Did Anonymous swipe the comments to this article?

"The anonymous poster said the information was released in retaliation for BART's bid last week to shut down cellphone service to limit a protest over the fatal shooting by BART police in July of a knife-wielding homeless man."

Well done, guy(s). Way to go! - Backatchem.

The cellphone service close-down to stop protests about murder by rent-a-cops was just too blo*** much.

I'm so glad a competent hacker recognized that the limit had been crossed and changed the killers' website. - Finally "Change we can believe in!".

I feel so good when we strike back.

The cops will denounce the hacking as criminal, but most people will see it as a Robin Hood act in our Sheriff of Nottingham society. Computer communication and skills may play a real role in the paradigm shift so many CD posters talk about.

Another ballsy action by Anonymous against the Fullerton, CA. Police Dept. today too... after the brutal death of Kelly Thomas, a mentally ill homeless man last month following a confrontation with police officers.

Take it to them baby...A99

Police in America are accountable to no one. This will change, by any means necessary.

Electronics are having an interesting impact. Locked in international financial competition, governments increasingly transfer wealth from consumption to production. Confronting an increasingly hostile public, as a result, repression increases. Unexpected is the effect of electronics. Hackers can access government systems, cell/mobile phones can photograph police brutality, demonstrators and rioters can coordinate actions and warn of police presence. Ironically, electronics brings the sort of anarchic life expressed, but little exercised, by tea partiers. It seems it is the government supporting left which has better taken up against government the opportunities which electronics provide.

The hackers are smarter than the government, but still, the hacking can only last so long. Government agencies will eventually spend however many of our tax dollars it takes to make their computer systems secure.

On the other hand, the practice of the government colluding with corporations to spy on Americans, shut down communications services and websites, and do whatever else they can think of to abuse us and turn our country into a full blown totalitarian police/surveillance state is something we can expect to see a lot more of in the future.

It's a veritable law of human nature that when government agencies or individuals feel threatened, even when the threat is nothing more than criticism in the form of peaceful protest, they find themselves unable to resist the compulsion to use their power to retaliate, and they don't hesitate to throw the law and the Constitution out the window to do so. Privatized communications systems run by large corporations enable such repression to be carried out more easily than ever before.

It's ominous and it's fascism.

It will cause the United States to increasingly separate into two classes: those who belong to the corporate state (government officials and corporate executives), and the serfs. Groups roughly equivalent to the Nazi brown shirts will be prominent. Such groups consist of serfs who imagine that they are members of the corporate state. The non-politician, non-corporate Tea Party supporters are the most obvious of these, but the self-delusion that one is part of the establishment, one of the elite, is one of the primary means by which the GOP attracts support in general.

Will we fight back or wimp out?