Anonymous,
Chanology,
Dublin,
Ex-Scientologe,
Fair Game,
Gerry Armstrong,
John Duignan,
John Travolta,
LULZ,
Megaraid,
OSA,
Protest,
Scientology,
SP,
Suppressive Person,
Tom Cruise
Anonymous Hamburg at Dublin Megaraid (English Version)
Anonymous Dublin called for a Megaraid - and we followed!
Already on our way to Dublin we had much lulz, talking about memories of past Megaraids and expectations for this one. Of course we made typical jokes on "Chemtrails" and "Barrel Rolls" during the flight.
When we arrived at Dublin Airport we soon met well known faces and after our check-in at the hostel we headed to the "supa sekrit meetingplace", named "The Church" (oh, the irony!).
The place soon filled with Anons, SPs and Exes, and again a big part of it were we - "ze Germans" and of course the irish Anons, since this was there home base, later even some french Anons arrived (which unfortunatly surrendered early... eh... went back to their hostel early).
We were especially happy that someone said that "Anonymous Hamburg are the best and Occupy Hamburg are the worst!" - we learned that even the english-speaking countrys can't resist facepalming over them :D
After the Kazoos had been unboxed and spread some people startet singing national anthems. The "Germanons" proved to be letter-perfect with their national anthem - and we stopped counting how often we had started singing it when we passed the mark of 20.
We discussed some serious issues (like the ESM or the Euro 2012) and applauded, when the divorce of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes was announced in the evening press and we also discussed which pub to visit next - prefering a Gay Bar, which finally got occupied by the Anons till dawn.
Because the conference started early the next day, most of them did not party to hard.
On the second day we met up at the conference at 9 o'clock a.m. to set up our cameras and helped to set up the audio, which brought us the nickname "ze efficient Germans".
Many interessting speaches of Ex-Scientologists, relatives and other SPs followed, such like:
Tory Christman, Samantha Domingo, John Duignan, Stephen Jones, Gerry Armstrong, Jamie deWolf (Great Grandson of LRH), David Love, John McGhee, Ann Robinson, Dr. Martin Pulter and Gabriella Coleman.
The whole conference was streamed live, so that some of the speakers could not resist to send greetings to the Office of Special Affairs (who did surely watch).
Even a independend Scientologist was there, in her opinion, of course, Miscavige was to blame for everything, but she also had some good arguments.
I personally fully support Gerry Armstrongs statement, that the biggest problem in Scientology are Hubbards words - especially the SP doctrin (which is also taken by the Freezoners, Indies and so on, because they still follow the "teachings" of Hubbard).
The last speach was from Gabriella Coleman, who's been studying Anonymous for quite some time in the US. Unfortunatly we couldn't watch the film "We are Legion" due to timing problems, but after the conference we sat down to chat with her to the lounge, which turned out to be very interesting.
In the afternoon we went to "The Curch", but most of the Hamburg Anons left early, in order to do some research in local taste of music and beer in a heavy metal pub, which was discovered the evening before.
On the third day we did our best in ignoring the alarm clock and then rushed quickly and without breakfast to the Scientology Mission to be at the raid in time.
As we arrived we were a little bit disappointed: The Dublin mission is just tiny - we believe it's size represents David Miscavige's.
A local Anon told us that Scientology was originally on ground-level in the building next to it which is now "Cruise Holidays" (again: irony, irony!), but after they could not longer afford the rent they held a fund-raising which wasn't very successful and so they just moved to the next door, up to the first and second floor, so they don't even have a showcase anymore.
The windows up there were shuttered, only a small gap between the blinds made space for the camera, with which Scientology tried to document our protest on the other side of the street.
Some Anons went to the entrance to have a look, shortly after they got back to the other side the police appeared with a few vehicles, after a short talk to Pete they went off, only 3 Policemen stayed in front of the door to the mission. They laughed alot when the Anons fooled around and they even ate caek with us in the afternoon.
Speaking from caek: It was delicious! - 'nuff said.
When a protester arrived with the first Newspaper (The Sun), claiming "Cult won't get Suri - Scientology to blame for split" on the first page many protesters applauded and cheered.
After all Anons were fully awake they began to party hard. At that point Jedi arrived with his "Troll Canon" and began to play music and shouting whitty and/or lulzy questions and statements at the Mission through the microfone.
All over the day >9000 protesters arrived from Canada, USA, Sweden, Great Britain, Northern Ireland, France and Germany.
Of course well known songs like "Carameldansen" and the sovjet national anthem were played, there was a wild chase during the "Benny Hills Theme" and a polonaise across the street, down in front of the org and then back to the other side.
As suprise guests John Travolta and LRH showed up.
LRH couldn't resist and grabbed the microfone, telling us that he himself was just a troll, he thanked Anonymous for trollin' the trolls since '08.
After that all city cells were interviewed seperatly by a news reporter - where the Hamburg Anons lended a helping hand with the audio.
Least but not least there was a "Mad OT VIII" Contest: Stephen Jones and some Anons / SPs / Exes played his meeting with an OT VIII in England, which is famous on YouTube.
We said goodbye to Scientology with the Song "Always look on the bride side of life" and left to eat something and later met up again at "The Church" for the after-raid-party.
The last day began at 4 o'clock a.m.. We woke up to typical irish weather and the taxi-driver seemed much more awake then we were, as he was joking around all the way to the airport.
After the "internet terrorists" passed the security check sucessfully we found an nice article about the conference in the "Irish Times" and made our way back to the most beautiful city in this world.
Home, sweet home!
