The first battles against WBC occurred in 2010 and 2011 during which NYC Anonymous spewed forth absurd amounts of vulgarity, sexually explicit slurs, and an array of redneck jokes in order to be offensive and, in the process, change who the victim is. WBC is notorious for being a hate group, traveling the country and toting signs proclaiming “God Hates Fags” and “Thank God for 9/11.” By being abrasive, offensive and loud, NYC Anonymous successfully overpowers any idiotic message the WBC produces. With the news of WBC’s return for 2013, NYC Anonymous intended to take the original tactics to a whole new level.
Within the first 10 minutes, a life-size wooden crucifix was erected and a thick-bearded Jesus with a strap-on dildo was then nailed to it, and later “jerked off” by the Devil resulting in the ejaculation of snakes-in-a-can. Cries of “where’s your God now?” were hurled in the direction of the two WBC members. If that weren’t eye-catching enough, the scene was topped off with a slutty Virgin Mary running about, wearing nothing more than a headdress and a matching thong and corset.
Immediately, hundreds of passersby gathered around NYC Anonymous’ display, mouths agape at yells of, “Hail Mary, full of AIDS.” Other flamboyantly-garbed counter-protesters joined in, some chanting, others beating drums. And despite the frigid January air, some Anons even went topless towards the end, sensing the victory drawing near. By the time the two WBC members were escorted out of Times Square, the streets were a sea of Anons, topless chicks, and rainbow-clothed activists. If WBC dares to come back to NYC, they better prepare themselves. For NYC Anonymous, there are no limits.
**See BELOW for all media of NYC Anonymous vs. WBC 1/18/2013 within the next few days

On that day, however, the 7 or 8 members of the Church never got to see those signs or meet those crowds. They showed up quietly, much earlier and off their public schedule. This was the latest incident in a trend of avoiding contact with New York City protestors, or more specifically, NYC Anonymous.

We were also at City Hall, waiting with our group separated from the others. Our signs said nothing of peace and love, our chants were not religious appeals to morality. Rather, they were vulgar, sexual, sacrilegious and satirical attempts to disgust. We were not offended by their presence, we were more interested in finding out the nuances involved in incest, wearing stretch pants from Walmart, and wondering why their leading lady seemed to be going bald. We were in a comedic competition to one-up each other with one-liners, mock-performances and just general offensiveness. Sadly, we did not get to give them a taste of their own medicine that day.

Our first and only large scale run-in with the Church members was on Columbus Day in 2010. They were in town to picket a PFLAG event in Tribeca, after making their rounds to various Jewish temples and synagogues. The official reason for our protest was that we were upset that they would not have sex with us, and so they were met with the chat “all of them, all of us”. We had someone dressed as Jesus, who was slain by a Roman legionnaire while we laughed “Ha ha that guy you like died!” He would later go on to eat the bible at them, while other NYCanons, only addressing WBC members as “Cletus”, called them fat and made fun of the South. Disappointed that they didn’t bring any of their children, we focused on then 24 year old Meghan Phelps, and made it clear that she in particular should also have sex with us, instead of only with her relatives.

We stole most of their press, and all of their momentum. They have traveled all around the United States and have encountered every kind of counter protest, but they’ve never walked into a situation where they were the butt of the joke- where their opinions meant nothing, and they were just the object of our amusement. They were revolted, and would focus on the group “Anonymous” in future press endeavors. This lead to them getting their website hacked by Anonymous, which was hysterical. They would later cancel or radically reschedule three other events in NYC, but only after we had made it personally known to them that we would be meeting them here again.

They have been in the news a lot lately, and have scheduled a trip to NYC on the 18th of January. Their picket will be in the heart of Times Square, and it is already becoming a bit of a known event. We suspect that they will not dodge us this time, and so we will finally have the rematch we’ve been waiting for. If you would like to fight fire with fire, claim no moral high ground, and actually offend and disgust the Westboro Baptist Church- we invite you all to join us. The pain we bring them will be well earned, fully legal, and the only proven effective organized deterrent to their presence. Most importantly, it’s going to be a hell of a lot of fun.

Naturally, it is impossible to tell a 5+ year long story in two hours without leaving out some critical things. Anonymous, being a very complex and multi-faceted beast, could not be a more difficult entity to pin down and describe to people which are alien to our culture. As an outsider, Brian Knappenberger has done an amazing job. But as veteran members of Anonymous’s first real coalescence, we are in a unique position to fill in some gaps.

