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  • notque, on 02/11/2008, -6/+19Solidarity!
    • stolenisotope1, on 02/11/2008, -10/+4Anon Delivers - DIGG THIS TO FRONT PAGE

      http://digg.com/comedy/Sydney_CO_Protesters_HAIL_X ...

      http://youtube.com/watch?v=-7Hn9Qgqw9k

      ALL HAIL XENU!! (THX FROM ANON IN SYDNEY)
    • PhilLesh69, on 02/11/2008, -26/+8Stop being distracted by stories about scientologists. Sure, we all know that they believe that an alien god brought the souls to Earth, and they inhabited the bodies of monkies.

      It is all a diversion.

      Pay attention to current events and politics, stop focusing on this *****.

      We have an election coming up, and we have troops in Iraq. Let's care about meaningful things, not meaningless *****.
      • DCJoeDogaswell, on 02/11/2008, -4/+9You're under the misguided belief that this is only occurring in the United States only, when in fact it is a worldwide initiative. Don't worry, Obama or Hillary will win, and the war will magically come to an end. So we can focus on other things if we want to.
        • Jaysunli, on 02/11/2008, -12/+4Local politics aside his main point is just as valid.

          There are far more pressing matters then Scientology. I respect the real protestors doing the dirty work but the majority of people at these lateset events are hardly protesting. They are joining the chan wagon and literally doing it for the lulz. That is pretty much the saddest thing I have ever heard of.

          • spyrochaete, on 02/11/2008, -2/+15In my city of Toronto over 50 people took part in the Anonymous raid. It was -35 celcius with windchill yesterday. Doesn't sound like a lot of lulz to me. The opponents of Scientology are serious.

            http://torontoist.com/2008/02/scientology_pro.php
          • 11oops, on 02/11/2008, -8/+1All 50 of them?
          • Memitim, on 02/11/2008, -0/+9If there have to be groups of people screwing around, I'd much rather that they be doing so drawing attention to a dangerous organization like Scientology rather than at a ball game, a bar, or some other useless activity. Christ, you make it sound like we need to optimize every activity we do regardless of what we want to do, which seems doubly stupid seeing as we are posting on Digg rather than composing letters to our editors, writing our Congressmen, or preparing public speeches.
      • Vektuz, on 02/17/2008, -0/+1Also you seem to assume people can only think about one thing at a time.
    • milliamp, on 02/11/2008, -0/+9MIRROR: http://youtube.com/watch?v=BN7M9iChi5U
      • Synapse84, on 02/11/2008, -0/+2thx, that other site wouldn't work for me.
    • starkes, on 02/11/2008, -1/+1http://digg.com/world_news/L_Ron_Hubbard_s_Dianeti ...

      DIGG IT UP
  • LeopardGirl420, on 02/11/2008, -5/+38Video wasnt starting, had to pause then move scroller a bit, works now
  • ninja0, on 02/11/2008, -15/+23DUGG!
    Scifags should get a life!... even though we are the ones protesting in our spare time...
    • Memitim, on 02/11/2008, -3/+3Heh, I suppose brainwashing people could be considered less of a waste of time than protesting. :)
    • queenstarsha, on 02/11/2008, -6/+8"scifags"?

      listen to yourself.
    • donthateme, on 02/11/2008, -0/+3Its good to see people stand up for other people's freedom of speech, even if they are trapped in a cult. The bigger person sees through their ignorance and helps the trapped person if if they don't want it at this time. Surely, they will be desperate for freedom from this cult at some point in their life, when they smell the coffee. I'm a Christian and believe that freedom of speech should never be taken away from anyone.
    • rune420, on 02/12/2008, -1/+1What's funny to me is that compared to 4channers scientologists actually seem like a nice group of people. I don't get how you guys can act so self righteous in between all the trading of child porn and overused racial slurs.
  • NinjasR2Cool, on 02/11/2008, -8/+19This is great the more mainstream media coverage the better. Keep up the great work everyone!

    LOL @ Xenu
    • badjoke, on 02/11/2008, -2/+9Anon doesn't fight against their beliefs, just their criminal practices. Who are you to tell someone what to believe or not? If you crusade against Scientology's beliefs, you have to mark up all the other religions as well which have premises just as preposterous.
    • dogshaft, on 02/11/2008, -0/+6Bay news 9 isn't really main stream. It's the crappy Tampa Bay local 24 hour news channel owned by the cable company. Though, not bad since the Scinos own pretty much all of downtown Clearwater.
  • ryanonfire, on 02/11/2008, -15/+72Digg this up, don't let scientology bury it. If they do report it it at: abuse@digg.com
    • Micktion, on 02/11/2008, -32/+12Every person who thinks you're a silly doink isn't a scientologist u know. Maybe some people simply believe in the right to religious freedom?

      If people want to join a silly religion and fork over heaps of dosh, who cares? Isn't that exactly what all those evangelical churches in the south have been doing for years? No one protests evangelical christianity do they?

