Attorney Graham Berry who has been retained by some Anonymous in DC to help bring down the cult, has posted the following tl;dr to Enturbulation.org.  Here are some snippets: (more…)

Resigning British MP David Davis mentions EpicNoseGuy in a list of reasons why he’s quitting his post to run in a by-election:

The state has security powers that clamp down on peaceful protest, and so-called hate laws that stifle legitimate debate - while those inciting violence get off scot-free. A 15-year-old boy was recently charged on the spot for holding a banner describing scientology as a “dangerous cult”, but extremists such as Abu Hamza are left free for years to incite violence and vitriol against this country.

This story is a few days old - but I was busy when it was new and it’s notable.  The best thing about this site is that it’ll always be here for future internet archaeologists to go through and understand the zeitgeist of when Chanology was around and the months leading up to the end of the cult.

At this point, five months in, we now have the minds of politicans. Referencing the treatment of us as evidence that something’s amiss, even if its just a splinter in a larger platform, shows we’re not just having a negative effect on Scientology but a positive effect on modern culture.

An update on the Philadelphia situation:

More fallout from the cult’s failed investment in the London Police, this time courtesy Caitlin “Get a brain” Moran from the Times Online:

C-word incident makes me cringe with shame

It’s not often that I’m embarrassed to be British. Generally, I think this country rocks - we have tea, Pembrokeshire and Doctor Who - but holy moly, last week we looked like a confederacy of arses. We (our country; my country) issued a summons to a 15-year-old boy for taking part in a peaceful protest against the Church of Scientology. His offence? To hold up a placard that included the word “cult”. Yes, “cult”. Apparently, that’s “threatening, abusive or insulting”. A child with words on a piece of cardboard. In the end, thankfully, the boy was told that he would not be taken to court after all.

Aside from the fact that if we ignored our brains and filtered this story purely through our dumb animal emotions, it felt a bit as if Tom Cruise was about to throw a child in jail - which was obviously quite exciting - you do have to ask, what is happening to this country? Have we turned into a bunch of wet nuns? First, we should be thrilled that we’ve got at least one teenage kid up, fully dressed, philosophically engaged and able to spell. Secondly, I’m embarrassed that all the grown-up liberal countries such as Canada and Denmark are laughing at us.

The cult is now actively targeting schools.

Kofi Annan, Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., Voltaire, L. Ron Hubbard.

One of these things is not like the other. If you said “L. Ron Hubbard,” then you are correct.

On May 12th, the Youth for Human Rights International organization came to our school and hosted an assembly on human rights. For the uninformed, this may have seemed like an ordinary assembly to raise awareness on an issue that we, as Catholics, should be aware of. Sure, this got the point across that human rights should be protected. If you still have the booklet that was handed out, take a look inside and flip to the second-to-last page. The five men listed above are called “famous human rights leaders”. I was not aware that L. Ron Hubbard was a “humanitarian” who “advanced human rights by working bravely for what [he] believed in.”

I think I love Marina Hyde.

Earlier this year, it was discovered that police were handing out in schools leaflets that push the church’s anti-drug programme - the not at all sinisterly named Narconon. Oh, and City of London Chief Superintendent Ken Stewart appeared in a promotional video for the church itself. When pressed, a police spokesman said Ch Supt Stewart had to “build links” with the “diverse” community he policed, and that meant meeting community leaders.

Sweet suffering Xenu! Please not the old “community leaders” flannel … It often keeps me awake that I have got to this stage in my life without knowing who my community leader is. Do you know yours? It feels so much worse than not being able to name one’s MP….

The police do not need to “build links” with the Scientology community, which - despite most recent estimates valuing the British arm of its operation at £57m - had just 1,781 adherents at the last census (with the majority based near the church’s East Grinstead HQ). What links are the police forging with the Jedi community? Because that’s the fourth biggest religion in the land, according to the same census. Frankly, City of London police should spend a little more time reaching out to Luke Skywalker fans, and a little less reaching for the collar of free-speaking children.

Digg here.

To prevent another London incident from occuring, LOL_Ron_Hubbard from EdinburghLulz rang the city:

I just spoke to the lady in the council protest planning department (and I discussed it with the cop protest liason the other day) and they have okayed the use of the word cult and it will explicitly state this on our protest permit.

After the London Police were denounced worldwide for banning the word “cult” to describe the cult of Scientology, all charges were dropped.  The Guardian:

The Crown Prosecution Service ruled the word was neither “abusive or insulting” to the church and no further action would be taken against the boy….

The summons was issued under the Public Order Act on the grounds that the sign incited religious hatred.

BBC News:

“Our advice is that it is not abusive or insulting and there is no offensiveness (as opposed to criticism), neither in the idea expressed nor in the mode of expression.”

A spokeswoman for the City of London Police said: “The CPS review of the case includes advice on what action or behaviour at a demonstration might be considered to be ‘threatening, abusive or insulting.

“The force’s policing of future demonstrations will reflect this advice.”

And Glosslip has a commentary:

The pseudo-religion has used its “religious” status as a cloak and shield to keep critics and investigators from looking too closely at their fascist activities. Some European Union countries have taken more severe steps to prevent the group from “spreading” throughout their country, and in places like Germany, France and Belgium, the Church of Scientology is under serious attack, with several pending lawsuits and criminal investigations currently working their way through the respective legal and legislative systems.

Only in the United States, UK and Australia is the Church of Scientology treated with kid gloves and given special dispensation. The United States has even gone so far as to give the Church of Scientology and its adherents special tax exemptions no other recognized religions gets, despite hundreds of eyewitness accounts of abusive, cult-like behavior perpetrated by the Church of Scientology.

Congratulations Epic Nose Guy! Frame that summons. Keep it with you until the day you die as a reminder of HOW FUCKING AWESOME YOU ARE.

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.

Standard issue nonsense from the cult, opposing life-saving legislation on the grounds LRH told them to do so.  This time with postpartum depression.

The MOTHERS Act runs against a major tenet of the Church of Scientology, whose beliefs are rooted in the writings of science-fiction author L. Ron Hubbard. Followers oppose psychiatry and mood-altering medication.

In 2006 Scientology’s most visible member, the actor Tom Cruise, criticized the actor and model Brooke Shields for taking the antidepressant Paxil to combat postpartum depression. Cruise this month told Oprah Winfrey that he had been “wrong,” adding: “I’m not trying or want to tell anyone how to live their life or what they should believe or shouldn’t believe.”

Some other church members won’t waver. The Scientology-affiliated Citizens Commission on Human Rights encourages its Web site visitors to send a form letter to senators, stating that postpartum depression could be treated with “normal medical or alternative means.”