We can take issue with the idea that we came from /b/. It is absolutely true that the culture has initially been expressed through 4chan’s “random” board, and many anons consider /b/ to be a homeworld of sorts. Understand though that it is far more accurate to describe /b/ as the result of an already formed internet culture. The major early raids described in the movie- the Habbo Hotel raid and the Hal Turner raids, were only partially planned on /b/. There were always secondary locations from which these raids were conducted, whether it is supplemental forums or existing anon-friendly IRC chats, which served as the next step after the launching pad was established. This is because we are true internet citizens, and there are many places which we frequent as people who have ascertained an advanced familiarity with it. It has not only been difficult for us to find content which is new to us, but also to find places where other individuals with this same familiarity compose the majority of the user base. Many internet citizens had been relegated to those specific forums and sites, as they were the only places they could be amongst their virtual peers. The existence of a web of places like this, so critical to our culture, was under-stressed in the movie.

Decentralization is an underlying idea within Anonymous, with the leaderless structure of our community being the most obvious reflection of this. For a culture so strongly based on anonymity, it’s the extreme individuality of our uses which makes us dynamic and capable of producing new content in unexpected directions. In We Are Legion, Anonymous’s progression and history was expressed as quite linear, the result of a general consensus within the community. In order to express why this is inaccurate, we must do what the film did not have the time do to: describe the anatomy of major Anonymous projects.

We can begin once again by examining our culture’s decentralization. One prime example is the simple question: how many anons are there in total? A recent stat shows 4chan.org as getting as many as 400,000 unique visitors per day, while various anon-based activism forums see tens of thousands of accounts. Unfortunately, adding these numbers up and estimating any type of userbase means absolutely nothing. The fact is that there are simply millions of people worldwide who can identify with anonymous culture, even if they do not in fact consider themselves anons. Millions of people know our memes, generate content with us, share our jokes with their offline friends, and wouldn’t fall for a link leading to nimp.org. And more often than not they, by the vast majority, do not identify themselves as “members of Anonymous”.

Nomenclature aside, what we can see is how many of those millions of people actively engage in Anonymous raid activities, and it is a very very slim percentage. Project Chanology at its peak had between 10,000 and 20,000 active anons engaged in raids, mostly only participating online in some capacity. Project Payback has seen very similar participation ceilings, but was most notably clocked at around 5,000 anons active at any time. When Project Payback morphed into Anonops and the more current incarnation of activist Anonymous, it has at times had more active users than the previous projects, but still just a tiny fraction of the whole. It is for this reason why it is so highly discouraged for any one anon to claim to speak for all of Anonymous, and why we have so many times become disgusted by the audacity of those in a particular project to claim a morality base for Anonymous.

We can measure the user base of a project because only in projects does Anonymous cease being a fluid entity. During a project action, most participants usually identify themselves as members of Anonymous. A project can define what its member’s basic and unifying set of ideals are. Projects can even disassociate from certain elements of Anonymous history which they may find unsavory or inconvenient. Uniquely, projects also have an actual start date and indisputable origin story, whereas accounts of Anonymous’s beginnings range from the start of 4chan in October of 2003, to 2000BC where weird Greeks would run around in masks making fun of each other on a holiday.

From a philosophical standpoint, there have been a gigantic range of answers to the question “What is Anonymous?” We have posed answers in the past, such as the idea that it’s a collection of anonymous internet citizens, or that it is a movement for freedom of speech, or that it is an anti-establishment counter culture, or that it is a Scientology hate group, or a collection of hackers. The list goes on and on, and every answer is equally right and equally wrong. Only in the context of the projects, a clear sub-culture of greater Anonymous, can these be addressed. They are able to validate an individual’s Anonymous membership, the criterion strongly varying between incidences. A person who may be considered an oldfag and a notorious troll in Operation Payback circles can (and fucking does) get called a moralfag, who sucks at trolling, by a Chanologist. A Chanologist will also in turn get called a moralfag and a newfag in the context of 4chan. Activists from Occupy who identify as Anonymous are only considered actual anons by AnonOps, and even in that new project’s context are neophytes.