      Just what does all this flaming of scientology achieve other than prove how capable you are of being a silly intelorant git?
      • truspect0r, on 02/11/2008, -4/+37They're not protesting their beliefs noob.

        Btw, $cientology's a cult not a religion.
        • Micktion, on 02/11/2008, -16/+6So what's your anti-scientology cult called?

          Imposing beliefs upon people is negative and wrong it doesn't matter if it's scientologists or assholes like you doing it, there's no difference, your universal truth isn't any truer than theirs get it?
          • truspect0r, on 02/12/2008, -0/+3Are you dumb? They are protesting the management, the business, the corporation. I don't give a ***** about $cientologist believing in Xenu as the satan or DC-8 dropping hydrogen bombs, they are scamming, brain washing people and they have a very bad history starting with the worst IRS infiltration in US history. I have no time to explain it to you. Visit these sites:

            http://www.xenu.net
            http://www.forum.exscn.net/index.php
            http://www.xenutv.com
          • Micktion, on 02/14/2008, -0/+1I don't believe a word of any of these stories, I think you would have to be a complete moron to believe half of it, it's just people grabbing for cash, trying to sell stories which are so transparently false that it's an insult to anyone who reads them.
      • Midtowner, on 02/11/2008, -1/+12Anon hasn't killed anyone. Scientology has.

        Anon hasn't committed fraud and blackmail in order to become tax exempt. Scientology has.

        Anon is not a dangerous, murdering, slandering cult. Scientology is.
    • badjoke, on 02/11/2008, -14/+3Maybe some people see your ploy to get a highly dugg comment.
    • Dgen_X, on 02/11/2008, -9/+2And with that highly dugg comment he will become KING OF THE WORLD...of digg comments, yes I said KING OF THE WORLD...of digg comments.

      Man...there's a The Simpsons line that can be used to respond to anything.
    • W00DR0W, on 02/11/2008, -12/+7First of all, I've never seen any scientiology apologists on digg, or a buried scientology story, I think you're just making up threats in your head.

      Secondly, there's already seven of these stupid anonymous things on the front page, I think it's long past time you give up the oppressed masses act, it just looks stupid now.
    • BlazinEurasian, on 02/11/2008, -0/+3The LA times Scientology raid is no longer on the front page of digg for me!! WTH?
  • dildoolielly, on 02/11/2008, -73/+11Ok, Quiz time, whats the nuttier cult?

    Some unproven planet called "Xenu" and unfound evidence for beings under volcanoes on earth. In addition to a body and a mind, each person is also an immortal spiritual entity called a Thetan, which spans lifetimes and has the power to create the basic elements of existence: matter, energy, space, and time. With the help of Scientology, church members move along a path to spiritual enlightenment known as the Bridge to Total Freedom. The aim of this spiritual pilgrimage is to attain higher states of consciousness, marked by successive levels of Operating Thetan status.

    OR

    A mythical anthropomorphic, "Bible-God" impregnated a child virgin in order to give birth to himself in order to be sacrificed to himself in order to sit beside himself in order to save the world from himself as some kind of experiment in psychopathic, self replicating, self-redemption along with disturbing stories of hell and damnation and devils and eternal suffering if one should stray?

    OR

    magical invisible green elephants who control the universe from their homes inside doorknobs
    • mastic, on 02/11/2008, -1/+46Xenu is not a planet
      • dildoolielly, on 02/11/2008, -1/+6Xenu (sometimes Xemu) is introduced as an alien ruler of the "Galactic Confederacy" who, 75 million years ago, brought billions of people to Earth in spacecraft resembling Douglas DC-8 airliners, stacked them around volcanoes and blew them up with hydrogen bombs. Their souls then clustered together and stuck to the bodies of the living.

        I stand corrected
        • RealmDown, on 02/11/2008, -1/+5You type standing up ?
          • dildoolielly, on 02/11/2008, -1/+1See. Here is more proof of intelligent design.

            Smile! Jesus love you!
    • 3F05Q, on 02/11/2008, -2/+59I think you're missing it entirely. The point of all this crap is that Scientology is sucking people in and stripping them financially... and even killing people in solitary confinement. Take all the Xenu stuff out, and you'd still have a money-racket.
      • dildoolielly, on 02/11/2008, -18/+5Compare the income of any medium to large church to the budget of your average local soup kitchen. Multiply that by about 1,000,000
        We have about 250 churches around here and about ONE soup kitchen.

        Have you ever actually even researched the income of your average med/big church? You can't because most don't have to report their earnings or pay taxes that help pay for education, roads and other needs of the local communities.

