Stuart Wyatt Arrested

Stuart Wyatt , a young man from the UK who has been actively protesting the scientology stress test carts in Plymouth, England, was arrested on June 13 for running over a Scientologist with his scooter. Wyatt has a neurological disorder "that is so serious he requires daily amounts of marijuana to function" (!!). According to anonymous, he has become a crusader for medical marijuana in the UK, even being granted the right to mail marijuana to other patients in need. However, he is being charged with the cultivation of marijuana, which indicates that this fantastic justification on the part of anonymous may not be quite true.

Paull Haggis to Script Bond 22

Paul Haggis is the award-winning filmmaker who, in 2006, became the first screenwriter to write two Best Film Oscar winners back-to-back - "Million Dollar Baby" (2004) directed by Clint Eastwood, and "Crash" (2005) which he himself directed. Paul Haggis is also a celebrity Scientologist. Author of the last James Bond (Casino Royal), he is returning for a second shot at Bond for Bond 22.

Eldon Braun Criticized by Avatar

Found out that Eldon Braun, a regular poster in ARS, has a past history of harassing Avatar and trying to extort money from it. Avatar won its suit against him and he escaped to Europe (France) to avoid paying the large fine that was awarded to the group.

Scientologists Complain of Stalking

Scientologists Complain of Stalking and Harassment

"Despite repeated claims that Anonymous raids are not intended to infringe the rights of Scientologists, I was curious about how Scientologists feel about it, so I asked a few of them for their reactions, and got a very different story."

Anonymous Disrupting and Mocking

Anonymous Disrupting event and mocking Scientologists.

Harlan Ellison on A Penny a Word

Harlan Ellison & Robin Williams discuss LRH. Harlan talks about the old days in NYC when Hubbard got a penny a word and made that statement that the best way to make a lot of money was to start a religion. Harlan has been known to embellish a story or two but it is still an interesting listening.

Scientology Kids

Another pro-Scientology kid, followed by CoS' version of Scientologykids website.

Kendra's Parents Attend Wedding

Kendra Wiseman posted last May 31: “Now I've got some awesome news for everyone: my parents came to the wedding, we're talking again, and we're trying to sort things out. Disconnected no more!”.

Scientology Kids Website

The Wins of Scientology Kids - a pro Scientology web site.

Louanne Documents Anonymous Stalking

Louanne documenting the way Anonymous stalk Scientologists by posting their photos and personal information.

CoS Denied Permit

The city of Philadelphia has denied a request by the Church of Scientology to hold a "protest" on June 14th, 2008. This is the same day the anti-Scientology group "Anonymous" applied for a city permit to protest outside the Church. For the past two months, protesters in Philadelphia were denied protest permits because Scientology had obtained the permits first. The Church's critics provided evidence proving that the Church had not actually held any protests on those days.

Chattanooga

Barbara Schwartz describes her submarine village where she supposedly lived until the age of four when she was, according to her, kidnapped by the German secret service. It's a village which is supposed to exists under the Great Salt Lake in Utah, where people don't age and produce their own purified air and water. The funny thing is that she sincerely believes such a village exists and longs to return to it.

Freedomofmind

freedomofmind Yahoo discussion group. This site was developed in cooperation with Steve Hassan. This fact alone gives the color of the group, which is most probably of the anti-cult flavor. Indeed, it says that much in its description: "Learn and discuss the tactics used by destructive groups or individuals". Although it is open to all, it also is moderated, and "the moderator reserves the right to unsubscribe anyone who ... becomes disruptive". Given the fact that to "become disruptive" is used to weed out dissenters from moderated anti-Scientology groups such as OCMB, Enturbulation.org and the anti-Scientology IRC channel, one has to wonder whether the moderation in this yahoo group is anywhere better.

YouTomb

YouTomb is a research project by MIT Free Culture that tracks videos taken down from YouTube for alleged copyright violation. YouTomb is currently monitoring 232,383 videos, and has identified 5,218 videos taken down for alleged copyright violation and 17,160 videos taken down for other reasons. This may seem like many but Viacom, the owner of Paramount Comedy and Nickelodeon TV channels, claims that more than 150,000 copyright clips on Youtube had been viewed more than 1.5 billion times. Viacom is threatening Google with a one billion dollar lawsuit.

CoS holds Conference on Hate Crimes

The Cos held a Hate Crimes Conference. Over 100 law enforcement and government officials, clergy and educators attended an interfaith conference in May at the Church of Scientology Celebrity Centre International in Hollywood to address the growing problem of Internet hate crime and to see how they can work together to improve Internet safety and security.