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Wikileaks Airs Scientology Black Ops
An anonymous reader alerts us to new material up on Wikileaks: 208 scanned pages (in one PDF) relating to the Church of Scientology and its former "Office of Special Affairs" employee (and subsequent apostate) Frank Oliver. "The documents are dated between 1986 and 1992 inclusive, when, according to the file, Frank Oliver was declared a 'suppressive person' and excommunicated. Frank Oliver should be able to verify the material and has appeared in the media before on subjects relating to the church. Starting on page 107, the document shows that at the time of writing the Church of Scientology was still actively engaged in black propaganda (especially concerning psychiatry), 'fair game' and infiltration."
The PDF file was broke or the link went to nowhere.
Just callin' it like I see it.
Anonymous marches on March 15, the "March of Ides".
Are you going to be there? Find the closest church and be there!
It is your civic duty. I hope to march alongside you.
I think this is it. (Originally mentioned in another comment above.)
A closed mouth gathers no foot.
Would it kill you to provide a link?
-Peter
Dude.
Black Sabbath. Black Sambuca. Black Lights.
Don't ignore the good!
idiot, it's not unlimited. if you look at their terms of service, you'll see that they'll cut you off when you 'abuse' it.
As the original submitter of the article, I'd like to mention that it is the now the second Wikileaks held set of documents for Scientology. Though I must apologize for the badly written rushed body of the firehose article, it's the linked content that is important :
Citizens Commission on Human Rights" (CCHR) exposed as an illegal Scientology front. exposes their LEAF (Letter to the Editor ATTACK Force) campaign, and illegal govt lobbying.
Many apologize to the Wikileaks admins for the /. effect, but this news HAD to be made public.
To the $clilos - Disclaimer - I did not personally leak these documents, nor did Slashdot, I'm merely posting legal links.
The peaceful protests of Anonymous against the CoS are also legal. Anonymous is ONLY protesting the CoS organization, no other religion and not religious beliefs themselves. There is a campaign of fabricating/doctoring Anonymous protest images and footage to try to frame Anonymous for anti-religious protests (they started by attempting to attack the Vatican): take a guess at who might want to be doing that!
Rather worrying, a similar anti Anonymous "ad hominem" attack force is trying to re-define the cake meme from the game Portal into one about underage pornography.
PS. Everything I post is posted via strings of proxies and most importantly Tor !
(wish it was faster, and didn't have so many problems with slashdot, lol)
When they stop murdering people and destroying lives. Deal.
the real reason to go is for the lulz. Any good that comes out of it is just a bonus!
Because Scientology took legal action against Slashdot on what appeared to be a trivial matter. I do not think any other group has taken legal action against Slashdot in it's ten years of operation.
your very first comment on /. is to ask why /. hates CoS?
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damaged by dogma
(Hello, Article submitter here again)
users first post , check (not always the case but very common)
'witch hunt' comment, check
'bigotry' comment, check
*CoS countermeasures 101 detected.*
'cyber terrorists' comment expected soon
'ad hominem' attacks, coming 'real soon now'.
Slashdot posts what people submit, it gets front paged if enough people care about the story and vote it up.
With Scientology stories it takes a hell of a lot more people voting it up than normal as OSA and the LEAF campaign try to force such things down.
So the story only makes it if people REALLY care, are interested, and strongly think the story has merit.
Don't you wonder MAYBE such stories might at least have SOME truth in them if THAT many people are so interested in them even OSA can't keep them down?
Now you've pondered that for a pico-second enjoy your invasive security 'sec check'.
as are these fellows: http://thepiratebay.org/tor/4059049/New_scientology_dox__The_Computer_Frank_Oliver_Dox
I'm asking: Has anyone else realized that these people are FUCKING NUTS?!
I was around for the Toronto trials, but this shit...? Holy cripes.
I may not be the most stable person, when discussing evolution vs. whatever-the-hell-the-trolls-from-the-evangelical-campuses-are-calling-it-this-week, but this takes the cake, in a SPECTRE/Mission Impossible/I Can't Believe This Is Under The Radar type of way.
Does this mean I need to watch for people on street corners, watching me covertly from behind newspapers? So be it! Bring it on, Tom! I'll kick your ass, Johnny boy!
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. ~~ Hunter S. Thompson
This is scarier than any horror film ever could be. Thank god Wikileaks. Kudos to Frank Oliver.
The Gospel according to lolcat
Analysis of the released docs is occurring on this thread:
http://forums.enturbulation.org/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=6291
Also there are two threads on released e-mail dumps on CCHR ("Citizen's Commission on Human Rights" - a Scientology front group) being discussed here:
http://forums.enturbulation.org/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=6059
and here:
http://forums.enturbulation.org/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=6159
The website also reports that protests are being held at all CO$ center's world wide on March 15th 11am local time. Visit http://forums.enturbulation.org for details.
There is no "I disagree" mod for a reason. Flamebait, Troll, and Overrated are not substitutes.
In just the last few days there was an article about someone who previously sued a group of defendants including /., and later dropped /. from the suit. It was in the /. summary; I didn't read TFA.
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A cult, in other words, has elements of personality-worship in it. Religions are old enough to claim that the founder's personality could not have unduly influenced their membership.
