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STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
17:38 / 14.03.08
Incidentally, if anyone's needing .pdfs for fliers or anything from Enturbulation, I'd suggest getting them RIGHT NAO. Huge traffic's causing them massive server issues, and I'm guessing as the hour approaches it'll be a real fucker getting on.
 
 
pony
18:03 / 14.03.08
I've been having a hell of a hard time staying connected to enturbulation for more than a few clicks since yesterday. While it's not nearly as convenient and central, the partyvan links to a number of good flyer/poster/other media repositories.

Best wishes for tomorrow, everyone. Stay safe and have fun. Oh, and [peacefully] kick some ass.
 
 
grant
18:21 / 14.03.08
DC Convention cancelled by hotel. And apparently the staffer who OKed it got fired.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
18:35 / 14.03.08
teh suXXor.

Though it looks like the Washington Anons are on the case. It'd be great if the girl could get a wrongful dismissal claim from this. That would be as delicious as cake.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
19:07 / 14.03.08
God, I love Wise Beard Man.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
21:21 / 14.03.08
And here we go.

The Kiwis should have started by now!

Go, New Zealand Fail Guy! Make it WIN this time!!!

Am trying REALLY hard not to stay up getting drunk and checking online for reports- it's an early start tomorrow! I should probably just watch a movie and sleep. Now... V for Vendetta or 300?
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
21:30 / 14.03.08
Magoo's eve of battle speech.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
21:41 / 14.03.08
And RaidChan Radio, which is so far just playing music for Anons but hopes to have live feeds and news at some point soon.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
21:50 / 14.03.08
OK, apparently the Kiwis start in an hour or so. That time thing is WEIRD.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
02:16 / 15.03.08
And, of course, Jenna Miscavige is getting Fair Gamed.
 
 
pony
02:31 / 15.03.08
go to bed, stoatie. we're going to need you in the morning (unless of course you're doing the "waking up at 5am on xmas morning out of sheer excitement" thing).

anyway, the word from NZ is that attendance numbers are multiplied by 3 to 5. if this is any indicator, saturday will be made of all sort of win.
 
 
pony
04:42 / 15.03.08
And take a look at Wikipedia's "featured article"... the universe is with you, kids.
 
 
Seth
06:58 / 15.03.08
Godspeed you! beautiful emperors. One day I'll be free on the day in question to stand shoulder to shoulder. For now I'm spreading the memes amongst colleagues, who are all getting a huge kick out of it and are behind Wise Beards all the way. If anyone remembers what I do for a living then don't post it here please, but enjoy it quietly with me.

Big thanks to all of you who have made this thread so utterly joyous, especially grant, and especially ESPECIALLY Stoatie of my heart. XX
 
 
Saturn's nod
09:39 / 15.03.08
Holy fucking win.

Footmissile of the year? Co$ posted out a high resolution copy of the bomb threat video (not the compressed version which it's possible to download from YouTube). Seems to prove they are the ones who made and uploaded it in the first place.

Partyvan?!
 
 
ORA ORA ORA ORAAAA!!
10:20 / 15.03.08
Sydney protest was way, way more fun than the last one (I've heard. Obviously).

The atmosphere was great, and even though the COS folk were being obstructive (with trucks) and acquisitive (grabbing handfuls of flyers from people and delivering them to their lair), nothing terrible happened. And the police were really helpful, with the exception of not getting the illegally parked trucks towed.
 
 
grant
13:54 / 15.03.08
Just because Enturbulation is creaking, here's

[+] [-] Jenna's story, hidden as a spoiler
------------- quote -------------
Hi Guys, Please repost this everywhere you can. This is why I am doing what
I am doing.

So where do I begin.... I did an interview this week with ABC nightline.
They of course had to call the Church for comment which they did.

Last night at 11pm while we were in bed we got a call from Dallas's father.
He said he was 20 minutes away from our house and he was driving down from a
meeting he had today and in the car with him were 2 Sea Org members from OSA
Int and they were coming to talk to us at our house.
He said that they had come to talk to him but he insisted that we should be
there and that they wanted to talk to us. So they just decided it was okay
to drop in on us in the middle of the night in true Sea Org style.

