Internet Group Declares War on Scientology

Darkman, Walkin Dude writes "An internet group calling itself Anonymous has declared war on the Church of Scientology, in the form of an ominous posting to the YouTube site. 'In the statement, the group explained their goal as safeguarding the right to freedom of speech. "A spokesperson said that the group's goals include bringing an end to the financial exploitation of Church members and protecting the right to free speech, a right which they claim was consistently violated by the Church of Scientology in pursuit of its opponents." The press release also claimed that the Church of Scientology misused copyright and trademark law in order to remove criticism from websites including Digg and YouTube. The statement goes on to assert that the attacks from the group "will continue until the Church of Scientology reacts, at which point they will change strategy".' It should be noted that Slashdot users have had interactions with Scientology in the past as well."

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The war

[Fredtalk]

The war on Scientology, led by the same people who said "Google Ron Paul"

Re:The war

[Moonpie Madness]

Ron Paul accepts donations and fundraiser efforts from neo-nazi organizations. Stormfront.com, the leading white supremacist organization online, gave him a bunch of money. When Ron Paul was asked about returning this money, Ron Paul refused.

No other candidate is willing to accept the support of white supremacists.

Also, Ron Pail is a white supremacist. He wrote dozens of newsletters claiming that jews are evil and blacks are inferior criminals. When this was brought up in the early 90s, Ron claimed he had no idea. When this was brought up a few months ago, Ron claimed that someone else wrote all of this stuff, but Ron Paul, the person who paid for the publication and ostensibly the author, had no idea who the white supremacist who signed his name Ron Paul was. When hundreds of these articles were found in Kansas and it became clear that the nazi author referred to Ron Paul's wife specifically as his wife, spoke about Ron Paul's congressional district as his constituents, and made dozens of other specific comments proving the nazi author was Ron, Ron Paul refused to make any comment at all.

Ron Paul's internet forums were full of people expressing disbelief that Ron actually did write these articles, and their repeated claims that this was a debunked smear were wrong. But they agreed to keep calling this a debunked smear, instead of the truth, asserting that if you repeat something over and over, it is almost as good as the truth.

Ron Paul is a monster. His followers often care more about pot legalization than the equality of mankind. They are so personally invested that they cannot accept that George W Bush, Hillary Clinton, Rudy Giuliani, Jimmy Carter are all moral giants compared with Ron Paul.

I actually had someone tell me that Ron Paul's hatespeech is relatively ok because Dubya's grandfather supported nazis. Insane.

I hate Scientology, but they use the persecution accusation, and if Ron Paul is linked to his effort, they will have no trouble doing so again.

If you are a Ron Paul supporter, keep it to yourself when dealing with Scientology.

What is Anonymous?

[k-zed]

Funny that the Slashdot comment page (at time of writing, at +3) doesn't even mention 4chan. (Reminds me of Jay and Silent Bob. I am the Clit Commander!)

So, for whoever who has been living under a rock for the last N years:

http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/B/
http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/Anonymous

Re:It's not a church

[sjlumme]

Wait... so you are trying to say that the Catholic Church is not a scam?

Hmmm... interesting.

And I always thought that saying that you'll be sent to hell by an invisible guy and his long-haired Jewish son who died but somehow isn't dead and becomes a cracker sometimes, unless you join the church and put money on the collection plate was... a bit of a scam.

But I might be wrong.

Re:Why not declare war on religion in general?

[octal666]

I think Churches, in fact, use to do all that things and more. Scientiology is bad, but do you trully believe that the Christian Church of Rome is any better? The main difference is tradition, christian lies are old enough to sound good, if someone came tomorrow and said that the guy you just executed for treason has in fact resurrected and is the son of God, noone would believe it.