Anonymous: “Operation Last Resort: Not This Time. This Time There Will Be Change, Or There Will Be Chaos”
Zerohedge provides details here and here.
See this for background on Aaron Swartz. See this, this and this to understand how total America’s descent into injustice has become.
“Citizens of the world,
Anonymous has observed for some time now the trajectory of justice in the United States with growing concern. We have marked the departure of this system from the noble ideals in which it was born and enshrined. We have seen the erosion of due process, the dilution of constitutional rights, the usurpation of the rightful authority of courts by the “discretion” of prosecutors. We have seen how the law is wielded less and less to uphold justice, and more and more to exercise control, authority and power in the interests of oppression or personal gain.
We have been watching, and waiting.
Two weeks ago today, a line was crossed. Two weeks ago today, Aaron Swartz was killed. Killed because he faced an impossible choice. Killed because he was forced into playing a game he could not win — a twisted and distorted perversion of justice — a game where the only winning move was not to play.
Anonymous immediately convened an emergency council to discuss our response to this tragedy. After much heavy-hearted discussion, the decision was upheld to engage the United States Department of Justice and its associated executive branches in a game of a similar nature, a game in which the only winning move is not to play.
Last year the Federal Bureau of Investigation revelled in porcine glee at its successful infiltration of certain elements of Anonymous. This infiltration was achieved through the use of the *same tactics which lead to Aaron Swartz’ death. It would not have been possible were it not for the power of federal prosecutors to thoroughly destroy the lives of any hacktivists they apprehend through the very real threat of highly disproportionate sentencing.
As a result of the FBI’s infiltration and entrapment tactics, several more of our brethren now face similar disproportionate persecution, the balance of their lives hanging on the severely skewed scales of a broken justice system.
We have felt within our hearts a burning rage in reaction to these events, but we have not allowed ourselves to be drawn into a foolish and premature response. We have bidden our time, operating in the shadows, adapting our tactics and honing our abilities. We have allowed the FBI and its masters in government — both the puppet and the shadow government that controls it — to believe they had struck a crippling blow to our infrastructure, that they had demoralized us, paralyzed us with paranoia and fear. We have held our tongue and waited.
With Aaron’s death we can wait no longer. The time has come to show the United States Department of Justice and its affiliates the true meaning of infiltration. The time has come to give this system a taste of its own medicine. The time has come for them to feel the helplessness and fear that comes with being forced into a game where the odds are stacked against them.
This website was chosen due to the symbolic nature of its purpose — the federal sentencing guidelines which enable prosecutors to cheat citizens of their constitutionally-guaranteed right to a fair trial, by a jury of their peers — the federal sentencing guidelines which are in clear violation of the 8th amendment protection against cruel and unusual punishments. This website was also chosen due to the nature of its visitors. It is far from the only government asset we control, and we have exercised such control for quite some time…
There has been a lot of fuss recently in the technological media regarding such operations as Red October, the widespread use of vulnerable browsers and the availability of zero-day exploits for these browsers and their plugins. None of this comes of course as any surprise to us, but it is perhaps good that those within the information security industry are making the extent of these threats more widely understood.
Still there is nothing quite as educational as a well-conducted demonstration…
Through this websites [the sentencing website] and various others that will remain unnamed, we have been conducting our own infiltration. We did not restrict ourselves like the FBI to one high-profile compromise. We are far more ambitious, and far more capable. Over the last two weeks we have wound down this operation, removed all traces of leakware from the compromised systems, and taken down the injection apparatus used to detect and exploit vulnerable machines.
We have enough fissile material for multiple warheads. Today we are launching the first of these. Operation Last Resort has begun…
Warhead – U S – D O J – L E A – 2013 . A E E 256 is primed and armed. It has been quietly distributed to numerous mirrors over the last few days and is available for download from this website [the sentencing website] now. We encourage all Anonymous to syndicate this file as widely as possible.
The contents are various and we won’t ruin the speculation by revealing them. Suffice it to say, everyone has secrets, and some things are not meant to be public. At a regular interval commencing today, we will choose one media outlet and supply them with heavily redacted partial contents of the file. Any media outlets wishing to be eligible for this program must include within their reporting a means of secure communications.
We have not taken this action lightly, nor without consideration of the possible consequences. Should we be forced to reveal the trigger-key to this warhead, we understand that there will be collateral damage. We appreciate that many who work within the justice system believe in those principles that it has lost, corrupted, or abandoned, that they do not bear the full responsibility for the damages caused by their occupation.
It is our hope that this warhead need never be detonated.
