Chef Xenu Fact Sheets

An ARS poster going by the nick of "Chef Xenu" has a few factsheet of LRH compilation on various themes. Going sometimes a bit overboard, they nevertheless constitute interesting criticism, and they are coming right from the horse's mouth.

I already featured on this blog his factsheet on what a "Clear Society" would be like. Here is another one gathering quotes about disconnections, and yet another gather quotes about the Marcab confederation.

Over 9000 Anon March - Epic FAIL

Anonymous was to hold the "Over 9000 Anon March", a big rally on July 19, that would have been a national and international event gathering thousands of anons in what was supposed to be an apex in months of hard work by Anonymous. Some of the very low statistics for US cities on the July 12 protests were explained away as people preparing for the July 19 momentous event.

The event did take place but it was a pathetic show with an estimated less than 200 anons attending. This, of course, goes hand in hand with the spectacular crash in numbers during the monthly protests. Interestingly, critics are now trying to make it a sort of OSA crime to even discuss the low numbers.

Mother of Weapon Children Clarifies

The mother of the children who were prevented to enter a Subway shop together with other anons posted a clarification in ARS following some posters questioning the practice of using children as a weapon. In it, she claims that she did not know about the "no anonymous" sign until she reached the shop. Giving her the benefit of doubt I am going to believe her, but it remains that the indoctrination of these little girls (visible at the beginning of the video were they have to hold antis sign and at the end where they spout whatever is told them) is quite sickening, together with the exploitation of the incident of course.

Ironically, in an another attempt to defend herself in another forum, she highlight this indoctrination even more. Indeed, she writes:

"For example, at this very moment, a little girl is next to me, making fun of this whole argument. She is laughing. She is holding up a bottle of shampoo in one hand, and a bottle of conditioner in the other. They are talking to one another:

SHAMPOO: “SCIENTOLOGY IS BETTER! I go on first and wash the brains!”

CONDITIONER: “ANONYMOUS IS BETTER! I leave the children smart and shiny!”

SHAMPOO: “ORLY?”

CONDITIONER: “YES! RLY!!

**Shampoo and Conditioner fight**"

4Chan featured in The Guardian

After getting featured in two of America's heavyweight publications, Times Magazine and The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, UK, runs an article about 4chan. It is no quite as extensive, though, and just repeats many of the elements that already figure in the two US magazines. It only adds the latest 4Chan prank - the messing up of Google Trend - and gives some further detail on how the Swastika incident was brought about:

"It appears that a post on 4chan instructed people to Google '...#21328;'. When thousands did, they discovered that it was a piece of code which, when processed by a web browser, translates into a swastika".

Note that apart from this prank, the Guardian is just as silent as the the US magazine regarding 4Chan as the origin of Anonymous protesting Scientology.

Noelle North acting like a child...

This video was commented by critics as "nauseating", because Noelle North who was trying to enforce a "no anonymous" sign plays in it, but in fact, it is a very neat little sketch and Noelle North really plays nicely in it. Totally enjoyable.

Beck - Timebomb Music Video

A net piece of choreography

Struck

Scientology film with the following Scientology celebrities:

• Bodhi Elfman,
  
• Beth Riesgraf,
  
• Jason Dohring,
  
• Marisol
• Nichols,
  
• Jenna Elfman,
  
• Kelly Preston,
• Jennifer Aspen,
  
• Erika Christensen,
  
• Ethan Suplee,
  
• Nancy Cartwright,
• David Aranovich,
  
• Lynsey Batilson,
  
• Kelli Cobuzio,
  
• Denice Duff,
  
• Micheal Fairman,
  
• Mike Falkow,
  
• Nathan Lorch (also is the producer),
  
• Eric Matheny,
  
• Jim Meskimen,
  
• Tara Meskimen,
  
• David O'Donnell,
  
• Anthony Quaranto,
  
• Nathan Reid,
  
• Tait Ruppert,
  
• Angie Simms,
  
• Alexis Corey,
  
• Connoe Merkovich,
  
• Keenan Merkovich
  
• and Jake Moreno.

Plot: On his way to work one day, Joel (Bodhi Elfman) is impaled through the chest by a three-foot arrow. But it doesn't harm him...

Watch the trailer.

You can also watch the Anonymous mockery of the trailer, that consists of no much else than replace "Struck" with "Suck". Mildly funny.


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An Interview With Cassandra Hepburn

Actress and Scientologist Cassandra Hepburn has a new movie coming out, Quentin Tarantino's "Hell Ride". In this interview she she talks about her new movie, her life, and career.

Scientologists Hanging with Anons

OT5 Karel Jeelof did the right thing - quietly hanging with Anon and listening to what they have to say.

Anon does not like it, however, and claim that he is only pretending to be nice and is only trying to "handle" them, then speak of going to picket his company in retaliation.

You can never win. Either you avoid anon and are accused of hiding, or hang out with them and are accused of being a "handler".

Scientology Agents

Another ugly personal attack page on Anonymous declared enemies, called "Scientology Agents". This can rival the CoS' Religious Freedom Watch page except that the anon page is full of obviously made-up "facts" and defamatory assertions.


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University of Virginia Religious Movements Homepage Project moving to Douglas E. Cowan site

Dr. Cowan will be overseeing the ongoing development of the Web site and its migration to servers at his home institution. As this process is expected to take some time, researchers may wish to consult an archived version, at web.archive.

