Listen to Tetsuo he speaks wise words.

I had done nothing more than walk past the church after handing out protest fliers in another part of the city. They recognised me because my image had been attached to a website organising one of the February 10th protests.

I have at no point conducted ANY harmful or illegal activity in regards to this situation, nor any vengeful or negative activity to any individual member of the Church of Scientology.

I merely handed out fliers with factual, sourced information and then attended a peaceful protest (with the cooperation of police, who I had contacted to organise the protest itself). I was then victimised by confirmed Church members - one was later named as a private investigator under OSA employ - and lost my job due to being outspoken against the very same kind of behaviour!

I do not defend the actions of those who used DDoS attacks to slow or disrupt the Scientology websites; in fact I openly denounce such acts, and feel that only peaceful protesting and the outflow of sourced information can help to educate about the negative aspects of the organisation in question.

Tell me - can you, as an apparently rational and logical human being, defend the kind of action I have described above from members of your Church, and people under their employ?

I must remind you that this phenomenon is not confined to myself. I would certainly like you to give your opinion on the actions of this particular private investigator, also confirmed (by police, no less) as working on behalf of Scientologists:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87bN3griilQ

Please respond, Mr B.

Mind you I didn’t name the manager in the post, nor the company (though the name of the company and my position there were mentioned in other parts of the journal).

It got back to the person who had been my manager at the time of the post, and they phoned me on one of my days off, screaming at me and saying it would be taken further. My next day back, I was let go immediately, for the reason of “being slow at my workload recently”.

A quick phone call to a senior manager who is a friend of mine confirmed that an unsigned email containing the comments (and my full name and other details) was the real reason.

I’ve had lawyers contact me offering support, and numerous people asking me to out the company, but I’d rather deal with it personally, and in better news, I’ve quickly found another job.

That’s me, and no, they didn’t say I’d been inciting hate-riots, they said I’d badmouthed my boss on my private online journal six months prior.

This was the same day people from the Melbourne, Australia branch of the Church followed me around the city, trying to take photos of myself and a few other people I had been with handing out fliers.

By the way, having studied the subject of Scientology in depth, and applied it with great success in my life, that makes me a Scientologist. So if any unmasked individual wants to have a sensible discussion about Scientology, I’d gladly make myself available.

Your belief that I work for the Church is a case in point of how one can get things fixated in their minds.

I do not work for the Church. Maybe this idea upsets you somehow but that is the truth. The fact that I have offered commentary on several sites which obviously you yourself have visited does not mean anything other that what I have stated. I am a concerned Scientologist that finds something very valuable in Scientology and I wish to defend it against some of the accusations being leveled.

I have not been handed any “net nanny” that you speak of nor is the church currently promoting any such software. Most Scientologists frankly do not know much of what critics say nor do they care to find out because they are satisfied in their own personal assesments. I am also satisified in my own personal assesment of several years however I have taken to posting my comments for reasons I stated earlier.

I did not say that the antagonism regarding Scientology is all mockery. There is a fair bit of direct accusation and supposition as well. You may never have enganged in mockery yourself but many of these critics have. I could easily point you to sites and commentary that is full of it. It, at this point, is a pretty well established fact.

In many critics zeal for knocking the church down to size I have warned that there may be too much stuff said too often. Your earlier post has served well for an example. I would now like you to prove that one of your claims is not baseless. More specifically, you stated that Scientology is actually banned in several countries. Would you please list for me those countries you talk about and where you got this information?

You see, if that statement proves to be false and it were published in a newspaper or read on television it would be considered libel and when you libel a religion or adherents to a religion it can be easily deciphered as bigotry.

You also have said along with some other critics that I nor other Scientologists have proved our case against the accusations. You see, how it usually works is that the accuser has to prove his case to support allegations or accusations. The Church of Scientology and Scientologists didn’t come attacking you, you decided to attack them. In your decision to attack by whatever motive, you must prove positive your assertions. If the evidence you state by “hundreds” of examples is trully compelling, (which I personally beg to differ) then there are proper channels you can take this to which is something I whole heartedly suggest. This is the agreed upon recourse in a civilized society.

Finally, I am actually not “fried” about any of this. I do not agree with what you say or do and I will assert some effort in addressing this. However, neither I nor as far as I can tell any church staff feel any tremendous hate or antagonism towards you. One of the reasons the Church doesn’t spread hate regarding critics is borne out of an understanding of concepts regarding the human mind as discussed in Dianetics. You may not take any solice in this fact but that is something best left for your own personal decision.

Dealing with prejudice and accusation is not something new for Scientology nor was it new for any budding religion in history. My personal opinion is that these recent efforts to degrade Scientology shall pass as it has for all other religions. In fact the recent buzz about Scientology has only served to pique interest. My own sister-in-law had never really shown a lot of interest but only in the last two weeks she has requested more information and is watching the Dianetics video.

Guard yourself and stay safe Mr/Mrs Journalist, the Police and Anonymous will help you if needed I’m sure.

I commend you for an accurate representation of what I saw of you questioning on enturb.

More on topic-
The recent protests are not against the core beliefs of Scientology. Protesters are speaking out against the criminal actions of the Church’s administrative architecture and practices.

The Church of Scientology stalks, harasses, and intimidates any critical voice whether it be inside or outside the religion. The Church charges parishioners large amounts of money per service and requires the purchase of commercial literature in order to obtain higher levels of spirituality.

The Church’s malicious Disconnect Policy forces its members to completely separate themselves from family and friends that do not support Scientology.

The Church of Scientology does not allow “splinter sects”. There is no Methodist or Lutheran-esque style of Scientology. The Church aggressively pursues legal action, via copyright claims, against anyone attempting to freely practice the “religion” without paying large amounts of money for it.

Does that fit your idea of what a Church should be? Or is it closer to the actions of a criminal syndicate?

and you have been where? thinly veiled at best…nice try…don’t pass go