Norway Considering Prosecuting Scientology [video]

66 Minutes Investigation: 'Suicide & Kidnapping' [english subs]

WiKiNews tells us: The Norwegian Ministry of Health and Care Services is considering prosecuting and banning some Scientology practices, in particular the use of the Scientology personality test to sell courses. State Secretary Rigmor Aasrud said that the activities in question might be prosecuted as fraud or as violations of existing healthcare regulations. A Norwegian Member of Parliament (MP) whose daughter killed herself after taking such a test, supports the idea of prosecuting illegal practices rather than trying to ban the movement as a whole.

Olav Gunnar Ballo, a Norwegian MP and medical doctor whose daughter Kaja suddenly killed herself after a negative experience with the Scientology test in France in March 2008, released a book about Kaja's life in April 2009. The book debuted on 2nd place in the Norwegian best seller list. Ballo listened to the recorded test result sessions from VG and said that he found the practice "horrible and harmful". He told the newspaper Dagbladet that Norway could have something to learn from the current French prosecution of Scientology corporations and individuals, by prosecuting specific harmful practices rather than banning Scientology as a whole.

If you're not familiar with the past event, Olav Gunnar Ballo, the Norwegian MP and medical doctor, whose daughter Kaja suddenly killed herself after a negative experience with the Scientology test in France in [March 2008], is highlighted in this news-magazine presentation along with the Martine Boublil [January 2008] incident, the woman that was held against her will by three French members of the Church of Scientology,

66 Minutes Investigation:'Suicide & Kidnapping' 4 parts [english sub]

P2Pnet Falls For Spoof, But How Far Off Is It? [video]

P2Pnet News Jon Newton says:
Before you go any further, I’VE BEEN HAD !!! I’m the victim of a spoof article on the genuine news that the Wikipedia has banned Scientology.

My only excuse is: just like the corporate movie and music industries, virtually anything, no matter how bizarre, can be potentially attributed to this organization, and I believed it, as did the person who told me about it.

I’d never heard of Rant & Rave, from whence the claim originally came and, I blushingly admit I should have seen the light because of the title. But I even said it was appropriately named.

What can I say? — except the spoof has at least served a useful purpose: it’s once again drawn attention to the despicable cult of Scientology and I sincerely hope I haven’t offended Jewish readers, or anyone else (except Herr Miscavige), with this post.

Below is a segment of the spoof R&R article that P2Pnet was fooled by:

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According to, Miscavige, everyone who criticizes the cult is a crook or, as he puts it in Rant&Rave, “We do not find critics of Scientology who do not have criminal backgrounds.”
With the “brutal decision” to bar the cult’s IP addresses, the Wikipedia is,” criminally attacking the world’s most ethical people, members of the Scientology religion,” Miscavige raves, adding:
"There is so much nonsense on the internet about Scientology, all of which was written by anti-religion extremists in the employ of the Psychiatric-Pharmaceutical industry. Many are also being paid by certain depraved, degenerate factions within the German government."

"You can’t believe any of it."

"If these scumbags had their way, all children would be psych-drugged into oblivion, most eventually becoming high school gunmen; vicious de-programmers would constantly be leaping out from shadowy corners; there would be all-night electroshock parlors on the high street of every village, town and city; and anyone who tried to live an ethical life would quickly receive an icepick lobotomy. This is why it is necessary for Scientologists to try to present a balanced perspective, by showcasing all the good things about the Scientology religion, and removing all the lies."

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This is not too far off from what Miscavige did say in Scientology's internal New Years celebration video about the 2006 campaign for the global elimination of psychiatry. Give a listen: [begins about 1:45]

Gawker's: Psychiatrists Caused 9/11, Down [video]

once again, anonymous must deliver. was that with or without anchovies?

When you're dealing with Scientology, you can trust Vimeo as much as YouTube. Controversial videos are not going to stay up. Period.

Gawker and BoingBoing both relied on a single Vimeo video for their news pages. I must admit, they stayed operational for about 5 months, but many anon rely on these controversial pages for links in articles and comments they leave around the intertubes. So here's a re-print with a working video:

scientology proves psychiatrists caused 9/11
By Hamilton Nolan, 1:12 PM on Tue Feb 17 2009

Why do Scientologists hate psychiatry so much? Who cares, it just makes them look amusingly craz(ier). In this clip from a cheapo Scientology TV show, a real Scientology doctor proves that psychiatry caused 9/11!:

This fella's name is Dave Figueroa, with an outfit called C.C.H.R. in Florida, and he calmly explains why Osama bin Laden was convinced to blow up things by...that's right, his psychiatrist! And there's some bonus talk about the Holocaust, too. Watch and then get a "stress test."



Fun Facts:
Why do Scientologists want to obliterate psychiatry? Because 75 million years ago in a far-away galaxy that suffered from extreme overpopulation, Lord Xenu got the help of Psychiatrists in summoning the galaxy's inhabitants for an income tax inspection.

