Nameless March to Parliament – On Monday fifth of November 2012 round two thousand Nameless supporters met in Trafalgar Sq. and marched to Parliament Sq. towards austerity, the cuts and the rising hole between wealthy and poor, warning the federal government they should change.
This was a part of #Operation Vendetta, which they described as “a worldwide Nameless operation of world power and solidarity, a warning to all governments worldwide that in the event that they hold making an attempt to censor, minimize, imprison, or silence the free world or the free web they won’t be our governments for for much longer.”
Wikipedia describes Nameless as “a decentralized worldwide activist and hacktivist collective and motion primarily recognized for its varied cyberattacks towards a number of governments, authorities establishments and authorities businesses, firms and the Church of Scientology.” The article additionally quotes their widespread tag-line “We’re Nameless. We’re Legion. We don’t forgive. We don’t overlook. Count on us.“
Nameless supporters or ‘Anons’ stay nameless by carrying masks styled on these in David Lloyd’s illustrations, based mostly on these utilized in London in 1605 by Man Fawkes, for Alan Moore’s graphic novel V for Vendetta which options ‘V’, an anarchist revolutionary and superhero who clothes in a masks and cloak. In 2005 the story was made into a movie and masks based mostly on Lloyd’s drawings have been mass-produced as merchandise for this, copyrighted by Warner Brothers who gather royalties on them, although there have been many pirated variations.
The complicated story, written when Thatcher was prime minister and set within the close to future is ready in a Britain after a nuclear warfare wherein the UK suffered little direct injury as a Labour authorities had renounced nuclear weapons and closed US bases earlier than it broke out. However within the post-war chaos firms and fascists hadtaken energy and established a totalitarian state. Within the story which begins on Man Fawkes Evening in London in 1997, V engages in plenty of assaults towards the regime, together with on fifth November 1998 blowing up the Submit Workplace Tower and it ends following V’s dying with a normal riot wherein Downing Avenue is blown up by an Underground practice carrying V’s physique.
After all there is no such thing as a Underground line beneath Downing Avenue though there are underground tunnels beneath a lot of Whitehall and elsewhere in London a few of that are utilized by police and safety companies. They have been constructed 100ft down for communications cables throughout World Battle 2 and the community was expanded in the course of the Chilly Battle Period.
The world over Nameless has carried out plenty of generally profitable cyber-operations in addition to launching real-world protests, notably towards Scientology and baby pornography websites.
This protest in London known as for an finish to cuts in training, well being and welfare and the tip of ‘austerity measures’ that focus on the poor and weak, calling on the federal government to sort out the causes of the issues, together with the banks and tax avoidance and evasion. In addition they need freedom for the Web, with respect for the privateness of Web customers and the dropping of the Communications Knowledge Invoice.
In addition they demanded the discharge of Web activists who they are saying are political prisoners, together with Julian Assange then nonetheless holed up in a London embassy, Richard O’Dwyer wished within the US for alleged copyright infringements, and the “PayPal 14, Jeremy Hammond, Topiary and the 4 anons of the UK that may stand trial on November seventh.”
Though the Anons had careworn this was to be a completely peaceable occasion the police have been taking few possibilities and have been out in drive, maybe reacting extra to the occasions within the novel than the precise occasion they have been policing.
The occasion itself as might need been anticipated was chaotic, and the motion from Trafalgar Sq. to Parliament Sq. was extra a drift than a march. Police reacted angrily after the protests merely walked round a line of police making an attempt to cease them have been merely walked round and one officer clearly misplaced his mood on the insistent taunting and photographing by the activists, however police and different protesters quickly calmed issues down.
Banners have been raised alongside the fence exterior the Homes of Parliament, and one younger girl eliminated her shirt to pose in her bra. The ‘heritage wardens’ tried to cease folks utilizing hearth poi within the sq. however quickly had to surrender as increasingly more started to carry out. Police tried with out a lot success to clear the roads to maintain visitors shifting across the sq., and a ‘Transport for London’ lorry managed to successfully block a junction to carry up the bus I used to be on for over 10 minutes after I had determined to go residence. The protest apparently continued for a number of hours after I’d left.
Extra on My London Diary at Nameless March to Parliament.
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