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  • Well done m8!!!

  • "here epicnoseguy", haha rofl, sounds wierd hearing a newsreader say it

  • WTF??? where did freedom of speech fuck off to?

  • Don't understand the offense here. I live in Glasgow where walks for the orange order regularly take place, from one end of the city to the other. The police protect these people and clear their route. Makes me sick. This article was a fuckin square dance in comparison.

  • WHAT A LOAD OF BOLLOKS!!

  • And they call the US a police state! You cant call this absurd so called religion a cult in the UK?

  • What happened to free speech ffs?

  • "Scientology and cult in the same sentence may result in an arrest." LOL WAT?!

  • Ain't freedom of speech grand

  • ...not allowed to insult someone in a peaceful protest? Since when does Scientology have the right to not be offended?

  • her name is robynn and she lives in leeds and she is 16...

    she left a message on ure profile the other day telling you to eff off and leave her alone!

    dont make up stories!

    you are now blocked from any comments!

    stop trying to drag me down the `robert path`...

    your like a dying rat who needs something so he`ll make up crap to try and get a stab back..

    everything you say about me, whether the gumtree `incident` her being `14` are all total garbage.. so return to the depths of hell!

  • thats what you humans do, when you are out of insults you make up stories about people being `molestors` or `homosexuals` --- my friend is 16! and her or her age is no buisiness what so ever of yours! you are misguided and wayward of the light and i look forward to enlightening you in 2 months in newcastle!

  • obsesed? i have a friend (many friends) who come with me every saturday and sunday into town to hand out banners and to preach the words of god! any friendships are strictly spiritual, i do not engage in any inapropriate conduct! these are the end days of the world and there is no time for marriage, relationships or sodomy!

  • stupid human beings how about you wake up and get your priorities right! i am the reincarnation of jesus.. and i am warning you earth doesnt have long left! watch my video!

  • very funny........ again your a bit dumb, i know all about internet scams hence my old youtube name 419cracker duh 419 is the codename for cracking the western union money scam! i did it to wind up colin! go on kidding yourself that i was owned and i sent hundreds! jokes on you as it never happened!

  • Orlando Bloom and Daisaku Ikeda practice Nichiren Buddhism.wmv

    watch?v=0_Wf6qhP3gg&feature=ch annel_page

  • god damn, i love my freedom of speech.

  • I hear ya

  • So I guess Britain is a police state now. Great.

  • We've been a polics state ever since Blair got his foot in Number Ten.

  • lol UKfags, no 1st amendment for you!

  • Fucking idiot...

  • I think EpicNoseGuy is a pretty cool guy. eh pwns Scifags and doesnt afraid of anything.

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  • everytime I hear that reporter say epic nose guy, I have a nice little lol.

  • You know the rules, and so do we.

  • "..as far as ARDORLY protests go, this one was rather ARDORLY.."

  • V is going to own the cops.

  • Ya damn right he won,there really wasn't any case in the begining,the p0olice were just tired of being bothered by Those EPIC FAIL Scientologists

  • Or scifags were in the police.. Like in birmingham.

  • The english are so submissive, it's no wonder their state abuses them so much.

  • the laws the law at the end of the day what he did was wrong. (but at the same time right as its wrong what for$cientology to do what they have doen, can not wait to do my prestion on $cientology for general studies lol i h8 $cientology "cult")

  • lol so u cant display your opinions about other to them without being arrested?

  • Not in england we cant.

    we call this situation 'Political correctness out of Control' or The new labour government for short.

    I would have thought you would have noticed that over the past 10 years or so that they have been in power.

  • haha i dont know who i will be voting for but it wont be labour or conservatives

  • 'we tried to get an interview with epic nose guy but he was in the middle of his gcse's'lol greatest news moment ever!

  • in fact its great it shows that even young poeple are gettin involed with bringing down this "cult"

  • lol fuck u epic nose man ha evey right to do what he did

  • Right, yes we're a free country, for now.

    just because you CAN feed the troll doesn't mean you SHOULD feed the trolls...

  • gd point can not really say anythin to that lol

  • BBC forever.

