The Proletariat Congress

They have no name, no face. They are unknown to the source that they attack. They do not associate a name with themselves. They simply opt to call themselves Anonymous and have taken a risk by declaring war on CoS. They declared in a YouTube video that they are tired of the trail of lies, suppression of descent and misinformation and deceit lain by the CoS in its wake, as it competes with other more prominent mainstream religious organizations (ie: Christianity, Judaism and Islam) to see who can spin the more ludicrous tales, and spread a doctrine of lies.

Anonymous, no one knows who they are. Some suspect that they are kids with a suicide wish. That these children are in over their heads and that they will be paraded in handcuffs on CNN, their faces shown across North America and Europe, as their campaign is brought to their knees. Others believe these to be a group of hackers who are acting independent yet dependant in each other. Like cats. Each on its own cannot make a lot of noise but together they can inflict damage.

They have released their message to the world and they have made their intentions known. They themselves remain unknowable, at least for now, as they act through their online portal: Project Chanology (the same site contains a lot of highly unrelated matieral, then again, that’s what comes of being open source). Though this site they have encouraged people of a similar mindset to launch a campaign of mischief, of quasi-legal activity against an entity that in itself is known to engage in questionable activities, justified simply with the “fair game” clause.

A brief and cursory examination of the site is revealing, as the site relies on the use of open source code, ie: wiki code. They allow for anonymous editing yet the IPs are logged (kind of defeats the purpose of ‘anonymous’, doesn’t it?). From this, the casual user can gather that the people contributing to the article are coming from a wide range of backgrounds from petty, vendetta-minded children to smooth operators who know how to operate without getting in over their head. An interesting composition of individuals if nothing more.

The same group, though loosely associated had hacked into the CoS servers back on January 16th and acquired a video of one of CoS’ more prominent spokespersons. The video was released, and unsuccessfully removed from the internet. Along the same lines, secret documents that are rarely available to members of CoS were acquired during a raid and released on stages on digg and reddit (both sited as being important for the cause and as such, irritating those two large web 2.0 sites would be internet suicide for a group seeking to garner support for an underground cause) for unaffiliated individuals to download for their own perusal and mocking purposes.

If one is curious, as I’m sure most people are since this is one of the first widely known events of this kind, here are some links I’ve found on this while scouring digg for something of value to add to this otherwise mundane entry. If you want to see what is out there, being supplied though the batshit insane efforts of Anonymous click*: here, here, and here… for starters.

* We do not endorse the credibility of the site. We’re just very lazy and this is the first bit of stuff we’ve found. Advance at your own discretion.

The attacks of Anonymous include DoS (Denial of Service attacks), spamming of the phone lines, the bombardment of fax machines through the use of looping black paper though the sending fax in order to cause the recipient to be overloaded. They have called a short term hiatus on the DoS attacks in favour of Google bombing, as another means of raising awareness to their cause.

Will this get them attention? It seems that they have already got some attention, namely from European sources. The Dutch (here, here, and here) and German (here, here, here and here) news outlets have been taking note of these actions, as well as FOX. There is a full list of the coverage available here.

Why are we covering this? Because it’s amusing to see two groups, especially ones where the people to act in a brain-washed manner or rashly for a cause that will result in a large amount of collateral damage being done to both sides. Neither shall exeunt unscathed from the foray. The ones who will benefit most from this are the bloggers, pundits, media outlets and those who have acquired the documents that were released to the public; essentially anyone who is not directly involved.

At the end of it all, even if someone is busted in correlation to this, not everyone involved will be known because some people are better at others at covering their tracks and will have strategically planned their assault so it would be launched through a series of proxy servers, effectively leading to a trail of shattered glass and broken pieces of bits and bytes.

No one will be silenced by this so long as both sides believe so blindly in their cause that they would be martyrs for it; so they would be able to go to paradise and redeem their 72 virgins.

EDIT - In subsequent video response to one of the news reports released on a MSM network, NBC, Anonymous has released their video, stating that they have noticed that the MSM has failed to make the true motive of Anonymous known in their reporting and has hence failed.   That their purpose is to end the campaign of lies and deceit lain by CoS.

We would like to note that there is something odd about this.  The videos are well done and the script used is craftily and eloquently composed in order to make a case and point for Anomymous’ cause and crusade against the CoS.  Yet the site that is the main portal for this contains segments written by someone with a good comprehension of English while other segments amount to nothing more than childish scribblings on the kitchen wall in red crayon.

