Westboro Baptist church

Meh. The message was wordy and poorly organized.

 

oh, you can make a better one??

They did what they said they would do

 

I thought the Anonymous message was succinct.

Anonymous, Jester, and UGNazi did their promised work...

From Huffington Post-

"The Twitter accounts of two prominent members of the hate-mongering group were apparently infiltrated this week by members of the infamous hacker collective UG Nazi.

On Monday, Wired.com confirmed that 15-year-old whiz kid "Cosmo the God," a prolific member of the UG Nazi "hacktivist" group, had successfully carried out a takeover of @DearShirley, the Twitter account opened by WBC spokeswoman Shirley Lynn Phelps-Roper.

The Washington Post details the hijacking of Phelps-Roper's account:

Phelps-Roper apparently sent her last authentic tweet hours after the Sandy Hook tragedy, announcing that the controversial group planned to picket outside the funerals of Newtown victims. Cosmo broke into the account on Monday morning, changing Phelps-Roper’s background to an illustration that said “pray for Newtown” and editing her profile information.

Several hours after the takeover, Twitter finally got wind of the hack and suspended Phelps-Roper's @DearShirley account. But before it did so, UG Nazi, according to Gizmodo, managed to wreak some havoc, tweeting out a link to the woman's phone number, posting a White House petition to recognize the WBC as a hate group and posting a number of tweets celebrating the account's takeover. On Thursday afternoon, Twitter had apparently restored @DearShirley, but the account hadn't yet been scrubbed of the remnants of Cosmo's romp.

The hacker group did not stop there, however.

On Wednesday evening, they set their sights on the Twitter account of Fred Phelps Jr., son of the church's vitriolic leader, Fred Phelps.

According to Wired, Cosmo and UG Nazi took over @WBCFredJR "via Phelps’ Hotmail account, which he gained entry to by forwarding the password-reset phone number on the Hotmail account to the phone number he controlled." The account was suspended some time after that; it was still unavailable on Thursday afternoon."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/20/hackers-westboro-baptist-church_n_2339135.html

 

The whole argument about WBC being able to basically do what they want because of their 1st amendment rights doesn't flush with me.

Their thoughts and their speech severely suck in every way, imo...but that isn't the issue here.

They do a great deal more than exercise "free speech". They take action. THAT should be stopped. I'm just glad there have been literally walls of people that have stopped the action these sorry asses have planned and hoped to achieve. I'm also quite surprised that somebody amongst the grieving people they have tried their best to harass haven't "taken terminal action" against them. I won't say that WBC won't start shooting people, but I do feel they are a bunch of cowards that only have "strength" in numbers and yapping their mouths. (I'm using the word "strength" quite loosely here.) Their action takes place when they are in numbers.

Anonymous ROCKS. :2thumbsup:

 

hehe, go Cosmo!

 

If they don't deserve rights because you don't like what they're saying, you wouldn't deserve rights yourself.... but I can't say that, it's harsh, you just don't understand the nature of rights.