Still, not all individuals identifying themselves as members of Anonymous are able to readily seize this important idea. Why is this? It is because of how Anonymous is forced to organize in a decentralized environment. The beginning of all new raids goes like this:

• Something happens to draw anon attention
• There is a catalyst, bringing people to action
• Different plans and actions across many forums and chat channels; static web pages form
• Initial attacks are executed while the anons establish strong lines of communication between the planning channels and their various hosts
• The planning channels centralize around one medium, which then becomes the main source of information on future action
• Initial momentum is lost, while lasting infrastructure (sites, admins, organizers, and available tools) become proprietary toward the new project.
• The new project defines itself as an entity, whether its members like it or not
• Under this rigid organizational structure, specific cells form based on criterion like location and purpose.

Many raids only make it as far as the fourth bullet point, while true projects with lasting power follow this path. In the final environment, those of radically dissenting opinion of the project’s leadership and the remaining members have usually all been pruned out. When new people join the project’s central community, they are presented with an entirely proprietary set of Anonymous ideas. They are then indoctrinated within this smaller idea of Anonymous, very frequently missing the larger points. Just how small of a fraction the new user gets of anon ideals is highly dependent on the tenor of this one centralized place, or local cell. **Cells can have an evolution of their own, mirroring the path of an entire project. They then eventually identify as their own named entity, and can exist outside the project of their birth. Members can say, with utmost confidence, what Anonymous believes and what it fights for- regardless of how completely unrecognizable those ideals would be to an anon from a different project or place.

We can clearly see that there are major differences in the definition of Anonymous just project to project. But what about this idea (as correctly presented in the documentary) that Anonymous is constantly evolving and therefore the project modality may be a moot point? This is true, or would be true, if these projects developed in a linear timeline, with the most recent project being the current face of Anonymous. Again with credit to Knappenberger, he did include brief contrary explanations courtesy of Gabriella Coleman (who has been a longtime friend of NYCanon and a true authority on Anonymous), but less astute viewers may see a clear timeline of project origins, and will not understand a true decentralized structure.

Let’s ask a classically stupid question: If humans evolved from primates, then how come there are still monkeys? Well, because evolution doesn’t work that way. A frustratingly little known fact is that Project Chanology is actually still going on, with its central hub whyweprotest.net. It sees thousands of unique hits per month, organizes dozens of protest actions at a time, regularly disseminates information to the public with practiced ease, and continues to pound the fuck out of the Church of Scientology. **It is undeniable, as a side note, that the war between Anonymous and Scientology is outmoded, but mostly because we fucking won. You tend to shut the fuck up when a group of internet assholes directly causes or meaningfully facilitates your religion being kicked out of half a dozen countries, makes half of your membership leave, exposes all of your secrets, and costs you millions of dollars and destroys 50 years of public relations as your management throws in the towel. As a sub group which was established as a part of Project Chanology, we of NYC Anonymous share many of the ideals of other Chanology anons, but very few of the ideals of Occupy Wall Street. You could see in this context, that a person wearing a Guy Fawkes mask at an Occupy protest will be a completely different animal from an NYCanon, although we can both identify ourselves as members of Anonymous.

More interesting than this is that there are many anons who freely participate in multiple projects simultaneously. Sometimes with different internet handles, and in varying positions and repute. Most anons only participate in a single project, or no project at all. Anonymous activism as a whole, while in its state of multiple projects, more keenly resembles the protean pre-Chanology Anonymous than it does a unified entity. It has no one centralized forum, but rather is a conglomerate of very different places. It is comprised of factions with different interests, which very frequently clash. Some groups have talents the others do not. They produce completely different original content, which finds its way around the internet as a representation of Anonymous culture, and depending on which particular content the audience is exposed to, a different idea of Anonymous is understood.

Our audience, when it contains traditional media, then wraps this content in a story and projects it out to the public. The general public, in turn, has no idea what the fuck is going on. Every once in a while, more in depth stories and articles attempt to clarify what this entity known as Anonymous really is, with few coming even close. And now, somebody has tried to present this entity to the public, in a comprehensive way, in a full length feature film. Our contentions aside, Brian Knappenberger and his staff have told much of our story better than any outsider has done before. For that, we are eternally grateful that somebody has pulled off this herculean task.

We of NYC Anonymous have been staging monthly “protests” against the “Church” of Scientology since February of 2008. We think they’re big dumb dicks who are fun to laugh at. Over time our targets and tactics have changed and evolved, but fundamentally our bread and butter has always been about being really mean and funny to Scientology.

