Thursday, November 10, 2011

Anonymous target 2012 presidential election

Edited: 08 November, 2011, 15:14

A new video posted to the Web over the weekend reveals plans from the hacking collective Anonymous to target the 2012 US presidential election, and it seems their first attack will be during next year’s Iowa Caucus.
In the YouTube clip uploaded in recent days, a digitized voice calls for other hacktivists aligned with Anonymous to wage an Occupy-style protest at the presidential candidates’ campaign offices in Des Moines, Iowa next month, and then help shut down the state’s caucuses slated to begin on January 3. Though Anonymous have often waged computer attacks and other demonstrations for political purposes, this would mark the first time the hacktivists have attempted to take down a presidential election in America.
The reason for the protests, says the Anonymous spokesperson, is that the Democratic and Republican parties are not worthy of representing the voices of the Americans whom they have disenfranchised.
“Both parties are funded by the same mega corporations,” the narrator announces in the brief video. “The same corporations that fund political campaigns; the same corporations that buy lobbyists; the same corporations that operate the United States governments.”
"Voting for these parties is unethical," the voice adds. "They have destroyed the American democracy." According to the Anonymous video, the candidates are committed to “serve the private interests of the major corporations” rather than the millions of Americans who must make a decision come Election Day. As a result, the collective is calling for the occupation of the offices on December 27, and from there is asking protesters to "peacefully shut down the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses on January 3."

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