“Sunlight is the best disinfectant.”

“Call it the first global sceanster/websurfer protest.”
(illegal printing press pamphleteer protest).

“How can a protest motivated by boredom and misguided hatred accomplish anything?”

The French Revolution is no longer in your textbook, or the candidacy of Obama? Boredom is the MOST effective catalyst for benign change. Do you want war with China instead? See, we fight little wars (Korea, Vietnam, Afganistan, Guatamala, etc.)

It’s called a proxy war. I call it the soft spot of an alligator, attacked when the have just fattened themselves up, just like a Doctor Who episode, when they steal the nuclear geode.

This WUSSY PUSSINESS ABOUT ATTACKING UFO IDIOTS does not become you, young america. I am 42. If you are 24, kill the whore, lest your only other option will be drafted force feeding to you, which is called war.

Making fun of people is unfair or ineffective? Download Charlie Chaplin’s ‘The Great Dictator’.

Compost the easy weeds first, and do not call spooks and sneaks mere temporality misguided souls. Let’s first kill the gurus. Now, lest they suddenly take over the media, and thus our minds.

http://deathboy.livejournal.com/1082404.html

Which includes great photos, videos and a stunning LOLCat style captioned pic of the demo.

(i am not affiliated with ‘deathboy’ or any of his friends, afaik – just stumbled on it using the random LJ image generator)

If you were a Scientologist, and a bunch of people came and told you that your religion (and it is a religion, to a Scientologist) was a sham, would that make you stop being one? If they made your fax machine waste toner, and your phone was ringing off the hook, would you just throw up your hands and say “you know what? maybe they’re right.”

This whole ‘movement’ is nothing more than a limp dicked lynch mob, eager to make clever posters illustrating how angry and unforgiving they are. This will not weaken Scientology, if anything, it will make Scientologists feel more of the same alienation and self-satisfaction that likely drew them to Scientology in the first place.

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No, not all protests, just those motivated by intolerance. I think standing outside of Scientology centers with information about the inner workings of the organization would work, because such an approach respects the dignity of the so called “flock”. Wearing masks and saying that you ‘don’t forgive’ is just obnoxious, and saying that their organization murders people is just counterproductive, since Scientologists wouldn’t be convinced anyway (even if it is true).

I know it can seem impractically idealistic, but this is really one of those times where love is the only way to success.

Just this image summarizes the whole situation beautifully :]

With the Patriot Act and phone/email surveillance, Guantanamo and waterboarding, Bush and crew are turning the country that once stood for Freedom into the biggest prison/mental hospital on Earth.

For God’s sake, if you want to protest something, protest something meaningful.

JohninSapporo

What protest will do is draw public attention to the group’s highly questionable history of crime and abuse. That attention can provide a modicum of education that may prevent additional people from falling for Scientology’s false promises (and providing it with the money that fuels its machinations).

You hope that present “victim/followers” would wonder why they were bing called “pathetic”. Do you really think that after calling someone a victim/follower, they would give you the benefit of the doubt and ask themselves if they were “pathetic”?

You act like you can see this from their point of view, but your thought experiment here demonstrates nothing but your unwillingness to address the fact that your opponents are human beings who are just as convinced that Scientology is good as you are convinced that it is bad.

The best source of converts and proponents for every new cause is to raid the “True Believers” of another, preferably failing, organization.

(See: http://www.erichoffer.net/)

I’m terribly amused by the whole thing, but I can’t imagine it having any real effect or being more than some quasi-cult inside joke activity.

Has the definition of “adult” really gotten that grim? Or is that just a recording of Rust Limberger’s testicles descending?