On Saturday October 20th 2012 we decided to give the lonely culty Scientology drones some much needed positive attention. Dressed as construction workers, we collectively decided to cat-call every man, woman, and child going into or coming of their building. Oddly, not a single Scientologist responded to our loving and thoughtful romantic advances.

When Anonymous ventured into the real world to ruin Scientology it was not a moral or amoral action. The motives of individuals were more varied than the sum of their parts, but the action was neutral. Their cult of hyper-aggressive ineptitude had dared to challenge us in our backyard over comedy and information, our most beloved resources. It was our duty to impale this organization upon the very things they sought to keep us from. This was a matter of revenge, satire, and our own enjoyment. The target chose us.

All of the so-called moral actions like dissemination of information, providing social support networks, and running media blitzes could very well have been motivated by the desire of individuals to help. Under the banner of Anonymous these actions were done to hurt our collective target. Every news article, person who left the cult, and “protest” we staged did irreparable damage to the formerly impenetrable facade Scientology portrayed. With the aura of fear now shattered, media coverage of Scientology’s spectacular fuck-ups are produced everywhere with little hesitation.

Since late 2009 many have invoked the name Anonymous for activist causes. These include but are not limited to: providing aide to numerous countries in the Arab Spring, various actions in support of Wikileaks, protesting and petitioning against ACTA/SOPA/PIPA, and various actions in support the Occupy movement. We as a community at MFO/NYC Anon have been less than subtle in voicing our distaste for this. This has very little to do with the political causes. We as individuals have our own opinions on these as political issues. Many of us have in fact supported some of these causes, but we did not attend events or act under the Anon banner.

These are causes that are deliberately picked based on ideological issues that are often vaguely relevant to Anonymous. However, the activism on behalf of these causes does not resemble Anonymous beyond our collective iconography. There is rarely a central target to attack, no significant damage is done, and above all else there is a cavernous void left where the lulz should be.

Identifying as an Anon without being a part of the Anonymous culture, and acting in its style would be like identifying as a Christian while deliberately not following any of the teaching of Christ. You may use the same preexisting symbols or enjoy the associations the the label brings, but at a certain point you are being disingenuous to yourself and others.

We seek to neither disparage nor encourage any activism. The point here is that serious political action should be done by serious groups with clear agendas. Serious actions taken under the guise of Anonymous leaves us as Anons falsely associated with a thing that we are not, much as those groups are being associated with something they are not. By all means keep working for the things that you believe in, but if it’s not funny, not satirical, not trollish, it’s not Anonymous.

How strange it is for some of us to have seen Anonymous become a household name. Our generation is unique in the way that we were the first to grow up with the internet and use it in highly social contexts, so it shouldn’t exactly be a surprise that we’ve developed a culture around it, which is incredibly robust. The next generations after us will have parents which monitor their online lives in the same way they’d watch us playing in the street. Our people didn’t have that; we were all internet orphans. As such, many of us were able to develop online skillsets and personalities which we almost certainly would not have otherwise. Most importantly for this context, we created online communities which were obscured from public view and inaccessible to a mainstream audience.

If you’re an anon and these concepts are familiar to you, you’ve enjoyed the following perks- being privy to information early; being the first to see new meme and jokes; having an extensive repertoire of media of interest; being desensitized to vulgar and offensive imagery; knowing common tricks and special places. Your friends likely could not keep up with you in any of these things.

This is what used to make you an anon, and the people like us would congregate in places like 4chan imageboards and Something Awful forums. The more devious, chaos driven yet capable anons would frequently use /i/ boards and IRC chats to plan pranks, raids and other actions. If you were an anon at the time but didn’t participate in internet raids, chances are you still knew they were going on just from being around other internet communities. Even so, they were small and insular, even though the amount of people who would qualify to participate in them grew to hundreds of thousands.

The largest turning point in our collective history was the start of Project Chanology. It is still a completely unique event in the way that it was both an activist type action, but also comprised of ONLY actual life-long internet citizens. At the very beginning, it was an idea which had started on one chan forum (which one exactly has been highly contested). When it spread to the other chans, and to their /i/ boards, and to the anon IRC networks, and to the wikis, it had instantly done what no single raid or event had done- completely united Anonymous. Every chan was running threads, within those chans every relevant forum had picked it up, Encyclopedia Dramatica and Something Awful staff had joined in the promotion, and we all collectively waged a massive scale internet war. It was the only time the Chans had ever united, let alone with neighboring more developed forums like the Style Project forum, all centralizing around Partyvan: our flagship /i/nsurgent hangout.

