Occupy Iowa Caucus: Anonymous Hacker Group Claims Responsibility For Web Video (VIDEO)

A new web video comes as evidence the hacker group Anonymous is getting involved in the 2012 election.

The Des Moines Register reports that Anonymous has claimed responsibility for a clip encouraging viewers to disrupt January's Iowa caucuses. The Hawkeye State-based outlet notes that local authorities are not taking the news lightly.

The two-minute YouTube video is narrated by a synthetic-sounding voice leveling a charge that both Democrats and Republicans have "failed us" -- citing ties to megacorporations as a key factor. Taking the argument a step further, the video alleges that both parties are guilty of deliberately driving tens of millions of people into poverty.

"Voting for these parties is unethical," the voice says. "They have destroyed the American democracy."

The clip reveals details of a planned caucus shutdown, beginning two days after Christmas.

"We are calling upon you to occupy the campaign offices of presidential headquarters in Des Moines, Iowa on December 27th, and peacefully shut down the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses on January 3," the voice says.

CNN reported last week that Occupy Wall Street activists have plans in the works to take their message to Iowa one week before the state's caucuses.

Despite the call to "occupy" from Anonymous, the Register reports that members of Occupy Des Moines say there is no connection between the groups.

In recent months, Anonymous has taken on a host of causes outside of politics. From threatening to kill Facebook over privacy issues, to taking on the prominent Zetas drug cartel, to revealing IP addresses of child porn viewers, the group has made a name for itself with these types of online operations.

 

 

Comments

[aforbes808]

10:24 PM on 11/16/2011

Occupy your minds.

[Treehuggindirtworshiper]

04:18 PM on 11/15/2011

Why be "Anonymous"? I am particularly bothered by the statement "We do not forgive."

[dbrett480]

02:24 PM on 11/10/2011

So their idea to promote democracy, is to stop the democratic process? I can see we are dealing with the best and brightest of all the basement dwellers.

[Vincent McGuyer]

09:25 AM on 11/08/2011

They actually... interviewed people and asked if they were with Anonymous? That cracks me up... Did they forget what Anonymous, as a word, means? XD!

[MysticLady]

08:02 PM on 11/07/2011

Love 'em!

[nazztea]

05:27 PM on 11/07/2011

http://www.dylanratigan.com/2011/08/19/our-constitutional-amendment-get-money-out-of-politics/

A Guide To The Smear Campaign Against Occupy Wall Street
http://mediamatters.org/research/201110180014

http://mediamatters.org/search/index?qstring=A+Guide+To+The+Smear+Campaign+Against+Occupy+Wall+Street&x=12&y=8

[BBQribsNOnapkin]

04:36 PM on 11/07/2011

Such terrorists...calling it like it is...calling for peaceful protests...and to all the people who keep whining about how ONLY one party is really corrupted (yes the Republicans, any one with a third grader's understanding of history knows this) and that your vote actually makes a difference in a two party system...lmfao...wake up and smell the ether...

It'd be nice to have a little counter balance to the destructive, immovable force of pro mega-corporatism belligerence and anti-intellectual hate for the "other" that is the Tea Party. You wont find that by throwing your vote away on a bought and paid for Democrat or Republican and you're not gonna find real change from behind the keyboard in front of this very monitor...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonviolent_revolution

[awrightsdch]

04:02 PM on 11/08/2011

You make me Barf!!! The Occupy movement is about a " One Party System". I think they have that in North Korea.

[Atomkinder]

09:35 PM on 11/10/2011

I would counter by saying that I believe it's about a no party system. Political parties are for thoughtless drone voters.

[Skyler McLane]

03:39 PM on 11/07/2011

I 100% approve of this message.

[EcnelisDoogod]

03:25 PM on 11/07/2011

So we should just stop voting? Nice try. Voting booths IS one place that the 99% can still make a difference. OCCUPY VOTING BOOTHS!

[nazztea]

05:21 PM on 11/07/2011

Looking forward to that electronic "hanging chad".

[MarketAnarchist101]

12:57 AM on 11/08/2011

Ignoring the government completely makes a 100% difference.

[Christopher Craddock]

03:04 PM on 11/07/2011

We are Anonymous. We are Legion. We do not forgive... Aw Dangit! My names right there! MOM!!

[killerbee256]

02:50 PM on 11/07/2011

Is it me or does reality seem to be becoming somthing out of 80's cyber punk fiction?

[Kcirol Yreffej]

03:20 PM on 11/07/2011

The Media/Government have been desensitizing the American public to the class war that is inevitably going to come. The elite know their number has been called for awhile.

[flossophy]

04:02 PM on 11/07/2011

Not quite... folks on the left are engendering a class war for political purposes. You guys are being duped by them.

[flkewlkid00]

02:30 PM on 11/07/2011

get the money out of politics which will atrophy special interests,problem solved!

[grovestand12]

02:24 PM on 11/07/2011

as a democratic socialist, i completely agree with them.

[jaborine]

02:14 PM on 11/07/2011

What all Americans need is security at the polls. We don't need to struggle and cast our
votes only to have them nulified by some Sec. of State, computer glitchs, hanging chads,
redistricting, or stolen/missing ballots, or misinforming or moving polling places.

We know the state with a history for questionable election results. And we know the best predictor
of future behavior is past behavior. Let's be prepared to staff and oversee the polls.

The DNC should have teams of lawyers stationed around the country and computer experts to
detect tampering. We know the only way a Republican can win an election in 2012 is by
stealing it. Let's be prepared.

[Kcirol Yreffej]

03:21 PM on 11/07/2011

Ron Paul 2012! Obama is our best choice..?? C'mon Man!

[DragonFly]

04:12 PM on 11/07/2011

~ And get rid of all Diebold machines.

[EcnelisDoogod]

02:04 PM on 11/07/2011

Voting is one thing the 99% have in abundance! Don't be fooled into giving up your vote. OCCUPY VOTING BOOTHS!!