Anti-Scientology Group “Anonymous” Gears Up For February 10th Worldwide Protest
Above is the latest video from the group calling themselves “Anonymous.” Over the course of the last month, the media has witnessed this group coalesce from a ragtag of “cyber-geeks” into a growing organization with an agenda. An agenda, mind you, which keeps being refined and distilled as its members become more and more disheartened by the mainstream media’s complete and utter indifference to the subject.
That is not to say there aren’t individual voices raising questions about how the COS funds its multi-national operation, or how it obtained its government protected tax exempt status, or how it has silenced its critics either through litigious threats or physical intimidation. (See Time article linked to below for a source of the above allegations.)
There are and have been brave souls all along. People who’ve risked their lives, devoted their resources and put their reputations in jeopardy to uncover the unscrupulous efforts of the Church to make them “go away.”
In an infamous investigation into the Church done by Time magazine back in 1991, writer Richard Behar, gives an overview of COS, who they are, what they do and what they are hiding:
150 interviews and reviewed hundreds of court records and internal Scientology documents. Church officials refused to be interviewed. The investigation paints a picture of a depraved yet thriving enterprise. Most cults fail to outlast their founder, but Scientology has prospered since Hubbard’s death in 1986. In a court filing, one of the cult’s many entities — the Church of Spiritual Technology — listed $503 million in income just for 1987. High-level defectors say the parent organization has squirreled away an estimated $400 million in bank accounts in Liechtenstein, Switzerland and Cyprus. Scientology probably has about 50,000 active members, far fewer than the 8 million the group claims.
Recently, I found reference to a “tech” term taken from Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard’s own “Fair Game policy,” on how to deal with critics of the COS: R2-45. If you do a quick Google search on this term you will find several references to its meaning: 2 rounds from a colt 45. It’s so sinister it’s almost inconceivable. This is why so FEW dare to investigate the COS. Their purported methods sound too evil to be true. How can something so inherently immoral, be a thriving organization with such glamorous members as Tom Cruise, John Travolta or Katie Holmes?
Well, to corroborate the above mentioned method of dealing with critics, the Time article has a chilling anecdote about none other than COS leader, David Miscavige:
“Obsessed with security, Church boss David Miscavige reportedly likes to shoot photos of perceived enemies with a .45 automatic.”
The most encouraging aspect to all of this attention being paid by blogs, private citizens and organizations who’ve dedicated their lives to helping expose the truth and help those who’ve managed to leave COS, is now, the information is out there. Even rank and file members can find out what the leaders of their organization are doing to suppress their right to free speech, information and the freedom to make their own choices about what they believe in.
That’s the difference between and religion and a cult. Cults seek to alienate you from your family, the world and deprive you of a normal life full of all sorts of experiences. Whereas any decent religion or faith, should merely provide you with foundations to pursue your own interests with the hope of guiding you in a spiritually moral path. But ultimately, you can walk away from any decent religion with no strings attached, your sanity in tact and hopefully your life savings accounted for.
Sadly, Scientology can NOT make that claim. I encourage you to read the Time article, especially for those of you who doubt anything you read which doesn’t come from a well-known source.
Update: Time magazine spent 7 million dollars to fend off a baseless suit brought from the Church of Scientology after publishing the investigative article on COS. In what has to be the greatest display of irony, COS’s leader at the time, Reverend Hebber Jentzsch made this statement after the courts dismissed the COS suit against Time.
“Here you have a multi-billion dollar colossus called Time- Warner and they use their billions of dollars to come after a small religious minority,” Jentzsch said. “It was sort of like, well, I guess it’s David and Goliath.”
Yes, well COS knows a lot about a multi-billion dollar colossus going after a small minority. Just ask any ex-member what that experience is like.
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They just keep getting better. Keep up the good work.
Comment by Psychic Cupcake — February 5, 2008 @ 4:43 pm
Thank you very much P. Cupcake
Comment by D — February 5, 2008 @ 4:46 pm
brilliant blogging keep up the good work
Comment by jay — February 5, 2008 @ 4:50 pm
Now let’s just hope that the bigger news sources will take notice and be willing to report positively.
