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Also, please be aware that Scientology actively tries to influence legislation through their front group CCHR, and they try to influence our public schools through their front group Applied Scholastics.

Anonymous keeps an eye on these front groups, and tries to warn legislators and educators about the true religious roots of these Co$ sponsored groups.

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Indulgences? Inquisitions? Crusades? Excommunication with subsequent seizure of all real property?Ringing any bells with anyone? Person at the top of the heap living magnificently while the average sucker forks over too much of their monetary units for ’salvation’?

Sounds to me like the evil Dr. Hubbard had it right. a) The big money _is_ in religion. b) People are stupid as all get-out. But these aren’t revolutionary ideas by any means, as evidenced by the endless parade of kooks, crackpots, popes and assorted ‘prophets’ that have been hoodwinking folks since the first ’shaman’ announced to his tribe that the thunder they heard was the voice of an angry ‘god’…

So, I’m not willing to accept that this is any worse than anything else, but I am certainly on board (as it were) for reducing the power of illogical and often insane belief systems, whether they by powered by Xenu or Xenophobia or are merely wonky versions of Xianity.

Down with stupidity!

PC

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I am, of course, referring to their vicious suppression of dissent, which includes stalking, harassing, and suing perceived critics and former scientologists, their policy of “disconnecting” families – whereby they forbid their members from speaking to their family relatives seen as critical of the church, and their physical and mental abuse of their members.

In addition, once you take into account their practice of charging ludicrous sums of money for the purpose of attaining salvation and their illegal activities (Operation Snow White; Operation Freakout), it becomes quite obvious that the Church of Scientology, in its present form, is nothing but a dangerous cult.

We are protesting their activities, not their beliefs, in the hopes of educating the public about this dangerous microcosm of totalitarianism (hey, I think that rhymed!) in our society. Seriously, though, if you simply take the time to follow the links that fellow protesters have supplied, you will understand the gravity of the situation. So before you criticize us of discriminating against a goofy religion, take the time to follow some of the links and to educate yourself about Scientology. Thanks.

http://www.xenu.net
http://www.whyweprotest.net
http://www.youfoundthecard.com
http://www.exscientologykids.com

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Sorry about that my Pastafarian friends. I think everyone must have commented at once. … and all apparently said the same exact thing. O_O;

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The terrorists in the middle east are not the religious authorities behind Islam. A couple of clerics are terrorists, that doesn’t make all Islamic clerics terrorists.

There are no mass murdering Christians today. They just make you wish you were dead.

But Scientology is just plain evil. Do your own research. Listen to these guys. Visit http://www.enturbulation.org/. Talk to people who actually lived inside of Scientology for 30+ years. Google Arnie Lerma and Tory Magoo. Talk to people who were victims of Scientology’s fair game policy. Google Paulette Cooper and Mark Bunker. Learn about the people who died under their care or because of their illegal medical practices. Check out http://www.whyaretheydead.net/.

Was any Christian church or Islamic organization ever caught in a large scale infiltration of the U.S. Government to steal and destroy documents critical of their church? Scientology was.

The victims of Scientology deserve justice. Not from crimes that happened hundreds of years ago, but today and now.

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The fact of the matter is that the fight between Anonymous and the Church of Scientology has nothing to do with religious freedom. It has everything to do with the illegal practices of a corrupt organization that manipulates its followers, the media, and the government to legitimize its pseudoscientific principles in the court of public opinion.

Do you know that many public schools around the United States use Scientology’s “Applied Scholastics” program?
Are you aware of the organization’s infiltration into numerous federal agencies, most notably the IRS?
Are you in the slightest bit familiar with the ongoing abuses that take place in their gulag-esque Rehabilitation Force?
Do you realize that Scientology education programs are tax-deductible, while all other religious education is not?

The information is out there, it’s verifiable, and it’s more damning than a thousand Wedge Documents.

But it’s still not as bad as Christianity, right? That’s like telling the doctor to ignore a man’s burst appendix, because someone else has cancer.

The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster was created, in part, to prevent religion from infiltrating public policy. While I encourage, even endorse such an endeavor, you must realize that while you’ve been preventing the Phillip Johnsons and Bill Dembskis of the world from influencing our federal government, Hubbard’s followers were able to slip in unnoticed.

The good news, though, is that Anonymous is making a difference.

But don’t just take my word for it. Do the research yourself.

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Find out the truth.
Does this sound like a religion to you?

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When was the last time that christianity

- inflitrated the IRS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Snow_White)

- hired private investigators to harrass you at your home and then sued you(http://glosslip.com/2008/03/27/member-of-anonymous-in-boston-being-fair-gamed-by-scientology/)

-held you hostage at your own home without food and medication until you died? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_McPherson)

or numerous other violations against any possible human rights you could think of.
Not in a few hundred years i believe.
Scientology, however, keeps doing these things day after day without anyone daring to stop them. Well its about time now. The crimes of Church of Scientology are something that you can stop right now, right here.

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Anon is protesting the tax-free status of this cult which masquerades as a non-profit religion, yet rakes in millions from gullible followers. They are breaking the law in that respect and costing ordinary taxpayers lots of money. Thats just to name ONE of their many transgressions.

