It's not their beliefs for me. They can believe whatever the hell they want, If my problem was their beliefs I'd be the worlds biggest hypocrite, I defend my Wiccan faith once a week at the very least. If they think they're possessed by alien particles that's their business.

My reason for protesting is the exploitation, the murders, the disconnection, it's a greedy cult. I want the world to know the crimes committed by CO$. Protesting against beliefs is biggotry, protesting against murderous  cults is saving the world.

A friend told me about Scientology AGES ago and how ridiculous their beliefs were. I did my homework then and thought of them as ludicrous. Eventually Anonymous began and what drew my attention were their outfits. One day I saw a poster on a wall in Adelaide. (It was small, and I ripped it off – hey I was slack..) took it home and went to all the links. I knew it was really a bit much to be protesting against them just because 'supposedly' had weird 'beliefs' – beliefs they were entitled to have.. but when i carefully read a statement that were not against their beliefs but the effects of their organisation that was what drew me in. I agreed with Anonymous' beliefs, the approach was reasonable, just and Co$ crimes and dodgyness were enough that I had no issues taking up the cause. Furthermore, the collective organisation that existed at the first protest impressed me! It was peaceful and attracted the right sort of people. Everyone was on the same page!

Personally I didn't protest because I expected that we would seriously have anyone important or significant take notice – very few protests result in that sort of action (unless exceptional effort is put in.) But for me this was different. This was a war of awareness – something that IS achieved very succesfully through protests. I don't know what others get out of it, but my goal is achieved every time someone reads a flier, sees our signs, our masks and  begins to learn about scientology. Anonymous has an impact I'm satisfied with. To see the next generation armed with the 'true facts' or at least 'the doubt' to question "their facts" is enough for me. Anonymous has already achieved this by getting so many of Gen Y involved, and passing on the information via the net protests etc. Anonymous has done unfathomable damage to scientology already Billions if you could put a figure to it. I forsaw our actions now having results over a significant span of time (e.g Cos membership dying off by not continuing through Gen Y)

However.. results I didn't expect to see stemming from our protest saga have ALREADY come about. Important people are taking notice – our tax the bastards episode has just showed that! Today tonight has put more nails in the coffin.. and Cos continues to screw up.. and the plot continues..

thanks for the responses, i have enjoyed reading them, and look forward to meeting you guys. And gosh anon23517 I was horrified at even imagining about a friend of yours telling you he can't see you anymore because your a Suppressive person.

"Also, the more I read, the more I learn, the more horrified and amazed I become at how this has all managed to keep going for so long without being unchecked. I can't wrap my head around how things like fair game, disconnection, tax fraud, etc, etc, ad infinitum can go on for so long around the world, let alone in my country – my *city* – without any sort of ramification."

things like 'disconnection' are designed to keep things secret so nobody knows what's happening on the outside. Its standard cult mentality to brainwash people into thinking that everyone else are "demons" who you can't associate with/communicate to. they slowly melt the individual down to the point where they totally adopt the cult mentality and have no other reality than that which they are fed. At this point they have no communication lines out to the real world – and actually they are the ones who have willingly given them up.

Because of that cycle, they now have no outside reality or access to any viewpoint that looks in from outside of the situation, thus they don't criticize their situation, they are so sucked in that they will even defend there oppressor! (note: this is also the case with battered women) – thus nobody really finds out how evil it can get inside the little microcosm.

lucky there are some guys destroying things from the inside, check out blownforgood's post on ex scientology message board, this one story personally effected me for sometime. get ready for lord of flies with scientology's international management corp.

http://www.forum.exscn.net/showthread.php?t=1935

For me, it started a couple of years ago, on the forums Something Awful, somebody started a thread there titled "Come Join the First Church of Xenu" or something along those lines in parody of Scientology. That thread grew really really big and ended up turning into a couple of 100+ page threads. While those threads were parody and were never meant to be serious at all, we had one interesting person sign up to the forums and join in the discussion, his name was Arnie Lerma (of lermanet.com) and he started showing us the true side of Scientology. Those threads spawned the site firstchurchofxenu.com (now defunct, but a cache of it is in the internet archive here). While that was all in good fun, it fizzeled out and nobody thought much of it since, but it was a bit of a taste of what Chanology was.

Then, in January/Feburary of this year… [insert generic statment detailing history of Anon/Chanology] and stuff happened. I, being the IRC lurker, decided to join irc.partyvan.info and sit on the sidelines watching what Anon were getting upto. They came to the realisation of what they were doing was not going to get them anywhere in the long term, so everyone stopped the petty eHarassment, and decentralised. I followed, and joined #adelraid to find an empty channel, someone from #ausraid joined the chan and then gave me ownership. Figuring that I needed to do something given the responsibility I was handed, I quickly threw together a copypasta site detailing the Adelaide plans for the Feb protest (cos.adelraid.googlepages.com). The channel quickly grew to about 10-15 people, and we didn't expect the first protest in Adelaide to be any more then that. When 150+ people rocked up to the protest, I was suprized and amazed to say the least.. Then the rest of the history can be found right here on this site. :)

For me though, protesting, has been somewhat due to the position of responsibility, and fun. I have no personal connection to Scientology, and they have not caused harm to myself or any one I know, but the more I read, the more I see that they do not belong in their current structure.

the first protest I went to was because I'd spoken to SirFluffington about the raids a few times and planned on going along with a few of our mutual friends to support what he was doing.

at that point I didn't know a whole lot about the Co$ aside from what I caught from a particular episode of South Park.

After going to the protest in June I started reading up on all the things the Co$ have been doing, I don't have a problem with their beliefs, but I have a huge problem with the terrible things they've been doing to people.

yet to attend a protest, but plan to hopefully check out the one in november.

First found out about anonamous while in the city one saturday night with a few m8's. Noticed this sticker on a post while waiting for some greasy food (helps alot with beer lol) with ANONAMOUS MASS PROTEST AGAINST COS, so the next day i looked it up on youtube and found the first message. Thought 'fuk ye' so started researching like hell on the net about the COS. Even watched the 'scientology and me' doco on CI channel- VERY GOOD DOCO i might add. A m8 of mine, is as deep into researchin the COS as i am, but he doesnt have the net (lives out in a tiny town lol) plus, he doesnt like the idea of getting involved in a protest. He'd rather just try out a stress test and mock them and ask tough questions to em lol :P. Sure i wanna join in, but a thought in the back of my mind says "your going into something real serious here, be fucking careful!" so its all just a process on pretty much manning up and joining the cause lol

As for myself, i wont say my name, address etc, because its an anon board- and the COS may be even watching this space. Who knows. But all my life i've been pretty much an athiest, the thought of a 'religion' or devine power to me is utter stupidity. SURE believe in what you want, but when it involves greed and death of its followers- i do not stand for it (considering ALL religions do exactly that as well as the COS just not in a large way…. hmmm…..). I sometimes think to myself "why bother, we cant stop something that large" but i've noticed there is a change in the air- no its not Obama…. just the world has suddenly been interested in looking at what makes this cult tick. In the past couple of years, many governments across europe have banned the COS, and many more protests have followed anon. I may have not been out at the rallies. BUT i've been out there telling people, like m8's work mates and so on, of the dangers of scientology, and all of them agree thats its a fucked up system of lies and profit.

So in closing, you will hear from me either here, or on youtube, or even out there in person, behind a guy fawks mask.

WE ARE ANONAMOUS

WE ARE LEGION

WE DO NOT FORGIVE

WE DO NOT FORGET

EXPECT US