarious, because no blow is too low for those desensitized by the trashpile of the internets where anonymous lives and feeds most weekday evenings. Expect no quarter given :88)

I've had some reservations about some previous Anonymous gatherings, but if the Westboro church was actually active here in Canada, I'd seriously come out and join 'em for a stakeout.

[Tribesman]

Exactly. The WBC has it backwards, as do a number of other folks in the world.
krashkart the WBC has nothing to do with religious beliefs, its just a cash cow.

[gimpy117]

The thing about 4chan is that it's not really like everyone on the board is behind this. So I suppose two things could happen:

A. Lots of people can be behind it, wanting to do it for the lulz or because they're "moralfags" and the church might feel the heat.

or

B. it's like 3 people who sent an email to this church and the rest of /b/ said MYPA (not your personal army).

I'll wait and see on this one you can never really tell. I mean heck we can't even knock down a card stand in time square when we want to.

[nikimcbee]

I think somebody should put them on the jehovah's witnesses' mailing list.:haha: That would keep them busy.

Knock knock!

They'd be too busy trying to convert each other to cause anybody else problems.

[the_tyrant]

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[frau kaleun]

I think somebody should put them on the jehovah's witnesses' mailing list.:haha: That would keep them busy.

Knock knock!

They'd be too busy trying to convert each other to cause anybody else problems.

If you're going to go the route of putting them on mailing lists, I can think of a few "special interest" magazines and catalogs that they really ought to be subscribed to. :D

[krashkart]

If you're going to go the route of putting them on mailing lists, I can think of a few "special interest" magazines and catalogs that they really ought to be subscribed to. :D


Follow the rainbow. :haha:

[Castout]

As typical with every religion, so many contradictions. God may have been quoted as abhorring homosexuals, but he didn't tell us to. Jesus said love your neighbor as you do yourself. Why can people follow the better way?

Heck I've even personally heard a death threat spoken by a certain Catholic monk to me in person. I'm obliged to presume him as a messenger of certain lunatic man. In his words: "If you remain imbalance you will be shredded and returned to the cosmos. Do you know what cosmos means? It means balance." :shifty:

WTF? I don't know anything about cosmos but I've seen God once when I was a kid. Some people could be really farked up. People live their short 60-80 years of their life starting as a pure children at first then gradually they may regress into worse and worse person especially in the absence of the personal knowledge of God. As men are mostly irrational being most people choose whatever they want to believe and will live to try to forever prove it. In the end death is a necessity to keep the peace in the world.

The only reason I'm still a Christian is because of God and God alone. But too many Catholics naive as they can be, seem to worship their religion than anything else. They have forgotten that the point in embracing Christianity is to know God personally. Maybe God is not for everyone or rather not everyone is for God.

[mookiemookie]

WBC responds:

http://imgur.com/nh1kR

[DarkFish]

The only reason the Internet exists is for Westboro Baptist Church to tell this nation & this world that your destruction draws nigh.:o:timeout::haha::rotfl2::har::wah:

So if Anonymous attacks, god will come down and magically plug out all worldwide network cables?:har:
Or will he simply burn every single transistor in every router?:rotfl2:

They mistakenly suppose because of pseudo-success with ruined-and-doomed USA's government or financial Websites that they can take on the servants of the Living God:haha:
Yeah, because god himself will personally embed himself in the WBC server firewall and filter out and block all incoming DDOS attacks:doh::rotfl2:

[joea]

Well, don't expect this to be just limited to web presence, anon has a lot of ability to physically assemble people. They had some success with that at the height of the scientology protests, and I would say their ability to assemble has improved since. And of course anonymous protests are always hilarious, because no blow is too low for those desensitized by the trashpile of the internets where anonymous lives and feeds most weekday evenings. Expect no quarter given :88)

I've had some reservations about some previous Anonymous gatherings, but if the Westboro church was actually active here in Canada, I'd seriously come out and join 'em for a stakeout.

Oh I'd be soooo happy those if fanatics get lulzed to death. I'd join too. :yeah:

edit: Well said Castout-God is too big for these little fleas like Phelps et al. to comprehend.

