Anonymous 2009: The Next Chapter of Chanology Charges On!

As a new year begins and the protestfags prepare for their anoniversary, two things are absolutely certain: the war is not over yet, and we're here to stay until it is. So as the one year mark of unrelenting protesting draws near, there has been a lot reflection done in recent weeks regarding what we've accomplished in our crusade against the destructive cult of scientology... and what still remains to be done during the upcoming year ahead.

Since Anonymous is ever changing and constantly evolving, it is the natural order of our existence to perpetually adapt to the world around us as we continue to ride the wave of pop culture fascination that surrounds our movement and milk it for all it's worth. The new year will bring new forms of media, new websites, heightened intellectual attacks of making the truth more widely known, and the extension of previously successful tactics into a new era of dismantling the cult.

Thus, the following collection of media expresses where we've been this past year, where we are currently at right now, and the new directions we're heading towards. Hip Hip Hooray -- May the anonymous brigade of Chanologists dance on, while the delicious leaks keep on flowing. Here's wishing a new year full of more lulz for all involved as we keep scoring the wins and achieve great justice for all the victims of the destructive practices of organized scientology.

(Excerpt quotes below are all taken from the video transcripts featured in this YouTube playlist.)

Anonymous 2009: The Next Chapter of Chanology Charges On!

"In the past year Anonymous has been in your base, converting your doods. Recently Tom has backed off completely from disseminating in the way you desire. Now he only says to go to the website. ..."

"Our determination grows stronger by the day, and our power is strengthened by the thousands of new minds joining the cause. Our operations for the new year include educating the government at the state and federal level with new findings on the Cult of Scientology, and completely opening the eyes of the public surrounding your orgs.

2008 has been a success for anonymous beyond anyones expectations. Our effect is seen everywhere you look. Your PTS/SP tech. has failed. Your OSA operations have failed. Your own KSW has failed. Your statistics have crashed. And now many of your members are backing off and speaking out with many orgs filled with just handfuls of staff members. ..."

"Your attempts at dead agenting have repeatedly failed. Your laughable black propaganda has fooled only the unwary, while Anonymous has been widely spreading the truth about your cult's evil, malicious, and suppressive policies. The tactics you refer to as "Fair Game" are now common knowledge within law enforcement agencies worldwide. The treatment of your Sea Organization staff has become infamous, and has earned you the scorn of the entire world. Your subversive fronts have been exposed. Your elite members continue to leak damning documents to the internet. Everyone knows who Xenu is. Scientology has become a joke, and 'David Miscavige' is the punchline. ..."

"Nothing that you have done has stopped Anonymous. We are inoculating the public - those you contemptuously refer to as "wogs" and "fresh meat" - against the lies of your cult. Your libel litigation is ineffective, for you cannot prove false what is true. Your attempts to censor the facts have failed repeatedly. This is a lesson you have refused to learn. Scientology is powerless in the presence of Anonymous. You fear us because you fear the ubiquity of the truth. You fear for an organization founded on peddling deceit to the uninformed. You fear those you have ensnared will desert you. You should, for knowledge is free. ..."

"Outside, the world has changed. The habits that once made Scientology a ruthlessly effective organization now condemn you. Your persistence with obsolete, ineffectual practices yields ridicule, not results. You cannot win. Your tech has failed you. Scientology is imploding at its core, and this is evidenced by the increasing levels of desperation seen in your attempts to handle us. It is only a matter of time before humanity is purged of your malign influence.

We are the people you pass on the street. We are your friends, family, sons, daughters, and siblings. We are the person right next to you."

"Scientology cannot win a war of information against the internet itself.

We are Anonymous.
We are Legion.
We do not forgive.
We do not forget.
Expect us... until you have lost the game."

