Anonymous reveals personal information of 4,000 U.S. bank executives

So if one is a banker one is necessarily corrupt? I'd love to hear the rational behind that conclusion. "I'm awake" is hardly a case for typing an entire group.

Also, you misunderstood my battlefield metaphor. I'm specifically talking about the faceless promotion of the Anon worldview on the idealogical battlefield. Real activists put a face to an idea and operate within the law; Anon does neither. Violating property and individual rights over the internet in the name of the greater good is nothing more than feigning virtue with cheap parlor tricks.

I know quite a bit of people who are poor and broke and can screw people without blinking an eye. Screwing people and having power are not synonymous. This is the problem that groups like Anonymous and folks like yourself and spencer have. If someone is rich and powerful, well, there is only way that could happen and it is by sticking it to some little guy. Of course, there is no evidence to back up your claim other than your own prejudice. Which, I guess, is all that the group Anonymous needs to hack into and release the records of 4,000 PEOPLE (just calling them bank executives dehumanizes them) even though they have no information as to whether any of them acted crookedly at minimum.

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I wont argue the mechanics nor symantics in any of this. You choose to see them as innocent. I however had to deal with similar executives. They may not ALL be as bad as they are made out to be, but most are. Its not prejudice. Its experience. Yes what ANON has done is wrong. Releasing that level of personal information is wrong for anyone to do. However, while I do not subscribe to ANON nor its practices, I do see why they would do so. As for the Bankers themselves, Im 100% sure they wont be loosing any real sleep over Anons tactics. They will just insulate themselves in their giant homes with their super security systems, maybe guards, and continue to fleece the American consumer for every dime they can get. This information that ANON has released does nothing except point out yet another industry that has been screwing us.

I don't choose to see them as anything as guilty or innocent. I don't know any of them and none of them did something to me personally. The bankers do a job and some may have performed poorly while others performed fine. Why stroke with a broad brush simply because they work in an industry you don't like? How do you know that these executives live in massive homes with guards? My brother-in-law, an executive for the phone company, makes north of $150,000 a year with benefits and other perks and he has to rent a home for his family because where he lives the homes are still too expensive for him to buy. I don't know what these executives can afford; it is fundamentally wrong to harm people because your own prejudices cloud your judgement and deem to be all bad. Whatever happened to the concept of tolerance?

That's prejudice by definition (see definitions 2a and 2c http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prejudice).

Well.. for one, tolerance takes work. Secondly, prejudice is human nature. 10,000 years ago if a guy saw a tiger eat one of his buddies it worked to his benefit to assume the next tiger would act the same way. Today we see on the news a story of some corrupt exec, and it creates the template that bank exec = corruption.

That and our pop culture tends to be very binary. Every show or movie has good guys and bad guys. Even our politicians try to group us into good (the average joe) and evil (CEOs) for their own gain.

To understand the reality that everyone exists on some grey scale in the middle is difficult. But we know it's true when we stop to think about it. It's why we love fictional heroes who aren't always good... like Tyrion Lannister, or Walter White, or Lisbeth Salander... or even Christian Grey.

Please tell me how posting bankers private info is fighting for freedom.

Absofreakinglutely

The federal reserve is what runs our country, in the great depression the federal reserve was founded and that was the day America died. The federal reserve is private and the bankers that run it have admitted so. you must wake up and realize all these wars,911 gulf of tonkin etc was set up for money only look back in history and you will realize what I'm saying is true. links below


http://www.infowars.com/the-federal...12-banks-are-private-not-government-entities/

www.infowars.com

http://oathkeepers.org/oath/

This was all predicted by george orwell in 1919

these should help you wake up, all it requires is an open mind. These ideas are all supported by Ron Paul, Joe Rogan, Jesse Ventura, And Alex Jones. This is no joke

By releasing bankers info let's them know they are not gods.

Because publishing hacked information is going to undermine the egos of guys who command trillions of dollars and have the ability to manipulate entire financial markets. Bernanke is sweating bullets, I'm sure.

if I was him I would now. the american population is armed to the teeth and near rebellion in ny due to unconstitutional laws. Because there attempt to grab guns(like hitler) backfired immensely due to the constitution

You can find all kinds of paranoid crap on the web.

Here's the deal about successful finance guys. Whether they've made their achievements screwing people over or trying to be an honest market participant, they've got cash and mobility. Unless we've all got access to SAMs and tail numbers, the only person who needs to be afraid is the immigrant doing the landscaping on the banker's property, cause he'll be out of a job when the rich guy packs up shop and moves to Singapore.

An open mind is a great thing, but you have to be able to connect the obvious dots before it's of any use.

Why can't Anonymous do something awesome like erase Sallie Mae servers? That place sucks and is completely responsible for raping citizens' up the arse w/ dirty, diseased dildos. I could buy two houses in NYC with the interest (alone) that has accrued on my account. Ridiculous. Shame on them.

I appreciate what Anonymous is doing, especially because the gov doesn't give a **** about anyone. So long as the banks and oil companies are making their big bonuses, who cares about people like me, breaking her back going to work 45+ hrs a wk, and still living paycheck-to-paycheck despite having a master's degree? Obviously not the gov.

I should state, however, that not everyone as individuals deserves what Anon is doing; they are generalizing, which is exactly what our gov is doing. I suppose it's the cause that separates us from them.

Nope.