Recently there was a rift created in the Occupy movement over the burning of a US flag. Apparently a chorus called to burn the flag, and one brave voice, who probably represented a lot of silent voices, crying out for them to think twice about doing that. So which party represents Occupy?
Now a Sophos analyst notes hateful tactics aimed at outing Nazis, employed by some group or subset calling itself Anonymous. See the article at http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/02/02/anonymous-resorts-to-spamming-to-spread-hateful-messages/#comment-19003.
As is often the case, the comments below it are as interesting as the article, and make some good points. For instance, if I sign a letter “Anonymous,” does that mean I’m concealing my name, or a member of a group?
What the analyst definitely misses, and as commentator Innocent Bystander notes:
Well, I guess the hint is not obvious enough: has our author noticed the Guy Fawkes masks, or read V for Vendetta? There is no one, and anyone, behind the mask.
That’s exactly what makes it so dangerous: it can be worn by anyone disaffected. The head-slapper is, Why are there so many of them?
Exactly. Is it really a tricky question to wonder why there are so many disaffected people? Though the quote from Mitt Romney certainly deserves to be placed in its context, it is certainly revealing to hear a presidential candidate say, “I’m not concerned about the very poor.” I’d suggest, as Freud did, that there are no “slips.”