Comment by anon42 — February 5, 2008 @ 4:55 pm
Please guys, stop all of this.
If you don’t stop David Miscavige will chain me up inside a clothes dryer again.
Comment by Terryeo — February 5, 2008 @ 5:03 pm
keep fighting
Comment by anon — February 5, 2008 @ 5:42 pm
Also, congrats again on another great article!
Comment by Anonymous — February 5, 2008 @ 5:45 pm
The CoS was probably really behind my assassination in the comics. Those bastards.
Comment by Captain America — February 5, 2008 @ 6:17 pm
Regarding the article published in the multi-billion dollar colossus called Time-Warner, I stand behind the truth of everything contained within it. As a scientologist of 30 years, I know it is all true. Ask me about it.
Comment by Terryeo — February 5, 2008 @ 6:22 pm
I am a 50 year old small business owner and grandfather. I can just barely use email. But I know a con game when I see one, and the Co$ is a deadly con game that we are forced to support via their tax exempt status.
Expect me too.
Comment by Anon — February 5, 2008 @ 6:29 pm
Well written and researched. A+
Comment by Anonymustard — February 5, 2008 @ 7:56 pm
Anonymous has found opportunity to use this screen name. Being unable to say anything effective, anonymous has take a step down, and attempts to destroy the validity of the screen name I often use. Easily understood. Anonymous acts for destruction. Quite easily understood.
Comment by Terryeo — February 5, 2008 @ 9:37 pm
Thanks Dawn! I hope you have not been harrassed too badly by the drones so far. And I agree with what you said in a previous blog entry, the rabbit hole of Scientology goes deep.
David Miscavige’s niece was on Inside Edition today!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUDjbwzCqv4
Suck it Davey the Dwarf, your little regime is getting exposed.
Comment by LRonHubbub — February 5, 2008 @ 11:10 pm
Terryeo - How many people are in the room with you as you actively seek out critical comments and sites to poo-poo on. Are you doing this solo? Or is Gavino holding your hand like he use to with the former “Entheta internet crusher squad”?
Some information about Gavino Idda (Scientology’s OSA agent for internet)
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Secrets/Gavino/
Comment by LRonHubbub — February 5, 2008 @ 11:14 pm
I how the regional talk show host Eric Von Wade will give us more info.
http://www.ericvonwade.com
Comment by Lisa Davis — February 5, 2008 @ 11:28 pm
So Terryeo, posting defences of Scientology on gossip websites is how you spend your days since getting banned from wikipedia for attempting to apply Dead Agent tactics? How the mighty have fallen.
Comment by Lamont Cranston — February 6, 2008 @ 12:29 am
The Shadow!
Comment by k — February 6, 2008 @ 12:30 am
It is probably his “ammends” project. Terryeo, are you trying to “strike a blow” against the critics to get back in good standing?
Comment by LRonHubbub — February 6, 2008 @ 1:06 am
Don’t get fooled into thinking that Anon will simply pass out some fliers and raid some locations and that will be it. Co$ is BIGGER than you know and they will attack. They don’t defend and they don’t play a passive game. They will attack Anon when they get the chance.
Just one question about this “religion” called Scientology: since when is sweat and vitamins considered spiritual?
Comment by Bill W — February 6, 2008 @ 1:33 am
The Scientology crime syndicate gets a lot of money from rubes and marks that get rooked and swindled in to falling for the syndicate’s quack medical scam they call “NarCONon.”
http://www.crackpots.org/
That web site covers the fraud.
My opinions only and only my opinions.
Comment by Fredric L. Rice — February 6, 2008 @ 1:56 am
I am a heron. I have white feathers and a long beak to catch fish. If you do not repost this message to 10 more places I will fly into your kitchen at night and wreck up your pots and pans.
No, really, this is great blogging. Thank you so much for posting.
