Anonymous 'brandjacks' Westboro Baptist Church on Facebook

[RobJohnson]

NBC

The Internet was positively giddy with schadenfreude Wednesday as rumor spread that Anonymous, that loosely connected cabal of cyber-vigilantes, had seized control, or otherwise "hacked," the Facebook page belonging to Westboro Baptist Church. Only the church — infamous for picketing funerals of soldiers with its 'God Hates [fill-in-the-blank]' signs — didn't have a Facebook page. So whose page was Anonymous unleashing its anarchic mirth upon? Its own.

Sure enough, a quick click to Facebook.com/pages/Westboro-Baptist-Church revealed a page splattered with the Guy Fawkes signage and other logos synonymous with Anonymous. "Hacked," however, turned out to be an overstatement of Anonymous' nefarious skills, as well as an underestimate of its creativity. "This is a hoax page and not a hack," Fred Wolens, Facebook's public policy manager, confirmed in an email to NBC News.

Hmmmm ... something doesn't look right.

Everyone's favorite Facebook photo-sharer, George "Sulu" Takei, helped spread the malicious glee by sharing one of the page's images, the "Star Trek: The Next Generation" Season Two cast. (Note Dr. Katherine Pulaski, instead of Dr. Beverly Crusher, who spent that season off-screen at Starfleet Medical.) "JESUS LOVES EVERYBODY. YOU SHOULD HAVE EXPECTED US," reads the photo's bold caption. The post has been shared more than 32,000 times, and has 132,000 "likes

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Westboro-Baptist-Church/400347320041300?fref=ts

[vesta111]

NBC



https://www.facebook.com/pages/Westboro-Baptist-Church/400347320041300?fref=ts

Sorry I confuse Star Wars with Star Trek.   Outside of the Dune series all the fiction I read had no mention of a higher power until one of these Movies came up with " May the force be with you". The force being God with no name just there.   

Some time at this time I became aware of Scientology. Now I enjoyed L. Ron' fiction but was amazed at The number of people that used his great Hokes on people to enrich himself.

And so goes the WBC that is in no way Baptist or Christian.  They are blinded by the light and greed.

The first time I cheered the Gays on was when they bought the house across the street from the WBC and painted it rainbow colors.   I will take the lesser of two evils in this case.