The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything. ~ Stalin

Different political and democratic movements have been symbolised by different colours; different parties representing different ideologies fly under their own banners. The most recent and most notable is the Orange Revolution in Ukraine that swept Viktor Yushchenko into power.

Back in the year of 2003, the US led an invasion of Iraq, claiming that it would be welcomed and that the people longed for democracy, having languished under a brutal dictatorial regime for too long. The nation of Iraq was never ready for an American style democracy, and the government they elected is not entirely democratic either.

Meanwhile in another part of the world, a massive pro-democracy movement has gained momentum despite years of opposition from the ruling party. The pro-democracy movement of Burma (Myanmar) has been gaining since the largest crackdown on protesters happened in 1988. The ruling Junta (Spanish for “committee”) during the student protests of ‘88 killed many, estimated in the thousands.

In Myanmar, there is an electricity to the air. The people have a yearning for democracy and the nation who could have brought it to its doorstep ignored the nation and went where it was ill-advised. They have taken to the streets in droves to protest the price inflation on fuel and other goods.

They have been joined by the highest spiritual authority in Myanmar, the monks. The monks serve the people and everyday make rounds; some bring their bowls with them to beg for alms. If the offering is rejected, the monk will turn his bowl upside down, meaning the person is ultimately spiritually damned.

The monks have very little and rely on the people for support who in turn look to the monks for their ultimate guidance. Even the Junta, who may be the ruling party, have a certain amount of respect for the monks and to ensure social order remains. The Junta grants the monks amenities, for which they hope will ensure the monks’ good graces.

But all that changed when the Junta realised that the monks held an incredible amount of real power over the people. That the monks could easily influence the people and help fuel the biggest democratic movement since 1988 when students and pro-democracy activists led protests against the Junta, demanding democratic freedoms.

The monks have led protests, with their numbers recorded at the peak as 100,000 before the Junta took action against the protestors by locking down the capital and driving the monks back into the temples; locking them in. With the monks barred in their temples, the Junta could clear the streets.

The protests got their life from the monks but without the monks protests have died down.

Fear keeps democracy from coming out of the ashes of ruins.

The people have grown silent as the monks are locked up and some have been killed.

Yet the people want democracy. It’s being denied to them by a violent Junta.

Meanwhile there is no room for democracy to grow and flourish unfettered in Iraq. Secretariat violence rules that country while it grows divided along religious and ethnic lines.

Democracy was brought in by people who didn’t know what the population wanted.

The population of Myanmar longs for that democracy; the democracy brought to Iraq at the tip of the gun’s barrel. They want the democracy that the Iraqis are failing to implement. They want the democracy that the American government says should be spread around the world but instead they are ignored. They offer nothing for those who can bring them democracy.

Tragically they are still waiting while their monks are tortured and killed. The monks who showed the people the way; the ones who lit the path to democracy.

Those who yearn for democracy see nothing but bloodshed and the internal gut of a dark unforgiving cell of political oppression and those who have democracy thrust upon them show no gratitude for the freedoms granted under such a system

Nothing like petty diplomatic conflicts to keep the world going round.

Back in January of this year, during a raid on a consulate in Irbil, northern Iraq, the American forces seized 5 Iranian diplomats. American contends that the 5 men it arrested were not diplomats engaged in consular activities but rather supporters on the ongoing insurgency in Iraq.

Fast forward to late March; March 23rd. In the Persian Gulf; in Iraqi waters, according to the British, and in Iranian waters, according to Iran, 15 UK sailors and marines were captured at gun point on the the charge of having violated international law by straying into Iranian waters.

For a tense couple of weeks, we waited for the issue to resolve itself, and as time wore on, the Iranian military paraded the captured 15 British sailors and marines on television, as each supposedly confessed to having violated international law by straying into Iranian waters while searching for a wayward merchant vessel.

When the reminder of the American raid on the Iranian consulate came up, Iran denied having taken the British sailors and marines captive in response to the Americans’ unwillingness to release the 5 diplomat, whom both Iraq and Iran have declared to be diplomats, despite American insistence that the men were supporters of the insurgency.

