The Electronic Frontier Foundation takes note:

Over a period of twelve hours, between this Thursday night and Friday morning, American Rights Counsel LLC sent out over 4000 DMCA takedown notices to YouTube, all making copyright infringement claims against videos with content critical of the Church of Scientology. Clips included footage of Australian and German news reports about Scientology, A Message to Anonymous/Scientology , and footage from a Clearwater City Commission meeting. Many accounts were suspended by YouTube in response to multiple allegations of copyright infringement.

Today Mark Bunker’s XenuTV Youtube account went down again, thanks to yet another false DCMA claim.  This one was by the “American Rights Counsel LLC,” an organization that seems to exist only on YouTube.

XenuTV wasn’t the only victim of these false copyright claims.  Many anons had their own home videos removed.  Some videos not protected by the United States’ DCMA were removed.  One of mine was removed. (more…)

Why is it after 7 months of protests it’s always the Scientologists getting in trouble with the law and never those evil evil terrorists from the psychiatric hacker group Anonymous?

At the August 17th protest, former OSA enforcer Tommy Gorman was assaulted by a Scientologist.  A cop arrived and arrested the troublesome Scientologist.

If the video is tl;dw for you, skip ahead to 7:15 to hear the officer’s assessment of the situation.  He also mentions an Assistant District Attorney in San Francisco is a Scientologist and was suggesting ways to use the law against Tommy.

Stu Wyatt, the handicapped anti-Scientology protestor from Plymouth, UK, has formally pressed charges against the relevant Scientologists who have allegedly been engaging in Fair Game practices against him.

From Battle Creek MI this past Saturday:

Torontoist reports:

With greater dialogue, Project Chanology hopes to defuse some of the arguably propagandist rhetoric leveled against them by Scientology’s escalating PR efforts. “If you go in there right now,” said another Anon, pointing to the org’s rarely-open door, “they have a stack of flyers on their desks saying we are evil, evil people. They’ve been on Bloor walking up and down [the street] with them.” Anons, meanwhile, have reduced the scale of their demonstrations lately—with the exception of yesterday’s presence at Pride [PDF]—to more effectively engage the public. Sidewalk drawings state the names of those allegedly victimized by Fair Game practices, while an arrow-shaped sign points into the org’s lobby with a monosyllabic message: “CULT.”

An hour later, we followed up on that earlier request for an interview. As staff members we’d talked to had since changed shifts, a gentleman in a red Dianetics shirt—reportedly a member of the local org’s Office of Special Affairs—welcomed us. After our introduction, a knowing expression flashed across the man’s face, and we were guided back toward the entrance.

“Have a nice day,” he said, holding the door. Then he locked it in our faces.

Anonymous on More4 News, 12 June 2008 from United Chanology News on Vimeo.

Via Enturbulation, anonymous1312 posts:

Stu was arrested at home this morning for assulting Sandra on June 3rd I have been told by his flat mate. As is typical in such situations we have not been able to contact him and the police will not tell us what is happening or when he will get out.

We believe we know how the assult charge arose however we do not wish to give anything away at this stage.

They have seized all of his video equipment and tapes etc.

To my knowledge this is the first example of hard fairgaming since the protests began in Feb, a testiment to just how much of thorn in Co$’s side Stu was becoming. I would expect Stu would want the protests to go on without him.

Anyone who was in contact with Stu related to either this weekend or this evening (timing eh?) please PM me for updates and I will try to take up any slack. Unfortunately I will not be able to respond to PMs until after 6pm.

I can also be reached on the cult watch number: 0785-3016084.

I appreciate their may be some well wishers. By the time I will be able to pass on your wishes Stu will be back with us. I have no further information at this time.

Plymouth and other anons who were intending to come this weekend, please make an extra effort, we cannot be seen to back off. Rather we need to be extra vigilant with respect to the law and ensure we do not put a foot wrong.

PLEASE DO NOT MAKE ANY THREATENING CALLS TO THE ORG. Stu would not want this as he saw them as victims too.

It starts with Dr. Drew telling Playboy Magazine that Tom Cruise is in a cult.  Gawker picks up the rest:

Cruise’s high-powered attorney, Bert Fields, a frequent client of convicted wiretapper and racketeer Anthony Pellicano, called Pinsky an “unqualified television performer who is obviously just looking for notoriety,” adding, “The last time we heard garbage like this was from Joseph Goebbels.”

Way to go.  I wonder when Dr. Drew’s page on RFW will go up.