Kathy Griffin Mistatement

Kathy Griffin makes bad taste Scientology jokes during her sketches. In this statement she shows that she has things badly mixed up as Scientology is quite contrary an oppressed minority she pretend to defend:

"I love messing with the Christians. I love messing with the Scientologists. I love messing with anything that is politically correct. The reason that I gravitate toward the gay community is that . they are unified and mobilized and they are writing laws and getting laws passed. But, at the same time . more so than any other group, they have such a great sense of humor about themselves. When you are part of an oppressed minority, you have to laugh."

UK Response to Critics

The UK government has given the only possible response a responsible government could give to a petition by critics asking legislate against the movement:

"In our approach to religious groups, the Government must seek to balance its responsibility to protect vulnerable individuals with the UK's long held commitment to freedom of worship and belief. The Government does not consider that it would be feasible or appropriate to introduce specific legislation or regulation of religious groups, their activities or their beliefs. There would be considerable difficulty in drawing up legislation in a way that did not interfere with the individual's right to choose their beliefs and lifestyles so long as they do no harm to others. There is also no obvious way in which legislation could deal with cases where adults participate in activities of religious organisations entirely voluntarily."

Watch here how critics are infuriated at this rational response and seek ways to still induce the UK into a discrimatory mindset..

The Return of Return toForever

Chick Corea has been a long time Scientologist. The breakup of his group, Return to Forever, has been blamed on Scientology. However, their coming back together demonstrate that this was not the case. Furthermore, that come back enjoys a raving success.

Beck Hensen Second Generation Scientologist

Beck Hensen is another celebrity Scientologist, and a second generation one at that.

Wall of Container

Apparently Scientology Org on Sunset Blvd has setup a wall of container to hide protesters from its followers.

Scientology Blogosphere Redux

Unlike what I thought, the Scientology blogosphere was not created by the CoS but by Grahame, an individual Scientologist who regularly answers questions on his own blog.

ICSA

FAIR, the UK anti-cult group has a website, as does the International Cultic Studies Association, with some potentially interesting papers about fanaticism and the fact that each side may be softening up their respective approach by inviting "cult apologists" to their conferences:

"In the late 1990s a dialogue began between a handful of critics and sympathizers (much credit goes to Dr. Eileen Barker for initiating this dialogue). This dialogue has resulted in many private conversations (personal and e-mail) and talks at the “other camp’s” conferences. ICSA conference speakers in recent years have included Nancy Ammerman, Dick Anthony, Massimo Introvigne, Phil Lucas, Gordon Melton, Burke Rochford, and, of course, Eileen Barker. These exchanges have, I hope, caused at least some of us to revise our thinking about contentious issues."

Sympathy for Scientology

Passer-by feels sympathy for Scientology upon watching angry Anonymous protesters in front of building. Good article.

Enturbulation.org SP List

Another illustration of love for free speech demonstrated by anon on its enturbulation.org web site. In addition of arbitrary banning from moderators towards dissenters, they also ran a script that would give some IP false information and redirect the query, maintained an "SP list", and edited posts without the posters knowledge and consent, among a variety of other complains. These were only corrected when pointed to by certain posters and when threatened by massive defection. Read details of the miserable user script to get an idea on how some anons think "SPs" should be punished.

Anonymous Self Definition

Anonymous definition of itself - note that their claim they have no leader is not true. Check out "Wise Beard Man" for one, he at least is an opinion leader.

Criticism of Abrahamic Religions

Slightly off topic but not that much - this video is a five stars humorous but true criticism of Abrahamic religions.

The Way to Unhappiness

A picture is worth a thousand words

Prank Calls

Anonymous encourages crank calls to Scientology Volunteer Ministers by saying "don't do this" and then providing all the information to do it... (removed from original page after being exposed).

Dr. Drew Pinsky is on a Roll

"Dr. Drew Pinsky is on a roll. First, he hypothesized that Tom Cruise joined Scientology to cope with memories of a dark childhood. Now he's implying Angelina Jolie is still using heroin. "Is she in recovery?" he says. "If she's in recovery, I don't see any evidence of it because people in recovery invest themselves in simple, selfless acts of service, not global self-serving acts." So let's break this down: adoption of Third World children = heroin addict."

Cruise Still the Most Bankable Star

“Love him or hate him, he has a strong claim to being the most bankable star over the past twenty years.” While there’s no way to know if he will continue to be the most bankable star for the next thirty, what’s clear is that contrary to all the negative press (e.g., couch-jumping, attempts to be "down" with Kanye West, Scientology...) Cruise is still the safest bet in Hollywood."