Then each person was injected in the neck with a mixture of water and glycol, frozen, and put inside space-planes that looked very much like the DC-8 airliner that was popular in the 1960s. These space-planes flew to earth, then known as Teegeeack, where the beings were stacked inside several volcanoes around the planet.

Xenu, then, dropped some massively large hydrogen bombs on top of them and killed them -- but their ghosts (or thetans) survived and, at the dawn of man, they attached themselves in clusters to every human being, and are responsible for all human mental, emotional and physical problems.

Later in space history, Psychiatrists of the Marcab Confederacy, a series of planets around a star in the "handle" of the "Big Dipper" constellation, imposed income tax as a punishment on all the Alien civilizations. The Psychiatrists came to earth 225,000 years ago with the 5th Invader Force, and are responsible for all kinds of tragedies, including the African slave trade, the Holocaust, apartheid, ethnic cleansing in the Balkans, and the 11 September attacks.

No doubt they'll be blamed for anchovies, also.

Does Your Religion Have A TOS? Scientology Does.

Clearing the planet, one wallet at a time.

Does the leader of your church make you sign a contract before joining said church? Scientology seems to have a plethora of paperwork you must go through before starting up their bridge to nowhere.

For a church that says they're not all about the money, they've got an awful lot of lawyereze reading material for you that seems to be....all about the money. I just hit some highlights of this credit card style form (I'm not going to type out the wall of text) . If you want to read the complete Return of Donations TOS, click the link.

• First off, if you're asking for your money back, they imply that your motivations for seeking services was something other than spiritual improvement.
• The church may return all or a portion of the person's donations provided his request is approved by the Claims Verification Board. But before you start jumping through their three required hoops, glance at the catch all at the end of the statement,
• Failing to follow this procedure or any deviation from it, such as seeking to involve third parties, including attorneys, immediately ends the procedure and the church will take no further actions to return the funds. That's right, keep it all in-house, away from those pesky prying eyes that the outside public is known for.
• And in case the above didn't keep your hard earned money in their coffers, a return of a donation is neither a legal right of a parishioner, nor a legal obligation of any Church.

But wait, you're not finished yet. You still have to sign the Statements By Staff Members Disclaimer. Another Scientology catch-all that promises nothing:

• The Church, the Board and it's management take no responsibility for the statements or the claims made by the staff members regarding the workability of Dianetics spiritual healing technology or Scientology applied religious philosophy or any claims or promises made to public persons, the public or Scientologists.
• Any promises of "cures" or results are not authorized and will not be honored by the Church, it's board of directors or management.

Wikipedia Update:

And more scuttlebutt about the ongoing Scientology Ban over at Wikipedia. Seems Scientology is falling back on their old Plan B after receiving an IP ban for trying to turn into a self-serving pulpit.

According to an Anon over at WWP, they've initiated Baaawww2.0, or better known as an e-mail appeal to get their right to write (and I didn't stutter) returned.

Scientology Receives 'banhammer' From Wikipedia

> in before 'french-anti-scienologists-run-wikipedia'

Seems as if a possible ban from the French government isn't Scientology's only problem this week. Over at WWP, an anon fills us in on the latest scuttlebutt from the wiki watercooler:

Anon A: "...Since late last year, there has been an Arbitration Case on Scientology articles over at Wikipedia, and about all the edit warring etc that has been going on. This was not posted publicly to prevent any possible claims of 'off-Wiki canvassing'. They are now voting on the motion to close the case, so I don't see any harm in posting a link for you all to read the results."

"...IP addresses owned by the Church of Scientology will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Now hey, simply blocking them from editing Scientology articles would have been enough, but the evidence showed that their IP addresses rarely stray from those articles anyway, so Wikipedia have grown some [Baca sized] balls and are going to block them outright as they would open proxies. This is an EPIC WIN, but I'm also expecting that Wikipedia will have the first legal strong-arm threats from the Cult within a week, and I suspect Wikipedia doesn't have the cash to fight it.

Anon B: Google "Scientology", "Scientologist", "Operation Snow White", "Operation Freakout", "thetan", and then "body thetan". In each of those search results, you'll find a Wikipedia article at #1 in your search results. This means that wikipedia is likely to be the starting point for many joe publics looking into scientology for the first time. What wikipedia has done here is to help insure that false information is not introduced into, nor true information removed from articles that are the internet equivalent of prime real estate. They're doing it by blocking scien ip's and known users who are cult shills. They could still manage to edit the articles, but it will now be more difficult.

Hitler gets banned from Wikipedia

If Scientology Made An Honest PSA [video]

Scientology Member Brings Message of Human Rights to the World

Scientology's PR Machine just never stops pumping out this blatant propaganda. So I figured while it's there, I'll just put it to good use by pulling my listing higher in Google's blog list. Thanks Scientology.

• Scientology Today: Do you have a message for people reading this interview?

