Scientology on the news again, Anonymous owned them again

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Phendrana said:

 

I agree that it's not the followers that are the problem. They're just people looking for answers that got taken advantage of by a manipulative group. The problem's with the overall organization. It's not just a few people here and there that taint the church's teachings. These tactics ARE the church's teachings. To use your example, it would be like if Catholicism had a policy supporting the molestation of little boys. It stops being about one or two isolated incidents when the church teaches its followers to exercise these practices. Just to show what I'm talking about, here are some quotes from their office policy letters regarding how to handle enemy SPs (critics of the church):

"May be deprived of property or injured by any means by any Scientologist without any discipline of the Scientologist. May be tricked, sued or lied to or destroyed."

"The homes, property, places and abodes of persons who have been active in attempting to suppress Scientology or Scientologists are all beyond any protection of Scientology Ethics, unless absolved by later Ethics or an amnesty."

There's another one I can't find that says to discover their crimes, and if they don't have any real crimes to manufacture fake ones (frame them). These are borderline mob tactics here.

This whole ordeal was started by the Cruise video. That doesn't mean the church is clean of these accusations though. The movement started very immaturely, but it's since evolved to a level beyond prank phone calls. I get the feeling you don't like Anonymous, which might be a factor in why you're hesitant to support the protests.

And like I said before, the church goes after people. Just by looking at the link about Paulette Cooper in conjunction with those quotes gives you a good idea of the lengths they're willing to go. I think the only way you could go up against an organization like that is anonymously.

I'll say again.  There is no causal link between the isolated incidents to which you refer, and the CoS at large.  There has been no broad ranging inquires, no high commisions, no Senate Commitee inquiries etc.  All of this is purely speculative. 

Even if every single one of your allegations is fundamentally correct, the idea that the media grants such one-sided coverage to a group that would deny a religious group natural justice is absolutely abhorrent.  Regardless of what the CoS has or has not done, it deserves the right to face and question it's accusers.  Noone can blame the Church for labelling Anonymous cyber-terrorists if the group refuses to identify itself and back their accusations with their own reputations.