        Try to get a church to pay your heating bill ONE time. Tell them you only need it one time. I'm sure you will

        Churches drain communities of their charity and buy up infrastructure on taxless land raising everybody else's property taxes.
        Really look it up sometime. I am sure you will.
        • dildoolielly, on 02/11/2008, -12/+4I don't mind being dugg down. Its predictible, the come in flocks, but being dugg down so quickly with lack of rebuttals seems pathetic and desperate

          Speaks volumes
          • dildoolielly, on 02/11/2008, -2/+1I arrest my case to the intolerance of Christianity

            Now lets go bash Scientology together, I guess we'll worry about your mind virus later.
        • OhhWell, on 02/11/2008, -3/+9Just dugg you down for your condescending tone. That better?
          • dildoolielly, on 02/11/2008, -3/+2I'll be sure to wear my fancy garb next time. If it makes you "feel" more comfortable
      • Micktion, on 02/11/2008, -7/+4When someone brings a criminal court case against them and wins I'll believe it.

        But thanks to idiots like you, that will probably never happen, as it's doubtful with this sort of crap going on that any prosecutor could argue that their jury has remained impartial.
        • Midtowner, on 02/11/2008, -1/+5Their leader died in hiding after being convicted of numerous federal crimes. Many of their leaders were sent to prison for the same crimes including the leader's wife.

          Convinced?
          • dildoolielly, on 02/11/2008, -1/+1Well at least we know that the looney Ron L. Hubard actually existed. There is not one shred of evidence for this "Jesus" fella!

            Ask any local university historian for the evidence indicating jesus was anything other than a manufactured martyr of the late 1st century CE. He/she will tell you that no such evidence of a "historical" jesus exists. His existence MUST be taken on faith, just like those who believe in Zeus and/or many other mythical characters.

            Nothing was written about jesus for more than four decades after he was "supposedly" executed. He has no tomb because (conveniently) his burial could not take place (as his imaginary daddy whisked him up to heaven, apparently just in the nick of time!). No bones, right? Not one contemporary historian wrote even one sentence about him. Why is that?

    • nemesiscw, on 02/11/2008, -2/+11Yeah, he's missing the point. They don't care about the whole story. Let them believe whatever they want to believe, we don't care. The point is that the people running the cult are killing off people, extorting people, blackmailing people, and numerous other crimes.
      • dildoolielly, on 02/11/2008, -22/+3Ask ANY local university historian if Christians haven't done the same thing for literally thousands of years

        FROM 1450 to 1792 throughout Europe, New England, and South America, Christians murdered perhaps 50,000 to 100,000 "Satan worshipers" & other heretics

        from 1492 to now Christians murdered millions or tens of millions aboriginals throughout the western hemisphere

        between 1904 and 1907 in the formerly German South-West Africa, the Christian German government killed 35,000 to 105,000 hereros and animists

        from 1941 to 1945 in Croatia, the Ustaša (Roman-Catholic/Fascist regime) murdered up to one million Jews, Roma, Serbian Orthodox Christians, anti-fascist Croats

        The 1995 bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, OK, by Timothy McVeigh killed 168, including 19 children.

        One lynching, one attempted mass murder by stoning, and numerous fire bombings, shootings, and assaults victimized Wiccans and other Neopagans in the U.S. during the late 20th century. To our knowledge, all were perpetrated by Fundamentalist Christians.
        Fundamentalist Christians have attacked Jewish centers, attempted to poison municipal water supplies, bombed abortion clinics, and assassinated abortion providers

        The Recontructionist movement asserts that the coming reign of Jesus will abolish democracy, the separation of church and state, abortion, religious freedom, federal welfare programs, and many other features of modern society.

        A brochure published by Aryan Nations included this statement in their creed of faith: "We BELIEVE there is a battle being fought this day between the children of darkness (today known as Jews) and the children of Light (God), the Aryan race, the true Israel of the Bible."

        One of the United States most notorious right wing terrorist groups of the post-war era, the Order (otherwise known as the Silent Brotherhood, or Holy Order of Aryan Warriors) brought together militant racists from Christian Identity, a racist faction of the Odinists, and people of conventional neo-Nazi backgrounds.

        And let us not forget Christianity's long, bloody history...

        The Crusades

        The 500 years of Inquisitions

        The pillage, rape, torture and murder of the Aztecs

        The murder of every Indian on Cuba

        The genocide against the American Indian

        The worlds' most famous Christian Adolf Hitler and his Christian Nazis, the 6 million they killed in the Holocaust, and the 35 million who died as a result of the World War they launched

        Christian-sponsored genocide in Rwanda

        Jim Jones and his Kool-Aid Party

        Tim McVeigh - (Oklahoma City Bomber)
        Terry Nichols (Oklahoma City Bomber)
        Ted Kaczynski (Unabomber)
        Randy Weaver - (Ruby Ridge)
        David Koresh - (Cult Leader)
        Dennis Rader - (BTK)
        Eric Rudolph - (Olympic/Abortion Clinic Bomber)
        Ted Bundy - (Serial Killer)
        Paul Hill - (Abortion Doc Killer)
        David Duke - (White Supremacist)


        And Scientologists are a "menace"? LMFAO...!
        • eosp, on 02/11/2008, -2/+3The actions of the few do not demonstrate the motives of all. The actions of the few do not demonstrate the motives of all. The actions of the few do not demonstrate the motives of all. Apply directly to the forehead.