I told him that they could absolutely not come to my house and that they
need to call me and tell me that they apologize and want to sort this out
before I even consider meeting with them. A couple of minutes later I got a
call from Angie Blankenship (she was the CO CMO CW while I was in CMO CW for
many years and we last I heard she was COB's Programs Operator. She said she
was with Jenny Devocht/Linson who was the CO CMO CW, WDC FLB and CO CMO Int.
For those of you who this is all gibberish to, they are both VERY high
Church Executives. She said she was here to sort things out. So reluctantly
I agreed to meet with them. Mostly for the purpose of demonstrating the
truth of what goes on to Dallas's parents.

We met at Denny's because it was the only place open. We sat down at a
table. Both of these women looked like they hadn't slept in years!

We were there until 4 o'clock in the morning....

Within seconds of sitting down they proceeded to accuse me of "attacking my
auditor", "using my uncle's name for my 15 minutes of fame because otherwise
nobody would care about what I have to say", "lying about my upbringing",
and telling me my mom was a horrible dishonest woman without the slightest
thought of sensitivity. They said I had denounced Scientology and that was a
Suppressive Act.

Just their usual antics. They asked us what our beef was. We told them about
sleep deprivation, being held against my will, being separated from my
parents, our friends being separated from their families. Everything we
brought up, they laughed aloud and acted as if these things were
preposterous and was saying how my education was so much better than what I
would have gotten in the "wog world". We told them that they were denying
everything we said to which they responded, "That's not true!", "Absolutely
Not!" - they couldn't even see this and immediately denied that!

After down and dirty inavoidable questions they admitted that we did heavy
labor for hours on a daily basis at the Ranch. They even pulled out a photo
album and showed Dallas and his parents photos of us rock-hauling and mixing
cement and building rock walls and other manual labor! They said that the
fact that we didn't see our parents except for once a week was the same as
any boarding school. They said that fact that I didn't see my mom but once
from the age of 12-16 and by dad but 3 times and all for less than 30
minutes, they said that this was totally normal and like any other boarding
school. Angie admitted to not letting me talk to my friends because they
were in a lower level organization. Angie and Jenny both admitted to
refusung to allow me to call my parents when I was 14 years old. They
admitted to the fact that I was being held against my will in an auditing
room, but said that after taking a walk and 4 hours that I later went back
into the room and this was not against my will so this voided the previous 3
hours of kicking and screaming to try and get out of a 5x5 auditing room.
They admitted that both of the areas where Dallas and I worked were deprived
of sleep for days. They admitted that it was absolute bogus that my Aunt
Sarah was declared a suppressive person and went on to blame it on Mark
Ingber who is long gone.

In fact they blamed 99% of these things on Marty Rathbun (may he R.I.P),
Mike Rinder, Tom Devocht and Dan Koon (of all people!). This is despite the
fact that Jenny single handedly physically did not allow me to get on the
plane to be with my parents when I was 12 years old after reading me a long
excerpt of KSW. That Angie was witness every week, if not responsible for
the fact that all of the minors at CW who were only schooled once a week.

They pleaded with me to pull the ABC Nightline deal. They said if I did,
they would go through and cancel all of the B.S. allegations about me, that
they would see about lifting the declare on several of my friends and would
get all the data out on the table.

After Dallas's parents pleaded with us to try and cooperate so that they
wouldn't have to decide between us and Scientology, we told them we would
think about it and would call them the next morning. They tried to pressure
us into making a descision then and there and we told them that it wasn't
gonna happen. They told us not to talk to anybody about this meeting and to
please not post about it on the internet.

The moment we left we decided that there was no way we would pull the
Nightline deal. We never said anything but the truth. We decided that we
would tell them this and that we would be willing to hold off on future
interviews if they came through with their promise because we definitly
cannot trust them and they needed to prove that they were really taking
responsibility first.

