Clearwater City Council NOT Going to Stop Anonymous Protesters

The St. Petersburg Times (or the SP Times, heh) is reporting that to the chagrin of some petitioning locals who are primarily Scientologists, the Clearwater City Council has no intent of preventing Anonymous protesters from assembling in downtown Clearwater. As was posted on a few days ago, business workers, managers and owners - again, most of whom are Scientologists - petitioned to have Anonymous protesters banned from protesting in downtown Clearwater, saying that it is negatively affecting their businesses on protest days. They claimed that the protesters were not peaceful (though they gave no actual evidence of this claim), that they were preventing customers from entering their stores, and that they were ruining the local ambiance. The Council spent less than two minutes on this disingenuous clearly cult-related petition, and have no intention of considering the issue any further. Hear, hear!

Just a quick suggestion to local business owners concerned about their financial viability. Y’know what can really hurt your business? Having it located in a town that a malevolent cult is trying and having some success in taking over as their mecca. A recent Gallup study has demonstrated an unsurprising social trend: Scientologists are the least trusted religious/spiritual group in the US. So when retirees who are interested in flying South for their Golden Years, some are probably not going to want to live in a town over-run by aggressive cultists. And when vacationers are picking amongst Florida hotspots, which of the following are they most likely to have an immediately negative opinion of: Daytona, St. Petersburg, Tampa, Orlanda, or Scientologisrael? (Note: I am not implying that contemporary Judaism is morally comparable to Scientology).

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Tory Christman Discusses WISE, Disconnection, Tommy Davis, PR, CoS Volunteer Ministries, and Scientology Beliefs

WISE= World Institute of Scientology Enterprises. This is the Scientology front group that raises money for the cult and tries to recruit new members by providing expensive business consulting which includes the application of “LRH Tech”.

The one thing I’m curious about regarding the claims of this video is the statement that Scientology has no belief, no faith. What about Xenu, body thetans and thetans, then? This may not be a God theory, but it is certainly a set of faith-based beliefs regarding the nature of humanity.

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Scientology and Crimes Against Humanity

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Scilons Target British Blogger

A British blogger has apparently been targeted by e-Scilons. After running this post on the London Anonymous protester Epic Nose Guy’s Court Summons for displaying a sign which (accurately) called Scientology a dangerous cult, the blogger received this message from his web host 1 & 1:

Dear *******, (Customer ID: ******) Thank you for continuing to use 1&1 Internet. We sincerely apologize for contacting you regarding this matter, but multiple complaints have been directed to us regarding a recent entry on your site Right Where You Are Sitting Now! - Exploring the Underground and Counterculture…so you don\’t have to! Please call us re: at your earliest convieniance (lol they can’t spell) quoting your customer reference number ********. In the meantime, if you would consider temporarily removing the entry, we would appreciate it.

Upon contacting 1 & 1, the blogger learned that all of the complaints came within the span of one hour and only two of the complainers left a name. What were the names, you ask? The first was “Mark Bunker”. Heh. Cute. For those of you who do not know, Mark is only one of the world’s most well-known critics of the Cult of Scientology. The second name wasn’t nearly as chuckle-inducing. It was the name of the blogger’s mother. This is just plain creepy.

Once the blogger explained all of this to 1&1, they dropped it and chalked up the complaints as a prank. Not really a prank, though. To use new underground Internet slang, suppressing critical speech is the new black for Scientology. It’s the in thing. Anybody who’s anybody is doing it! They’ve been doing it for a while in Clearwater. Heck, they’re trying it again RIGHT NOW! They’ve also tried it in Philadelphia. As a Toronto Anon accurately declared on her sign this past Saturday at Operation: FairGameStop, CULTS HATE TRUTH.

But the blogger is nevertheless understandably a little freaked out by how one of the plaintants gave his mother’s name. He has had a bit of a history with the cult, having been harassed while researching them (e.g., their personality test) during his Master’s Degree research. As he has surely learned by now, and as the Cult of Scientology administration is learning more and more by the day, when CoS tries to silence one critic they have to deal with ALL OF THEM. What this means in this case is that their attempts to have his post taken down will have the same effect as their attempts to take down their hysterical Tom Cruise video: many times more people will see what CoS does not want them to see. Their gun just doesn’t seem to run out of bullets for their feet, does it?

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Scientologists EXPOSED Trying to Stop Anon Protests in Clearwater (UPDATED)

A group of Clearwater merchants located near the local Cult of Scientology base have produced a petition asking Clearwater Mayor Frank Hibbard to prevent local Anonymous protesters of the cult from protesting. In reading this petition, it is very clear that Scientology is behind this. The contents of the letter are so completely Scientologized (i.e., full of lies that serve the interests of the Cult of Scientology - feel free to add this term to Urban Dictionary, by the way) as to remove any sense of mystery regarding the primary driving factor behind the petition and the signatures on it.

Scientology’s Internal Training in Robbery, Infiltration, Bribery & Blackmail

This well-produced video featuring former Office of Special Affairs (OSA; i.e., Scientology’s own CIA) agent Frank Oliver reviews Scientology training documents covering such churchly operatives as breaking and entering through doors and safes, and blackmail. Oliver also describes the structure and operations of OSA, its role in Scientology, and how it has been described by former head of the Los Angeles office of the FBI as one of the most effective intelligence operations in the United States, “rivaling even that of the FBI”.

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Battle Creek, Michigan Scientology Protesters: Where Were You?

This message is to Scientology dissidents of Battle Creek, Michigan. Where were you yesterday!? I just checked out Ed Brayton’s popular ScienceBlogs blog Dispatches from the Culture Wars, where I read that the Battle Creek protest was effectively a no-show. Aside from Ed, there was one other person there - who may well have been there in good part to meet Ed!

This was a good opportunity to spread the word on Scientology, as Ed was attending in order to interview Battle Creek Anons for a piece on Dispatches, which would have no doubt been read by thousands of people. I am not privy to Brayton’s traffic stats, but judging from the number of visitors that come to The Frame Problem when he drops a link, I wouldn’t be surprised if he gets around 5,000 hits a day. Furthermore, having one of the more visited blogs on Seed Magazine’s ScienceBlogs may have helped move the Scientology protest up a few notches on the agendas of other ScienceBlog bloggers, many of whom are also read by thousands of surfers a day.

If any Battle Creek Anons read this, perhaps leave a comment in the comment section of his post and maybe an interview could be worked out…

Operation: Sea Arrrgh. June 14. The Next International Scientology Protest

Did Canadian President of Scientology Implicitly Threaten Protester?!

Here is a video of “Reverend” Yvette Shank, President of the “Church” of Scientology Canada, speaking to a protester on an April 20 mini-raid protest in Toronto. Shank asks the protester why she is not wearing a mask. The protester says she is not wearing a mask on account of the warm weather and because she is not afraid of CoS and does not think that the CoS could find her anyway. Shank says that CoS would not even bother trying to find her, but that they could if they wanted to. Is it just me, or does Shank seem pretty confident in her cult’s ability to track down detractors? I don’t blame her given the cult’s years of experience in this sort of thing. Question: Why would the President and supposed Reverend of a supposedly ethical “Church” go out of her way to tell someone protesting against the “Church’s” unethicality that the “Church” could indeed track the protester down if they wanted to? By the way, did I mention that this organization claims to be a Church?

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Munich Anons Egged By Scientologist?!

Munich, Germany Anonymous protester claims that a Scientologist was caught and assigned a court date for hurling eggs at protesters on Saturday, May 10 at Operation: FairGameStop.

I’ll try to keep up on the news on this case. If anyone hears anything on this, please provide links in comment section.

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