August 15th, 2011
This was a Monday of utter madness. There was a quite understandable protest underway at 5pm, and Bart and Muni were shut down in an attempt to quell this planned protest. Previously on August 11th, Bart officials had actually shut down cell phone service to disrupt a protest over Charles Hill, a homeless man who had been shot and killed by Bart police in San Francisco on July 3rd.
So the protest today was to do with cell phone service being shut down. If I understand correctly, it was mostly organized by the group 'Anonymous,' which also shut down parts of Bart's website. They are now known as quite the hacktivists. The iron gates came down in four Bart stations downtown, and frustrated people flooded the streets. 'Ghetto birds' whirled overhead for at least an hour. I saw a few of the peaceful protesters walking down Market Street, hardly raising their voices at all, yet being trailed by at least 30 police officers in riot gear. This is where the fear hit me. If this is what the authorities do during a peaceful protest, then what during a violent one? What about the recent riots in London? I heard that at least 3,000 citizens were arrested. I doubt very much that they are seeing due process.
Authorities clearly want to do away with the last of our most basic rights as citizens and human beings, so we must protest in some form. But that's not to say it won't be terrifying. Today I felt the chokehold of authoritarian intent, and it chilled me to the bone. But I can't let it numb me or prevent me from taking some kind of action against such dark intent. No good ever comes out of an attempt to control, no matter who is making such an attempt. For those who disagree with the tactics of Anonymous, I would say that it's likely you still don't understand the harm that so-called 'higher ups' wish upon you. I am fascinated by these activists actually, and they have my admiration and respect. I saw some of them quietly chatting on their cell phones today, passing on information as to whether the objectives of the protest had been met or not. They have the right idea. We need subtle minds working for us if we are to undermine those who would have us living in a totalitarian state. 'Big Brother' can't be doing that great of a job, if so many bright, young minds have been able to see through its agenda from day one.
By the way, Anonymous, how about hacking Crapple while you're at it? Could be a fun little project, and I bet you'd learn a lot from it. As you can see from what I've written in this blog, I could give a flying fuck what happens to that monster of a corporation. Come 'round my house and I'll give you some nice vitamins, to help those brilliant hacker's brains function at the top of their game ;) Oh and lo and behold, you've been at them already! Wonderful... Keep up the good work, my darlings:
Go get 'em, Anonymous!
A wonderful response to Bart from Anonymous:
"Dear Bay Area Rapid Transit, The People and All Government Agencies, We are Anonymous, we are your citizens, we are the people, WE DO NOT TOLERATE OPPRESSION FROM ANY GOVERNMENT AGENCY. BART has proved multiple times that they have no problem exploiting and abusing the people. First they displayed this by the two recent killings by BART police. Under no circumstance, unless police are shot at, make police killings acceptable. Non-lethal weapons were available to use during both incidents, providing even that was necessary, but instead they shot to kill. Next they violated the people's right to assembly and prevented other bystanders from using emergency services by blocking cell phone signals in order to stop a protest against the BART police murders. Lastly, they set up this website called mybart.gov and they stored their members information with virtually no security. The data was stored and easily obtainable via basic sqli. Any 8 year old with a internet connection could have done what we did to find it. On top of that none of the info, including the passwords, was encrypted. It is obvious BART does no give a fuck about its customers, funders and tax payers,THE PEOPLE. The governments and government agencies of the world are becoming tyrannical and oppressive, and the people are responding and will not take your shit for much longer. The people will fight this oppression with protests, demonstrations, riots, hacking, ddos, online attacks and by any other means. We will not allow ourselves to be killed, exploited, or get shitted on. From the streets of Chile, England, Portland, San Francisco, Oakland, the people are rising up and we will support each other and stand in solidarity against any injustice. Worldwide resistance is happening, we will participate in solidarity against oppression. SOLIDARITY IS OUR WEAPON. Thus below we are releasing the User Info Database of MyBart.gov, to show that BART doesn't give a shit about it's customers and riders and to show that the people will not allow you to kill us and censor us. This is but the one of many actions to come. We apologize to any citizen that has his information published, but you should go to BART and ask them why your information wasn't secure with them. Also do not worry, probably the only information that will be abused from this database is that of BART employees. Greetz to TeaMp0ison, lulzsec, anti-sec, anarchists, anon, bay of rage, No Justice, No BART, UA in the bay, your anon news, anonymous irc. World Wide Solidarity, "join us to make 2011 the year of leaks and revolutions."
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