However, in order for there to be a peaceful resolution to this crisis, certain things need to happen. There must be reform of outdated and poorly-envisioned legislation, written to be so broadly applied as to make a felony crime out of violation of terms of service, creating in effect vast swathes of crimes, and allowing for selective punishment. There must be reform of mandatory minimum sentencing. There must be a return to proportionality of punishment with respect to actual harm caused, and consideration of motive and mens rea. The inalienable right to a presumption of innocence and the recourse to trial and possibility of exoneration must be returned to its sacred status, and not gambled away by pre-trial bargaining in the face of overwhelming sentences, unaffordable justice and disfavourable odds. Laws must be upheld unselectively, and not used as a weapon of government to make examples of those it deems threatening to its power.
For good reason the statue of lady justice is blindfolded. No more should her innocence be besmirked, her scales tipped, nor her swordhand guided. Furthermore there must be a solemn commitment to freedom of the internet, this last great common space of humanity, and to the common ownership of information to further the common good.
We make this statement do not expect to be negotiated with; we do not desire to be negotiated with. We understand that due to the actions we take we exclude ourselves from the system within which solutions are found. There are others who serve that purpose, people far more respectable than us, people whose voices emerge from the light, and not the shadows. These voices are already making clear the reforms that have been necessary for some time, and are outright required now.
It is these people that the justice system, the government, and law enforcement must engage with. Their voices are already ringing strong with a chorus of determined resolution. We demand only that this chorus is not ignored. We demand the government does not make the mistake of hoping that time will dampen its ringing, that they can ride out this wave of determination, that business as usual can continue after a sufficient period of lip-service and back-patting.
Not this time. This time there will be change, or there will be chaos…
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Martin Luther King must be so ashamed.
Why? Please elabaorate on your statement about MLK. I think he was a great patriot for civil rights and freedoms. He was passionate but enduring and yet he abhorred violence. Why, why would he be ashamed?
They don’t hide. They are there, right out in public view or did you not see some of the protests from the Occupy Movement? Besides, you hide behind this site using a pseudonym (citixen) calling Anonymous warped and dimented. How are you so different? We don’t see your face either and you hide your real name. You also need to read the story behind Aaron Swartz. There was no real threat….only a person revealing the truth. He actually never distributed any material which is the basis for the charges that were filed. He was ramrodded by the powers of the FBI but not because he violated any laws….because he spoke the truth and the truth got noticed by the public. They used him as a target to tread down those who want the truth exposed. You, on the other hand, ARE worse than Bin Laden!
What a waste of time! If you are a dual income have children work for federal government yes! They have helped many if you. Even the ones smart enough to walj as soon as it all went upside down! If you had achieved more than one home and loss of income job health or single wage earner between the agents and banks you didnt stand a chance. In CA single women without children seniors and blacks were discriminated against. Even with the presidents plan or govenor calling them directly it was all a sham. Information was sent to them as early as 2008! Where have you been? There is no justice only criminals or those with cash flow get assistance numerous persons will get nothing or a high interest fixed loan on property 50/75 off value to loan ratio! At one time that is all homeowners wanted. To stay in their homes with reasonale payment! Then they were told Hey we will mark down principle. Hey dont make payments. Hey bunch of liars!! And once again it doesn’t matter and we are all still investing this negative energy making ourselves physically ill!! Like some attorney wants to take this on !! Ha!! They didnt pay attention to the President Att.Gen. or even CA. Gov.Get Real!!
More often than not I think of those who fought against the tyranny of England for the freedoms we share today. And yet, when you consider all that they endured, all they fought for…we take so lightly. We have failed to recognize the true spirit of freedom and even on that day in which we celebrate that anniversary the ‘real’ consequences of those who fought have been buried amongst the ashes of fireworks and material propaganda. We have allowed the controlers to bury the religious beliefs of those before us, setting them apart from the very written word that prompted our freedoms, shutting the door and allowing evil to prevail. Just imagine for a moment a day in the life of those freedom fighters…are they not so unlike the video that was just played?
Being involved in a case where the weight of the Oppression , and my families , right to due process are being truly violated by the Powers to be , I’m in total agreement with this information that the time has come to end this blaten arrogance ,and that these powers Who are in true violation of the Constititional rights , which were created , and equally set forth to protect the individual , are being abused by those who think that they are beyond Judgement . ENOUGH !!! of commiting crimes against the American family !!! and I thank GOD ! That thier Judgement is forth comming…
So it comes and so it shall be.
People who hide behind ‘anonymous’ identities and ‘declare war’ are WORSE than BIN LADEN. At least ‘he’ had followers: albeit warped and dimented like anonymous….