Jennifer Emick

According to her bio, Jennifer Emick is a writer and religious educator. She was responsible for the alternative religion section at About.com, for a couple of years I think. As of now, the coverage of Scientology at About.com is rather comprehensive, including Chanology, the protests, and all the important links such as whyweprotest.net, the defunc enturbulation.org, xenu.net etc.

She is doing a rather good job from the Anonymous point of view. It's a pitty that about.com content stayed out of Google searches.

Jennifer will be replaced by Catherine Noble, who is a Wiccan.

To Know, Will and Dare: Being Neutral About Scientology

To Know, Will and Dare: Being Neutral About Scientology
My long comment if it gets deleted:

I admire your being able to remain neutral while your mother's friend is still in witness protection from a criminal organization.

But I find your reasoning confusing. Knowing fully that the "church" is controlled by criminal elements, will you advice people not to join it, regardless of the religion?

As a legitimate movement, the mission statement of the anti-Scientology camp is of course not against the religion itself, but against the criminal elements that controls the "church". The Free Zone, various factions practicing Scientology outside of the "church" is an ally, often protesting along side others.

We can't stop people from expressing their opinions, protesters or not, that some believes in Scientology are crazy. The media isn't helping. But the bottom line is that, if people protest just because Scientology is a crazy religion, you will not find thousands of people in over a hundred cities in the world risking to go into witness protection.

I find it alarming that you find the CoS publications helpful. I hope you are aware of the fact that the "church" excels in silencing critics. So naturally they can get away with anything in their publications.

Wikipedia is a reasonable because they have a neutral point of view to maintain by a collective, and yet you can still remain anonymous to some extend. It's really hard to find somebody willing to reveal their identity while criticizing Scientology. Witness protection my dear.

Even better is Wikileaks. They have all the documents that the "church" don't want you to see, verified by the "church's" take down notices claiming copy right.

You totally misunderstand Xenu. We can't stop the media from making fun about Xenu. But South Park is fair as they do it to everybody, Christians and Muslims. The real point about Xenu is that the "church" have to deny that Xenu doesn't exist in the scriptures. Because believers only get to read the scriptures after paying level by level. Only believers reaching OT III level get to know the story, after spending well over a hundred thousand dollars.

While everybody knows about it, "church" officials still have to deny it in public. Scientologists who is below OT III, most of them, have to stop harassing protesters and hide when Xenu is brought up. Even if you are just mentioning Xenu as a matter of fact, you risk going into witness protection if they go after you, and leave criminal evidence.

November 4, 2008 10:59 AM

Elliot J. Abelson

Elliot J. Abelson is the lawyer currently defending Scientology in the Peter Letterese case.

Background:
UCLA School of Law (licensed 1969)
Deputy DA in LA County (until 1971)

Clients:
Farrah Fawcett (1970??, shop lifting)
Peraino family (Porn mafia)
Jennifer Peace (Porn actress)

Scientology cases: (since 1995)
Lisa McPherson, Bob Minton
Fishman, Geertz, Ford Greene
Keith Henson
Gabriel Williams
Peter Letterese

There's little information on him except for his role as Scientology general counsel. His 8491 Sunset address is probably a mail drop, while he works out of Moxon's LA office. There's no public record that he is a Scientologist.

If the details are right, he is well passed his retirement age. Is Scientology really in deep trouble?

Can one be a deputy DA after practicing for just 3 years? He is another one who is a former DA in LA. No wonder that it was reported that he seemed to run the DA office too in the Henson case. The Fawcett case seems to be out of chronological order.

Some old critics jumped out to warn against association with Peter Letterese. If anybody tied up some Scientology lawyers, it will be a good thing. This guy seems to be a geniune victim. Who am I to judge his methods and his state of mind? Does it matter if he fails?

Scientologists assault protestors

The protest occurs at the Gold Base, Scientology world headquarter. You can see from satellite that it's a huge complex at the middle of nowhere, a Californian desert. The nearby town is Hemet.

There were about 5 protesters. Does the majority looks like soccer moms to you?


Scientologists were always under orders to identify and play games with protesters' vehicles. This time it was trained Scientologist security guards at their world headquarter. As usual they get very close, enough to take macro shoots at the VIN number, and any other things inside the van that can be useful for identification. Funny enough, most protesters are known to Scientology and didn't wear masks. Even if you are inside the van, you have no idea if they mess it up, such as planting a tracking device. This time they went too far. They ignited a signal flare close to the van.

The current number one Scientology protester, Anon Orange, followed the guards' all terrain vehicle to question what they were doing. He would have been telling them that it's a top level foot bullet to start a flare in such a dry day, so close to his van.

I'm fairly sure he knew he was stepping into Scientology property, but I'm not sure what he was thinking. May be he wasn't thinking about property lines. He had every right to chase anybody who could have burnt down his vehicle, and to warn them not to go near again. Maybe it was a calculated bold move, though his video cam wasn't on.

In any case, he exposed what Scientology is. These are the goons, who can easily out powered if not out numbered the protesters. They came out of their vehicle, arrested the lone Anon Orange, restrained him with a knee on his face, pushing him into the dirt ground. They tied him up too.

That was not all. They threw a tiny older lady onto the van hard, and lost a nail (Though she was much tougher than they think.) Most of the incident was captured on video.


If you try that at home you will be in deep trouble. You cannot arrest and tie somebody up for just walking across your property line without warning. You cannot use excessive force when no one and nothing were being threaten. Remember that we were at the middle of a desert? Were the goons afraid of and being threaten by a single guy? Anything of value will be behind fences far away.

