Schizoid Druggie Anonymous Spokesman Barrett Brown Busted
Barrett Brown, the self-appointed spokesman for Anonymous, made a rambling, drug-addled paranoid video threatening the life of an FBI Agent. The FBI didn’t take too kindly to the threats so they responded swiftly with the LULZ, arresting Brown while he was engaged in an online chat.
from eSecurityPlanet here:
The home of self-appointed Anonymous spokesman Barrett Brown was raided by the FBI last night while Brown was participating in an online chat.
“Two minutes into the recorded chat session, loud voices can be heard in the background of Brown’s residence while [a] woman in the room with him is in front of the computer screen,” writes Wired’s Kim Zetter. “She quickly closes the computer screen, but the audio continued to capture events in the room as the FBI appeared to be strong-arming Brown to put handcuffs on him. Brown can be heard yelling in the background.”
“Earlier Wednesday, Brown had posted a series of videos to YouTube railing against FBI agent Robert Smith,” writes The Atlantic Wire’s Adam Martin. “‘Robert Smith’s life is over. And when I say his life is over I don’t mean I’m going to kill him, but I’m going to ruin his life and look into his fucking kids,’ Brown says at about 10:45 in the third and final installment … At the very end of the video, he says he’s always thought he’d be dead before the age of 40, ‘and I wouldn’t mind going out with a couple of FBI sidearms.'”
ED has a better description of this knucklehead:
Take Hunter S. Thompson and th3j35t3r, ev0, mix the three, and strip the result of the dignity, inability to give a fuck, and all other redeeming qualities; add the internet and lack of a real job. Welcome to the world of Anonymous, a strung out mediocre reporter, and self-proclaimed spokesfaggot for the “Anonymous hacktivist collective” who, despite ongoing attempts, is not a household name. A former author (read, “I wrote two articles, does that mean I work here?”) for the “American Atheist”, Barrett is no more than, in layman’s terms, a self-righteous, opinionated, attention-seeking, cunt. Eventually concluding that big brother and godhatesfags were not enough to shove his agenda towards, Barrett decided to take on drug cartels who have guns and power, with his computer and the effectiveness of a strongly-worded blog.
A heroin addict and conspiracy theorist, who is probably a paranoid schizophrenic, thinks he’s very important to the Anonymous movement. More info is at the DailyCaller here.
