TG1
Angelic Poster
Sparrow, I've said it before ... and will say it again:
What a COOOOOOL guy you are! Great attitude. Great video. Great court appearance!
TG1
They sent Moxon out to try to stop what must be a huge source of enturbulation to the entire DC org staff and their management seniors that has been going on for months and showed no sign of letting up. Apart from embarrassing things like YouTube videos showing the world how they have 55 staff and 10 public in that big swanky new Ideal Org building of theirs. I have almost felt bad for them with Sparrow doing his thing day after day.
I doubt if they give a fuck about their staff member beyond her usefulness as a tool in this.
Paul
"A Manual on the Dissemination of Material" (first published in "Ability, the Magazine of DIANETICS and SCIENTOLOGY", 1955) (full text)
"The purpose of [a lawsuit] is to harass and discourage rather than to win. The law can be used very easily to harass, and enough harassment on somebody who is simply on the thin edge anyway, well knowing that he is not authorized, will generally be sufficient to cause his professional decease. If possible, of course, ruin him utterly."
"A Manual on the Dissemination of Material" (first published in "Ability, the Magazine of DIANETICS and SCIENTOLOGY", 1955) (full text)
"The purpose of [a lawsuit] is to harass and discourage rather than to win. The law can be used very easily to harass, and enough harassment on somebody who is simply on the thin edge anyway, well knowing that he is not authorized, will generally be sufficient to cause his professional decease. If possible, of course, ruin him utterly."
It looks as though CoS uses what is known as a SLAPP:
"A strategic lawsuit against public participation (SLAPP) is a lawsuit that is intended to censor, intimidate and silence critics by burdening them with the cost of a legal defense until they abandon their criticism or opposition."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_lawsuit_against_public_participation
It is illegal in many states but I don't think in DC as yet.
Congress is considering a federal law but the legislation is moving very slowly.
H.R.4364 - Citizen Participation Act of 2009
http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h4364/text
do I smell some disinformation here?
"........if the cult is successful at getting this TRO it's just a matter of time before the media picks up this story of the cult once again abusing the legal system to stifle free speech. The video content has already been recorded and is in the process of being edited for them.
There is a nice page full of resources for dealing with bogus SLAPP lawsuits here.
However, there is a fuzzy line beyond which lawful public protesting moves over into criminal harrassment, which is what Co$ iis clearly asserting in AnonSparrow's case. Of course, they assert that any time anyone shows up to protest, regardless of how peaceably they conduct themselves.
AFAICT, AnonSparrow did not follow the Anonymous protesting guidelines that seemed to work so well at preventing Co$ from stopping their protests this way: Protest in groups so there are plenty of witnesses, have multiple video documenters and keeping enough distance (across the street) from the Churchies that any kind of staged assault would require them to cross the intervening space first, which could be clearly documented. It seems to me that those guidelines successfully prevented Co$ from stopping Anonymous protests with Restraining Orders obtained through bogus complaints of harassment.
Michael A. Hobson
I am *not* anonymous. I *do* forgive.
I am also *not* a lawyer.
A system will be set up by Friday for anyone wanting to contribute to Sparrow's defense fund.
His next hearing is scheduled for Friday, August 13.
A system will be set up by Friday for anyone wanting to contribute to Sparrow's defense fund.
We can send $ via paypal to anonsparrow@gmail.
He'll have a PO Box shortly for those who wish to send money orders, etc.