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THE ‘HACKTIVIST’ COLLECTIVE Anonymous has followed through on its promise to release the identities of hundreds of members and supporters of the extremist, racist Ku Klux Klan.
The 11-month operation, run by the activists @AnonCopWatch and @ThatsRacistAF2, culminated in the posting of 375 names, aliases or online identities associated with the KKK and affiliated neo-nazi groups.
Although short of the 1,000 names predicted by @Operation_KKK a fortnight ago, the list includes some one-time candidates for political office, and former law enforcement agents.
Those behind the dump also claimed to have withheld certain names, pending “further evaluation.”
The list also names 23 local and regional affiliates of the notoriously secretive KKK, stretching across 25 US states, mainly throughout the South, but also in places such as New York, Illinois and New Jersey.
In a statement released along with the list, its authors said they had used “human intelligence,” “digital espionage,” social engineering (posing as KKK members to elicit admissions by others), and publicly available information.
We understand this initiative is extremely controversial and we know we will face much criticism for this operation and our work will be heavily scrutinized.
We consider this data dump as a form of resistance against the violence and intimidation tactics leveraged against the public by various members of Ku Klux Klan groups throughout history.
On Sunday, several dozen names and phone numbers were released by an individual associated with the Twitter account @sgtbilko420 which, it was claimed, belonged to KKK members.
The list included the names of several high-profile US Senators, as well as mayors and other prominent figures, and has been largely discredited.
Many of those named have publicly and angrily denied any associated with the extremist movement, and denounced the release.
@Operation_KKK, the Anonymous-affiliated operation which conducted tonight’s dump, also distanced itself from Sunday’s release.
Anonymous began its actions against the Klan on 16 November last year after members of the group threatened violence against peaceful protesters in Ferguson, Missouri.
The town has become a symbol for racial tensions in America since the police shooting of an unarmed 18-year-old black man, Michael Brown, in August 2014.
In its statement tonight, Anonymous insisted the dump was not an attack on the freedom of thought and expression of KKK members, but rather an attack on their behaviour.
We want to remind you: This operation is not about the ideas of members of the Ku Klux Klan. This is about the behaviours of members of KKK splinter cells that bear the hallmarks of terrorism.
The collective even struck a somewhat conciliatory tone towards its targets, noting certain areas of common ground.
They are mostly poor and pissed off at the the Man. They oppose government surveillance and they generally feel persecuted for free thought.
Day to day, some klan members work very hard for very little. We will never sympathize with the KKK but we do desire to understand them and learn about how they see their world.
We do see their humanity, we respect their right to free thought and we know their fear of others is wrong. We also know their behaviors strike fear, anxiety and terror into others. This will no longer be socially tolerated.
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Wonder how many unionists in Ireland will be on that list?
About the same proportion as Republicans.
Let’s not forget a large portion of the KKK’s roots stem from Irish in America, disgruntled with being second class Paddys who banded together to create a new target for social exclusion taking the heat off themselves. Not one of our prouder moments.
Never heard that before. Do you have any evidence to back it up ?
Intelligent and more informed people in the US are becoming very angry with their Wallstreet puppet Government, but why ?
9.11 for dummies
Family members of the dead who have not received any evidence or proof on the governments explanation and over 2,200 of the TOP Sky scraper architects and engineers including scientists who say that the governments explanations is not scientifically possible and deserves an independent investigation. It is of course not forthcoming.
http://therundownlive.com/world-trade-center-building-7-911-conspiracy-dummies-educate/
(PS this is old. Up to 10.000, not only from the US, but also some top architects and engineers from Canada and some Northern European countries have signed up, at least in agreement with the findings) We must hold in mind here that millions of people in the ME were murdered and displaced as a result of total lies and deception.