KINDRED BACK MATTER

• Anonymous: Still Alive
• Jeff Jacobsen Thesis: WE ARE LEGION: ANONYMOUS AND THE WAR ON SCIENTOLOGY
• Doodznchyx: Anonymous vs. Scientology: Story so far
• Rocketboom: Know Your Meme: Project Chanology
• WWP: Anonymous year in review pix
• WikiLeaks: Scientology leaks by date
• WashingtonPost.com: We Just Couldn't Look Away: The Viral Videos of '08
• Gawker: Year in Review - Top Ten Posts of 2008
• SPtimes: These 10 people kept us talking

Auditing the Anons: Anonymous Interviews - Chapter 0

As the Anonymous protests round the bend towards their fifth global protest on June 14th, I thought it was time to take a moment to appreciate what Anons have to say for themselves in regards to their own personal reasons for why we protest and what motivated them personally to show up at their local raids & pickets to take a stand against the many controversies of organized scientology.

The following YouTube Playlist includes the first installment in a new ongoing series of Anonymous interviewing other Anons and fellow supporters. It is important to note that there is a vast range of issues that we find fault with in general as it all falls under the wide reach of abuses and corruption the organized crime syndicate of scientology is becoming notorious for. So it's important to understand that any one Anon may strike a particular chord with one or several of these reasons to protest this cult that they may latch onto for the motivation to keep going. Yet any one person's reason, words, or incentives is their own personal opinion and not necessary the mutual opinion of the collective as a whole.

Thus, the key thing to recognize here is that the diversity of opinions combined with a multitude of reasons, that has a lead to such a general consensus in a loosely knit group with murky roots and no leaders, speaks volumes. If thousands of people around the world can become informed and come to the same conclusion albeit by different paths, isn't it time you investigate the issues for yourself?

Auditing the Anons: Interviews with Anonymous - Chapter 0

For those who sit through the above series of clips, you'll notice the third video features what you may initially take to be a non-anonymous participant due to the lack of his mask. However, not all Project Chanology supporters take up the anonymous identity cloaking. Our ranks also include a mixture of Ex-scientologists, relatives who have lost track of family members still in the cult, former long-standing critics or "Old Guard", and concerned citizens. So whether or not you care to don a mask, as well as what form of participation you choose, has little-to-no impact on your support being able to help our ongoing efforts. Every little bit counts; global awareness needs to spread so that a deafening outcry of public opinion demanding answers can be raised, and there is a countless number of ways for any given person to lend a hand and help us spread the word.

As relayed in the letter below from an ex-scilon-anon seeking to aide the collective's understanding of what it takes to get somebody to start snapping out of the cult's influences, despite the variance in individual reasons for motivation and the different types of support that can be volunteered... All that truly matters when deciding whether or not to take some part in the ongoing efforts is that you have to have enough concern for the health & welfare of your fellow mankind to either take a stand or do something else to aide in the rally against the criminal activities and other atrocities of organized scientology.

Topic: ex-scilon-anon

(This thread [somewhat] depends on having read the on brainwashing (long) thread.)

The idea is this. You can't change someone's mind if they aren't willing to listen to you. CoS depends on its members remaining convinced that they need to continue covering their ears while yelling LALALALALALALA.

Anon protests would be orders of magnitude more effective (to borrow the little Nazi's phrase) if they were able to connect with the "membership".

I propose that ex-scientologists, like myself, write up what it took for them to sit up and take notice that something was grossly amiss, and they were both ignoring and justifying it to themselves.Here's what it took to "snap me out of it".

I was as gung ho a supporter of LRH and all things standard tech as anyone in the church. I left the CoS, and joined the Freezone without that having changed. I still completely supported LRH and the tech, but simply accepted that "It wasn't LRH or the tech at fault....it was that nasty, perverted church and that SP Miscavige".

I even hit all those anti-scientology/anti-LRH sites, but had the mental shit so thoroughly in place that I was able to disregard anything anti-LRH and Anti-tech, and focus on all the anti-church stuff. Bizarre shit, this brainwashing.

Here's what it took for me to break it.

I found a place where scientologists could hang around with ex-scientologists, and critics, and discuss anything related to SCN, LRH, Tech, CoS, etc.

That was Beliefnet. I went there thinking I could maybe convince a few scientologists that the church was fucked up and turned criminally SP, and that they should leave it and carry on supporting LRH and the Tech in the Freezone/independent field.

Well, to my complete shock, it was I that ended up getting handled. (chuckle)

I got chatting with some critics of scientology (including LRH, the tech, policy, etc.) and thought it might be a fun game to straighten them out on some of THEIR misconceptions about their criticisms. Like that it was really all the CoS and Miscavige, and not LRH and his tech that was responsible for all the shit they were seeing.

