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02/10/2008 (12:45 am)

Newsweek Hits Homerun With: “Anonymous Takes On Scientology”

Mainstream media outlet Newsweek covered the ongoing struggle of the internet-based group Anonymous’ cohesive attack against the Church of Scientology. What started out as a slap at COS and YouTube for violating free speech when YouTube pulled a leaked video showing Hollywood’s Tom Cruise shilling for his favorite cause, the COS, turned into a full scale war on the organization.

Gawker, who knew a good thing when they saw it, saved the video before it was yanked from YouTube and refused to remove it despite letters of a copyright infringement of a litigious nature from the officials at COS. “Anonymous”, once a loose-net group of young hackers, then seized the opportunity and saw beyond the immediate “free speech violation” to a more sinister and subversive ploy within the COS. The group put a call out to respond to this momentum against the COS and prepared ground troops for action across the globe, beginning with centers in Australia.

Despite initial false reports of violence at the protest, the event was in fact a huge win for Anonymous. And as light falls across the various timezones of the planet, so too it seems, will the legions of the Anonymous army upon the oppressive and secretive centers of the Church of Scientology.

Good job Newsweek, let’s see if any other mainstream media sources can report on this story with all the facts in tact.

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Newsweek’s homerun glorifies the people you can see in this video: http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=DNO6G4ApJQY I guess you could call them a classic Glosslip roll model.

Comment by gibber — February 10, 2008 @ 1:11 am

@gibber: Fail. Everyone knows that Fox report is complete BS. Today, Anonymous is making noise for you and your children, so you can live in a world that offers the freedom to believe what you want, INCLUDING dianetics, but without the fear of being preyed on by the Corporation of $cientology. You’re welcome.

Comment by Anonymous — February 10, 2008 @ 1:22 am

You cite faux news as your source???

Are you high???

Comment by Gary Nash — February 10, 2008 @ 1:23 am

Hey Gibber,

yes, I saw that and I have conveyed my concerns and what I’ve seen since those early reports is a transformation within this group who calls themselves “anonymous” into a grassroots organization, a collective if you will whom I see as a mass of nameless faces brought together for similar purpose: take action against a common enemy.

Mob mentality, when it is righteous, is indeed necessary to the survival of the species. When a particular group becomes too powerful and dangerous to ignore, eventually societies do the right thing.

Scientology is dangerous and too powerful. Society has finally felt it necessary to step in.

I for one, am in awe of how dedicated, well-organized and helpful they’ve been. My instincts tell me that in support of overwhelming evidence, the ‘Church’ of Scientology is unacceptable and must be forced to be held accountable.

Honestly, Anonymous shouldn’t stop there. Many wrongs need to be righted. Activism is the political party of the future, because clearly governments can’t be counted on to protect us.

Comment by d — February 10, 2008 @ 1:32 am

We are not hackers.

We did not want this, it was started by an idiot and people who had no idea about hou Anonymous truly works joined in.

Please stop blaming us.

Comment by Anonymous — February 10, 2008 @ 1:33 am

#5

Internet hate machines are people too!

Comment by Anonymous — February 10, 2008 @ 1:56 am

Anon has evolved beyond “hackers on steroids”

We’ve still got our “mean” side, yes, but that’s because *anyone* can claim to be Anonymous - and there is never anyone to say that they are not.

This is our greatest strength and our greatest weakness.

Comment by Anonymous — February 10, 2008 @ 2:36 am

Not only that, but that video clip is OLD. And yes, it is an inflammatory piece of BS that Fox aired that we laugh at and uninformed people cite as truth. Fox did no research of their own for that, so please do some for them.

Comment by Anonymous — February 10, 2008 @ 2:39 am

Hi Gibber,
I saw this on the Sydney first photos story,
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, Iâ€™m Dawn, this is my site. Nice to meet you.

Comment by d â€” February 10, 2008 @ 1:38 am

Comment by LightField-Grnapl-Luana-Chewyandbert-Arkaitz-"Wax-Q"-Churilov — February 10, 2008 @ 3:10 am

“Good job Newsweek, letâ€™s see if any other mainstream media sources can report on this story with all the facts in tact.”

