Scientology protest in Sydney attracts 200
The protests outside Scientology churches are attracting international media attention and they’ve barely even started yet. Take a look at News.com.au on photos of the Sydney protests, coverage and the Adelaide protests. There’s also YouTube video and Flickr pictures.
Keep an eye out on the Evil, Evil Scientology Pool.
There has also been an fake story circulating of violence at the anti-Scientology protests - see here (and on Digg).
Other media coverage so far includes Wikinews.
I’m fully in support of these protests. Scientology is a dangerous organisation which uses the credulity of it’s members to extract cash in a way that goes above and beyond almost any other religion. Humanity would be greatly improved if the Church of Scientology were to disappear. Have a look at Xenu.net and Whyaretheydead to see why. They use tactics to silence critics - as we saw today with the publication of fake news (which has pretty much failed!).
There’s some intersting connections between Scientology and Dell going on, which the tech types might want to look into.
More media coverage of today’s anti-Scientology protest in the Toronto Star and YouTube coverage from Melbourne.
Australia’s Channel 7 cover the Adelaide protest.
There are rumours circulating that a Scientologist had to be escorted away from the protest by police, and may have been arrested, in Adelaide. Here’s one source and another.
Updates
Photos from Berlin protest. There’s been live video all morning from London, and it’s still going. About 300-400 people turned up in London - more video here. And lots more pictures are up here and on Flickr.
Looks like the East Coast is about to start.
Scientology protest pictures up from Brighton, Amsterdam (and again), London and a new London video.
It’s been ten years of XML (and a bitching ten years at that), and Tim Bray has a run down of the history and the people. I love XML in quite unimaginable ways, and don’t like it when people call it unpragmatic. I mean, unpragmatic with your tools it may be, but it’s pretty damn pragmatic if you use the right tools.
