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Wikileaks Airs Scientology Black Ops

Posted by kdawson on Tue Mar 11, 2008 08:25 PM
from the no-fair-game dept.
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An anonymous reader alerts us to new material up on Wikileaks: 208 scanned pages (in one PDF) relating to the Church of Scientology and its former "Office of Special Affairs" employee (and subsequent apostate) Frank Oliver. "The documents are dated between 1986 and 1992 inclusive, when, according to the file, Frank Oliver was declared a 'suppressive person' and excommunicated. Frank Oliver should be able to verify the material and has appeared in the media before on subjects relating to the church. Starting on page 107, the document shows that at the time of writing the Church of Scientology was still actively engaged in black propaganda (especially concerning psychiatry), 'fair game' and infiltration."

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  • Get 'em while they're hot (Score:5, Insightful)

    by Carnildo (712617) on Tuesday March 11, @08:27PM (#22723750) Homepage Journal
    Make sure you get your copy before the Scientologists take the site down.

    • slashdotted (Score:5, Funny)

      by EmbeddedJanitor (597831) on Tuesday March 11, @08:30PM (#22723772)
      I bet this is a Scientology plot to overload wikileaks.
      [ Parent ]

      • Re:Get 'em while they're hot (Score:5, Insightful)

        by aarggh (806617) on Tuesday March 11, @08:58PM (#22724002)
        The official course of action for COS in cases like these is set down by elron himself, basically sue, sue, harass, and then sue some more regardless of winning or losing. And unfortunately they have so much sway that sending multiple C&D's to sites/ISP's will cause most sites to drop any links or references anyway as they are too intimidated by the COS. Note that by "COS" I am of course referring to the "Cult of Scientology", as no-one could ever confuse this group with any modern day religion!
        [ Parent ]

      • Re:Get 'em while they're hot (Score:5, Interesting)

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 11, @09:16PM (#22724114)
        I wonder if they'll care if they do. They're set up in many different countries with mirrors across the world for a reason - because they *expect* every organization they mention to try to shut them down. Won't work. The cult might bring down a server or two, but they'll just pop back up as quickly as they can and in the mean time alternate servers will take the burden.

        I know the cult is sue-happy and has successes under its belt, but wikileaks is set up *specifically* for this. The documents are out, they're on servers worldwide already, and a dozen bit torrents as well. There is no way to suppress this even if they were to somehow take down all of wikileaks.
        [ Parent ]

  • Remember what happened last time (Score:5, Interesting)

    by sgtron (35704) on Tuesday March 11, @08:30PM (#22723770)
    Do a google search for slashdot deleted posts scientology, and see what comes up.

  • Here come da judge! (Score:5, Funny)

    by Black Parrot (19622) on Tuesday March 11, @08:31PM (#22723782)
    Bet that won't result in any legal harassment.

  • Anonymous marches March 15. (Score:5, Informative)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 11, @08:34PM (#22723808)
    Anonymous marches on March 15, the "March of Ides".

    Are you going to be there? Find the closest church and be there! [enturbulation.org]

    It is your civic duty. I hope to march alongside you.

  • On a completely unrelated note... (Score:5, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 11, @08:45PM (#22723902)
    My friends and I walked into the London scientology building while drunk and demanded a stress test. We were turned away. Truly the lowpoint in my life when not even Scientology wants me :

  • Passed the test, going for the brass ring (Score:5, Interesting)

    by JavaRob (28971) on Tuesday March 11, @08:46PM (#22723916) Homepage Journal
    Maybe they figure that now they've cut their teeth on a big player (and they came out on top, eventually) they can tackle the big guys. I won't be fun, though... Scientology doesn't play by the same rules as normal corporations with rational customers. They fight as dirty as possible; tactics that would easily sink a normal business if they got out are business as usual, and they don't pretend otherwise to their members; they just made it part of their belief system that it's morally okay to use any means necessary to stop their detractors.

    This is probably the best time to do it, though, while WikiLeaks still has quite a lot of active attention because of the Julius Baer legal business.

    I just hope they didn't waste some of that capital calling for the eNom boycott [slashdot.org]. Not exactly the same level of "evil"....

    But I guess we'll see, either way. Stay tuned -- same bat-time, same bat-channel!

