I could care less about his, or any one else’s hokey religion. I did read the Scientology personality test in the local rag here where I live, and a friend and I laughed so hard we cried. “Do you take orders well?”, classic.

Battlefield Earth, on the other hand, let’s protest that.

You do understand what that phrase means, right? “Choose your battles” implies picking the battles you think you have a chance of winning. Considering that neither party has an anti-war candidate with a chance of clinching their party’s nomination, I don’t think that’s a battle you can win.

Getting the IRS to revoke a malicious cult’s tax-exempt status on the other hand… protests might just be able to accomplish that.

Also, I get the impression that you’re a $cientologist…

http://www.orato.com/lifestyles/2007/09/11/i-escaped-scientology

thats pretty odd though its been done before (im lookin’ at you church of the subgenious)

but the fact you have to PAY to be in this “religion” really pisses me off

I think it’s interesting that James Randi stopped offering his $10 million for “demonstrating psychic powers” because many of the applicants were basically undiagnosed schizophrenics and outing/humiliating them did nothing to help anyone.

I suspect someone with a ready stream of income who can afford to pay the dues or who has the self-confidence to say “No” won’t come to harm being a Scientologist.

I suspect there are some already disturbed people who are drawn to Scientology when things are going wrong for them personally, and that’s where they are when they crash.

Probably the Scientology view of psychiatry has an appeal if you have ever been committed to a psychiatric hospital against your will or are being made to take neuroleptic medications with their attendant unpleasant side-effects.

Can these Anonymous protests be turned into something positive?

I would be amazed if 1000′s of people would spontaneously organize nationwide protests for better provision of mental health care, which is the fault-line that Scientology was exploiting in the cases where things went wrong.

*file away in back of head til needed again*

Right on!

That’s something worth protesting.

The cost currently stands at over – $494,180,826,913

You have an insane president who’s determined to bring the U.S.A. to its knees and you waste time on some pimply moron’s personal vendetta.

Protest something worth protesting!

JohninSapporo

#2 “AN AUTHORITY IS SOMEBODY WHO KNOWS NOTHING LOUDLY”

Kind of ironic being all in caps isn’t it?

Indeed, I’ve read a letter from an alledged Scientology insider which claimed that the CoS are scared sh^H^Hwitless over the protests. If that’s the case, then at least Anon’ve made a difference to them, even if the CoS survives. =)

Bashing scientology on the internet has been going on since alt.religion.scientology, nearly 16 years now, and has generally involved a measure of personal risk to being subject to scientology’s dirty tricks. Because of that, the digital battle so far has not yielded much real world organized protest because the stakes are too high. So it’s very curious that Anonymous decided to take up this fight after all this time, prompted by nothing more than a video takedown threat and Gawker’s defiance of it.

So far, they seem to be doing it because they think it’s a funny thing to do. I am sure there is some genuine concern among Anonymous for the bad things scientology does, but it is still mostly posturing for the lulz. I do not think scientology is used to being laughed at so they haven’t reacted yet.

I am very interested in how Anonymous will react once scientology starts punishing them for their insolence. This could get very interesting.

We are at “war”, PEOPLE ARE DYING and yet this is the topic people are choosing to get upset about.

Xenu a pretty good sci-fi story? Possibly a pretty good bad sci-fi story…. Let’s face it, it’s more Plan B From Outer Space than 2001.

“AN AUTHORITY IS SOMEBODY WHO KNOWS NOTHING LOUDLY” L.RON HUBBARD

The books are in libraries. Read them and understand them before you comment.

johninsapporo

Google “Operation Snow White”
and “Operation Freak Out”

This is the way they roll.

Typical cult bunk.

Besides, “science fiction” is a perfectly acceptable place for L. Ron Hubbard’s writings. I’d be worried if they were in “nonfiction.”

Get involved! Read the forum thread for your city and come on March 15th. We need to stop the Scientology lies and spoil their fun.

This is the official planning forum:
http://forums.enturbulation.org/viewforum.php?f=21

Make up your own mind, read up on them:
http://www.xenu.net
http://www.lermanet.com
http://www.anti-scientologie.ch (en Francais)

There’s already plenty of protesters getting bent out of shape regarding “We are at “war”, PEOPLE ARE DYING”; that cause already has the journalistic spotlight, an extra few hundred protesters isn’t going to make much more impact. But, up until Anonymous stepped in, there wasn’t anyone protesting Scientology; each individual will be having a much greater effect on raising awareness about the cause.

Besides, it’s a matter of opinion how worthwhile any protest is — including those regarding the “war”. I’m not going to get into off-topic ranting about the middle-east, but there’s plenty of debate, and plenty of people who don’t believe in the causes of any relevant protest. That those people are protesting some other cause they believe in is something worthy of applause, not derision, I say.

And…I am a science fiction writer and editor for a sci-fi mag. Oh, a couple of times I wondered if it might be easier to do as old Ron H did and just start up my own religion. But it’s more fun satirizing the Scientologists than trying to emulate them. (Insert evil laugh here)

‘The TC Alien Invasion Shelter – Cartoons and Commentary’

I used to go around with stacks of business cards with polite rebuttals to the various points made in the books, and insert them into the book, pushed tight against the binding, so that they would not fall out easily.

For instance, in scientology books talking about drugs, and how scientology is 100% DRUG FREE, I’d insert cards with links to audio recordings and hand written notes, by Hubbard, talking about his drug usage.

When the book talks about Hubbard’s scientific prowess, I’d point to records of his academic failures.

If nothing else, pointers to http://scientology-kills.org and http://scientology-lies.com are always relevant.

Feel free to play along.

Yer right. I’ll just take them over to the dustiest stacks and mis-file them. Sorry noble librarians, but we are fighting evil here.

Always make a point of covering them with other titles when in bookstores.

I have read a few of them, and yes, they’re utter tripe. That said, there’s a whole lot of bad science fiction, and I wouldn’t be surprised if some of that ends up in the public libraries as well. I’d be more concerned about Dianetics appearing in the self-help section than I would about Battlefield Earth (or worse, Mission: Earth) in the science fiction section.