May 12, 2008
Preorder Scientology Lulz Now
Forgive us if we're breaking rules 1 and 2, but it didn't take us long to figure out that this fake Wii Battletoads website (site has changed, see Google cache for original) was a viral marketing campaign against the Church of Scientology's "Fair Game" policy.
This past Saturday marked the latest "in real life raid" against the Church. This wave of protests focused on a memo issued by L. Ron Hubbard in 1965, which gave the green light to harass critics of the church, saying critics "may be deprived of property or injured by any means by any Scientologist without any discipline of the Scientologist. May be tricked, sued or lied to or destroyed."
The telltale sign that the Battletoads video was fake was not just the fact that every clip was stolen from other games, nor that the voiceover sounds like a monster truck rally announcer, but the fact that the 416 number listed on the site (if you refresh the page enough) is that of the Toronto branch of the Church of Scientology. The website urges the prospective caller to ask about the "Fair Game" policy.
As for the protest itself, well, it seems like each one is getting closer to irrelevance as the series goes on. Yes, it is true, there may be members of Anonymous ("anons") protesting the church in small numbers almost every week, but this last one seems like it was the smallest global action yet. Check out some Flickr shots from Saturday's raid. If Project Chanology really wants to succeed in the long run, and attract non-4chan members, they are going to need to come up with something new.
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When I was a scientology staff member, just one single protester might have woken me up and got me to leave sooner, saving me years of pain and fear. It's easy to sit on the sidelines and say 'they are going to need to come up with something new' - but this *is* something new, as can be seen by the fact that scientology is all of a sudden spending money to advertise on YOUR website. Nothing irrelevant here, move along...
You know, it wouldn't matter at this point if no-one showed up. The protests are like extra sugar-sprinkles on a very intense and formidable chocolate cake. There are so many political/legal/big media forces being brought to bear on Scientology inc. that it's like a relentless unstoppable juggernaut for obliterating Scientology. All of these efforts are clearly working: a spate of recent high-level defections, including a billionaire whom Scientology had hoped to vampirize; the leaking of ALL their top sekrit documents (to be found on Wikileaks and on Encyclopedia Dramatica); insider reports of Miscavige shit-fits and enturbulations (no more daily enema treatments for Davey!); and so much more. Scientology is really beginning to crack.
Having large public protests is nice and usually fun (except in places like Atlanta and Orlando USA where the police are retarded and/or Scilon sympathizers), but they are just a small part of Scientology's destruction.
And remember, it's happening in ~100 cities around the world. We had an excellent turn-out here in San Francisco. Same with london, Sydney, Melbourne, and many other cities.
Scientology is being destroyed and it's happening much more quickly than we imagined.
Get your facts straight. Anyone who wants to leave Scientology has always been able to do so. It's no harder than leaving any other religion, and certainly easier than leaving Islam or Judaism; ask any of their apostates, if you can find them.
And actually, if you ask any Scientologist, you'll find out that Scientology is thriving. Our courserooms have never been more full of students.
Just because a few apostates and anti-religious nuts want to destroy something doesn't make it happen.
Here's the real purpose of Anonymous, which they put on the Fox News site after they hacked into it:
“We are the face of chaos… We ruin the lives of other people simply because we can … Hundreds die in a plane crash. We laugh. The nation mourns over school shooting, we laugh. We’re the embodiment of humanity with no remorse, no caring, no love, or no sense of morality.”
It's no wonder anonymous is attacking Scientology, as it has been working across the globe to spread a worthwhile common sense moral code. Any Scientologist worth his salt is only made more determined to help people by these space-cadet picketers outside their church.
I've always admired Winston Churchill's take on such things: "You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life."
I'm not sure which has become more annoying: Scientology or the Anonymous.
I live very near the Scientology building and have had to wade through protesters and refuse sheets of paper I already received the week before on many a recent Saturday.
We get it. Scientology is weird. Maybe it has ruined lives, but so have lots of other organizations. It's great that these people want to take up a cause, but one has to wonder if there aren't any better causes out there that actually make a difference in the lives of people who really need it.
It is not, as Hypermellow claims, easier to leave Scientology than it is to leave Judaism. Leaving aside the point that Jews are as much defined by their common racial heritage as their faith this statement is undermined by the many thousands of people from Jewish backgrounds who espouse secularism and atheism.
It is also wrong to think, as burnstoemerge seems to, that we shouldn't try to fix the small problems in the world until we have tackled the bigger causes. This is a recipe for doing nothing about anything.
