Anonymous Declares War On The City Of Orlando

[Bosonic]

Source: TechCrunch

The hacktivist group Anonymous may be setting its sights on the city of Orlando, Florida next, if an anonymous press release which has landed in our inbox is to be believed (see bellow). The group is threatening to take down a different city-related website every day, starting with Orlando Florida Guide, which doesn’t even appear to be owned by the city of Orlando (it is registered to an organization called Utopia, administered by a man named Steven Ridenour). So any random website extolling the virtues of Orlando could be targeted.

The DDOS attacks are justified in the press release as retaliation for the repeated arrests of members of a non-profit group called Food Not Bombs, which feeds homeless people in a park without a permit. The leader of the group, Keith McHenry, was also recently arrested.

Read more: http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/27/anonymous-declares-war-orlando/

[Mojorabbit]

1. I will be sitting here in Orlando watching.

Should be interesting but I don't see how this will help FNB or the situation they find themselves in.

[frustrated_lefty]

7. The reasoning

I think is that it draws attention to the issue. I'd like to think the majority of people would be outraged to discover the cause of the arrests.

[fasttense]

2. I can't believe they arrested people for feeding the poor and hungry.

They would have arrested Jesus for feeding 5,000 hungry people.

Only in America is feeding the hungry a crime.

[dixiegrrrrl]

8. A law passed by supposedly Christian council members, I think?

YEARS ago one of Francis Fox Pivens' first arguments was that "the poor" serve an important purpose, they can be used by the powerful to make non-poor people toe the line.
Many of the laws against the poor,the homeless, the mentally ill, the unemployed, the aged, and/or minority people is a deliberate means of making people afraid to fall into that category.
And in recent years we have have an intentional, planned movement to create even MORE of the "unwanted" class of people.

Ask yourself: Who benefits from that?

[quaker bill]

11. So many people miss the point in this

One of the commissioners created and runs one of the largest homeless service organizations in town. This has nothing to do with denying services to the poor. It is a pissing match between the protestors and the PTB over who gets to use the park for what purpose.

The homeless are entrained into this as a device to gain sympathy from the activist community. There is no essential need to feed the homeless at this location. They do not live there because anyone attempting to crash in the park is arrested. The park is heavily patrolled and has been for years, the landscape and lighting have been modified to prevent anyone from finding a place out of sight of the officers. The cops are on bikes, foot, and horseback and patrol the area every night. These people do not live there. To get the food at this park, they have to walk there from elsewhere. For the most part, the elsewhere they are walking from has plenty of legal locations to distribute food.

This is not about getting food to the poor as there are plenty of legal ways to do that, most of which are begging for volunteers and supplies.

[quaker bill]

9. Good, because they didn't

It is important to know that OFNB has entirely legal options to continue sharing food with the poor. For instance, they have been offered the use of the Greek Orthodox Church parking lot, directly across the street from where they are sharing food now in the park. There is no law against using this parking lot, no permit is required, and no one would be arrested. To them it is the principle of the thing. They want to share food in the park as a anti-war protest, so apparently, the parking lot across the street is unacceptable. I have this directly from the source, first person. I am on their e-mail distribution list, and members of OFNB attend our Meeting.

These folks were arrested for sharing food with more than 25 people, in the park, without a permit to do so. There are many places to share food that do not require such a permit. OFNB does not want to use them. This is a political statement, it is not about actually feeding the poor, even though the poor do get fed at these events. The two issues are seperable and therefore separate. There are lots of legal ways to feed the poor here, most of which are begging for supplies and volunteers. This is not what OFNB wants to do. They are using feeding the poor as a protest / political statement.

It is the protest that is getting them into hot water, not the sandwiches.

[trumad]

3. Love it...

[yodermon]

4. uggh.. we need more HB Gary Federal type attacks, not more DDoS ...zzzzz

[Selatius]

6. I hate to say, but corporate thugs really don't understand anything but a dirty war.

HB Gary is a prime example of how to get corporate thugs to back off.

[Selatius]

5. Arresting people for the so-called crime of feeding poor people in a park???

A city council that would pass such an ordinance is out of touch with the suffering of the poor and the downtrodden. What's wrong? Is it because too many corporations down there are afraid the presence of the poor will further depress residential and commercial real estate prices?

[fascisthunter]

10. yes... being Christ-Like is against the Law

[quaker bill]

12. no, it isn't