The next morning we woke up and left our house and went out to breakfast for
an hour. From there we took a round-about way to stop by my office in
downtown because I had ordered some roses which came in. As we get onto the
freeway Dallas noticed a white Ford sedan far behind on the on ramp. Trying
not to be paranoid he thought nothing of it. As we switched freeways and
went another ten miles he noticed the same car still following us.After
arriving downtown on all the oneway streets he started noticing the car
would never pull up directly behind him and kept swerving lanes.
We went in a circle because of oneway streets in downtown and Dallas was
taking his time not coming in right away and I didn't know why. We were
inside for 15 minutes getting my roses and Dallas now sees the same car down
the street on the side of the road. He takes off pretty abrubtly into
traffic and I think he is a crazy driver already. A block later Dallas says
to me, "Jenna I think we are being followed. See that white car 3 lanes
right of us, I am going to make the next left and he will swerve across and
follow us." He did just that!

Dallas kept going in circles trying to see how many shifts this guy was
going to make. At one point he pulled up in front of us and we got his
license plate here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/24675028@N07/2334354212/

Then we took off again and he came behind us and so I had to get out of my
seat turn around and get a shot here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/24675028@N07/2334354216/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/24675028@N07/2334354220/

He could see we spotted him and knew we were taking pics so he pulled over
and then he was gone.

OSA or RTC or whoever it is, you have officially lost all opportunity of us
trying to work it out internally.
That was your last chance and you BLEW IT!
Not only have you upset me, but you have upset my parents.
I guess I wont be holding back on that CNN interview after all.

Best, Jenna

-------------- end quote -----------------


That's what it takes to win.
 
 
grant
14:00 / 15.03.08
Co$ posted out a high resolution copy of the bomb threat video (not the compressed version which it's possible to download from YouTube).


Oh.


Tell me Homeland Security is involved.



Tell me that thing.
 
 
imaginary mice
16:58 / 15.03.08
Big thanks to all of you who have made this thread so utterly joyous

Seconded. This thread is giving me all kinds of happies.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
17:28 / 15.03.08
London was fucking made of win and delicious caek. If anything, a BETTER atmosphere than last month, and definitely a lot more people. (And I discovered that, yes, it IS possible to wear three V masks simultaneously, though it freaks out your friends if they're following you through a crowd).

Bonus points to Ex for turning up on the spur of the moment, and with a much less uncomfortable mask than the rest of us.

A lot of people were stopping to ask why we were protesting, why were wearing masks, etc, which gave us a lot of opportunities to, well, TELL them... indeed, we sloped off to the pub for a quick breather (literally- those masks get awfully confined after a while) part-way through the TCR one, and the people sat at the next table (not Anons or $cilons as far as I could make out) were talking about the demo.


Oh, and that hi-definition video thing? Thanks, $cilons. You couldn't have given us a better present for L Ron's birthday. That's AWESOME.
 
 
grant
20:09 / 15.03.08
Early pics from Clearwater here (NOTE: THIS IS SOMETHINGAWFUL.COM). The captions are pretty funny, for the most part.

The pix might come from this large set on Flickr or this photobucket set.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
22:18 / 15.03.08
OMGWTFBBQ etc...

Fox News piece- yes, that's FOX NEWS, they of "internet hate machine", "hackers on steroids" and "SHE BOUGHT A DOG" fame, have a piece on Anon v Co$ from yesterday- and it's pretty sympathetic to Anon!

Marc Headley is the guy from the story that ran in the News Of The World last Sunday.

Is it too much to hope that the press IS finally speaking out? Because I'm betting there're a LOT of very, very interesting stories that haven't been published.

(Fuck, I'm KNACKERED. Was gonna watch a movie, but I was up until stupid o'clock last night, and then got up early and waved around signs and stuff, and... ah, today was so much win I don't really want it to end).
 
 
grant
23:56 / 15.03.08
Well, there was something less than sympathetic on NY Post's "Page Six" celeb column but as someone who's been published on those saffron pages in the past I understand how "bomb threats" plus "Tom Cruise" make it worth publishing.

