Robert (Son of Boris) Korczak wrote an article for the Russian publication Pravda about his father’s experience with Scientology, both from his days in the CIA to being Fair Gamed today.

On April 20, 2008 Boris posted a video which detailed some of his work in the C.I.A but primarily focused on his Scientologist Case Officer who was desperate to recruit him into Scientology.

Ironically enough, or maybe not so ironically, Korczak’s case officer was attempting to recruit Korczak during the same period of time that the Church of Scientology was being prosecuted for “Operation Snow White”, which was the largest infiltration of the U.S. Government to date.

Is it just coincidence that Korczak’s case officer just happened to be a Scientologist, in a very high position of power, at the same time that Scientology was infiltrating the Government in an attempt to destroy “negative” paperwork about the Church?

So some guy made a timelapse video of clouds outside his apartment and released it online free of copyright for everyone to use.  An anonymous individual used this timelapse video in his/her “Message to Scientology” video back in January that kicked off the monthly protests that exist now until Scientology is gone.  Parodies resulted, one of them being a bad one from 236.com that uses the same cloud footage.

236, according to Google, is now claiming copyright ownership of the cloud video.

Sure enough, Arianna Huffington’s comedy news site 236.com had posted a derivative parody to YouTube: “A Message to Rudy Giuliani,” which amusingly deviates somewhat from the standard “Message from Anonymous” pattern by pausing part way through while Anonymous fends off his mom. There’s the standard synthesized speech, the standard message from Anonymous, and of course, my cloud timelapse video — which now, I gather from the phrasing of the Googly copyright notice email, 236.com is now claiming to have copyright on.

The word “cult” is banned in the city of London, and The Guardian reports that London cops are cozy with the Scientologists and civil rights activists are frothing mad.

Officers confiscated a placard with the word “cult” on it from the youth, who is under 18, and a case file has been sent to the Crown Prosecution Service….

The teenager refused to back down quoting a 1984 high court ruling from Mr Justice Latey, in which he described the Church of Scientology as a “cult” which was “corrupt, sinister and dangerous”.

After the exchange, a policewoman handed him a court summons and removed his sign….

The City of London Police, who issued the summons, came under fire two years ago when it emerged that more than 20 officers, ranging from constable to chief superintendent, had accepted gifts worth thousands of pounds from the Church of Scientology.

City of London police chief superintendent, Kevin Hurley, praised Scientology for “raising the spiritual wealth of society” during the opening of its £23m headquarters near St Paul’s Cathedral in 2006….

The decision by City of London Police to issue the summons provoked anger from civil liberties campaigners and groups helping former cult members.

Liberty director, Shami Chakrabarti, said: “This barmy prosecution makes a mockery of Britain’s free speech traditions.

“After criminalising the use of the word ‘cult’, perhaps the next step is to ban the words ‘war’ and ‘tax’ from peaceful demonstrations?”

EDIT: This is currently the top story in all topics on digg. And it’s on Gawker. Entheta press ahoy!

EDIT 2: The Register.

What’s it like being the webmaster of Xenu.net?  You have to deal with email such as this:

Why do you waste your time on this site full of lies? You have no proof and never will about how great it is. Scientology helps people, you people only help us by giving us more good press. Our rate is going up daily with more members and will proceed to do that. Maybe you can focus your “Free Time” on maybe improving your body? …just a guess. I hope cancer will soon infest into your body and hopefully finally you will be erased.

Karin Pouw, check your voicemail.

Bad COB Davey Miscavige.  BAD BAD MIDGET.

A new Fair Game tactic has been observed, and this video explains it.

This one has been getting a lot of attention.

Google has murdered the AdSense account run by one of the web’s most influential anti-Scientology sites.

Yesterday, the search giant cut off all ads served to Enturbulation, a fledgling site dedicated to promoting activism against the Church of Scientology and all its related organizations. This could have something do with the nature of the ads Google was serving. Many of the Google-driven ads funding the anti-Scientology site were paid for by the Church of Scientology.

“While going through our records recently, we found that your AdSense account has posed a significant risk to our AdWords advertisers,” read Google’s letter to Enturbulation, a kind of home base for the now famous Anonymous movement. “Since keeping your account in our publisher network may financially damage our advertisers in the future, we’ve decided to disable your account.”

This isn’t going over well.  Uninvolved websites are taking issue with Google’s decision, and a lot of previously uninterested people are as well.  If Scientology did indeed pressure Google then a lot of Googlewatchers are now watching Scientology; and they’re not impressed at what’s being done to their favourite company.

Tampa Bay Online:

No major incidents or arrests have occurred at any of the protests, police said.

A church spokeswoman has labeled the protests acts of religious bigotry.

The funny part, however, starts with the comments:

The Souther Poverty Law Center has labeled Anonymous as one of 888 Hate Groups they are tracking as of 2008.

Which is a lie, the Southern Poverty Law Center doesn’t mention anything of the sort.  Unless the poster postulated the Souther Poverty Law Center (without an N) into existence.

Lying about your critics is a hallmark of the Fair Game policy.

The Village Voice had an article about the Fair Gaming of Anonymii earlier this week.  I just wanted to repost a comment on that article that was just brought to my attention:

Rabinowitz, Boudin, Standard, Krinsky & Lieberman just admitted that they have no factual basis to send these letters to the individuals addressed therein. They also admitted that they have sent out multiple letters of this nature. I hope they get paid enough so that they don’t care that they are going to be sanctioned.

It may be just my 15 years in law talking, but you the New York Bar simply will not allow attorneys operating in this state to send out spam mail alleging series crimes with no factual support, with the obvious intention to stop people from excessing [sic] their right to free speech. I note that counsel is on notice of the COS’s past conduct in terms of its felonious fabrication of threats against itself. Counsel, I’m about to help some friends and eat your lunch.

Excellent stuff.

From the Village Voice:

When Queens resident Mike Vitale was outed as a member of Anonymous by the Church of Scientology last month, he specifically asked Church members if they planned to prove his criticisms correct by declaring him “fair game” and subjecting him to the threats and intimidation that are said to be inherent in that Church policy. Would they threaten him or show up at his house?

Well, they did—or, at least, their lawyers did.

You can read the letter here: page one, page two.