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Will Smith targeted by anti-Scientology group — Arizona Republic
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Arizona Republic On Wednesday morning Anonymous activists picketed outside the New Village Academy private school in Calabasas, California, which is funded by Will Smith and his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, who is a follower of Scientology. Protestors - dressed in Guy Fawkes masks - held up placards emblazoned with the words 'Scientology disconnects families' and 'what church stalks critics? Scientology'. Passing children on their way to the nearby Arthur E. Wright Middle School shouted at several people, believed to be Scientologist investigators, who ...
Sep 1, 2008
An Anonymous attempt to ‘save Katie’ — MSNBC
Type: Press
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Courtney Hazlett Source:
MSNBC ST. PAUL, Minn. — When Katie Holmes’ Broadway show “All My Sons” opens Oct. 16, ticket holders won’t be the only ones in attendance. The anti-Scientology group Anonymous will be on hand for Holmes’ Broadway debut as well. The group confirms that a protest will take place opening night. “We aren’t looking to shut it (“All My Sons”) down, we don’t have the power to do that, we just want to prove a point,” one spokesperson (who remains anonymous, natch) confirmed ...
Aug 22, 2008
Scientology fight with 'Anonymous' hits home in New York — NY Daily News (New York)
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NY Daily News (New York) The war between the Church of Scientology and the group that calls itself Anonymous is heating up. New York City has become one of the chief battlefronts. Critics of the church - which counts John Travolta and Tom Cruise among its members - have staged at least nine protests here in the last year. Last Saturday, Anonymous members picketed the Scientology Center on W. 46th. Many came dressed as nurses and doctors to lampoon what one protester tells us is "the ...
Aug 19, 2008
Secret Lives of Women: Extreme Beliefs (Scientology portion excerpt on Vimeo) — Women's EntertainmentMore: wetv.com
Aug 16, 2008
Campaign of harassment or just a wild imagination? — Montreal Gazette
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Montreal Gazette Anonymous is the name of a new worldwide group that communicates mostly online and protests against the Church of Scientology. Critics say the church, founded by science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard, uses secretive practices, makes cult-like demands, extorts money from its members and harasses those who claim to expose the truth about it. Which explains the anonymity central to the anti-Scientology group. In February, anti-Scientology activists in Montreal joined others around the world in the organization's first simultaneous masked protest, ...
Aug 15, 2008
Google murders second Anonymous AdSense account — The Register (UK)
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Cade Metz Source:
The Register (UK) Pro-Scientology ads decorating anti-Scientology sites. Wah? Exclusive Google has shutdown the AdSense account of another anti-Scientology site. Three months after cutting off all ads served to Enturbulation, a site dedicated to promoting activism against the Church of Scientology and all its related organizations, Google has done the same with a similar site known as Epic Anonymous. Earlier this week, administrators at Epic Anonymous received the same email that turned up at Enturbulation back in May. "While going through our records recently, ...
Aug 15, 2008
Google terminates NYC Scientology critic site's AdSense account — realitybasedcommunity.net
Type: Blog
Author(s):
Scott Pilutik Source:
realitybasedcommunity.net Google terminated EpicAnon.com's AdSense account yesterday, informing the site by e-mail: While going through our records recently, we found that your AdSense account has posed a significant risk to our AdWords advertisers. Since keeping your account in our publisher network may financially damage our advertisers in the future, we've decided to disable your account. Please understand that we consider this a necessary step to protect the interests of both our advertisers and our other AdSense publishers. We realize the inconvenience ...
Aug 13, 2008
As Scientology expands, so do its naysayers — Seattle Weekly
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Brian Miller Source:
Seattle Weekly Masked protesters are taking to Seattle streets as the church eyes new facilities downtown and in lower Queen Anne. Motorists stuck on Mercer Street this summer have been treated to an odd overhead sight as they crawl under Aurora Avenue toward I-5. Wielding banners and signs, a small band of protesters has appeared on certain evenings, waving at drivers below and encouraging them to honk if they hate Xenu. On other nights, farther west in the Uptown neighborhood, the same merry ...
Aug 13, 2008
Scientology's antagonists — SF Weekly
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Lauren Smiley Source:
SF Weekly An ex-Scientologist and an army of online pranksters attempt to bring down the controversial religion. Maybe it's his badass black outfit with blood-red letters screaming "Scientology Kills." Or possibly it's his crew cut, or his nose slammed 45 degrees left after catching one too many right hooks. Maybe it's the hardcore cell-phone earpiece or the camcorder strapped to his palm to record confrontations. Whatever it is, when Tommy Gorman stands at a man's door demanding he get his "chicken-shit ass out ...
