This needs a bit of set-up for people to understand. I am a liberal-leaning centrist; there are some times when I agree with conservative ideals but more often than not I will side with the democratic party's line. I abhor the idea of the "tea party" and think that the vast majority of them are being brainwashed into believing that the current administration is doing everything it can to remove all our personal freedoms and lock us into a totalitarian state. They've done some stupid things, but I beleive this takes the cake.
http://punditkitchen.com/2010/07/30/political-pictures-oregon-chan/
Now, to understand Anonymous, one has to understand that there is no real kind of system to them. They do not know each other, they rarely (if ever) meet in real life, and there is no kind of hierarchy; it's just random people who, from time to time, decide to wreak havoc on groups that piss them off (If anyone remembers all the "attacks" on the Church of Scientology in early 2008, that was them.) Normally their antics can be classified as pranks. Fake phone calls, black faxes, pizza deliveries, the worst thing they will usually do is launch a DDoS attack (Distributed Denial of Service) on a website, shutting it down by flooding it with information. Their antics are annoying, but not much more than that.
The Tea Party of Oregon apparently didn't think it would be that big of a deal. Big mistake.
It all started when a tea party supporter decided to put the last lines of the Anonymous Credo on a sign and hold it at a support rally.
"We Are Anonymous.
We are Legion.
We do not forgive.
We do not forget.
Expect us."
Other party member, apparently not knowing that the poster held not an anonymous quote but a quote by Anonymous, decided to make it into a bumper sticker. It didn't take long before someone put a picture of it online. Someone, unconvinced at the legitmacy of the sticker, shot the tea party organizers and e-mail and got confirmation that the Oregon Tea Party had ripped off a slogan from the self-proclaimed "cesspool of the internet." Anonymous found this out in short order.
Anyone who has been following me so far can probably guess where this ended up going.
The Oregon tea Party's facebook page has been wiped, no doubt due to the vast amount of lolcats, spam, and images of people displaying horribly distended anuses (Don't ask. For the love of all that's holy, don't ask.) Franky if you ask me, they had it coming.
If there's any moral to be learned from the wrath of Anonymous and the ruins of the Tea Party, it's this:
Do NOT, under ANY circumstances, piss off the Internet. They will END you.
Seriously.
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