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STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
17:38 / 14.03.08
Incidentally, if anyone's needing .pdfs for fliers or anything from Enturbulation, I'd suggest getting them RIGHT NAO. Huge traffic's causing them massive server issues, and I'm guessing as the hour approaches it'll be a real fucker getting on.
 
 
pony
18:03 / 14.03.08
I've been having a hell of a hard time staying connected to enturbulation for more than a few clicks since yesterday. While it's not nearly as convenient and central, the partyvan links to a number of good flyer/poster/other media repositories.

Best wishes for tomorrow, everyone. Stay safe and have fun. Oh, and [peacefully] kick some ass.
 
 
grant
18:21 / 14.03.08
DC Convention cancelled by hotel. And apparently the staffer who OKed it got fired.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
18:35 / 14.03.08
teh suXXor.

Though it looks like the Washington Anons are on the case. It'd be great if the girl could get a wrongful dismissal claim from this. That would be as delicious as cake.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
19:07 / 14.03.08
God, I love Wise Beard Man.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
21:21 / 14.03.08
And here we go.

The Kiwis should have started by now!

Go, New Zealand Fail Guy! Make it WIN this time!!!

Am trying REALLY hard not to stay up getting drunk and checking online for reports- it's an early start tomorrow! I should probably just watch a movie and sleep. Now... V for Vendetta or 300?
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
21:30 / 14.03.08
Magoo's eve of battle speech.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
21:41 / 14.03.08
And RaidChan Radio, which is so far just playing music for Anons but hopes to have live feeds and news at some point soon.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
21:50 / 14.03.08
OK, apparently the Kiwis start in an hour or so. That time thing is WEIRD.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
02:16 / 15.03.08
And, of course, Jenna Miscavige is getting Fair Gamed.
 
 
pony
02:31 / 15.03.08
go to bed, stoatie. we're going to need you in the morning (unless of course you're doing the "waking up at 5am on xmas morning out of sheer excitement" thing).

anyway, the word from NZ is that attendance numbers are multiplied by 3 to 5. if this is any indicator, saturday will be made of all sort of win.
 
 
pony
04:42 / 15.03.08
And take a look at Wikipedia's "featured article"... the universe is with you, kids.
 
 
Seth
06:58 / 15.03.08
Godspeed you! beautiful emperors. One day I'll be free on the day in question to stand shoulder to shoulder. For now I'm spreading the memes amongst colleagues, who are all getting a huge kick out of it and are behind Wise Beards all the way. If anyone remembers what I do for a living then don't post it here please, but enjoy it quietly with me.

Big thanks to all of you who have made this thread so utterly joyous, especially grant, and especially ESPECIALLY Stoatie of my heart. XX
 
 
Saturn's nod
09:39 / 15.03.08
Holy fucking win.

Footmissile of the year? Co$ posted out a high resolution copy of the bomb threat video (not the compressed version which it's possible to download from YouTube). Seems to prove they are the ones who made and uploaded it in the first place.

Partyvan?!
 
 
ORA ORA ORA ORAAAA!!
10:20 / 15.03.08
Sydney protest was way, way more fun than the last one (I've heard. Obviously).

The atmosphere was great, and even though the COS folk were being obstructive (with trucks) and acquisitive (grabbing handfuls of flyers from people and delivering them to their lair), nothing terrible happened. And the police were really helpful, with the exception of not getting the illegally parked trucks towed.
 
 
grant
13:54 / 15.03.08
Just because Enturbulation is creaking, here's

[+] [-] Jenna's story, hidden as a spoiler

That's what it takes to win.
 
 
grant
14:00 / 15.03.08
Co$ posted out a high resolution copy of the bomb threat video (not the compressed version which it's possible to download from YouTube).


Oh.


Tell me Homeland Security is involved.



Tell me that thing.
 
 
imaginary mice
16:58 / 15.03.08
Big thanks to all of you who have made this thread so utterly joyous

Seconded. This thread is giving me all kinds of happies.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
17:28 / 15.03.08
London was fucking made of win and delicious caek. If anything, a BETTER atmosphere than last month, and definitely a lot more people. (And I discovered that, yes, it IS possible to wear three V masks simultaneously, though it freaks out your friends if they're following you through a crowd).

Bonus points to Ex for turning up on the spur of the moment, and with a much less uncomfortable mask than the rest of us.

A lot of people were stopping to ask why we were protesting, why were wearing masks, etc, which gave us a lot of opportunities to, well, TELL them... indeed, we sloped off to the pub for a quick breather (literally- those masks get awfully confined after a while) part-way through the TCR one, and the people sat at the next table (not Anons or $cilons as far as I could make out) were talking about the demo.


Oh, and that hi-definition video thing? Thanks, $cilons. You couldn't have given us a better present for L Ron's birthday. That's AWESOME.
 
 
grant
20:09 / 15.03.08
Early pics from Clearwater here (NOTE: THIS IS SOMETHINGAWFUL.COM). The captions are pretty funny, for the most part.

The pix might come from this large set on Flickr or this photobucket set.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
22:18 / 15.03.08
OMGWTFBBQ etc...

