{"id":1321,"date":"2011-08-13T05:04:39","date_gmt":"2011-08-13T05:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/?p=1321"},"modified":"2011-08-13T05:04:39","modified_gmt":"2011-08-13T05:04:39","slug":"Anonymous-goes-after-BART","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/13\/Anonymous-goes-after-BART\/","title":{"rendered":"Anonymous goes after BART"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2011\/08\/12\/BAEU1KMS8U.DTL\">cell phone blockage on BART yesterday<\/a>, is making lots of international news now, including <a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/news\/americas\/2011\/08\/201181221139693608.html\">Al Jazeera<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fark.com\/comments\/6472940\/Cellular-services-disabled-to-prevent-protesters-from-organizing-Is-this-a-Syria-B-Yemen-C-San-Francisco?cpp=1\">FARK<\/a> with the headline <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\tCellular services disabled to prevent protesters from organizing. Is this a) Syria, B) Yemen, or C) San Francisco<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>locally, Zeni has an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/blogs\/abraham\/detail?entry_id=95303\">update<\/a> and also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baycitizen.org\/bart-police-shooting\/story\/bart-cell-phone-service-legal\/\">The Bay Citizen<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now Anonymous has posted <a href=\"http:\/\/youranonnews.tumblr.com\/post\/8850132926\/this-is-a-message-from-anonymous-to-the-bay-area-rapid\">this message<\/a> to protest on Monday, the cell phone jam from yesterday<\/p>\n<p>update, mayoral candidates and senators issue statements, via <a href=\"http:\/\/sfcitizen.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/13\/phil-ting-and-leland-yee-throw-down-against-the-bart-police-cell-phone-shutdown-policy\/#comment-86683\">SF Citizen<\/a> and also the Bay Citizen is now carrying the <a href=\"http:\/\/sfappeal.com\/news\/2011\/08\/bart-braces-for-anonymous-organized-protest-monday.php\">below story about Anonymous complete with new twitter hashtags<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/search?q=%23OpBART\">OPBart<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/search\/%23muBARTek\">MuBARTek<\/a> and Indybay has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indybay.org\/newsitems\/2011\/08\/12\/18687533.php\">pile of links<\/a><\/p>\n<p>update 2, Monday  August 15, 2011 > SFCtizen has deets on a <a href=\"http:\/\/sfcitizen.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/15\/lets-all-listen-to-the-bart-radio-system-live-audio-feed-during-tonights-protest\/\">live BART audio scanner feed<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OczY1D6tKcM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThis is a message from Anonymous to the Bay Area Rapid Transit System (BART)<\/p>\n<p>TO THE PEOPLE OF THE USA:<br \/>\nThe past year has brought about some substantial awareness through some unfortunate events that have occurred throughout our world.  From internet censorship to the unnecessary violence inflicted upon unarmed civilans, we\u2019ve all seen what can happen once a portion of us are gagged.<br \/>\nIn Egypt and Tunisia, we saw people struggling to make their voices heard.  We have seen companies such as Telecomix delve into the nastiness of political corruption in an attempt to free those censored individuals from their prisons of silence.  We seen social media such as FaceBook and twitter explode with users from around the world speaking out against censorship.<br \/>\nToday, we\u2019ve seen America come alive.  In the Bay Area, we\u2019ve seen people gagged, and once more, Anonymous will attempt to show those engaging in the censorship what it feels like to be silenced. #OpBART is an operation geared toward balance &#8211; toward learning.  You do not censor people because they wish to speak out against the wrongs the wrongful things occurring around them.  The Bay Area Rapid Transit has made the conscious decision of ordering various cell phone companies to terminate services for the downtown  area inhibiting those in the area from using cell phones &#8211; even in the case of an emergency.<\/p>\n<p>To BART:<\/p>\n<p>We will not tolerate censorship.<br \/>\nWe will do everything in our power (we are legion) to parallel the actions of censorship that you have chosen to engage in.<br \/>\nWe will be free to speak out against you when you try to cover up crimes, namely on behalf of  those who have engaged in violence against a mostly unarmed public.<br \/>\nWe will set those who have been censored free from their silence. That\u2019s a promise.<br \/>\nAnonymous demands that this activity revolving around censorship cease and desist and we know you are already planning to do this again.<br \/>\nWe will not issue any more warnings.<\/p>\n<p>TO THE PEOPLE OF SAN FRANCISCO:<\/p>\n<p>People of San Francisco, join us Monday, August 15th at 5pm for a peaceful protest at Civic Center station to illustrate the solidarity with people we once knew and to stand up for your rights and those of your fellow citizens.<br \/>\nWe will be wearing \u201cblood\u201d stained shirts for remembrance to the blood that is on the hands of the BART police.<\/p>\n<p>For the people outside of San Francisco, show solidarity by using black fax, email bombs, and phone calls to the BART Board of Directors. BART decided to cut off your communications and now we will flood theirs. <\/p>\n<p>We request that you bring cameras to record further abuses of power by the police and to legitimize the protest. The media will certainly spin this in an attempt to make our actions appear to be violent or somehow harmful to the citizenry at large. Remember, this is a peaceful protest. Any actions trying to incite violence in our protest are not of our people, and they ought to be discouraged.<\/p>\n<p>We are Anonymous,<\/p>\n<p>We are legion, <\/p>\n<p>We never forgive, <\/p>\n<p>We never forget, <\/p>\n<p>Expect us.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/9640932@N04\/6037600646\/\" title=\"opBART_exiledsurfer by auweia, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6129\/6037600646_9d55ebd32c_z.jpg\" width=\"497\" height=\"640\" alt=\"opBART_exiledsurfer\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/9640932@N04\/6037048811\/\" title=\"2j1oi by auweia, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6081\/6037048811_83a21880db_z.jpg\" width=\"496\" height=\"640\" alt=\"2j1oi\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the cell phone blockage on BART yesterday, is making lots of international news now, including Al Jazeera and FARK with the headline Cellular services disabled &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-1321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4-San-Francisco","tag-san-francisco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}