Feb 10 Anon vs. Scientology
February 10th, 2008Well look what we have here, Anonymous actually showed up. And here I figured this was all just going to fall apart into a massive sweaty pile of failed Internets conspiracy. Don’t get me wrong, Anonymous isn’t going to take out the Scientology people. Not by a long shot. But for a loosely-knit, leaderless mob of image board junkies to get helicopters and riot police involved far exceeds my low, low expectations.
Looks like nobody got nutty and started firebombing stuff, and I don’t see a bunch of mainstream press on the matter (a quick search shows some local coverage in various places, though). Lots of folks have been uploading photos to Flickr documenting their events, with the results ranging from ominously-large crowds of people in masks and fake afros to sad little hodgepodges of a couple guys with fliers.
February 16th, 2008 at 6:25 pm
I had no idea that there were this many “V for Vendetta” props floating around.
February 16th, 2008 at 11:29 pm
It’s nutty, but you can still buy them for about twenty-five bucks online. I rather prefer the gas masks that some people brought. Kinda gives the impression that they’re expecting something to happen that’d precipitate the use of teargas.
February 17th, 2008 at 11:15 am
As opposed to “expecting screening of bad Natalie Portman movie”
February 17th, 2008 at 1:05 pm
No, that would be a throng of people in Jar-Jar Binks masks.