Mad hackers rewrite Facebook page that had promoted Obama-lynching

The online presence of "America the next Generation," a right-wing group that recently championed hanging the president, is under new management, according to the redecorated website: “This page WAS run by backwards [rhymes with bucks] who though they could post a pic Of Obama getting lynched and get away with it. Now it haz GOATZ!!!”

The hacktivist(s) Goatze appears to be taking credit for the graffiti.

One new image depicts religious figures at the Last Supper as goats. Another picture features goats superimposed over the heads of the Duck Dynasty reality show clan. That enterprise is suffering its own image problem after the family’s patriarch, Phil Robertson, made anti-gay remarks and racist slurs during a magazine interview.

The blog Addicting Info is curious about how Facebook will respond. “They didn’t take down the offensive photo or punish the page that posted it because for some reason, making threats on the life of our President somehow doesn’t violate their ‘standards.’ Hacking, however, does. Of course, hacking a Facebook page isn’t nearly as bad as calling for lynching America’s first Black president. If Facebook takes action against the hackers and not those who posted the offensive material in the first place, it would prove how screwed up Facebook’s ‘standards’ are.”

America the next Generation had previously published an image of Obama’s head superimposed over an image of Saddam Hussein’s head just before he was executed.

“The original owner isn’t happy about the situation. A new, duplicate page has been set up and the unhappy admin is posting messages on the goat-dominated one whining about the takeover,” Addicting Info reports.  “The incensed owner goes on a grammatical- and spelling-error-filled tirade demanding that the hackers return the page. It’s the sort of angry post one would expect from a member of the Tea Party.”

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