  • BBC NEWS YAY!!!!! thank you for this new job.i love you brits! and yes....scientology is an evil terrorist cult.!!! and Tom Cruose is WAY out there.

  • Nice freedom of speech you got there, England.

  • Scientology is a dangerous cult!!!

  • you all we be happy to know that these charges where dropped by the The Crown Prosecution Service well that what I saw on the TV

  • you all we be happy to know that these charges where dropped by the The Crown Prosecution Service well that what I saw on the TV

  • When will the UK revise it's laws to include free speech?

  • you all we be happy to know that these charges where dropped by the The Crown Prosecution Service well that what I saw on the TV

  • No "Offensive" placards?

    How come they let those Muslims carrying the "Death to Europe" etc etc, signs walk free?

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  • EPIC WIN!

  • MOAR LIEK EPIC WIN GUY AMIRITE?

    HA HA HA

  • WIN FOR EPICNOSEGUY

  • I know this boy, he goes to my school lol this is weird

  • Good press for anonymous

  • This is excellent news for the UK as international terrorism and human rights law have recently created a growing body of thought crimes which are illegal. The British legal system has the difficult job of defining the boundaries of these laws and in this case has made a reasonable judgment to my mind. Whether we need the protection of these laws is a different question and I am dubious about that. However a good day for our country I think.

  • saw ENG that day, I know we respect the police, but on that particular day they were suprisingly against us, i think they view us as hooligans rather than people with a real cause, ah well epic win all round + we got more media attention.

  • Thing is, the Met are perfectly happy with us because we're "easy to police". The City of London police seem to have something against us. Corruption investigation methinks?

  • He broke the law, but the law is dumb. 

    Good for him.

  • He didn't break the law, that's why it got thrown out. He was completely within his rights to carry a "cult" sign.

  • I think scientology *is* a cult and epic noseguy is a hero: but I also think the law he was accused of breaking is absurd, and should be gotten rid of.

  • What I meant was, saying you can't call scientology a cult is pretty much saying you can't object to scientology. You might as well say you can't call mcdonalds "junk food".

    I'm reassured the case was thrown out, but it should never even have come up, and hopefully it won't in future.

  • Would London Police have done the same to Judge Lady, after all the dude was quoting his ruling on Scientology being a Sinister Cult! Nope I do not think the london police would have. They are just trying to put fear into the protestors to see if they would back off. Nope it did not work Epic nose guy won!

  • Well this was an epic win for the real epic nose guy, since CPS didn't take it any further. Major footbullet for the cult of scientology though.

    You ARE NOT Epicnoseguy. You're doing Anonymous' job for them in proving that scientology is a sleazy cult that will stoop to the most disgusting measures to try to silence their critics. Keep on proving that fair game does indeed still exist! Good job!

  • 1,000 pounds?

    So they are gonna make him fat? Silly Brits.

  • LMFAO epic win

  • Crap Solicitors are Crap. Charges were bound to be dropped. The 2006 Racial and Religious hatred act contains a clause (29J) protecting freedom of expression. This act amends the 1986 act and superceeds it in many ways; the 1986 act pre-dates EU Human Rights act. As a publicity stunt it couldn't have worked better for Anonymous. Well done guys and London police for getting the message out. CULT it up on 14th June.

  • faggotz

  • I love the fact that the whole situation has backfired against Scientology. If they (indirectly) hadn't made such a song and dance about the sign, then it wouldn't have made television, papers, etc. Instead ENG has actualy managed to get the message on his sign to be seen, read and spoken about by thousands of people. Massive shooting of their own foot AGAIN.

  • One can only guide the hand, they must pull the trigger and they do, time and again. :-)

  • So, if I say, Scientology is not a cult, then I would be arrested?

  • Epic Nose Guy rules!!!

  • THE CHARGES HAVE BEEN DROPED!!!1

    Anonymous is winrar.

    Scientology is a cult and made of FAIL.

  • JOIN THE PARTY NOT THE CULT

  • Cancerous faggot

  • Actually, his sign does not place "Scientology" and "cult" in the same sentence.

