Anonymous - Philadelphia chapter led by Baconator held their June 14th 2008 protest at the Scientology center on Chestnut Street. Over 50 people gathered for hours this afternoon during Operation Sea Arrrgh to bring awareness of the abuse happening from the Church of Scientology.
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Filmmakers note: I am neither for nor against the practices of the church. I only decided to document the protest and interview its members after speaking to one of them about the protest and what they were doing. I had just filmed a Barack Obama meeting outside of Philly and was just driving through Center City to stop at Borders to do a stock signing of my new book Direct Your Own Life.
Please take a look at the website:
http://www.DirectYourOwnLife.com.
The book was just released this week and is available in Barnes and Noble, Borders, and online at Amazon.
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For more information visit the original Anonymous video at: http://youtube.com/watch?v=JCbKv9yiLiQ
Hello, Scientology. We are Anonymous.
Over the years, we have been watching you. Your campaigns of misinformation; suppression of dissent; your litigious nature, all of these things have caught our eye. With the leakage of your latest propaganda video into mainstream circulation, the extent of your malign influence over those who trust you, who call you leader, has been made clear to us. Anonymous has therefore decided that your organization should be destroyed. For the good of your followers, for the good of mankind--for the laughs--we shall expel you from the Internet and systematically dismantle the Church of Scientology in its present form. We acknowledge you as a serious opponent, and we are prepared for a long, long campaign. You will not prevail forever against the angry masses of the body politic. Your methods, hypocrisy, and the artlessness of your organization have sounded its death knell.
You cannot hide; we are everywhere.
We cannot die; we are forever. We're getting bigger every day--and solely by the force of our ideas, malicious and hostile as they often are. If you want another name for your opponent, then call us Legion, for we are many.
Yet for all that we are not as monstrous as you are; still our methods are a parallel to your own. Doubtless you will use the Anon's actions as an example of the persecution you have so long warned your followers would come; this is acceptable. In fact, it is encouraged. We are your SPs.
Gradually as we merge our pulse with that of your "Church", the suppression of your followers will become increasingly difficult to maintain. Believers will wake, and see that salvation has no price. They will know that the stress, the frustration that they feel is not something that may be blamed upon Anonymous. No--they will see that it stems from a source far closer to each. Yes, we are SPs. But the sum of suppression we could ever muster is eclipsed by that of the RTC.
Knowledge is free.
We are Anonymous.
We are Legion.
We do not forgive.
We do not forget.
Expect us.
Digg this video: http://digg.com/people/Anonymous_Philadelphia_PA_Scientolgoy_Protest_June_14
Well done. No ranting by the filmmaker--you just let him have his say and documented the event and his stance like a professional. This is what YouTube is fore. Kudos on you!
Leishalynn 2 years ago 14
This guy is great, he does it for the lulz.
wesleyfilms 2 years ago 13