          "FROM 1450 to 1792 throughout Europe, New England, and South America, Christians murdered perhaps 50,000 to 100,000 "Satan worshipers" & other heretics"
          And I don't. And I don't support that. So quit condemning me for the crimes of another.

          Fundamentalist Christians have attacked Jewish centers, attempted to poison municipal water supplies, bombed abortion clinics, and assassinated abortion providers
          And I haven't.

          The worlds' most famous Christian Adolf Hitler and his Christian Nazis, the 6 million they killed in the Holocaust, and the 35 million who died as a result of the World War they launched
          He can call himself a Christian all day, but by his fruit I know him. He did evil, therefore he was not truly of Christ.

          You only hear about the Christians who do crap like this. You don't hear the rest of us who realize that we (yes, WE, the Christians, need it too) are sinners, need forgiveness for that, and honestly try to glorify God by our actions.
          • dildoolielly, on 02/11/2008, -1/+1You are not a "Christian", even though you may call yourself one. You are not following scripture. And thats a GOOD thing, because you would probably be in jail if you did.

            You hypocritical assholes like to distance yourselves from extremists by pointing out that these extremists don't represent the majority of christians, but you fail to explain why the majority of christians don't take exception to these horrendous acts in history based on same beliefs. Nor do you present any coherent argument as to how you came to chose which parts of the bible are to be take literally and which are metaphorical lessons. The problem is not, as so many like to say, that a few extremists get things wrong, its that these extremists get things right... biblically speaking that is.

            Moderates need to admit that the bible is a human text that expresses moral and ethical viewpoints that are several thousand years out of date. Until they do, they need to live with the stink that the biblical literalists bring.

      • RealmDown, on 02/11/2008, -0/+6So, your point is that no one can take a stand about an active wrong until all past and present wrongs are corrected first?

        [takes whatever you are fighting against and belittles your efforts until all you listed above is fixed]
    • AntzNZ, on 02/11/2008, -3/+17IT'S NOT ABOUT THE ***** BELIEFS! I know you read that because I made it important by putting it in capital letters.
    • adinb, on 02/11/2008, -4/+3You left out the Pastafarians...the FSM will be *very* displeased with you! :P
    • mizatt, on 02/11/2008, -0/+2the first one
    • jmg703, on 02/11/2008, -0/+2The one that takes your money and tells you that you can't talk to your own FAMILY.
    • bumblefoot, on 02/11/2008, -0/+4consider this, most major religions came to popularity thousands of years ago when we lacked the scientific abilities to explain much if anything, so people actually needed something that said "look this is how this we exist, they also needed a concept to keep law and order and sufferering for eternity in the damnation of hell is a better detterrent than anything they'd have came across before. now look at scientology, invented in the 1940s by a failed science fiction writer in order to fleece the ***** out of anyone whos foolish enough to enter it and to make himself some kind of superhero if you believe the crap the Cult of scientology say about him (compared to the facts)

      now which one is "crazier"
      • mGARANDEUR1, on 02/11/2008, -1/+5clearly Scientology. No other religion requires money to attend. You could go into any church and ask for a bible and they give one to you. Religions focus and love and the family structure. Scientology focuses on extorting individuals.
        • dildoolielly, on 02/12/2008, -1/+1Oh, utter *****, stop giving your tithe and the Church will cease to exist, its that simple

          Its not just common fvcking sense, its simple mathematics.

          Religions focus and love?

          while Jesus was alive, He promised to do much more after He passed. Jesus said that, come Judgment Day, sinners will be gathered together and hurled into a furnace of fire where there will be uncontrollable wailing and gnashing of teeth (Matthew 13:41-42, 50). Entire cities of people who don't believe in Him will suffer a fate worse than that of Sodom and Gomorra (Mark 6:11). Jesus said that God will take vengeance on nonbelievers by burning them "in flaming fire" (2 Thessalonians 1:7-9). The Lord will create horse-like locusts with human heads, women's hair, lion's teeth and scorpion's tails that will sting and inflict savage pain on sinners for five months (Revelation 9:7-10).

          After God sends fires, plagues and beasts God to Earth, the world will be covered in unburied dead bodies rotting everywhere while good Christians will "rejoice over them and make merry, and shall send gifts to one another" (Revelation 11:5-10). Meanwhile, the smoke of the burning, rotting bodies will ascend and plague the Earth forever (Revelation 14:10-11). And the smell will attract scavenger birds that will feast upon "the supper of the great God" (Revelation 19:17-18).

          Jesus will send an earthquake to kill 7,000 people (Revelation 11:13). He will inflict bodily sores, turn the seas and rivers to blood, scorch everyone with fire, cause people to consume their own tongues. Oh, and He'll cause horrendous storms, too (Revelation 16:1-21).

          Now, what was it you said about unconditional love? In the United States, if you engaged in the acts Jesus promised to do, you would find yourself in prison for the rest of your life. Contrary to the way you view Him, Jesus was no sissy! He doesn't sit around meekly crying over sinners not worshiping Him enough - He kills them. And then tortures them for good measure!

