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[Mike <mike AT pikeaero.com>]

I am not suggesting that we do nothing. I am just pointing out that we
aught to be cautious about doing the wrong thing.

Aside from that, a conspiracy (a collaboration between more than one
individual) is certainly taking place on March 31st. The question is who
is conspiring? This is the trouble with faceless organizations, they are
very easily hijacked, spoofed, or otherwise corrupted.

--Mike

On 02/15/2012 11:15 PM, subhuman wrote:
> One can of course scent a conspiracy behind everything. A perfect
> excuse to stay paralyzed and do nothing.
> 
> --martin
> 
> On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 22:14:56 -0500
> Mike <mike AT pikeaero.com> wrote:
> 
>> I think I'd think twice about hitching our wagon to Anonymous. I think
>> we should milk the situation for all it's worth. But I, for one, would
>> strongly urge against getting actually associated with Anonymous.
>>
>> It is very easy to imagine that Anonymous is controlled opposition (i.e.
>> it has been set up as a controlled bogey man) to 'menace' the Internet
>> while appealing to the knee jerk reaction to stick it to the man. So
>> after these attacks, the establishment can say 'look at what happened
>> here, we need more control over the Internet so this does not happen
>> again'. In other words, I think Anonymous is being used by the
>> establishment to set up these 'false flag' attacks so people start
>> begging for the governments to take more control over the Internet.
>>
>> If what I've just outlined is true or not, the result will be the same,
>> the establishment will use it as an excuse to crack down even harder.
>>
>> I don't think what Anonymous is doing is a very good idea, and I really
>> don't want to have anything to do with it, or be associated with it in
>> any way.
>>
>> --Mike
>>
>> On 02/15/2012 09:16 PM, Julian DeMarchi wrote:
>>>
>>> How do you make contact with Anonymous? They'd appeal to our cause...
>>>
>>> --julian
>>
> 
>