Special thanks to the irish Anons for their hospitality and of course to all those speakers at the conference for their interesting and enjoyable lectures. Thank you all for making this event possible!
Already on our way to Dublin we had much lulz, talking about memories of past Megaraids and expectations for this one. Of course we made typical jokes on "Chemtrails" and "Barrel Rolls" during the flight.
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| Chemtrails - the proof! *lol* |
When we arrived at Dublin Airport we soon met well known faces and after our check-in at the hostel we headed to the "supa sekrit meetingplace", named "The Church" (oh, the irony!).
The place soon filled with Anons, SPs and Exes, and again a big part of it were we - "ze Germans" and of course the irish Anons, since this was there home base, later even some french Anons arrived (which unfortunatly surrendered early... eh... went back to their hostel early).
We were especially happy that someone said that "Anonymous Hamburg are the best and Occupy Hamburg are the worst!" - we learned that even the english-speaking countrys can't resist facepalming over them :D
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| French-Fags on the next day |
After the Kazoos had been unboxed and spread some people startet singing national anthems. The "Germanons" proved to be letter-perfect with their national anthem - and we stopped counting how often we had started singing it when we passed the mark of 20.
We discussed some serious issues (like the ESM or the Euro 2012) and applauded, when the divorce of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes was announced in the evening press and we also discussed which pub to visit next - prefering a Gay Bar, which finally got occupied by the Anons till dawn.
Because the conference started early the next day, most of them did not party to hard.
On the second day we met up at the conference at 9 o'clock a.m. to set up our cameras and helped to set up the audio, which brought us the nickname "ze efficient Germans".
Many interessting speaches of Ex-Scientologists, relatives and other SPs followed, such like:
Tory Christman, Samantha Domingo, John Duignan, Stephen Jones, Gerry Armstrong, Jamie deWolf (Great Grandson of LRH), David Love, John McGhee, Ann Robinson, Dr. Martin Pulter and Gabriella Coleman.
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| Taken with permission from Lisa Tiffany Photography |
The whole conference was streamed live, so that some of the speakers could not resist to send greetings to the Office of Special Affairs (who did surely watch).
Even a independend Scientologist was there, in her opinion, of course, Miscavige was to blame for everything, but she also had some good arguments.
I personally fully support Gerry Armstrongs statement, that the biggest problem in Scientology are Hubbards words - especially the SP doctrin (which is also taken by the Freezoners, Indies and so on, because they still follow the "teachings" of Hubbard).
The last speach was from Gabriella Coleman, who's been studying Anonymous for quite some time in the US. Unfortunatly we couldn't watch the film "We are Legion" due to timing problems, but after the conference we sat down to chat with her to the lounge, which turned out to be very interesting.
In the afternoon we went to "The Curch", but most of the Hamburg Anons left early, in order to do some research in local taste of music and beer in a heavy metal pub, which was discovered the evening before.
On the third day we did our best in ignoring the alarm clock and then rushed quickly and without breakfast to the Scientology Mission to be at the raid in time.
As we arrived we were a little bit disappointed: The Dublin mission is just tiny - we believe it's size represents David Miscavige's.
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| We marked the mission, so it won't be overseen. |
A local Anon told us that Scientology was originally on ground-level in the building next to it which is now "Cruise Holidays" (again: irony, irony!), but after they could not longer afford the rent they held a fund-raising which wasn't very successful and so they just moved to the next door, up to the first and second floor, so they don't even have a showcase anymore.
The windows up there were shuttered, only a small gap between the blinds made space for the camera, with which Scientology tried to document our protest on the other side of the street.
Some Anons went to the entrance to have a look, shortly after they got back to the other side the police appeared with a few vehicles, after a short talk to Pete they went off, only 3 Policemen stayed in front of the door to the mission. They laughed alot when the Anons fooled around and they even ate caek with us in the afternoon.
Speaking from caek: It was delicious! - 'nuff said.
When a protester arrived with the first Newspaper (The Sun), claiming "Cult won't get Suri - Scientology to blame for split" on the first page many protesters applauded and cheered.
After all Anons were fully awake they began to party hard. At that point Jedi arrived with his "Troll Canon" and began to play music and shouting whitty and/or lulzy questions and statements at the Mission through the microfone.
All over the day >9000 protesters arrived from Canada, USA, Sweden, Great Britain, Northern Ireland, France and Germany.
Of course well known songs like "Carameldansen" and the sovjet national anthem were played, there was a wild chase during the "Benny Hills Theme" and a polonaise across the street, down in front of the org and then back to the other side.
As suprise guests John Travolta and LRH showed up.
LRH couldn't resist and grabbed the microfone, telling us that he himself was just a troll, he thanked Anonymous for trollin' the trolls since '08.
After that all city cells were interviewed seperatly by a news reporter - where the Hamburg Anons lended a helping hand with the audio.
Least but not least there was a "Mad OT VIII" Contest: Stephen Jones and some Anons / SPs / Exes played his meeting with an OT VIII in England, which is famous on YouTube.
We said goodbye to Scientology with the Song "Always look on the bride side of life" and left to eat something and later met up again at "The Church" for the after-raid-party.
The last day began at 4 o'clock a.m.. We woke up to typical irish weather and the taxi-driver seemed much more awake then we were, as he was joking around all the way to the airport.
After the "internet terrorists" passed the security check sucessfully we found an nice article about the conference in the "Irish Times" and made our way back to the most beautiful city in this world.
Home, sweet home!
Special thanks to the irish Anons for their hospitality and of course to all those speakers at the conference for their interesting and enjoyable lectures. Thank you all for making this event possible!