The history of Chanology from that point is much more obvious and noted elsewhere: the shift from internet only to IRL protests and the like. It is worth mentioning that those first sets of protests, still to this date, are by far the largest and most effective protests Anonymous has ever staged. Furthermore they are the only instance of a global protest action, taking place simultaneously in every major city with no central organization or leaders, in the history of the world. That’s a big fucking deal, and our target has never recovered. Chanology was the big bang for modern Anonymous.

There was a problem which came of this, for us the internet citizen. Our protests during the first year were effective in spreading information, and our actions against the Church of Scientology were absolutely crippling and hysterical. But as more anons learned of the various evils of the target, there was a very strong moral shift toward becoming the protagonist in the story. We had attracted other people to our cause who were not natively from the birthplaces of the movement. Operations became less about hurting the cult and more about caring for the victims of it. To many classic anons, that was sacrilege. We had prided ourselves on the ability to balance between doing something because it was right, and doing that same thing because it was wrong. Moralfags vs LuLzfags.

Critical Error, anons disowned the movement, for a wide variety of reasons: It drew too many newfags to our parent sites, diluting the culture. It got too much publicity, casting light on some of our private tactics. It drew law enforcement attention, making our hosts uneasy. There were no new jokes and it took a lot of work, so it was boring. Here we see the first evidence of the self-inflicted wound. Anons began an exodus, leaving the ratio of old school internet people to new concerned citizens staggeringly low. The individual anon cells, organized by city, had no choice but to market towards the general populace. Attendance plummeted, while prank actions and internet backup dwindled.

That could have all been stopped. The wonderful thing about Anonymous is that anybody can take charge and propose new things. Anybody can use the name and therefore conduct private ops more akin to what other anons want to see. The only thing Anonymous 2.0 needed to stay part of its parent cultures was the participation of Anonymous 1.0, which has since retired. Some cells and small pockets of Anonymous were able to hold on to the original ideals, and keep the composition of internet citizens. NYC Anon is incredibly proud to be one of them, but we alone couldn’t stop what happened next.

The threat of Scientology had abated, but the infrastructure of war and information dissemination remained, along with Chanology’s huge user base of semi-anons, concerned citizens, moralfags, activists, and an actual anon peppered in here or there. When other issues arose in late 2009, such as the Iran protests and Freedom of Information sub-movement, there was no stopping a second influx of non-anons and their random “world saving” operations. At this point, there was no chance of getting Anonymous 1.0 support. Entire new projects would launch, and people would say “This is Anonymous. We are the internet come to fuck with you”. But there were no jokes, no lulz, and consequently no pranks and assorted other pains. Every single one of those projects, which had the audacity to launch in our name, were never launched from the actual Anonymous community.

2010 saw the launch of Project Payback, another unsupported project. If memory serves, there actually were a few recruitment threads on /b/ when the Wikileaks operations took place. But regardless, the entire Project was run on an infrastructure so far removed from the original Anonymous and contained so few actual internet citizens that, when members of NYC Anon would enter the IRC rooms, we would find our tactics and ideas to be received as revolutionary and advanced. That is an absolute disgrace. We expect to be amongst our peers when we involve ourselves with actions being conducted by those who would represent us internet citizens. Any anon should. Project Payback would eventually transform into AnonOps, and LuLzSec, and all of their various offshoots. And the situation has not improved.

The self-inflicted wound is that the internet citizens allow what is now Anonymous 3.0, a copy of a copy of original Anonymous, to act as anons; to represent the denizens of the internet while containing so few of them. At any time we could involve ourselves in their actions, troll out the undesirables, ridicule the conspiracy theorists, and demand that operations and goals reflect our culture. This has happened because hacktivist neo-anons keep needing new targets, they need to keep their infrastructure of war alive. They refuse to let targets get picked organically. If there is uproar caused by an event which deserves the actions of all of Anonymous, the parent forums of Anonymous can just as easily unite again. Easier, as the infrastructure and methods to do so are now present. Every new target and every new bid proposed by these non-anons is just a result of boredom and personal ideologies which have no place in Anonymous.

