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Battling Scientology

By CHRIS FARAONE  |  October 23, 2008

While Anonymous has no formal hierarchy, it appears that, when it comes to issues involving the CoS in Boston, Housh is a key organizer: still, renegade Anons didn’t have to consult with Housh (and didn’t) about picketing Katie Holmes’s Broadway debut earlier this month in New York (in previews, and they planned to protest Opening Night this week), or hacking Sarah Palin’s e-mail this past month, or “raiding” various Web sites with whom they have a beef, such as allhiphop.com in June.

Still, while there are no sanctioned leaders, Anonymous has advanced an uncompromising strike against Scientology.

“None of us had any clue about how to do any of this before,” says Housh, “and now people are starting to recognize us. We were handing out flyers on Boylston Street recently and this one guy walked right past us, so I yelled, ‘Sir — at least tell us that you’re with us.’ When he realized that we were against Scientology, he turned around, told us to turn on our cameras, stuck both middle fingers in the air, and yelled, ‘Hey, Tom Cruise — fuck you!’ ”

Chris Faraone can be reached at cfaraone@phx.com.

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Re: Battling Scientology
 Marblecake 3.0 much?
By anon_nypa on 10/15/2008 at 9:45:23
Re: Battling Scientology
To the legal department of the Cult of $cientology.....don't be adding any of my activites as Anonymous to those of Mr. Housh.  We are leaderless and thus he isn't responsible for the group in its entirety! This article implies that Anonymous is somehow Mr. Housh's group and therefore he is responsible for Anonymous as a whole.  Wrong!  I yam what I yam and I am Anonymous.  
By anonymom17 on 10/15/2008 at 11:15:55
Re: Battling Scientology
To the legal department of the Cult of $cientology.....don't be adding any of my activites as Anonymous to those of Mr. Housh.  We are leaderless and thus he isn't responsible for the group in its entirety! This article implies that Anonymous is somehow Mr. Housh's group and therefore he is responsible for Anonymous as a whole.  Wrong!  I yam what I yam and I am Anonymous. Oh yeah.  Great job Boson Anons.  You're the best!  
By anonymom17 on 10/15/2008 at 11:16:25
."Church" of Scientology
Dear Mr. Faraone           It certainly takes guts to critcize/fight these people. A quality which i do not have.  I had been a member for a short time about thirty years ago. They have a 'communications course', but try to communicate your criticism and see what happens. Example:            When i was in a mall, i made a snide remark to the 'Hubbard Dianetics'. When they called mall security. I just walked away. So this fellow and yound girl, who were Scientologists, took my photo with a cell phone. Like i want to be identified. and harrassed on their enemies list.  They needed a closeup. Uncharacteristically, i was close enough to knock the cellphone out of his hands. By the way i was eating a cup of ice cream at the time. So...i found myself battling the fellow for the cell phone. I swear, i couldn't make this up, he had me in a bear hug.  I got the blankety blank cell phone and threw it. He went to retrieve the pieces. While she called security...By then i dropped my ice cream . And was able to succeed in running, as faast as ever.  Over the bridge/yellow brick road/ to total freedom from Harassment. Its a free country with freedom of speech and of "religion". ......True story.     
By blackie on 10/16/2008 at 6:44:39
Re: Battling Scientology
Greg Housh is a bit like what the article stated, "Paul Revere and web savvy."  It's too bad this organization, a so-called church, outed him and they no doubt have started yet another long, litigous bullying campaign against him. People -- read more of these articles, see comments posted like the one above by "blackie" and then so some research.  The best way is to watch videos (available everywhere) made by ex-Scientologists, made by main-stream media, made by long time critics, and made by Anonymous.  They all have tried to educate us masses for years!  [Know who keeps trying to suppress these videos?  You got it.  $cientology spends a lot of time and money suppressing Freedom of Speech.]   Mr. Housh is a bit like Paul Revere.  We should all listen to what is being said.
