The War Rages On

Day two of the all out assault on the Westboro Baptist Church continues today as the WBC headed to the funerals of Sandy Hook victims to protest. Firefights from Fairfield County, Connecticut as well as other activists were there to form a human wall to block the WBC protesters from the scene of the funeral.

On the ground was a man named Jake Esker, who with his iPhone documented the counter-protest until his phone unfortunately died. While back at his car to charge the phone up he saw a camera man which he stopped to ask what was happening.

The camera man informed Jake that the WBC would not be protesting today, only because the funerals would not be taking place. I’m still unsure if the funeral was postponed or if it was even meant to happen today.

This isn’t stopping WBC, however. In an email intercepted by the group Anonymous from WBC members which indicates they may in fact leave Connecticut to protest something back in Kansas, their home state. Although @YourAnonNews has reported that #OccupyNewtown is still in effect because the WBC will not leave Connecticut until the funerals have passed. Below is a copy of the email that was intercepted. 

So if this is any indication that WBC is leaving to go home then does that mean Anonymous won? Of course, but the war isn’t over yet. The group as vowed to destroy the organization, and with their strike planned for this Friday all bets are open to what will happen. So far Anonymous has attacked the WBC in many ways. They have hacked Shirley Phelps-Roper’s Twitter account @DearShirley, changed her desktop background to gay porn, disclosed the WBC members contact information, ordered tons of pizzas to known WBC member’s homes, prank calls, hacking WBC member’s email accounts and more.

However, last nights confusion over where the WBC members were staying was up in the air. Many thought that the members were staying at a Motel 6 in Southington, but according to a tweet by Fred Phelps JR that was not so. 

Either way it doesn’t matter where they stayed. It does matter I guess who allows them to lodge seeing as how I wouldn’t want to support a company that allows these types of people to stay in there establishment. They still got to the cemetery to protest, but they were thwarted not only by the firefighters and other people building the human wall, but by Anonymous themselves.

But what of the funerals that were suppose to take place today? Were they postponed or were they even supposed to have happen? How long will WBC stay in Connecticut? They spent the money to get there so will they even make due with their threats to protest at this point, or have the good samaritans scared them off? Only time will tell.

I will continue to be on the front lines reporting what happens next in this. In the mean time follow me on Twitter @Turk_Reno and add me as a friend on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/reno.erde as I will be constantly updating my feed and what’s going with in Connecticut.

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Jake Esker’s Streaming Video

TWITTER TAGS: #OpWBC #OpWestboro #Anonymous #Sandyhook #Newtown #OccupyNewtown #godhatesfags.com #Renosblog  

Hack Attack! Anonymous' Offensive Against Westboro Baptist Church

Anyone who knows what’s going on with the hacker group known as Anonymous and the hateful mother fuckers at the Westboro Baptist Church knows that right now, as of this very moment, the WBC website GodHatesFags.com is currently offline. The site has been DDoS’d which stands for Distributed Denial of Service. That means that someone has sent the website so many requests that the server cannot keep up with, thus taking the website off the internet until it can handle the amount of requests either by increasing bandwidth or just waiting for the amount of requests to recede or cease. 

This came about when WBC said in a tweet that they would picket the funerals of the children and adults who died last Friday in the shooting that took place at Sandy Hook Elementary School. The church (if you’re unfamiliar with these inbred throw backs) claims that God is upset with the fact that this country has allowed gay rights to such as the right to marry to pass legislation and that he is allowing horrible acts to occur in our country, such as the Connecticut school shooting, because of it.

These assholes actually plan on protesting these funerals, holding signs which read “God Hates Fags” “Fag is Sin” and prepare yourself for this crazy shit… “God Sent the Shooter”.  

The hacker group Anonymous has pledged to keep the WBC website down for as long as it takes, and apparently they plan to deface the site as well.

From the Article:

An Anonymous source has said it intends to keep the website offline throughout the day, with plans to take it over completely and deface it
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“We will continuously DDOS until they are forced to put their inbred church tithes to use to pay for bandwidth.”

But not only have they taken down the website and plan to deface it, ANON members are saying that they were able to…

 “change Phelps-Roper’s desktop background to gay porn, uncovered alleged social security numbers of key WBC members through the doxing process, and successfully filed for a death certificate for Phelps-Roper. The group has since tweeted out the alleged hotel where WBC members were staying and offered an IRC channel specifically to talk about its #OpWBC movement.”

Twitter is all abuzz with Anonymous and WBC news. Currently following a few tweeters here on #OpWBC and watching @YourAnonNews for breaking developments. The site seems to come up and go down, but right now it’s down. 

Currently Shirley Phelps’s twitter page has been taken over as well by someone known as @cosmothegod, who has already posted tweets about his victory. Hundreds of people are thanking the hackers for what they have done as well, one person saying, PLF @PLF2012: I do not ever recall an Anonymous Operation where we have received this many messages of gratitude in this short amount of time. #OpWBC

And according to @YourAnonNews, the WBC members have left a hotel in Connecticut after ANON leaked info about which hotel they would be staying at. A solid victory for Anonymous on this day, as not only has the GodHatesFags website been taken down, but they have also hit the members hard by releasing their contact info, and just generally causing massive amounts of issues for these useless throwbacks.