And :
Overwhelming EVIDENCE that 9/11 WAS a False Flag Operation Murdering over 1 million people and displacing over 4 million more under false pretences.….Who Did It & Why ?
http://asheepnomore.net/2015/04/06/overwhelming-evidence-that-911-was-a-false-flag-operation-who-did-it-why-video/
You really haven’t a clue. The KKK always proclaimed to be a white Protestant organisation. It was against blacks, Jews and Catholics.
Lots of hypotheses about Irish origins of the kkk. Nothing backed up by evidence. Hibernophobes use this from time to time to keep the Irish diaspora down. Rarely taken seriously.
First I’ve heard of this ?
Joe McWilliam’s art piece ‘christian flautist’s outside St Pats’ presently hanging in the Ulster Museum is causing a right stir.The piece depicts the orange order as kkk members.The dup/tuv say they do not believe in censorship but this art piece needs to be removed.
Really? Get your facts right.
http://www.history.com/topics/ku-klux-klan
Ciaran, the KKK’s Irish connection would be mostly Scots-Irish. Quite a lot of Hillbillies. If you’re unfamiliar with the origin of that term, Google is your friend.
Pat: “Who Did It & Why ?”
It was me.
I was really bored back then, and needed something new to watch on the telly.
Prove me wrong.
@Pat
I actually clicked on one of your links so I could see where you’re coming from. Unfortunately I was blinded by the CAPITAL LETTERS saying DIED, FALSE FLAG, and COVER UP. I must have missed the actually evidence in between them.
Your account has a very stream lined way of posting, almost like your arch nemisis Patrick O’CONNOR which makes it hard to take you serious.
Stay off the conspiracy sites, they do you no good
A group including many former Confederate veterans founded the first branch of the Ku Klux Klan as a social club in Pulaski, Tennessee, in 1866. The first two words of the organization’s name supposedly derived from the Greek word “kyklos,” meaning circle. In the summer of 1867, local branches of the Klan met in a general organizing convention and established what they called an “Invisible Empire of the South.” Leading Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest was chosen as the first leader, or “grand wizard,” of the Klan; he presided over a hierarchy of grand dragons, grand titans and grand cyclopses.
After a period of decline, white Protestant nativist groups revived the Klan in the early 20th century, burning crosses and staging rallies, parades and marches denouncing immigrants, Catholics, Jews, blacks and organized labor. The civil rights movement of the 1960s also saw a surge of Ku Klux Klan activity, including bombings of black schools and churches and violence against black and white activists in the South.
http://www.history.com/topics/ku-klux-klan
I hope anonymous expose the vile members of the army council. Thats what the irish people want to see
Ciaran, now that’s evidence I would like to see.
@everyone, I guess. I heard this a few years back, it was a documentary on TV chronicling the role of Irish workers in America. I think in the early 1800′s, there were some irish losing jobs on the railroads and in construction to African American immigrants and formed groups to intimidate this competition.
I’ll have a search around for the documentary itself and the names of the original groups.
Catholics were not allowed to join the KKK ciaran. you are making up history.
The KKK are an evangelistic based group that hate Catholics, so get your facts right before you post them please, thank you.
Ciaran stop talking b*llshit about a subject you clearly have no clue about. The KKK had a large Scots Irish proportion of members, those of the unionist kind in case you didn’t know who they were. The KKK are WASPs who hate people of colour, Jews, papists etc. Read a few books before making a fool of yourself on here!
Wow… calm down lad, it’s too early for that level of fury.
I’m referring to the roots of the KKK, pre KKK and how anti-black sentiment formed in America. The documentary I saw, some years ago, mind, linked the development of this hate with some Irish immigrants’ unhappiness at losing work on the railroads etc.
I’m no historian or 250 year old. I could well be wrong, but surely if I’m looking for a spot for misinformed notions, not backed up by evidence, I’ve come to the right place.
It was aliens pat o’dwyer pure and simple that done the 911
Can I just point out the irony of so many Irish people being offended by the notion that we’re capable of racial hate…
I mean, this comment thread starts with everyone hating on Unionists. Yesterday it was Hindus trying to send their kids to schools here. Before that it was refugees clogging up our favourite beach resorts in the Med.
