Anonymous Protests Against Church of Scientology, First Pictures
I received these pics from the concerned people of Anonymous, and they are from the first wave of protests in Australia. There were some false reports that a fight had broken out and of course, the suggestion was Anonymous had started it and caused violence. THIS IS FALSE, if you see these items in the news THEY ARE FALSE and planted by who knows who, but we can take one guess it starts with and S and rhymes with TECHMOLOGY.
In any case, here are some great pics from the REAL and quite PEACEFUL looking protest which took place outside a COS center in Sydney, Australia.
I will keep you posted as I get more details.
Pink Stripe WordPress Theme Designed by Joni Mueller &
We are anonymous. We are legion. We do not forgive, we do not forget.
Comment by Anonymous — February 9, 2008 @ 11:02 pm
w00t!
Happy Birthday Lisa McPherson. (February 10, 1959 – December 5, 1995.) Looks great from here.
We are legion
We do not forgive
We do not forget
expect us
Comment by Anonymous Hollywood — February 9, 2008 @ 11:05 pm
<3 D
Comment by Anonymous — February 9, 2008 @ 11:12 pm
HAHA this is epic
we are legion
Comment by anonymous — February 9, 2008 @ 11:20 pm
ttp://digg.com/world_news/First_Pics_of_Anon_Protests_At_Scientology_Centers_In_Sydney
In case anyone wishes to Digg it.
Comment by d — February 9, 2008 @ 11:36 pm
I would love to know who posted the fake picket reports. because scientologists were busily typing away upstairs on the computer at the Town Hall Org (you could see them through the first floor window)not long after the picketters left.
Comment by Snappy — February 9, 2008 @ 11:37 pm
Protect Freedom of Speech.
Protect Religion.
Protect people drawn into the cult of $cientology.
Inform yourself.
http://theunfunnytruth.ytmnd.com/
http://www.whyaretheydead.net
http://www.xenu.net
http://www.xenutv.com
http://youtube.com/watch?v=rCGP-0545EU
Comment by Anonymous — February 9, 2008 @ 11:53 pm
Please, if you can, leave us some loving…we need pictures!
Tell us where you are at and what the images are…if you DID NOT protest, add your city and country and give us a report at Wikinews.org.
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Story_preparation/%22Anonymous%22_holds_over_250_anti-Scientology_protests_worldwide
Comment by Jason — February 9, 2008 @ 11:57 pm
so sectology gave in those false reports? hmmmm…
Comment by ddddddddcs — February 10, 2008 @ 12:18 am
Thank you for keeping on top of this story.
Another Surfer
Comment by Another Surfer — February 10, 2008 @ 12:27 am
Figures
Comment by Aeros — February 10, 2008 @ 12:28 am
today this will unfold worldwide
we are legion
Comment by Internet User — February 10, 2008 @ 12:50 am
Just a bunch of poor brainwashed slobs who are being led around by the nose by ridiculous propaganda. What? Hell no, not the Scientologists, the college kids who are out for a fun time at the expense of religious freedom. And, by the way, check out what anonymous is actually about. Fun loving kids, eh? http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=DNO6G4ApJQY
Comment by gibber — February 10, 2008 @ 1:13 am
#13
Dear Scientologist.
It’s too late.
Your time would be better spent shredding papers and moving your monies and high-ranking officials to a non-extradition nation.
Might I suggest Switzerland.
They’ve made deals with your kind before.
Hiel Hubbard.
Love, Anonymous.
Comment by Anonymous — February 10, 2008 @ 1:27 am
They are legion. They are there to take away your rights and freedom. Dont dare have beliefs or ideas that they dont agree with, because they will protest your every freedom. They are legion. They are there to force their opinions on others. Putting messages on websites visited by children, brainwashing them and extending hate through our communities.
Comment by Anything-but-anonymous — February 10, 2008 @ 1:27 am
#15
Less talky, more running away to Switzerland.
Bye-bye now!