  • This is hilarious (Score:5, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 11, @08:53PM (#22723960)
    Check out how the contract begins:

    I FRANK OLIVER DO HEREBY AGREE to enter into employment with the SEA ORGANIZATION and, being of sound mind, do fully realize and agree to abide by its purpose which is to get ETHICS IN on this PLANET AND THE UNIVERSE and, fully and without reservation, subscribe to the discipline, mores and conditions of this group and pledge to abide by them.

    THEREFORE, I CONTRACT MYSELF TO THE SEA ORGANIZATION FOR THE NEXT BILLION YEARS.
    being of sound mind...CONTRACT MYSELF FOR THE NEXT NEXT BILLION YEARS... :)

  • As the original submitter... (Score:5, Informative)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 11, @09:13PM (#22724096)

    As the original submitter of the article, I'd like to mention that it is the now the second Wikileaks held set of documents for Scientology. Though I must apologize for the badly written rushed body of the firehose article, it's the linked content that is important :

    Citizens Commission on Human Rights" (CCHR) exposed as an illegal Scientology front. [slashdot.org] exposes their LEAF (Letter to the Editor ATTACK Force) campaign, and illegal govt lobbying.

    Many apologize to the Wikileaks admins for the /. effect, but this news HAD to be made public.

    To the $clilos - Disclaimer - I did not personally leak these documents, nor did Slashdot, I'm merely posting legal links.

    The peaceful protests of Anonymous against the CoS are also legal. Anonymous is ONLY protesting the CoS organization, no other religion and not religious beliefs themselves. There is a campaign of fabricating/doctoring Anonymous protest images and footage to try to frame Anonymous for anti-religious protests (they started by attempting to attack the Vatican): take a guess at who might want to be doing that!

    Rather worrying, a similar anti Anonymous "ad hominem" attack force is trying to re-define the cake meme from the game Portal into one about underage pornography.

    PS. Everything I post is posted via strings of proxies and most importantly Tor !
    (wish it was faster, and didn't have so many problems with slashdot, lol)

  • Send them to Venus (Score:5, Funny)

    by SlashWombat (1227578) on Tuesday March 11, @09:16PM (#22724116)
    Easily fixed. First we modify all the old DC3's we can get our hands on by adding shuttle solid fuel boosters. Then we dress up as Aliens ...
    We then encourage all the COS members to migrate to Venus to separate them from the unclean non-believers.
    IMHO, COS members are all "B Ark" material anyway!

    • Re:Slashdot vs. Scientology? (Score:5, Informative)

      by dbIII (701233) on Tuesday March 11, @09:46PM (#22724298)

      I'm wondering why it is that Slashdot continues to post so many negative stories about Scientology

      Because Scientology took legal action against Slashdot on what appeared to be a trivial matter. I do not think any other group has taken legal action against Slashdot in it's ten years of operation.

      [ Parent ]

    • I wonder why... (Score:5, Informative)

      by deesine (722173) on Tuesday March 11, @09:55PM (#22724338)
      your very first comment on /. is to ask why /. hates CoS?

      -
      [ Parent ]

    • Re:Slashdot vs. Scientology? (Score:5, Informative)

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 11, @10:06PM (#22724378)
      (Hello, Article submitter here again)

      users first post , check (not always the case but very common)
      'witch hunt' comment, check
      'bigotry' comment, check

      *CoS countermeasures 101 detected.*

      'cyber terrorists' comment expected soon
      'ad hominem' attacks, coming 'real soon now'.

      Slashdot posts what people submit, it gets front paged if enough people care about the story and vote it up.

      With Scientology stories it takes a hell of a lot more people voting it up than normal as OSA and the LEAF campaign try to force such things down.

      So the story only makes it if people REALLY care, are interested, and strongly think the story has merit.

      Don't you wonder MAYBE such stories might at least have SOME truth in them if THAT many people are so interested in them even OSA can't keep them down?

      Now you've pondered that for a pico-second enjoy your invasive security 'sec check'.

      [ Parent ]

    • Re:organizations that prohibit criticism (Score:5, Insightful)

      by icegreentea (974342) on Tuesday March 11, @09:55PM (#22724336)
      Why are you specifically stating Islam, and then forgetting all about those wonderful little people at the Discovery Institute. I understand that 'like religions' really does encompass all possible religions, singling out Islam by name is a bit unfair. They are no better, and no worse than any other major religion with extremist/fundamentalist groups.
      [ Parent ]
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