  • U.S companies sold the oil to Nazi Germany that made it possible to bomb Britain in WW2. Please do a bit of research on this war before you make such statements.

  • He got released you americunt.

  • Real americans are British, remember?

  • Nah mate, Stalin & the Soviets won WWII...didn't the Capitalist propagandist elites even tell you that?

    Stalin not only liberated Berlin, but the USSR did nearly ALL of the work. Soviet forces took a death toll of 8-10 million men.

    US casualties were as little as 500,000...once America finally decided which side it would fight on!

    The US was founded on the holocaust of 30 million native Americans (not to mention the 90 million who died of disease), so it was a pretty hard decision for them.

  • Also, learn to spell British. It does have a T in it.

  • HOly shit, i didnt know that the news of london actually called him "epic nose guy" aswell.. thats just fuckin funny, really fuckin funny

    CONGRATS EPIC NOSE GUY ON UR WIN WIN SITUATION!! U RULE!

  • BORIS? contact natalya

  • CONTACT BORIS JOHNSON - MAYOR OF LONDON

    Express your right to freedom of speech.

    DECLARE YOUR RENUNCIATION OF SCIENTOLOGY

  • CONTACT BORIS JOHNSON - MAYOR OF LONDON

    Express your right to freedom of speech.

    DECLARE YOUR RENUNCIATION OF SCIENTOLOGY

  • CONTACT BORIS JOHNSON - MAYOR OF LONDON

    Express your right to freedom of speech.

    DECLARE YOUR RENUNCIATION OF SCIENTOLOGY

  • CONTACT BORIS JOHNSON - MAYOR OF LONDON

    Express your right to freedom of speech.

    DECLARE YOUR RENUNCIATION OF SCIENTOLOGY

  • CONTACT BORIS JOHNSON - MAYOR OF LONDON

    Express your right to freedom of speech.

    DECLARE YOUR RENUNCIATION OF SCIENTOLOGY

  • what

  • fucking win, now that the charges have been dropped!!! epic nose guy is upgraded to epic nose MAN lol

  • Yea, I forgot that this is Scientology we're dealing with. I hate it when people use their internet names in real life. This is the only situation where it's ok.

  • it IS a cult. telling the truth isnt illegal.

  • According to those cops it is '=\ they must be scientologists themselves.....

  • charges against epicnoseguy has been dropped. it shouldnt have gone to court in the first place. this goes to show how dangerous cult of scientology is to a free society. image if dangerous cult of scientology infiltrated the governments or if tom cruise recruited enough rich people to fund them. that is some really scary shit. epicnoseguy's charges dropped makes it official scientology is a dangerous cult.

  • an organization that disconnects people from their family is not a cult? Hmm, weird.

    Also Anonymous should really be prepared for the $cifags fighting back, I wouldn't put it past them to dress up as Anon and do some illegal activity bs to cause bad light on the group.

  • The rules.

  • Sucks off Scientology is the real head line ,,Freedom in a country is cameras watch every thing you do for your whole life ,,recorded and archived !

  • If you don't have 100% freedom of speech - 100% say what you like, deny what you like, insult who you like freedom of speech - then you don't have freedom of speech.

    Hitler believed in freedom of speech for those that agreed with him.

  • So you'd rather have nazism than even the slightest government obstruction of holocaust denial?

  • Firstly, you have fallen for Capitalist Propaganda that insists that we will all turn into Nazis if a few right wing extremists have their say.

    Secondly, you have overlooked the fact that we already have rational fascism in power in US & UK.

    Capitalism is responsible for 10s of millions of deaths worldwide. Britain starved 30 million Indians to death during their occupation. The Americans slaughtered 30 million Native Americans.

  • More recently, America slaughtered 2 million in Korea & 3.5 mill in Vietnam under pretexts of the Viet Minh being 'agents of Moscow', Britain & America helped Suharto slaughter 1 million people in Indonesia to open up their markets to Capitalism, the CIA & MI6 sending him death lists.

    Ronald Reagan's covert wars killed 2-300,000 people throughout Latin America in the 80's (& we are talking real brutal mutilation style).

