Vigilantes. Criminals. Hacktivists. Petty Thieves. Call them what you will, but I call them revolutionaries and modern-day heroes –yes, I said heroes.
I would be willing to bet that the first time most of you heard about the hactivist group, Anonymous, was when the nameless, faceless entity threatened to take down Facebook on Guy Fawkes Day (Remember, remember the 5th of November). However, that’s not the first time I heard of Anon.
I first became aware of Anonymous after I began researching Scientology, shortly after Tom Cruise went bat shit crazy and showed us his mad couch-jumping skills on Oprah. Gawker --the only website unafraid to house the Tom Cruise video the church wanted pulled from the airwaves -- led me to a nexus of Scientology research, far more disturbing than couch jumping. I kept digging. In the subsequent weeks, I became an armchair expert of sorts in Scientology – which is why I vehemently oppose it -- but, in the end, it was Scientology that led me to Anonymous.
I would be willing to bet that the first time most of you heard about the hactivist group, Anonymous, was when the nameless, faceless entity threatened to take down Facebook on Guy Fawkes Day (Remember, remember the 5th of November). However, that’s not the first time I heard of Anon.
I first became aware of Anonymous after I began researching Scientology, shortly after Tom Cruise went bat shit crazy and showed us his mad couch-jumping skills on Oprah. Gawker --the only website unafraid to house the Tom Cruise video the church wanted pulled from the airwaves -- led me to a nexus of Scientology research, far more disturbing than couch jumping. I kept digging. In the subsequent weeks, I became an armchair expert of sorts in Scientology – which is why I vehemently oppose it -- but, in the end, it was Scientology that led me to Anonymous.
The inaugural makeup of Anon was nothing more than petty criminals, but I believe the group has grown from it’s infancy and evolved to be doers of good deeds. Right now, in fact, Anon is doing something good for America by raising public awareness about the evils hidden from us in the mainstream media. (Remember Wikileaks? I do.)
Let me break it down for you.
Who owns the mainstream media?
Corporations own the mainstream media. The same corporations who lobby and purchase politicians.
These cigar smoking corporate CEO’s make the decisions about who the media is going to “go after”. If the CEO of GE says calls up an editor for MSNBC and says, “Dig up dirt on Rick Santorum,” the editor will do just that. It’s his job.
The editor (who is now like a dog with a bone) is going to call up a journalist with an assignment. That journalist (new dog, new bone) is going to start digging as he or she is told. Other journalists are going to catch wind of it. Media frenzy ensues. And, while we are all too busy watching the media frenzy, reading only the headlines of articles, we are getting screwed in the background. While we watch with glazed eyes and sent Tweets and debate about the evils of said patsy on Facebook, that same CEO is getting into the backseat of a limousine with the speaker of the House or some other random Senator and handing over a briefcase full of dough. That money is to buy the politician so the corporation can get legislation passed like PIPA or SOPA or NDAA. And we are too busy watching Jersey Shore to notice or to care.
Then, it’s all buried by charisma and editorials on every news channel and mainstream website. The only place you can get real news these days is from international sources.
Charisma. It is a dangerous bedfellow. Charisma breeds disciples for unqualified leadership and beds of lies. Charisma blinds us to the truths that we should be looking for behind the curtain on our own. Anonymous is lifting the veil. Look and see.
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