Thread:Comments:Internet security firm to donate revenue to charity after Anonymous protest of Westboro Baptist Church/Does no one see that WBC is the good guy in this story?

I am Anonymous. I am a civic activist with goals that align closely with those associated with Anonymous. Yet in this instance I view Anonymous as the bad guy, and WBC as the good guy. The inability of most people to see things this way reflects the closed mindedness and the thought control of this society.

Disagree with WBC's viewpoint? That doesn't make WBC a bad guy. Disapprove of the admittedly high nuisance cost of the speech method used by WBC? Again, that doesn't make WBC a bad guy. The expression of an unpopular viewpoint does not create a "good guy bad guy" situation.

The only facet of this story that creates a "good guy bad guy" element to this story is the silencing of speech, and in that respect, the bad guys are those who would silence and/or attack a speaker, and the good guy is the speaker.

The freedom to speak is the foundation of all other freedom. Freedom itself is threatened if the population becomes closed minded and intolerant and violent when an unpopular viewpoint is spoken.