Anonymous backs Vikileaks creator as Tories call him on carpet
The online hacker group Anonymous is taking up the cause of the Liberal staff member who posted salacious details of Vic Toews’s divorce to protest a bill that would give police greater access to the personal information of Internet users.
In a video released Thursday, the day before it promises to reveal more embarrassing information about the Public Safety Minister, Anonymous said the Vikileaks30 Twitter account created by Adam Carroll, a staffer in the Liberal research bureau, exposed what it sees as Mr. Toews’s hypocrisy.
The clip, which features a computer-generated woman’s voice dubbed over a dramatic musical score, is one in a series created by Anonymous to protest against Bill C-30, which the government has called the Protecting Children from Internet Predators Act, and its champion.
The group argues Vikileaks was created to protest legislation that would allow the Canadian government “to spy on its own people.” But, it says, when the Liberal Party found out that one of their own employees was behind the Twitter account, Mr. Carroll was let go in a “shameful act of political cowardice.”
Conservative MP Den Del Mastro is trying to have Mr. Carroll called before the Commons ethics committee. Anonymous says this is a transparent act of revenge.
“Fellow Canadians, our own government is attempting to intimidate its citizens into not engaging in legal forms of protest by using their power to have them forced form their jobs and having them forced before Parliamentary committees,” the Anonymous video says.
It asks Canadians to take to their Twitter accounts and telephones to let the government know that they stand behind Mr. Carroll. “Don’t let them have a moment’s peace,” the hacker group says. “Make it clear that our own government’s attempts to frighten its own citizens into silence will not be tolerated in a democratic society.”
Mr. Del Mastro told the committee Thursday that he would not be moving his motion to call Mr. Carroll to testify until Tuesday of next week.
He said the Conservatives do not believe the “dirty, sleazy, underhanded attack” on the Public Safety Minister was the work of one man and accused the Liberals of hanging their ex-staffer out to dry.
Mr. Del Mastro said he would give the Liberals until Tuesday to reveal all of the details and “who ordered these acts should be undertaken.” If they do not do so, he said, his motion to call Mr. Carroll would proceed as planned.
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In a video released Thursday, the day before it promises to reveal more embarrassing information about the Public Safety Minister, Anonymous said the Vikileaks30 Twitter account created by Adam Carroll, a staffer in the Liberal research bureau, exposed what it sees as Mr. Toews’s hypocrisy.
The clip, which features a computer-generated woman’s voice dubbed over a dramatic musical score, is one in a series created by Anonymous to protest against Bill C-30, which the government has called the Protecting Children from Internet Predators Act, and its champion.
The group argues Vikileaks was created to protest legislation that would allow the Canadian government “to spy on its own people.” But, it says, when the Liberal Party found out that one of their own employees was behind the Twitter account, Mr. Carroll was let go in a “shameful act of political cowardice.”
Conservative MP Den Del Mastro is trying to have Mr. Carroll called before the Commons ethics committee. Anonymous says this is a transparent act of revenge.
“Fellow Canadians, our own government is attempting to intimidate its citizens into not engaging in legal forms of protest by using their power to have them forced form their jobs and having them forced before Parliamentary committees,” the Anonymous video says.
It asks Canadians to take to their Twitter accounts and telephones to let the government know that they stand behind Mr. Carroll. “Don’t let them have a moment’s peace,” the hacker group says. “Make it clear that our own government’s attempts to frighten its own citizens into silence will not be tolerated in a democratic society.”
Mr. Del Mastro told the committee Thursday that he would not be moving his motion to call Mr. Carroll to testify until Tuesday of next week.
He said the Conservatives do not believe the “dirty, sleazy, underhanded attack” on the Public Safety Minister was the work of one man and accused the Liberals of hanging their ex-staffer out to dry.
Mr. Del Mastro said he would give the Liberals until Tuesday to reveal all of the details and “who ordered these acts should be undertaken.” If they do not do so, he said, his motion to call Mr. Carroll would proceed as planned.
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