Aug 12, 2008
Local critic of Scientology no longer 'Anonymous' — TheDoings-ClarendonHillsMore: pioneerlocal.com
Type: Press
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Rob Siebert Source:
TheDoings-ClarendonHills Eric Szulczewski has taken off his mask. A month ago, the 43-year-old food safety consultant from Clarendon Hills gave his name to the media, revealing that he's a member of Anonymous, a group dedicated to exposing alleged misdeeds by the Church of Scientology. "Calling them a criminal cult doesn't cover it," said Szulczewski, one of the few members in Chicago willing to reveal his identity. An Internet-based group with members across the world, Anonymous says it does not protest Scientology as ...
Aug 12, 2008
Scientology: 'Anonymous' fosters hate, bigotry — TheDoings-ClarendonHills
Type: Press
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Rob Siebert Source:
TheDoings-ClarendonHills Scientology defines itself as the study and handling of the spirit in relationship to itself, others and all of life. Members of the church believe man is an immortal, spiritual being whose experiences extend beyond a single lifetime. Man cannot only solve his own problems and reach his own goals, but he can gain a higher status of awareness and ability through Scientology. Karin Pouw, public affairs director for the Church of Scientology International, said the religion has more than 7,500 ...
Aug 7, 2008
Selling Scientology — Portland Mercury (Oregon)
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Matt Davis Source:
Portland Mercury (Oregon) In the mid-1980s, more than ever before, television advertising was about big budgets and excess. Bucking that trend was Scientologist and marketing whiz Jeff Hawkins, whose understated, minimalist TV ads for L. Ron Hubbard's Dianetics helped launch the book onto the best-seller list—and arguably sparked a worldwide interest in the religion. Hawkins' ads featured simple questions like, "Why are you unhappy?" in white print against a black background, backed by edgy music supplied by Hawkins' friends, and finally, a shot of ...
Aug 6, 2008
Anonymous versus Scientology — The Boar (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Aug 4, 2008
Anonymous relaunches fight against Scientology // 'More subtle and shocking tactics' — The Register (UK)
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John Leyden Source:
The Register (UK) The Anonymous group is calling for disillusioned former members to return to the fold ahead of a new phase in its battle against the Church of Scientology. A video posted on YouTube on Friday said it was time for the original founders of the protest movement to return in time for a "shift to more subtle and shocking tactics". Anonymous has staged demonstrations against Scientology around the world over the last six months as part of Project Chanology. Members of the ...
Aug 1, 2008
Anonymous vs Scientology — Maxim
Jul 24, 2008
From the shadows, Anonymous battles Scientology — Chicago Tribune
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Melissa Patterson Source:
Chicago Tribune Washington, USA — With their dark suits, leering masks and signs warning of what they call the "cult" of Scientology, the protest group Anonymous may startle a few visitors to Millennium Park on Saturday. But that's what the participants are hoping for. "Outfits and the outrageous help get people's attention," said Eric Szulczewski of Clarendon Hills, one of a few members of Anonymous willing to give his name. An Internet-based group that claims more than 10,000 members worldwide, Anonymous has assembled ...
Jul 17, 2008
When Scientology attacks? — WWMT
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WWMT BATTLE CREEK, Mich. (NEWSCHANNEL 3) - The video of two men involved in an altercation outside a Church of Scientology has garnered a lot of hits on YouTube, but it happened right here in West Michigan. Two men protesting the Church of Scientology got more than they bargained for when a man and a woman from the church came out and confronted them last week. Even though they had the right to stand on the sidewalk in front of the Church ...
Jul 11, 2008
Minister free to call Scientologists bastards — The AustralianMore: forums.whyweprotest.net
Type: Press
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John Wiseman Source:
The Australian THE South Australian Government was at odds with the Church of Scientology last night after backing the right of a senior state minister to brand its members "bastards". Education Minister Jane Lomax-Smith has also questioned the organisation's tax-free status in comments to an anti-Scientology group called Anonymous, which it posted on popular internet site YouTube. While declaring Dr Lomax-Smith was entitled to her opinion, a spokeswoman for Premier Mike Rann distanced the Government from the remarks, saying they represented a private ...
Jul 10, 2008
Jane Lomax-Smith: Scientologists are 'bastards' who should be taxed — Advertiser (Australia)More: groups.yahoo.com
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Michael Owen Source:
Advertiser (Australia) EDUCATION Minister Jane Lomax-Smith has been caught on tape declaring Scientologists “should be taxed, the bastards”.
Footage from a video recorded during a protest on May 10 by internet activist group Anonymous has emerged which shows Dr Lomax-Smith casually chatting to protesters in Adelaide. Clearly not a fan of the controversial Church of Scientology, Dr Lomax-Smith asks protesters how frequently they gather and exclaims, “oh, it’s great”. She then asks about the protest group, which is dedicated to “dismantling and ...
Jul 9, 2008
Scientology targets city — The Argus (UK)
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Richard Gurner Source:
The Argus (UK) The Church of Scientology is planning to increase its foothold in Sussex, The Argus can reveal. Graeme Wilson, the director of public affairs, said the organisation was looking at the local property market and it is thought any new premises could provide a headquarters for members in Brighton and Hove. Mr Wilson said: "The Church of Scientology internationally is very much expanding and to accommodate that expansion, new premises are being acquired for our existing churches worldwide. advertisement "There is nothing ...