Man these guys came prepared with their facts straight!!! They would simply repeat succinct statements and questions inviting explanation. They would ask questions which simply could not be answered without concluding that an illogically justified premise was being held to, despite the facts of the matter being considered.

They had many examples of direct quotes from LRH where he contradicted himself completely 180 degrees, and asked how I could account for that. "Was LRH lying in the first statement, or was he lying in the second statement?" Man, they had me squirming. "Well...uh...that's not important in the overall scheme of things....uh....THE TECH WORKS.....I know it does..." And they'd just quietly take that apart at the seams until there was nothing left but the realization that there was a lot of contradictory bullshit that came straight out of LRH's mouth and from his typewriter. Left no room for doubt.

It was from one of those critics, where I first learned about cognitive dissonance. He just kept TR3ing (repeating) that I needed to go to wikipedia and look that up. Until I finally did, (so I could refute him), and my jaw dropped, because that was exactly what I had going on, and most others I knew as well. Wow. Here's some non LRH tech that precisely describes and explains a phenomenon I could see all around me. This was the truth and there was no denying it.

Questions just kept coming from the critics. "LRH said a clear would have a perfect memory and no aberrations. Have you ever met a Clear with a perfect memory, and no aberrations? Well have you? Seriously. If you've met one, I'd like to know about it. SHOW ME A FUCKING CLEAR!!!

It's not comfortable or easy, but eventually, you have to come to the conclusion that LRH just lied his ass off all the fucking time, and his thousands of statements that he was the only one who ever had an original thought and who could ever come up with anything available for sale that a person could use to improve themselves was just pure bullshit.

The key for me to break the brainwashing/indoctrination was simply a matter of some critics caring enough to keep rubbing my nose in the shit I'd accepted without examining it thoroughly. I took his word for it, and that's where it started. He talks a great game, that man.

So in looking at my example, what would be needed, are opportunities for the indoctrinated to come to the table with the unindoctrinated for discussion. There aren't many opportunities to do that, but perhaps some could be created?

Maybe by offering to be disabused of our false impressions? (disabused means simply "freed from deception or error".) If we offer to scientology members that we're willing to be corrected on our misapprehensions about them and their beliefs, they'd be willing to chat a bit, and then it's "game on".

Any other Ex-scilons have some insights into this? Or other ways in which their indoctrination was broken?

Simply "taking down" the church would leave a lot of damaged people with complete confusion in its wake. Besides the current management, starting with Miscavige and his cronies, the real enemy is the brainwashing, and provision for choosing to remain isolated from sources of the truth. In other words, Scilons willingly keep away from sources of "enturbulation" because they've been convinced that they must. If we can't find opportunities to talk to them, and have them become willing to listen somehow, then this could take some real time, and leave hundreds of thousands of confused individuals in the wake.

- goldenrodanon (continued...)

KINDRED BACK MATTER

• Enturbulation.org Forums: I would like to have an interview with a member of Anonymous
• Enturbulation.org Forums: Leaving Scientology is hard to do - but I have to, thanks to Anonymous
• Time Magazine: The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power
• Rolling Stone Magazine: Inside Scientology
• St. Petersburg Times: Pulitzer Prize-winning report - In-depth profile of a new force in Clearwater
• Razor Magazine: A Church's Lethal Contract

Wise Beard Man Returns to YouTube

Mark Bunker, the television Journalist from XenuTV.com and author of the THE WOG BLOG, has finally returned to his rightful place on YouTube after a fair use dispute with Viacom allegedly over some Stephen Colbert clips. Mark is an Emmy winning old guard critic of organized scientology whose words inspired the evolution of the initial Anonymous outrage into the reformulated Chanology-based worldwide activist movement it is today.

That's Right; XenuTV is back as well as Mark's secondary YouTube channel XenuTV1 that was suspended right before the Jason Beghe interview was fully released. However, WBM notes that from this point forward his original XenuTV channel will feature all his new material in the ongoing fight against the organized crime syndicate of scientology.