Comment by heron — February 6, 2008 @ 2:46 am
More scandal of Scientology for you Dawn
Scientology Cruise ship pollutes island… Grrrr.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AJNukeykjc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztsJi4WlEVs
This is THE cruise ship that teaches top level Scientology levels.
Comment by LRonHubbub — February 6, 2008 @ 4:20 am
You’ve done a great bit of blogging. Thank you for helping. Anonymous loves you.
Forever yours,
The Internet Love Machine.
Comment by Anonymous — February 6, 2008 @ 7:16 am
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Buy this book now! Free Mind Free Body helps readers use their own minds and it will help people to break free of scientology cult mind control by promoting that people think for themselves and understand self-imprisonment and setting yourself free from self limitations that other people put on you. The Scientologists dont want people to know how their mind works outside of their stupid cult because then scientology.org wont be able to trick their followers anymore. Read what the scientologists dont want you to know! read Free Mind Free Body and tell your friends so we can help those people who get tricked and sucked into scientology from their mind control tactics preying on weak minded people who just dont know any better. I found the book at http://www.FreeMindFreeBody.com its available worldwide
Anonymous
Comment by Anonymous — February 6, 2008 @ 12:53 pm
Jehovah’s Witnesses if they hook your family are just as bad as Scientologist all cults suck
Comment by Space Ghost — February 6, 2008 @ 1:29 pm
Terryeo, you’ve made a pest of yourself by pasting the same messages into multiple discussion threads. Among other things. You get no sympathy from me or any right-thinking person who has had to put up with your assholery.
It’s still not too late, BTW, to acknowledge the truth about $cientology and get out. It might be difficult for you immediately after leaving, but there are anti-cult groups that can help you with the transition.
Comment by Narcissus — February 6, 2008 @ 1:36 pm
Yay Terryeo!!!
Everybody’s favorite scientologist and his zany antics ;^P
You are comedy GOLD baby! Give us more.
Ooohh, you should try telling Anonymous jokes. I’ll get you started:
Why did the Anonymous chicken cross the road?
Comment by RandomComment — February 6, 2008 @ 4:12 pm
D, what an amazing series of articles. I know nothing about you, age, race, or even gender, but I want to have your babies.
I’m a man BTW, so it’s going to be difficult, but I’m willing to try.
Comment by Anonymous — February 6, 2008 @ 4:13 pm
$cientology reminds me of high school when my buddies and I would get bored and do stupid little experiments. Sometimes they were simple little things like going to the mall then gather around at some random moment to look at a spot on the floor. Soon people would start walking up to see what we were looking at, then a small crowd would form - then we’d walk away and see how long it would take for the crowd to disperse. One time we made up a religion but then got a little carried away trying to top each other on what we could get people to believe - we had to stop cuz it was getting mean. Good lord, we were idiots…

we never even thought to make money off it!
Is it possible hubbard just “left his body†before he got a chance to call off the experiment something?
 What if hubbard was trying to stop the experiment so the people making money off it kept him out of the public for the last 5 or 6yrs of his life? Then they injected him with anti-psychotics before he “abandoned his physical form†in an attempt to discredit him in case he’d gotten through to somebody.
Howz THAT for a crazy conspiracy theory?
Comment by RandomComment — February 6, 2008 @ 4:26 pm
Well, I appreciate #28 but I am a woman and my baby-having days are over. But what a sweet sentiment.
Honestly, I am only doing what any decent self-respecting journalist would do: exposing the truth.
I only wish COS would do the same, and the government would take off the blinders.
I appreciate what Anonymous is trying to do. As long as they abide by the law and handle things in a peaceful way, then I wish them all the luck in the world.
Comment by D — February 6, 2008 @ 6:22 pm
Ah, dear sweet D, you misunderstand. I wouldn’t dare insult you by asking you to have my babies. I want to have YOURS!
But seriously, it’s wonderful to see such great press coming out on this. And of all the sites that have covered this subject in recent weeks, I have to say you’ve done a job that makes most of the “professional” journalists look like kids writing in crayon (with cute little backwards letters and everything).
Keep up the good work, I wish you all the best.