Do we all think Irish ignorance and hate is a modern phenomenon?
Ciarán partially right. KKK was formed by Protestants wishing to suppress the “negro/papist” vote. However Irish Catholics in northern urban areas, such as New York and Chicago, did form gangs to targets blacks using lynchings. During the American civil war there were some large scale riots know as the draft riots, when Catholics lynched black people as a protest against conscription. These attacks continued right up till the 1920s when black immigrants were moving north from the south and were seen as competition for jobs and housing.
Really? The KKK are an anti – Catholic organisation and were at one point against Western European immigrants as they were ‘diluting Canada’s British heritage.
Thanks for the clarity Trea. I can see why people were red thumbing me so furiously. I had associated the Irish with the KKK’s racist ways, when in fact the Irish were just going around lynching black people under a separate banner.
The funny thing is Ciaran that you didn’t mention religion in the post that you got hundreds of red thumbs for – you just said that republicanism was potentially as racist as unionism. And Young Irelander John Mitchell was one of the greatest defendants of slavery in the southern states.
*Mitchel
I think, in the early 1800′s, African Americans were most definitely not ‘immigrants’, but kidnapped by those who ran the English, french, German and American systems at this time, common name was ‘slaves’.
Just saying.
You just plucked that out of thin air
The hint is in the name Hillbilly, Bill short for William and a lot where named William for King William of Orange,
Wonder if the excuse I used for Ashley Madison will work again?
The local dry cleaner must have a rigid lost docket policy.
Interestingly enough.
Black people kill more black people every six months than the KKK did in 86 years,
Source???
So that makes systematic racism and murder OK then??!
Wow?
Quantum leap there John.
your basing this narrowminded viewpoint on a solitary article from 3 years ago sorry Tommy you’re just a bigot
‘Bigot?’
There’s me thinking I was talking to a rational person.
Harry you asked for a source he gave it to you.
Harry, that link provided links to a website which is dedicated to improving the lives of Black and Latino people in the US and even they are saying that black people are more dangerous to one another.
Accusing others of racism for using links which actually come from a site run by black people shows just how ignorant you are.
Tommy, do the blacks who kill other blacks do so because they’re black?
No O’Reilly usually because they represent a different part of town or are wearing the wrong colour bandana.
Kind of disappointed nobody famous on it. Great job anyway guys.
Id say there will be a few famous names when the reveal who is on the army council of the IRA. Squeky bum time or the shinners with dual roles…..
“The Army Council” Are we back in the 80′s ffs.. Funny how the army council were never mentioned up until SF were a threat to FG and Labour.. For anybody who lives up the North it’s heaven to what it was like 30 years ago.. We have peace and 99% of the people on this Island, Catholic and Protestant want it to stay that way.. The only ones kicking up a stink about the defunct Army Council are FG and Labour who don’t care what the people on the Falls Road or Portadown had to live through for 30 years.. There’s people dying on bloody hospital trolleys surrounded by strangers and idiots on here and the media are only worried about “The Army Council” It’s pathetic..
Well said kramer.
T MCDonagh/Dermo/tap what I don’t get is why your local community representatives in Est Belfast had to have a meeting with the psni to discuss the removal of a kkk flag flying outside a young black mans home.
Fair play to the coach from the local soccer club who is the guys coach for taking it on himself to remove the flag.
great another butthurt looney troll with a sexual fantasy for sinn fein and its army council and the IRA etc etc…..
Great book about a guy called Stetson Kennedy who exposed the KKK for the simpletons they were back in the 30s.
Hats off to them. Good job.
Hoods off…..
On the ball Steven, Larry missing the gag.
Or rather breaking it down for simple people.
Secretly warranted snooping by governments & police = bad
Warrant-less snooping by anonymous, unaccountable, self-appointed civilians = good
What we need is a hacker to expose the Jihaders in Ireland leeching on our social services.
