Anonymous and my support
I’m not a member of Anonymous in any true or official sense. I’ve never participated in a cyber attack and I’ve never done anything to aid or otherwise directly help Anonymous perform a cyber attack. I’ve never contributed to Anonymous financially (as if their was a way to do so) and I don’t intend to if any means to perform such funding became available to me.
I’m just an artist who has become familiar, through mainstream media outlets, with Anonymous. I understand it and I understand them. I’m sympathetic to a number of the causes they’ve elected to champion and find it interesting to follow their news and inform my followers about their actions. I have no direct connection, to my knowledge, to any core organizing member(s) of Anonymous. I don’t believe anyone exists in that capacity.
Why do I feel the need to write this? Because I appreciate the spirit of Anonymous and I’m not excited about becoming a public face for the Anonymous witch hunt that I fear will start brewing in the United States. I, as a citizen, have the right to my opinion, so long as that opinion does not bring undue harm to another.
Recently, NATO has proposed that member states discuss the possibility of conventional military action against Anonymous. As my friends in Brooklyn might say “shit just got real”. I’m making a stand on this website and all platforms available to me to say, as of this moment, I am supportive of the political message Anonymous is acting upon. Do I support their methods? I can’t endorse anything that causes harm, financial or otherwise, to a person or entity. This is as far as my connection to Anonymous goes. They’re not a well-structured group, as some in the government believe, and it’s difficult to reconcile their HBGary infiltration with instances of cyber-bullying they’ve been credited with. This is the nature of the beast, because there are no leaders. Anyone with an idea can be a leader in Anonymous.
Actions like the upcoming “Empire State Rebellion“, a call to rally peacefully against the federal reserve bank (which I endorse), are non-violent protests in the tradition of histories great movements and I’m proud to participate in spreading the word.
If my current, or future, endorsements lead to a curtail of my civil rights Anonymous will have been proven correct. Perhaps, under state-sponsored torture and persecution, I’ll come to understand that I’ve been an Agent of Goldstein this entire time. But who else is a thought criminal with me?