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Conspiracy nuts and Anonymous

I really have to take my hat off to the conspiracy nuts on this one. I have a fairly long history of dealings with conspiracy nuts or TFBB, mostly the chemtrail nuts, but the general behavior is more or less the same for most. These are the people who see conspiracies everywhere, even in mundane day to day events. In a way I am envious of this skill of fabrication and imagination. If they used their skill for writing fiction I think they might do very well for themselves.

They have now turned their logic to Anonymous and the battle against Scientology. The following is from the message board "Above Top Secret" . 

The "Anonymous" Scientology Protest is an NSA/FBI Fishing Expedition

By mister.old.school

Greetings fair members and readers of AboveTopSecret.com. Over the past few weeks, we've seen an alarming event, one that initially seemed exceptionally odd to me. After much research, I am now convinced this event is a proactive joint counter intelligence operation from the NSA and FBI. What is this event you might ask? It's the sudden public pronouncements of the "Anonymous Group" to expose the Church of Scientology.

While this subject may demand an essay of epic length, in an effort to succinctly explain my proposition (which I believe to be fact), I'll make a few statements that range from fact to well-informed supposition. My reference material ranges from what is freely available online to recent private conversations among friends within the "intelligence community".


Statement One: The NSA and FBI track online connectivity
Among those who would research the tactics of groups tasked with covertly gathering intelligence, an overarching strategy is clear: all digital communications is either tracked or retained for later tracking. The misconception is that the tracking is for specific communications between "individuals of interest", nothing could be further from the truth. The tracking utilizes complex "fuzzy logic" and artificial intelligence to recognize patterns of connections in an effort to proactively identify "individuals of interest".


Statement Two: The tracking works best with the introduction of a known parameter
A similarly well-known fact among those who would research this tracking is that it is very difficult to discern reliable patterns of connectivity in the overall randomness of every day communications. Therefor, in order produce useable results, predefined parameters will be injected into the communications mix. For example, if a juicy story on vote fraud is introduced via one source, the pattern matching will record the spread of the topic, where it spreads, how it spreads, and who are the primary dispersion points. Depending on the topic, politics, scandal, extraterrestrial cover-ups, 9/11 conspiracies, or what have you, the resulting patterns of dispersal provide a treasure trove of connectivity data -- and when paths of connectivity cross topical areas or repeat-and-loop within a topic, "individuals of interest" are identified.


Statement Three: The NSA has been found "tapping into the Internet"
In fact, President Bush is seeking, no desperate, to grant immunity to the communications conglomerates who cooperated.


Statement Four: The FBI has a history of proactive counter intelligence
The past sixty years are riddled with stories of this government body injecting provocative information into the cultural mix in order to induce a reaction that will cause persons of interest to surface.


Statement Five: The group, "Anonymous", takes a public stance: Project Chanology
Can someone explain to me how a loose-knit subculture of hacker children from 4chan and IRC, formerly known for not much more than defacing MySpace pages and other nuisance hacks/pranks, suddenly takes a public stance on a socially complex issue? And part of the public stance of this "Anonymous" group involves the very un-anonymous action of public space protests.


Statement Six: The group, "Anonymous", is a target of the NSA and FBI
Regardless of the more realistic likelihood that this group is nothing more than bored 15-year olds, both of these agencies have labeled the group "cyber terrorists" and have placed a high priority on infiltration and prosecution.


Statement Seven: The cult, "Church of Scientology", is also targeted by the NSA and FBI
While the U.S. Government would never make the overt mistake of classifying the CoS as a cult, several law enforcement agencies and covert intelligence bodies have applied the distinction of "dangerous cult". Several low-level covert infiltration operations are underway. The operation running through the NSA is rumored to be called "Project Voltar" (the rationale for the name is unknown) and supposedly involves the study of recruitment tactics.

