In the future everyone will have two minutes of hate

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I reject the "Anonymous" campaign against Scientology, and its widespread acceptance

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Jehovah's Witnesses Knocking?

[exjehovah]

I applaud your blog

Who are Jehovah's Witnesses?

Dissident Jehovah's Witness speaks out.
No tolerance,the Jehovah's Witnesses are a cult because they try to cut you off from others who do not have the same beliefs, including family.
The Watchtower is an oppressive cult if there ever was one!

It's amazing they are still around after 100 years of 100% failed prophecies. Truly amazing,that they can prompt their followers to actually go door to door with a 100% bogus message.
Their Message is a Watchtower Gospel that,Jesus had his second coming in 1914 and they were the only ones who saw it and consequently the only hope for mankind.

The Watchtower is a truly Orwellian world.
--
Danny Haszard www.freeminds.org

[mcfnord]

My sister married one. We're still welcome.

[king_felix]

People like easy.

[caladri]

I have a little bit more time for the direct-action freegan vegan batshit insane anarchist hippie communal types when they actually engage in creative direct-action, which some of this was, and they managed to actually organize people in their communities, like they claim to. Scientology is gaining members faster than any of those you list except the Mormons, IIRC (and I'm very willing to be wrong), at least by their own statements which may be lies. The way they affect people's lives and mindsets is harmful to the community, and they readily engage in direct human rights violations in our communities, not just far-flung approval and disapprovals that amount to policy decisions if people are stupid enough to listen. So from that perspective, I think it makes sense to start with them.

That said, the whole thing struck me as pretty childish from the outset. While some folks managed to participate in protests with style (nobody is stylish with cyberterrorism), most of them were just sad and kind of painful to watch. Alas.

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I agree with most of what you said.

I can't believe that Scientology's human rights violations are anywhere near the scope of the Boy Scouts, much less Mormons. The manifesto listed one suspicious death.

[caladri]

I was thinking of holding people against their will. I have not read the manifesto. I am, like all good white smart people who spend too much time on the Internet, speaking from memory of Operation Clambake, which has been amusing me for the better part of 10 years. If there were a similar site about Mormons, I suspect we'd see some direct action against them in time, too. It's not just about visibility, it's about access to information. Mormons are socially accepted and so people don't ask questions, and even if they do there's just some touchy-feely groups for ex-Mormons and some vague badness and whatever, but things being passed off as cold, hard facts are hard to come by. Scientology is socially-acceptable in places, but even there if you start asking yourself some questions about it, Google will point you to OC, which will give you hours and hours of reading material in a single sitting.

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I'm familiar with OC, and I agree again that they're unpleasant people and a coercive cult.

I maintain that their influence and danger is blown way out of proportion because they're likely to influence people like us. People who've seen how the Catholic Church behaves in Central America or what JW "shunning" looks like might not be too impressed by Scientology.

There are whole bodies of literature about the dangers of Catholicism, Mormonism, and all the rest. That's just boring to internet hipsters, I guess.

[nebris]

Mr. Cruise raised their profile to the point where they became an easy target. And now they're reaping what they sowed. Nothing more. Nothing less.

~M~

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One embarrassing video should not start a witch hunt, even a really amateurish witch hunt.

One embarrassing video

[nebris]

As Smoky The Bear says, "It only takes a single match..."

Having dealt with CoS personally, I say it could not happen to a more deserving bunch of folks. Course, I'm a blood thirsty Mick. ;D

~M~

[jpeace]

I have no dog in this fight, but I do want to see what pure internet culture is capable of. This (stupid) happening was started by the frothiest vanity cultures on the Western internet and they actually managed to put feet on streets. I think it's a barometer of how many true believers 4chan (or whoever the fuck) can muster. Depressingly, I think it's also the face of future campus/youth activism.

TEXT MEETUP TO KENTST4T3 LOL

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BRB SHOT OW

[jpeace]

[judgefudge]

This really should not have made me laugh as hard as it did.