Yesterday was L. Ron Hubbard’s birthday, so Anonymous threw a party in his honor at Scientology centers around the world. T52 posted some great photos of the gathering in London along with some insightful commentary. Looks like they had a great time. The birthday revelry near Atlanta, Georgia turned out a bit differently, with some police officers deciding to arrest demonstrators and ticket passers-by out of what I can only assume was sheer boredom; nobody puts on the badge so they can stand across the street from an unimpressive handful of unenthusiastic protesters.
Supposedly more people showed up for events at the larger cities (per Partyvan), but a bunch of Internet pranksters are hardly to be trusted when it comes to proper numbers. Some say that Anonymous is looking to take the Scientologists down. Some say it’s just for the lulz. I’d say they lack the capacity to have a motivation at all.
Unenthusiastic? What protest were you at? Defenintely wasn’t in Georgia.
gb2 lurk moar mode.
There were some unenthusiastic ones here in KC too.
Yes, unenthusiastic. I saw footage of those “leaders of anonymous” being snatched by Dekalb county law enforcement. Was there some rally that actually had hundreds of people putting the fear of anon into the scilons?
Before I go back to lurking moar, I say “pics or it didn’t happen.” March 15th had some amusing aspects to it, more lulz perhaps than February 10th, but it still failed.