Anonymous plans start of "Operation Empire State" they want to topple all banks and remove Bernanke

[marybee]

Source: uniteandstate

"Most of us by now have heard about Anonymous. Anonymous has had its roots in various areas for a while now. Its primary targets tend to be a focused attempt at righting the wrongs of corporate monopolies and injustices that face the average person. Anonymous became a household known entity as it was exposed in its efforts to defend the operations of Wikileaks and Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. Their newest activities have revolved around shutting down various copyright agencies such as BMI as an attempt to fight back in the ongoing file sharing battle. A member of Anonymous who goes by the twitter name Operation Leaks has announced plans for releasing damning documents in the coming days that highlight corruption and Bank Of America. Operation Leaks has been teasing these Bank Of America releases via Twitter for the last several days. With operation Operation Empire State they are targeting the banking elite.

Ben Bernanke must step down and the Primary Dealers within the Federal Reserve banking system must be broken up and held accountable for rigging markets and destroying the global economy effective immediately."

Read more: http://www.uniteandstate.com/column/121/anonymous+and+their+peaceful+american+revolution+their+plan+to+break+the+banks/

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Look we have all been at the mercy of corporations. The middle class is dwindling. The small select group with power seem to be getting richer and more power. The financial collapse of 2008 has had many of us nearing the poor house. I have been through 3 jobs personally. I don't like the banks and their efforts. My credit card rates went up 34%. I am just managing. But this seems a bit extreme, a bit too much too soon. I mean I respect peaceful protests and peaceful revolutions. I just don't see how the middle class doesn't end up taking the pain in the process of breaking banks, the people with money and resources are stocked. Those of us that depend on paychecks cannot suffer with a banking collapse. I am unsure how I feel about this on the whole. I also feel like we will lose more rights in the process. The patriot act seems to love clamping down on average citizens and stuff like this just gives more excuses. I am torn on this one.

[stockholmer]

1. video posted several hours ago, thanks for the transcript

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x562537

[MilesColtrane]

2. I hope Anonymous has more in his bag than exposing corruption.

Don't get me wrong.

That's great, but it is unlikely to lead to change.

We already know that they are crooks and liars.

[marybee]

3. crooks and liars is right

That is what I was thinking. It would be nice to see a positive result, but the money changers will still find their way back in. Its novel. The majority of us average joes will pay for it

[dballance]

4. We Have to Start Somewhere

We, in the middle class, are going to get screwed one way or the other. If taking down some banks and banksters along with us is the best we can do then I say DO IT!

[boppers]

5. LOL, Okay, this is an anon ops, but it's not an anon ops.

People ingrained to hierarchy get really confused about situations which lack it.

There is no anonymous organization.

The idea doesn't even make sense.

[marybee]

6. so are you saying that its done from within? Anon is the banks?

just curious, that seems a stretch but what do I know?

[boppers]

7. It's the folks inside, outside, and everywhere.

It's bank clerks, managers, and CTO's.

Bill Gates is Anonymous, as is the lowliest sweeper in a data center.

All of them are.

[marybee]

8. ok I thought that was what you were saying.

[JanDutchy]

9. State of the Union Address 2011

http://www.luckymedia.nl/luckytv/2011/01/state-of-the-union-address-2011/


He was, as always, distinctly introduced by the House Doorkeeper.

[Kolesar]

10. Bernaike has done a great job and I am not being sarcastic

He is constrained by a subintellectual RW Congress who won't vote for federal stimulus spending, so he created a bond buying campaign to drive down interest rates.

[marybee]

18. I don't agree with this at all. QE's are corrupt giveaways, inflation is just a tax

[socialist_n_TN]

11. RE: your concerns.........

The "middle class", or as I like to be more inclusive and call them "Everybody else", is undergoing pain now, as you stated in your personal situation and I CAN relate to being unemployed. We're not only losing our wealth, but NOW we're losing our RIGHTS too. There comes a tipping point when the financial pain becomes irrelevent. It's just money after all. How much will you need to buy food, shelter, and clothing. The ABSOLUTE basics. Because that's what it's coming to. When the capitalists bring everybody down to serfdom, that's what will be the priorities. Since that's happening ANYWAY, if Anonymous wants to bring the banks down with us, it's just justice as far as I'm concerned. IF the whole system is razed, MAYBE we can rebuild a more fair system on the ashes of the old.

If I have to bankrupt, so be it. I've done a bankruptcy twice in my life and guess what? I SURVIVED it both times. But I don't want the banks to get off scott free at OUR expense.

[marybee]

12. good points

[SDuderstadt]

20. "If the whole system is razed..."

Do you understand how intricate and interdependent our banking system/economy is? Do you have the slightest idea what would happen if our payments system went down? Do you have any idea what daily life might be like under such a scenario?

[Poboy]

13. I'll kick this one too. And welcome to DU!

[Snoutport]

14. kick

[pinkkillersheep]

15. You're forgeting one very important thing

Each successive financial crisis has had a quicker onset and has been much more devastating than the last. As it stands, nothing has changed. I'm not definitively saying this is the appropriate response, only that doing nothing will most likely be worse.

[marybee]

17. good point. what could be worse..

[Poboy]

16. .

[CommonSensePLZ]

19. Recced for Anonymous, and let's just say...

Let me demonstrate how Anonymous feels about the banks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ila-hAUXR5U

In the video let's say the car represents their privilege and the fact that pretty much no one responsible for the economic crash was penalized and the sort of 'normalcy' we've just been going on with. Let's say Kanye represents the people responsible, their goals and the shady things they have done, and let's say that the woman is Anonymous and the shovel is their net skills and the banksters' own secrets. Yeah. :o I don't know, I guess the clothes are the losing of patience with them? lol

I feel the same way about the USAPATRIOT act and such, but I also feel like they really do deserve this. They deserve to know what it feels like to not have whatever they want, to be reminded that they are subject to consequences and that often big, nasty secret doings are gonna be brought to the light. I don't want innocent people to suffer and I hope it doesn't happen, but as for the banksters this is EXACTLY what they deserve.