Wise Beard Man Returns to YouTube

Bunker's legendary video that reached out to the Anons encouraging them to stop the initial DDoS attacks and other chan-like retaliation actions against the cult's websites and take up the peaceful protest we see today earned him the title of "Wise Beard Man" or WBM for short. The Anonymous protesters then absorbed his large collection of footage exposing the crimes and warped mentality of the Co$ as their own "source" of learning. From Mark's contributions along with other OG sources we found our way to the path paved by all of the past critics over the decades, and massively upgraded that path to the information superhighway standards of modern day technology.

Thus the hivemind came to know the right way of how to fight the cult, exactly what to expect, and how to win. Thanks to Mark and all the other old guard who had an open mind to give us a chance to prove ourselves despite having a completely different mindset than those before us, then readily joined the Anons as equal comrades. The torch to stop the abuses of organized scientology was passed, greatly expanded into a state-of-the-art marcabian beacon, then multiplied exponentially and mass produced for continued growth that is still going strong and getting bigger each and every day.

Welcome back Wise Beard Man! Your presence on the intertubes has been dearly missed. Additionally, many thanks going out to Viacom from all the Anonymous supporters around the globe for coming to a reasonable understanding about the whole matter.

Ninemsn.au Features Indepth Look at Anonymous

Another great major media WIN was earned on May 8th, 2008 when the National Nine News in Australia featured a story entitled "The internet pranksters who started a war" along with additional material referenced at the end of this post. THIS is a must-read, must-digg, must-flock set of three articles for all those following along with the Project Chanology campaign because it's the first significant coverage that took the time to relay a good solid introduction to What Is Anonymous.

Excellent job is excellent ninemsn!! Even if you did somewhat miss covering the details regarding the more important moralfag issues (aside from lulz) that lies behind why we protest. But hey PR is PR. Thank you so much for this fine piece of journalism, it is so encouraging to see the world at large finally becoming interested!

The footage from the primary pranster article reposted on YouTube compliments of the ever diligent and oh-so-awesome vidwizard doyle6315 is featured below for your viewing pleasure. Follow the title link instead to view original HD version on MSN.

Seeking the Truth about Anonymous

KINDRED BACK MATTER

• Ninemsn.au: Seeking the truth about Anonymous - ninemsn Original Video
• Ninemsn.au: The internet pranksters who started a war (written article)
• Ninemsn.au: Critics point finger at satirical website
• Ninemsn.au: We've toned down the hate: Anonymous
• Enturbulation.org: Anonymous on my MSN

Show Your Support for Operation Fair Game Stop on May 10th

The Project Chanalogy segment of the internet group known as Anonymous are primed and ready-to-go for the next worlwide protest against the Church of Scientology. This month's rally will be focused on raising public awareness of scientology's well honed harrasment tactics of the LRH policy formerly known as "Fair Game". A vindictive policy the cult has employed for decades to terrorize their critics and sabotage the defectors who manage to escape with little more than the clothes on their back and then decide to speak out about the inhuman abuses they endured.

If you are supportive of our cause, please join us on May 10th round about mid-day. A list of regional locations is indexed in the table at the end of this post for finding a local Co$ org in your area where active protesters are planning on gathering.

If you are against the Anonymous protests and feel that our campaign is wrong; then we suggest you use the intellectual side of your brain to research the issues behind why we protest, investigate the facts, and review a few of the ex-member testimonies of the horrors they endured first hand. Then maybe you will realize the only rational thing to do is come Join Us and help make the world a safer place for our children.

Regional Picket Locations for Operation FairGameSTOP
Asia Pacific 10 Confirmed Cities in 3 Countries	Europe 37 Confirmed Cities in 18 Countries
USA - East Coast 26 Confirmed Cities	Canada 10 Confirmed Cities
USA - Central/Mountain 29 Confirmed Cities	Israel
USA - West Coast 20 Confirmed Cities	India
Mexico	South Africa
Join Us on May 10th in over 125 cities worldwide to help stop the corrupt practices of this dangerous cult.

