ANONYMOUS TAKES ON THE KKK
East County News Service
November 13, 2015 (San Diego)—For over a century, members of the Ku Klux Klan have terrified and tormented minorities in the U.S. Now Klan members are getting a taste of the fear they havge long dished out. Anonymous, the noted hactivist, has launched a mission of unmasking—or rather unhooding—members of the Ku Klux Klan.
On Monday the group released identifies of the organization’s members – including four U.S. Senators said to have affiliations with the racist hate group: Dan Coats from Indiana, John Cornyn from Texas, Jon Hardy from Georgia, and Thomas Tillis from North Carolina.
At least one person identified as a KKK member, a Tenneessee mayor, has denied membership in the organization.
On Sunday, Anonymous announced launch of its offensive in a release stating, ““Today we have shut down servers, gotten personal information on members of the KKK, and infiltrated your twitters and websites. And this is just the beginning. On November the 4th we will be having a twitter storm, spreading awareness about the operation. And on the 5th we shall release more than 1000 Ku Klux Klan members names and websites, new and old.”
A second group that calls itself “Amped Attacks” on Twitter announced launch of its “Hoods Off” campaign and claimed that it hacked and took offline many KKK-affiliated websites.
In response, one KKK group tweeted a suggestion to hold an “anti-Anonymous” protest of the unhoodings of its followers including a march on November 5th.
In turn, Anonymous fired back on Twitter asking why the group was so edgy, adding, “Even ISIS doesn’t cry this much when we wreck them.”