• Why, Yes. Yes I do.

• Scientology Today: The Creed of the Church of Scientology, which states that "Man is basically good; That he is seeking to survive; That his survival depends upon himself and upon his fellows and his attainment of brotherhood with the universe."

• Now hold that thought and who said it while watching the video below.

Let's see what one of Scientology's PR videos on Equality looks like after being injected with key phrases and sound recordings by L.Ron Hubbard, himself.

Another Scientology PSA remixed. How do Scientology leaders really feel about equality? Features Jesse Prince, a former top-level Scientologist who was the assistant to current Scientology leader David Miscavige.

Register My Religion? Do I do That At The DMV? lol.

Registering Religion: This Independent story about fraud prosecutions of scientologists in France, contains this very odd idea to American ears:

The Church of Scientology in France went on trial today on charges of organized fraud. Registered as a religion in the United States. . .

Registered? Sorry that's not what we do with religions here. Note the Euro-undertone: The writer is trying to contrast the relative legitimacy of scientology in the U.S. with its prosecution in France. Legitimacy is something that government confers.

The US government, by law, cannot rule if a belief system is or is not a religion. See the 1^st Amendment:

• "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion..."

But, a a department of the US government (the IRS) can extend a tax exemption privilege if you meet a certain criteria.

• Internal Revenue Code 501(c)(3): The exempt purposes set forth in section 501(c)(3) are charitable, religious, educational, scientific, literary, testing for public safety, fostering national or international amateur sports competition, and preventing cruelty to children or animals...".


So, I guess it's only a matter of time before the Galactic Hanger of Xenu & Latter-Day Saints gets it's tax exemption, and can start enjoying all the money-making opportunities that Scientology now enjoys. And, I'll be able to write off all that expensive frozen space-caek (see video below) that I'm required to buy in order to be a member. Does that mean I still have to register my DC-8 flying-church with the FAA? I'll have to ask John Travolta.

Official Ceremony: Cutting of the Holy Frozen Xenu Caek



Official Ceremony Hymn: Cutting of the Holy Frozen Xenu Caek

Scientologie: a La French Fried / ATHF [video]

Leaders could face up to ten years in prison and fines of a million euros.

PARIS,(UPI) -- The Church of Scientology in France is facing organized fraud charges for allegedly manipulating others for financial gain, authorities said.

Jean-Christophe Hullin, the investigating magistrate in the fraud case, alleges the church's bookshop and headquarters in Paris, along with seven senior church members, manipulated vulnerable people for profit, The Guardian (Britain) reported Monday.

In France, Scientology is viewed as a sect and not a recognized religion as it is in other parts of the world. The legal case against the Scientology sect could potentially result in its dissolution in France, the Guardian reported. More audio news from RadioFranceInt [in english]

Aqua Teen Hunger Force Disses Scientology

As reported from the WogBlog, a short clip from the latest episode of Aqua Teen Hunger Force (Der Inflatable Fuhrer) poking a little fun at Tom Cruise and Scientology.

Scientology Facing Fraud Charges in France [video]

Hubbard's 'most ethical people on the planet' On Trial, Again.

By now, most people have learned that the nation of France has decided to prosecute Scientology’s French organization, along with seven of its top managers, on fraud and drugs charges. This latest case centers on a complaint made in 1998 by a woman who said she was enrolled into Scientology by a group of people she met outside a metro station. In the following months, she said she paid 140,000 francs (21,340 euros) for “purification packs” and books that made all kinds of extravagant and fraudulent claims. Other complaints then surfaced, extending the investigation.
Judge Jean-Christophe Hullin ruled that the Scientologists’ “Celebrity Centre,” bookstore and seven top managers should be tried for fraud and “illegally practicing as pharmacists.” A trial date has been set for 25 May 2009.

Speaking to More4News on the UK Channel 4, a Scientology spokesperson, Daniele Gounard, is quoted as saying "...bullshit!", and that the judge is biased before the case has begun, which indicates that the Church of Scientology does not seem optimistic about the outcome.

The stakes may be high because Scientology and L. Ron Hubbard previously have been convicted of fraud and privacy violations in France. Repeat convictions might lead to an outright ban against the organization in question.



News articles about the case usually mention that Scientology was fined and threatened with dissolution for violating privacy laws there in 2002; sometimes they mention that Scientology officials were convicted of fraud in Lyon in 1997 and in Marseille in 1999.

Surprisingly, however, the fraud conviction of the organization’s founder, L. Ron Hubbard, on fraud charges in 1978, does not seem to be mentioned in any of the English-language reports.

After a seven-year public inquiry and a lengthy trial, the Paris Tribunal found four top Scientologists, including Hubbard, guilty of making fraudulent claims that physical cures and professional success could be achieved through Scientology. Hubbard, who did not attend the trial, and had already fled the country, was sentenced to four years imprisonment.

