Anonymous Denies List of KKK Members after Politicians Respond
Source: Newsweek
Last week, Anonymous said it would soon release the identities of about 1,000 members of the white supremacist organization. Anonymous is expected to release the details on Thursday, the day of the global protest movement known as the Million Mask March, in which demonstrators around the world will march in a protest against corrupt governments and corporations.
Anonymous denies it has any connection to the list of names, which was published Saturday on the website Pastebin. Most of the politicians included on the listfour Republican senators, four Democratic mayors and a Republican mayorhave denied the claims.
There is no evidence immediately apparent that confirms the details posted on the website. The posting user is identified as "Amped Attacks."...(more at link)...
Read more: http://www.newsweek.com/politicians-respond-names-alleged-kkk-list-389874
Snopes also says the story is "false/undetermined".
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)3 hours ago
The anons at the helm of this initiative vouch ONLY for the dox list that will be released from this Twitter account on November 5 2015.
Operation KKK Retweeted
Anonymous ?@YourAnonNews 3 hours ago
The pastebin links sent to us regarding #OpKKK were sent to us by Anonymous individuals. The actual release for Operation KKK will be 5 Nov.
Operation KKK Retweeted
Anonymous ?@YourAnonNews 2 hours ago
First instance of the pastebin links being mentioned on twitter: https://twitter.com/YourAntiSec/status/660872796571115520 <- this is not the official November 5th release
Scuba
(53,475 posts)uppityperson
(115,678 posts)I am confused by your post, would you please clarify?
tblue37
(65,477 posts)Last edited Tue Nov 3, 2015, 01:49 AM - Edit history (1)
probably prove they are NOT members of the KKK is the red herring meant to undermine belief in the real list when it is published.
uppityperson
(115,678 posts)190 recs for "Several Republican Senators outed as members of the KKK by Anonymous"
10 for this thread.
It is well known that initial reports get the most coverage and are believed the longest, even if retracted of shown to be false.
It smel
wordpix
(18,652 posts)however, repukes like Cornyn still make me
uppityperson
(115,678 posts)Scuba
(53,475 posts)840high
(17,196 posts)to jump on everyone.
Kingofalldems
(38,468 posts)Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)uppityperson
(115,678 posts)It sounds like something he'd orchestrate.
Kingofalldems
(38,468 posts)rockfordfile
(8,704 posts)NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)It sounds a lot better to say you were caught by an orchestrated right wing conspiracy, rather than you simply fell for the first unsubstantiated nonsense posted by an anonymous person on the Internet that fed your confirmation bias.
Kingofalldems
(38,468 posts)What the hell are you talking about?
I got your 'confirmation bias'.
Demonaut
(8,924 posts)bravenak
(34,648 posts)When the repug names came out I eye rolled and thought here we go. Anybody can make up shit on the internet. Then the dem names came out. More eyerolls.
I just cannot imaging grown congressmen or politicians dancing around in wizard robes these days.
Too silly. They don't even need robes to get the job done.
No politician of any influence is going to join the Ku Klux Klan in 2015.
This isn't 1924, or 1964. The KKK as it exists today is a gauche organization of toothless hillbillies and federal informants who wield no real power in the south except as fodder for sensational documentaries and Hollywood bad guys.
Powerful Republican politicians belong to the best country clubs, golf at the most prestigious courses, eat at the nicest restaurants and hobnob with the elite 1%. They have just as much contempt for the slack-jawed, Confederate flag-waving rednecks who vote for them as they do the minorities who don't. They wouldn't be caught within 100 miles of a card-carrying Klan member, let alone sign up and pay dues.
They may be stupid but they're not that stupid.
Anonymous may have a list of 1000 names but anyone expecting Senators or Representatives amongst these names will likely be disappointed. Hell, 900 of them are probably undercover federal agents!
warrprayer
(4,734 posts)Or someone like him.
NobodyHere
(2,810 posts)We're talking about hackers who's identities are unknown breaking the security of websites and stealing information. Libel would be the least of their concerns, if ever caught.
uppityperson
(115,678 posts)The Second Stone
(2,900 posts)denounce the KKK and racism as un-American and unacceptable. No KKK member would do such a thing, and every politician elected in this country should.
Lodestar
(2,388 posts)forced into taking to show their loyalty to that 'other' klan called the GOP.
uppityperson
(115,678 posts)rockfordfile
(8,704 posts)you clearly have right wingers here at Democratic Underground still trying to pushing this list. You see this coming a mile back.
uppityperson
(115,678 posts)this thread?