Like your mother?
Our?? You live in Canada?? Unless you are one on the leeches that come home to sign on while claiming all sorts of benefits.
Patrick J O’CONNOR : The modern version of Goebels.
@Step. Coveney. Since a teen I always sent back and brought back lots like most who left there in the 50/60′s and worked while there l who left there with no educ.. and/or skills in the 50/60′s.That money,collectively lots,is in the kitty.
And I worked and lived in Ireland 10 of the last 13 yrs. I’m entitled to be concerned where my Taxes go.
Now I suggest you keep shut until you know what you are mouthin’ off about.
Ya alot forget what their aunts and uncles and even some of their parents did in the 50s, 60s, 70s, and 80s. They emigrated for work but they sent money home too a lot of money it’s a pity that people in Ireland forget it! You want a medal for staying at home with the politicians robbing you left right and centre but in the end you won’t do anything about it!!!!!!
@Spoddgy. Thanks for your appreciation Spoddgy.
In seven days time at 21.00 hours I’m going to release the names of the people behind Anonymous.
Tune in.
(it could be the person sitting next to you)
I heard it’s Dick Cheney atoning for his sins.
… Any proof for their claims?
Thinking the same.
Am looking for to them releasing the names of 100 leading members of nation of Islam
Hats off to the hackers.
Should have the read the comments first. again. I’m such an eager beaver.
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Is Anonymous still around? Sorry, but Anonymous is a bunch of liberal kooks and most likely has ties to Soros. I’ve already heard their pre 1000 kkk release had usernames they copied and pasted from the top of Stormfront’s website. I haven’t verified it of yet because I haven’t seen any lists posted yet. One article headline said Anonymous makes good on threat but there was no list included. I think some of the people they released included cops, politicians, etc…but no names listed in that claim.
Anonymous=communists
Scared your Stormfront membership will be revealed?
And I see Mr Lewis that your previous comments are concerned with ‘jews taking over’ and how black poverty is their own fault. Theres a word for you you clown -Nazi.
What an odious little man you are. Judging by your comments on twitter you just regurgitate crap from your hate groups. You don’t have the bottle to contribute something positive to life so you surround yourself with other insecure men and spread hate – pathetic.
There’s a John Terry story in this somewhere…..
“We do see their humanity”???
“I watched my wife spend all day and night cutting holes in those there masks and all I’m hearin’ is criticise, criticise, criticise”.
I am going to release the names of 10s of Islamist jihadist employees of the Obama regime
Yes Peter you release those names as soon as you make them up. You really think Obama has ‘jihadists’ in his administration? You are a halfwit.
@Michael O’Connor. it is well-known that Obama is smothered in Muslim Brotherhood advisers. Below is a partial list that has numerous Google refs. Thank for the opportunity to post as I needed to refresh this info for myself.
—”Obama and the Muslim Brotherhoo
Muslim Brotherhood Members Connected to the Obama White House
Arif Alikahn, Former Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary for Policy Development
Salam al-Marayati, Founder and Executive Director of Muslim Public Affairs Council
Mohamed Elibiary, Homeland Security Advisory Committee Member
Rashad Hussain, State Department Special Envoy to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation
Imam Mohamed Magid, Homeland Security Countering Violent Extremism Working Group Member
Eboo Patel, Obama Administration Advisory Council on Faith-Based Neighborhood Partnerships
Huma Abedin, Deputy Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
Anonymous has released the name of the biggest spoofer in Ireland enda is not amused.
Good job, now expose the black supremacy groups who hate whites. There is about 5 different groups so get working on it and expose all the racists.
This is embarrassing. What happened to the internet hate machine?
I was expecting half of Fox News and usual guests and other redneck celebrities in that list., Rush Limbaugh, Bill O’reilly, Megyn Kelly, Hannity, Glen Beck, Ann Coulter. None of them?
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This is best article I have so far read on this subject
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