Hubbard never served his prison sentence because he was essentially on the run from the law, sailing in the Caribbean on his yacht Apollo, trying to avoid not only French authorities but the US authorities as well. In 1978, the US Federal Government was preparing for the trial of Hubbard’s wife Mary Sue, and numerous other Scientology officials, on conspiracy and burglary charges.

Hubbard, along with Scientology lawyer Kendrick Moxon, were named as “unindicted co-conspirators” in that case. This means the federal prosecutors were very sure they were involved, but couldn’t quite generate the evidence for a sure conviction.

Mary Sue and the others ended up serving several years in federal prison. In addition, the Internal Revenue Service had evidence that Hubbard was taking millions of dollars “off the top” of Scientology profits, and hiding it in overseas banks.

Hubbard never returned to France, and was banned from the United Kingdom because he would not discuss his conviction with British authorities. Although a French court later declared that his conviction could be resolved by coming to France and paying a fine, Hubbard never did so. Hubbard died in 1986 on his secluded California ranch.

Scientology's Hipocracy Highway

Scientology's Commuter Lane on the Human Trafficking Turnpike

Human Trafficking is a crime against humanity. It involves an act of recruiting, transporting, transferring, harboring or receiving a person through a use of force, coercion or other means, for the purpose of exploiting them. Every year, thousands of men, women and children fall into the hands of traffickers, in their own countries and abroad. Every country in the world is affected by trafficking, whether as a country of origin, transit or destination for victims.

In a recent PR stunt, the Church of Scientology has joined the UN's Blue Heart Campaign. Why do I use the word stunt?

Because at the same time, Anonymous also supports the same campaign, charging the abuse committed by the Church of Scientology management is the same they appear to rally against.

From NowPublic: "...The US government has recently been cracking down on the abuse of religious worker visas, which the Church of Scientology has been using to import people for work such as sales, guard duty, construction, gardening or sewer repair. Some of the manual labour takes place in Scientology's own correctional program called the Rehabilitation Project Force, where inmates are given the most filthy tasks and treated as sub-human. Even children are subject to it."

"...Staff members, and particularly 'Sea Org' members, sign odious and mostly unenforceable contracts; they are not aware that they are free to leave, and some are so isolated and conditioned that they are afraid of the outside world."

The following is a podcast by commentator 13Heathens on Scientology's claim to have joined the Blue Heart campaign against human trafficking, regardless of the fact that the cult is doing exactly what it's campaigning against.



To further demonstrate the hipocracy, an Anonymously created PSA borrowing from one of Scientology's own PSAs on Slavery.

Scientology Pumps Old PR To Hide Bad News

"Let's sell these people a piece of blue sky." - L. Ron Hubbard

press release: A press release is different from a news article.

A news article is a compilation of facts developed by journalists published in the news media, whereas a press release is designed to be sent to journalists in order to encourage them to develop articles on a subject.

A press release is generally biased towards the objectives of the author. A press release is written in order to highlight an important event, program, or piece of information by an organization that succinctly describes the who, what, where, when, why and how of the story.

Today, Scientology has 11 PR pieces listed on GoogleNews. But it's all old news.

• Thai Research Nurse was last reported on the 9th of this month, not last week like recent one states.
• Washington farmer story was released back in March, but here it is again in todays listing.
• Nashville's new Celeb Center is reported here today, but opened up on April 26th, full of PR problems.

So what are they trying to push out of the picture?

• Over at Gawker,"Two former executives have been waging a court battle against Diskeeper, alleging the software company's CEO, a Scientologist, practiced religious discrimination. As it turns out, they have documents intended to prove it. ".
• At medpagetoday the president of the APA cites Scientolgy's offshoot, the CCHR, "a hate group". [video].
• The Daily KOS lets us know, Kirstie Alley and Scientology gets the MOTHERS Act all a-twitter.
• Over at Gawker,again,"Sarah Palin Throws Her Scientologist Adviser Under the Bus ".

And that's just here in the States. All in all, not a good week for Scientology.
So to keep things in the same upbeat mood, I'll leave you with this little video that popped up over at WWP yesterday. Old, but like NBC used to say, "If you haven't seen it, it's new to you".

APA Diagnosis: CCHR a 'hategroup'

'industry of death' quackery tied to church of scientology

MedPage Today: SAN FRANCISCO, -- Physicians gathering for the American Psychiatric Association annual meeting here were greeted with a noisy street protest by the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), an offshoot of the Church of Scientology.

From its earliest days in the 1950s, Scientologists have waged a campaign accusing the psychiatric profession of a range of abuses. Now conducted under the CCHR's banner, the campaign currently portrays psychiatry as an "industry of death." Demonstrations like the one at this year's meeting have become a fixture at the annual gatherings.

Below, MedPage Today video report: APA President Nada Stotland, M.D., explains:

I think to some degree we've noticed the media are getting less and less interested in listening to the allegations of Scientology, many of which are patently ridiculous, you know, that psychiatrists caused the Holocaust or things of that sort. And so it doesn't cause as much disruption as it had in years past when that was the first time we had people marching up and down.

