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America’s
most powerful protest groups are joining forces to warn elected officials that
they will be held accountable for their actions. The campaign is called Our
Polls and its being launched with help from both Anonymous and the Occupy
movement.
The AnonOps Communications website revealed details early Monday this week regarding the
hacktivist collective’s latest campaign. Along with the nation-wide Occupy Wall
Street movement, Anonymous says they are going after the politicians in America
that supported legislation that both entities have largely advocated against.
“Elected
officials serve one purpose — to represent their constituents, the people who
voted them into office,” reads a statement posted to the website. “Last year,
many of our elected officials let us down by giving in to deep-pocketed
lobbyists and passing laws meant to boost corporate profits at the expense of
individual liberty.”
The
legislation in question include the National Defense Authorization Act for
Fiscal Year 2012, the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act. In an act
of retaliation aimed at those that supported these bills, the groups have
released a roster of politicians that have not only expressed favor for the laws,
but that are also up for reelection this year.
“You are
one person. You have one vote. Use that vote on November 6 to hold your elected
official accountable for supporting bills such as NDAA, SOPA and PIPA,” reads
their statement.
Although
both SOPA and PIPA have been halted in Congress, the NDAA was successfully
signed into law by US President Barack Obama on December 31, 2011, granting the
commander-in-chief the power to authorize the military detainment of American
citizens without ever bringing charges against them.
“Our
Senators and Representatives showed how little they cared about personal
freedoms when they voted overwhelmingly to pass the National Defense
Authorization Act (NDAA),” reads Monday’s statement, which also calls the act
“a prominent threat to the inalienable due process rights of every US citizen
as laid out in the Constitution.”
“It allows
the military to engage in civilian law enforcement, and to suspend due process,
habeas corpus or other constitutional guarantees when desired. Our congressmen
passed one of the greatest threats to civil liberties in the history of the
United States.”
Similar
legislation in the vein of the failed SOPA and PIPA acts have also been drafted
since their defeat, which critics fear could cause the US government to
implement a veil of censorship over the World Wide Web. Although activists with
both Anonymous and Occupy have openly opposed such laws in the past, the latest
campaign will at last bring both bodies together to protest any other damning
legislation.
According
to a statement released Monday, both groups aim to make sure that any lawmaker
chosen by the American people will walks away Election Day a loser if they
support any such acts.
“We are
calling on voters, activists and keyboard warriors under all banners to unite
as a single force to unseat the elected representatives who threaten our
essential freedoms and who were so quick to minimize our individual
constitutional rights for a quick corporate profit,” they write.
Although
both Anonymous and OWS are described as leaderless movement with no formal
organization, the AnonOps Communication website and its related Twitter
accounts have served as an unofficial conduit of sorts in terms of relaying
information pertaining to the hacktivist collective. The site has previously
announced, confirmed and commented on hacks and other campaigns credited to Anonymous.
During last
week’s installment of Anonymous’ #FuckFBIFriday campaign, the group tackled the
website of GEO Group, Inc., a multi-national private prison management firm
operated out of Florida. In a statement that accompanied that hack, operatives
aligned with the Anon collective announced another plan put together in
cooperation with the Occupy movement. In that instance, both groups intend to
join forces on Tuesday this week to march in cities across America to demand an
end to the suppression of the OWS movement. Hacktivists with Anonymous have
also previously condemned law enforcement agencies across America for violently
responding to the occupier's peaceful demonstrations which began last September
in New York.
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