We are moving full steam ahead into planning for the next raid. While alot of the details have not been finalised at the moment, we have made headway in discussing many points.

All details are subject to change, please keep updated through the forums and for the announcement on the front page. If you don’t like any of these details, get on the forums and get discussing, these raids are yours and they are not possible without your contribution.

Route:

We will follow a similar route to the last raid, except doubling back for epic exposure

• Start at Victoria Square at 2:00pm
• Walk down King William St at 2:15pm
• Turn onto Rundle Mall
• Split into 2 groups and Continue down either side of Rundle St
• Walk down to Rymill Park
• Catch our breath, and turn around
• Head back down Rundle St, again, in 2 groups
• Back through Rundle Mall
• Back up King William St
• Turn onto Waymouth St
• Protest out the front of Scientology
• Continue down to Victoria Sq to conclude the Raid where we started

Map

Topic:

This month, we might do the “Tax the Cult”/”Tax the Bastards” theme again. It is an extremely hot topic at the moment and should continue to be the focus of our protest in an attempt to make the government perform a review of Religious Charities, and ATO to check their records to make sure the tax-exempt businesses have been keeping the high level of transparency and strict record-keeping required for accepting donations peoples money.

Masks:

Whoever put their name down for a Guy Fawkes mask in this thread, one of our resourceful anon, AnonVocis has received the shipment and they will be available for pick-up on the day, at the cost of $7.00 each. There may be some spares available, send AnonVocis a private message in our forums to see if there is one available, or to arrange some alternate form of picking it up.

Business Cards:

We have 1000 Anonymous business cards on order, they will be made available to any Anon who may want some to hand out.

Event Tickets:

We are looking into organising event tickets with some of the donation money for the raid to hand out to people to invite them along to our protest. They will be handed out to the public and left in places for people to find before the protest to invite them along.

Flyers/Pamphlets/Info/Mini-Raids/Misc Stuff:

We always need new flyers and other handouts for our protests, if your creative, get making em, post them to our media gallery and people will hand them out.

We also need mini-raids to help spread the word and visibility of Anon, we need to get them organised and people postering/handing out flyers and invites to the protest. This will be extra important once we get the event tickets, we don’t want em to goto waste.

Link to the September 13th Organisation thread.

Categories: Documents, Mini Raids, September 13th Protest, Tax Exempt
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Well, it looks like Scientology have been a busy bunch. I received a hand delivered letter from a man around about 6:25pm, and with it he read out a small note on request. The note said

“THE CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY BELIEVES THAT YOU ARE PART OF ANONYMOUS WHICH IS AN ORGANIZATION THAT IT BELIEVES IS INVOLVED IN DEATH THREATS AND BOMB THREATS. THE CHURCH BELIEVES YOUR INVOLVEMENT IN THIS GROUP IF THESE ALLEGATIONS ARE CORRECT COULD MAKE YOU AN ACCOMPLICE TO THESE ACTS.”

but more importantly, was the letter. You will find pictures of the letter at the bottom of the page which are kind of blurry, but it read

Dear Mr ***,

RE: THE CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY AUSTRALIA

We have been retained by the Church of Scientology Australia in connection with its concerns regarding a series of terrorist threats against Church leaders and parishioners made by an internet group known as ‘Anonymous’.

We are instructed that since January 2008 members of Anonymous have engaged in a campaign of violence against the Church, its members and Church property That Anonymous members have made numerous bomb threats, arson threats and committed acts of vandalism against Scientology Churches. That they have made harassing phone calls, sent vulgar and threatening faxes, posted threats on the internet and publicly threatened to kill Scientologists engaged in religious services. That on 30 January 2008, Anonymous members sent letters containing simulated anthrax to over twenty Scientology Churches in Southern California.

We are further instructed that Anonymous members have also sent threatening emails to the Church, including, “[I will] kill you… I have the authority to use lethal force”; and “I’m watching you, and I control the bombs.” And on 13 February 2008, Anonymous placed a video threat on the Internet, saying:

“We are an elite Anonymous. On the 13th of March 2008 . . . one 5 kilogram pack of nitro glycerine will detonate in the Churches of Scientology across the United States of America . . . This will be the world’s biggest terrorist attack on a religion. Lives will be lost… A separate personal attack on [the President of the Church] will be launched on the 13th of March 2008 at an undisclosed time. His execution along with the deaths of other countless Scientologists will strike fear into the hearts of every member of this cult.”

We are informed law enforcement authorities have been notified of these illegal activities.

We are instructed to send you this letter because the Church believes that you may be directing or leading some or all of the actions of “Anonymous”, and have assisted in its campaign of violence and harassment including prank calls and other acts against the local Church. In particular, you were identified by the fact that your name and contact details appear on a permit for Anonymous as a local representative for Anonymous in Adelaide, South Australia.

We are further instructed to advise that should you or your organization continue inciting and / or engaging in such acts against the Church or its members, we are to take all legal steps necessary to protect our client.