Protesting is not going to solve world hunger, and it is not going to end poverty or war. It might just, however, be capable of doing something about Scientology.
"Hypermellow" says: "And actually, if you ask any Scientologist, you'll find out that Scientology is thriving. Our courserooms have never been more full of students."
Yeah, ask any Scientologist, and that's what they'll tell you, because that's what they've been tpold to tell you (whether or not they have the least personal knowledge of it).
The fact is, the Scientology cult is dying RIGHT NOW. The check is NOT in the mail, as a billionaire cash-cow snaps out of it, and thousands of ordinary members gain the courage to stop donating or even leave. The big L Ron Hubbard birthday extravaganzas (your tax dollars at work), normally Scientology's biggest party, went virtually unattended in almost every location. Two days before the party in Clearwater, cult officials were sending out desperate mass-emails, saying that only 40 people had confirmed, of an expected 600 attendees. Many top-level cult officials are "blowing," and they are definitely spilling the beans on the cult's crimes.
For example, here is something very recent: the affidavit of Lawrence Brennan, sworn just a few days ago.
http://www.operating-thetan.com
This was a senior Scientology executive who knew all about how Scientology extorted and hoodwinked the IRS into giving them the 501c3 "religion" tax exempt status as well as an additional special IRS tax exemption that allows ONLY Scientologists to deduct ALL of their private religious education costs as fully tax deductible. The cult "cloaks" itself as a religion, and I'm sure a lot of lower-level people believe it is a religion, but this was done purely for tax advantage.
Scientology is going down hard. What will be the "scandal that breaks the thetan's back"? Perhaps the fact that the cult knew of the widespread blue asbestos contamination on its luxury ocean liner (!) for 21 years, but did nothing until Curacao port officials shut down and quarantined the ship a couple of weeks ago. How many people were exposed in that time? How many have developed or will develop mesothelioma as a result?
Scientology is easy to walk away from? Not according to ex-Scientologists: http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=5soqNQHmthM
Chains, barbed wire and physically blocking people to prevent them from leaving? Being starved to death? How often do you think that happens at your local Synagogue, Mosque, Temple, or (actual) Church?
Scientology is a horrifying crime against humanity.
Thursday's coming fast, Hypermellow, and you're downstat. How many SO will blow THIS week, hmm?
Hypermellow, obviously one of the human dreggs who belong to the cult of scientology.
For the truth about the cult try the following:
http://www.forum.exscn.net/index.php?
http://www.exseaorg.com/
http://www.xenu.net
Hypermellow has stated it as it is. Oh hum. The Church has a fair amount of experience dealing with "anonymous" protesters, actually. In the 1950's certain unnamed individuals did a like effort. Hubbard then moved his world wide headquarters to England. American critical efforts spent themselves against the barriers the critics had, themselves, erected. And the same thing is going on now. Anonymous has erected barriers, makes them more real by repetition and chants, by rickrolling and by lulz. But the barriers are created from limited knowledge, by misunderstanding. As the earlier barriers were unreal, today's aren't real. Therefore effort against them (rickrolling, black faxes) have little effect in the real world. My estimation is, critics are likely to hammer their gums until they convince themselves. Yawn.
Ahh, our old friend Terryeo. Yet again, spamming another blog with her tired old message of "Anons just aren't informed, CoS is nice, really, believe me!" From the bottom of my Christian heart Terryeo, I hope you find truth someday, instead of the lies you are instructed to believe as truth.
In any case, if you want actual facts instead of CoS propaganda, visit some of these sites:
www.exscientologykids.org
www.xenu.net
www.lermanet.com
Those have the stuff CoS would rather you not know, the kind of things that they love throwing lawsuits around for. Honestly, what kind of religion has to actually hide behind copyrights to keep their secrets? I don't have to sign legal releases in MY church. I don't think Scientologists should either.
End the Cult. Free the RPF. Stand with Anonymous.
We are Anonymous
We are Legion
We do not forgive
We do not forget
Truth is our sword, anonymity is our shield.
Expect us!
San Francisco Scientologist physically assaults Anonymous protester by grabbing her throat and trying to pushing her into oncoming traffic: http://www.sfist.com/2008/05/19/when_scientolog.php
The Scientologist then tried fleeing the scene, only to sideswipe a cop car.
Your cult is crumbling, Terryeo, Hypermellow. Blow or Davey will make you go down with the (asbestos-filled) ship.
I'm not Anonymous but I think Scientology is worried its crimes will be exposed.