A Message To Journalists

DEAR JOURNALISTS OF THE WORLD,

You were intrigued by us when we took on the financial sector by attacking Visa, Mastercard, and Paypal as part of Operation Payback. Many of you became enamoured with us during Operation Tunisia and applauded our efforts. Some of you are now paying close attention to Operation Algeria. We know that we have gained support from even a few of you. Those few are hoping against hope that our unconventional methods will continue to have an effect on people, perhaps even the world. Those few admire us, if for no other reason than the fact that, in a world full of apathy, a world filled with people who don't even bother to read the information you painstakingly present, we are trying to do something. This intrigues you. At the very least, it inspires you to keep an eye on us, hoping we continue to take newsworthy actions.

You know that, whether you are risking your own safety - perhaps even your own life - to share the truth, or whether you are beholden to your dictators or your advertisers, unable to write anything they do not approve, we, Anonymous, are on your side and are fighting for you and your freedoms. You, the journalists, reporters, and bloggers. You, the newspapers, television networks and websites who hunt down and disseminate information. We are fighting for you.

Some of you have recorded milestones of our efforts. Some of you have reported upon them, and some of you have even participated in our fight. You are the press, and you have our gratitude.

We need your help now. From North Africa to Gaza, people are rising up and risking their lives to demand nothing more than basic rights, an end to the corruption, and a fair chance to progress in life. What the Western world is unaware of, and the Western media largely ignores, is the fact that the people protesting and the people dying in the Arab world are just like them. They have the same desire for basic freedoms, similar ambitions for themselves and for their family and friends, the same inherent intelligence and, the same keen sense of injustice as their counterparts in the West when oppressed.

Here is where we need your help. We ask you, the journalists, to bring to the rest of the world the humanity of these revolutions. What we are witnessing are not extremist acts that are committed by misled, ignorant people. Indeed, they are committed by intelligent, but desperate people - people willing to sacrifice themselves in order to inspire their fellow citizens to rally against their oppressors. The world needs human news. The world needs to know who it is that needs their support, and not just the number of casualties or the politics involved.

What we ask is simple. There are people protesting in Algeria, Egypt, Yemen, Albania, Libya, and many other countries at this very moment. Tell us who they are and what it is they want for their country and their people, for now and in the future. So many voices are raised in protest right now and all the world can hear is the noise. Tell us what the people are saying.

Some of you will ignore this message. It announces no new operations, as we are still focusing our efforts on Operation Algeria. This message issues no threats, as you are the press and are always safe from us. If you heed our request, however, it could make all the difference in the world, as it made a difference for the Tunisians to know that they were speaking and the world was hearing their message. Help us do this for Algeria, Egypt, and other countries where the people are imploring to be heard.

Signed,


Anonymous.

We are Anonymous.
We do not forgive the denial of basic human rights.
We do not forget those who assist the oppressed.
To the Tyrannical governments of the world... Expect us.


Full text of the press release as pdf file:
http://www.pdf-archive.com/2011/01/25/jan25pressrelease/jan25pressrelease.pdf

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[TimeKeeperEnigma]

We are Anonymous

We are legion

We do not forgive

We do not forget

Expect us.

[titaniumreplicant]

EXPECT US!

[suplextrain]

People would have more respect for you if you didn't use all this dorky as hell 'hurr anonymous is legion' crap and guy fawkes masks.

You want to come off as "cool", but you're doing the exact same sh*t as all those pre-teens that use xXDark4ngelSephirothXx as online nicks.

But if you want to come off as a joke, then go right ahead.

[magusn27]

The Libyan Protests were paid provocateurs to cause unrest in a country that protected its people, Not many people know that Gaddafi gave the people free electricity, free water, paid 50% of the value of a new home to married couples, paid 50% of the value of a new car. Gave the people dividends of the oil revenue and he paid for their education. Does this sound like an evil man? That is where the lies of the Rothschild media came in, Rothschild wanted the the Libyan revenue to go to him!

[LaurenCantSing]

I love you, anon. I. Fucking. Love you. You are all so amazing. :) Keep up your work.

[DeathofSpeech]

@JaimesPhazon

So... my being unwilling to kill for your god, would make me immoral by your self asserted standard.

I am also unwilling to kill a child for any reason... in fact, there is a laundry list of things I'm unwilling to do, which your book condones and excuses as acts performed and acts commanded by your god.

I am measurably more moral than your imaginary friend.

You and your god have been PWD... Class dismissed.

[DeathofSpeech]

@JaimesPhazon

...and if you claim that your god's morality is transcendent, then you assert that good is defined as inherent in any act of your god...

So, any act that your god demonstrated a willingness to do himself would be good by definition, and you would have no reason to feel disgust at or make excuses for killing in your god's name, as your book demands that you must to remain faithful to your god.

So... you have no excuse for not killing the first woman you see with her head uncovered

[DeathofSpeech]

@JaimesPhazon

...if your answer is that god would never ask you to do such a thing then you admit to the horrific immorality of Joshua and by extension then your god.

If you say, "but that's old testament" then you deny that your god is all knowing and all powerful, because a perfect omniscient god has no cause ever to change his mind.

If you say that you would kill for god... you may be quickly discounted as dangerously insane.

[DeathofSpeech]

@JaimesPhazon

Further you will claim that he rose from the dead after sacrificing himself to himself...

Sacrifice, means to give something up permanently and without recourse... so there was no sacrifice.

...and what of the children?

Tell me Sparky, if god told you to kill your neighbor and take his house as your own, and to kill everyone including the children who were in the house, would you do so without question and without hesitation?

[DeathofSpeech]

@JaimesPhazon

Morality? ROFL that's a laugh coming from a christian.

I'm measurably more moral than your god, and I'm willing to demonstrate that... are you willing to defend your god's morality?

You claim that god embodied himself as an innocent, and then killed himself to atone for sins that he fashioned in man himself.

This abdicates responsibility for the crime, punishing an innocent rather than the guilty.

That isn't morality, that's pointless human sacrifice.