The uniting of actual Anonymous could indeed happen again. Whether or not they will chose to use the battered and bastardized name and symbols which have since been befouled, we won’t know. But, for us who have been here through all incarnations of Anonymous, we have to hope that they will. Maybe the villain which Anonymous will rise up and strike out against is this runaway clone of itself.

In early 2008 Anonymous left its collective mom’s basement at the start of Project Chanology. Chanology was a massive collective effort seeking to hand deliver barrels of fuck you to Church of Scientology centers around the world for daring to infringe on the universal right of laughing at Tom Cruise being a nutjob.

In in the early months of Chanology, New York City Anons were routinely met with Scientology’s historically creepy extra-legal harassment tactics as well as a self-perpetuated facade of intimidation. Anons were regularly followed home, received bogus legal letters, and Scientology buildings were lined with fat fake mafioso private investigators all in the name of promoting fear. Clearly these Scientology morons had never been on the internet.

The NYC Anon crew doesn’t take kindly to abusive fuckwits trying to victimize their critics, so we collectively decided to make Scientology the victim. All private investigators and security personal were personally lampooned in the meanest, funniest, most personal ways possible. Within just a few months the P.I.’s had not-so-mysteriously vanished and had been replaced with Scientology cult drones, who were subjected to exactly the same treatment… until they also left. Unsatisfied with leaving their building unadorned with idiots to buffer against our hilarious barbs, Scientology attempted to hide their flock of dumbasses with a wall of potted plants.

What the Church of Scientology NY did not take into account is that they’re inept morons who need diagrams near their pants so they don’t choke to death trying to get dressed. Their plants all died within just a couple of months of their negligent non-care. For several years the CoS grimaced every time NYC Anon would arrive at their doorstep, once a month like a menstrual cycle that criticized their bad hair. They no longer had protection from us, the people they once sought to intimidate. That is until a Scientology Rhodes Scholar accidentally figured they could rent a truck and park it in front of their moronatorium so they would no longer have to look at the outside world.

Month after month NYC Anon would see a rented truck parked outside the Scientology center. We did not feel defeated, but we knew that the culty lunatics inside had felt they had won in a small way. In June of 2012 we decided to get our own truck and beat them to the punch.

Not only did we manage to park so our raid was in full view of all 12 of the same members walking in and out of the Scientology building to make it look busier, but our truck also proudly displayed everything the higher ups wouldn’t want their members to see. Top secret alien beliefs (that Xenu shit) was posted largely on the side, informational fliers were readily available, and best of all, a large picture of us was positioned right outside their door so they had to see our happy smiling faces.

For those keeping track: Scientology once tried to make us fear for our safety by using P.I.’s and harassment. In just a few short years they are now desperately trying to hide from us. Who’s the victim now?

This should be a lesson to all of you other anonewfags out there:
It’s so easy to stumble upon some shit on the internet, think it’s real, and then try to take action without knowing what you’re doing.
Barrett was certainly not sane and bad at critical thinking. But that doesn’t mean that this sort of shit can only happen to morons. It’s happening to a lot of you overly idealistic youngins.

Listen to me, for the millionth time: That anon symbol, that flag, the “we do not forget” slogan, was not created by the people currently calling themselves anonymous. They are far newer, far more removed from the true culture, and have much less of an idea what they are doing. This is why they wind up getting themselves into stupid trouble.

BE CAREFUL who you follow and what silly OPs you join. If you heard of anonymous on the news a year or two ago, chances are you DO NOT have the chops to play the big boy game. Like Barrett. Like the better half of LuLzSec, and the former leaders of AnonOps. They thought that because they can get on the news, they were fucking untouchable. They thought that because they just found out how to google things that they could get all the facts, and now they’ve ruined their lives.

Those anonymous trademarks were made by MY people. They were made by real anons who didn’t seek glory and didn’t pick fights they couldn’t win. They were made by anons who really didn’t forget, for a fight most of you wouldn’t have been around to remember. And we left Scientology a crippled mess.

There is a way real anons do shit, which doesn’t happen with this mainstream garbage. There is a way to bring pain, harass, and utterly destroy and entity’s reputation – and it’s all legal. People who have truly grown up on the internet have been doing it as a joke to people since we were preteens. Fucking things up anonymously isn’t second nature to us, it’s actually who we are. It gives us a boner and it’s always always funny.

If that’s not you, sorry charlie, it’s just not you.

