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Nov 2 2015
11:22 am
Published On: Mon, Nov 2nd, 2015
Politics / Racism / World News | By F. Taylor
KKK Politicians: Anonymous Exposes KKK Ties of United States Politicians | Senators & Mayors
By now you have seen the threats by the hacktivist known as Anonymous saying they will expose 1,000 United States politicians that have ties to the KKK. Well, they have started to make good on their promise to leak the names.
We woke up this morning to find a video circulating the internet by Anonymous, an unknown group of hackers with a decentralized command structure, that claims to expose members of the KKK participating in the US Government as Senators and Mayors across the country.
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Here is a partial list of USA KKK Politicians according to Anonymous:
Senator Tom Tillis from North Carolina
Senator John Cornyn, Texas
Senator, John Horne Iverson, Georgia
Senator, Dan Coats, Indiana
Mayor, Madeline Rogero, Knoxville TN
Mayor Jim Mayer, Lexington KY
Mayor Kent Guinn, Ocala, Florida
Mayor Tom Henry, Fort Wayne Indiana
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This of course is disgusting,
This of course is disgusting, but I'm not sure I'd have given these morons a wider forum by posting.
That's the dumbest and
That's the dumbest and craziest thing I've seen in a while.
I think it needs to be
I think it needs to be discussed far and wide, and responded to by everybody wrongly accused in this list, because Anonymous needs to be exposed as a an affront to truth and justice. They are lazy cowards, mostly young, immature, and undereducated self-styled avengers of the marginalized of society. The problem is, they never do any research. They are so poorly read and untrained in research, they think the listicles they've grown up with in the internet culture is how you find out things. And that is how they operate, posting the names of accused persons, listing where they live - and the only point of telling ppl where a "bad guy" lives is so they will come to harm. They are dangerous, destructive people, and I'm tired of seeing them celebrated as pirates for truth. If this finally gets them routed as the reckless frauds they are, I'll be glad it happened. Then maybe people will stop reading their attention-seeking bullshit.
Edit: Over on Facebook some people tell me I'm off base, this incident is probably somebody trolling as Anonymous. My point is, they are all trolls. I stand by my comment above. I got over these hackers self-styled heroism when they turned out to be nothing more than vigilantes.
Doesn't look like an anonymous video to me.
Compare it to the one announcing the outing.
Also, what was that group they associated the Mayor with? It was different from the others.
This is something that should be picked apart for methodology up close. Simply dismissing it adds to this trolls power.
Everybody in Knoxpatch knows
Everybody in Knoxpatch knows this is ridiculous.
I do wish the KNS would change its hed on this story: "Rogero: I am not a KKK Member." Make her sound like Nixon.
TV stations did better. "Mayor Rogero scoffs at claims of KKK ties, calls them 'ridiculous'" (WBIR). "'Don’t be ridiculous,’ Knoxville mayor responds to KKK accusations" (WATE). Bean's title on this post works well too.
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Looks like a little minnow wants to swim with the sharks to me. The chink in anonymous' armor has always been how to verify what is and isn't one of their releases. This one fails the sniff test. The mayor has been slandered before and no doubt this attempt is an attack designed to weaken her base. This moron that released this is granting interviews and should be held accountable. Anonymous doesn't do that.
The mayor of Lexington is on
(in reply to fischbobber)
The mayor of Lexington is on the list too. Apparently he is gay. I'm sure he and Madeline carpool to KKK rallies.
Sheesh.
"Anonymous" - or any
(in reply to fischbobber)
"Anonymous" - or any anonymous hacker - is just as lacking in courage and integrity as this guy. Just being smarter and more clever doesn't make you less reckless and dangerous.
I would disagree.
(in reply to Hildegard)
Exposing injustice and righting injustice are two different things. By the time an injustice gets to the legal system most players are protected. Not so with exposing injustice.
The key is the audience, not the messenger. If everyone blindly follows a source of information without verification and cross-checking then they are just as guilty as the troll, which is what you are referencing. But, without groups such as anonymous, there is no real expectation of corporate or bureaucratic policing and exposure. Whistleblowers always get burned.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
This is not WikiLeaks or
(in reply to fischbobber)
This is not WikiLeaks or other transparent "whistleblowers." Anybody using the Anonymous brand to harass people on the internet is a weak-nutted little troll.
Anonymous Brand
(in reply to Hildegard)
That's my point. It wasn't used. This was posted by an independent on a knock-off site. For all I, or you, know, this is a Tea Party attack.
As for the protection whistleblowers are afforded, how are Terry Snowden and the head of Wikileaks doing? Last I heard they were trying to throw them both in jail.
There is no "real" Anonymous
(in reply to fischbobber)
There is no "real" Anonymous to knock off. The first thing that popped into my head before I started my polemics today was that this could be some FBI ploy to discredit Anonymous in the public view, but then I thought, what the hell am I even thinking? These assholes have never been credible. The brand is designed so that there is no line b/w real and knock-off. There isn't a list of official Anonymous hackers.
As for Wikileaks, that's right, they have to dodge the law. They are credible b/c they are transparent and willing to defy in public. People who attack from the dark are cowards, and cowards are not credible, I don't care who they serve.
And don't forget.....
(in reply to Hildegard)
In America, those that stand and are counted get squashed.
