Update: Anonymous have cancelled the operation. “Destroying #OpCartel because the lives of people who are not participating can be put at risk.”
So apparently the Zetas (Mexico’s second most powerful drug cartel) kidnapped an Anonymous member (internet’s toughest guys) who was taking part in a street protest in Veracruz. Being the badasses they are, Anonymous didn’t take kindly to this and issued a warning to the crime syndicate, informing them that they’ve “made a huge mistake by taking one of us.”
In the threat video demanding the release of their fellow nerd, a man wearing classic Anonymous attire says:
“We cannot defend ourselves with a weapon … but we can do this with their cars, homes, bars, brothels and everything else in their possession. It won’t be difficult; we all know who they are and where they are located.
We demand his release.”
The group’s threat is that it will publish the identities and addresses of the syndicate’s associates, from corrupt police to taxi drivers, as well as reveal the syndicates’ businesses.
This sounds great the first time you hear it, but it’s actually the stupidest thing ever. I mean, sure, competing cartels would love to tear the Zetas apart and take control of their market, but the names of a few easily replaceable people aren’t going to make that happen. The only thing achieved through a weak information leak would be getting a lot of people killed, which is just another day at the office for the Zetas.
If Anonymous really wanted to make the Zetas take them seriously, they should have threatened to recruit Charlie Sheen to use up all the drugs in Mexico. Now that would have been a problem for the cartels, given that they need drugs to survive.
English language transcript of Anonymous’ message after the jump.
“Anonymous from Veracruz, Mexico, and the world, we want you to know that a member has been kidnapped when he was doing Paperstorm in our city.
We demand his release. We want the army and the navy to know that we are fed up of the criminal group Zetas, who have concentrated on kidnapping, stealing and blackmailing in different ways. One of them is charging every honest and hardworking citizen of Veracruz who busts their rears working day after day to feed their families.
We are fed up of journalists and newspapers of Xalapa, Córdoba and Orizaba because they are constantly crapping on honest authorities like the army and the navy.
We are fed up with taxi drivers, commanders and “police-zetas” officers of Xalapa, Córdoba, Orizaba, Nogales, Río Blanco and Camerinos… who are chickens and have made themselves the most loyal servants of these (expletive).
For the time being, we won´t post photos or the names … of the taxi drivers, the journalists or the newspapers nor of the police officers, but if needed, we will publish them including their addresses, to see if by doing so the government will arrest them.
We can´t defend ourselves with a weapon, but if we can do this with their cars, houses, bars, brothels and everything else in their possession … It won´t be difficult. We all know who they are and where they are.
(Images with sound of explosions)
You made a huge mistake by taking one of us. Release him. And if anything happens to him, you (expletive) will always remember this upcoming November 5th .
Knowledge is free. We are Anonymous. We are a legion. We don’t forgive. We don’t forget. Expect us.”
