Post by functionunknown on Nov 8, 2010 18:00:53 GMT
A faceless, unstable virtual army masses to take on—and take down—the world’s most secretive and terrifying religion. An exclusive report from the front lines of a 21st-century battle.
[/i][/blockquote]“Hello, leaders of Scientology. We are Anonymous.
Over the years, we have been watching you. Your campaigns of
misinformation, your suppression of dissent, your litigious nature:
all 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 have come to trust you as leaders has
been made clear to us. Anonymous has therefore decided that your
organization should be destroyed…We are anonymous. We are legion.
We do not forgive. We do not forget. Expect us.”“Message to Scientology”
January 21, 2008
It’s after midnight on March 15 at the Electric Lotus, a hip Indian bar and restaurant in Hollywood, when the secret meeting begins.
Five scraggly young men and a Goth girl with purple-streaked hair gather at a long dining table in a dark back room. An Asian dude urgently devours basmati rice as if he hasn’t eaten in days. A blond punk in a faded Pixies T-shirt and a black-and-white camouflage jacket keeps glancing furtively at the door. Finally, a clean-cut 22-year-old in a T-shirt and jeans speaks up.
No one here knows each other’s real name, so he introduces himself under his pseudonym, Ryan. “We don’t know what will happen tomorrow,” Ryan says as the others nod. “We don’t know what they’re capable of.” [more...see scans below]
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