The War Against Scientology 101

As a service to those who have not had time to fully educate themselves on one of the most important ideological battles of the last 1,000 hours, here's a roundup of some useful information, videos and links you can use to get acquainted with the basic facts in the run-up to the global Scientology protests the hacker group Anonymous has called for this Sunday.

The Timeline

Jan. 15 - Cruise video leaks (Telegraph)

Jan. 15 - Scientology tries to control leaks, fails (Web Scout)

Jan.26 - Hackers Hit Scientology With Online Attack (PC World)

Jan. 29 - Some guy gets accidentally hacked by anti-Scientology hackers, plus pro-Scientology hackers disrupt anti-Scientology hackers' plans to disrupt Scientology (Wired)

Jan. 31 - Someone mails benign white powder to Scientology sites (LAT)

Jan. 31 - Feb 10th is set by shady hacker forces as anti-Scientology D-Day (FOXNews.com)

The Videos

Tom Cruise discusses scientology (Gawker)
    -- Jerry O'Connell's spoof (FunnyOrDie.com)

Anonymous to Scientology (YouTube)
    "We have decided your organization should be destroyed.")

Anonymous clarifies itself (YouTube)
    "Contrary to the assumptions of the media, Anonymous is not simply a group of superhackers,   Anonymous is a collection of  individuals united by an awareness that someone . . . must bring light to the darkness. Among our numbers you will find individuals from all walks of life.")

Anonymous's long and ridiculous code of conduct for public protests (YouTube)
    "Rule #17: Cover your face. This will prevent your identification from videos taken by hostiles."  "Rule #18: Bring water.  A dehydrated, thirsty Anonymous is not a useful Anonymous." "Rule #19: Wear good shoes.")

Scientology leader David Miscavige's niece speaks out (Inside Edition)

Scientology critic Mark Bunker of XenuTV warns hackers against dirty tricks (YouTube)

The Web Sites

Project Chanology
    "A large scale plan to bring down the Church of Scientology in its present form"
    --Chanology on Wikipedia

Church of Scientology News Page
    No mention of controversy, protests or leaked videos
    --Scientology on Wikipedia

Allegedly stolen high-level Scientology documents (Via Digg.com, origin unconfirmed, use salt-grain)   
    "This series may have been given the pc on entrance to the Marcab Confederacy plus or minus 20,000 years ago, and then again much later just before the first Between Lives Implant as a preliminary step before the actual Between Lives Implant."

Hollywoodinterrupted.com - Investigative journo Mark Ebner was the source of the original leak.

Surely we're missing a whole bunch of material -- feel free to fill in the blanks in the comment section.  Thanks.

Comments

[Mjeff]

Your time line need to be corrected. The Tom Cruise video was first put up by Mark Bunker of xenutv on his blog http://tomcruisebook.wordpress.com/2008/01/12/event/ on the 11th of January. This link and the site is no longer active.

[Anonymous]

"Surely we're missing a whole bunch of material -- feel free to fill in the blanks in the comment section."
Nope, you're doing a damn fine job there, it's probably more accurate than our own records ;-)