Have you ever met people more suspicious and paranoid than JWS?
"Did you hear about the demon-possessed smurfs?....Play that record backward and it says 'worship satan!'....World War 2 was started by Satan as an attempt to eradicate Jehovah's Witnessess....the UN has secret plans to attack religion soon - I heard it from my 3rd cousin's nephew's chiropractor....'they' are sneaking blood products into candy bars...."
As has been posted in numerous topics on this board, the "hactivist" group "anonymous" has apparently decided to attack the WTS.
Regardless of how successful, or not, such an attack is, even just news of such an attack would be enough to throw most JWs into a confused, helpless apoplexy.
Can you imagine the result that just a few well-placed messages on pro-JW boards, or casual conversations, could have on the JW population?
"Did you hear that 'Anonymous' has decided to target us? Wow! Hey wait a minute, those guys are pretty good....what if they hack into one of our websites? Maybe they already have! Did you read the September 15 Watchtower? Didn't that one article on [XYZ] seem a little, I don't know, 'off', to you?"
"Oh no! You're right! How are we supposed to tell what's 'real' and what isn't?"
By making JWs paranoid about anything & everything they read from the WTS, they'd be forced to evaluate the content on its own merits, rather than just accept it as "well since it came from the 'slave' it must be true".
Quite possibly, after several weeks or months of such evaluation, many JWs would come to realize the patent absurdity of, oh, 90% of what they read.
While the attack of "anonymous" would do much to further inoculate the public against the JW message, the implications of such an attack, as outlined above, would have far more effect on current JWs. And those implications are completely independent of whether the attack is "successful" or not.
