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Hacker Admits To Scientology DDoS Attack
lbwbl writes with news that a New Jersey man will plead guilty to one felony count of 'unauthorized impairment of a protected computer' for his distributed denial of service attacks on Scientology websites as part of 'Anonymous' earlier this year. From Wired:
"He faces a likely sentence of 12 to 18 months in prison based on stipulations in his plea agreement, which also obliges him to pay $37,500 in restitution. ... Friday's case, in US District Court in Los Angeles, marks the first prosecution of an Anonymous member for a series of attacks against the Church of Scientology that began in mid-January. The secretive religious group strayed into Anonymous' sights after trying to suppress the publication of a creepy Tom Cruise video produced for Scientology members."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFBZ_uAbxS0
Scientology isn't a business, it's a scam. They sell things which don't work, brainwash the people to whom they sell their things, and harass people whom they can't sell their things to.
To the best of my knowledge, the DDOS attacks stopped in January. The people who are currently protesting are not using those methods.
You can check out what they are up to at
http://forums.scientology-exposed.com/
http://forums.whyweprotest.net/
To find out why people are still protesting start reading the stories here
http://www.forum.exscn.net/forumdisplay.php?f=2
http://www.exscientologykids.com/voicesinunison.html
Former scientologists are finally starting to have the courage to speak out and need to be supported.
In my home town alone, a former scientologist's apartment has been broken into & had file boxes stolen (left the TV, DVDs & laptop), slashed her car tires, cut the wires in her car (including the brake lights), ran her off the road, stalked her at the neighborhood swimming pool & tried to intimidate her there with her kids, have been trying to mentally fuck with her by turning off her circuit breakers for her apartment, have had vans & PIs staking out her home & following her.
These are not nice people. They need to be exposed.
You don't need to try and not get caught if you're not doing anything illegal to start with. If the CoS tries to get you arrested for peaceful protesting they'll be the ones that end up looking like assholes.
Keith Henson wasn't that lucky.
This is happening. http://www.whyweprotest.net. DO IT NOW.
Well, a few years ago, when the Scientology documents were exposed to the public, I perused them out of curiosity. Even though I knew about Xenu, I was still surprised to see it all there in print. Then I ran across the man's story of getting to some advanced Thetan level, and he described the self-auditing with the e-meter. Something in his narrative caused the neurons in my own brain to fire just so, and I realized that this was what was being described in the textbook.
I think it would be interesting to research how detectable electrical currents in the human body relate to physical, mental, even emotional processes.
The E-meter isn't about anything as weird as trying to pick up signal currents in the body (at least not the model I have from about 30 years ago). It's just a resistance bridge, a device with a meter that can show small changes in resistance (inverse of conductivity). One puts a juice can in each hand and tensing of the grip and/or changes in perspiration cause a measurable shift as one responds to questions etc. It's basically doing just one of the things a so-called lie-detector does.
I was never a member of the church. I guess I should dig out the various booklets that are with the E-meter to see just how they used it. It's probably helpful in telling if someone has been successfully brainwashed or is holding back during questioning LOL.
Suffrage isn't intrinsic to legal personhood. Many people have been and are denied the right to vote. If you're in the United States, then corporations are extended many constitutional protections that "persons" enjoy. If you're in a different country, it varies. Generally, corporations can own property, be party to contracts, initiate lawsuits, and are required to pay taxes. All of these are common to your garden-variety person (except women, children, or minorities in various places and times.)
See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood_debate.
people use corporations to protect themselves against legal liability in case they are sued or otherwise break the law.
Which wasn't the original idea behind a "Limited Liability Corporation" in the first place. That was that investors would have their financial liability limited to amount they had invested. Whilst they might end up with stock/share certificates which were effectivly worthless they would have no financial liability. Shareholders would be last on the list of creditors. Which whilst this might mean they would lose their money in the case of a failed business they could still get their money back (even make a profit) where one to cease trading whilst profitable.
The idea that a corporation must exist for a long period of time, together with the idea of a corporation protecting its executives from their actions are more recent "innovations".
The major technical difference between the earlier models and later models is the introduction of the transistor vs the use of vacuum tubes.
Patents by Mathison
Patent number: 2684670
Filing date: Aug 1, 1951
http://www.google.com/patents?id=L7tDAAAAEBAJ
Patent number: 2810383
Filing date: Sep 1, 1954
http://www.google.com/patents?id=mXVLAAAAEBAJ
Patent number: 2799269
Filing date: Feb 7, 1956
http://www.google.com/patents?id=wxNbAAAAEBAJ
Patents by Hubbard
Patent number: 3290589
Filing date: Jun 7, 1965
http://www.google.com/patents?id=OVpxAAAAEBAJ&
Patent number: D264877
Filing date: Mar 8, 1979
http://www.google.com/patents?id=pAMqAAAAEBAJ
Patent number: 4459995
Filing date: Sep 22, 1981
http://www.google.com/patents?id=YYsxAAAAEBAJ
"It is a greater offense to steal men's labor, than their clothes"
What's retarded is just how easy it is to show that your understanding of law is deficient. I clocked myself: a legal definition of what legally constitutes a person took me almost exactly 14 seconds, including the time it took to launch a new tab in Firefox to do the searching in.
Not checking your information is idiotic in this age of freely available information; you'd do well to double-check yourself next time so you don't look like a pompous (but wrong) doofus.
And for those of you too lazy to click the above link, a corporation IS legally considered a "person" in a number of contexts, as defined by a LEGAL dictionary. Don't confuse "person" with Natural Person which is more in line with your comments.
I have no problem with your religion until you decide it's reason to deprive others of the truth.