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"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."
Not just that, but a bunch of drunkards. Apparently their ranks are filled with so many alcoholics, that this Anonymous group needed to start a 12-step program.
How is it "protesting"? Does that word even have any meaning in the USA anymore?
Marching around in masks and yelling things does not a protest make.
How we know is more important than what we know.
Get WHAT word out? That Scientology is a dangerous cult? No shit Sherlock.
These "protests" were not about "getting the word out".. they were about hate.
How we know is more important than what we know.
Truth is an absolute defense against libel in the US, and "cyber-terrorists" is a reasonable synonym for "self-important script kiddie morons".
What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
Besides, Scientology isn't a religion, it's a...dang I'm not quite sure what it is. Maybe it's a cult. But then aren't they all?
signed- Just a Cranky Old Fish
Scientologists are no different from anyone else. As an atheist, I am just as strongly against all the religions you cite; however, the one I would like to see wiped from the face of the earth first of all is Scientology.
[FUCK BETA]
But life doesn't work that way. Every life is unique and the path you are on is your own. There is no template which can serve more than one person. No book or preacher can tell you how to live and thus give you an easy way through life. You have to learn how to think and experience life on your own terms.
One problem I have with religions, and Scientology in particular, is that the template has a second function; that is, to channel energy and resources, etc., to the controllers at the top. Most people who observe religion objectively understand this.
But, okay. Fair enough. People have to learn the hard way not to follow anything but their own instincts and to trust in their own experience. Wasting your life and energy following some false path is a good way to learn what NOT to do.
But where it gets REALLY gross is that many of these cults do actually have some understanding of the powers which exist beyond science. --There are definitely forces and beings which do indeed exist around us which are not recognized by today's basic sciences. --And many of these organizations can tap into this realm and thereby offer experiences to the uninitiated which they use to 'prove' the authenticity of their system. --But that doesn't mean their interpretation is correct. In fact, I would venture to say that they ALL get it wrong; you can't get it right if you're trying to cram reality into a centralist template which tries to take people's individual choice and free will away from them. Doing this automatically makes your system screwy.
And then, as a natural result, it tends to get creepy and disgusting; there are positive and negative forces in effect, and when you choose to work in a self-serving manner, (i.e., promoting religion), you align yourself with the nasty forces. --At the higher levels of Scientology, they're involved with some REALLY messed up energy work. The Fulan Gong guys are similar in this regard. --Deliberately bonding parasitic energy beings to their favored members as though having a big leach attached to your brain, feeding on you and invading your mind with its own thoughts and desires, is some kind of reward. Take a close look at Tom Cruise. There's a reason he's so off-putting and disturbing to look at these days, and there's a reason for it. It first became really evident around the time of that first Mission Impossible film.
-FL
How we know is more important than what we know.
1. Lisa dies
2. Charges are brought against those who are suspected of being responsible
3. The charges are dismissed
4. People "protest"
Sounds like a complete lack of a respect for the law.. aka the mob mentality.
How we know is more important than what we know.
I very much doubt that Scientology is going to go broke defending itself against a bunch of teenage forum trash...
What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
This whole thing is about free speech online, Anonymous does not in reality give a damn about the abuses committed by Scientology, as bad as they are, it's just a ploy to get more on board. Anonymous does what it wants, and the goals tend to gravitate toward removal of censorship on the tubes. Scientology has attempted to suppress its "leaked documents" so that they could scam more suckers out of their lunch money to read about Xenu and friends, as well as gone postal over any time it is portrayed negatively in the media (look at the threats against YTMND and the issue with South Park). It may seem like this stunt and the "hackers on steroids" are necessarily incompatible, but when you understand the reason behind this entire thing it makes a lot more sense.
You're a retard. Plain and simple.
Now kindly fuck off. Seriously, Slashdot needs a kill list feature.
How we know is more important than what we know.
I'm sorry to hear about your problem, but the problem WAS indeed you. YOU allowed a bunch of retards to brainwash, use and humiliate you. YOU chose to ignore your instincts. YOU let them do this to you.
This is why religion - all of it - needs to be exposed as evil. It allows good intelligent people with personal problems to be manipulated into malevolent unthinking morons. What a waste.
I wish you the best now you've learnt your lesson.