from the Earth First! Newswire
According to tweets sent out by the Westboro Baptist Church shortly after two bombs killed three and injured hundreds near the finish-line at the Boston Marathon, it was “God” who brought on the carnage because Massachusetts “was the FIRST STATE to pass same-sex marriage” in 2004. They added “Westboro Baptist Church to picket funerals of those dead by Boston Bombs! GOD SENT THE BOMBS IN FURY OVER FAG MARRIAGE! #PraiseGod,” from the church’s @WBCFliers Twitter account.
The church released a barrage of tweets following the bombing urging the government to “reinstate” the death penalty for homosexuality, warning of future attacks should that fail to happen. Other tweets mentioned that it was also abortion that caused God to bring the attacks at the Boston Marathon.
Following threats by the Westboro Baptist Church that they will protest at the funerals of the three victims for “not being Godly enough,” the anarchist hacktivist group Anonymous has announced that they will counter-attack the right wing church but didn’t give any details. In the past Anonymous has successfully taken down the websites of the U.S. Department of Justice, the FBI, as well as the government websites of Iran, Egypt, Syria, and Bahrain and even threatened the Mexican drug cartel known as Los Zetas in an online video after one of their members was kidnapped.
This would not be the first time that Anonymous targeted the Westboro Baptist Church. Late last year, after the Church promised to “crash the Newtown funerals” where a gunman shot and killed 20 children and 6 adults, the online anarchist collective hacked the church’s website (godhatesfags.com) and Twitter feed and posted church member’s personal information online.