Should we send the kids that come to their teachers with concerns about school shooters to detention because a couple little assholes decide that would be a good way to get someone they hate in trouble?
I don't think school children
(in reply to fischbobber)
I don't think school children reporting shooters equates with Anonymous tactics or their pathetic bravado. Although there is probably not a huge age difference.
How about.....
(in reply to Hildegard)
Union whistleblowers? Think the state of Tennessee is going to defend a union member against the company? Those at the bottom of our social scale, the 90%ers, have no choice but to be anonymous.
OK, look, whistle blowing is
(in reply to fischbobber)
OK, look, whistle blowing is not the same thing as extortion and harassment, which is what Anonymous does. Obviously there are times when people cannot be open about shedding light on something bad. So I'm backtracking on the blanket coward thing. I don't respect internet harassment, and I think anonymous hackers are chicken shittles who don't do their homework before they go on the offensive.
I am not aware of instances
(in reply to Hildegard)
I am not aware of instances of harassment and cetainly know of no cases of extortion by Anonymous. Can you provide solid examples?
Are you kidding me? First of
(in reply to gonzone)
Are you kidding me? First of all, there is no "solid" anything with this nebulous hackerspace, given they never need anything like "evidence" before launching an attack. But I have read more than a few news stories in which people using the Anonymous brand promise to do something "unless," which is extortion. And I would call cyber attacks and list-printing a pretty obvious form of harassment. And the addresses of listed people. They suck.
So, no, you don't have any
(in reply to Hildegard)
So, no, you don't have any data to back up your claims? That is what I expected.
Jesus, I know I won't sleep
(in reply to gonzone)
Jesus, I know I won't sleep tonight if I don't spend some time gathering the data it takes to convince Gonzone that all my claims are true! You think I'm trying to persuade you? I don't care if you believe me when I say I've read enough on news sites to form my own conclusions. I'm just stating my views on this here site called Knox Views.
Here is what anonymous does.
(in reply to Hildegard)
This is their press release from Nov. 2, 2015. That was yesterday.
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As to the hacker that released his list today, whoever this hacker is, this hacker is freelancing. And frankly I think this hacker is in way over his head. I also believe that he has misapplied his data and formed wrong conclusions. Without having access to what he discovered it is impossible to say what he stumbled on, but the pieces he put on the table would point to the Mayors and some of the people listed as targets, rather than collaborators. Again, assuming this guy didn't just make shit up out of thin air (always a possibility), then I would hope our cybercrime unit can quickly change gears from kiddie porn to domestic terrorism, and get to the bottom of this in short order. It's creepy, is what it is.
i completely agree with you Hildegard.
(in reply to Hildegard)
These "anonymous" hackers go by their rules and hide behind their screens. This is a dangerous precedent when people start making their own rules of judgment.
Here is a link to Anonymous' you-tube page.
(in reply to Dahlia)
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As you can tell from perusing their work against those they view to have wronged society, Wall Street, the Ferguson police, occupiers in Gaza, ISIS and the Mexican drug cartels, they don't take on podunks mugging little old ladies. The take on major players by using the same tactics those players are using to steal our pensions, rob our poor, kill those in the street at will, and destroy the will of the poor. They are no more dangerous than those in charge, and, in fact, are a necessary balance in this day and time.
Take a minute to examine their work. You may be surprised at who is really on your side.
An occupational hazard of
An occupational hazard of being anonymous (or Anonymous) is being vulnerable to imitators. Too bad. Live by anonymous attack, die by it.
Exactly!
(in reply to Bbeanster)
This is turning out to be a political dirty trick.
Here is the original video
Compare this to the video we are discussing.
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Buurchett's Twitter
Buurchett's Twitter response:
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If @MayorRogero is a member of the Klan then I am a member of @OccupyWallStNYC
Washington Post: How
Washington Post: How Anonymous’s big KKK dump got muddled before it even began
Mayor Madeline Rogero Wins
Madeline had the perfect response by thanking them for using a 10 year old picture. The Anonymous poster has been disgraced by better person!
That being said...
... it does offer her a good idea for a costume next Halloween.
Or maybe not.
Some of those people on the
Some of those people on the list ?
Likely.
Our mayor ?
Preposterous.
Anon lost any credibility with that.
They might have had some with me for some of their disclosures.Now I wonder if anything they've ever said is true.
Guy Fawkes Day
Tomorrow is November, 5. Guy Fawkes Day. That is the day Anonymous announced their release of KKK insiders.
Today, the fourth, is supposed to be the start of a twitter storm, whatever the hell that is.
Interestingly, Rogero isn't
(in reply to fischbobber)
Interestingly, Rogero isn't on the vetted OpKKK Hoods Off list. (link...)
Either someone didn't know what they were doing, or the original list was a hit list from another group pretending to be anonymous.
The previous list wasn't from
The previous list wasn't from Anonymous. It was from Amped Attack or something like that, and it has been shown to be, if not totally, then almost so, bullshit. Which doesn't mean that Anon's list is any better. They have made mistakes in the past (and, as the previous list demonstrates, they are encouraging egregious, life-disrupting, mistakes now.)
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Anonymous presented, most
Anonymous presented, most likely, a legitimate list of KKK supporters in retaliation to violent threats toward ferguson protestors. Looks like they did their home work too and the Rogero list was undoubtedly a hoax. Good for them.
#hoodsoff
#dont get your panties in a wad