Comment by Anonymous — February 6, 2008 @ 6:35 pm
I’m not a Scientologist but I’d like to agree with Mr.RandomComment#28b and RandomComment#23b, it’s sounds like L Ron Hubbard was just a silly guy conducting some fun innocent scientific experiments and maybe some other people took it overboard without his guidance. It’s a shame that maybe these Scientologists were a bit too enthusiastic about helping people at the World Trade Center, they might have been wiser to leave such things to trained rescue personell.
Comment by LightField-Grnapl-Luana-Chewyandbert-Arkaitz-"Wax-Q"-Churilov — February 6, 2008 @ 8:24 pm
Ohai mr bunch of scientologists’ names that link to xenu.net.
I appreciate it and all but you don’t need to agree with me on my silly conspiracy ramblings. I’m just some random anonymous with an overactive imagination ;^)
But could you imagine?!?! Oh, how tragic. Would the experiment ever end or would we all eventually become a part of it?
…all watching the same spot.
Comment by RandomComment — February 6, 2008 @ 9:48 pm
Guys, I’m sorry that I’m such a useless troll who does nothing but copy/paste what Dave tells me to (or used to, before he fled for the high seas).
Forgive me.
Comment by Terryeo — February 7, 2008 @ 1:09 am
Hi all, I’d like to say that while focus is currently on Scientology [and I support your work in exposing Scientology]so-called ‘religions’[get around the law by registering as a business and looking conservative and excluding many people,ie regulating selected 'ones'to preen]such as RESTORATION MINISTRIES AUSTRALIA run by a woman obsessed with absolute dominance over already vulnerable persons, still manages to go - believe it or not UNDETECTED.
Free yourself from cults and cult-abuse and LIVE.
Comment by Rick — February 7, 2008 @ 5:11 am
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http://www.cultnews.net
Comment by Rick — February 7, 2008 @ 5:13 am
I am a survivor of extreme cult control & domination dished out over a period of many years.
What I want to do is tell others that, YOU TOO can break free of your abusers. YOU TOO can be freed from the terrible abuse of your life and liberty.
YOU ARE VALUABLE AS YOU ARE.
YOU DONOT HAVE TO SUBMIT TO ANYTHING TO BE ‘ACCEPTED’ BY OTHERS.
YOU DONOT HAVE TO TOLERATE MENTAL EMOTIONAL PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PHYSICAL ABUSES, CONSTRAINTS, CONDITIONS AND OTHER TERMS OR ACTIONS THAT THREATEN TO ‘HAVE NOTHING MORE TO DO WITH YOU IF YOU DONT DO AS I SAY.’
Many of these controllers look like the average every day person and are ‘believable’ but remember THEY ARE NOT.
They intend only to control you and in short RELIEVE YOU OF YOUR LIFE AND LIBERTY in order for them to meet their own needs, to fell fulfilled and of value.
YOU DON’T NEED THEM.
So what they threaten you if you walk away?
Make the arrangements to leave. Tell no-one and go.
Make sure you have a rental place or friend to whom you can go that is within your budget so you are absolutely self-supporting. A job would be great.
If you have a moment of weakness when you feel alone and unloved give it a miss…do something you really want to do or love doing.
CULT LEADERS MAKE THEIR LIVING OFF YOUR FLESH.
In the final analysis if you object and resist they will only lie and you will be the one in a bad light even though you will not to be blame and theywill only be covering their tracks.
YOU ARE OF VALUE AND PEOPLE CAN [AND WILL]ACCEPT YOU AS YOU ARE FOR WHAT AND WHO YOU ARE.
You have no need to lay down your life [and goods and chattels and pay packet and the desire to further yourself through study or work etc] for the cult leader who is simply EVIL…personified. Believe me there is no - yes I mean NONE - CONSCIENCE in a cult leader. Beyond hte smiles and genteel tone of voice and calming soothing actions there is a cruel hard cold personallity with BAD INTENT.
You were not born for others to construct their lives and pay their mortgages frmo your flesh!
Comment by Rick — February 7, 2008 @ 5:26 am
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