$cientology Raid in San Francisco
Scientology’s Closed (due to Anonymous)
The San Francisco ‘Church’ of Scientology was indeed closed today during the Anonymous Scientology Raid. No, this wasn’t a frenzied attack with tasers, tear gas, truncheon-weilding cops and arrests… this was a peaceful protest.
On most days activists can be found on the streets of San Francisco. Those crazy bastards will protest over the drop of the proverbial hat. But today, San Francisco was only one of many cities where similar protests took place worldwide, as part of Project Chanology. This is a reaction to Scientology’s attempts to suppress that fervently manic Tom Cruise Indoctrination video - bringing to the world’s attention, once again, that Scientologists are megalomaniacal loons.
Internet war became ‘In Real Life’ as protesters answered the ‘call to action’ in major cities throughout Australia, New Zealand, the US, Canada, UK, France, Germany and many other countries.
Today, February 10th, is significant as the birthday of Lisa McPherson, a fatal victim of the cult’s practices.
Nothing was stealth, devious or underhanded about the event. In fact, the planned activities of Anonymous were publicly available all along. Anonymous are hardly ‘terrorists’. Even the fuzz had to be there to make sure that the Scientologists didn’t start threatening us. 
About 150 people turned up to the corner of Montgomery and Washington to show their support, over about 5 hours…and none of us wanted a fucking stress test (a team of Dianetics-botherers can often be found peddling their wares outside Macy’s in Union Square).
Generation, gender, multiple nationalities and ethnicities were represented among the students, teens, professionals, parents, 20-somethings, former Scientology members, skeptics, hackers, geeks, and nerds in attendance. All were united in their perspectives that this Religious Amway is a dangerous mind-controlling cult, an emotional, spiritual and financial scam, that Dianetics is a pseudoscience, that free speech is good, censorship is bad, and that Mr Fetch is a knob.
I stuck around for hours, took photos, interviewed Anonymous, met heaps of cool people and was even enlisted to hand out 
some of their creative, witty, sobering and well-researched educational flyers.
And there were Tom Cruise jokes a plenty…
If you want some honest, factual resources about the Co$, check out these reliable sites:
FACTnet (I actually had the good fortune to meet and interview Lawrence Wollershein, ex-Scientologist and co-founder of this resource).
And Operation Clambake, a decade-old organization dedicated to exposing Scientology for being a destructive, aggressive, litigious, abusive cult.
Finally, check out The TANK Vodcast where a selection of interviews from the Sydney and San Francisco Raids will appear shortly!
By the way…does anyone care to observe that Mother Hubbard was A FUCKING SCIENCE FICTION WRITER?
“You don’t get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.” L. Ron Hubbard.
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As for that last (infamous) quote, well, score one for Ron Hubbard, I guess. The joke’s on every $cientologist since.
Yay! I was there. Were you the one in the mask? lol Keep it up!
get a few deluded people together and you call it a cult,
get a lot of deluded people together and you call it …
Nudge, nudge. Wink, wink. Say no more!
Actually, compared to other golden age sci-fi writers like Asimov, Heinlein and Clarke, Hubbard was kind of a hack…Perhaps that explains the change in career path.
Good to see the pro’s turning up with the g00ns.
Fine work.
- Anonymous
Your last comment is interesting. I’m old enough to remember Ron Hubbard as a bad science fiction writer, found his stuff atrocious. When I first heard of scientology, and that it was linked to his name, I couldn’t believe it was the same person. But to my surprise, it was.
But then, only a sci-fi geek could come up with something like this.