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"Anonymous" Takes Scientology Protest to the Streets

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the watch-out-for-the-hit-squads dept.

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."

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  1. Nth post, for some small value of N! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Woo hoo!! (This is a hell of a lot easier than "first post".)

    P.S. Xenu says, "Wazzup?"

  2. These guys need to protest Islam instead. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Talk about picking the wrong enemy to fight. Scientology's main goal is simple: MONEY. If you don;t have it, they aren't interested in you. Considering that 99%+ of the world is poor, it's safe to say Scientology will never be anything but an affliction that pops up in affluent countries. It is an ailment of the rich. Have you ever heard of Scientology being a problem in Ethiopia? Of course not, there's no money to be made there.

    Now Islam, on the other hand, is what you need to fight. Islam fuels itself with the poor. The more poor there are, the stronger it becomes.

  3. qwerty by Sithgunner · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    qwerty