In this YouTube video, someone in Anonymous garb has threatens a massive, embarrassing document dump for Vic Toews, the Canadian MP and Public Safety Minister whose domestic spying bill will require ISPs to log information on Canadians’ Internet use and to turn that to police and appointed inspectors over without a warrant (and which immunizes ISPs from liability should they voluntarily turn over even more information, like the contents of email). The Anon demands that Toews retract his legislation.
Toews is a “family values” candidate who has consistently stood on a ticket that opposed gay marriage and espoused other supposedly conservative ideals, and he was publicly embarrassed when an anonymous Twitter user going by @Vikileaks30 tweeted choice quotes from the affidavits in Toews’s messy divorce (which was precipitated by an affair with a much younger woman, whom Toews impregnated, and led to what his ex-wife described as an abandonment of his previous family). If there were further embarrassments of this nature in Toews’s closet, it might alienate the voters who elected him on the basis of his “sanctity of the family” platform.
“All this legislation does is give your corrupted government more power to control its citizens,” a synthesized voice says in one of the videos still posted to the site Monday.“We know all about you, Mr. Toews, and during Operation White North we will release what we have unless you scrap this bill,” it states.
The RCMP has been called in to investigate apparent death threats against Toews as controversy swirls around the legislation. Police said Monday they haven’t yet decided whether a full investigation will be launched.
Hacker group Anonymous threatens Vic Toews