          So, phony Christian, continue ignoring all the parts of the New Testament you don't like, and latch onto the little nancy-boy verses you prefer. But bear in mind that the single page of the Bible you like to quote will incinerate in less than a second when your sorry ass is hurled into the furnace of an everlasting Hell!

          Praying those who pick and choose which parts of the Bible to quote are the first plunged into the fiery abyss.


    • sirhomer, on 02/11/2008, -0/+3I like Elephants.
  • 3F05Q, on 02/11/2008, -9/+0Flordia is the latest state or something?
    • koft, on 02/11/2008, -0/+15Clearwater, Florida is where scientology HQ is located. It's kind of a ballsy move to do this being that scientology basically has half the police force there on the payroll.
    • FlashBazbo, on 02/11/2008, -0/+3That's the way it's *really* seplled, but I've said too much ...
  • Connormac44, on 02/11/2008, -65/+9I'd say the digg users uniting against Scientology form the real cult. Get a life, losers. Scientology may suck, but this recent sensationalist exposure on digg is no more than a bunch of ***** stuck at their computer just dying for some phony "cause" to rally behind so they can feel like they're making a difference. This makes them feel less guilty for sitting behind their computers for upwards of 12 hours a day. Let the crazies be.
    • 10wattmindtrip, on 02/11/2008, -7/+16You're an idiot.
    • kaskarn, on 02/11/2008, -5/+23 Well I for one welcome you to a process called democracy, which can indeed leave up to 50% of the people unhappy. Guess what, it's not all about you.
      Regards
      • Connormac44, on 02/11/2008, -24/+2Well I for one welcome you to stop talking out of your ass.
    • jmg703, on 02/11/2008, -1/+5better to sit at a computer and be a small part of a cause than be a part of NOTHING AT ALL.
    • inajeep, on 02/11/2008, -1/+2That attitude is where the laziness and unintelligent of the world get their reputation. Do something about it, don't complain. Or STFU and keep reading about it
    • jetsetter883, on 02/11/2008, -1/+2i dugg you up!
  • progrockguy, on 02/11/2008, -48/+7Bury this! if you can't handle the truth.

    I'm starting to see a cult of ANON, "great justice," epic this, epic that, yada yda....

    I don't like the CoS, but seriously, these efforts are a collective waste of time.

    They're just distracting us from real, important issues. C'mon, this is like arguing over American Idol contestants or why "X" shouldn't have been voted off some reality show.
    • trashsportcat, on 02/11/2008, -4/+1CowS is just shooting practice.
    • inajeep, on 02/11/2008, -0/+4Actually CoS is much much worse than American Idol. However, it's not a contest. Issues happen in parallel and don't take precedent over each other in terms of what someone should care about. This cult influences politics.
    • Leviathan88, on 02/11/2008, -0/+3fail.
    • CannibalTom, on 02/11/2008, -0/+2Buried for being dumb.
  • jakdracula, on 02/11/2008, -1/+42"raid" means something different to me... However: go anonymous!
    • Amadeus2490, on 02/11/2008, -2/+9Raid 0 array?
      Raid bugspray?
      Police Raid?
      When it raids it poors?
      Don't raid on my parade?
      I raided Joe Momma?
      Womb Raider: The Last Semination?
  • Micktion, on 02/11/2008, -45/+7Disclaimer: I'm not a scientologist!

    I think all this anti-scientology stuff is getting a little out of hand.
    Remember the right to religious freedom and all that?

    You start persecuting one religion this week, which religion will it be the next?
    The jews? Oh wait thats already been done.
    How about the Hari-krishna's?
    • mbrolutti, on 02/11/2008, -4/+20Yes you are.
      • Micktion, on 02/11/2008, -9/+3I swear to Elron I'm not.

        Seriously... I read the first chapter of an Elron Hubbard book and thought it was dribble.

        Give me a religious cult on Arthur C Clarke and I'll empty out my bank account tomorrow.

        Anyhow getting back to persecuting the Hari-krishnas whose in?
    • springhell, on 02/11/2008, -3/+17Jews don't charge money for salvation... that's the difference.
    • mbrolutti, on 02/11/2008, -2/+12Yeah well theres that, and then theres the fact that they destroy families and kill people.
      • Micktion, on 02/11/2008, -11/+3Well that would be a police matter wouldn't it?

        Or in amongst all the conspiracy theories running round in the anti-scientology cult r the police under scientologist control too?
        • spyrochaete, on 02/11/2008, -1/+4Curious that the authorities haven't stepped in yet, isn't it?
        • truspect0r, on 02/12/2008, -0/+2Yes, the police are getting paid by the $cientologist.

          youtube "bob minton clearwater police"
    • badjoke, on 02/11/2008, -2/+10They aren't persecuting their right to believe or even mocking their beliefs, only fighting the criminality of the organization.
      • Micktion, on 02/11/2008, -10/+5You fight criminality by filing official complaints to law enforcement officials. Doing things like running round the place slapping yellow stars on peoples windows is NOT fighting criminality.

