Before February 10th Anonymous was a collective of strangers. They drifted through the Internet, gathering information, playing games and dealing in the priceless currency of LULZ and Justice. Scientology had persistently tried to remove the LULZ from the Anonymous collective and that’s when the game started. As anon learned moar about the litigious nature and blatant disregard of human rights of this ‘religion’ we banded together to face the most epic battle for LULZ to ever be faced by Anon.

February 10th came around and many of us believed it would be small. A group of five. Maybe ten? Not even close. Over one hundred people showed up in Adelaide alone. Around the whole world we rose to numbers well over nine thousand. What had we accomplished? The information war had begun and Anon, in its constant state of epic WIN, had gained the attention of mainstream media outlets worldwide. Once the shock had worn off, Anonymous set to work.

Realizing we are dealing with a strong media savvy corporate style organization we quickly determined a common goal. By removing Tax Exempt we could cut a large portion of Scientology’s funding. Initially we thought that by showing Scientology’s profit based structure (whereby all people of the Church need to pay incremental amounts of money to advance up the ladder and Scientology uses it’s business status as freely as it’s religious) and it’s abuse of human rights (Google Lisa McPherson, check out www.xenu.net or visit our own Australian story about Gary Beals) it should be an easy task to have the Tax Exempt Status removed.

We were wrong. According to legal documents in Australia, that regularly quote from the case of Scientology as an example, an organization can be defined as a religion as long as:

“…a religion [has] two characteristics: belief in a supernatural Being, Thing or Principle; and that there is an acceptance of canons of conduct that give effect to that belief by some part of the community.”

This means that scientology can undoubtedly be classed as a religion. To change the law as we know it would require one of two things:

1. To have a new clause included that requires religion to ensure the basic human rights of its followers is cared for and
2. To prove that Scientology has used Church Funds in a way that does not benefit its practitioners.

After having researched a little on the subject, neither is as easy at it would appear.

To achieve these two aims Anon must begin to think about what information needs to be in the hands of what people. We need to formulate a legally binding clause that sums up the first aim; we should distribute more information about the disgusting abuses of Human Rights perpetrated by Scientology. Whilst doing this, signatures can be collected for a petition to send to the appropriate heads of government. Failing that we need to find out if their are any Scientology businesses that are purely built for profit that have no relation to it’s members well being.

Any other ideas, questions or information on this topic are more than welcome as we have learned, as Anonymous, that the sharing of information is beneficial to all people. March 15th fast approaches and, though we stand ready, we must never stop planning. If you are interested in finding out how to raise awareness, or you just want to know more about Scientology’s crimes, come to the meeting on March 1st^st or check out www.xenu.net.

We are Anonymous.

We are LEGION.

Expect us.

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Categories: March 15 Protest, Mini Raids, Tax Exempt
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