Anonymous Expects 300,000 Protesters to Join Demonstrations against Scientology

NBC11 reports that Anonymous, the hackers organization that waged war on Scientology, expects some 300,000 people to show up for the protests scheduled for February 10th.

An Anonymous woman told NBC11: "We are having members of Anonymous from all over the world join the protest at their local church of Scientology at 11 AM local time". She also added that "Everyone in the world is invited".

Anonymous is trying very hard to look more serious to the public eye, and shake away the image that they are a group of "hacking kids".

Anonymous successes thus far include a DoS attack on Scientology internet sites, and a campaign of Google bombing that made the Church of Scientology the first hit whenever anyone enters the search string "dangerous cult". Are they going to have the same success in the "real world"?

Anonymous is planning another large protest - two days after church founder L. Ron Hubbard's birthday - on March 15th.

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Anonymous Launches a "Stop Scientology" Application for Facebook

Anonymous, a hackers organization that has declared war on Scientology, launched a new tool to aid them in their battle - a Facebook application.

"Show that you DO NOT support Scientology" is all the information that can be found on the application, which isn't very impressive. It contains a badge and some links about Scientology and Anon. I would have expected something far more sexy from a group of hackers. Of course, there's always the option that this isn't really Anonymous's work. After all, these guys are getting an awful lot of attention these days, you might find someone who wants to ride their wave of glory.

Above all, allow me to state that Facebook protest is even lamer than no protest at all.

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Anonymous VS Scientology: Act II

No time to rest. The first video of Anonymous attacking Scientology barely managed to sizzle through the net, and now they have another one:

Seems like the guys of Anonymous feel the need to further explain themselves, and to put an emphasis on their threats to destroy Scientology: "It has come to the attention of Anonymous that there are a number of you out there who do not clearly understand what we are or why we have undertaken our present course of action", they say.

"We want you to know about Lisa McPherson. We want you to know about former members of Scientology's private navy, SeaOrg, who were forced to have abortions so that they could continue in service to the church. We want you to know about Scientology's use of child labor and their gulags", states Anonymous.

They also give a date of action: "Be very wary of the 10th of February". What will happen that day? Let's wait and see. This is going to be very interesting.