People can believe what they want, no matter how strange. But they cannot get away with DOING whatever they want if it breaks the law, endangers minors, costs taxpayers money and denies civil rights to members through force and intimidation. Go to xenu.net to read more.

Also check out http://www.whyaretheydead.net to see the hundreds of people who have died while in the care of Scientologists due to being denied medication, psychological help or even basic needs like food and water.

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Scientology is protested because they suppress freedom of speech. They are extremely secretive about their activities, even to their own members. A member must pay thousands of dollars to even find out what the religion is really about. Imagine going into any other church and them forcing you to pay to find out about their god or beliefs.

Scientology’s censorship is what originally sparked the protest.

Anonymous – the organization beyond the recent protests – is not a group of religious fanatics trying to promote a particular religion. Anonymous is everyone. Anonymous are people spread throughout the world, people of every religion and ethnicity, united to fight against Scientology. Many people have died as a result of this horrendous cult. Critics have been harassed mercilessly by this cult.

There is so much information about this cult out there. I have a few links, and google is your friend:

http://theunfunnytruth.ytmnd.com/ – a good, brief summary of some of Scientology’s many crimes.
http://www.xenu.net/ – I could spend hours browsing through the information here.
http://www.enturbulation.org/ – Hosts activation forums. Has links to more content.

[Knowledge is free -- Scientology is not]

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20 first-hand accounts of abuse by the Catholic Church that they DENY ever happened (either by parishioners acting on their own, but by people acting on order of the church)

at least 2 instances of the Catholic Church performing severely illegal acts (espionage, organized harassment)

50 first-hand accounts of critics of the Catholic Church being harassed by the Church (not by members acting on their own, but by members acting on orders of the Church)

500 instances of salvation/religious texts being denied to someone because they can’t afford to pay for it

20 first-hand accounts of people going to the authorities (police, FBI, etc) for and being denied help/having nothing happen.

10 people who indirectly or directly died through a command of the Catholic Church;
if the church says “don’t use meds” and someone dies because of it, that counts;
if the church says “prayer helps people” and someone doesn’t get medical treatment because their parents prayed INSTEAD OF (as opposed to “in addition to”), that doesn’t count

If you can’t come up with the following, then stop bitching about the other religions. If I want to say “The Catholic Church brainwashes its children” or “Catholic priests needs to stop molesting little boys” or “Fundamentalist Christians are morons”, I have the right to say it, and I would not be afraid of having the Church itself come over to my house and harass me.

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Blahblahblah, tl;dr:

The Church of Scientology commits actual crimes, and threatens and harasses its critics. This is illegal, and we are demanding that they be held accountable for it.

When the whole priest sex scandal thing happened, there were people demanding the Catholic Church be held accountable as well. HEY GUESS WHAT. THEY WERE HELD ACCOUNTABLE AS WELL. If they reacted as the Church of Scientology reacted (by calling its accusers terrorists, suing them, harassing them, and denying all the allegations while CONTINUING TO COMMIT THE CRIMES), you can damn well bet that there’d be some group out there protesting them.

(From Wikipedia:)

“Serious lawsuits emerged in 2001 claiming that deviant priests had sexually abused minors.[232] As of 2008, the vast majority of worldwide sex abuse cases have been in the United States[233] where 4 percent of all priests who served there from 1950 to 2002 faced accusations[234], though the Church estimated that the global figure was probably no more than 1 per cent.[233]

Some priests resigned, others were defrocked and jailed[235] and financial settlements were agreed with many victims.[232] The church was widely criticized when it was discovered that some bishops knew about allegations of misconduct and then reassigned accused priests instead of removing them from ministry.[232][236] Some bishops and psychiatrists noted that the prevailing psychology of the times suggested that people could be cured of such behavior with counseling.[236][237][238] Many of the abusive priests had received counseling before being reassigned.[234][239]

Pope John Paul II responded by stating there is no place in the priesthood or religious life for those who abuse children.[240]

The church instituted reforms to prevent future abuse including requiring fingerprinting and background checks for church employees and, because a significant majority of victims were teenage boys, disallowing ordination of men with deeply seated homosexual tendencies.[118][237]

These reforms also set up a clear code of conduct for all dioceses to follow when faced with an allegation including alerting the authorities, conducting an investigation and removing the accused priest or employee from duty.[241][242]“

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Various people from the protests have been in contact with Freezone scientologists, these are practitioners of the beliefs of scientolgoy who do so outside of the corporate structure of the church. the protesters are encouraging people to get away from the corporation of Scientology not change their faith.

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While the kill count of Christianity and Islam is far higher than Scientology’s, it is spread over a long period of time and it is by no means a uniformed belief: the Church of Scientology’s crimes can be traced back to the policies of its central management. Through its indoctrination, organization and tight control over its parishioners, the upper echelons abuse the admittedly kooky pseudo-religious self-help books of a severely disturbed sci-fi hack to silence their critics, isolate their members and slowly drain them of all the cash they’re worth. We do not target the victims of this cult, nor do we target the beliefs to which they are entitled. We only have beef with the corrupt “church” that governs this whole scheme. I invite you to judge for yourself if we’re beacons of reason, rationality and nicety: http://www.enturbulation.org

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