There is no other medical specialty I know of that has its own particular,, dedicated hate group. And there is no other medical specialty in which people are already stigmatized and afraid as much as they are of psychiatry, so it's a very unfortunate conjunction of those two things.



Scientology conducts these protests and this war on psychiatry under a front group known as the Citizens Commission for Human Rights - not a human rights organization. This front group is famous for producing the propaganda film - "Psychiatry: Industry of Death". This film contains various false information about the science of psychiatry in which the scientologists blame psychiatrists for 9/11.

Also, the CCHR has exploited tragedies to boaster their message in the past. Fox 25 News in Boston have compared this group to another notorious hate group - Westboro Baptist Church.

Peacock's Axe falls on TV's My Name is Earl

Or, Does Hollywood Have Xenuphobia?
Los Angeles : "My Name Is Earl" creator Greg Garcia, is a writer because he has a way with words. Asked for his take on NBC's unceremonious cancellation of his single-camera comedy today, Garcia didn't miss a beat: "It’s hard to be too upset about being thrown off the Titanic."

In case the reference isn't obvious, NBC is in fourth place among networks, after a lackluster season in which it launched seven new shows and five of them failed and the other two have not broken out.

Jason Lee, Scientologist, who played the part of Earl Hickey, is finding out, like the show's tag-line says, Karma is a funny thing.

Maybe getting mixed up in a dangerous cult doesn't help a Hollywood career.

Ethan Suplee, also a Scientologist, who played buffoon Randy Hickey in My Name Is Earl, was all a Twitter venting his frustration.
"Just got the call that My Name Is Earl has been canceled," he wrote. "They sure did take their time with that decision... or rather informing us of it."

The Earl cast aren't the only ones experiencing Xenuphobia in Hollywood. Tom Cruise, now head chef at Xenu's Waffle House, finished "Valkyrie" — which probably cost more like $150 million total when all the bookkeeping is done — brought the end of Cruise’s producing partnership with Paula Wagner and threw his deal with MGM to make movies at their United Artists into question. In Germany, where "Valkyrie" was supposed to rehabilitate Cruise’s image and ingratiate his frowned upon Scientology, the movie made a middling $10 million. It opened and closed fast, already off the charts.

There have been problems. Cruise was replaced in the movie he was supposed to make, "Edwin Salt," by Angelina Jolie. The script was rewritten for a female protagonist.

Now it’s past March, and Cruise has no movies in the can for 2009 or even 2010. If he doesn’t start something soon, he could miss the summer 2010 release schedule.

Cruise's last actual hit movie was released in June 2006 — that was "Mission: Impossible 3," and although it was very well made by director J.J. Abrams, it was not the monster that its predecessors had been. Since then, Cruise has appeared in the dreadful box office loser, "Lions for Lambs," and made his popular cameo appearance as an offensive movie producer in "Tropic Thunder."

After months of hounding, Cruise's publicist finally released a statement of what Tom's future plans where going to be in Hollywood. It was held up while Scientology's Secret Service edited out any sensitive information. The results are posted here at newsfact.

Well, that certainly clears everything up.

newscientist on Psycs VS Scilons VS Anon in SanFran

Blogger Misses The Boat, Cruises Into The Sea Of CopyPasta

Over at newscientist.com, Peter Aldhous visited the Citizens Commission on Human Rights' exhibit, closely linked to the Church of Scientology: Psychiatry - An Industry of Death venue, close to the Moscone Center, where the psychiatrists are holding the American Psychiatric Association Meeting in San Francisco. He had heard the anti-scientology group, Anonymous, was to be there also.

He was expecting fireworks. He was a day late and a dollar short.

He got as big a display as you'd expect on the 5^th of July. If you want see fire works, you show up when they're being lit. Even the post-firework videos weren't hard to find if you know how to internet.

But, as any MSM reporter does, he picks up the copy-pasta that gets pumped out for the sheeple of the world, rather than get his mouse a little dirty, digging for some real intel (that might make an exciting story).

"...but activities linked to Anonymous - which include denial of service attacks and hacks against various websites - predate the spat with Scientology. And if you're opposed to religious cults, why start protesting only when a group infringes your ideas about online freedom?..."
That generalization is like saying, Michelangelo, he's with those house painters. There are many facets to Anonymous. Most likely he encountered a Chanologist, who knows.

For those that can't quite wrap their heads around the idea of Anonymous (Scientologists certainly have a hard time), I find the best illustration is a flock of birds in flight. Nobody is leading. but somehow, most end up going in the same direction. People join, people leave. Websites are created, websites disappear.Someone starts a project, and if more join in, so be it.



