Posted by
Ron Devito on Wednesday, December 29, 2010 6:15:27 PM
Friends,
As many of you may already know, recently a network of
Wikileaks-sympathizing hackers orchestrated crippling, albeit temporary,
cyber-attacks on the websites of patriotic, law-abiding organizations
around the country, including SarahPAC.com. It is
widely believed that the same ad-hoc group of
international cyber-criminals took down the websites of
many organizations that terminated their business relationships with
Wikileaks after their latest dump of compromising and
classified US government information. These organizations
include iconic American companies such as Visa and
MasterCard as well as dotcom giants such as Amazon and
Ebay's [online payment service using email].
The actions taken by Wikileaks' supporters against these respected American companies show that their
true intent is far from noble, and exposes their utter
disregard for the collateral damage and financial fallout
that resulted from their denial of service attacks. These reckless
attacks on major transaction processors during the
Christmas season added uncertainty to an already fragile
economy and cost them money and resources that could have
otherwise been used to grow their businesses and create new
jobs.
These malicious hackers targeted major American companies simply for
their refusal to participate in the degradation of
America's ability to engage in diplomacy and the direct
endangerment of our troops through the release of
thousands of battlefield reports. Gov. Palin quickly and
unapologetically spoke out against the illegal and irresponsible acts
that Wikileaks explicitly exists to perpetrate. After her
comments, SarahPAC.com immediately became another target
for cyber-attack by Wikileaks' unofficial
hacker-accomplices. In the name of defending free speech,
the hackers, alleged to operate under the collective branding of
'Anonymous', decided to punish Gov. Palin for hers by flooding
SarahPAC.com with a torrent of web traffic in order to make
the website inaccessible to supporters.
The twisted logic of these self-styled advocates for free speech
doesn't seem to differentiate between releasing millions
of sensitive US government documents with the intent of
degrading our nation's security and standing, and
criticizing those who do so. Few times in our history have
we, as a nation, faced so many security threats from such a varied
and unpredictable array of rogue nations, terrorist
organizations, and depraved individuals, and yet these
self-styled 'hacktivists' are so committed to the
continued release of our state secrets that they have
decided to use their considerable 'talents' to punish those who dare
speak out against the reckless endangerment of our republic
through espionage.
SarahPAC was forced to spend some of our resources restoring
functionality to our website and defending against future
attacks, but we won't allow our commonsense conservative
message to be silenced by a few malcontents. Please
help us continue to support solid conservative candidates around
the country by donating $50, $75, or $100 to SarahPAC.
The illegally obtained information contained within the State
Department cable leaks is already damaging our diplomats'
ability to advance American interests abroad and the
Afghanistan and Iraq war document leaks represent a
goldmine of intelligence for our most dangerous enemies to use against
our troops on the battlefield. Please stand with SarahPAC
against the reprehensible and downright dangerous acts of
the Wikileaks organization and the cyber-intimidation of
its misguided hacker allies.
Sincerely,
Tim Crawford
Treasurer
SarahPAC
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