Jim Lippard, then, protesting something. Jim Tells us what it was:

Here's what was being protested:

http://www.discord.org/~lippard/bunny-release.html

The "Cancel Poodle" / "Cancel Bunny" was supplanted by an attacker who posted tons and tons of gibberish under the names of valid users on Usenet, which later proved to be done by the Church of Scientology, see:

http://www.newtimesla.com/issues/2001-09-27/feature.html/1/index.html