But at least he did catch on to Scientology's twist-o-facts mentality after visiting the CCHR exhibit:
"...But it takes some gross liberties. A timeline of the history of psychiatry summarises the 1990s under the word "Genocide", justifying that label through reference to Radovan Karadžić, the psychiatrist who led the Bosnian Serbs and now faces trial by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. Somewhat surprisingly, just a little below his name appears an entry for Norman Sartorius, a Croat who in the 1990s headed the World Psychiatric Association.
Just a few hours before, I'd listened to Sartorius talk at the meeting about current efforts to revise psychiatry's diagnostic criteria. While the Scientologists may not think much of his medical contributions, to mention Sartorius's name under the heading of "Genocide" is outrageous..."

Peter might be a little more outraged if he had the chance to watch the pseudo-science of L.Ron Hubbard's Anatomy of the Human Mind Course, with Ron Savelo. Below is an humorous excerpt of one lesson where Ron tries to sell the idea that your brain is a big shock absorber. Or that Psychiatrists are to Blame for 9/11 Attacks. This, by the way, Peter, is their alternative to psychiatry.

Anonymous in May: Been There, Done That.

Just like Visa, Anonymous Is Everywhere You Want To Be.

Yesterday was a report on the Counter-Protest that Anonymous staged against Scientology's CCHR in San Fransisco:

The shrinks are coming to San Francisco this weekend for the annual American Psychiatric Association confab, attracting a slew of protesters.

That protest seems to have overshadowed the gatherings that occur monthly around the globe. Yes, we sometimes forget, anonymous knows no border, language or distance.

This month, most raids were held on either May 9^th or 16^th. They included areas such as:

• Christchurch, Sydney from the asia-pacific rim.

•London, Düsseldorf, Dublin, Stockholm, Bergen to list a few from the european continent.

• Montreal, Quebec City, Toronto and Kitchener in canada.

• Atlanta, Boston, Buffalo, DC, Greensboro, New Haven and Ocala on US eastcoast.

• Austin, Nashville, St Louis, Kansas City, Dallas, Chicago and Phoenix in US central/mountain area.

• San Fran, San Jose, San Diego, Los Feliz, Tustin, Portland and Seattle on the US westcoast.

And not to be out done by Matt and his worldwide dance-off, Anonymous also has their version of
Where The Hell Is Anonymous? [party hard version] [rickroll version]

David VS Goliath in Anon VS Scientology Protest

Anonymous Twitter feed: "WAKEY WAKEY, EGGS AND BAKEY, ANONYMOUS! IT'S TIME TO D-D-D-D DUAL! Please place yourself in an upright and win position."

The Church of Scientology was protesting the American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting in San Francisco yesterday. The Citizens Commission on Human Rights, Scientology's anti-psychiatry activist arm, set-up their "Psychiatry: An Industry of Death" exhibit next to the Moscone Center for the duration of the convention.

Scientologists, who where supposed to number in the thousands, but fell shy of the total, bused people up from El Lay and over from Sacramento, to be meet by a good handful of Anonymous, many of whom appear to have personal connections to and detailed knowledge of the Church of Scientology.

You’d have to score this one as a win for the 'Anonymice'. Small in number, but they got their point across.

A summary of the events as told by an Anon on WWP:"...about 300 scilons met at the ferry building, and as previously stated they were mostly young teens or teenagers. The "CCHR Marshals"/protest leaders for the protest to the Industy of Death exibit were mostly LA or SF scifags and they wore red armbands. Let the joke sink in."

"They started at the Ferry Building. 10-15 anons eventually showed up there, and about 30 showed at at Moscone Center to wait. We intermingled with the scilons when they started there march about an hour behind schedule. We were often blocked off by assigned bull-baiters to use their signs to either block our views, movement paths or block the camera views. We even had a couple scifag camera men specifically follow some of our own camera men."

"Phsycs were either way too confused, didn't care or supported anons."

"The march took about 30-45 minutes from the Ferry Building to the Protest area at Moscone Center. The scifags had their bullpen, and the anons our one. It was also right next to theres. We caused some handlers to walk away in disgust by our massive enturublating prowess. The public thought it was funny."

"About at this time, anon population was about 60 vs Scifag 300. Anons from Seattle, Portland, Sacramento, SF and SF South Bay, LA, and San Diego represented (and I think some others? not sure). The scifags still didn't understand that we brought more (and better) protesters then them and that were still outnumbered in many brain cells and 3rd leg inches."

"While often their chants were louder then ours in the pens, they showed that they did not have the stamina to protest for a long time. And after an hour, the scilons left Moscone center to go to their exhibit. An epic battle of sidewalk space and a lane of the street started to take place. Loud chants, both crowds getting excited thinking that each honk was for their own side. There was a time machine."

