Protest footage in NY, SHOCKING!

[Jumpin]

richardhutnik said:

Jumpin said:
The major problem with this protest is that the Anonymous group keeps trying to take over the protest, and they are doing things not in the spirit of the protest. Their very association with it does a lot of harm. It is like if right winged Muslim Fundamentalists supported the Liberal Party in the US.

Kids with entitlement issues posting videos with Catholic terrorist masks does not help anything. If the people of Anonymous really wished to support the movement, they would cease all association with it.

There is a difference between connecting with Guy Fawkes and V.  While the V character connects to Guy Fawkes, V character himself is connected with the graphic novel, and important to understand how that is different.

As for Anonymous, it is what it is, and is and it.  To say, flat out you hate Anonymous and are opposed to everything it stands for, is to say you believe the only individuals who should have privacy, and the ability to do things without detection, is governments and elite and powerful.  Problem with the methdology of being anonymous, which Anonymous incarnates is people who are extreme will get behind it.  But to kill it off completely, is to pave the way for a global totalitarian state.

They perform criminal acts (hacking) to get their point across. They're a bunch of spoiled kids in silly terrorist masks (or graphic novel masks, which is just completely silly) looking for an ego and power rush. It does not help to have them endorse a movement (let alone trying to take it over), in fact, it hurts it. The fact that they're continuously trying to put themselves before all of the other protesters is just showing that they're in it for ego reasons. Not only does the protest not need their endorsement, it would do better without their endorsement since then the message is not convoluted by this group of these idiot ego-trip kids in silly masks screaming about how awesome they are because they hack things.

The fact that they're acting like they're a voice of the masses and the protest, when they are not, is really hurting the image of the protest. As I said, it's like if fundamentalist right winged Islamics decided to become the voice of American Liberals to the world.