Yeah that’s a pipe dream right there. There’s no way in hell any of the mainstream American media will cover this, no matter how much we’ve -earned- it. And on the off chance they do, they won’t get the facts straight, they’ll pin the white powder envelopes on Anonymous, despite our constant assertions from the moment the story broke that it had nothing to do with Anonymous, at best it could have been a rogue element, but the far more likely option that it was a CofS ploy to discredit Anonymous won’t even be brought up. There will be no research into who Anonymous is and what we stand for in this war against the Church of Scientology’s unlawful, immoral and downright evil practices. No mention of the slavery, fair game policy, dirty tactics or the video of David Miscavige(sic) at the 2007 New Year’s convention where he essentially admits not only to the CofS’ conspiracy to manipulate governments, corporations and legislators in an attempt to obliterate psychiatry, but also in the same video he does everything short of outright saying “Our ultimate goal is global domination.”

Instead what we’ll get is a short snippet of the protests, and then the rest of any report will be quotes of Scientologists calling us cyber-terrorists and bigots.

Unfortunately for both the mainstream media and the corruptive elements within the Church of Scientology, we don’t need them. With this protest, and the ones to follow, we’re proving once and for all that old media is not as relevant as they would have everyone believe. We’ve done all of this so far with nothing but the Internet and old-fashioned hard work, with less than a month from start to finish. Imagine what we’ll be able to accomplish after a six months or a year of preparation and research. Hot Topic will be selling Anonymous t-shirts (and I weep at the thought) before we get any kind of a fair shake from Old Media.

We are Anonymous.
We are Legion.
We do not forgive.
We do not forget.
United as one,
Divided by zero.
Now, we are expected.

Comment by Anonymous — February 10, 2008 @ 3:13 am

I would not be one of those trusting anonymous. No I’m not a scientologist I care little for that cult. I’m part of the furry fandom I don’t go around shouting my furfaggotry from every hill top but since I’ve seen what anonymous attacks are really like I feel I need to comment.

Furries might be a weird but we are no cult like scientology nor have we harmed anyone. But we have been under almost constant attack from anonymous who ‘raid’ our websites, troll our forums and now in recent months are starting to picket our conventions. One such convention only a few weeks ago police had to be called as some of the protesters became violent.

So thus I don’t believe that anonymous are sincere in their attacks against scientology claiming to be in the public interest and for it’s good, after I’ve seen their attacks on innocent people who have done no wrong. So please don’t trust anonymous those who don’t support them or criticize them often end up on their attack list.

Comment by jsmith — February 10, 2008 @ 7:35 am

PEOPLE IN MY CITY HAVE GIVEN UP SCIENTOLOGY THEY HAVE SHOULD STACKS OF CRAP AT THE PAWN SHOPS INCLUDING 5 E-METERS!!!!! AND TONS OF PAPERS WE’RE BUYING IT THEY SAY NEVER HAD ANY IDEA HOW MUCH MONEY THEY WERE WAISTING TILL NOW INSTEAD THEY JUST GO WALKING OR GYMING HANGING.

ANONYMOUS EPIC WINS!!!!!!!!

Comment by ANONYMOUS — February 10, 2008 @ 7:50 am

Anonymous is not a group. Anonymous is everyone and Anonymous is no one. We represent everything and we represent nothing.

Anonymous is your average business man, your plumber, your doctor, your mailman, your teacher.

Expect us.

Comment by Anonymous — February 10, 2008 @ 8:26 am

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Comment by Anonymous — February 10, 2008 @ 8:27 am

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Comment by Anonymous — February 10, 2008 @ 8:27 am

YAY! About time someone steps up and does something! They’re an EVIL CULT!

Comment by JetSetterJay — February 10, 2008 @ 8:35 am

If these last few posts serve to prove anything about anonymous, it only proves they are silly pimple faced 15 year olds who’s mothers bought them a computer for christmas and now think they are some elite hacker. Please grow up, spamming and raiding habbo hotel is not hacking.

Comment by otherguy — February 10, 2008 @ 8:36 am

Well, I am no hacker, I am a writer, and I am a journalist, and I am not anonymous, I am who I say I am and I say Scientology is greed-riddled, sinister, secretive, dangerous pyramid scheme which has duped far too many people and the time has come to stop them.

It’s not too late to the leave the Church before it goes down.

I know the COS has weathered many an attack and I am sure your forces are all sorts of titillated at the idea of standing strong against this assault, but rest assured this won’t be like any other attack.

This is the wave of public sentiment which has finally had enough of the lies, deceit, death and destruction of our fellow human, and we aren’t going to take it anymore.

So stand down or stand aside, because I assure you, even if Anonymous should ever give up, I WON’T give up reporting on the abuses of COS or any other group who takes advantage of people in great numbers.

The COS’ biggest error was their declaration to “clear” the planet. They weren’t content with harassing random individuals or sucking up to celebs, nope, they got greedy and arrogant and decided to take their lies to the masses, like spreading materials throughout Africa and Asia in a sneaky, underhanded way.

