Latest PR
Subject: Latest PR
From: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>
Date: 1/30/11, 22:54
To: bkeane@crikey.com.au

Don't run or reference until I give word as more may be added tonight/tomorrow.

Press Release
For Immediate Distribution
Anonymous
1/31/2011

You are now breathing manually.

Six months ago, various law enforcement bodies began an investigation into some of our participants, many ofof whom have been instrumental in Anonymous' nearly month-long campaign to assist North African activists in their struggle for liberty. That investigation led to the serving of some 40 search warrants and subpeonas. Unlike those among the powerful whose own alleged crimes are dealt with in a manner somewhat more accomodating, most of those who had their equipment seized and their presences demanded are without the resources necessary to acquire any adequate defense. 

The world and its media should make no mistake aboout it; this is a David and Goliath situation. Or, rather, it would be such a thing were it not for the fact that hat Anonymous has assembled a team of legal advisors that has already come to include representatives of the National Lawyers Guild and the Center for Constitutional Rights, a certain gentlemen whose hobbies include arguing with Sean Hannity and cutting centuries off sentences, and a few other jurisprudential types, and that this nascent network has been assembled in less than 24 hours and will be joined by many others of similar expertise over the next week. Meanwhile we shall take the opportunity to turn this grand jury investigation into a mediak circus of the likes that the U.S. has not seen in days, if not four or five of them. 
We will recruit for the benefit of our North African operations; we will pepper news outlets with avant garde press releases and off-color insults directed at Robert Gibbs; we will rally outside of the most pretentious restaurants in New York in costumes that make no sense to anyone present; and we will otherwise assist the assembled nations in their apparent quest to bring Anonymous the attention it needs if it is to become the global movement that it was inevitably going to be anyway. 

We look forward to charming you at irc.anonops.ru, #reporter. 

Anonymous

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Regards,

Barrett Brown
512-560-2302