The Cult Information Centre describes it as such: (Project Clambake, likewise, quotes this list.)In my opinion, a lot of it is a matter of a qualitative differences in what they do. There's a number of things. Some people in certain religions will try to bring you back if you leave. Cults, on the other hand, may blackmail, harass or threaten people who try to depart. Many religions ask for money; Scientology asks for money, and spends it on lawsuits against its critics. Many religions have people who approach you on the street and tell you that you need to convert or $badstuff (with varying degrees of pushiness). Scientology sets up a table with a "Free Stress Test" (presumably designed to be rather Scientific-looking) first to attract passerbys, then when you test positive for stress they try to sell you various courses, then ease into the dogma later.
The World Wide Web is dying. Soon, we shall have only the Internet.
Actually, they have the status of "tax exempt non-profit organization", not church, according to the IRS. The CoS proclaims that this means the U.S. Government considers them a church, but that doesn't make it so.
What's amazing is that they got this status AFTER their acts of infiltrating the IRS and other government agencies (Operation Snow White), although they didn't get the tax exempt non-profit bit until years after the sentencing of LRH's wife and several others for that little bit of espionage.
Mr. Hu is not a ninja.
I believe he did not invent that wisecrack, he was simply arrested at the request of the Church of Scientology for being in the wrong place, at the wrong time, and REPLYING to the Alt.Religion.Scientology post that contained that joke.
It's a joke I remember making once myself 20 years ago when I was 8!
I had three of these guys show up at my apartment looking for my friend... God damn it was a freaky experience. Two stood on lookout at the front door while the third fast-talked his way past me upstairs. Apparently my friend had only made acquaintances so they were just "following up" on a possible new member, and they left quietly after he rebuffed them.
I felt bad for a while for not having turned them away immediately, but you don't always know what you're friends are up to... and it's hard to be ready for something like that. When you are a naive college kid confronted by three overbearing, slick guys inviting themselves hurriedly through your front door, it really throws you for a loop.
Scientology is basically ritualized emotional abuse. It separates its victims from everything they know -- in fact it aligns them against their parents, family and friends, and everything that might come to their rescue -- and it turns them into abusers themselves. Elron was a sick, abusive, evil freak.
>They survived the aftermath of Operation "Snow White" with no long-term consequences.
Several people were tried, convicted, and served lengthy prison sentences, putting the church in
the public eye and simultaneously making it a laughingstock. One long-term consequence was that
the media exposure about the church reached the attention of one Ivan Stang, inspiring him to start
a competing scam religious cult company.
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Please do. I'll recommmend the South Park episode on Scientology as both funny and educational on the issue. Sadly, that's the one over which Isaac Hays, thee voice of "Chef", resigned from the show, because of his membership in Scinetology.
If you build a Radio Shack lie-detector kit, you can also experiment with the results of their "e-meter", which is nothing but a very expensive and not very sophisticated resistance-meter based lie-detector.
They are not outlawed in Germany, they are just not considered a religion.
(Sorry.) But that's part of the teaching. You've got all these godlike powers, telekinesis for example, and your thetans are the only thing stopping you from using them. You can get rid of your thetans by giving the CoS all of your money for the rest of your life, and if you are sufficiently committed to the church, maybe one day you will be as magical as LRH. And then you'll never really die. Your entire life is a small price to pay for the chance of being a God.
This is pretty similar to other religious claims, I think. It covers all the basic tickboxes: "you are more important than non-believers", "you get everlasting life" and "you get to be like God". I think it is specifically tuned for extremely arrogant people, though, because there is no notion of God as something better than you, that you can at best only aspire to be like. I think this is a deliberate choice by LRH, who liked hanging around with film stars and seems to have figured out what they wanted to hear:
LRH: You're the most important guy in the Universe!
Tom Cruise: I already knew that, L. Ron. Have some more of my money!
>north
You're an immobile computer, remember?
For those like me who didn't know off the top of their head Ivan Stang created, he founded the Church of the SubGenius.
I am officially gone from
You must be young though. It seems most people of my generation and younger go through a phase where they think they're so clever believing (any) God does not exist, and that anyone who believes in such a higher power is an idiot. I went through it. Then I look at my children and think there's no way they came about without some touch of divinity.
You misunderstand what 'belief' means... Not believing in a god != believing there is no god.
"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge"
- Charles Darwin
The scientology cult isn't outlawed in Germany but just not tax exeampt and not recognised as a religion, just as you say. I found this link: http://home.snafu.de/tilman/krasel/germany/government.html
I wonder how come I have not seen this site mentioned in the higher modded posts. It's the most informative website about scientology.
"The agriculture ministry is not in charge of Gundam" - Japanese ministry official.
Can't say I blame you. Until November of 2005, Amway was outlawed as a cult group in the People's Republic of China.
Strike while the irony is hot! -- The Freethinker
Today's cult... tomorrow's mainstream religion.
Oft repeated story-- but don't see it here yet.
Bob Heinlein and Elron Hubbard were discussing how to make money at the 195(3?) World SF con and decided religion was much more effective. They made a bar bet as to who could found a religion. Heinlein's book was "Stranger in a Strange Land"... Hubbard's book was "Dienetics".
The rest... is history.
She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
Emphasis mine.
The only people who would EVER gain from Heber Jentz being harmed are those he holds evidence against in his memory, being those from the Church of Scientology.
Protect Heber Jentz!
The legal filing the Church of Scientology made : http://www.sptimes.com/2008/03/12/images/Scientologyinjunction.pdf
Article : http://www.sptimes.com/2008/03/12/Northpinellas/Scientology_fights_ba.shtml
One of the main centres for discussion of Anonymous : http://forums.enturbulation.org/
snapshot review of Scientology : http://www.youfoundthecard.com/