The guy you see being taken across the street with the green face paint has, and this is CONFIRMED, been Released. (a few hours ago actually.) Friends of his bailed him out. Bail was set at $763.00. He has two charges against him, but it's expected that they'll be dropped the second he enters the courtroom. Dekalb police step up the repressive factor — Suddenly! Arrests out of the blue. They were arrested for:

1)Protesting without a permit. Which we were told repeatedly by them before the event that we did NOT need a permit.

2)Causing offensive or hazardous conditions. Will upload what the police said to us MUCH later in the protest. Update:

Anonymous, the culty group with origins on the 4chan message board, began a war on Scientology after some blog posted a clip of Scientologist Tom Cruise acting erratically enthusiastic. How did they strike back against this online video? By holding real-world protests whose only noticeable result was more videos. Now, in a YouTube video titled "Hate Crimes & Terrorism Directed at Scientology," Scientology is fighting back. With Hollywood production values. This war will not end until one of the sides hires Chris Crocker. Below, the clip whose slickness is meant to terrorize the Web into submission:

The Church of Scientology strikes back! Online. Having grown tired of being hounded on the internet by the anonymous cyber-protest group "Anonymous," Scientology not only filed an injunction in court (which failed), but also posted its own counterattack videos to YouTube. Under the account name "AnonymousFacts," the main video charges the group with "hate crimes" against Scientology—characterizing the group as terrorists. Scientology also made separate videos "exposing" several individual members of Anonymous. And someone submitted those videos to Digg, and even started Wikipedia entries attacking the Anonymous members. It's a significantly different—and more sophisticated—strategy for Scientology, which usually relies on secrecy, intimidation, and litigation to get its way, rather than trawling for internet influence. The four full videos are below: First is the main one, "Anonymous- Hate Crimes & Terrorism Directed At Scientology," followed by three separate videos aimed at exposing specific Anonymous members.

The aptly named anonymous anti-Scientology Internerd group "Anonymous" has released another video threatening the Church of Scientology with more protests and other vague opposition-type actions. For all the overly dramatic voice concealment, spy novel language, and self-seriousness, the scary thing is the tiny little inkling you get that all the precautions just might be smart. Or they could be totally ridiculous! After the jump, the whole video—including instructions for joining the fight yourself, if you're so inclined.

The Internet-inspired protests against Scientology on February 10 were the results of the most spectacular viral campaign the Web has ever seen. Protesters across the globe thronged into the streets, clamoring for the eradication of Scientology's "toxic values." And the result? A lot of Internet video. Honestly, the best stuff I've seen since LonelyGirl15, but hardly effective. What, did they think chanting "Do not want" would send Tom Cruise into Namibian exile? Here's the sum total of Anonymous's efforts:

Remember, remember the ... 10th of February? There were no spectacular fireworks flying out of the Hollywood Scientology Center set to Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" yesterday afternoon, but there were an awful lot of folks in Guy Fawkes masks protesting the somewhere-in-the-Pacific-Ocean-based organization. It was one of several such demonstrations held throughout the world yesterday. For those out of the internet-meme-activism loop:

I want to believe Paul Fetch is the most cunning comedian of our time. If the videos by this YouTube user are parodies, and his entire online persona is a character, then we must all bow down to the new king; Zach Galifianakis, Tim and Eric, and David Cross must commit ritual suicide in front of him. But chances are he's just a terribly unfunny douche. Examine these three examples of remotely possible genius.

Mark Bunker, an Emmy-award-winning, anti-Scientologist documentary maker, thinks perhaps it's not such a bright idea to mount vigilante attacks against Scientology and ruin things for people who are not actually hypocrites. "It's not right. It's the type of stuff they do to us as critics. And we shouldn't be doing it back to them. I'm not afraid of anyone reading what Scientology has to say."

It's a busy weekend for the Anonymous, the group of hackers and Internet malcontents who declared war on Scientology last week, as they began a series of "raids" of Church of Scientology branches. The war, which Anon has named "Project Chanology," includes a mass media campaign (which the group tracks here), but the organizers do their best stuff online. That's why members of the anti-Scientology campaign have made these five videos over the weekend, including protest footage, manifestos, and an inevitable LOLcats parody.

Anonymous, the loose group of Internet users known for harassing strangers online, is continuing its declared war on Scientology by protesting at 3 PM at the Church of Scientology branch in Harlem. The protest is presumably open to all who oppose the Church or want to fool around on a Sunday afternoon; the scant instructions are in the original e-mail below.