July 12 Protest Statistics - Crash in Active Anonymous Members, not Scientologists, Continues

Trend continuous to crash though, surprisingly, the London protested drew twice the amount of June, from 300 to 600! London is now 1/3rd of the rest of the world!

Some of the American cities crash (such as New York that went from 225 to 30 and used to peak at 700 in March!) may be explained by a possible confusion with the National demonstration on July 19 but this does not explain the spectacular crash for so many non-US cities (such as Sydney that went from 80 to 10 and used to have 225 in Feb!). Many other cities just got cleared from the protest map with nobody attending anymore.

See stats details.

What is Being Revised in Republished LRH Books?

Type of things edited in the posthumously revised edition of LRH books:

Not a religion:

Older versions:

"Scientology has opened the gates to a better World. It is not a psycho-therapy nor a religion."

Newest versions:

"Scientology has opened the gates to a better World. It is not
psycho-therapy." [Creation. p. 351.]

Zulu:

Older versions:

"The number of engrams in a Zulu would be astonishing."

Newest versions:

"The number of engrams in a primitive would be astonishing."

Anonymous discusses "Using Youth as a Weapon"

On July 9, 2008, Anonymous started a thread on enturbulation.org titled

"TIP: Using Youth As A Weapon"

I did not put that much attention at the time but two incidents that happened a few days after this thread makes me wonder in which way that idea didn't find its way in the mind of some anons.

The first one is an incident where Anonymous forces their entry in a Subway shop hosting a

"No Anonymous"

sign, using three masked children. The argument was "why do you deny the right of these small children to buy ice cream?", and the incident was further exploited in outraged titles about "Scientology harasses little girls".

The second incident happened slightly later, in which critics were successful to get the management of mall in the UK to ban the CoS from its premises on the (unsubstantiated) accusation that the stress test was offered to children, something the CoS denies.

See below for details of these two incidents.

Anonymous Uses Children as Weapon

A family with 3 masked kids were prevented by a Scientologist to go in a Subway shop because they were wearing masks. Later on, LAPD arrived, the Scientologist went away and they were allowed to go in.

Dramatized exploitation of the incident abound:

• "Church of Scientology Hits Below The Belt, Harasses Little Girls"

• "5 Year old denied into Subway by Scientologist"

• "Actress and Scientologist NOELLE NORTH : Tried to rob 2 little kids of their civil rights"

• "Filthy Scientology woman against 2 little girls"

However, consider this:

1. during the protest, an anon posted about the sign at the Subway shop: "

   "I was eating at the Subway deli across the street from Kaiser Medical Center (which had their own security officers assisting the Scilons) when I short, blonde-headed woman accompanied by OSAbot Ed Parkin walked in and sat down next to me preparing a "No Anonymous" sign which she taped to the window of the deli.
   
   She continues to sit at a table there monitoring the area. (Hey, it's freaking hot outside. She picked an air-conditioned place to do her surveillance). "

   This report was further clarified in comments after the incident:

   "I was the one that first reported on ARS of the sign going up. In fact, I was quietly eating a sandwich prior to the protest when Noelle came into the restaurant, sat down next to me, and proceeded to put loads of tape on the “No Anonymous” sign, then proceeded to attach it to the window, reinforcing it again with even more tape. She had the OK of the manager. Most of the employees were Hispanic - I say this because the residents in the vicinty of the Big Blue on Sunset Blvd are primarily Hispanic & they have to live with the cult & their goons every day. I suspect that manager gave Noelle the OK to hang the sign out of fear. I also watched her take a table by the door to assure that Anonymous didn’t enter the deli."

   Therefore, Anonymous knew about that ban before the incident happened
   
   
2. Anonymous recently discussed "Using Youth as a Weapon"
   
   What are the odds, then, that, knowing adult anons may have difficult to enter, they didn't use children "as a weapon", knowing that if they would be barred entry they could make the type of titles as above?
   
   
3. My impression is re-enforced by the fact that the video they show even recorded the "we are hungry" expressions of the girls
   
   
4. The video has been heavily edited and whole chunks are missing. It would have been interesting to see the video in full
   
   
5. The end of the video is particularly outrageous, as we see the little girl spouting things she obviously can have no idea of, such as "my right to free speech expression". It reminds me of terrorists using children for their propaganda.
   
   
6. For that matter, what business does anon have to bring their children at the protest? The believe the CoS is highly dangerous then bring their 5-years old at an emotionally laden protest, yeah right... In this sense I agree with a comment posted on the glosslip page:

   "I love me some anonymous, and yes, the cult sucks, but I am always bothered when parents of any stripe indoctrinate their children into very adult activities like politics or civil disobedience. I don’t care if it’s a “good” cause or not. Children aren’t able to hold sophisticated concepts like: “Scientology is run by unscrupulous people who are harming the people like the lady who stopped us at Subway. We are protesting to help the bad lady because she’s been brainwashed”. How different is it in practice than Fred Phelps making his darling little grandchildren sport “God Hates Fags” and “Thank God for Dead Soldiers” T-shirts? I’m serious, my parents used to take me to rallies against the Vietnam war and they got very hairy and I used to think anyone in a military uniform was a murderer. I learned better as an adult, but when I was seven, I just wanted to please my folks, I had no frikkin’ idea what was going on. Using young children in emotionally charged situations like a protest is a very bad idea. Scientology sucks, but lets leave the kiddies out of the fray."