If Anonymous members are ready to defend the citizens of the world, why can't they protect themselves?

Yes, yes, the whole spiel... Heard it a hundred times or more at least. Please, tell me, how is a mask, worn from inspiration gathered from a not quite so recent film, allowing the original founders of the movement to be able to re-enter the US, and avoid the imminent prosecutions, that await them here?

How much longer until every citizen in the US, is targeted by the NSA, and will then face the misjudgment of the US national government, the same as any other memr of Al Qaida, simply for mentioning the name of Anonymous in an e-mail? I admire the goals of Anonymous, but I fear for theindividual safety, of its individual members, no matter what they do, each of them can be discovered, and placed in the modern day equivalent of an obboliette, under current statutes of what passes for law in the US, these days. I also recognize that no amount of protest marchers would ever be able to free these Anoyns, from incarceration once they are unjustly imprisoned. Do you wish to condone this? I w

I would hope not. I can say this for Syrian freedom fighters, sir. At least they can have the courage to show their faces, despite the fact that they are facing insurmountable odds, just as Anonymous is now.