" What really made the whole Anonymous thing real for a lot of people and what got them out on the streets wasn’t a like-minded horde of V for Vendetta mask wearing types all marching as one that they wanted to join, but the fact that due to international time zones, the first protest was held in Australia and there was a good turnout, and this protest almost immediately generated an iconic image that’s oddly now almost forgotten as the V for Vendetta mask has become a prominent symbol. It was a teenage girl, in a Hello Kitty T-Shirt and a gas mask. "

" Gordon has his own compass, and while he represents the GOP, he doesn’t always get along with them. For the record, he’s a Libertarian, and by all accounts he is the black sheep of local politics, with few friends.

" In 2011, his comments about fellow Republicans led to him being kicked out of the Republican caucus. He’s also faced calls for him to step down from his post, but he ignored them, and announced instead that he would seek re-election this year. "

"Who would want to put their trust ina piece of unknown software written by unknown people?"

" If you're going to let anyone wave the Anonymous flag, if you have no structure that allows an "official" view to be communicated, then you have to accept that you have no more right than the BPAS hacker to decide what can and cannot be done in the name of your movement.

" In short, Anonymous doesn't know who it is. And can't know who it is. Because it's made of countless different individuals, all of whom have their own opinions and beliefs about what Anonymous is and what it should be.

" Sure, there are Twitter accounts and some websites that attempt to present themselves as semi-official channels for communication by the Anonymous collective, but ultimately they are controlled by a handful of individuals - and are unlikely to represent accurately the wide spectrum of viewpoints belonging to Anonymous participants. "

" Court documents unsealed this week show that in exchange for his cooperation, federal prosecutors agreed not to prosecute hacker Hector Xavier Monsegur for a litany of other crimes he admitted committing over the years, including his attempted sale of a pound of marijuana in 2010 and another 4 pounds in 2003.

" They also agreed not to pursue charges for other crimes, including gun possession, purchasing stolen jewelry and electronics, running up $15,000 on a former employer's credit card and referring people seeking prescription pain pills to illegal drug suppliers. The court papers said Monsegur would also avoid prosecution for hacking into the Web site of an online casino. "

" A member of the hacking collective Anonymous broke into the website of Britain's biggest abortion provider and planned to publicly release the details of women who used the service.

" James Jeffery, 27, stole around 10,000 database records containing the personal details of women who had registered with the site before "boasting" of his crime on Twitter. "

" Jeffery later confessed to his crimes during interviews with detectives, telling police two friends had had abortions which he disagreed with, the court heard. "

" Remember that in the past weeks I had anticipated the possibility that someone could use the name Anonymous in other operations, from cybercrime to intelligence operations made by hostile governments, that is why I defined Anonymous a cyber weapon.

" The reputation of the group may paradoxically create many problems to the group itself, the audience to which the collective targets is not in fact capable of distinguishing false messages, and infiltration attempts that are occurring and will occur with increasing frequency. "

" They were done using a much more deplorable technique: the use of spies and informants within the collective,” says Anonymous. " cf. "social engineering" /facepalm

YourAnonNews is promoting a voting initiative. Meanwhile, Barrett Brown, Sabu, & others are promoting Op V mayhem.

RT @TheAnonMessage: URGENT RT!!: #Anonymous declares "OPEN WAR" on the United States Government. #OpV

"People who hold Anonymous's cause close to heart are incredibly aggravated by the actions of AntiSec,"

" The group’s attack on the Vatican was confirmed by the hackers and is detailed in a report that Imperva, a computer security company based in Redwood City, Calif., plans to release ahead of a computer security conference here this week. It may be the first end-to-end record of a full Anonymous attack. "

" Calgarians whose names have been connected to neo-Nazi and white-supremacist groups are angry that their personal identification has been published on the Internet. "

" The trick snagged those who happened to click on a shortened link on social-media services, expecting information on the ongoing #opmegaupload retaliation for the U.S. Justice Department’s takedown of popular file sharing site Megaupload. Instead they were greeted by a Javascript version of LOIC — already firing packets at targeted websites by the time their page was loaded. "

" My sources tell me the timing of the MegaUpload arrests was no accident. The federal government, they say, was spoiling for a fight after the apparent defeat of SOPA/PIPA and not a little humiliation at the hands of the Web. And what better way to bolster the cause for cyber-crackdown than by pointing to a massive display of cyber-terrorism at the hands of everyone's favorite Internet boogeyman: Anonymous? "

" While great for short bursts of fundraising or getting out a timely message, purely digital mobs like Reddit or the hacktivist collective Anonymous are not well-suited for thoughtful, sustained participation in the political process. Fuck the "Wisdom of the crowd." The thinking of the internet hive mind is shallow and frantic, scrambling from one outrage to the next. "

" In a press release uploaded onto its blog on January 2, SpyPeople explain that members are leaving Anonymous in order to form an organization with “disciplined leadership” and members.

" “This is a departure from the Anonymous mentality, where everyone does as they see fit without efficient leadership,” the release states. "

I, too, enjoyed Grant Morrison's _The Invisibles_ and have thought it'd go great with weed.

" And yet, almost none of these reporters actually talk to Anonymous members, or seriously consider the plausibility of Anonymous' claims. Anyone can be Anonymous, but that doesn't mean Anonymous actually listens to what anyone puts in a random YouTube video. "

When this song makes the charts radio stations will by law have to play it #lolno

When this song makes the charts radio stations will by law have to play it #lolno

Shockingly, Company Not in Business to Facilitate Global Crime Revolution

If you can't spell it you don't get to inflict it. #vengeAnce #alsoGeoCitiescalled

" Cole Stryker's new book on 4chan and Anonymous, called Epic Win for Anonymous, was only published on September 1—but the death threats, pizza deliveries, and magazine subscriptions are already rolling in. "

" Fighting censorship with censorship? Are we really to believe anonymous is fighting against censorship? how is this so? "

The comments to this article about OpBART are full-on hate for Anonymous - not OpBART, not AntiSec.

" A Santa Rosa man charged with conspiring to launch a cyberattack on PayPal's computers insisted he is not guilty in an interview with The Bay Citizen Wednesday. Drew Ellis, a 26-year-old computer programmer, also said he is not a member of the group Anonymous, as federal prosecutors allege. "

MT @AnonyOps: BART is bracing for Monday. A peaceful protest is scheduled for 5PM at Civic Center Station in SF

I'll just leave this right here. #WikiLeaks #Assange #AntiSec #nihilation

the party line from AntiSec and/or IRC ops

With #OpCensorThis @TeaMp0isoN_ have revealed themselves as a mad Kaufmanesque performance art project