KINDRED BACK MATTER

• ED: Project Chanology/Operation FairGame:Stop
• Enturbulation.org Forums: MAY 10TH PROTEST
• Enturbulation.org: Advocacy Guidelines
• Enturbulation.org: Anonymous Fliers, Pamphlets, and Other Protest Media
• CityPaper.com: Serious Business - Anonymous Takes On Scientology (and Doesn't Afraid of Anything)
• YouTube: Anon vs. Scientology: Message to Anonymous from Voiceless

Radio Interview with Brisbane Anonymous & Cyrus Brooks

One of the kick-ass aussie factions of Anonymous scored an epic win on the radio airwaves on April 24th with the following interview on Gemma Snowdon's show on 4ZZZ 102.1FM. The interview was done by Stephen Stockwell and featured both Cyrus Brooks (PR/vice president of Co$) along with 'Rick' and 'Tom' from Anonymous. Also included for your viewing pleasure at the end of this YouTube Playlist is some excellent mini raid footage recorded prior to the interview and from this same awesome arm of the Anonymous Legion.

Radio Interview with Anons in Brisbane, Australia

Special Thanks and virtual hugs going out to AnonPFD for posting these great clips! Great Job Brisbane Anons on both the interview and flash raid - both were very well done indeed! Keep up the good works doods - lookout sydney, it looks like brisbane fking rules down under!! ;)

KINDRED BACK MATTER

• YouTube: Project Chanology Brisbane (diggs)
• Flickr: Photostream from Brisbane Protests
• news.com.au: Scientology protests start across Australia
• news.com.au photo gallery: Anti-Scientology protest in Sydney
• Blogspot: Anon Australia Against Scientology

The Real Issues Behind the Anonymous Crusade

Why Do We Protest? Oh lordy, let me try and count the many-many ways. Psssffft.... there's too many to freaking count because the global corruption and prevailing evil of the Church of Scientology is just too vast. However, this is important so JohnQPublic who has happened upon this blog by chance - if you only take the time look at one thing in this guide - please let it be the following collection of video clips. These issues that the Anonymous Network has rallied behind are ultimately, all that truly matters here.

Thus we proudly present the following YouTube Playlist that summarizes all the important points quite nicely. As always, we invite you to investigate these issues further when you have the time and decide for yourself.

Understanding Anonymous Course #1: The Issues they Represent

Click the title link above the player to read a transcript of these clips. Use the buttons and side-arrows on the player to navigate past stuff you've already seen.

The gist of it is [ tl;dr ]: Scientology Lies, Scientology Kills, and most importantly - Scientology Must Be Stopped!

Pay Attention all you Elected Legislators and Appointed Government Officials. Our ALAS Campaign is currently in its infancy and the days of you being able to ignore the perversion of this cult yet remain in a public office whilst having the luxury of being safely unaware are coming to a close. Our Public Awareness Campaign will be a force to be reckoned with by this time next year. Therefore, we strongly urge you to take careful notice of the burgeoning flood of letters pouring into your comfort zone. At this point in time we are only reaching out and asking for your help. There is so much more yet to come.

So Know This: We are also watching and investigating YOU Mr. & Ms. Politician! We are rapidly gathering data and resources, while establishing a network of allies in the press and media. Once we milk our first major front of assault for all its worth with the epic win public protests; congress - parliament - legislatures all around the world will be our second major assault. If you refuse to take action when called upon, or if you look the other way instead of taking a stand for justice... we guarantee you the faction of the Anonymous hivemind in your local jurisdiction will unite, rise up & rectify the matter right-quick by denying you the support and respect of your constituents come next Election Day. Stop letting the power of the cult of scientology undermine your authority. Band together like we did and strike back on multiple fronts simultaneously. Do your job to protect us from these crimes or else we will take your job away from you with much lulz. We are Anonymous. We are Legion. You cannot hide from these issues any longer. Your only two choices are to A) Come with Us, or B) Fall by the wayside and enjoy an early retirement. Which one is it gonna be?

KINDRED BACK MATTER

• The Almighty First Question: Why Are They Dead?
• The Wall Street Journal March 1987: Secret sealed IRS agreement with Scientology
• Time Magazine Special Report May 1991: The Thriving Cult of Power and Greed
• BBC News: Row over Scientology video
• Mark Bunker discusses the issues on Mac's World program via 98.3 WOW-FM
• Student Operated Press: Anonymous Versus Scientology

Greetings Thetans! The Anonymous Legion has landed, and we're pissed!

