Anonymous Cancels Drug-Ring Attack

snydeq writes "Anonymous supporters have backed off threats to expose Zeta drug gang collaborators, an operation launched in early October as a retaliation for an alleged kidnapping of an Anonymous follower by the Mexico-based drug gang. Members of Anonymous had posted a video claiming the group could identify journalists, police officers, and taxi drivers who collaborate with the Zeta crime syndicate. Zeta has not shied away from targeting its online critics. In September the crime group hung two people from an overpass warning bloggers and 'online snitches' to beware. The decapitated body of another social-media reporter was found later with a similar warning. Worried about the impact on both misidentified people and Anonymous followers, other supporters of the Anonymous movement worked to dismantle the operation over the weekend. In effect, the group canceled the attack, according to online news site Milenio."

Re:I'm glad they didn't

[DragonWriter]

I disagree. By backing off, they're letting the cartels know that their methods of intimidation work.

Er, the cartels already know that.

And the discussions between different Anonymous-affiliated factions that I've seen reported didn't focus on fear of retaliation, they focussed on whether an action that would mainly reveal low level people who had been blackmailed into cooperation by the Zetas so that they could get murdered by rival drug gangs was in any way consistent with the ideals Anonymous wanted to advance, or productive in any way.

Re:wrong

[mr1911]

the fact that anonymous is actually taken by the drug cartels as a serious threat that requires this much action basically tells that anonymous is on the same league with them in regard to impact now.

They took "Anonymous" about as seriously as they take any snitch. Do you actually think that Mexican drug cartels consider Anonymous a serious threat? Are you fucking retarded?

Yeah, they go through the trouble of killing someone and displaying their mutilated bodies as foreplay. Are you fucking retarded?

They kill snitches and display their mutilated bodies because snitches are dangerous to the organization. They harm the families of snitches because snitches are dangerous to the organization. The more public the execution and the more those around the victim are harmed, the more dangerous they were to the organization.

Re:Tough guys

[jvkjvk]

Scientology is at best annoying and a scam.

Unless, of course, you happen to be one of the people they have brainwashed (and yes, I mean that quite literally), tortured (and yes, I mean that quite literally), killed, or bankrupted through intimidation using the legal system.

And they are infiltrating centers of power, a secret society beyond government bounds.

But other than that, they are 'at best annoying and a scam'.

Regards.

Re:Damned if you do, damned if you don't

[oddjob1244]

A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?