The poll’s countdown clock indicates the information will be released on October 29.
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The feud between the KKK and Anonymous began during the unrest in Ferguson, Mo. a year ago when the Klan said it would attack the Ferguson protesters, an NBC story said.
It’s being reported that the group, who famously hacked the Central Intelligence Agency in the past and officially declared war on terrorists after the Charlie Hebdo massacre, has released 20 emails and over 40 phone numbers of members of the KKK throughout the country.
In its statement addressed to the members of the KKK, Anonymous didnt pull any punch in its assessment of the group: After closely observing so many of you for so very long, we feel confident that applying transparency to your organizational cells is the right, just, appropriate and only course of action.
“You have been warned by the Ku Klux Klan!”, the pamphlets stated.
Anonymous reportedly confirmed the rest of the identities will be published on Thursday.
Misty Meister was walking down a street in Lahoma, Okla., on Halloween night when she saw a group of adults wearing Ku Klux Klan robes and, she claims, burning a cross.
“Today we have shut down servers, gotten personal information on members of the KKK, and infiltrated your twitters and websites”, Anonymous said in a press release Sunday, according to the Hill’s report. In response, Anonymous took control of the official Twitter account of the KKK chapter and published details of a few members’ identities.
Lexington mayor Jim Gray is responding to allegations that he’s connected to a hate group.
In a statement released last week as part of #OpKKK’s revival, Anonymous stated: “We are not attacking you because of what you believe in as we fight for freedom of speech”.
“However, many people and children were out for evening festivities”, she said. We must have a violation of the law to make arrests, as the fire was legal, the consumption of alcohol was on private property, and no one had stated anyone made threats of violence acts to the deputy at that time. “It’s false. And I, you know, am offended by any suggestion that I ever had anything to do with the KKK”.
The last time we took your hoods off, you claimed to be misunderstood.
Anonymous that we awakened a sleeping giant within you.
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“It’s just more character assassination in an unbridled social media”, he said.