This is America, we made you, we will dismantle your tower of oppression - because, to be perfectly honest, you make the US look bad, and that’s just something I personally am really tired of.

Comment by d — February 10, 2008 @ 9:46 am

“I am who I say I am” - d

Ok, then say who you are and take responsibility for your claims.

Comment by Lobotomy — February 10, 2008 @ 9:58 am

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Comment by d — February 10, 2008 @ 9:59 am

“theyâ€™ll pin the white powder envelopes on Anonymous, despite our constant assertions from the moment the story broke that it had nothing to do with Anonymous” Anonymous â€” February 10, 2008 @ 3:13 am

Anonymous @3:13am, you are not anonymous. You are Anonymous Propagandist and have no claim over any other anonymouses.

The white powder envelopes were sent by anonymous.

Comment by Anonymous — February 10, 2008 @ 10:03 am

Anonymous isn’t violent, only newfag retards abusing the name anonymous are.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMEp3rp-wTA

Here is your “Violence”

Comment by anonymous — February 10, 2008 @ 10:17 am

I was there at the furry con when they where attacked I saw who they where and they where anonymous. Don’t try to claim that they are acting alone when you don’t do anything to weed them out. It’s your group and you are responsible for their actions.

Comment by jsmith — February 10, 2008 @ 10:53 am

I am Dawn Olsen and I am responsible for myself.

Got a problem with that?

NO?

Good, now STFU.

Comment by D — February 10, 2008 @ 10:55 am

Looks like this crowd got off on the wrong stop on the way to the Startrek convention.

What time is recess over?

Comment by pat luefan — February 10, 2008 @ 1:30 pm

HAHA at #25, I think we need a few more scientology “agent provocatuers” here like #21 to make some creepy comments.

Comment by bob dobbs — February 10, 2008 @ 1:34 pm

The Church of the SubGenius is watching.

Comment by Espy — February 10, 2008 @ 2:09 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 @ 2:19 pm

-D Brave lady!
Many big time “J”ournalists have caved to the CoS harrassment, you have our utmost respect.
This is but one front in conflict to get the truth about the CoS out there.
http://www.enturbulation.org
http://www.xenu.net
http://www.whyaretheydead.net

Q? How can you stifle a thousand conversations, all over the tubes?
A? Fail!
Noise: They only make more and more!
For each convo they try to stamp out 10 more spring up. GoGoGO Anonymous & LongTime Critics Love you ALL!

Comment by Sou Manona — February 10, 2008 @ 2:52 pm

HAIL XENU!

Comment by ANON — February 10, 2008 @ 4:55 pm

VOTE RON PAUL FOR PRESIDENT!!!

Comment by RON PAUL 2008 — February 10, 2008 @ 5:09 pm

Immediately after the Columbine massacre, a number of news outlets made themselves look like fools by reporting that the killers might have been members of a shadowy international organization called “the Goths”. Such news outlets instantly lost credibility with anyone who was aware that “goth” was a fashion style and that one could not be a “member” of “the Goths” any more than one could be a “member” of “the Preppies” or “the Metalheads.”

As far as I am aware, nobody exploited the cluelessness of these news outlets by generating phony press releases or manifestos or taped messages purportedly from “the Goths”. It is for dead certain, though, that someone could have exploited the gullibility of the news indefinitely, pretending to represent such a “shadowy international organization.” The same news outlets that credulously reported the existence of such an organization in the first place would probably never think to check whether such an organization existed; if, hypothetically, they did so, they would probably take the lack of any evidence for any such organization as evidence for how shadowy and secretive it was.

Fast forward several years. Specifically, to summer 2007. The “place”: a popular Internet bulletin board, running “imageboard” software. Imageboard software allows people to post an image, and/or a comment, in one of several “boards” distinguished by theme (cooking, video games, computers, cars, etc.) When you make such a post, you can select a name to represent you for that post; if you do not select such a name, your name will be set to some default value — most frequently, “Anonymous”.

So. Summer 2007. A 14-year-old high school student, whose real name is known but who will be called “L. Oser” here, makes a request on a popular imageboard that the occupants of the board use whatever skills they possess to harass and victimize a 14-year-old girl in his classes whom he dislikes. To help the harassment along, L. Oser posts her picture, real name, home phone number, cell phone number, IM names and home address. He specifies subjects that they should be sure to bring up to upset her, such as the divorce of her parents, and posts examples of things that she loves that they should make sure to insult so as to upset her. L. Oser expresses desire to rape the girl, to kill her, and tells the occupants of the board “I don’t destroy [her life] face-to-face with her. Instead I hire you guys.”