    US & Britain supported Saddam throughout the gassing of the Kurds.

  • The Nato countries ALL sent chemical precursors (Rumsfeld okayed anthrax shimpments) to Saddam during the '84-'86 gassings, gave diplomatic support to Iraq when Iran alerted the UN to the Halabja gassings in '88 & then continued supporting Saddam till the early 90's till he invaded oil rich Kuwait.

    US/UK led sanctions killed 1.3 million in Iraq, then the latest war has killed 1 million also.

  • On the subject of US sanctions against Iraq: Madelaine Albright said the deaths of 500,000 Iraqi children were 'a price worth paying'!

    That's an American official (in a liberal 'democracy') saying the deaths of 500,000 children are worth the price of containing a random dictator who's about as evil as other evil dictators we support, but whom do as they are told.

    Now that is RATIONAL FASCISM!

    With censorship you still get Nazism, but it comes in plain clothes with 'humanitarian' intent.

  • Does a police officer have a right to say to another "let's beat up CapitalistHolocaust" and then afterward deny it in court? If not, isn't that a curtailing of free speech?

    I'm not afraid of letting nazis have free speech as long as the capitalists have the right to fight the nazis with every legal means.

    As for capitalism being responsible for deaths, isn't humanity responsible for more deaths than capitalism and communism? Do you propose to eradicate humanity?

  • wow, britain has some ridiculous laws.. they have no concept of free speech over there.

  • That's like arguing that the US has "no concept" of separation of church and state because there because the government sponsors faith-based initiatives.

    Of course we have a concept of it- that's why there was public outrage over this decision and why it hasn't even come to court. Where do you think John Stuart Mill wrote "On Liberty"?

  • This whole thing reeks of John Peter Zenger (look it up).

    It's not slander if it's true.

  • tom cruise is a celebrity predator for the dangerous cult of scientology. he brings in millions for the cult by grooming A-list celebrities to join scientology and thus helping the criminals continue with their crimes by hiring top lawyers. thanks tommy boy. glad to know the world is safe in your hands.

  • scientology is not a religion.its a dangerous cult.

  • We got rick rolled a little at the end there.

  • fucking scientology

  • Case dropped. Scientology fail.

  • socialist gov't is fail

  • CO$ = FAIL

  • That explains a lot. Now I understand why you drive on the other side of the road.

  • You're not Epic Nose Guy. You are Paul Carnes or "Jacob K. Reist" or something like that.

  • Scientology is a religion, just a relatively new one... if you think about it, it's no more silly than most other religious beliefs and practices, and whatever these Scientologists get up to, I'm sure it's not worse than what Catholic priests do to little boys... or what our friends of Islam do in the name of Allah... the list goes on and on.

  • @M0n900s3

    Yay, one intelligent comment.

  • Kinda. The real difference is that the Koran and Bible, along with the general religious services that go along with them are free. No one has the exclusive rights to print and distribute either texts. Cult of Scientology is all about copy writing their works and selling them for profit.

  • Scientology began as "The New Mental Health" and has continued to practice a form of psychiatry without a license but in a guise of religion. Although there are issues with the more orthodox religions, you can't deny that depriving people of real medication and help and replacing it with their own costly, ineffective methods has damaged peoples lives. A theological comparison between doesn't cut with Scientology because it was never intended to be a religion.

  • The whole thing is a tax avoidance and health regulation evasion scam. Hubbard was in a running battle with the Feds over CoS tax and regulation right up until a judge called them a religion, that's why sea org exists. One odious thing about CoS are the systematic lies to hide their misconduct which a simple glance at their record makes clear. The most recent example is the online video they submitted as evidence of anonymous threats but in a higher quality format than any available online.

  • good on him, scientology is such crap its untrue...literally.

  • I sure am glad I don't live in UK anymore.

    Tony Blair and Gordon Brown are War Criminals, and need to be jail for life.

    So sue me for saying that.

  • Ugh why do people always refer to themselves by their usernames? You have a real name.

  • What the fuck word is next??? War . . . poverty . . . HUNGER???

