As of this weekend, we're hearing from one member of the hacker group, Anonymous, that they will open their long-awaited can of whoop-ass against Bank of America on Monday. Kossack Badabing provided a great post on this which is now on the DKos rec list.
However, Anonymous is now telling us, directly, via their just-issued "Communication #1" on Saturday evening, that they will announce the commencement of "Operation 'Empire State Rebellion'" on Monday.
Obviously, the two actions are not mutually exclusive--if anything, they're complementary--and it's quite likely that they could announce both initiatives come Monday morning.
More on this from Zero Hedge, from 9:30PM, EST, Saturday: "Hacker Group Anonymous Brings Peaceful Revolution To America: Will Engage In Civil Disobedience Until Bernanke Steps Down."
Hacker Group Anonymous Brings Peaceful Revolution To America: Will Engage In Civil Disobedience Until Bernanke Steps Down
Zero Hedge
03/12/2011 21:30 -0500
The world's most (in)famous hacker group - Anonymous - known for effectively shutting down their hacking nemesis security firm (with clients such as Morgan Stanley and, unfortunately for them, Bank of America)- HBGary, advocating the cause of Wikileaks, and the threat made by one of its members that evidence of fraud by Bank of America will be released on Monday, has just launched communication #1 in its Operation "Empire State Rebellion." The goal - engage in "a relentless campaign of non-violent, peaceful, civil disobedience" until Ben Bernanke steps down and the "Primary Dealers within the Federal Reserve banking system be broken up and held accountable for rigging markets and destroying the global economy effective immediately."
You may learn more about "Operation 'Empire State Rebellion'" by clicking on this link to Anonymous' new group, named "A99," right HERE.
Here's their manifesto...
The Anonymous manifesto:
We are a decentralized non-violent resistance movement, which seeks to restore the rule of law and fight back against the organized criminal class.
One-tenth of one percent of the population has consolidated wealth in unprecedented fashion and launched an all-out economic war against 99.9% of the population.
We are not affiliated with either wing of the two-party oligarchy. We seek an end to the corrupted two-party system by ending the campaign finance and lobbying racket.
Above all, we aim to break up the global banking cartel centered at the Federal Reserve, International Monetary Fund, Bank of International Settlement and World Bank.
We demand that the primary dealers within the Federal Reserve banking system be broken up and held accountable for rigging markets and destroying the global economy, effective immediately.
As a first sign of good faith we demand Ben Bernanke step down as Federal Reserve chairman.
Until our demands are met and a rule of law is restored, we will engage in a relentless campaign of non-violent, peaceful, civil disobedience.
In our next communication we will announce Operation Empire State Rebellion.
The reality here, IMHO, is somewhat different than the perception. I would posit that (while it might be technically incorrect to say so), for all intents and purposes, Bank of America and Countrywide execs are (and have been) all but officially "on-the-record" as acknowledging their bank committed massive fraud on an ongoing basis for many years.
And, IMHO, the real issue is summed-up in one question: Why aren't folks like former BofA CEO Ken Lewis and BofA subsidiary, Countrywide, CEO Angelo Mozilo doing time right now?
For more on this, checkout 122+ of my diaries -- posted since December 2007 and from as recently as early yesterday morning -- were I specifically mention, in great historical detail, the multitude of reasons how and why Bank of America and its Countrywide subsidiary are a big part of the reason why our country's in the economic mess it's in today. (Use the DKos "search" function; enter "Bank of America" and/or "Countrywide" in the subject area; and use my screen name in the "author" slot of the form. You'll see a veritable shopping list of fraud-related titles.)