Comment by Anonymous — February 10, 2008 @ 1:31 am
#16
Im catholic. I just believe in the rights of others and dont force my ideals on others. Spreading hate is never acceptable.
Comment by Anything-but-anonymous — February 10, 2008 @ 1:33 am
Alright Gibber, since you can seem to post links so can as “proof” so can I.
http://www.scientology-kills.org/
If you are defending Scientology then you are defending, Suicide, Murder, Brainwashing, Bankruptcy.. Shall I go on?
This protest is a peaceful one. We even have rules on it
http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=-063clxiB8I
We are redeeming ourselves from the slander all over the news. Also, if you are wondering why we chose Febuary 10 as a day to Protest, it was for Lisa McPherson. (February 10, 1959 – December 5, 1995.)
You can read her story here.
http://www.lisamcpherson.org/
We are legion,
We do not forgive,
We do not forget,
Expect us.
Comment by Jemma — February 10, 2008 @ 1:33 am
I just want to point out something really intriguing about Gibber. Gibber was posting from this location:
Level 3 Communications, Inc. (Ip deleted to protect the not so innocent)
Church of Scientology International CHSCIEN-
Hi gibber, I’m Dawn, this is my site. Nice to meet you.
Comment by d — February 10, 2008 @ 1:38 am
Um, I just realized you all knew he was a “sci-techie!”
Doy.
Comment by d — February 10, 2008 @ 1:40 am
#17
Then why spread hate toward us?
Do you deny that we have a right in democratic society to speak our minds? To peaceably protest? Are claims of illegal activities backed up with evidence invalid simply because those who committed them claim allegiance with a religion?
Do you feel the Catholic priests guilty of child molestation were being religiously persecuted when charged with that crime?
Anonymous is not protesting religion, our numbers include members of all religions, including FreeZone, people who practice the same beliefs as the Scientologists, but do not participate in their suppressive acts.
We only wish to see those guilty of these crimes be brought to justice despite their faith.
Comment by Anonymous — February 10, 2008 @ 1:41 am
Dumb, extra dumbed down dumb times 150. Next? - Black and white photos to make the glossy, extra crispy dumb masks glow.
Comment by Terryeo — February 10, 2008 @ 1:48 am
#22
Epic Lutz!
Comment by Anonymous — February 10, 2008 @ 1:51 am
Article on Adelaide (Australia) protest including photo:
http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,23189665-5006301,00.html
Article on Sydney demo:
http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,23189603-5005962,00.html
Comment by Paul — February 10, 2008 @ 2:01 am
We are anonymous. We are legion. We do not forgive, we do not forget. This is in direct retaliation to the continual abuse of Scientology.
Comment by Anonymous — February 10, 2008 @ 2:08 am
\”This is in direct retaliation to the continual abuse of Scientology\”
Does this mean the abuse that anon is giving scientlogy? You will accomplish nothing. The world laughs at your petty protests. Get a life.
\”d\” post #19 - Who would have guessed we would have to protect ourselves from people like you, when all we are doing is a peaceful protest against your protest. Tell us everyones location. How many posts are made by innocent children?
Comment by Autonmous — February 10, 2008 @ 2:17 am
Hey, Anything-but-anonymous, I sure hope you go and find the facts behind the Feb 10 protests. You are WAY OFF if you think the protesters want “to take away your rights and freedom.” This is a response to abuses by the Church of $cientology.
Seriously, READ a little. You’re taking a lazy, lazy position on this issue. And it’s wrong. Dead wrong.
Comment by catman — February 10, 2008 @ 2:18 am
We are legion.
We do not forgive.
We do not forget.
Comment by Anon — February 10, 2008 @ 2:18 am
#26
I’ll tell you right where I am.
I’m the same place as the rest of Anonymous.
i’m in ur base spreading the truth
And as for the world laughing.
