Firsthand account of the Anonymous protest of Scientology in Hollywood

The fact that hundered's or thousands of youth are willing to mobilize and organize world wide in order to protest against a religion.. Yet there is war in Iraq genocide and darfur and thousands of children dying every day because of lack of food or water... Disturbs me. Let people practice what ever religion they want. you do not have to agree with it. And if you are mad and want to fix this world i can name you 100 causes that are worth your time and energy far beyong scientology.

Couldn't help but notice that in the pictures you can't see more than +- 30 ppl.. not 500 heh.

Likwid:
There were easily 500 people protesting in Hollywood that day, but they were spread over dozens of locations. (Scientology has many, many complexes and in Los Angeles.)

The largest groups at one place (that I've heard of) were 200 at the L. Ron Hubbard Dianetics Center in the morning; and around 200 at the CNN building in the afternoon...but most of the protests consisted of much smaller groups.

mattbrawn:
There are certainly causes that are more destructive and pressing than Scientology (Darfur, Iraq, etc.), but that doesn't excuse the human rights violations perpetrated by the Church of Scientology.

There's a lot of evil in this world and it comes in many forms. At least we're mobilizing against SOMETHING, rather than sitting around doing nothing.

preach it.... so many other tragedy's in the world...very few voices to protest...its a damn shame...

"There's a lot of evil in this world and it comes in many forms. At least we're mobilizing against SOMETHING, rather than sitting around doing nothing."

Couldn't of said it better myself Pete.

You need to understand the mindset of the web culture. One overriding sentiment among this group is that they take censorship and freedom of information very seriously. Hence, the recent events w/ Scientology represent issues that will cause significant unrest within this community.

Also, consider proportion. A bunch of web-savvy users most likely cannot spur changes in a violent region. A problem like Darfur is not their area of expertise. However, they definitely can move against an organization that uses the internet as both one of its main channels of information and censorship.

these 'protesters' will never be taken seriously with clown masks on. if they have such strong convictions, why hide?
and it seems really stupid to make signs (that i presume are meant to communicate something) that are written in 133+ spk - i mean for gods sake 133+ is a code.
an exercise in futility.
sometimes the left gives the left a bad name. they all look like children on an outing. instead of 'protesting', why don't they try some activism, ie actually DO SOMETHING like collect evidence if they are so info-savvy. cheez.

and there are LOTS bigger fish to fry.
choose your battles, folks, choose your battles.

to specialist: those aren't clown masks, they're from V for Vendetta, and the allusion works quite nicely in this circumstance. The church of scientology could also take them to court if their identities are known, btw. Secondly, protesting can do a lot. Not only does it show the leaders of scientology that there's a crowd out against them, it can also make others in the general population aware of what's going on.
and finally, to everyone
I whole heartedly concur: at least they're doing something.
Most of my peers are too worried about what they're wearing to prom to think about others. These 'protestors' may not be more than 16, 17 years old. One step at a time, everyone has to start with something.