But his grandmother got a few strange phone calls last week—"from a person asking for my number and if I lived with her or not," Ryan, a 22-year-old game art and design student at the Art Institute of California from West L.A., tells Radar. "Both callers refused to give a name, just said they were friends of mine."
Ryan says before his mug showed up on the Scientology video, he'd attended the February 10th Anonymous protest and handed out fliers for the March 15 rally. But he didn't actually end up going and has since backed away from the cause after being identified on March 13th—he says his girlfriend was in tears over fears that he or she would suffer consequences. Following his identification, someone forwarded the video link to all of his MySpace friends, including family members and friends whom he had not told about his anti-Scientology activism. He was looking to stay relatively anonymous, see. "I dont want to get my friends and my family involved," he says.
More annoying was the fact that none of the behavior—mailing white powder, threatening violence, general terrorism hijinks—alleged in "AnonymousFacts" video applied to him or any Anonymous member he knows, Ryan says. "In fact, if there was an Anon who would mention thinking of doing that, I would turn them into to the authorities. It doesnt help the cause to be stupid like that."
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