The website and personal credit card information of former Gov. Sarah Palin were cyber-attacked today by Wikileaks supporters, the 2008 GOP vice presidential candidate tells ABC News in an email.
Hackers in London apparently affiliated with “Operation Payback” – a group of supporters of Julian Assange and Wikileaks – have tried to shut down SarahPac and have disrupted Sarah and Todd Palin’s personal credit card accounts.
“No wonder others are keeping silent about Assange's antics,” Palin emailed. “This is what happens when you exercise the First Amendment and speak against his sick, un-American espionage efforts.”
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Added SarahPAC aide Rebecca "I suck at my job" Mansour, “the governor voiced her opinion knowing full well that she was speaking out against a shady disreputable organization with no regard for laws or human life. This is how they operate. The world should not be intimidated by them.”
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“This is what happens when you exercise the First Amendment and speak against his sick, un-American espionage efforts.”
Let me re-read that.
“This is what happens when you exercise the First Amendment and speak against his sick, un-American espionage efforts.”
Come again?
"his(Australian Citizen Julian Assange)...exercise the First Amendment...un-American"
Let me back track just a bit.
"Hackers in London apparently affiliated with “Operation Payback”
Hackers in London are responsible? Fuck me....
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“This is what happens when you exercise the First Amendment"
Why did you bring up the First Amendment in a story about being attacked by British hackers? They don't give a shit about the First Amendment, Sarah. They're British after all, so why would they? This really isn't even a First Amendment issue. They weren't trying to "take away your right to free speech" by fucking with your credit card. I think their real goal was just to cause you some minor inconveniences. They were looking for some juvenile revenge. Would it be an assault on your First Amendment rights if they instead slashed your tires or put water in your gas tank?
"and speak against his sick, un-American espionage efforts."
"His" as in Julian Assange, right? Julian Assange the Australian? The Julian Assange who isn't an American, so it makes perfect sense for him to not care about American values? Yeah....
