Anonymous is a strange entity.

They have their own sort of religion, in a way. Anonymous is everyone; everyone is Anonymous. They’re a group of people on the internet who are… bored. They hide out on the internet where anonymity is easy to preserve and discuss many things. What separates them from other ‘groups’ of the internet is that they act.

If you are bored enough, search Youtube for a video on Fox News’ report on Anonymous. Be aware before you search that Fox News is - pardon my italian - retarded. They don’t know anything about the actual Internet or the actual Anonymous. (I don’t know or care if they can be trusted but I heard a comment on Youtube somewhere that stated that the Fox News anonymous they did a report on wasn’t at all related to the actual Anonymous.)

Anonymous’ raids target ‘fail’. ‘Fail’ is anything that sucks and/or is horrid in any way, shape, or form. (The opposite of this is win.) MySpace is a common target not because of the good honest people who go there (although they are likely victims, sometimes), but because it is utter fail. It is comprised of lifeless unintelligents without the will or brainpower to make a more unique site of their own, conned into joining the fail by their friends. And because, of course, the predators of the internet just love the place.

Anonymous has also raided a game called Habbo Hotel (as “detailed” in the Fox News’ report, which called it a kid’s game. You can see Fox News is fail), which is a 3-d roleplaying/dating game whose members tend to take that “dating” aspect way too far. Therefore, in the eyes of Anonymous, it is fail, and so they raided it.

Unlike the MySpace raids that Fox News talked about (I’m not sure what kind of Myspace raids the real Anonymous makes), Anon’s raid on Habbo Hotel was rather peaceful. They hired a legion of internet slobs, intellectuals, and sick-minded freaks rolled into one, a collective of people called /b/. I will not talk about /b/. Ever. Don’t ask. /b/ and Anon together made a few thousand accounts on Habbo Hotel that all looked exactly alike: a black man in a suit with a large afro. These accounts did nothing more and nothing less than blocking the entrances to as many pools (and a few rooms) as possible.

They did have rather mature/offensive language thrown about (mostly inside jokes), but their actual actions were fairly harmless.

Now, we are on the verge of Anon history in the making. February tenth of this year, Anonymous is planning a national “raid” on Scientology. Members are to conceal their identity and give out pamphlets and make peaceful, lawful protest. There are videos on YouTube of their rules of conduct (I have not actually watched the videos, but I have seen them and read the rules in the video description), and it amazed me to see a group of people so “feared” for being corrupt, hateful, and omnipresent, being so conscious of the rules of the United States and so practical. Their organization is indeed frightening.

On February 10th, I will be wearing sunglasses and a hat…