Earlier this week, we learned with great sadness that Christopher Weatherhead– our “Nerdo”– was sentenced to an 18 month jail term for his “integral role” in protests that occurred under the banner of “Operation Payback”. We consider the guilty verdict a complete miscarriage of justice, the sentence incredibly unfair and in no way proportionate to the alleged crime. The absurdity of this sham of a trial should be an embarrassment to the UK, its system of justice and to the entire population.
The prosecution is clearly comprised of delusional and arrogant bureaucrats who care more for advancing their own careers than actual justice.
This utter ignorance and pervasive stupidity inherent in the Crown Courts is evident in Judge Peter Testar’s remark that Nerdo was nabbed because of “clever” police-work. We know the truth– leaning on a snitch is no more “clever” than a piano smashing against the pavement is “graceful.” Fennic– the snitch– of course, gets off without serving a filthy second of jail time– even though the snitch admitted to owning an IRC botnet. Last we checked, that IS an actual crime.
Their claims of millions in damages are ludicrous and absurd. PayPal itself has repeatedly and publicly admitted to no downtime or loss of service Even the governments own experts admit that a Denial of Service attack causes no damage. We feel the jury was intentionally misled in regards to the actual facts of IRC in general. or the prosecutions own knowledge of it is so lacking that they are not fit to prosecute a case of this type. For this reason alone, we strongly believe that the trial was improper. A new trial should be ordered and qualified prosecutors must be assigned. Jury instructions were also inadequate. How does one instruct a jury what is admissible or important when the jurist himself does not understand the subject? These reasons should at minimum be cause for a steep reduction in this sentence to at least the level of similar or even much more horrific crimes
Claiming that Nerdo, or anyone for that matter can hold some sort of seniority within Anonymous is quite curious to say the least. How does one prove that a nickname has only ever been used by one person? Further more how do you validate this seniority in a headless organization? If a channel operator tells an IRC channel that they are a giraffe, does this mean every user in that channel must believe this? Quite the opposite. Having power in an IRC channel does not give you control over people. You cannot “decide” what these people will do.
You preach to us about justice, but we know that Nicholas Beaumont-Dark– the son of a Conservative MP who trafficked in such depraved and disgusting child pornography that it even makes 4chan /b/arf– was spared jail time even though he admitted to sixteen separate incidents of making and DISTRIBUTING this vile material. He is not in jail at this moment because of his “obvious remorse”. A known, admitted pedophile ducks jail because he cries crocodile tears and says “he’s sorry,” but a man dedicated to the cause of fighting government corruption must serve eighteen months in a high-security prison. If this is your concept of “justice,” we vomit upon it.
Freedom is our right. Anonymity is an extension of that basic human right. Calling attention to injustice is paramount in maintaining that freedom so many have fought to obtain for us all. We understand that law enforcement personnel want to have the easiest jobs in the world where computers and surveillance cameras track everyone’s movements and statisticians reduce us to behavioral algorithms so they can define us as criminals It is not true freedom if it requires us to fatten the stomachs and wallets of the 1% who see the citizenry as a mass of potential criminals. People who object to being turned into chattel are not arrogant, impudent or churlish– their “youthful idealism” is sorely lacking in a world bereft of principles and where the concept of “morality” has been reduced to “do not embarrass the State.”
Nerdo was crucified because the government needed to do something to show the public that they were still in control, that they could stop this online monster known as Anonymous. We know that this is not the case. Governments around the world are failing their citizens in various ways including the basic right of a fair trial by ones peers. They fail to protect their citizens from the real criminals: themselves. It is you who have forced us to protect ourselves from the real danger to freedom. If you need to put a face to those criminals, look into a mirror.
Signed
The AnonOps Staff
info@anonops.com
Freedom for Nerdo.
Freedom for the PayPal 14.
Freedom for all those wrongly persecuted by their governments.
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