 
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(What do you think of the hacker group’s offensive against the Westboro Baptist Church? Comment below.)


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SALON ARTICLE

TWITTER POSTS: #WBC, #WestboroBaptistChurch, #OpWBC, @YourAnonNews

Anonymous Takes Down Westboro Baptist Church Website

Today the group known as Anonymous hacked the website of the Westboro Baptist Church in response to the church’s intentions to protest the funerals of the victims of the Sandy Hook school shooting that occurred in Connecticut on Friday. The Westboro Baptist Church (WBC for short) is well known for protesting funerals of soldiers who died while fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, claiming that they were killed in action by God because he was upset with our country for allowing gay rights to pass legislation. They’re plan to protest this upcoming funeral, which consists of twenty children ages 6 and 7, and six adults, who were killed when a mad man named Adam Lanza, age 20, forced his way into the school armed with two hand guns and a semiautomatic rifle and started shooting, saying that this was an act of God and that those who died were killed because God is upset with our country allowing gay marriage and other such civil rights.

WBC took a poke at the group (which I’ll just call ANON) a while back when they claimed that ANON sent them a message telling them they were going to be hacked for their hate messages. WBC responded to ANON in a message saying “bring it” and in a video where a member of ANON speaks with Shirley Phelps the member says that the message sent to WBC was a hoax and was never sent to them with any knowledge of the ANON group. Shirley Phelps continued to disagree with the ANON member, calling the group names and saying that no one will ever silence them and that the internet was created specifically for them to send out their hateful messages and that it is God’s will. After ten minutes of silliness ANON became impatient and shut down the WBC websites, replacing them with this message:

This domain has been seized by Anonymous under section #14 of the rules of the Internet.
Greetings Westboro Baptist Church,

If you're reading this, it means that Anonymous has lost its patience with you, likely because you've threatened us again after we denied you a war.

Your recent antics to gain media attention for yourself were found to be laughable. In response to your rather poorly-written "bring it" letter, wherein you tried to goad Anonymous into giving you yet more attention by calling us "crybaby hackers", we wrote, sincerely, a press release explaining clearly the hoax behind the initial declaration of war against your church.

We had thought this latest release would be enough to make you realize that we have no interest in going to war with you. Anonymous is hard at work with ongoing operations such as those involving Bahrain, Libya, and Iran, not to mention we are working tirelessly to maintain coverage of all our HBGary leaks for the public to enjoy.

Your continued biting of the Anonymous hand, however, has earned you a swift and emotionless bitchslap, in the form of this very message. Despite having had the capability to hack your sites previously, we chose not to and instead responded maturely to your threats, but you have not respected this.

For this unremitting display of overzealousness, we award you no points. Take this defacement as a simple warning: go away. The world (including Anonymous) disagrees with your hateful messages, but you have the right to voice them. This does not mean you can jump onto Anonymous for attention.
God hates fags: assumption. Anonymous hates leeches: fact.

Now after the tragic events that occurred in Connecticut WBC wants to picket the funerals, a truly unfathomable action, but hey they’ve done shit like this before. They’re crazy, and nothing is going to stop them from this craziness. Unless…maybe ANON could?

I asked a few for their opinions and the most conversation I got was from Bree Still, who believed that this is a case of media mongering and that both WBC and ANON are just going for the flavor of the month and that ANON is silly for doing this saying that WBC has already lost and it’s like kicking a dying rabid dog before it stops breathing. I happen to disagree, only because I dislike WBC so much and I think it’s great that ANON is willing to step in and disrupt their hate machine.

When WBC said they were planning on picketing the funerals ANON shut down their sites and sent them this nice little message:

"We will not allow you to corrupt the minds of America with your seeds of hatred. We will not allow you to inspire aggression to the social factions which you deem inferior. We will render you obsolete. We will destroy you. We are coming."

I think that WBC members should be ashamed of the things they say, do and feel about everything. I’m glad to see that members of ANON are willing to shut down the hate machine and disrupt their evil ways. What I would like to know is how much more will they do? I can’t wait to see this unfold.

I will agree with Bree on this one though. WBC has lost, it lost a long time again and the majority of America disregards their message. Hell even Fox News pundits don’t like the messages that WBC spreads, now that is saying something. But I don’t really mind watching this dying, rabid, evil wolf get kicked a few more times before it takes it’s last breath, and then maybe a good shock from a cattle prod.

(What do you think about Anonymous attacking the Westboro Baptist Church’s website because of their plan to picket the funerals of those who died at the Sandy Hook school shooting? Feel free to post a comment.)

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ARTICLE: Westboro Baptist ChurchHacked by Anonymous as Group Plans Protest at Sandy Hook Elementary School