Time, Newsweek, MSNBC, Declarations from Dell, Coca-Cola, Phillips, Kimora Simmons, saying they do not now, nor have they ever had anything to do with Scientology in the face of Miscivige’s claims, new investigation and questions regarding the CoS’ tax status, support from ex-scientologists, support from CURRENT scientologists….
Yeah, the world is “laughing”
Comment by Anonymous — February 10, 2008 @ 2:26 am
Everyone who reads this probably knows what a huge troll Terryeo is. But i’d just like to inform you all that if you do a google news search for scientology, any news site with comments, have a comment by him/her/it. Same thing with wikipedia, pretty much any and every article in connection with scientology and/or garden gnome molestation, just click on discussion and there you will find lengthy arguments from said troll.
Comment by anonymous — February 10, 2008 @ 2:30 am
Anonymous holds the freedom of religion in the highest regard. Anonymous disapproves of “Fair Game” policies, burglarizing IRS offices, disconnecting families, charging people for salvation with “required donations” which confer a tax exemption on the Church of Scientology that IS NOT ENJOYED BY OTHER RELIGIONS: http://www.lawfuel.com/show-release.asp?ID=16955
Comment by Alfred N. Onymous — February 10, 2008 @ 2:47 am
INTERNET HATE MACHINE
Comment by anon — February 10, 2008 @ 2:49 am
Oh, you are a clever one, anon @ 32. Go to whyaretheydead.net, rickross.com, lermanet.com, xenu.net or xenutv.com if you think this is about hating people for their religious beliefs. This is about the ACTIONS of the Co$, not the beliefs (however misguided) of $cientology followers.
Comment by Narcissus — February 10, 2008 @ 3:08 am
Well done Sydney’ans!
Comment by JetSetterJay — February 10, 2008 @ 8:36 am
Haha organized trollery pictures
Yes the world is watching
Trolls in numbers doesnt make them right
Comment by Anonymous — February 10, 2008 @ 9:20 am
“There were some false reports that a fight had broken out and of course, the suggestion was Anonymous had started it and caused violence. THIS IS FALSE, if you see these items in the news THEY ARE FALSE and planted by who knows who, but we can take one guess it starts with and S and rhymes with TECHMOLOGY.”
Anonymous Hackers Track Saboteur, Find and Punish the Wrong Guy
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/01/anonymous-hac-1.html
FAIL again
Comment by Anonymous — February 10, 2008 @ 9:25 am
The world is watching the failure of Anonymous
Comment by Anonymous — February 10, 2008 @ 9:26 am
Well that was a nice way to spend a sunday. Accomplished nothing. Did nothing. No-one cared. Good job gang, bet you all feel special. Oh my god I have no evidence or proof, just conspiracy theorys and all of a sudden I think Im informed. Come on kids, grow up. Nothing you or anyone does will ever make a difference in this world. No-one is surprised that the majority of protestors were young kids with nothing better to do. Go out get a job. Start a family. Stop harrassing others.
Comment by Some_guy — February 10, 2008 @ 10:40 am
Talk to the hand “Some Guy” because the face ain’t listening.
This is just the beginning. Anonymous did something miraculous, they used the resources they are most familiar with to communicate a need across the globe to stand up for something. Any “number” of protesters is a win. And those numbers will only grow.
Comment by D — February 10, 2008 @ 10:52 am
Don’t encourage this trash. When you gather, you’re no longer anonymous. L2Anon; stay home.
Comment by anonymous — February 10, 2008 @ 11:51 am
First Pics of Anon Protests At Scientology Centers In Sydney | Deliggit.com…
glosslip.com
I received these pics from the concerned people of Anonymous, and they are from the…
Trackback by Deliggit.com | The social sites' most interesting urls — February 10, 2008 @ 12:13 pm
We are anonymous, we are legion, we are violent and we are duped, but who cares!
Comment by Anonymous — February 10, 2008 @ 2:01 pm
http://www.Scientology-lies.com/whatswrong.html
Why do people protest Scientology?
Scientology locks people up.