By Wendy T. on 10/16/2008 at 8:06:53
Re: Battling Scientology
 Bitches and Thetan's, bro. You keep on rocking in that free world.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTTsyk-pyd8 http://www.exscn.net/
By Gregg_s brother on 10/16/2008 at 12:51:19
Re: Battling Scientology
Obviously I am not _really_ Gregg's real time brother, if he even haz a real 1. If Gregg Housh knows 2 swim an ocean, my door will be open, though. *chuckles* This troll giggles about cu*t's & cocks.
By Gregg_s brother on 10/16/2008 at 1:18:11
Dicks Everywhere!
http://hotimg16.fotki.com/a/91_121/13_62/lisaderrick.jpg L.A. dicks greet Boston dicks. 
By lisadork on 10/16/2008 at 2:39:33
I'll just leave this here:
Gregg likes to make believe that he was responsible for Napster, coded some kind of super virus that infected millions of computers, killed a man, was 2nd in the Nintendo World Championships and gets really pissed off if you ask him about Snowmobile. This is all truth. Also, he knowingly and willfully entered the church and got slapped with the admittedly shaky charges. And he's been begging Anons for cash ever since. For a guy who's supposedly 1400 in the whole, he sure had no problem taking Anons to the movies. l2matyr.Shout out to my homies in #bostonlaid keep it trill dis ya boi AnonHero signing out.
By Senator Faggot on 10/16/2008 at 9:38:23
Sick and Sad
Let's see...we've got Wall Street shredding docs so its executives don't go to jail where they belong, politicians who defend and protect the mortgage moguls, people losing family homes in every neighborhod in the USA, hospitals that kill ten thousand people a year from misdiagnosis and wrong prescriptions, certain sports that kill, brain- or spine-damage a hundred people a year, police brutality, selective enforcement and all-white juries that put African Americans in jail at twice the rate they deserve per later DNA testing, rampant discrimination against homosexuals in the workplace and professional sports, and a US military that's rapidly going Dominion Christian so even defense-minded Jews and Muslims are discriminated against, physically harassed and made to pull the extra-dirty jobs.  And Anonymous is doing exactly what about these issues? Oh, yeah! They're protesting a church. Yes, that's right in the thick of America's priorities. Hack on, party dudes! It's certainly better and easier than finding some real cause to work for.   
By ThePresence on 10/19/2008 at 5:37:18
re: ThePresence
"Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo." - H.G. Wells P.S. whyaretheydead.net 
By anonymiz on 10/20/2008 at 10:23:30
Living la vida Anonymous
Because on the Internets, even the dangerously deluded and misguided have a right to be heard (Freedom of Speeeeech !)
By LocoAnono1 on 10/21/2008 at 11:50:17
Re: Battling Scientology
I am no fan of Scientology's use of non-profit tax exemptions on behalf of a relentlessly profit-oriented business model, even less of their abusive litigiousness.  Nevertheless, Anonymous's tactics are ineffective, even harmful.  (1)  Masks have shameful associations in US political culture, from the Ku Klux Klan to modern left-wing extremists.  (2)  Trespassing and disruption of events on private property are likely to generate sympathy for the target.
(Para#2)  Better would be to campaign for legal reforms, eg. making those (including lawyers) who file frivolous lawsuits (or any kind of lawsuit against First Amendment speech) fully liable for the defense costs of their victims.
By hcunningham on 10/22/2008 at 11:20:46
Re: Battling Scientology
There is truth and there are lies. Scientology has a foundation of lies. I should know., I was deceived by them for over 18 years. I am out and I am blessed to be alive. The facts is, we don't always know the ways of God but we do know that when things are not right, something must be done to rectify it.  In my estimation, Gregg is a God send and I am forever grateful for his sacrifice for the many current and former victims of this cult, my self included.
By Mary McConnell on 10/25/2008 at 1:04:26

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