My point seems to have got rather muddied by my heavy usage of emotional rhetoric so I'll concisely restate what my stance is here.
I do believe in protesting for what you believe in, either masked, wearing a costume or not, but I also think protesters must consider the full consequences of their actions on the lowest common denominator through mainstream media, further more the opposition will latch onto any Ad Hominem arguments they can use against the protesters, such as saturating the tabloids with phrases like 'e-terrorism' and linking them to anon's...colourful history of hurting people for shits and giggles.
This is my main problem with such acts; they end up bringing the issue into the public eye but the fearmongering (Not helped by a masked group wearing a widely aknowledged symbol of anarchy) puts the unwashed masses firmly on the wrong side of the debate.
Also, I have a personal problem with people banding together under that symbol, in that they seem to do it more for laughs than for ideals, it even says so all over their websites.
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