There are over two dozen allegations that Scientology has held individuals against their will.These illegal acts were not committed by rogue Scientologists - they were in accordance with Scientology policy.
Scientology held Lisa McPherson against her will for 17 days, according to Scientology’s own logs. She died in their custody. The state of Florida decided not to prosecute the two felony charges filed against Scientology in her death after Scientology used relentless pressure to get the medical examiner to make a partial change in the cause of death. Her estate sued Scientology for wrongful death and false imprisonment; the suit was settled in May 2004, with all details kept confidential..
Scientology lies.
Lying to people to get their money isn’t just unethical -it’s illegal. It’s called fraud.
Scientology claims there is a scientific basis for all their processes. There isn’t. Scientology claims it’s compatible with other belief systems, like Christianity. It’s not. Scientology claims to be the fastest-growing religion in the world, with 8 million members, utilizing infallible technology developed by a physicist and war hero. They’re lying.
Scientology is breaking the law.
In addition to false imprisonment and fraud, Scientology engages in the illegal practice of medicine by prescribing auditing and vitamins to replace legally-prescribed medical treatment.
Scientology also extorts money from its members, telling them it’s scientifically proven that their lives will become worse if they don’t pay for expensive auditing.
Scientology has a long, well-documented history of criminal activities.
High-ranking Scientology executives were convicted of extremely serious crimes in the United States for breaking into government offices and stealing documents. Founder L. Ron Hubbard was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in that case, and the defendants stated in their stipulation of evidence that, at all times, he acted as supervisor of the illegal activities.
Scientology itself was convicted of similar crimes in Canada. When Scientology then tried to destroy the reputation of the prosecutor in the case, they were hit with the biggest libel fine in Canadian history.
L. Ron Hubbard was convicted of fraud in France.
Scientology attacks free speech.
Scientology says that “public statements against Scientology or Scientologists,” “writing anti-Scientology letters to the press,” and “testifying as a hostile witness against Scientology in public” are all “Suppressive Acts” - high crimes, according to ” Introduction to Scientology Ethics.” The book goes on to say that people who do such things “cannot be granted the rights and beingness ordinarily accorded rational beings.”
In accordance with this policy (and others like it), Scientology has tried to silence all criticism:
Scientology framed journalist Paulette Cooper for sending bomb threats after she wrote The Scandal of Scientology.
Scientology sued book and magazine publishers - including Time magazine - in an attempt to prevent any future criticism by scaring publishers with the prospect of enormous court costs.
Scientology sued critics for copyright infringement, even though the copyrights to some of the documents in question may have been lost to the public domain years ago.
Scientology tried to unilaterally shut down the alt.religion.sciento
logy newsgroup - unintentionally bringing Scientology to the attention of hundreds of free-speech advocates.
Scientology imposes gag orders in settlement agreements, preventing those who have suffered most from telling the world what they know.
Scientology routinely threatens legal action against critics, alleging copyright infringement, trademark dilution, and dissemination of trade secrets - often in situations in which its allegations are baseless.
Scientology hurts people.
Scientology routinely pressures members into spending more money than they can afford on expensive courses.
Scientology’s disconnection policy destroys families.
Scientology betrays the trust of well-intentioned people by falsely claiming to have a scientifically-proven technology to save the world. Scientology ruthlessly attacks its critics with everything from frame-ups to unannounced visits to the homes of family members to libellous fliers distributed to their neighbors and business associates.
And sometimes, Scientologists die under suspicious circumstances. They even target their own kind.
Buddhism, Mormonism, Islamic, Judiasm, Christianity, etc., have not required bloodshed or money for Centuries. To have such draconian administration is simply morally not right today by any standard of good you want to pluck from.
Comment by Lisa McPherson — February 10, 2008 @ 2:22 pm
No, 42, you are duped. And no doubt swindled. How much have you “donated” to the Co$ for “services”? Has it revealed the Xenu “secret” to you yet? And do you really think there are special powers at OT 7 or 8? If so, why hasn’t an OT 7 stepped up to answer the Randi foundation’s million-dollar challenge (randi.org)?