        Villifying a group of people, no matter how kooky they are is just plain frightening. I'm more scared of people like you than I am of scientologists.
    • Drkgodess, on 02/11/2008, -3/+291. It's not a religion, it's criminal organization that charges it's followers in order for them to get "clear".
      2. Anonymous isn't against the belief systems of the people, rather the corrupt organization behind scientology.
      3. Other religions don't charge over $300,000.00 for salvation, hence anon has no problem with them.
      • Micktion, on 02/11/2008, -16/+3Wait you left out a few things....

        Weren't they also responsible for 911 the kennedy assassination, and britney's mental breakdown?
        • zomgz, on 02/11/2008, -2/+21no.. but they may have been involved with the manufacturing of lead paint that u digested as a child leading to ur retardation.
          kthx
    • detonate, on 02/11/2008, -2/+18Scientology plant alert. Scientologists have been spamming the Internet trying to equate our protests with intolerance of all religions...
      • the6thReplicant, on 02/11/2008, -1/+13It's beginning to look like it. Anyone that starts off with "I'm not a Scientologist but.." and anyone who can't read the legitimate claims against Scientology, but instead making it a first amendment issue.

        Nice FUD guys but it's not 9/11 anymore, the art of subtle arguments are back!!
        • detonate, on 02/12/2008, -0/+1I would upmod you twice if I could...
    • jmg703, on 02/11/2008, -1/+3This isn't against the followers of Scientology, but at the church leaders taking advantage of them.
    • truspect0r, on 02/12/2008, -1/+2Yes you are:

      http://www.digg.com/users/Micktion/comments
  • hadiz, on 02/11/2008, -4/+64I live in Clearwater, and for those that don't know I believe it is officially the scientology capital of the world. They have a huge say in what goes on downtown, and own probably 90% of the businesses down there.
    • AxisDenied, on 02/11/2008, -3/+6That's odd... I lived just outside of clearwater for 20 years and the only scientology involvement I know is the property they own up US19.
      • fritzbrown, on 02/11/2008, -0/+6 Scientology is the largest landowner in Clearwater. The former Ft. Harrison Hotel is their flagship and considered to be the world headquarters, or was at one time.
        They started buying land in the late 70's and quietly kept adding to it. Reps from Scientology would walk into a business with a suitcase full of money and would walk out owning the property.
    • andrew1111, on 02/11/2008, -2/+14Yes, Scientology's "Flag", their land headquarters, are in Clearwater (you can see the tall-ish sand-colored building in the background of this video.) Of course it is the location where many of their evil-doings take place... certainly more than anyone knows about. I head the "pleasure" of staying at Flag on a few occasions as a child, and I would not recommend it as a vacation destination (Clearwater itself is ok, but stay away from Flag). :)
      • andrew1111, on 02/11/2008, -1/+13BTW sorry about the temporary-ish account, if anyone noticed. I kinda would rather not have Scientology know that I've been in their organization.
      • andrew1111, on 02/11/2008, -10/+4Bury me for complaining about being buried. :D
    • ExSlashdotter, on 02/11/2008, -0/+2Really? i had no idea it was so big. I'm just down in Sarasota...
  • springhell, on 02/11/2008, -3/+125I love how she says its "cowardly" that the protesters hid behind disguises. It's not like the Church attacks, stalks, and ruins the lives of people that speak out against them or anything.
    • fafaforza, on 02/11/2008, -9/+5The reporter would have done well to show one of the protesters the video and ask for a response. Instead, a scientology spokesman got the last word. Nicely balanced.
  • AxisDenied, on 02/11/2008, -4/+1The video isn't related? Did they take it down?
  • VSKBadCRC, on 02/11/2008, -1/+8Anyone have an alternate link to this video? It freezes less than half way through the video.
  • zomgz, on 02/11/2008, -1/+4linked content: anticipation>FAIL
  • slorocks, on 02/11/2008, -7/+2It's an exploit! Watchout there out to get you. Do you have your Flash up to date? LOL
    • SSUK, on 02/11/2008, -1/+2Yes, but what's actually wrong with this flash is that it was made by an idiot typing on the keyboard upside down.
  • Jenadae, on 02/11/2008, -2/+5Video wont load :(
  • Devdan, on 02/11/2008, -1/+8I live near there and the Scientology headquarters is huge in Clearwater.
  • Shoseki, on 02/11/2008, -0/+1I can't watch it, it jumps around and then cuts to yet another commercial for the same station.

    Anyone have transcript / youtube link?
    • Frostman3D, on 02/11/2008, -0/+1refresh the page and it should work. I had the same issue.
  • Devaney, on 02/11/2008, -0/+3During the "Anonymous Special" you can save $2,100 on these great books!
    http://bpi.goldenageofknowledge.net/packages/ultim ...
    • Devaney, on 02/11/2008, -0/+2bpi.goldenageofknowledge.net/packages/others.html....only $5700 for the whole Hubbard set, what a deal!!!
  • MykeXX, on 02/11/2008, -10/+3http://digg.com/world_news/IHateScientology_com_Am ...

