A Message From Anonymous to the President of the United States

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Article II, Sector 3 of the US Constitution, says the President “shall from time to time give to Congress information of the State of the Union and recommend to their Consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.”

At 9PM Eastern Standard Time, February 13, 2013 President Obama has planned to address a joint session of Congress to deliver the State of the Union Address.
The following day, President Obama will be introducing an executive order, purportedly aimed at bolstering U.S. cyber-security, after repeated failed attempts to pass legislation through Congress.

Anonymous has reached a verdict of NO CONFIDENCE in this executive order and the plans to reintroduce the CISPA bill to Congress on the same day. As such, President Obama and the State of the Union Address will be BANISHED from the Internet for the duration of live delivery.

So as not to infringe upon the President’s free speech, subsequent broadcasts will be allowed to pass unhindered.
This action is being taken to underline a fact that appears to be sorely unrecognized by the Obama Administration — that the Internet is a sovereign territory, and does not fall under the jurisdiction of any nation state.

We are the natives of this space, and its guardians, and we will fight until death to protect it as a neutral grounds for the unhindered interaction of all members of the human race, so long as they themselves act in harmony with this inviolable principle.

Our determination is that President Obama is acting in direct contravention of this principle, and his brief exclusion is an educational, rather than a punitive measure.
We hope that its lesson will be learned.
Punitive measures have not been ruled out.

-Anonymous

44 Comments

  1. Anonymous

    February 12, 2013

    Now this is going to be interesting…

    • Anonymous

      February 12, 2013

      anonymous, hurry. you are in fact losing street credit. in order to keep the government out, you have to take them down down

    • Anonymous

      February 12, 2013

      Fail i watched it all online…damn…i wanted it down….

    • Anonymous

      February 16, 2013

      This idea was a non-starter from the get go. The only thing that Anonymous could hope for was that enough people would read this and download their denial of service software (LOIC) and cripple some video streams by flooding the host server’s available bandwidth. Making threats like this that they know are next to impossible to implement just smacks of plain old hubris.

      Be careful guys to not buy into your own press or it could come back to bite you.

      I think what Anonymous does is great and will eventually in the future become legendary. Making grand proclamations like this one, that had very little chance of success, is not the way to go about doing it.

  2. Anonymous

    February 12, 2013

    Can you take it off live TV as well? Please!

    • Anonymous

      February 12, 2013

      +1!

    • Anonymous

      February 12, 2013

      Obviously not. This isn’t an attempt to cut out the words of the President, it’s an attempt to show that his “meddling” is unwelcome in the Internet.

    • Anonymous

      February 13, 2013

      One can only wish!

  3. Anonymous

    February 12, 2013

    This is going to be sweet!!!

  4. Anonymous

    February 12, 2013

    Yes, please if possible take it off of live TV if you can!

  5. Anonymous

    February 12, 2013

    Good for you 4 for you anon. This is tyranny if I ever saw it.

  6. Anonymous

    February 12, 2013

    Great

  7. BLUEBOND

    February 12, 2013

    Perfect

  8. SnipsCastUSA

    February 12, 2013

    If possible, could u guys screw with the live TV broadcast, kinda like what district 13 did to the Capitol on the Hunger Games Book Series. U could use this to announce worldwide who u r as a group

  9. Anonymous

    February 12, 2013

    So sick of the U.S. Government trying to stick their flag on the internet uggghhhhh. Well said Anonymous.

  10. Austin

    February 12, 2013

    Thank you for being a voice of sanity in this chaotic world. I fully support you guys 100%. I only wish I could do more.

  11. Anonymous

    February 12, 2013

    I have had enough of the shit this government tries to do to us. But there are always people like you that have the ability and DO stand up to them and put them in there place. Not let them overstep there bounds. I have a amazing amount of respect for you guys and am so glad that even though I do not personally have the power to help. The job is still being done.

    • Anonymous

      February 12, 2013

      You do!! You might not be down with the computer but you can infrom others, or stand at a protest with us side by side. Thier is a ton you can do you just got to go do it my fellow human.

  12. Anonymous

    February 12, 2013

    “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” Margaret Mead

    • Anonymous

      February 12, 2013

      Yes…each one can do their part for the Good of ALL! “We the Anonymous People” (for now…)

  13. SnipsCastUSA

    February 12, 2013

    U should take over C-SPAN’s airing of the State of the Union Address, use tht time to announce the group u r, what ur plans r, and what the american people need to no about wat is really happening. This is ur chance to reach the whole nation!!! Go For It!