Comment by Narcissus — February 10, 2008 @ 2:25 pm
Hey, 42, did you READ comment 43? Or won’t you $cientology masters let you?
Comment by Narcissus — February 10, 2008 @ 2:26 pm
Ill tell you all what. Give me some hard proof. Give me some cold hard evidence and not some rubbish sites giving conspiracy theorys without evidence. If you can can prove beyond a doubt. BEYOND a doubt. I will personally finance your entire protest world wide.
Comment by Some_guy — February 10, 2008 @ 7:17 pm
We are legion.
Comment by Anonymous — February 11, 2008 @ 10:04 am
Some_guy: I’m afraid that when you say “beyond a doubt”, what you really mean is “beyond a Scientologist’s capacity for denial”, and a Scientologist’s capacity for denial is mighty indeed.
Hubbard claimed that he was made a blood brother of the Blackfeet Indians at the age of six. The Blackfeet Nation say that they have never practiced the “Hollywood idea” of blood brotherhood and have no record of any ceremony involving the young L. Ron Hubbard — or even of “Old Tom”, the “medicine man” Hubbard claimed had performed it.
Scientologists actually swallow this. They not only believe that Hubbard really was a “blood brother”, one Scientologist went so far as to create a document on Blackfeet Nation stationery (without any authorization to do so) claiming to “re-establish[] L. Ron Hubbard as a blood brother to the Blackfeet Tribe” — and this was after he, by his own admission, tried and failed to find any record indicating that Hubbard had ever been a blood brother in the first place.
Hubbard claimed to have spent a significant portion of his childhood in the mystic East and learning the ancient wisdom there. He claimed to have studied under a “thoroughly insightful Beijing magician who represented the last of the line of Chinese magicians from the court of Kublai Khan”, named “Old Mayo” (note the similarity to a previous wise mentor figure from another culture, “Old Tom”) and to have been made a lama priest by Old Mayo after a year of study. Hubbard claimed to have spent time with “the local Tartar tribes [and] with nomadic bandits originally from Mongolia”. Hilariously, the Church of Scientology parrots all this and says that he “record[ed] what he saw and learned in his ever-present diaries” — hilariously, because those diaries were later introduced as evidence in a trial, and they made no mention of Old Mayo, of Tartar tribes or nomad bandits, no mention of Eastern philosophy, certainly no mention of becoming a lama priest. Instead, they contained such shallow and judgmental observations as “If China turned [the Great Wall] into a rolly coaster it could make millions of dollars every year” and “As a Chinaman can not live up to a thing, he always drags it down.” and “They smell of all the baths they didn[']t take. The trouble with China is, there are too many chinks here.”
Scientologists nevertheless still swallow the hokum that Hubbard learned ancient wisdom in the Eastern and that Dianetics and Scientology thus draw from the wisdom of Eastern philosophy.
Hubbard claimed to be a war hero. He claimed to have won 21 (or 24, or 27, or 29) medals and palms, including the Purple Heart with palm, and the British and Dutch Victory medals. The British and Dutch Victory medals do not exist. Records are kept of those who receive the Purple Heart; Hubbard is not among them. Hubbard claimed to have served as Commodore of Corvettes in the North Pacific during World War II. No corvettes served in the Pacific theater. Hubbard claimed that during combat, he was machine-gunned and injured by shrapnel fragments, and ended the war “crippled and blinded” until he healed himself with the breakthroughs which became Dianetics. There is no record of Hubbard ever being in combat. His medical records show that he was hospitalized, not for war wounds, but for a duodenal ulcer. Hubbard also claimed to be suffering from bursitis and arthritis and conjunctivitis. He was still complaining of such ailments in military medical examinations, and continuing to draw disability pay for them, years after he claimed to have discovered in Dianetics the infallible cure for such ailments.
