Scientology

[gunner154]

Dang, 10 years jail? Who's going to take his place? ;D

[Andrew]

Will Smith Gives $122,500 To Scientology

I guess it is official that he supports Scientology.

[SandChigger]

Well, I don't remember ever hearing anything about him being a brain trust, you know?

(shrug)

[Caid Ivik]

Sorry for putting up an old thread, but I guess the issue stays relevant ;)

Anonymous movement had received a nice article on Wired - The Assclown Offensive: How to Enrage the Church of Scientology

The article, with its presentation of details and sociological analysis, is simply fascinating -

Since the beginning of the campaign, there'd been a tension between its "lulzfags," who held that Anonymous must have no higher cause than its own cruel amusement, and the "moralfags," for whom the cause of fighting an oppressive cult was an end in itself. (Neither term is necessarily an insult. In channer culture, the "fag" tag can be pejorative, neutral, or practically a term of endearment.)

The tensions deepened after publicity attracted an influx of people unfamiliar with the rules of Anonymous. Not that these "newfags" turned the movement into a Boy Scout cookout. (Some Chanologists who asked to remain unidentified for this article said it was less for fear of Scientology than of their fellow Anons: "They'll call us 'egofags' and fuck with us relentlessly.") But Chanology's drift toward respectability has been more than some Anonymous traditionalists can bear.

[Andrew]

As with everyone else in the world, Scientology is exploiting the Haiti earthquake.

Here's an article on the stupidity of some of the people who went there.

Scientologists in Haiti: A Firsthand Account

A person went in designer cowboy boots, and another expected to buy toilet paper at Port-au-Prince airport.

By the time we arrived in Haiti, after a stopover in Miami, we had missed three landing slots at the airport. Aid agencies