    This is pure BULLSHIT!!!

  • Wtf? What kind of half-assed law is that? You can't express your personal views of an organization if they are offensive to that organization.....What part of Freedom of Speech does that not infringe on? Does Britain have no Supreme Court to null such boogies laws?

  • C of S

    Uses

    Low

    Tactics

    = C. U. L. T.

  • Scientology is a cult, cult, cult. A dangerous cult.

  • So, calling a dangerous cult a dangerous cult is illegal?

  • not in America baby.

  • Only if the dangerous cult members would be insulted. Yes it is idiotic. Someone probably made a complaint, and the police acted, the courts will toss it, a judge in the UK has already said they're a dangerous cult from the bench/bar.

  • I live in America, but i suppose with the way that law or bill is stated yes

  • Yet another example of people being denied free speech in Brown's Britain.

  • strange scientology is insulted by the truth

  • How can they get a quote from "someone from anonymous" when the membership requirements are limited to "saying you're from anonymous" regardless of whether you actually are? Is there a contact number for anonymous? Wouldn't that make them _not_ anonymous?

  • What if they really are a cult? Wouldn't this same law still apply, prohibiting calling a cult a cult?

  • I'm pretty sure there's no cult that would actually use that word to describe itself, so the question itself is broken. This is exactly the point- that no cult will admit to being one, as in the case of Scientology. Which is why it's important to have the right to point it out to others, which is what this case is all about.

  • They really are a cult.

  • Preposterous law to try to bar someone from stating an opinion. UK is a great country, but they need to squeeze these attitudes out of their legal system.

  • Shame on Britain for putting hurt feelings over free speech. Enjoy your thought control.

  • Yeah, because the US NEVER does that, right?

  • The universities in the US do that a lot, yeah. Speech codes etc. But the federal government doesn't have much to say about free speech except for on the public airwaves. For example, they would very much like to ban the nazis and the KKK, and the Westboro Phelps guys, but they are still allowed to spread their hate.

  • Well, speech is either free or it's not. Can't have it both ways. Unfortunately, the US continues to tighten the definitions of what's "acceptable" free speech and what's not. The US sense of "entitlement to a life free of personal offense" is polluting and corrupting the foundations of the constitution to such an extent that the repercussions of a two-second nipple exposure on TV four years ago are STILL being felt, mostly because of the outcry of an entrenched minority with a religious agenda.

  • The boob incient was a clear violation of the content ratings on airwaves which are government controlled anyway. It violated the viewers' rights and there was no statement made - no speech as such except for "ha ha we're a big mulitmillion entertainment business - screw the rules".

    Campus speech codes on the other hand are censoring students in class rooms which should be open for the exchange of ideas, and in the privacy in their dorm rooms. That's a MUCH bigger concern.

  • It's all suppression of free speech, no matter where or when. The prioritization of different types of free speech based on objective assessments of "importance", "decency" or "validity" (usually made by whichever minority shouts the loudest) is precisely what's destroying free speech in the first place. The 'boob incident' would have been just an amusing footnote if free speech were truly free, and that's just one example. Sorry, but you can't pick and choose. Free speech is free speech.

  • If you go try shouting "fire" in a crowded theatre, go to a battered women safe house with a sign saying "secret battered women safe house", or if you break into a live children's TV program and whip out your penis and start masturbating on camera - well, you'll never have your brand of free speech.

    You might say that your free speech rights are violated because you can't get a free hour on TV to sing the porn song - but you would be wrong. It's important to stay vigilant without crying wolf.

  • That was stupid, thanks for waisting 6 seconds of my life.

  • That's a false syllogism. Naturally, the right to express one's opinion or artistic vision is bordered at the violation of young children and the endangerment of life. The fact is, however, that religious types (for instance) do their very best to equate something as simple as nipple exposure to just that- violation of children and endangerment of life. It's scaremongering nonsense like that which gives power to the lobbies that wish to silence us. Bottom line- Free speech is free speech.

