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Anonymous strikes ‘war profiteering’ tear gas manufacturer Combined Systems

 Anonymous punishes Combined Systems, a US manufacturer of tear gas, for providing “sinister instruments of torture and brutality” to law enforcement agencies around the world.


Honoring the first anniversary of protests in Bahrain, hacktivists associated with the AntiSec faction of the international Internet collective known as Anonymous released details of a successful attack against US tear gas manufacturer Combined Systems late Monday night.
 
Combined Systems is a Pennsylvania-based company that is responsible for manufacturing much of the tear gas used against protesters around the world. Anonymous took Combined Systems' website offline and dumped its employee and client data on the Web via a Pastebin release.
 
The Atlantic Wire reports that the Combined Systems website was unresponsive on Tuesday morning, as were the websites for surveillance hardware manufacturer Sur-Tec, Thompson Handcuffs, and weapons maker Penn Arms, all of which Anonymous claims credit for knocking offline.
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The following is an excerpt from the Pastebin release announcing the Anonymous action:
 
So you war profiteering all crazy, selling mad chemical weapons to militaries and cop shops around the world, thinking you will get away unscathed by the rising tides of insurrection? Think again, assholes. Combined Systems, lay down your arms: you just lost the game. In the past we have marched on your offices in Jamestown, Pennsylvania: now it is time to march on your websites. All your "less than lethal" arms were simply no match for our 9000 cocks and mad black hat technique. We came, we saw, we rooted and rm'd your website. Umad?

From the streets of Oakland to Tahrir Square, to Palestine, Greece, Bahrain and Syria, your sinister instruments of torture and brutality have been used by the vile swine enforcers of the rich ruling classes to repress our revolutionary movements. You shot and gassed protesters, running them off public parks in the US. Several dozen died because of your tear gas used in Egypt. You wave the Israeli flag outside of your offices, while just two months ago your tear gas cannisters fired by the IDF killed a man in the West Bank. Did you think we forgot? Why did you not expect us?

To our hacker allies, our fellow occupiers, our militant comrades all around the world, the time for talk is over: it's time to hack and smash, beat and shag. ...we will make war on the infrastructure of the military prison industrial non-organic complex, targeting all war profiteers,
corporate executives, white hats, snitches and pigs. We're coming to loot, plunder, and make all their base belong to us.

For more information follow the Twitter hashtags: #Anonymous #AntiSec #Solidarity #HackVDay
 
 

, National Anonymous Examiner

Michael Stone is a progressive freethinker and freelance writer residing in Portland, Oregon. Informed by science, inspired by art, and motivated by compassion, Michael’s task is to question the world in pursuit of the good. You can reach Michael at stonemichael@hotmail.com.

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