Masks win the caps

How "ku-klux-klan" quarreled with "anonymus"

On August 9, 2014, the white policeman Darren Wilson shot the 18-year-old African American Michael Brown in Ferguson. For several days, the city turned into a war zone between black residents of the city, shocked murder, and the police. Wilson on November 25 was actually acquitted; This decision provoked new protests and mass riots. At the same time, the events in Ferguson unexpectedly reminded that the United States still exists “ku-klux-klan”-a network of organizations for people who adhere to conservative, and often frankly racist views.

The local Ku-Klux-Klan supported Wilson, and shortly before the court decision, he distributed leaflets with threats to potential demonstrators. The leaflet entitled as an appeal to the “terrorists who impersonate themselves for peaceful demonstrators” said that “the law-abiding residents of the Saint-Louis okrug of all races, skin color and religion are not going to ignore threats to police and their families” and are ready to apply weapons “for self-defense”.

Many perceived the provocative leaflet as a direct threat. The Anonymus movement was most outraged, supporting demonstrations and mass protests in Ferguson from the very beginning of the conflict. Internet activists announced the beginning of the “Ku-Klux-Clan operation” and threatened the racist organization with serious consequences. On Twitter @kukluxklanusa, the statements of activists were raised to laugh: ““ Anonymous ”is a bunch of losers who are not capable of anything”; Insults rained down to the movement. On the same day, Anonymus captured an account; It now publishes photographs of unicorns.

In addition to the capture of Twitter, the Ku-Kluks-Clan (the Anonymus claims that this is not some kind of dummy account-it was led by one of the organizations that managed to install by personal messages) Activists staged DDOS attacks on the CCC sites and began to upload photos and names of the Ku-Mlux-Klanstsy members. Among them, judging by the photographs, there were several participants in the action in support of Darren Wilson in Ferguson.

At the same time, threats to the “Anonymus” appeared on social networks attributed to the “Ku-Ulx-Clan” as a whole and one of the leaders of the Missurian CCC Frank Anon. In one of the posts it is reported: Ancona allegedly told his friend that people in Guy Fox masks can be accepted in the dark for game and “accidentally” shoot. In another Anon, they attribute the words that the members of the Ku-Kluks-Clan declare anonymus a street war and are going to “open a hunt” for people in Guy Fox masks in Ferguson. Journalist Tiffany Willis, who wrote an article about the exposures of Ku-Kluks-Clanes, was threatened on the phone. According to her, a certain member of the KKK said: “The clan is watching you. And we don't like what we see. You should stop it immediately. ”

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Frank Ancona, attributed to him, refuted the statements and tried to justify himself for that leaflet that became the reason for the attack of an anonymus on the CCC. According to him, Ku-Klux-Klan simply reminded the inhabitants of Ferguson of their right to self-defense, but did not urge the demonstrators to attack. On November 23, Ancona met with one of the activists of Anonymus Alex and stated that he considered the conflict far -fetched. He said that until recently he knew nothing about the “Anonymus” and did not urge anyone to “kill peaceful demonstrators”. Ancona accused large media (they are not trusted with both Anonymous and the CCC) of distorting information about the leaflet and inciting the scandal in order to destroy its organization. The tone of the Ku-Klux-Klanovtsa was noticeably different from the statements of the KKK on Twitter and texts with threats to “Anonymus”, widespread on the Internet.

The leader of the Missouri KKK retreated for obvious reasons - his organization has not been in the first century by bad glory and is in the United States on the verge of a ban, so that the press attention of the press is useless to her. The “head” structure of Ku-Kluks-Clan now does not, these are dozens of disparate organizations in all states-with different rules, rituals and ideology; They are now united only by conservative Christian views and external paraphernalia. According to VOX, in the United States in 2014 there are 160 Ku-Kluks-Clan departments-both independent and included in larger structures; In total, they consist of five to eight thousand people. Many of these organizations still insist on the superiority of the white race; Some, on the contrary, call people of any skin color and religion in their ranks. Recently, the number of Ku-Klux-Clanes is growing, but in most cases their activity does not go beyond the posing in white outfits against the backdrop of burning crosses.

The situation in Ferguson clearly demonstrates the real influence of the Ku-Klux-Clan. Hackers from the Anonymus, hiding under the masks of Guy Fox, forced members of the local KKK to be almost apologized to the leaflet with an ambiguous appeal and justify themselves for rash statements. When it came to the riots in Ferguson, white caps on the streets never appeared.

Pavel Borisov