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?
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