Anonymous Hacks Westboro Baptist Church on Live Talk Show

[Vohn_exel]

I skipped ahead to where all the fun started, and I have to say this. I don't like that lady. She irritates me and gives me the creeps. I don't like it when people dance around questions like that, but even still, I find her waaay to smug and irritating.

WBC already makes us Christians look evil. She's not spreading the word of God, she's hindering it by having people associate us with them. But seriously, I don't care if that lady was part of the JLA, I'd still find her the creepiest thing this side of the Uncanny Valley.

 

[Demonicdan]

She sounds like she's headding some kind of extremist group, and she actually made me side with anonymous.

 

[ultratog1028]

I swear anyone surprised by this needs to check their head for missing parts, after reading some of the things the WBC was saying about Anonymous it was only a matter of time before they got sick of it and went ape on them.

Normally I'm no a huge fan of hacking to make a point, and I'm a big supporter for free speech, but the WBC are just a bunch of crazy dicks and have earned everything that happens to them five fold.

Anonymous just kept saying "go away" and yet she kept pissing them off. Anonymous has more important things to do, but if they want a war with Anonymous, it'll be short and quick.

 

[ultratog1028]

She sounds like she's headding some kind of extremist group, and she actually made me side with anonymous.

She is.

 

[TheEvilCheese]

can someone find a High-quality image of the message they left?

I can go one better, a cached copy of the page at the time.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:esjiUN2ZYlAJ:downloads.westborobaptistchurch.com/

OT: Anon; I may disagree with some of your methods, but you deserve a round of applause for this one.

 

[Clockwork Scarecrow.]

Oh how I do love Anonymous.

 

[Worcester Sauce]

Anyone pick up on the DBZ reference, (Over 9000)

Many lols!

 

[userwhoquitthesite]

This makes me amazingly happy.

WBC isn't on my list of enemies, as they don't meet my criteria for "dangerous and must be stopped", but I really hate their message, and their tactics.

I am glad someone, somewhere gave them a slap to the face. It is a deserved reprimand to their behavior. You can hate gays, jews, blacks, catholics, indians and ducks all you want. You can say that everyone else should. But the harassing manner in which WBC has chosen to CONVEY their message is not something that should EVER be considered acceptable.

That said, once again, I support their right to hate the pants off of any little things they choose.

My question is why is no one working to sic WBC and Scientology on each other? Whatever dog wins that fight is still going to come out limping.

 

[Clockwork Scarecrow.]

Watching it, the smile on the presenters face, it's like he understands the memes.

 

[Lord_Boofhead]

"When Anonymous says we support free speech, we mean it," the group said in a press release. "We count Beatrice Hall among our Anonymous forebears: 'I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.'"

That was Voltaire (or a paraphrasing of his words) who said that. Really Anon should know better than to let the undereducated Americans in their ranks speak for them. But I s'pose thats the problem with an unorganized group like them anyone can and will speak in their name and its usual the idiots that get heard...

 

[Dethpixie]

+1 for social justice Anonymous, well played.

 

[proctorninja2]

rock on Anonymous

 

[Rofl-Mayo]

I've been on Anonymous' side for a while now, I get angry when they do something extremely stupid though. I'm glad that they attack the church of Scientology like this though, and now this church. Woot for Anonymous.

 

[Sovvolf]

You know, I'm not a big fan of anonymous, I think that alot of what they do is cyberbullying and some of their actions contradict their message. However, I'd side with them over the WBC any day of the week. Also, I have the sound thought that you don't fuck with anonymous. I know WBC like to sue the shit out of people and probably invented this whole message thing as a means of doing that. However, here, they don't stand a chance.

Who are they going to sue? their pretty much ghosts. You can't hit them, you can't strike back with a counter attack. You get on the wrong side of them and they'll fuck your shit up. The WBC have stretched them selves here. Pick an enemy you can actually strike back at. This is one of the main reason why I don't like anonymous though, one step in a direction that they don't like and they fuck your shit up, start to outcry against them and that little Voltaire quote flies out the window.

However, here the enemy of my enemy is my friend.

 

[UnmotivatedSlacker]

"When Anonymous says we support free speech, we mean it," the group said in a press release. "We count Beatrice Hall among our Anonymous forebears: 'I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.'"

That was Voltaire (or a paraphrasing of his words) who said that. Really Anon should know better than to let the undereducated Americans in their ranks speak for them. But I s'pose thats the problem with an unorganized group like them anyone can and will speak in their name and its usual the idiots that get heard...

Beatrice used that to describe Voltaire's views when she wrote his biography. It just gets misattributed to Voltaire actually saying it. Now who's undereducated?

 

[TiefBlau]

Haha, he also said "Row row, fight the power".

"When Anonymous says we support free speech, we mean it," the group said in a press release. "We count Beatrice Hall among our Anonymous forebears: 'I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.'"

That was Voltaire (or a paraphrasing of his words) who said that. Really Anon should know better than to let the undereducated Americans in their ranks speak for them. But I s'pose thats the problem with an unorganized group like them anyone can and will speak in their name and its usual the idiots that get heard...

Beatrice used that to describe Voltaire's views when she wrote his biography. It just gets misattributed to Voltaire actually saying it. Now who's undereducated?

Phail xD

 

[Travula]

That woman was nothing short of a stark raving lunatic, I want to know who let the dog off its leash, That church should have found a better speaker, they just got rolled over and i only read three pages of posts but it seems we all agree that they should have found someone with a little less zeal and much bigger vocabulary. I don't really support anonymous and i am just now beginning to have news of their actions reach me, but when paired up against that kind of display its really hard not to support them

 

[Awexsome]

Well... the WBC definetly had this coming. Through the good, the bad, and the funny that come from Anonymous... this is pretty solidly in the good, and as usual, the funny.

 

[Lord_Boofhead]

Beatrice used that to describe Voltaire's views when she wrote his biography. It just gets misattributed to Voltaire actually saying it. Now who's undereducated?

So they were trying to be clever, but failed. She didn't actually say it, just said some other guy said something that meant that but longer. Still doesn't make HER an advocate of free speech...

So who failed? They did. They said that they agreed that Voltaire said something, when they ment to say they support people right to be stupid arsehats if thats what they want to even if you disagree with their stupid arsehatedness.

Also he did supposedly SAY it, just differently, hence as I said it was a PARAPHRASE.

Wikipedia has this to say:

The most oft-cited Voltaire quotation is apocryphal. He is incorrectly credited with writing, ?I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.? These were not his words, but rather those of Evelyn Beatrice Hall, written under the pseudonym S. G. Tallentyre in her 1906 biographical book The Friends of Voltaire. Hall intended to summarize in her own words Voltaire's attitude towards Claude Adrien Helvétius and his controversial book De l'esprit, but her first-person expression was mistaken for an actual quotation from Voltaire. Her interpretation does capture the spirit of Voltaire?s attitude towards Helvetius; it had been said Hall's summary was inspired by a quotation found in a 1770 Voltaire letter to an Abbot le Roche, in which he was reported to have said, ?I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write.?[19] Nevertheless, scholars believe there must have again been misinterpretation, as the letter does not seem to contain any such quote.

However I seem to recall my History lecturer saying that it was supposed to be something he said verbally in an argument.

Either way it is irrelevant as they are not Hall's sentiments but Voltaire's...

 

[Aptspire]

Over 9000?

That's a pretty high sin-level.

"There's NO WAY that can be right!"
oh yes.
I did.