    New anti-Scientology website
  • VSKBadCRC, on 02/11/2008, -1/+65Alternate Link, via Youtube:
    http://youtube.com/watch?v=BN7M9iChi5U
  • variable, on 02/11/2008, -1/+14The video is on YouTube: http://youtube.com/watch?v=BN7M9iChi5U
  • AlienMushroom, on 02/21/2008, -2/+4May we call today the Anon's Day?
    • Amadeus2490, on 02/11/2008, -10/+1***** their day.
    • queenstarsha, on 02/11/2008, -1/+1of course you may.

      i won't, but you're free to say anything you want (except by your own standards that there's something called a xenu that disapproves of psychiatry).
  • Thex1138, on 02/11/2008, -2/+1OCP, the cops, probably read all about the fakery and lies they tell the world, and all that goes on there from all that Anon extracted to public domain and decided to investigate, either that or more sinister dirt was siphoned out from their cyber vaults and handed over to them..
  • chicoer2001, on 02/11/2008, -0/+3Free Speach to the church is when the church can speak freely. Um ok
  • Jaysunli, on 02/11/2008, -2/+3Good job I guess. Scientology is pretty awful but I can't help but feel like the majority of the protestors are just there because they think its funny and have nothing else to do.

    Thats the problem with anything chan related, its just a joke to the majority of people.
  • diadem2, on 02/11/2008, -0/+10Anyone else notice that this press coverage is much more likely to garner sympathy for the CoS than anonymous?
    • Jaysunli, on 02/11/2008, -6/+3Yeah, protesting a religion any and all religion or cults as they may be will do nothing but make you look bad.
    • rotundo, on 02/11/2008, -5/+1Anyone notice (over a week ago) that this whole attack on Scientology thing was likely to garner them more sympathy than anything else? Persecuting religions gets you nowhere.
  • polarjoe, on 02/11/2008, -13/+2who cares!!!
    • jmg703, on 02/11/2008, -0/+3then don't post in here moron
    • mGARANDEUR1, on 02/11/2008, -0/+1We are talking about a force far more powerful than any credit card company at ruling over the people. They use psychological tricks to extort people, that's why.
  • Terraburn, on 02/11/2008, -2/+7I was there! I had a sign that said "Cults don't get to be tax exempt" which became the most popular chant. I don't care if they know who I am. I'm proud to stand up against them.
    • terminalV3, on 02/11/2008, -0/+4Here here. I took a picture of every single one of them that took a picture of me.

      p.s. I saw you, haha.
  • mikehill33, on 02/11/2008, -2/+14"Ron is Gone, the Con Lives On" - LOL.
  • jholden42, on 02/11/2008, -2/+7Where the ***** is "Flordia", anyway?
    • lolinyerface, on 02/11/2008, -0/+5If you can't count, you are already there.
  • canniscam, on 02/11/2008, -2/+8L. Ron Hubbard had written some decent speculative fiction, and I admire the fact that someone has the creative insight to bring distant worlds and ideas to life. Yet I feel that so much of his work was diminished by the idea of Scientology and the formation of an organized church around the ideals of human self actualization. Everyone can realize their own potential on their own terms, they don't need a world body church and Tom Cruise to show them the path.

    I follow the beliefs of Christianity, but I don't subscribe to any denominations or organized churches, for the same reasons that I disagree with the Church of Scientology. I think that too many people are in the "business of religion" and not the practice of faith.
    To each person, I say make your own decisions about how you believe and no amount of money or wealth given, donated, requested or stolen should force you believe any other way.

    Casey
    • andyd273, on 02/11/2008, -0/+4Eh, I'd have to say that most of L. Ron Hubbard's books were crap. Battlefield Earth was all right, I guess, though the plot got a little thin in places, but his other books were definitely not worth reading, and way to preachy.
      • kingmanic, on 02/11/2008, -0/+2Seconded, most of his work was 3rd rate pulp trash.
    • shredswithpiks, on 02/11/2008, -0/+2Keep in mind that the idea of Scientology and the church created around the ideas of LRH's sci-fi works were, in fact, created by LRH himself.

      Not sure I would condone subscribing to the works of LRH as faith. LRH is a man to was convicted and jailed for stealing millions of dollars from the church he created.