"Shouting really loud all the time and not doing it right will make you hoarse. By the sidewalk battle, most that were assigned to block us or go against us were supposed to shout louder then us, but couldn't anymore and had gotten hoarse. We eventually wore them down. There members kept leaving in more and more frustration and dwindled until they matched ours and then even less. "

"They gave up more and more sidewalk space until anonymous had fought it's way to their front gate. Took hours. The time machine was destroyed. The scilons snuck out the back/loading zone side after they were done inside instead of coming out the front to deal with us. "

" We were constantly being called biggots, racist, whores, and even even "vermin" by scientologists."

• Pshycs loved us.
• We pissed off a lot of scilons today.
• It was a good day.

Videos below from the (part3) march and (part2) line dancing at the protest.

Anonymous Bust'n 'Psych-Busters' in SF

Anonymous Counter Protests 'CCHR' Scientology Front Group

sfgate.com : The shrinks are coming to San Francisco this weekend for the annual American Psychiatric Association confab, attracting a slew of protesters. SF Weekly reports that Scientologists demanding a "California Psych-Free Zone" will bus members from Los Angeles to the convention at the Moscone Center, where they plan to hunker down outside with their "Psychiatry: An Industry of Death" exhibit for the entire 6-day event starting Saturday, May 16^th.

And where there are Scientologists, there are bound to be anti-Scientologists -- namely, Anonymous. With about 10,000 members worldwide, the group of Internet vigilantes denounces the church's tight grip on information and its tax-exempt status.

The online crusaders will be at it again with a counter-demonstration during the APA convention. According to Anonymous' message board, members will follow Scientologists on their parade route [see map]. They also plan to demonstrate outside the church on Columbus Avenue tomorrow night.

From betanews.com : ...members of Anonymous will be gathering in San Francisco to counter-protest CoS demonstrations outside the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association. No one here is telling you what to think of the Church of Scientology or their anti-psychiatry ways, but there's no denying that the battle between the CoS and online commenters got much more interesting when the latter donned the Guy Fawkes masks. Let your geek flag fly and have a good weekend.

You can also follow all the 'play by play' action on Twitter if you're not from the area. (starts 9am PST)

Anonymous issued this press release earlier this week: San Francisco, CA – May 14, 2009 – The American Psychiatric Association (APA) will begin its annual meeting this weekend in San Francisco. The Scientology cult and its various front groups, along with their bizarre “Industry of Death” sideshow, have promised to make the scene, warning the world about the kill-crazy, lobotomy-happy “psychs,” and recruiting new customers for the cult. But also in attendance on the City’s streets and sidewalks will be plenty of members of the “Anonymous” anti-Scientology activist network. Anonymous will be there as truth-tellers, to counter Scientology’s insane and dangerous ravings about the mental health profession, and to expose the cult for what it is: a multi-national criminal organization, set up with numerous do-gooder front groups, all working exclusively toward one openly-declared goal: the “global obliteration of psychiatry.” [continued]

And just had to add a "Psych-Bust'n-Bust'n" (and I didn't stutter) soundtrack to top off todays post. Ray Parker Jr - Ghostbusters Theme (b-b-b-bust'n makes me feel good...)

Nobody Expects the Scientology Inquisition, Almost Nobody.

"Nobody expected the tolerant inquisition! Perhaps the makers of Angels & Demons should have aimed at Scientology instead."

Excerpts from the James Clayton column: Angels & Demons: "...Nobody now expects the Papal Inquisition, so perhaps Scientologists will now become the marketing target to insult in order to generate movie hype. They could have had Hanks vs. Cruise in a ‘Tom-on-Tom’ sofa-leaping pillow fight, John Travolta blasting Dan Brown on the news and herds of Hollywood citizens marching through Beverly Hills to express their revulsion. As it is, Angels & Demons isn’t actively despised - Angels & Thetans, however, would have been a movie marketer’s dream..."

"...If only Dan Brown had set his original novel in the Sunset Strip and sent Robert Langdon deep into the murky world of Scientology. As illustrated by that BBC Panorama doc in which John Sweeney exploded and in the disgusted Isaac Hayes’s departure from South Park, when you upset Scientologists, they let you know about it. If conspiracy-theory thriller moviemakers want a religious crusade cast down upon them, all you have to do is talk about Scientology without the approval of the church’s lawyers and you’re assured a counter-attack and consequent considerable media exposure..."

We've grown accustomed to seeing parody, like the above, to get a point across through humorous comparison. But San Diego's East County Magazine informs us that Scientologists are going the politically correct route, jumping on the hate crime bandwagon, to twist an introductory law to their bidding, and possibly make an article, like the above, illegal.

La Mesa Rejects HATE-FREE Resolution

“We see a need to stand up for liberty and justice for all,” said David Meyer from the Church of Scientology, who formally asked the La Mesa Council to adopt the resolution. Countering critics who believe the measure targets free speech, he added, “Our mission is to elevate and encourage free speech, not suppress it.” He urged Council to adopt the measure to encourage people to speak out against bigotry, hate and hate-related violence. “If we remain silent, the perpetrator may think we believe it’s okay,” he added. “With our freedoms comes responsibility for our neighbors.”

