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They deserve credit for jumpstarting this. The first thing I remember about OWS is that Anonymous was promoting it on Twitter. So I don't know if they are the absolute initiators of this movement, but there might not be protests today or they might've lasted only a couple of days if it wasn't for Anonymous supporting and promoting it, and trying to get as many people there as possible every day.

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And they deserve credit for building alliances with existing activist networks while they were organizing Operation BART protests. Without these, Anon's impact on OWS wouldn't have been much noticed. It's a wonder to watch a the movement suddenly manifest itself in real space, after half a decade of chaos and lulz.

"V for Vendetta" is becoming real!?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_for_Vendetta_(film)

Not sure what you're trying to say here. Anonymous was active years before V came out, and they adopted the mask quite a while after the comic and movie popularized the image. Would you prefer they were big black guys in suits and afros? That was their symbol prior to V.

No, I got shocked. I happened to watch the movie only a week ago. With the masks, the Occupy movement would look like the movie.

I hadn't noticed any clues of agitation. Now the movement looks like a terror, rather than a protest...

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