      LRH, and the leaders who have taken his place, are not in the "business of religion." It's the business of extortion with the facade of a religion.
    • jmg703, on 02/11/2008, -0/+6The fact that he specifically made the "church" to make "millions of dollars" leads one to believe that the religion itself should be questioned and dismantled.
  • Gozmeranian, on 02/11/2008, -0/+1Do you really think they are capable of burying the story? Do you think there are that many on Digg?
    • shredswithpiks, on 02/11/2008, -1/+1yes
    • queenstarsha, on 02/11/2008, -4/+1i buried it as lame. i hate ***** religions as much as any other relatively sane educated person. but religious persecution is not an exciting "movement" to me.
  • vikki77, on 02/11/2008, -2/+4I think it's funny that there's a decent sized Christian college in Clearwater. That may explain why most of the protesters look college-aged.
  • GeorgeClayton, on 02/11/2008, -0/+3The news reporter was obviously ignorant or oblivious to what was really going on; and obviously picking segments that don't show the biggest complaints against Scientology (like the deaths of some o their members & destruction of lives).
    • screamxsquad, on 02/11/2008, -0/+1I was there, and we had a TON of signs that were much worse. They said things that probably would've gotten the media in trouble with scientology if they'd been aired.
  • sentinel106, on 02/11/2008, -0/+4I love my home state of Florida dearly, but it makes me utterly disgusted that $cientology decided to make it their home too...
  • K0NY, on 02/11/2008, -0/+12One angle I'm not seeing addressed is that The "Church" of Scientology discriminates against poor people. If you don't have the money for constant auditing, you become the scum of the Earth within the Scientology infrastructure. Religions offer salvation and happiness in exchange for living by a certain set of principles while Scientology offers them for monetary compensation. The benefits and ultimate rewards of living your life according to any belief system are debatable. "Bang for your buck" in Scientology is not. Former members of Scientology, after 30 years, will tell you that the time and money spent was largely wasted and the promised resolution of problems was never delivered.
    • kbennett73, on 02/11/2008, -0/+0Scientology isn't the only religion guilty of discrimination against poor people. Check out the history of "indulgences" in the Roman Catholic church. In a roundabout way, they charged people for forgiving their sins. You could purchase indulgences and use them to liberate the souls of your deceased family members from Purgatory. Martin Luther's protest of the Catholic Church's indulgences is what set off the Reformation in the 1500s. (That's the original Martin Luther, not the Martin Luther King, Jr. of the 1960s, for those of you who aren't familiar with him.) This practice of charging people for spiritual benefits is nothing new. Scientology just happens to be the latest in a long string of religions committing the same fraud on their followers.
  • ImYourRealDad, on 02/11/2008, -2/+2I ***** LIVE in Tampa, how did I miss this?!
    • itux1985, on 02/11/2008, -1/+2I live in clearwater, you didn't read it because it didn't happen. Anon is fake. Sorry that they got your hopes up.
  • terminalV3, on 02/11/2008, -0/+4They tried to follow me home.
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/23640868@N05/
  • Gigs, on 02/11/2008, -0/+3I wouldn't normally spam a submission but I was at the DC event and it gave me an idea on a good way to protest: Mail the IRS an "Anonymous" suspected tax fraud form. Click below if you're intererested: http://www.digg.com/business_finance/IRS_Suspected ...
  • wmink, on 02/11/2008, -0/+3I live in TAMPA also....there is actually a huge Church of Scientology right at the end of my street. Should I scream things at them as I drive by?
    • queenstarsha, on 02/11/2008, -6/+1yes. also at every other church in town. and anyone who thinks anything different from you.

      scream.
  • queenstarsha, on 02/11/2008, -15/+2you know y'all are engaging in religious persecution, right? scientology is a buncha mumbojumbo like all the other religions. but trying to take down their web sites and calling them names really just makes you look like a mob of witch burners. in guy fawkes masks. pathetic.
    • daakone, on 02/11/2008, -0/+6It might be religious persecution if it were a religion.
    • Ellipsys, on 02/11/2008, -0/+4Does that mean that Heaven's Gate and the Branch Davidian cults should be allowed as well? This isn't about belief. This is about a business - a cult that charges for salvation, gets off tax free, and extorts and intimidates those that would criticize them.
    • mandarin, on 02/11/2008, -0/+1Arent you doing the same?
    • Digger1218, on 02/11/2008, -0/+2Call us when you leave your cult, you're welcome anytime.
  • Plotinus, on 02/11/2008, -0/+15@queenstarsha

    No. Scientology is a business masquerading as a religion. Anonymous have specifically stated they do not have an issue with the belief system. This is a protest against their behaviour, their litigious nature and the tactics they use against critics, it is not an attack on their beliefs (heck I think anyone who believes in sky fairies is certifiable, but that's their own personal choice). I suggest you read up on their activities.
  • DHracer, on 02/11/2008, -13/+1Digg.com + witch hunt = Scientology
  • carlvjack, on 02/11/2008, -11/+1Anonymous: Dorks who want to feel like they are part of something bigger. wait that sounds like a cult...
  • bwdd, on 02/11/2008, -2/+3Why do all these damned news on the raids always end on a good note for scientology, not telling the full side of anon.
  • littleradio, on 02/11/2008, -6/+0http://digg.com/music/Message_to_the_Music_Industr ...
  • ez3c, on 02/11/2008, -1/+1dugg for the cause!
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