For the hordes of wogs on the planet who may not have noticed, a revolution has started and its name is "Anonymous". 2008 is the Year of the Rat on the Chinese calendar, and as the wikipedia oracle tells us....

"The Rat was welcomed in ancient times as a protector and bringer of material prosperity. It is an animal associated with aggression, wealth, charm, and order, yet also associated with death, war, the occult, pestilence, and atrocities. In the Chinese Zodiac, the Year of the Rat is associated with the earthly branch symbol."

As far as the Church of Scientology (Co$) is concerned, there is no doubt that rat is the internet group known as Anonymous. Ironically, this leaderless collective of the internet are nothing more than Caring People, Concerned Citizens, and Devastated Families who affectionately liken themselves to "a herd of cats". They are neither terrorists nor deviants, they are merely people passionately united in a cause to put the world's largest cult out of business. A cult who just so happens to be run by deviants that have employed terroristic tactics to manipulate their members like slaves, infiltrate government agencies like spies, and destroy lives. Anonymous is not a group of masked marauders with criminal intentions or a ruthless band of hackers gone wild. They are simply a smart and effective group of activists, united in a global cause and are going where no group has dared go before. They are not trying to suppress religious freedoms, they do not make claims they wish to blow up any buildings nor try to infringe upon anybody's civil rights - again the Co$ are the ones who are doing that and it's been proven in court (See Operation Snow White & Operation Freakout).

Anonymous are the ones who are trying to help people that are trapped in a subversive cult and reconnect families that have been ripped apart. They do not hide their faces to hide their crimes. The Anons wear masks for their own protection from the long sordid history of the cult's Fair Gaming Policy that landed L. Ron Hubbard's wife in jail and hasn't stopped since. The Anons are protesting a long list of crimes the Co$ has perpetuated on its members with its money-making cons and brain washing traps. More on this later as this archive of all things Anonymous unfolds. Despite the lame smear campaign the cult is unleashing, the Anons are advocating that religion and faith should be FREE, and not used as tools to financially drain parishioners until their wallets achieve a "state of clear". They are not protesting the religious practices of scientologists. Rather, Anonymous supporters are protesting the corrupt management of an organization that hides their doctrines behind shady copyrights from the public and academia. Doctrines that at the higher levels cost their members a fortune and are instilled in ways that are no less than mind control.

The message the Anonymous Legion bears is both dramatic and outrageous. If it helps ease the casual observer's mind... think of them as parody of the dramatic impact Co$ has on families when they rip them apart, and as a living breathing caricature of the outrageous horrors that have been running wild behind closed compounds for far to long (again, more on this at a later way station of our journey). Once you become informed of the issues the Anons represent, the awesome beauty of them being the perfect solution will leave you breathless. The following YouTube Playlist is a compilation of the messages Anonymous has released to both the Church of Scientology and the public at large. We invite you to hear what we have to say, investigate the issues, and decide for yourself. If you still have any questions on why this is happening or why it's such a wonderful thing to behold - please explore the links listed within this article and on the sidebar of this site.

Understanding Anonymous Course #0: The Message they Bring

For a transcript of these messages, follow the title link above player

Pay Attention David Miscavige. We Do Not Forgive. We Do Not Forget. We told you to expect us and you failed to heed our warning in an acceptable manner. We are coming to audit you and everything you stand for, and expose all of your dirty secrets for the world to see. We will not stop until you atone for your sins. So Know This: We are the true incarnation of the state of fabian that LRH's precious Sea Org has failed to achieve, and we come bearing gifts of freedom & justice for the people still suffering under the torment of the OSA. Are you ready to reap what you have sown?

KINDRED BACK MATTER

• WikiNews: "Anonymous" releases statements outlining "War on Scientology"
• Wired Magazine: War Breaks Out Between Hackers and Scientology -- There Can Be Only One
• XenuTV WOG BLOG: An Anonymous Call to Action
• Radar Online: Scientology is under attack from a faceless cabal of online activists. Has America's most controversial religion finally met its match?