OC:: scientology

after this past weekend, i knew that scientology was a subject that i needed to bring up in one of my blog posts.

on saturday, there was a protest outside of the church of scientology on high street that i attended with my boyfriend and two friends. here's a dispatch article about it that was in the sunday paper. i've never been to a protest before, but i always thought of scientology to be a cult. justin and i bought dust masks at kroger and headed to high street.

the CoS [church of scientology] itself has a nice sign and an extremely expensive-looking big screen TV in the front window. we were across the street. about 80 of us showed up, many people carrying signs or handing out fliers, all of us covering our faces. the reason why?

scientologist lawyers have enough money to track you down. they are notorious for photographing or videotaping protests in an attempt to find a face or name to sue. it seems ridiculous, but once my mother got back from her weekend vacation and found out i had gone, even she was genuinely concerned that i had covered my face and head. the CoS will attempt to harm or bring lawsuits against anyone they can pinpoint criticism to. a prime example of this is "operation freakout", which tells of paulette cooper and her harassment from the CoS after she wrote a book criticizing the cult. they will do anything to keep their name clean. there was a rumoured camera in the bottom of the window of the CoS we were picketing across the street from. this has been reporting at many of the other worldwide protests as well.

the first protest was on february 10th earlier this year, which is my birthday, and coincidentally, also the birthday of another big scientology secret: lisa mcpherson.

i have not been much of an activist before now, but i've spent the entire day researching it. i already knew about many of their illegitimate activities before i went to the protest, but now i've really read up, and what i've found shocks me. its worse than i intially thought. here's a good link that sums up the majority of the crimes the CoS has committed.

now, in closing, i'd like to make it very clear that both myself and anonymous as a whole has NOTHING against freedom of religion or speech. people can and should believe what they want. the attacks are not on the beliefs of scientology, but are in fact against the practices, human rights violations, and immorality of the church itself.


here are some great links for you to check out::
xenu.net
whyaretheydead.net
xenutv.com
lermanet.com
lisamcpherson.org
perkinstragedy.org

those links honestly cover everything i don't feel like i could in one post, and those are really just a few.