This one goes in the category humor, no doubt. The reactionary People's Party (PP) in power in Spain with a mere 10 million votes (and quickly declining to a trickle) has reacted to the diffusion by Anonymous of the "Bárcenas papers", which reveal double accountancy, systematic bribes by constructors and illegal over-salaries to ministers, by suing them[es].
The documents mostly reveal the double accountancy practices of the hyper-corrupt party but there are also lists of their affiliates and party workers with all the relevant data (ID number, address, phone numbers, bank accounts, etc.)
Without even a smirk the beleaguered PP attorneys sued Anonymous for a crime of revelation of secrets. By doing this they admit that the papers are real and therefore all them are criminals.
As for Anonymous, you know: "we are legion".
I was recently discussing the issue of NSA surveillance and all that and my argument goes in the sense that, per the unwritten Book of Chaos, total control is impossible no matter how hard they try, what in this case applies in the form of so much information, yet so few brains and computer power to parse it. You can't cage Chaos: you lost before you even tried.
As the besieged ministers repeat once and again: this damages the Spain brand. I hope it does, Mr. Minister, death to Spain!
PS- At the time of posting this I do not know yet where to find the Anonymous leak, but I will update as soon as I have it.
Update (Jul 12): while there is an alleged torrent file at The Pirate Bay, this one is in fact an executable (.exe instead of .torrent) so I don't feel safe downloading it.
However Diagonal newspaper has created a wiki to parse and analyze all the data (excepted the illegal personal data). This seems to me the safest reference so far (h/t to Javier).
Diagonal has also a series of dedicated articles (in Spanish):
Update (Jul 12): while there is an alleged torrent file at The Pirate Bay, this one is in fact an executable (.exe instead of .torrent) so I don't feel safe downloading it.
However Diagonal newspaper has created a wiki to parse and analyze all the data (excepted the illegal personal data). This seems to me the safest reference so far (h/t to Javier).
Diagonal has also a series of dedicated articles (in Spanish):
- Filtrada la contabilidad del PP (PP accountancy leaked)
- La conexión canaria (the Canarian connection)
- Hacia una auditoría popular (towards a popular audit)
- Anonymous publica las cuentas del PP (Anonymous publishes PP accounts)
- Etc. (follow the links within the above articles)
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