I don't think the goons are hired guards. If they were, they would only be low life with nothing better to do, and doing it only for the money. But Scientology is not well known for well paying jobs. I believe they are Scientologists. If they let Anon Orange walked around without doing anything, they would be in deep trouble. If they mishandle anything, they could be in deep trouble too. Their own prison is right behind them.

Now Scientology can't blame the incident on some nutty believers. It's their own guard in uniform doing it as a group. I think they are under standing orders to do something. It may even be some setup as on other days, the police were present to observe.

Everybody called the police, who arrived slowly and arrested Anon Orange. I was told they need not accept the citizen arrest. Indeed there isn't any good reason to arrest him. It won't happen anywhere else. For those who criticize Anon Orange, I would say it's hard to please every faction in "Anonymous". It's always a good thing to get media attention. Whatever else he did, regard it as generating lulz to keep some people interested.

Obviously, you can see that Scientology doesn't have anything to do with a "church". They take their property line dead seriously, even in the middle of a nowhere desert. Forget about any warm fuzzy feeling of a real forgiving church. Should they be in the business of rehabilitating anything? They have Crimonon to rehabilitate criminals in prison. Yeah right, beat them up so they will be avoiding prison again at all cost.

Media frenzy building up on Guy Fawkes day

It had been a fantastic week for Anonymous. Gawker has a front page story in which two peaceful protesters were assaulted at Hemet California, the home base of the Chief of Scientology. As usual, there were over 25,000 hits in a couple of hours, on a Sunday. I'm sure many readers will go to Hollywood Interrupted for more detailed pictures and videos of the incident.

Over the weekends, The Sun has a big story titled I'd have killed for Cruise cult. On it's printed version, there were a two page spread! Being the Sun, it means most of the Brits will hear and talk about it. Another British paper, Sunday something, has a 4 page spread in the printed version!

Scientology wasn't even trying to spin it off. However, the most popular anti-Scientology website, whyweprotest.net, was being attacked, along with it's sister site, scientology-exposed.com, went down Sunday night.

I don't think there will be something big in terms of protest on the 5th of November, or the weekend after. I'm sure the Brits will try to show them something. It's the day after presidential election in US. Anyway, there have been weekly random raids all over the world and the monthly global protest will be around mid Nov.

New kind of cyber activism

An article in Culture Mandala, Vol. 8, No. 1, October 2008, pp.28-80, titled "HOW CHINA WILL USE CYBER WARFARE TO LEAPFROG IN MILITARY COMPETITIVENESS". Although it's only an article published by Bond University of Australia, it's a serious article with quality research and references. Chanology, the campaign against the Cult of Scientology, truly deserves it's place along side other historical cyber attack incidents. It's more than that. The reaction of tourists in Hollywood, captured in Youtube videos, said it all. They can't wait to take sovenior pictures with masked anonymous protestors. Some can't believe their luck that they ran into a global protest, their face like seeing the Great Wall or Niagara Falls for the first time.

Case Studies: Estonia, Georgia and Chanology
The 2007 cyber attacks against Estonia, Georgia and Project Chanology are examples of large-scale cyber attacks. The Estonian attacks were the first to show how cyber attack against a state provides a debilitating effect at a low cost, a lack of attribution, a lack of legal framework in defence, world-wide attention, and may point to a new arm of traditional attack. The Russo-Georgian war of August 2008 was even more sophisticated and intense than the Estonian case, showing the maturation of the process. Project Chanology reveals how the collective masses can use online tools to emerge as a powerful force without a central leadership. This can be harnessed by military power through the tactics described in IO (Information Operations, see above). And as a matter of internal security, Chanology style movements must be carefully observed as they pose a non-traditional threat. Estonia and Chanology are an emerging expression of warfare that is fuelled by new powers afforded by the internet, but spills over into the real world, not only through financial loss and media
coverage (soft power), but also in the form of volatile protests, disruption, mob mentality, and the capability of drawing governments and militaries into unwanted actions.

Chanology won't go away, but we need help. Unlike other activism, we need brave souls that are willing and afford to take risks, even though we are existing our constitutional rights, our activities are totally legal and we cooperate with law enforcement fully. Politicians turn a blind eye for years, investigating journalists have been silenced by lawsuits long ago, the justice systems can't stop lawfare and became part of it, the police and FBI can't do anything about threatening behaviors and lies. Who can we call upon?

Retreat announcements

Whenever someone post goodbye announcements to the anti-Scientology movement, I feel demoralized somewhat. The more well known and the more work the person have done, the more I feel bad about it. In many protests, there are only a few people. One less make a lot of difference.

More than goodbye, usually these people have nothing good to say. This Church Lady said that Anon Orange's recently posted pictures and his behavior are not consistence with her strong religious believes. This is rather strange as many juvenile behaviors have been tolerated and of course indecent pictures from channers. On the other hand, the conflicts between factions within anonymous have been constant, and there were many causalities who left.

Personally I would have left a few times after arguments and criticisms. However, I know if I quit Scientology will get the last laugh, and that's the last thing I want. After cooling down for a day or two, I will never say never again.

However there are good reasons, such as being identified, threatened, etc. Some double their efforts after these things, while others are perfectly reasonably to stop protests on the streets. It depends on how much you have to lose and the risk of it.

Some are tired, exhausted physically or financially. Or have to catch up with life after 10 months. But do you really want to quite completely? How about a rest, regroup and see how it goes?

In any case, I really prefer people go quietly. Why would you want to give good news to Scientology, while demoralizing your friends? You don't have moral high ground if you leave evil alone because you think the others are not moral enough.

I know if you don't make announcements, people will still contact you long after. But you can contact your close friends by private emails, and let them know if somebody else ask for you. A lot of people in the world will feel better without it.