Anonymous Increasingly Blocked from Protesting in Front of Orgs

More and more anons are prevented to protest in front of the CoS buildings:

• Amsterdam:

  "We're moving to Beursplein, because the surrounding stores and restaurants at the Org are unable to draw in customers during our raids. We had a very nice chat with most store owners as well as the police and mutually agreed it would be best for everyone involved if we GTFO'd to a location where we can properly party."

• Toronto:

  "We are no longer allowed to protest in front of the Org, and we must now do so from across the street"
  

• Los Angeles:
  

  "The cult and the LAPD have effectively blocked Anonymous from picketing across the street from the Big Blue location. In fact, they have blocked off a 2-block swatch entirely around L. Ron Hubbard Way forcing Anonymous to picket 3 blocks away at the subway station, corner of Sunset Blvd. & Vermont. "
  

Anonymous Stalks Chick Corea

Anonymous stalks a Chick Corea concert in Paris (for his beliefs in Scientology). Loads of anons cheers as they boast about it and congratulate themselves about "Much flyers, much enturb of some $cilons."

Catherine Bell

"I’d read that she and best friend Jenna Elfman are both Scientologists. Does it bother Catherine to be asked about Scientology? “No, I don’t mind at all,” she said, refreshingly candid about the somewhat controversial subject."

Daily Argus Hamilton

"John McCain began seriously considering possible GOP vice presidential running mates during the Fourth of July weekend. There's an added interest in the job due to his advanced years. John McCain needs someone who is ready to take over on Day Two."

Another Example of Gross Propaganda on the Part of Anonymous

Another example of gross propaganda on the part of Anonymous and outrageous stalking. They write:

"Apparently forgetting their harmonious public image, the Scientologists got nasty - and a bit violent - with the activists. An Anonymous member sent over an explanatory video on Scientology’s anti-gay agenda and some footage from the pride battles, including when Scientological leader Yvette Shank telling the activists “we can find out where you live.” Eeks!"

Now watch the video they provide and you will find that this is not at all what happened. Quite on the contrary, Yvette Shank was extremely friendly, motherly even, towards the protester.

This is the exact conversation that took place:

YS asks a protester why she is not wearing a mask

Anon: "It's quite warm outside and I'm honestly not afraid because I highly doubt you guys can find me."

YS: "Not only that, we wouldn't even bother. We wouldn't. We could find you, just so you know, we could. If we wanted to."

Look at the tone in which this is being said - the whole think is friendly and non-threatening - exactly the opposite to what Anonymous want us to believe.

Now look further in the video and see how Anonymous grossly interferes with Scientologists' right to propagate their beliefs, dancing in front of the advertisement panel, etc. This is sheer and pure stalking.

Quite on the contrary, the Scientologists display an amazing amount of patience and tolerance towards anonymous' protests. Anyone else would have already beaten the shit out of them.

Scientology Justice Manual

Some valid criticism towards the strong stance Scientology takes towards its critics.

Stalkers Needed

More people seeking to stalk and harass Scientologists for no better reason that they don't agree with them. Free speech seems to work one-way only. And don't tell me Andreas Heldal-Lund does not approve, because he is the one forwarding this message to ARS.

4Chan Gets Feature in Major Media

The Wall Street Journal and time.com both have surprising articles about 4chan, the image forum at the origin of Anonymous' "fight" against Scientology. 4chan is describe as the source of several fast spreading memes which makes businessmen jealous. They would not advertise in it, however, because of the channel rowdy reputation.

Note however that neither source say even a single word about about Scientology or Anonymous' protests.

Here are a couple of excerpts:

"You may not realize it, but 4chan has probably touched your life. Possibly inappropriately. 4chan is unusual in several ways. It's extremely large and active; it gets 8.5 million page views a day and 3.3 million visitors a month. Since moot started it in 2003, those visitors have put up 145 million posts. By some metrics, 4chan is the fourth largest bulletin board on the Net.:

"Over the last few years, 4chan.org has become one of the most talked-about sites when it comes to launching new memes. "

"A book based on the site is coming this fall for Gotham Books."

"A large part of the site's success is its emphasis on anonymity. Users are not required to provide a working email address or any other personal information, a standard practice for other online communities like Facebook or MySpace. "

Tom Cruise, family enjoy holiday outing

Tom Cruise was seen with his family at a Fourth of July celebration in Telluride, Colorado.

Inside a Church of Scientology

Latest Fad video from the CoS, that shows several sights inside the orgs. However, a lot is spent on interviews, which spoils things a little. With all the new historic buildings the CoS aquired recently they could have done something a bit better. Maybe these are not ready/restored yet.

Daily Argus Hamilton

"Rafael Nadal won Wimbledon Sunday, beating Roger Federer in the best played and most epic tennis match anybody has ever seen. The whole world was riveted. Osama bin Laden was almost captured because he refused to change caves during the fifth set."

Scientology Increases Its Foothold in Sussex

The Church of Scientology is planning to increase its foothold in Sussex. The controversial organisation, which is not recognised as a religion under British law, paid £3.6 million in October last year for a disused distillery in Manchester and in 2006 opened its £23 million London headquarters in Queen Victoria Street.

Dedicated Anonymous provide Support to Groups Lacking in Numbers

Numbers of protesters now are so low that

"dedicated anonymous persons travel for 7 hours to provide support to those groups lacking in numbers"

Note also down the thread of this article that one of the anon they are going to meet there may be a dubious character.

Scholars Criticize Scientology

Scholars, often defamed as "cult apologists" by critics are in fact very good at criticizing cults as well when they get their mind to it. Here is an a very good critic of Scientology by two Scholars, Bromley and Cowan.

How It All Began

4Chan is one of the main channels where Anonymous protest against Scientology found its origin. This archive page from 4chan shows how it all began...