This is hypocritical and wrong. I don't like the Westboro Baptist Church any more than anyone else, but it isn't right for the hacker group known as Anonymous to retaliate in this way, by making these threats, while advocating some weird version of free speech that excludes those that society sees (let's be honest) as a pain in the ass. Pains in the ass deserve free speech too. For today, I support the Westboro Baptist Church. We can be better than this, people. If we try to take away the freedoms of others by fear and intimidation, we don't deserve those freedoms ourselves.
CBS News Reports :
"A group of hacktivists acting under the banner, "Anonymous," has warned a church with a controversial history that unspoken retribution will follow it continues its practice of inflammatory protests.
"In an open letter to the Westboro Baptist Church, Anonymous has put the anti-gay, fundamentalist church on notice that "the damage incurred will be irreversible," and that "neither your institution nor your congregation will ever be able to fully recover." "
For the full article, including a full copy of the open letter by Anonymous, visit:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501465_162-20033942-501465.html
