hatesec

Six years ago, you told me I was not allowed to join Anonymous.

"You're not Anonymous, sweetheart."

You then asked /u/kiltrout why I "prank called" you, when you were the one who gave him your cellphone number, asking me to call you.

After you went to prison, and I was free to join Anonymous, I carried your torch - inspired by your instrumental role in Arab Spring (you deserve all the credit, afterall) - and I used the Anonymous brand to promote similar Brazilian and Venezuelan Springs in your name. I also assumed control of Project PM.

My question is: What future libertine activities do you have planned to promulgate the corporate American agenda abroad, and do you plan to continue using Anonymous, for which you are the official spokesman, as your vehicle?

And rat you out? Actually, Barrett, I tried to tell you first, but you wouldn't hear of it. You totally dismissed the possibility you and your followers were in danger when I said, "Hey, why are you luring kids into an IRC room to plan illegal activity when you know the Feds are in there?" Like yeah, I was making fun of you to your face, but you needed to hear that, man. I don't know if the drugs were clouding your head, or if it was the fake fame of being an internet celebrity, but you just wouldn't listen to me. We make fun of you now, because no matter how ridiculous you seemed to us, we went out on a limb and tried to have this conversation with you. And because you ignored us, of course we are going to continue making fun of you.

You believed you were shielded by the supposedly positive sum of all your actions, and soared to Mt. Ego on a cloud of ignorant followers, like John Tiessen, countless script kiddies, and the schizophrenic who replied above. And again I asked you, what about those people? Those who followed you into these IRC rooms where the Feds are watching and waiting, either for you, or these ignorant children, to fuck up?

And (not that I have to tell you) you finally did fuck up. Lucky for you you've managed to make it look like your whole case is an attack on press freedom, when it was your desperation to be cool that led you to paste links to people's credit card numbers, and it was your ego that put you out on your balcony, ridiculously threatening to "look into" the children of Special Agent Robert Smith, who - let's be honest - doesn't even sound like a real name, and might as well have been further bait to lure you into the open, WHICH YOU TOOK. When you posted yet another video, and even went on Tinychat bragging about how you were armed and going to go out shooting not if, but when, they came for you.

And now I hear you're leaving the country. I hope you find your peace somewhere, Barry, but the names on the borders will have nothing to do with it.

You thought you were working against governments, when you worked for them the entire time.

Be careful with that boarding house reach.