Yours faithfully
BROCK PARTNERS

I’m not really sure what to make of this, as I have no knowledge of any prank calls, violence or harassment against the local church. I personally don’t want to see any harm coming towards any member of the church, as they are people like anyone else. And I think I would be right in saying that the other members of our group here in Adelaide think the same thing. I will continue to do what I am doing, and it is fortunate that I am already following the request of the letter through my actions.

- David.

Categories: Documents, May 10th Protest
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Some of the signs at the last raids have been very sub-par – small, look like they were quickly thrown together and impossible to read at a distance, so to help Anon along with the sign creation process, MrDogFood has compiled a bunch of tips into a useful pamphlet. A quick overview as well as a link to the pamphlet of what should make a sign is below.

1. Find Cardboard – Can be obtained by dismantling a Cardboard box – and boxes can be found everywhere, check your local supermarket or shed or well… Anywhere.
2. Neatly cut down the cardboard to make a nice backing for your sign.
3. Construct your message on computer using a BOLD easy to read Sans-Serif font – Aim for one word per page and try to keep the fonts the same size
4. Stick the message onto the cardboard with a lot of glue or wide packaging tape, your office desk scotch tape is not going to do it
5. Add your modifications – Want a pole, handles or a pouch for holding flyers, add these now. (nb: It is highly suggested to not use a heavy wooden or metal pole as it can be seen as a weapon – a cardboard tube would be a much better alternative)

This is just a quick overview, everybody should download and read the pamphlet below before constructing their sign.

Categories: April 12th Protest, Documents, Flyers
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Anonymous has created a press pack to assist journalists in reporting on Anonymous’ ongoing protest against the Church of Scientology’s criminal activities.

This press pack includes a press release about April 12′s Operation Reconnect (for immediate publication) as well as some relevant background information and examples of the literature we plan to distribute on April 12. There is an alternative version that also contains a few high-res photos from March 15′s Adelaide protest.

Anon_PressPack_April12_PlusPhotos

Anon_PressPack_April12_NoPhotos

Copies have been posted to most SA news outlets. The press release has also been disseminated via email, with journalists directed to download this pack for further info. Copies will also be brought to the April 12 protest, to hand to any journo’s who do show up.

Any feedback on the content of the press pack is most welcome.

Categories: April 12th Protest, Documents, Media, Op. Reconnect
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Using the site

To people who are new or unfamiliar here, this site is very much centred around user interaction and user generated content, however, it seems a lot of people probably do not know how to access these functions. When you register an account here, you will be given the ability immediately to post what ever you want into the image gallery and write new posts to go on to the front page.

To see how to get images/videos/documents/audio on the site, click here.

To post a new story, click here. We also suggest you have a little play around with the Admin Panel, and familiarise yourself with it. (Note: Stories/discussion topics require mod approval before they will appear on the front page, but mods will usually approve the story as long as it has content)

Guy Fawkes Masks

I am after expressions of interest in doing another bulk order of Guy Fawkes masks for Fellow SA Anon. The price will be $15.00 pick-up on or before the day, a little more if you want it posted to you. Last time around, 35 masks were ordered, and they all went pretty quickly. This is not so much to order one yet, more so trying to get an idea of numbers. Comment in the comments, or email me if your interested.

Categories: Documents, Media
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This is it folks. March 15th is fast approaching and the preparations for the march plow on despite a few red herrings. The following is a copy of a petition that we have drawn up in an effort to get enough signatures to request a public inquest into Scientology and it’s tax exempt status. This is the big one folks.

For those of you who are concerned about your name appearing if you sign the petition, we will be gathering public signatories and mixing up anon signatories amongst them, meaning your anonymity remains intact as you blend in with the general public. Few specifics are required, just names, signatures and your region. Please read this draft version of the petition and suggest as many changes as you like. All changes suggested for this weeks Media Release were added and your contribution on this would greatly benefit the final product. Now without further ado:

To the Honourable the President and Members of the Senate in Parliament assembled:

The Petition of the undersigned shows:

That the public has become aware of the human rights abuses and corporate nature of Scientology. By exhibiting this behaviour we feel that Scientology is abusing its Tax Exempt Status and the rights of Australian Citizens.

Your Petitioners ask/request that the Senate should:

• conduct a public inquiry into the practices of Scientology be undertaken to reveal the true extent of their “Fair Game” and “Disconnection” policies in Australia.
• order the ATO to Audit the Church of Scientology to show the amount of tax exempt dollars used for charitable work.
• consider that a third principle be added to the High Court definition of religion, being that a religion “must ensure the Human Rights of its practitioners (past, present and future) are not abused in any way as a result of joining, practicing, leaving the religion.

(signatures)

Tags: 15th,anonymous,ATO,Exempt,Human,Human Rights,March,March 15th,Petition,Rights,scientology,Senate,Tax,Tax Exempt
Categories: Documents, Human Rights, March 15 Protest, Tax Exempt
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