Anonymous Hacks The Westboro Baptist Church: Posts All Their Personal Information

Posted: December 16, 2012
By Wolff Bachner

Commentary ? Updated | The hacking collective known as Anonymous renewed their war on the Westboro Baptist Church today. After the haters from the infamous church posted their intentions to picket the funerals of the twenty children killed in the shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School, Anonymous responded by re-posting the personal and professional information for members of the church on the Internet. Now the general public can contact the church members directly and tell them what they think about people who would desecrate the funerals of murdered children.

Westboro Baptist Church has been irritating Americans for years with venom filled message about their demented version of God. According to the many closely related and intermarried members of the Phelps family who make up the majority of the congregation of the so-called church, God enjoys killing children and soldiers. They constantly proclaim God hates homosexuals and plans to destroy America for not following the Westboro Baptist Church?s twisted version of Christianity. The incredible obsession with homosexuality expressed by Fred and family seems to many as a sure fire case of ?thou dost protest too much.?

Anonymous has been after the Westboro Baptist Church for several months now, hacking their websites repeatedly. Recently, they accused the church of creating a fake letter from the hacking group in order to trick other hackers into attacking the website. Anonymous warned their supporters the church planned to harvest internet addresses and sue people. Suing people is apparently the primary activity of the Westboro Baptist Church when they aren?t screaming hate at funerals.

Of course, Westboro denied the charges and taunted Anonymous as incompetent hackers. They claimed their website was protected by God. Big mistake. A few days later, while a Westboro spokeswoman was boasting about how the church foiled Anonymous on a radio talk show, an Anonymous spokesman called in and hacked the church?s website in real time on the air.

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GuardianX_sl said:

I just want to say, don't feel sad for them.

They do their shit under a guise of religion but it is just that, a guise. None of them are crazy, none of them believe their bullshit. They are assholes plain and simple exploiting tax law.

They understand what they are doing and are doing it for a couple reasons.

• Money garnered under a church protest are considered religious funds and are subject to the same tax laws.
• All members of the family (and some extended family / church members) are staffed (paid) members of the church and thus are subject to the same tax laws.
• Any time the group is denied the "right to protest and free speech" they sue the county / state for being denied rights, the funds are subject to the same tax laws.

Notice any recurring trend?

I am without a doubt certain that if their "church" was denied tax exemption and they were required to report the same as a company that they would stop protesting.

Their "message" (Anti-everyone) exists for a couple reasons..

• It is the most offensive possible while staying legally "grey"
• The tone garners a TON of negative press (read; good press for them) which in turn sours a state / county to them paving the way for their suit against the location they protest.
• It is "religious" because in order to be classified as protected speech it needs to be provable that there is a "reasonable and logical" basis for their beliefs, thus...religion.

So no, do not feel sad for them or their children. They all understand completely what they are doing. A few of their kids have left the family and their "Church" because of their disagreeing with the tactics used, but you never hear about them because they would lose their street cred if you understood that they are logical people...just...assholes.

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