Anonymous Going After Scientology This Month

I notice that the moderator is censoring posts that are not conform with her prejudice. Is that part of your Terms of Service?

Please. Name these "scholars" and other projects they worked on. Go ahead. LRH is a liar and a thief.

They really do! Google Scientology and OSA, read and find out all the lovely things they do.

Sorry I missed that show; would like to hear it. And the beatings are only a small part of it. There are so many crimes, from human trafficking to people being held in their "gulags" or re-education camps, the RPF. Some excellent articles to google: The Truth Rundown; the New Yorker and Paul Haggis.

Anonymous has a saying, "Dox or GTFO."

This is why we don't have to make up stories. The documented stuff is bad enough.

How should I know, smartass???? I am on a community network.

You don't know the half of it, Deborah! I'm pretty new to a knowledge of scientology, but I've seen enough to be sickened by the way SOME of them behave. You should check out Louannes blog, where people are in there bragging about psychiatrists being put out of work, and saying such things as, "your a critic, therefor you have crimes. That's all I need to know." So, you're not the first to be threatened, just the first to have evidence about their dishonest tactics.

Deborah, what is this? I was asking if I could call you on a number that works.

His son DID commit suicide, yes. Of course, one could draw their own conclusions as to why, but his interview with penthouse explains a lot.

http://www.rickross.com/reference/scientology/scien240.html

Hubbard had very severe family problems. Several of his children wouldn't speak to him, and he married his third wife while still married to second! Later, both his second and third wives claimed abuse and torture. What a strange family life!

When you first meet Scientology there are some good things; that is what lures you in. They often prey upon young people who do not know much of the world and may be insecure. They "lovebomb" you initially, and there are some initial courses about communication and business that some find helpful. It is a slow indoctrination to where you are cut off from friends and family, told you have to take more courses and donate exhorbitant amounts to learn more and "save the world" from the evil psychs- mortagage your home, sell your car, whatever. You are made to feel you have access to special knowledge that no one else has, so you feel special. You are actually told you are now "homo novis"-new man, one of the few chosen to help "clear the planet" and save the world. Hubbard dictated that you could lie, cheat, destroy enemies in this endeavor because what was the "greatest good for the greatest number of dynamics"-what was good for Scientology was what mattered.
So slowly, you deny your prior life. You deny your family if they pose any troubling questions.
The video also noted something else that is unique. Scientologists, by agreement with the IRS, can take educational tax deductions that no other people can take. Sounds amazing, but true, and is a possible violation of the establishment clause. Prior to 1993, when the IRS recognized them as a "religion" for tax purposes, the IRS had been going after them for millions of dollars of unpaid taxes. The IRS fought them for over 20 years. In response, the CoS filed hundreds of law suits against the IRS and individuals in the IRS. They also broke into government offices and tried to blackmail folks to change the status. Google "Operation Snow White" which was their attempt to infiltrate government offices and institutions to stop negative info about them. It would sound crazy if it weren't so true. Anyway, the IRS in 1993 suddenly backed down and made an agreement with them, if they would drop all their lawsuits. But no one has been able to see this agreement, as the IRS will not reveal what it says. The NY Times apparently was leaked a copy but the IRS has never confirmed it. So it is hard for courts to comment on why there is this tax deduction because they haven't been given access to the agreement by the IRS. It came up in the case of US vs. Sklar, because an orthodox Jewish couple wanted to take a deduction for the educational expenses of their son. They cited the Scientologist exemption, but were denied by the IRS because they weren't Scientologists. It went to the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, and the court said they weren't entitled to it because that would be a violation of the Establishment Clause. The Court also commented that they didn't see a rationale for the exception for Scientologists either, but that that wasn't the case before them, so there was nothing they could do about it. But they strongly suggested that something should be done about it. Hope that gives some background, and isn't just a wall of text.

Mriana,

Some do run, but others don't have the opportunity. Imagine you are raised in this milieu, your whole world is only other Scientologists. You have no other friends, no real schooling, in some cases, no driver's license or other id. You have no real way of making a living. Where would you go and how would you live? Plus you have had it drilled into you that if you do that you will be cut off from your eternity, you key to everlasting life, if you will. What do you do? Plus which if you voice this opinion, and therefore, they may lose you as part of the work force, they will put you in "sessions" to try to break down your will and get you to do it. They will separate you from your husband and work on him too. It is an agonizingly horrible situation to be put in.

Well, the not having babies thing only applies to the Sea Org, the paramilitary arm of the CoS. Those are the people who are responsible for maintaining the teachings and "ethics" of practitioners. They are the ones who are virtually slaves, working round the clock sometimes with little to no pay. Babies put a crimp in that work schedule. It is purely pragmatic decision; you can't work as much. It wasn't a doctrinal decision. Planned Parenthood near where their main base is located outside LA, got so many visits, they began to wonder what was going on.

See you are thinking logically, about the marriage thing. But that is why your cult sounds like it would be much more fun.

Just to correct the information:

DOS = Disk Operating System (completely unrelated)

DoS = Denial of Service – trying to overload a node (server, router, pc etc) with lots of data to make it inaccessible (and there for denying service to any genuine requests). That's a basic explanation, there are more sophisticated ways of doing it that Anon does not currently use.

DDoS = Distributed Denial Of Service – A DoS attack from many different machines in different places, much harder to stop

The Jester is unrelated to Anon, but they had similar goals with regards to WBC. He uses a more sophisticated method of DoS attack that is more effective and harder to stop.