Westboro Baptist Church Taunts Anonymous Hackers: 'Bring It, Cowards'

[meegbear]

The online hacktivist collective Anonymous first came into being to protest the Church of Scientology in 2008. After rising to prominence with recent pro-Wikileaks attacks against Mastercard, Visa and Paypal, the group is returning to its church-bashing roots. Anonymous' next target appears to be the hate-spewing Westboro Baptist Church. They may have met their match.

Yesterday, Anonymous issued an ultimatum to the congregants of the Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church.

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Unbelievably, Westboro did not respond by shutting down its web site, or swearing never to protest another soldier's funeral. The 24-year-old granddaughter of Westboro founder Fred Phelps, Megan Phelps-Roper instantly shot back on Twitter:

Thanks, Anonymous! Your efforts to shut up God's word only serve to publish it further. God did that! Our response to you? Bring it, cowards -- Megan Phelps-Roper

And later, Westboro issued their own hilarious open letter:



She's right. If the point of an Anonymous attack on Westboro is to humiliate them, there is no point. Nothing Anonymous could do to Westboro would be worse than what they do to themselves: Protesting soldiers' funerals with enormous multicolored signs declaring"Thank God for Dead Soldiers," or putting out parody YouTube videos like "Hey Evil Reprobate Jews" (sung to the tune of "Hey Jude.")? And if an attack is meant to draw attention to their misdeeds, Who doesn't already know Westboro is scum? They revel in their repugnance. In the parlance of the Internet, Westboro are Master Trolls. Haters only make them famous.

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http://gawker.com/#!5765521/westboro-baptist-church-taunts-anonymous-hackers-bring-it-cowards

[inademv]

1. It's just a troll fight

2 groups pissing on each other while standing in an ocean of piss.

[TaylorWatts]

2. Agreed this is dumb. WBC only does what they do for attention and winning lawsuits

[Teaser]

3. the lulz from this episode could be significant.

.

[tanyev]

4. Be careful what you ask for, WB"C".

[xchrom]

5. i thought anonymous said it was all a hoax -- not committed by them? nt

[IScreamSundays]

6. I was just checking this thread to find out if Anon one "brung" it yet...

when I saw your post xchrom. So is that right?

[xchrom]

7. there was a thread about an announcement from anonymous that the

original throw down from anonymous was a hoax.

in fact -- according to the announcement -- anonymous doesn't put it past WBC for concocting the whole thing.

here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x470034

Source: AnonNews

Dear Phred Phelps and WBC Phriends,

So we've been hearing a lot about some letter that we supposedly sent you this morning. Problem is,
we're a bit groggy and don't remember sending it. Our best guess is that you heard about us on that
newfangled TV of yours and thought we might be some good money for your little church.
You thought you could play with Anonymous. You observed our rising notoriety and thought you
would exploit our paradigm for your own gain. And then, you thought you could lure some idiots into a
honeypot for more IPs to sue.

This is not so foreign to us; as you may have heard, we trade in Lulz. You just do not have enough to
offer right now.

While Anonymous thanks you for your interest, and would certainly like to take a break and have some
fun with you guys, we have more pressing matters to deal with at the moment.
But, we will keep this application on file, and will certainly contact you if any openings become
available in future.

Next time, don't call us. We'll call you.

Read more: http://anonnews.org/?p=press&a=item&i=494

[HughBeaumont]

8. Oh my God, you shit bigots are fucked beyond repair now.

Careful, Fred. You can't beat Anonymous with an ax handle like you beat your family with.

[Poll_Blind]

9. And somewhere, someone is typing "ls -la" at the command prompt of an orbital laser array.

Tetsuoooooooooo!

PB