  14. Jordan

    February 12, 2013

    I am so sick of this Government treading on our Rights.Taking them away one by one as the many sheeple do nothing…………….They are so clueless.
    Thank you Anonymous for doing this.I really wish I was really smart in IT Stuff so I could join and help.

  15. Anonymous

    February 12, 2013

    God is with this as in lol awesome

    • Anonymous

      March 14, 2013

      God is with you Anonomyous this is a great public service I love IT can I join

  16. Anonymous

    February 12, 2013

    good that we have a power that can stand up to this Dictator we got stuck with

  17. Anonymous

    February 12, 2013

    You’ve made it clear that this act is addressed to the president and not the masses, but what about them? Do you plan to help them understand why this is important? even here, you have expressed respect for rights guaranteed by the constitution. Would you create and enforce new rights? Do you believe that all of the online world deserves a place and an authority who will resolve their disputes, or is the internet a place where caveat emptor should reign supreme?

    Current and proposed U.S. laws which attempt to bring the internet under their jurisdiction are a square peg for a round hole, but the hole remains.

  18. Anonymous

    February 12, 2013

    wouldn’t it have been a more effective route to deny the deliver of the speech on t.v. broadcasts and force him to use the internet to propose his idea to control the internet? plus it would have a greater impact as more people will watch the t.v. broadcasts.

  19. Anonymous

    February 12, 2013

    I cant wait.. Please do what you can to take down the network broadcast as well.. Show them the power the people have over their government.

  20. MrTeeHee

    February 12, 2013

    wow

  21. Anonymous

    February 12, 2013

    Wolverines!!!

  22. Anonymous

    February 12, 2013

    am i on the wrong internet? becuase i can’t not see the live state of the union address.

  23. Anonymous

    February 13, 2013

    Guess you guys failed this time. Watched the whole thing and heard the same old lies. Better luck next time.

  24. Anonymous

    February 13, 2013

    GOD Bless America…The Land of the Free, and the Home of the Brave…Thank You All for Standing Together, because as it has been Quoted many a time , United We Stand, Divided We Fall…
    .

  25. TheAnonCause

    February 13, 2013

    Internet is our domain, nobody owns it, nobody has control over it. It’s indeed for people, who want to use it to gain knowledge, express freedom of expression and speech.

    So if somebody tries to express himself as the Almighty Tyrant who thinks he can control the Internet . . . we just simply, KICK HIM OUT!

    It’s not Anonymous that feels threatened why we do this. It is THE FREEDOM of every individual that is threatened that’s why we defend it.

    DON’T F*CK WITH OUR FREEDOM!

  26. Anonymous

    February 13, 2013

    The speech went off without any troubles! No interruption to the stream at all. The whitehouse.gov website had the enhanced broadcast on their website and both the stream AND the website handled the traffic without any trouble. No sign of any attacked noticed!!!
    Livestream and youtube both had no interruptions in their stream.

    Is Anonymous losing it’s power on the internet?

    So, now we all just sit back and watch Obama take over OUR internet???? Is that the new plan???

    No Changes and yet NO CHAOS! I feel that Anonymous has let Aaron’s family down on this one along with the rest of the world.

    Anonymous has more talk than action lately.

    By making this announcement and NOT following through with it, has made people lose faith in what Anonymous is capable of.

    Expect Cispa!

  27. Anonymous

    February 13, 2013

    FAIL it was on Bing, didn’t try any others. I was hoping for success.

  28. Anonymous

    February 13, 2013

    Whatever happened to ” we the people”. The Supreme Court as well as the “elected” officials do what they want, what the lobbyists pay for and what is best for them. (Sic) different insurance, children do not pay for college, after one term in office they get their full pay for life and wives also receive a ” retirement” check. Not right!! These offices were never intended to be for more than one term and no pay. When you have a senator in office in his 90′s something’s rotten when others are forced to retire at a much earlier age.

  29. Anonymous

    February 13, 2013

    Dis you keep other off the web? I didn’t hear anything about it but curious to know. I do inform people what you guys do and can do. I support you guys 100%!!!!

  30. Anonymous

    February 13, 2013

    What happened?

  31. Anonymous

    February 13, 2013

    I am guessing the fbi had a few tricks up their sleeve eh?

  32. Anonymous

    February 13, 2013

    At least make an official explanation. I understand complications arise. Unforeseen circumstances. Noone can win every time. Still would like to know what happened.

  33. Anonymous

    February 13, 2013

    Too bad about the whole failure part. This seemed like such a good idea when written. Lost in execution, I see…

  34. Anonymous

    February 13, 2013

    If anyone can help me out. Where does one go to watch this?

  35. Anonymous

    February 13, 2013

    Can’t wait!