It's good to see that the council saw through this little charade and had the fore sight to see exactly where this would lead:

Craig Maxwell, a former Mayoral candidate, testified that “hate crimes is a redundant category” and argued that the resolution could lead to “criminalization of thought itself.” He urged Council to adhere to the children’s phrase that “sticks and stones will break our bones, but names can never hurt us.” La Mesa’s Police Chief testified that hate crimes have declined locally from 2008 to 2007 and that existing measures are effective.

Each Councilmember spoke out, and while all denounced hate crimes, Councilmembers unanimously expressed the view that the measure was not needed. Councilman Ernest Ewin said the issues raised by the resolution are “already covered by existing laws.” Councilwoman Ruth Sterling also expressed concern over Constitutional issues. “The Supreme Court has ruled that symbolic expression, whether swastikas, burning crosses or peace symbols, are protected speech,” she said. Councilman Mark Arapostathos, a teacher, said schools already promote acceptance, not hate.

Mayor Art Madrid said La Mesa has been a leader in battling hate, noting that the city introduced a human relations advisory committee many years ago and is committed to protecting the rights of all. He added that all members of the Council have received comments from people on both sides of the hate-free resolution who have taken a threatening tone with elected rerpesesnteds. “All of us got e-mails that said, `Support me or else.’”

Nobody expected the tolerant inquisition. Well, almost nobody. Thankfully La Mesa did. If laws like that are enacted, the articles, videos and even this text on this page could be construed as a hate crime. Political Correctness, it's a slippery slope.

DA Drops Charges Against Scientology Protester

Nashville College Student Says Officers Attacked Him
WSMV News4: The district attorney has dropped the citations against a man arrested during a scuffle outside the Church of Scientology. Protesters were walking down the sidewalk last month when security guards hired by the church went after them. Those guards were off-duty Spring Hill police officers. A college student said the officers attacked him. He received three citations, but the district attorney just dismissed them.

Strange. When somebody is found innocent of something, it's just not news. No film. No news report. Just a blog entry. More discussion on this latest event can be found over at WWP.

If you're not familiar with the story, see the recap below:

WSMV News4: Nashville: There are problems with how security for a Nashville Scientology event was handled, and laws appear to have been broken.

• Public Works pulled all of the permits taken out for the Scientology event. The permits -- all of them for sidewalk closing and lane blocking -- are for the wrong day. They're for the day before the event and expire before the scuffle occurred.

• Three of the five security guards were off-duty Spring Hill police officers working in Nashville, which can only be done if local police are notified and officers are wearing uniforms clearly identifying them as off-duty police officers.

"The armed people from the other county are not identified police officers," said John M. L. Brown. "You're looking for a problem." Brown, a Fraternal Order of Police attorney, has been defending police officers for 32 years. He said he finds the officers' actions hard to defend. He also added. "Nashville's a capital city, and there are protests in Nashville with some frequency, I don't think that mentioning a bologna sandwich is a recognized law enforcement tactic." Watch Part2 below:




• The Church of Scientology said it told security these were dangerous people and to do what they needed to do.
• The assistant police chief of the Spring Hill Police Department, Jon Roberts, said from the video it looked like to him that the protesters were looking for trouble. Roberts said he feels that the officers did not do anything wrong, and the home video does not tell the whole story.
• The security firm hired by the Church of Scientology was Hayes Security on Gallatin Road. A representative of the firm said that the matter is being turned over to its attorneys.

Scientology's OT12, Better Than Butter! [video]

Bottom: Sneek-peek at OT12 Training Video Out-Takes

After years of anticipation, David Miscavage is about to finally roll out a beta version of the OT-12 operating thetan. OT-12 will allow 'the most ethical' to download the new OT, dubbed "shOrTone2" while in development but now known simply as OT12Butter, by the end of next week directly from Target 2. LRH off-shore bank accounts are about to get a lot fuller.

Once the new OT is out, parishioners will be able to pay for a variety of new tools and powers. As SciloNet has reported earlier this year, OT12's new function Third-Eye allows you to look over every film, e-book, e-mail, or song in your possession, without having to turn on a computer. A "virtual keyboard" will appear in front of you, allowing users to dispense with the physical keyboard if they want; users can even program the virtual keyboard to click and vibrate as you type, giving a tactile sense of what it's like to be Tom Cruise. On the downside, you still won't be able to fly, though.

But the coolest features have got to be the capacity to instantly post film and photographs you shoot with your Third Eye onto Scientology-Today and Zombie Images. Imagine walking down the street, whipping out your big Third Eye and shooting something on the spot; with just a few blinks as you keep walking, everyone at OSA online will suddenly be able to see what you've just looked at.

Below is an excerpt of the upcoming OT-12 Training Video unused footage not included in the finished film. Offcuts of this film were retained, after being retrieved from the cutting room floor at Golden Era Productions in Hemet, Ca. and posted on YouTube.