FiredogLake Servers Attacked Last Night

[AnnInLa]

From:

http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/03/19/late-nite-fdl-anatomy-of-a-conservative-sissy-attack/#more-7924

So we posted this piece over at Sadly, No! last night, and our right-wing pals found it strongly not to their liking. We knew this when our server locked up.

The DDOS attack launched on us was especially interesting in light of the following credo in the Gathering of Eagles Mission Statement:

snip for Farting Eagles Mission Statement.

Seems RW did not like this post by T-Rex:

Anatomy of a Con-Job


Step One: Invent a phony threat — for instance, to the Vietnam War Memorial:

As a Vietnam veteran, and suffering through fox-hole combat, and knowing what the anti-war movement did to America and to my morale of me and the morale other troops during the Vietnam era, the thought of elements of those same vile and vicious people attempting to resurrect their venom and use the Vietnam Memorial Wall as a proxy was intolerable. My view was it must be challenged, and in short it cannot happen. The current anti-war movement is no different than the Vietnam era group, in fact many current participants are the same people who were involved in the 60s and 70s. They lie, deceive, distort, damage, desecrate, spit on our military, curse, hurl insults, and dishonor not only historical sites but hallowed ground if given the opportunity.

Step Two: Create a fake-nonpartisan campaign to 'protect' the memorial from the vile and vicious spitters-on and desecrators-of, who are converging on DC in a mammoth hippie tidal wave:

As your planning continues, begin referring to all supporters as veterans regardless of whether they’ve ever served in the military. This makes it look like it’s a rally of non-partisan veterans — which is altogether much better, and much more likely to be taken seriously by the media, than a rally of Republican zealots frightened that the zeitgeist is escaping them.

Also be sure to stir up the Freeper beehive, because a Freeper will fall for anything if you slap a flag on it — let alone a flag, an eagle, and the word, ‘troops.’

Join forces with other phony-nonpartisan groups:

At last the day arrives. Have a bunch of people stand around heckling war protesters for a few hours:

(pictures of Farting Eagles being all protective)

Step Three: Declare victory! The Vietnam Memorial was saved!

Whilst enjoying the afterglow, make up a jaw-dropping unofficial attendance figure, for instance that 30,000 heroes stood up for America against the dirty-hippie communist menace — of whom there wasn’t really a mammoth tidal wave after all, which also equals a victory.

Don’t believe the MSM — either their lying by entirely omitting any mention of the numbers of people attending the Gathering of Eagles, or their deliberate playing down of the numbers who did come. The Parks and Service people counted thirty thousand patriots gathered to protect the Wall.

Update: No such Park Service, ‘Parks Service,’ or ‘Parks and Service’ estimate has appeared in any form, apparently because the National Park Service no longer estimates the size of crowds at public events. No publicly available photo on the Web — although please correct us if we’re wrong — shows more than a couple of hundred pro-war demonstrators in any place at any time.

Fox News reports that counter-demonstrators outnumbered anti-war protesters.

Mission Accomplished.

[blogslut]

1. Glad they're back up

T-Rex is the greatest dinosaur blogger ever!

[annabanana]

2. T-Rex is one funny lizard.

One of my favoritist Firedoglake posters!

[wicket]

3. K & R

:kick:

[demnan]

4. The Eagles mission was to attack small groups of women

who were walking through public parks in Washington, D.C. If you had men with you and a larger crowd, you were alright. They were cowards who attacked one or two women and slammed them to the ground when they saw them. Don't let anyone forget this.

[Demit]

5. I think it was Sadly, No's servers that locked up, not FDL's.

That's why Gavin was cross-posting at FDL.