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Scientology Injunction Denied Against "Anonymous"

Anonymous writes "A circuit court judge has denied the Church of Scientology's second request for an injunction against protests by the internet group "Anonymous." The Church sought to prevent Anonymous from protesting on the birthday of the Church's leader, the late Ron L. Hubbard. The petition filed by the Church listed twenty-six individuals allegedly affiliated with Anonymous, but "accidentally" included others who merely work near the location of the first protests held in February and did not participate in them, such as a Starbucks employee. Furthermore, the Church failed to show that any of those listed actually committed any wrongdoing."

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  1. Yay! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I win!

  2. Re:Grab Your Masks! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Click on "Post Anonymously", idiot.

  3. Re:no point of attack by LM741N · · Score: 4, Funny

    We've had anonymous groups for decades- Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous, Codependents Anonymous, Marijuana Anonymous, Anonymous Anonymous.

  4. Re:Grab Your Masks! by Hal_Porter · · Score: 4, Funny

    The Hon Ed Lollington has ruled masks legal.

    Scientology vs various John Does, Jane "Gasmask" Doe, Xenu, LisaMcPhersonWasMurdered, TravoltaIsGay, John Desu, Desu Desu, Desu Desu Desu Desu Desu et al, proceedings of the Internet Court 2008.

    --
    echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
  5. The Church of rice_burners_suck. by rice_burners_suck · · Score: 1, Funny

    The Church of Scientology. Hmph! How a religion can be invented so easily by someone who wakes up in the morning one day and just feels like making one up.

    I am hereby inventing a new religion. My religion shall be called rice_burners_suck, and its adherents shall be called rice_burners_suckers. One important parameter of a religion is how many deities its adherents believe in. This is a religion of a unique type, where instead of zero, one, or multiple deities, the number of deities is negative one. This concept is often difficult for newcomers to grasp, since when counting anything, one must begin at one and proceed through the positive numbers. However, we believe that a person must work towards achieving faith in God, and believing that there is negative one of Him is part of achieving that faith.

    Besides, if God can do anything, then He can choose to be counted in negative numbers.

  6. Re:Lets be fair to the Hubberdites by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Hey folks... if you bother to read the article it explains how Scientologists are getting death threats from this group. Lies. Vicious lies and slander.

    Now excuse me, I have a couple of, uh, "cocktails" to prepare for Tom Cruise.

  7. RIAA run by the church of scientology by gorbachev · · Score: 5, Funny

    "The petition filed by the Church listed twenty-six individuals allegedly affiliated with Anonymous, but "accidentally" included others who merely work near the location of the first protests held in February and did not participate in them, such as a Starbucks employee. Furthermore, the Church failed to show that any of those listed actually committed any wrongdoing.""

    OMG! I think I get it now!

    RIAA is run by the church of scientology!

    That explains everything!

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    In Soviet Russia, I ruled you
  8. Re:In other news: by quokkapox · · Score: 4, Funny

    We're never going to give them up, never going to let them down.

    Wow, an inline rickroll.

    Fuck. I just now got ABBA out of my head, and I was going to go to sleep. Take a chance on me. FUCK.

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    it's a blue bright blue Saturday hey hey
  9. Re:IRL raids by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Are you stupid or drunk? It should be obvious by the context what exactly I'm protesting. If you're not capable of basic reading comprehension I'm not going to waste my time explaining it to you.

    I will, however, waste my time insulting your intelligence. Because that's fun.

  10. Re:no point of attack by smoker2 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah right, you can imagine the meetings -
    My names Smoker2 and I'm anonymous ... no, wait !?!
    ... dammit !

  11. Re:IRL raids by gambolt · · Score: 5, Funny

    Let's compare the bible and Battlefield Earth. One is a disjointed and confusing work of cult propaganda. The other is Battlefield Earth.

  12. Re:Grab Your Masks! by mpe · · Score: 3, Funny

    The cult of Scientology has a long and documented history of harassing critics. It's just prudent for your own safety and the safety of your family to keep your identity hidden. They also film the protest activities from their buildings and disguised surveillance vehicles so if you're not wearing a mask the Co$ will start a file on you, they have an entire agency that does this.

    It might be interesting if the Anti-Defamation League were to find itself at odds with the CoS. If nothing else it would be good entertainment to watch two groups with a history of using similar tactics fighting with each other :)

  13. Re:IRL raids by Peaker · · Score: 3, Funny

    For example, protesting the Church of Mormon is to forget their holy book says that black people are black because of sin and they can become white with prayer.
    Its true! Just look at Michael Jackson.
  14. Re:IRL raids by phoenixwade · · Score: 5, Funny

    Let's compare the bible and Battlefield Earth. One is a disjointed and confusing work of cult propaganda. The other is Battlefield Earth. Let us not forget that one has occasional passages of pretty prose, the other is Battlefield Earth.
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    A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
  15. Re:Grab Your Masks! by SCHecklerX · · Score: 2, Funny

    http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/Ides_of_March

    lol, they think 'anonymous' is an alien race. You can't make this stuff up:

    http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/Marcab

  16. Re:Um... by ruggerboy · · Score: 2, Funny

    Dammit, now I have to get all these "Elron" birthday invites reprinted.

  17. Re:Grab Your Masks! by pandaba · · Score: 2, Funny

    Reading all those "versus" links almost makes me want to form a new corporation, calling it Xenu, Inc. And then using the corp for anti-Scientology activities and hoping they would take me to court so that the case would read:

    Scientology v. Xenu

    That would be a thing of beauty.

  18. Re:Are you a scientologist troll ? by coren2000 · · Score: 2, Funny

    No, but of course, If I do not brand these people as babykillers and psycho cultists the rest of Slashdot brands me a troll and flamebait.

    Im just sick of the massive groupthink of Slashdot, and I am willing to not immediately jump upon the hater bandwagon.

  19. Re:IRL raids by Antique+Geekmeister · · Score: 2, Funny

    And decent poetry! If you'd like to really charm a date, the "Song of Solomon" is some pretty hot material, even if it is a bit risque for a first date.

  20. Re:IRL raids by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    They are finally told what Scientology is all about, then die of uproarious laughter?