Scientology is about to implode
Anonymous | 21.06.2009 15:58 | Culture | Repression
The pyramid scam otherwise known as the Church of Scientology has received the first of three major body blows from which it is unlikely to ever recover.
The St. Petersburg Times have published the first part of a trilogy of articles exposing the violence and intimidation at the dark heart of the cult of greed.
http://www.tampabay.com/news/article1012148.ece
After reading the article a spokesperson for Anonymous said: "I lol'd"
Anonymous is often misunderstood and would like to take this opprotunity to tell anyone who wants to ask us why we "don't protest proper issues". Firstly we do, secondly the implications of taking down Scientology are huge in terms of general anti-capitalist activism and thidly, get back to Quiggins!
http://www.tampabay.com/news/article1012148.ece After reading the article a spokesperson for Anonymous said: "I lol'd"
Anonymous is often misunderstood and would like to take this opprotunity to tell anyone who wants to ask us why we "don't protest proper issues". Firstly we do, secondly the implications of taking down Scientology are huge in terms of general anti-capitalist activism and thidly, get back to Quiggins!
Anonymous
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*Ahh*
21.06.2009 21:53
ThisNameIsAnAlias
Going too far
23.06.2009 01:04
Why? Yes, they're a nasty bunch of shits, but isn't this over-rating their significance? I don't understand how capitalism would be undermined or affected in any significant way by the exposure and demise of scientology. Please explain.
Secondly, I'm doubtful that scientology can be "brought down" by exposure in newspapers. A bit dented, perhaps, especially in Russia, but little more than that. There have been several exposes before and scientology can ride them out in the longer term. It takes more than a few newspaper articles, however well researched and hard-hitting, to bring down a cult like them.
The Jehovah's Witnesses even managed to overcome predicting the end of the world on two precise dates, stipulating the minute and the hour (in 1914 and 1975). When the world did not end as predicted, they were generally derided and lost many adherents, of course, but they bounced back. They now lie about the 1914 prediction and have suppressed the 1975 one, denying they ever made it. Try getting a back number of their "Watchtower" magazine for late 1974, and you won't succeed. If enough pressure was put on, they'd probably print up fakes.
OK, the Jo-Jos are not the same as scientology, but it takes more than a bit of exposure and public humiliation to see off these cult scum. Actually, I'm more worried about the Jo-Jos as they prey on working class people, whereas scientology targets the worried and gulible middle classes.
Larry