Hmm what if God it on the side of Anonymous hey Phelps? Then you WILL lose hahahahaha.

[Takeda Shingen]

Well, I'd have to give the Westboro Baptist Church credit. They have suceeded in uniting both left and right in universal disdain for themselves; something that no politician in 50 years has been able to do.

[Penguin]

there do seem to be some attacks going on, at least here their sites are loading terrible slow.

[Dowly]

there do seem to be some attacks going on, at least here their sites are loading terrible slow.

Yup, slow for me too. :yep:

[DarkFish]

Slow, but still reachable. Must be god personally keeping their server running:yep:

[krashkart]

Perhaps it is the strength of WBC's hatred that keeps the servers running. :88)

[Takeda Shingen]

Well, it's only day one. Give them time.

[mookiemookie]

The plot thickens -

According to Anonymous, Westboro Baptist Church was behind the Open Letter allegedly from Anonymous, and then added fuel to the flames with WBC's "Bring it" reply. Anonymous warns don't DDoS, it's a trap to collect IPs for suing.

http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/71567

[Tribesman]

The plot thickens -


It doesn't thicken at all .WBC exists for one reason and one reason alone.
The "church" is there to offend people while remaining within the law and then suing anyone who gets offended enough to cross any legal line.
Stop them from protesting at a funeral..taxpyer gets stiffed for restricting their rights.
Slash the tyres on their party wagon...taxpayer pays for police failing to protect from an obvious threat.

Fred is on the gravy train and probably manages to screw a tax free status out of it too

[Gargamel]

I just don't understand the people who protest based on some book written by committee almost 2,000 years ago. They take what passages as they see fit and hold those up, while totally ignoring the rest of the book, and it's double talk.

For example (I looked up most of these, and they are accurate depending on what version you read):

http://208.116.9.205/10/content/25744/1.jpg

[Tribesman]

Hold on there Gargamel, I think you are misrepresenting scripture there.
My memory might not be very good and I ain't a preacher like so my scripture might be a bit off however.....
That bashing the brains out of babies seems slightly off colour.
Shouldn't it be bashing the brains of babies in front of their mothers before you kill the mothers unless you want to have sex with the mothers in which case if you don't kill them you can't sell them as the rape makes them slaves damaged goods so you cen't really sell them unless its to someone of a different belief system as thats Ok to sell them raped women as the customers havn't seen the light?

Damn that scripture can be confusinfg. Peronally I like that fella they nailed to a tree who said "be nice"

[Gargamel]

That's exactly my point. People are taking verse's from the bible and they twist them to suit whatever agenda they have. Leviticus is a good example, as it has many prohibitions, including homosexually, haircuts, and pet's living in your house.

If people want to 'enforce' any of them, they need to abide by all of them, or else they are all hypocrites, or they need to find a new set of rules.

But if they want to live by their religious rules, then that's fine, but quit forcing them on other people.

[Growler]

When Anon wants to shut down WBC, they will.

[mookiemookie]

It doesn't thicken at all .WBC exists for one reason and one reason alone.
The "church" is there to offend people while remaining within the law and then suing anyone who gets offended enough to cross any legal line.
Stop them from protesting at a funeral..taxpyer gets stiffed for restricting their rights.
Slash the tyres on their party wagon...taxpayer pays for police failing to protect from an obvious threat.

Fred is on the gravy train and probably manages to screw a tax free status out of it too

I've heard this before and it makes perfect sense. He runs his own law firm, the people surrounding him are all lawyers.

He's a brilliant troll.

[Gargamel]

Supposed response from WBC:

http://cdn-www.i-am-bored.com/media/westbororespondstoanon.png

[Dowly]

Gargamel, I'd advice you to read the thread before posting. Posts #21 (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showpost.php?p=1601543&postcount=21) and #30 (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showpost.php?p=1601928&postcount=30) in particular. :up:

[Gargamel]

Gargamel, I'd advice you to read the thread before posting. Posts #21 (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showpost.php?p=1601543&postcount=21) and #30 (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showpost.php?p=1601928&postcount=30) in particular. :up:

Meh... missed those.... sigh....