Some thoughts on Anon and hacking and all that (as well as the culture)

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15. Or just maybe they want to let Rove twist slowly in the wind

What I'm getting from looking around online is that Rove is in a peck of trouble. His billionaire backers feel burned. The Tea Partiers and movement conservatives feel betrayed. He's in possible legal trouble over his failure to register his PACs properly in Virginia. And at this point, he has no way of knowing whether Anonymous has provided anything to the Feds or not.

All of that is a good thing. I would rather have Rove be discredited and demoralized than see him on trial for something that might not be provable and would at the very least enable him to play the martyr. In fact, I want him squirming. I want him not knowing what might happen to him next and fearing the worst.

And if Anonymous has put Rove in that position -- whether through an actual hack or through a brilliant hoax -- that can only be a good thing.


On edit: It's not for nothing that one of Anonymous's mottos is "Because none of us is as cruel as all of us." Once they get going, they turn into something like the avenging Furies of Greek mythology, and they don't let go until their victim is shredded into tiny bits.