L. Oser has annoyed and disgusted the occupants of the board with these requests to such a degree that when a fed-up classmate of L. Oser reveals his real-life identity to the board, he becomes the target of pranks and harassment. Some might call this no more than poetic justice, since L. Oser tried so hard to get his classmate harassed. Some might think that L. Oser would learn his lesson and walk away and adopt a “live-and-let-live” philosophy.

Instead, L. Oser went to his local Fox News affiliate and told a highly distorted version of events where the occupants of the board were all hackers of super-terrifying skill, and instead of fruitlessly trying to “hire” them to pursue his vendetta for him, this 14-year-old boy told Fox News that he was one of these “hackers on steroids”, and that instead of being pranked and harassed because he’d tried to do it to someone else, L. Oser told Fox News that he was the target of retaliation for leaving this mysterious powerful hacker group, which L. Oser claimed was called “Anonymous.”

Fox News apparently thought that the word of a 14-year-old was a perfectly sufficient basis on which to base an alarmist “news” report which, helpfully, dramatized the sheer danger of “Anonymous” by rolling video of a van exploding (since, of course, all vans are hooked up to the Internet by default, and you only need enter the correct Secret Hacker Command to trigger the van’s self-destruct sequence.) Fox also helpfully told us about the “secret websites” of Anonymous, where everyone is “forced to” post anonymously. (It’s true, it’s true! They give you a “name” field to fill in when you post a comment, but if you enter anything but “Anonymous”, you’re marked for death!)

Remember how we mentioned that someone could have pranked those news outlets which put on error-ridden “news” reports claiming to deliver the “shocking truth” about organizations that don’t, in fact, exist?

Guess what happened?

Let’s summarize. Are there people who can be legitimately called, in the plural, “Anonymous”? Yes — the majority of people who have ever frequented one of these popular imageboard sites are “Anonymous” because they didn’t bother to choose a different name for themselves. This does not make it any less ridiculous to make a comment such as “Newsweek’s homerun glorifies the people you can see in [Fox News 11's original hysterical display of ignorance]“, that’s like saying “I saw this SCAAAAAARY Fox News special on some Goths and that means I’m right to be prejudiced against everyone who describes themselves as a Goth! Including those who allude to their membership in the non-existent organization known as ‘the Goths!’” At best, that’s total cluelessness. At less than best, it’s ignorance and bigotry. And it might just possibly be deliberate exploitation of cluelessness and bigotry.

Comment by AF — February 10, 2008 @ 7:06 pm

Everyone wants to feel like they belong somewhere - like they are part of something bigger. I am amazed at the willingness of people to take on new sets of beliefs with little question to gain a sense of belonging and purpose. For someone who needs a cause to believe in, it doesn’t take much to throw reason aside and cast himself out to be a toy in someone else’s game - all the while remaining dreamily ignorant of the consequences.

Religions take advantage of human weakness, and masked protest groups do, too. There have been lots of both. Depending on the circumstances, either can scare the daylights out of me - as both parties of concern in this posting do.

The worst atrocities ever committed by humankind occurred because of an unfortunate concentration of power during a time when people’s desperate need for something new to believe in materialized as a new enemy to hate. If the world really has taken its first steps into a new era of instability - as our rapidly shifting economies may suggest - then we are especially vulnerable now. So what kind of box are we opening when we allow individuals to shed their identities and, therefore, all accountability for their actions? What happens when we give a newly unstable world an ideology of hatred under those circumstances?

I have never seen the Fox news special nor read the Newsweek article. I stopped in at a Scientology reading room once to see what all the fuss was about about and filed it as a notably creepy experience (my response was to not return - and I haven’t). So the following conclusion is based only on what I’ve gathered in the last half hour of reading (outrageously biased) postings from both sides and on the behavior I witnesses in the streets of Boston today. Whoever created this new group, regardless of his values or objectives, is a fool. I say that with certainty because of this evidence: this is the first time I have ever been afraid to publish my opinion in a public forum.

Comment by William — February 10, 2008 @ 10:06 pm

“I say that with certainty because of this evidence: this is the first time I have ever been afraid to publish my opinion in a public forum.”

Afraid to post on a site where you can put whatever you want in the “name” field? The problem seems to be entirely with you.

As for “allowing” people to shed identities, welcome to the internet, where I have absolutely no idea who you are.

Comment by Elron — February 11, 2008 @ 1:58 am