Scientologists actually swallow this, and still refer to Hubbard as a war hero who served with distinction. Despite all wartime records clearly showing Hubbard as a braggart and a malingerer, Scientologists remain in denial, preferring to believe the preposterous fantasy that Hubbard was conducting secret activities as an intelligence officer and that, even six decades after the end of World War II, the secret records showing Hubbard’s actually meritorious service still cannot be released, or even acknowledged to exist. One can only wonder why the British and Dutch would go so far as to contradict the entire existence of the medals Hubbard claimed to have received from them — was any one intelligent agent that deeply undercover? Wouldn’t it have been easier to just not give him a medal that couldn’t be acknowledged?
Hubbard claimed great scientific prowess, and claimed that he was “one of America’s first nuclear physicists”, one of those “Buck Rogers Boys”. In fact, he failed to even finish college and flunked the only course in physics he ever took, and throughout his works, he makes blunders of the most elementary sort. The man who insisted on the importance of dictionaries talked about this “galaxy” and that one without learning the correct pronounciation of the word. He claimed that “one merely has to take a hose to a building surface or a road to wash the radiation off of it. This factor is well known to defense trained personnel.” He claimed that “Darwin found out that when you took horses up to the high country in the Middle East, they would then grow long hair after a season or two” — a description of the disproven theories of Soviet biologist Trofim Lysenko, not those of Darwin. Even if you were to entertain the notion that L. Ron Hubbard’s bizarre ideas on science were correct and the viewpoint of the mainstream scientific community was wrong — Hubbard couldn’t even correctly describe or identify the mainstream scientific viewpoint.
And yet Scientologists swallow all this. To them, Hubbard is the greatest scientist that ever lived. Why? Because he created Dianetics and Scientology, and the Scientology actually believes that these are scientific accomplishments — despite the fact that no experiment testing any of the claims of Dianetics or Scientology has found any support for them.
I think it’s telling that Some_guy challenged us to “give [him] some hard proof” and didn’t even specify of what. That way, he can always “move the goalposts” and claim that we failed to meet his challenge.
Comment by AF — February 12, 2008 @ 1:35 am
So thats what scientologists believe. ha! Fools. No, when I asked for evidence I meant something that isnt purely hearsay. Something that would actually stand up in the real world. I dont care about scientologists, I dont care whether some alien named jeff or whatever killed lots of aliens and sent them to earth (Thanks south park) I just dont see the point of attacking someone when you cant even give a real reason backed up by proof.
Comment by Some_guy — February 12, 2008 @ 5:45 am
Some_guy, once again it’s difficult to believe that you are all serious about wanting to see proof when you still can’t answer the simple question “proof of what?”
Comment by AF — February 12, 2008 @ 9:13 pm
Ambien….
Ambien during pregnancy. Ambien. Ambien and the menstrual cycle. Suicide ambien. Ambien side effects. Ambien cr….
Trackback by Ambien. — April 6, 2008 @ 6:01 am
Some_Guy, I understand that you want proof, so I am going to send you to a website.
enturbulation.org, go to the forums and look for anyone who has been a part of the church, ask them a few questions. This will not be hearsay for these people have found a way to leave the church and they will gladly teach you about the things they have witnessed.
I realize it’s a little late but, hopefully, someone will benefit from this.
Comment by Someone Who cares — September 25, 2008 @ 3:19 pm
Nice site! Thank you!
cheap xanax , phentermine , viagra , buy phentermine , cheap cialis ,
Comment by John1109 — June 19, 2009 @ 12:07 pm
Great .Now i can say thank you!
xanax , tramadol , xanax , tramadol , xanax ,
Comment by John839 — June 22, 2009 @ 9:56 am
I bookmarked this guestbook. Thank you for good job!
phentermine , cheap tramadol , buy tramadol , cheap cialis , viagra ,
Comment by John889 — July 4, 2009 @ 12:45 am