‘Nameless’ Protest Church of Scientology – This protest on Sunday tenth February 2008 was I’m pretty positive the primary protest the place I had come throughout folks carrying the ‘Nameless’ Man Fawkes masks that later grew to become common and are nonetheless seen sometimes at protests. Some wore different masks, maybe preferring to not contribute royalties to Warner Brothers and these made the protest extra attention-grabbing visually.
The masks have been based mostly on the illustrations by David Lloyd for the Eighties graphic novel ‘V for Vendetta’ written by Alan Moore, however had turn out to be well-known in 2006 with the discharge of the movie model the place it was worn by the anarchist freedom fighter ‘V’.
The protest was additionally one of many earliest bodily protests within the UK not less than to be organised and carried out by an Web-based organisation, Undertaking Chanology, arrange the earlier month to oppose makes an attempt by the Church of Scientology to take away one among their movies from the online.
This video, a part of the Scientology coaching materials featured main Hollywood actor Tom Cruise, then alleged to be the second in control of the organisation. Since then Cruise seems to have distanced himself not less than to some extent from Scientology, which had been on the root of his two divorces from Nicole Kidman and Katie Holmes, and to have targeting his film profession.
There have been increasingly more revelations revealed about Scientology and allegations of the hurt it has triggered to those that both go away the organisation or publish materials about it, who’re considered ‘honest sport’ for harassment campaigns.
As I wrote in 2008, it was due to this that Undertaking Chanology known as “themselves ‘Nameless’ and the London demonstration was one among over 50 protests in cities around the globe wherein these collaborating cover their id behind masks.“
Numerous studies revealed through the years have comprehensively uncovered a number of the practices of the Church of Scientology and the variety of its adherents is alleged to have dropped though the organisation has grown richer and purchased extra actual property.
The London centre on Queen Victoria St was opened in 2006 and “20 Metropolis of London cops between them accepted greater than £11,000 in items and leisure from the Church of Scientology” in line with the London Night Customary, maybe why they arrested and charged an adolescent in Could 2008 for holding a placard “Scientology just isn’t a faith, it’s a harmful cult.” The case was dropped after recommendation from the CPS.
As far as I used to be conscious there have been no arrests on the protest on tenth February at Queen Victoria Avenue or later when the protesters moved to the Dianetics & Scientology Life Enchancment Centre in Tottenham Courtroom Highway.
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