The Bay Area Reporter has news of a distributed denial of service attack on the No on Prop 8 web site. The attack was launched from computers in California, Texas, New Jersey and Georgia. The No on 8 site was down for several hours last night (Wed 28th) but is now up and running again. The matter is now in the hands of the FBI and the Secret Service who, one hopes, will catch and prosecute whoever is responsible.
Am I surprised? No. We are, after all, dealing with people who are in the grip of unreasoning hatred, and who are probably scared shitless that the Great Sky Fairy will smite us all dead if Prop 8 fails. I’m mildly surprised that they haven’t done anything worse.
Around the same time the No On Prop 8 site got attacked, the site for No On Amedment 2 (Florida’s equivalent to Prop. 8) also got hit as well.
The attacks’ timing is not coincidental, BTW. For No On Prop. 8 at least, they’re trying to raise $3 million by 9 PM tomorrow to match the ad buys that the Yes On 8 forces have made.
As for the Yes On 8 forces’ recent worse, campaign spokesman Brad Dacus recently compared gay marriage to the Nazis’ ethnic cleansing. Guess Dacus didn’t receive the memo about what happens when you invoke the Nazis in any argument for your side.