This row reminds me of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, in which a group of militant university students seized the American embassy in Tehran and took the diplomats and staff hostage for 444 days (November 1979-March 1981). This attack, the hostage crisis, occurred at the end of the Carter administration. His administration’s failed attempt to free the hostages spelt political suicide and the end of his career, and it gave his successor, Regan a leg up in freeing the Americans. In the end, it wasn’t either presidency that really ended the crisis, but rather the actions of a man, Canadian ambassador to Iran, Ken Taylor, dubbed the ‘Canadian Caper‘. Taylor secured the freedom for six of the diplomats by issuing them with Canadian passports, allowing for them to leave.

Recently, during this newest row, Mr Taylor had spoken with CBC and during his interview suggested that Iran wasn’t going to harm the hostages as much as it wanted to stick it to the west just to make a point.

Articles published during the recent days also suggest the same thing, as it is apparent that the sailors and marines have said that their Iranian “hosts” didn’t mistreat them. This of course comes while they are in custody, but that may change when they are release. Or it may not…

However, in a strange, but welcomed twist of events, the Iranian government had decided in the end to release the 15 sailors and marines as a “gift” to the British for Easter, as Easter is also the time in which the prophet Muhammed has his birthday.

“On the occasion of the birthday of the great Prophet (Muhammad) … and for the occasion of the passing of Christ, I say the Islamic Republic government and the Iranian people — with all powers and legal right to put the soldiers on trial — forgave those 15,” Ahmadinejad said, referring to the Muslim Prophet’s birthday and the Easter season.
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Ahmadinejad said he was sorry that the sailors and marines had been arrested, and he criticized Britain for sending Faye Turney, one of the 15 detainees, into the Gulf, pointing out that she is a woman with a child.

“How can you justify seeing a mother away from her home, her children? Why don’t they respect family values in the West?” he asked of the British government.

This doesn’t change the fact that Ahmadinejad did say in his speech that the Iranian government did have the right to try the British sailors and marines on the charge of trespassing into Iranian waters. He did however extend forgiveness to the 15 sailors and marines who are returning to Britain by the end of the week.

When the detainees were released, Ahmadinejad had been there to speak with the crew.

When has Bush ever given the time of day to anyone America has captured in his last six to seven years in office?

When has he ever thought of looking at the current climate of affairs and trying to rationalise how it came to this, or even contemplated releasing people who were innocents caught up in a witch hunt and arrest for breathing while Muslim?

No government, for for that matter, no one is perfect, but at least there are still world leaders who try and play by the rules of the game, even if they don’t admit when they’re wrong.

Iran to free sailors as ‘gift’ to British people
Ahmadinejad’s final flourish

About five and a half years and two wars later, a revelation hits the airwaves, the person responsible for master-minding one of the greatest attacks against civilian populations in history is not who the American government has claimed. Osama bin Laden is but a speck of dust in comparison. There is a new player, a new kid on the block who has confessed to being the one who help to orchestrate the attacks. His name, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. He lays claim to a number of significant attacks against the US.

“I was responsible for the 9/11 operation, from A to Z,” said Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in a partial transcript from a closed-door hearing.

There was no mention of bin Laden’s name in the transcript of his confession. The absence of the name leaves the door open for wild theories, and the question, does bin Laden really exist if at all, or are we chasing a phantom through the wild outback of Afghanistan? Is the War on Terror chasing after an invisible enemy, just like the War on Drugs?

For the first few years of the 21^st century we have been led to believe that a millionaire Saudi, by the name of Osama bin Laden was responsible for the attacks and much more yet, after the attacks, while there were tapes of him praising the attacks, he never did claim responsibility for the attacks, the American government only claimed that he did. We have been reminded through the media that it was al-Qaeda who was responsible for the attacks and that the Taleban was also partially responsible, and that Iraq was linked to al-Qaeda.

We were told that Iraq supplied al-Qaeda with the terrorists. Yet the hijackers who flew the plans into the World Trade Centres, Pentagon and into the field in Pennsylvania, are overwhelmingly from Saudi Arabia. But, the Americans led a coalition to invade Iraq.

We were told that bin Laden was hiding in somewhere in the Tora Bora region of Afghanistan and that we needed to find him and bring him to justice, yet the man who has claimed to be the mastermind behind the attacks is from Kuwait.

Is it any surprise that cockamine theories about the 9/11 attacks continue to permeate the vast reaches of the internet today; where conspiracy theorists can post their ideas anonymously? There is so much secrecy. The American government isn’t telling us anything and yet expecting support from other world governments. It expects us to blindly follow them as they police the world.

In the five and a half years since the attacks, there has been little information made available to the public and what they feed us is complete and utter tripe. The governments are hiding something, and the people have a right to know.

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