Fox News piece- yes, that's FOX NEWS, they of "internet hate machine", "hackers on steroids" and "SHE BOUGHT A DOG" fame, have a piece on Anon v Co$ from yesterday- and it's pretty sympathetic to Anon!

Marc Headley is the guy from the story that ran in the News Of The World last Sunday.

Is it too much to hope that the press IS finally speaking out? Because I'm betting there're a LOT of very, very interesting stories that haven't been published.

(Fuck, I'm KNACKERED. Was gonna watch a movie, but I was up until stupid o'clock last night, and then got up early and waved around signs and stuff, and... ah, today was so much win I don't really want it to end).
 
 
grant
23:56 / 15.03.08
Well, there was something less than sympathetic on NY Post's "Page Six" celeb column but as someone who's been published on those saffron pages in the past I understand how "bomb threats" plus "Tom Cruise" make it worth publishing.

I probably shouldn't link to Star magazine's open question on Tom's latest CoS video, but there it is. Anyone can comment on that thing. It *might* be used as a bellwether for further tabloid coverage. Dunno - suppose I could ask someone who'd know. It's echoed a little more point-and-laugh-y at Hollywood.com

Less tabloidy: LA Times has pictures of the plane. I thought about trying to do that here.... Snip: The police presence today was notably larger than it was for the first mass protest staged by Anonymous on Feb. 10. LAPD Sgt. Wayne Guillary said the protests had progressed uneventfully, but noted that Scientology representatives had tried to block off an area of public sidewalk on Sunset Boulevard that would have prevented people from crossing the street in front of the church building.

"They wanted to block off the crosswalk," said Guillary. "I told them you can't do that."

Guillary also noted that in addition to the road closure permit, it appeared that the church had applied for and received a permit to film on the premises. Guillary pointed out off-duty LAPD officers who were assisting with the apparent movie shoot. Again, it wasn't clear what kind of movie was being filmed, or why the church had picked a day in which a large protest had been planned for weeks.


Men's News Daily (??) has the wikinews feed, apparently. Great bit from the London cops:
Police officers, when asked if they had had any problems with the protesters, replied, somewhat jovially, 'I can't really speak to you, the only thing I can say is 'No comment'. No problems. I mean no comment.'
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
01:59 / 16.03.08
Atlanta arrests.

I swear, I'm going to bed in a minute.
 
 
pony
02:15 / 16.03.08
Looking through the London pictures, the "down with this sort of thing" sign made me smile. I'm always pleasantly surprised at just how English the English can be.
 
 
Ex
08:40 / 16.03.08
Yesterday's London events were very pleasant, I thought: a couple of people handing out leaflets, when asked, were saying, 'Well, it's not the religion we have problems with, it's the way the church is run...' which seemed very tactful (and dodged potential theological issues).

Also, I helped tidy up after the first half of the protest and was assisted by an earnest young masked man saying 'We are anonymous. We do not forget, we do not forgive, and we do not litter.'

I had a fingerpainted sign expressing my irritability with Hubbard's homophobia - a small gripe in the context of greater things, but my gripe - that and them having bought the The Cult Awareness Network, but I couldn't think of a decent slogan for that. (If anyone finds an online picture, I'd be delighted.

Police were very chilled - I thanked one for helping out, and he said he hoped the weather stayed nice for us.

So, jolly nice all round.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
11:19 / 16.03.08
Enturbulation's completely down now. Last night there was talk of posters moving somewhere else to ease the server strain- anyone know where that is? I didn't bookmark it.

Oh, and there's a new video up for April 12th.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
11:45 / 16.03.08
LOL WUT?

Anonymous is a CHURCH now?
 
 
grant
13:16 / 16.03.08
That's kind of beautiful.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
13:34 / 16.03.08
Ex- your sign made it to YouTube!

About 54 seconds in.

(And mine's at about 1:30)!
 
 
bjacques
16:09 / 16.03.08
The music from the new Anon video sounds Godspeed You Black Emperor-ish.

I totally missed the Amsterdam demo. I went by about 12:30 and there were a few people out there with a table full of food. But when I went back there about 3, there was just some Scientology goober with a sandwich board. The clams had pre-emptively gotten a permit to, er, protest against drugs and hand out unreadable brochures. Anon, about 150 of them, took the party over to the main drag (Damrak), and many LULZ were had. But, like I said, I missed everything because I didn't know about it.

I got one pic of them marching victoriously to Centraal Station while playing the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air soundtrack.

And I added a few made-up ones.
 
 
bjacques
16:09 / 16.03.08
And enturbulation is still hosed.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
20:00 / 16.03.08
Nice slideshow. With GlaDOS.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
20:39 / 16.03.08
Despite the sound quality, this has to be watched.

Manchester Anons interviewing a couple about their daughter. This one should be seen by as many people as possible, just in case they still believe Co$ shit only happens to rich and stupid movie stars.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
20:48 / 16.03.08
Guy with gun in LA. This is pretty fucking sinister. "$cientology brought a gun to a peaceful protest" indeed.

The guy with a blackboard, though, is fucking ACE, and a reminder as to why blank signs can be handy. (I remember a bunch of us 'lithers doing the blank sign thing at Mayday a few years back).
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
22:52 / 16.03.08
MOAR possible fair gaming.
 
  

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