How many fucking “ghost” ops pop up without ever getting done. How many “targets” get temporarily harassed in a boring way to no avail? How many “wars” are started with entities like the FBI and CIA or big banks, which just fucking steamroll over these “anons”?

Far too many, and then before long that guy fawkes mask is a fucking joke, the videos are boring and all the real anons leave. This is the dumb way to do shit. This is how a promising thing gets the chance to massacre it’s own name and then flicker away.

tl;dr- Do anon shit only if you’re an anon already.

Translated from Cave-Speak:

(Queens, NY) May 20th 2012 – A group of Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Rabbis and their followers are expected to hold a massive rally inside of Citi Field in an effort to speak “Against the Scourge of Technology” specifically targeting the use of the Internet. We of Motherfuckery.org / NYCAnonymous and friends are outraged at this demonstration. [1]

We are a community of cavepersons who value the sanctity of our simple and wholesome lives. Our lives are based on key human values like hitting food with clubs and worshiping and/or fearing the unknown in nature. This group of Ultra-Orthodox Jews cannot expect us to take them seriously while they are using such advanced technology as hats, fire, shoes, and wheels. We do however applaud their decision forbidding women to attend this event because the event is deemed to be so important. [2]

Our small, but noble community invites you to join us as we position ourselves outside the event in animal hides with signs decrying the continued use of their advanced and dangerous technologies. We hope to educate influential rabbis within the rally so that they might live a more pure and ethical life.

Where: Citi Field in Queens, NY. We will meet up by the apple statue near the stairs which lead to the 7 train.

When: May 20th 2012, 4PM – 8PM or whenever it gets boring

What To Bring: You should be a caveperson if you are coming to this event. So, come in costume, bring caveperson props and signs written in cavespeak. Remember, we are protesting them for being too new and advanced. Links to cheap caveman/cavewoman costumes below:

A whole bunch for men
A whole bunch for women
This one is $10

Original Cave-Speak:

Our tribes stand with paintings outside them grunt circle. You and other join too if want. Maybe us teach them witch doctors good thing and they teach other tribe enjoy fish toss and spit race instead.

[1]http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/mass-rally-of-jews-against-the-internet-to-pack-shea-stadium-in-may/2012/04/26/
[2] http://www.betabeat.com/2012/04/27/jews-against-the-internet-rally-citi-field-not-letting-women-in-04272012/

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For more information on their event and the group holding the dumb rally please see:
http://gothamist.com/2012/04/27/big_jews_against_the_internet_rally.php
http://www.jewocity.com/blog/rabbi-zecharia-wallerstein-stay-off-social-networking-sites-mp3/1643

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Over 9000 people worldwide gathered at the doorsteps of Scientology buildings yelling the undeniable history of the consistent fraud and abuse perpetrated against both Scientology parishioners and critics. In these early days individuals made efforts to disguise themselves out of fear for their personal safety. By 2009 many Anons had been tracked down by the Church of Scientology, further confirming the key reason such protests began. As more and more people became identified the fear lifted completely from those who once felt the need to hide. This is how the Church of Scientology delivered its most devastating blow to itself.

Since then, ex-Scientologists have come out of the woodwork no longer fearful of retribution in large part because of the international support of Anonymous. Scientology membership has also taken a steep decline while local cult franchises hemorrhage money, failing miserably to contain the furious torrent of information blasted across the internet. Most major newspapers, websites, publishers, and news networks on the planet have produced content critical of Scientology as a result of these actions, and Anonymous has laughed the whole time. The floodgates have been opened and there is no going back. The demise of Scientology is only a matter of time and we intend to relentlessly make fun of them until and after that day comes.

It has been four years since the internet has hit the streets and we aim to tell everyone who here is still in charge. Anonymous runs this shit, and we will not leave Scientology alone until it stops being so impossibly entertaining and deserving. Join us as we mercilessly skewer some of the biggest assholes in the world with vitriolic barbs that would make a sailor blush.

This fight is not democratic. We have and will continue to be unopposed. Four more years, motherfuckers.

When- February 11th, 2012; 5PM to 7PM

Where- Time Square Church of Scientology on W46th Street Between 7th and 8th Ave.

Why- Because we’re great and they’re Hitler flavored

Links:
Forum post: http://www.nycanon.org/showthread.php?3839-Feb.-11th-Four-Year-Anniversary-Raid-on-Scientology