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Thankyou.

You have proved that while your well-deserved infamy precedes you, you are, collectively, an astoundingly brave and righteous group of people.

I ask you all to please read this in the hope that your efforts up to now may be rewarded well beyond the strange form of fame you have earned yourselves. Contents

[edit] Why your movement is so successful

The *chans' interesting anonymous forums make your group difficult, if not impossible, to define. You can only guess whose words are whose. You can never discriminate, hold a grudge, or gain credibility.

The most powerful result of your anonymity is inherent equality. Next to each other, none of you are poor, none are wealthy, none are strong and none are weak. Your only individual identity is contained in the fleeting words you leave and never return to. Collectively, you are each other.

Everyone has equal opportunity to contribute as much or as little as they like.

[edit] Problems

There are two problems. “Enemy spies” is the first. When I say that it’s a tiny problem I need you to believe me. Have faith in your cause, have faith in your peers – enemies will be outspoken. As long as you keep adding to and criticizing each other’s ideas, infiltration will be impossible.

(Anon replies: "We have no grudge with spies. If anything, we welcome them. We deal with them like they were no better than camwhores or furries.")

Any of you could write something that’s negative to the cause. Anyone could encourage the group to do something bad, whether they mean it or not. Don’t exclude anyone. There is no group, there is no leader, there are only ideas. If you see a bad idea, criticize it. Add a better idea. If your enemies try to lead you astray, your allies will bring you back on course. You need to do the same for them. Remember that.

(Anon says: "It has been made painfully clear that nothing from anonymous is official and that we lack a hierarchy.")

Don’t exclude anyone.

This is the second problem. It’s not a problem yet, but as the popularity of the movement grows, some of you may form insider groups or break away altogether.

(Anon says: "This has happened. Some Anonymous have decried the new, socially-aware and peacefully protesting Anonymous. Notably, however, those Anon make up only a small percent of Anonymous. Such is the nature of a leaderless collective, however. Each Anon is free to follow the dictates of his or her conscience. Some Anonymous are only motivated by LULZ. Other Anonymous--including more and more new Anons--are motivated by the Human Rights-based Church of Scientology protests. Each type of Anon has a function and can co-exist under the same loose umbrella term 'Anonymous,' but what bewilders critics and casual observers is that Anonymous, as a leaderless group, can exist while not being 100% in agreement. True 'majority rule' in action. Anyone can put forth an idea, good or bad. Anyone putting forth an idea is as much a "leader" (in the loosest sense of the word) as anyone else, because there are no leaders or organizers. "Each according to his or her own ability" is the defining motto. It's peaceful anarchy that sprang like Athena did, fully-formed, from the head of Zeus. Anonymous as a socially-aware entity sprang forth fully-formed and ready to rumble (peacefully) from a hundred separate online locations almost simultaneously. A collective fist, made up of tens of thousands of fingers.")

Unless you are undertaking a unique project that requires strict secrecy, excluding people will kill your movement. People want to join. They like the cause. They like the activism. They love the movement.

(Anon says: "Anyone and everyone can be--or already is--Anonymous. Anyone and everyone can be--or already are--welcome. Together, Anonymous can make a difference and right wrongs. How exciting is that?")

[edit] The Future

The future of this movement could affect the entire world and everyone in it. Apart from any goals or purposes your collective ideas might form, these points you all need to remember if this truly unique and beautiful movement is to survive:

• Don’t exclude. Don’t be elitist.

• Don’t have a hierarchy. Remain anonymous, remain leaderless and share ideas on the basis that everyone is equal; a collective mind focusing its entire energy on a goal will remove any impurities or inconsistencies along the way.

• Don’t disregard any ideas without discussing them first. The way forward is to combine and refine what everyone has to say.

• Don’t fight with each other. Criticize the ideas of others and expect criticism – remember you are trying to work as a collective mind, if you start in-fighting the mind will die. Don't cut off your nose to spite your face, as the saying goes.

• You all share the same goal. Remember the goal. Remember your allies. How far would you go to save them? As far as they would go to save you? While you have never met each other, you are family. Protect and respect everyone's ability to speak and contribute.

• If you need an identity, then this is the best way I could imagine to express to the truly unique nature of this incredible new culture.

Like Wikipedia, you are all free to contribute until the idea has been perfected. Like P2P you are all interconnected, giving and receiving ideas. Like the internet, you are each your own node, your own cell of a larger network.

This movement is the equal and free exchange and distribution of ideas within an anonymous collective that’s constantly being refined, collaboratively progressing towards a mutual ideal.

Your movement, the way you enhance each other and work as one… you are unstoppable. Your movement will shake the foundations of society if you let it.

You are anonymous. You are the internet, the world, and the people. For those who are silenced; you are a voice that will never relent. You are a part of something that will change the world.

This is the future. You will create it.

- MO

[edit] Comments

Feel free to edit any part of this article. Check revisions to find out whether its been 'infiltrated'. Comment, criticise, modify, delete. That is why you will succeed. - MO

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