It’s going to be an anxiety-filled few days / life for racists fucktards everywhere: hacktivist group Anonymous has just exposed over 1000 members of the Ku Klux Klan.
Yesterday, they shut down servers and accessed personal KKK information.
And today, they’re releasing it.
It’s the motherfucking KKK reckoning, y’all.
#OpKKK dox part 1: https://t.co/gzeIN6i3oz
part 2:
https://t.co/2pTeNcsgSt
part 3:
https://t.co/XFmxjIQKQb
— Anonymous (@YourAnonNews) November 1, 2015
NEW #OpKKK Phone and Email members #OpKKK part 4 #Anonymous
https://t.co/oE8DmZrnkV
— Anonymous (@YourAnonNews) November 2, 2015
Four US Senators have been named in the list: Thom Tillis (was North Carolina’s Speaker of the House before being elected to the US Senate in 2014), John Cornyn (current Majority Whip), Dan Coats (Indiana’s senior US Senator), and Johnny Isakson (Georgia’s senior US Senator).
Tillis and Coats are both is listed as members of the United Northern AND the Southern Knights of the KKK, Cornyn appears to be affiliated with the United White Knights, and Isakson is listed as a member of the Original Knight Riders.
Five mayors of major US cities are also included: Madeline Rogero (Knoxville, Tennessee), Jim Gray (Lexington, Kentucky), Paul D. Fraim (Norfolk, Virginia), Kent Guinn (Ocala, Florida), and Tom Henry (Fort Wayne, Indiana).
Despite these accusations, Anonymous have warned that these exposed names do *NOT* necessarily implicate the people named as KKK members.
Regarding #OpKKK: the phone numbers and e-mail adresses were found on KKK website databases. Be careful with the information and fact-check
— Anonymous (@YourAnonNews) November 2, 2015
Anyone can provide fake information when signing up to a website, reporters should be aware of this.
— Anonymous (@YourAnonNews) November 2, 2015
In a blog post last week, they wrote:
“We are not oppressing you, Ku Klux Klan. We are not here to strip you of your Freedom of Speech. Anonymous will never strip you of any of your Constitutional rights. There is no “hate speech” exception to the Constitution. In a free society, we do have a duty to protect free thought, even when especially offensive. Your hateful ideas and words remain yours to keep. You are allowed to speak and in kind, we are allowed to respond. You are legally free to live and be any which way you choose to live and be. Keep in mind, it is not illegal nor oppressive to hurt your feelings. With that said, we are stripping you of your anonymity. This is not a threat, but rather a promise.”
“We never forgot your threats to the protesters in Ferguson, and we certainly never forgave you. And the same will be done to the threats you give now. More than four hundred years ago a great citizen wished to embed the fifth of November forever in our memory. His hope was to remind the world that fairness, justice, and freedom are more than words, they are perspectives. So if you’ve seen nothing, if the crimes of the Ku Klux Klan remain unknown to you, then I would suggest to allow the fifth of November to pass unmarked. But if you see what I see, if you feel as I feel, and if you would seek as I seek, then I ask you to stand with me on the fifth, and together we shall give them a fifth of November that shall never, ever be forgot.”
“Ku Klux Klan – why did you stop expecting us?”
You can read their blog post and access all the data HERE.
Anonymous also have this message to the naysayers of their operation:
To those that really disagree with us:
Sorry for the inconvenience, but not really. We are trying to change our world.
Image: Tim Boyle via Getty.