Jul 7, 2008
Scientology child labor [Youtube Part 1] — Channel 7 (Australia)More: Youtube Part 2
Jul 1, 2008
Anti-Scientology group on attack — NY Daily News (New York)
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NY Daily News (New York) Critics of Scientology say they plan another theatrical protest against the church — this time targeting its intelligence division. The anti-Scientology group known as Anonymous says its July 12 "Spy vs. Sci" demonstration will be held in "cities all around the world," according to a press release. Anonymous members — who include former Scientologists — are focusing on alleged "abuses" of the church’s intelligence agency, known as the Office of Special Affairs (OSA), says the release. It asks, "Why does something ...
Jun 26, 2008
Scientology hides from Anonymous? — Radar Online
Type: Commentary
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Adam K. Raymond Source:
Radar Online There's something fishy going on at the Church of Scientology Los Angeles, and not just the normal fishy Scientology stuff. By the looks of these
pictures posted to Flickr by former Scientologist Chuck Beatty, it seems the church is preparing for some kind of nuclear attack. Or maybe just another Anonymous protest. The pictures show stacks of shipping containers in front of the Los Angeles church. Beatty
writes that it's a part of "the hiding policy of L. Ron ...
Jun 20, 2008
Scientology: the Anonymous protestors — The Times (UK)
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Tom Whipple Source:
The Times (UK) The Church of Scientology, notoriously ruthless at crushing its critics, may have met its match.The Times joins a demo by ‘Anonymous' - the vanguard of a new internet-fuelled radicalism There were signs, if you knew where to look, that the launch of Operation Sea Arrrgh was imminent. In a hundred corners of the internet plots were being plotted; in fancydress shops sales of Guy Fawkes masks were rising and in thousands of dank teenage bedrooms young men and women were making ...
Jun 17, 2008
Anonymous Protests Scientology; Peace and Quiet Ensues — Radar Online
Type: Press
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Neel Shah Source:
Radar Online This past weekend, members of the anti-Scientology group Anonymous gathered in a bunch of different cities to protest Sea Org, the elite rank of Scientology which makes it possible for members to cruise around on a gigantic carcinogenic cruise liner in exchange for signing a one billion year service contract. Accounts from the event in Boston and from Orange County are up; despite claims from the Church that members of Anonymous are essentially terrorists hell-bent on destroying the Church by any ...
Jun 17, 2008
Scientology protester faces court over 'ambiguous' sign — Evening News (Edinburgh)
Type: Press
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Alan McEwen Source:
Evening News (Edinburgh) A PROTESTER has been charged with breach of the peace after carrying an "ambiguous" sign during a rally against the Church of Scientology. The 57-year-old was arrested after taking part in a protest at Hunter Square, near the controversial church's Scottish base on South Bridge. The protest was organised by campaign group Anonymous, which has been fighting for the right to describe the church as a cult. The protester who was arrested was wearing a Mexican wrestler's mask and carrying signs ...
Jun 1, 2008
Scientology Scandals — The Skeptic (Australia)
May 28, 2008
NY Scientology Chief: 'I Smell Pussy' — Village Voice
Type: Press
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Candice M. Giove Source:
Village Voice [Embedded Youtube video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbZh5sejqHw ] When Rev. John Carmichael, president of the Church of Scientology of New York, came face-to-face with a small contingent of Anonymous protestors this past Monday, he didn't engage them in a spiritual debate. Instead, he leaned into one member on a Times Square street and said, “Let me tell you this: I smell pussy.” Then, looking squarely at the Anon added, “You in particular.” All caught on tape, Carmichael hits a breaking point with the handful ...
May 27, 2008
Jason Beghe turned away at NY Scientology building — Village Voice
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Tony Ortega Source:
Village Voice Jason Beghe tried to get inside the Scientology building on E. 46th Street yesterday, but was turned away by three beefy security men who told him it was their job to keep him out. The confrontation happened while a contingent of about 50 protesters from the anti-Scientology “Anonymous” movement cheered on Beghe from across the street. Members of Scientology itself didn’t make an appearance during the late afternoon protest. Beghe, who had tipped off the Anonymous activists that he’d be making ...
May 26, 2008
The Post editorial board on Britain's censorship of a Scientology protest sign: A defeat for free expression — National Post
Type: Press
Author(s):
Marni Soupcoff Source:
National Post It may be one thing for freedom of expression to be an object of controversy in Canada — which is, after all, a somewhat tenuous experiment in democracy and federalism, one whose final shape and outcome may yet remain to be determined — but it is quite another to see it tormented in Great Britain, the historical anchor of most of the liberties we take for granted. When Britain injures what the rest of regard as British principles, it is a ...
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