  • Now you're contradicting yourself. There's no problem with you going out in an abandoned forrest, getting naked and running around screaming death theats and racism; if you're in the USA you can even publish a blatantly racist magazine with your naked self on the cover. But when you show surprise boobs on a TV show that is rated "no boobs or full frontal nudity" and which is shown in peoples' living room you're doing something akin to running naked in somebody's back yard.

  • The danger of listening is that you might hear something you don't like. That's the responsibility of every person with free will. You're basically saying that free speech is fine as long as nobody hears it, which makes no sense at all. People's right to silence what they don't like should extend no further than their own ears, and certainly not all the way to the mouth of those that offend them. The problem is that some people decide on everyone else's behalf what should and shouldn't be heard.

  • A TV rating is a bit like putting up a sign saying "please no naked people in my yard". If they want to show tits on TV that's fine as long as they don't give it a misleading rating. I'm saying free speech is fine as long as you give people a choice about if they want to hear it - except of course for very important messages that are of burning urgency to tell people about.

  • Hi, this discussion is about what Britain is doing. I made no comparison b/t Britain and the USA. What the US does or doesn't do also does not legitimize what Britain does. You fail.

  • You "shamed" the UK for doing what the US does in much greater measure, much more frequently. Since you LIVE in the US, that pretty much makes you a stone thrower in a much much larger glass house. Freedom of speech occasionally gets stepped on no matter where you are, but nobody does it like America.

    So, as failure goes, you set the standard.

  • In america, we allow people to put whatever they want on their signs. Some restrictions apply.*

    *As long as it doesn't reference anything to do with government or Bush, where you will be swiftly taken to guantanamo and waterboarded for being a terrorist.

  • You can say anything you want about the government or Bush, in most cases you can even threaten to kill him but if you do that there is a chance that the Secret Service comes to interview you to make sure if you are a homocidal maniac or just a regular run of the mill maniac. To get your free trip to Guantanamo and the culturally sensitive meals you need to fight in Afghanistan or something, and even then the chance of waterboarding is almost nil. You are more likely to be killed in battle.

  • Your problem is that you think I'm giving the US a pass by criticizing the UK. I'm am not in any way doing that. But we're talking about the UK. I admit that the USA is terrible at times about freedom of speech and rights. But the UK right now is demonstrating a trend to appease religious groups for fear of causing backlash instead of protecting individual rights. That's what the discussion is here, not what the USA does or does not do. You are trying to redirect the discussion.

  • "But the UK right now is demonstrating a trend to appease religious groups for fear of causing backlash instead of protecting individual rights." YES. JUST LIKE THE STATES HAS EVERY DAY FOR DECADES. You keep singling out the UK, as though this issue doesn't reach outside the UK, which it obviously does. It's like saying "It's wrong that the UK has capital punishment." The discussion is freedom of speech and the absurd power of the religious lobby, period. Don't dilute the issue with nationalism.

  • Poor LilJimmy. I didn't single out the UK, the BBC article that is of discussion here is. I've already leveled with you about the US, but you insist on continually talking about it. There are plenty of videos on YouTube proving your point so why don't you go post in one of those videos and we'll talk about the UK in this thread. The only one who is diluting this argument to nationalism is you by redirecting the subject to lessen the guilt of the UK's crimes. That doesn't work, it's a fallacy.

  • YES! Perfect exposure for anon and this topic, we need to get the government talking about this! Good work anon, i respect what you're doing

  • Win.

  • Public debate? = more sentences with scientology and the word "CULT".

  • Hey they used my footage! lol...if they had asked I would have said yes anyway ;)

  • Scientology is a c-WHOOPS, CANT SAY THAT IN A POLICE STATE!

  • hey SpAn... DR PEPPER!

  • SHIT IT OFF!

  • They can't speak to EpicNoseGuy but they do speak to someone from Anonymous....erm...not so Anonymous then!

  • OMG, anyone that gives money to scientology is a nitwit. Stop giving them money and they will fade away

  • Ha ha EpicNoseGuy, what a legend!

  • Why I like living in the US?

    Even though we need to get our act together, we can be cool.

  • Atlanta, Anyone?

  • Talk about having a selective memory.