I probably shouldn't link to Star magazine's open question on Tom's latest CoS video, but there it is. Anyone can comment on that thing. It *might* be used as a bellwether for further tabloid coverage. Dunno - suppose I could ask someone who'd know. It's echoed a little more point-and-laugh-y at Hollywood.com

Less tabloidy: LA Times has pictures of the plane. I thought about trying to do that here.... Snip: The police presence today was notably larger than it was for the first mass protest staged by Anonymous on Feb. 10. LAPD Sgt. Wayne Guillary said the protests had progressed uneventfully, but noted that Scientology representatives had tried to block off an area of public sidewalk on Sunset Boulevard that would have prevented people from crossing the street in front of the church building.

"They wanted to block off the crosswalk," said Guillary. "I told them you can't do that."

Guillary also noted that in addition to the road closure permit, it appeared that the church had applied for and received a permit to film on the premises. Guillary pointed out off-duty LAPD officers who were assisting with the apparent movie shoot. Again, it wasn't clear what kind of movie was being filmed, or why the church had picked a day in which a large protest had been planned for weeks.


Men's News Daily (??) has the wikinews feed, apparently. Great bit from the London cops:
Police officers, when asked if they had had any problems with the protesters, replied, somewhat jovially, 'I can't really speak to you, the only thing I can say is 'No comment'. No problems. I mean no comment.'
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
01:59 / 16.03.08
Atlanta arrests.

I swear, I'm going to bed in a minute.
 
 
pony
02:15 / 16.03.08
Looking through the London pictures, the "down with this sort of thing" sign made me smile. I'm always pleasantly surprised at just how English the English can be.
 
 
Ex
08:40 / 16.03.08
Yesterday's London events were very pleasant, I thought: a couple of people handing out leaflets, when asked, were saying, 'Well, it's not the religion we have problems with, it's the way the church is run...' which seemed very tactful (and dodged potential theological issues).

Also, I helped tidy up after the first half of the protest and was assisted by an earnest young masked man saying 'We are anonymous. We do not forget, we do not forgive, and we do not litter.'

I had a fingerpainted sign expressing my irritability with Hubbard's homophobia - a small gripe in the context of greater things, but my gripe - that and them having bought the The Cult Awareness Network, but I couldn't think of a decent slogan for that. (If anyone finds an online picture, I'd be delighted.

Police were very chilled - I thanked one for helping out, and he said he hoped the weather stayed nice for us.

So, jolly nice all round.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
11:19 / 16.03.08
Enturbulation's completely down now. Last night there was talk of posters moving somewhere else to ease the server strain- anyone know where that is? I didn't bookmark it.

Oh, and there's a new video up for April 12th.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
11:45 / 16.03.08
LOL WUT?

Anonymous is a CHURCH now?
 
 
grant
13:16 / 16.03.08
That's kind of beautiful.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
13:34 / 16.03.08
Ex- your sign made it to YouTube!

About 54 seconds in.

(And mine's at about 1:30)!
 
 
bjacques
16:09 / 16.03.08
The music from the new Anon video sounds Godspeed You Black Emperor-ish.

I totally missed the Amsterdam demo. I went by about 12:30 and there were a few people out there with a table full of food. But when I went back there about 3, there was just some Scientology goober with a sandwich board. The clams had pre-emptively gotten a permit to, er, protest against drugs and hand out unreadable brochures. Anon, about 150 of them, took the party over to the main drag (Damrak), and many LULZ were had. But, like I said, I missed everything because I didn't know about it.

I got one pic of them marching victoriously to Centraal Station while playing the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air soundtrack.

And I added a few made-up ones.
 
 
bjacques
16:09 / 16.03.08
And enturbulation is still hosed.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
20:00 / 16.03.08
Nice slideshow. With GlaDOS.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
20:39 / 16.03.08
Despite the sound quality, this has to be watched.

Manchester Anons interviewing a couple about their daughter. This one should be seen by as many people as possible, just in case they still believe Co$ shit only happens to rich and stupid movie stars.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
20:48 / 16.03.08
Guy with gun in LA. This is pretty fucking sinister. "$cientology brought a gun to a peaceful protest" indeed.

The guy with a blackboard, though, is fucking ACE, and a reminder as to why blank signs can be handy. (I remember a bunch of us 'lithers doing the blank sign thing at Mayday a few years back).
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
22:52 / 16.03.08
MOAR possible fair gaming.
 
  

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