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Planned Parenthood, planned “hacking”?

9 pointsjmolyneaux3 comments

Starting with the body tag with a suspicious attribute: `data-page-category="Under Attack Campaigns"`

    <body class="site_down_template no-write edit-disabled"
		 data-page-category="Under Attack Campaigns"
		 data-page-type="Site Down Template"
		 ontouchstart="">

The headline on the main page has since removed the text "Our site is down due to extremists", but the phrase still remains in some metadata in the head:

    <meta name="title" 
          property="title" 
          content="Our site is down due to extremists :: Planned Parenthood"/>

An image has since been removed:

    <meta name="og:image" 
	      property="og:image" 
	      content="/images/planned_parenthood_is_under_attack.png"/>

It is certainly odd that these "hackers" have only made it easier to donate to Planned Parenthood in their time of "crisis." After three days, Planned Parenthood still can't get their full website back online, yet in minutes they were able to identify the "hackers" as "anti-choice extremists".

PP has been "under attack" in the non-digital sense for a couple of weeks now.

(edited to add) Really? This is the fourth time you've submitted this story?

"Our site is down due to extremists" from them.

"anti-choice extremists" from you.

If this were the home page of the RNC or the DNC or rainbowcc... who all operate within the law, it would not be unusual in the modern vernacular to use the word "extremist" to represent the attack.

Since you seem to align right on this issue Ill make a wild guess that you lean right across the board. Lets take a recent look at something that a republican candidate "hinted at".

Asked by another reporter how he would stop abortion, and whether this would mean using the FBI or federal forces to accomplish this, Huckabee replied: "We'll see if I get to be president." http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2015/07/mike-huckabee-federa...

Ignoring the source, as I'm sure one can find criticality with that, and assume its true. It isn't "extremist" or terrorist, its treason, in the true definition of the word. Recently you have seen that word used with another figure, one Mr Snowden. There are few who could argue that what he did wasn't treason, but there are fewer who have solid ground to stand on when it comes to "right" and "wrong". The distinction was his action was in defense of the constitution, what Mr hucakbee intimates is not.

This isn't relevant to the alleged Planned Parenthood hacking.

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