Wherever Scientology building a stand they are not far: the anonymous people fight against the organization which has opened its German branch in Charlottenburg - with masks and false names and information.
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(Tagesspiegel, 16.08 .08)
short 16 clock search is over. Robert Tonlein *, 27 years old, black suit, tie knotted accurately, his face hidden behind a carnival mask, the Scientologists has finally discovered. Am Kurfürstendamm or Potsdamer Platz, where they have so far every Saturday, he has not seen. The supporters have now established an exception at Alexanderplatz their information booth. There they try to convince passersby from making a "stress test". The ends with the diagnosis of weakness - and the offer that Scientology could help with courses.
This assistance provides the organization that sees itself as a "religion", it's not entirely altruistic. Several thousand individual courses cost € - Dropouts complain that the organization financially followers plunder. "We consider Scientology a psycho-sect that severely violate human rights," says Tonlein. "We want to protect potential victims, By educating about Scientology -. by peaceful means, "Together with three colleagues, she also refers in black suits and masks before their faces, he close of the prior position. In a loud voice to warn the passers-mask carrier about to take a stress test or up to the brightly colored flyer. The passers-by look amused and irritated. The state in which there are two stress-testing equipment - simple "lie detectors" - remains vacant.
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Since February 2008, fighting the global protest group "Anonymous" Scientology. At that time the internet appeared on a video that showed the actor and professed Scientologist Tom Cruise in front of fanatical followers. As the rhetoric reminiscent of the Hollywood Idols to Reich propaganda chief Goebbels, the sect was trying to censor the video and remove it from the Internet. "Anonymous" was founded spontaneously in an Internet forum and put a little later shut the homepage of the organization.
illegal actions by the group but has now passed. An action days taking place globally, the mask carrier to take instead demonstrations - mostly directly from the respective headquarters of Scientology. Today, Saturday finds the protest taking place for the seventh time. In Berlin, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich and Stuttgart, the "Men in Black" will protest. In Berlin, about 100 supporters belonging to "Anonymous". The name belongs to the sect opponents speak to the program. Concerned about the true infiltration attempts, the activists namely strict anonymity - even among themselves. They have special phone numbers to talk only with nicknames and arrange to meet only through anonymous e-mail list.
Tonlein, who works as a webmaster is in the beginning. He says that he committed, because he will refuse any kind of censorship - like his colleagues. A personal reason was also an uncle: the once fell into the clutches of the organization. . So I have witnessed first hand how Scientology destroys family bonds and destroys people mentally "That's why it takes one to two times per week on so-called" flash raids "in part: Actions for which promotional efforts are hampered by the Scientologists in the street. As heute.Scientology
takes the mask carrier obviously serious. Only 20 minutes after they have adopted a position goes back a police car. The officer spoke briefly with the head of the state. The complain about the massive "advertising effect" activists through the mask, and that this would come about 70 percent less interested. The policeman nods go, then Tonlein and has him pointing you out to keep more distance from the information booth.
"Legally, we are moving in a gray area, but the police have, fortunately, some discretion," says Tonlein later, while a young mother expresses an information paper in his hand. Even an old lady now wants an information sheet and knocks him sympathetically on the shoulder, young people have their pictures taken with him and want to know where to get the "cool masks.
this case, the no gimmick, but pure self-protection. Scientology is for to combat known opponent by means such as character assassination. Therefore Tonlein has made friends at work and in his commitment public. He wants to counter rumors of possible dissemination. A Scientologist have tried to follow him to his car. His mask is chosen deliberately. She comes from the science-fiction film "V for Vendetta", where a lone hero fighting against a totalitarian system.
Today's struggle elucidation of the four masked seems to be successful. An hour to pack after their arrival, the Scientologists their information stand together. "Today's action was a real success," says Robert Tonlein and a cigarette under the Mask. "Normally, the three hours to stay longer."
* Name changed
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