You have a point - though I'm old enough to remember guys on my submarine putting on their Wise Voices and saying that Martin Luther King was going too far, too fast, and such changes take time. Sometimes it takes out of the ordinary events to force a rethinking of positions.
This demo that Anonymous is growing at viral rates like the Occupy non-organization did won't necessarily backfire. After all, the U.S. government is already operating in panic mode, like any centralized power system faced with a nobody-in-charge, decentralized and persistent public reaction showing that the power-wielders have lost their legitimacy among large, maybe huge, sections of the populace.
Could Anonymous have pulled this off without access to resources unsuspected by those in power? Additional panic-mode reactions by the government (like that FBI nose-thumbing at an already pissed off digital public) won't necessarily help them maintain their centralized power. Not when the populace has been screaming for policy changes, not aggressive reaction. Nonresponsive incumbents up for reelection should probably be feeling very nervous this year.
