14 DAY TRIAL // Anonymous is planning a celebratory unmasking of new Ku Klux Klan (KKK) members on the one-year anniversary of the Ferguson protests that followed the grand jury's decision in the Michael Brown case on November 24, 2014.
According to the Twitter account that was specifically set up for Operation KKK, the group's hackers have been busy at work all year long and have managed to gain access to a new KKK Twitter account from where they extracted data about 1,000 clan members.
"Ku Klux Klan, We never stopped watching you," the group says in a recent announcement published on Pastebin. "After closely observing so many of you for so very long, we feel confident that applying transparency to your organizational cells is the right, just, appropriate and only course of action. You are abhorrent. Criminal. You are more than extremists. You are more than a hate group. You operate much more like terrorists and you should be recognized as such."
The complete Anonymous statement is also embedded at the end of this article.
Anonymous has previously declared war on the KKK
This is not the first time that Anonymous has taken up arms against the KKK, as only a week ago, one of its members came to the defense of a woman harassed on Twitter by KKK-linked users.
Anonymous also managed to hack one of the KKK's official accounts last year as well, just around the Ferguson November riots. Back then, a branch of the KKK, the Traditionalist American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (TAKKKK), issued threats that it would take lethal force against protestors.
The group hacked their Twitter account and then exposed some of their members' true identities. Some of these people were members of Ferguson's police department.
You can find more details about this campaign by sifting through the #OpKKK and #HoodsOff Twitter hashtags.
We've gained access to yet another KKK Twitter account. Using the info obtained, we will be revealing about 1000 klan member identities.
— Operation KKK (@Operation_KKK) October 22, 2015