"Anonymous" Takes Scientology Protest to the Streets

This past Sunday members of the group "Anonymous" that has been running an attack on the church of Scientology took their battle from the tubes of the internet to the pavement of real life, staging a protest outside the central Phoenix Church of Scientology. "The protesters said they gathered Sunday in lieu of the birthday of Lisa McPherson, a Scientologist once cared for by church staffers. Her 1995 death sparked media attention and a civil wrongful death suit against a branch of the Church of Scientology. A wrongful death suit by her family was a public-relations nightmare for the church for years until it was settled in 2004. The Church of Scientology declined to comment on the Phoenix protests. It did provide a news release calling members of Anonymous cyber-terrorists."

Comments

Turn the tables

[Quattro Vezina]

Scientology likes suing people for libel. Let's turn the tables on that. Maybe members of Anonymous should sue Scientology for libel for making accusations of terrorism.

what

[User 956]

Anonymous, eh? Cowards.

Take Caution

[AlphaLop]

These fools don't know who they are messing with, it's all fun and games until someone drops your ass into a volcano..... :)

Re:Balanced view.

[gandhi_2]

I don't know man. It sounds legit.

Re:Balanced view.

[Gideon Fubar]

of course.. L. Ron only said they look like 1950/60's era cars and trains. They were reality-retconned, because Xenu is a psychic alien who can see the future.

sheesh.. is it really that hard to work out? ;)

Re:Balanced view.

[Ekhymosis]

I find your lack of faith...disturbing. =)

Re:Protest?

[Broken scope]

Actually, It might have also been for the lulz.

Re:Balanced view.

[Grave]

Yes, I believe they call it politics.

Shocking!

[BeeBeard]

The article practically insinuates that a church that was originally started as a tax shelter has been involved with some sort of misdeed! But that's just ridiculous. I can practically feel my Thetan levels rising!

Re:Balanced view.

[Anonymous Coward]

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Re:Balanced view.CORRECTION

[Hal_Porter]

I believe you mean DC-8's -- but without the propellers...

Oops! The DC-8 was and is a pure jet aircraft. No propellers.

Good catch dude, in addition to be being a bad writer a crook and racist, L Ron Hubbard was also ignorant of airplane propulsion. That's it! The whole sick structure will now collapse.

By the way, the racism link would probably comes as a surprise to all the Hollywood stars who donate to Scientology.
http://www.solitarytrees.net/racism/deny.htm

Re:Balanced view.

[jmac1492]

Let's do a little experiment here. In fact, because it's so rare for this to happen in cases involving religion, let's scientifically disprove something using verifiable and repeatable experimentation.
THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD
Background: The Church of Scientology successfully threatened Slashdot into removing a post containing the text of a copyrighted "holy" text, and further links to the text.
Hypothesis: The Catholic Church wants to suppress its own holy text, the New American Bible. The NAB is the officially authorized translation of the Bible for use by Catholics in the United States.
Conjecture: If a Slashdot poster posts an excerpt from the NAB, along with a link to the full text, the Catholic Church will threaten Slashdot, and Slashdot will remove the post.
Experiment: I am posting the first 10 verses from the book of Genesis, Chapter One.

1 1 In the beginning, when God created the heavens and the earth, 2 2 the earth was a formless wasteland, and darkness covered the abyss, while a mighty wind swept over the waters. 3 Then God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. 4 God saw how good the light was. God then separated the light from the darkness. 5 3 God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." Thus evening came, and morning followed--the first day. 6 Then God said, "Let there be a dome in the middle of the waters, to separate one body of water from the other." And so it happened: 7 God made the dome, and it separated the water above the dome from the water below it. 8 God called the dome "the sky." Evening came, and morning followed--the second day. 9 Then God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered into a single basin, so that the dry land may appear." And so it happened: the water under the sky was gathered into its basin, and the dry land appeared. 10 God called the dry land "the earth," and the basin of the water he called "the sea." God saw how good it was.

The full text of the NAB is available at http://www.usccb.org/nab/bible/
Wait for priests to show up with their three chief weapons, fear, suspense, a fanatical devotion to the Pope... Can we come in again?
*crosses fingers*

I dare anyone to reproduce this experiment and get a different result than I did.

Don't Forget Vegas

[cc_pirate]

They were in Las Vegas too... Drove by this on the way out of town... maybe 30 people out...

Since I don't care for Scientology (or any other religion), I honked.

Had a great time in Vegas though, I got married!

Re:pragmatism

[CommunistHamster]

In fact, why bother flying them to Earth (or "Teejeeack" as the texts call it) to kill them at all? Why not just fly them into space and depressurise the transports and eject the corpses? Is it wrong that I am thinking of a more practical way to commit interplanetary genocide?

Re:pragmatism

[Scrameustache]

In fact, why bother flying them to Earth (or "Teejeeack" as the texts call it) to kill them at all? Why not just fly them into space and depressurise the transports and eject the corpses?

Is it wrong that I am thinking of a more practical way to commit interplanetary genocide? Nope, it's never wrong to find flaws in other peoples made-up, for-profit religions.

Re:Balanced view.

[cHiphead]

then how can we quantify it?

By making shit up.

Thats how all the religions got started, no?

Cheers.