Here is the timeline of events between Anonymous and Scientology. This should not be confused with John McCain’s timetables.
No other song would have worked to reflect the absurdity that is Scientology.   Now I originally wanted Rick Astley played when the Steelers’ opponents have possession of the ball.  But this is a close second.  Pittsburgh’s protest had about 30-40 in the freezing cold.  I wasn’t able to stay long.  Here’s a video taken by someone else who was there.

I don’t think Pittsburgh’s chapter of the Cult was Rickrolled as it was in other cities, however.   In Toronto, inside the Scientology Cult center, a woman was serenaded. Also at the DC Protest, Arnie Lerma told the Xenu story.  Also this woman’s story is heartbreaking.

Anonymous is Scientology’s Legion of Doom.  And remember not to feed the Trolls.  Scientologists kick.  There’s much more, too much for now. But here’s a “best of” video from the London protest. Sadly it uses that terrible trance remix of the Requiem for a Dream soundtrack.

The St. Petersburg Times (an “enemy of the Church”) has a  great article that shows some of the lunacy of the cult.  Here some some quips:

• Anonymous members brought a cake and sang Happy Birthday in [Lisa McPherson's] memory. They tried to lay plastic flowers outside the Fort Harrison Hotel where she died but police asked them not to, saying they would be trespassing.
• [C]hurch spokeswoman Pat Harney compared Anonymous to the Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan. “It’s similar to burning a cross on somebody’s lawn,” she said. “It’s a bunch of yahoos. They get on the Internet and they don’t use real communication.”
• Harney said the church would use the pictures to identify the protesters because any of them could be a security risk. Protesters scoffed at that.

Speaking of Nazis, Band of Brothers and Saving Private Ryan were on the History Channel and TNT respectively this weekend, which I spent most of my time watching.  If anyone uses paranoid rhetoric to ensnare their members like the Nazis it’s Scientology.  Even Ze Germans are wary of them.

Because of its experiences during the Nazi regime, Germany has a special responsibility to monitor the development of any extreme group within its borders — even when the group’s members are small in number. Given the indisputable evidence that the Scientology organization has repeatedly attempted to interfere with the American government and has harmed individuals within Germany, the German federal government has responded in a very measured legal fashion to the Scientology organization.

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From Philadelphia (taken from a forums post on Something Awful:

Say hello to a scientologist.

Hi Scientologist!

She was sent out like the rest of the scientologists to “give us a scare” by taking pictures and being silent and mysterious and all that.

Now, you may have heard, that the best answer to this is to have a guy on a megaphone reciting the Xenu story. And in fact, for most of the scientologists, this actually worked. They went back inside.

Would you like some literature?

She didn’t go back inside.

She, unlike the others, broke her firm resolve, and also broke into tears. (not shown on camera, sorry)

She stayed and listened. She heard about documented evidence of the CoS’s crimes. She heard about how these people who she thought were helping her, had killed others using the same techniques they were using on her. She heard the names, heard of their deaths. She heard about Operation Snow White. She heard it from 135 people who cared enough to come out and picket about it. She heard hundreds upon hundreds of cars honking for support.

She cried.

I don’t know what she’ll do next. But maybe she’ll get help. Maybe she’ll get out…

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There is another protest scheduled for March 15th, two days after L. Ron Hubbard’s birthday.