Final Statement: The Chanology Project is a covert pattern injection by the NSA and FBI
I've been able to engage three members of intelligence agencies about the "Chanology Project" purported to be initiated by the "Anonymous" group. All three unequivocally agree that the initiative has all the earmarks of a covert NSA pattern injection that follows the tactical traditions of FBI CoIntelPro. It brilliantly serves two known objectives: 1- identify connectivity patterns related to the "Anonymous" group; 2- increase public criticism of the Scientology cult without risk of discovering a government agency connection.


The dots have been laid before you and connected into a sinister "conspiracy theory" that fits known facts, follows the most widely accepted conjecture of the activities of the NSA, and is supported by a historical record of similar actions.

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Quote "Over the past few weeks, we've seen an alarming event, one that initially seemed exceptionally odd to me. After much research, I am now convinced this event is a proactive joint counter intelligence operation from the NSA and FBI. What is this event you might ask? It's the sudden public pronouncements of the "Anonymous Group" to expose the Church of Scientology."

Alarming? Alarming to who? Is the poster of this message affiliated with CoS (Church of Scientology)? 

After much research? proactive joint counter intelligence operation from the NSA and FBI? Proactive joint counter intelligence, come on! While the roots of Anonymous are very plain and very much non-conspircy related. But this mister.old.school hasn't really done his "research" as he claims. The reason for Anonymous is plain and is not intended to "bring down" CoS, but I don't think mister.old.school knows that.

As for the NSA/FBI angle. I think I might know the root of this belief. It is not a well known fact that the US govt. does hire and/or consult with "hackers". This past summer at DefCon, a sort of hackers convention, NBC Dateline tried to send a reporter in undercover to DefCon . This convention has very strict rules about reporters and Dateline ignored them intentionally. So what does this have to do with CoS and Anonymous? In all likelihood nothing at all, but that has NEVER stopped conspiracy nuts! Disparate information or events are all fodder for their imaginations. The convention is private, they can not even allow reporters, but they do under restrictions. The US gov't has people at this convention, invited, to keep up on what is going on. 

mister.old.school takes this and other unrelated events and shoe horns them into his theory.

What I really like about mister.old.school's posting is his liberal use of technical sounding terms.  Such as "covert pattern injection", connectivity patterns, and the like. It amuses me which is a large reason I still occasionally visit sites like these. But here is my take on mister.old.school's theory.

I have worked for the gov't, between civil service and 22 years military, I have seen what the gov't is capable of. And these conspiracy nuts are massively over estimating just how clever the US gov't is! I am not a gov't shill, yes man or agent. I have been severely screwed over by the gov't so my interests are not to act in their favor! But this is irrelevant to the TFBB, they say that means it is part of my "cover story".

But "Statement Five is the most telling and amusing. Amusing because it shows perfectly how little mister.old.school really knows about Anonymous!

"Statement Five: The group, "Anonymous", takes a public stance: Project Chanology
Can someone explain to me how a loose-knit subculture of hacker children from 4chan and IRC, formerly known for not much more than defacing MySpace pages and other nuisance hacks/pranks, suddenly takes a public stance on a socially complex issue? And part of the public stance of this "Anonymous" group involves the very un-anonymous action of public space protests."

I can explain! It is not a complicated story or is it filled with back room deals and secret meetings in top secret gov't offices! Scientology is dangerous, it has used its considerable financial assets to bully its opposition through lawsuits, private investigators and overt threats. Many people have found themselves on the recieving end of Fair Game. But the beauty of Anonymous is self evident in its name. It is not one person, it is not one group, it is many. The statement at the end of the videos says it all.

We are Anonymous,

We are Legion, 

We do not forgive,

We do not forget, 

Expect us

The reason Anonymous went public is very simple and doesn't have any omminous overtones! It all started with the Tom Cruise video Scientology fought to get taken off the net. This was the final straw, it is that simple!

So mister.old.school, you and your fellow TFBB, you have it wrong! It is actually very simple, but you and the other TFBB hate simplicity! Simplicity denies conspiracy and removes your opportunities to tell your fantasies. Oh, and by the way, TFBB stands for the Tin Foil Beanie Brigade.  And it is a jab at the conspiracy nuts.

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