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Re:Scientology's Internet Trolls

Friday, July 4, 2008
Scientology's Internet Trolls

http://askthescientologist.blogspot.com/2008/07/scientologys-internet-troll
s.html


Troll: A user of a newsgroup, forum or message board who posts
messages with the intent of inciting an argument or flame-war.

If you spend any time browsing the Internet, you have undoubtedly run
into trolls, those people who post comments on forums, message boards
and newsgroups that contain inflammatory, false and/or misleading
information. Usually, the intention is to trick other users into
getting into endless and useless arguments.

With Church of Scientology trolls, they have the added intentions to:

* Divert attention from all the negative information about the
Church of Scientology and L. Ron Hubbard.
* Pollute any discussion thread about Scientology's crimes with
flame wars, insults and ugly accusations.
* Forward all Church of Scientology attacks, lies and
disinformation.
* Bury negative information about the church under random, off-
topic comments.
* Fake outrageous, crazy and embarrassing comments, allegedly from
Scientology critics but actually from the Scientology trolls.

They have orders and they have an agenda. The basic job of the
Scientology trolls is to suppress the truth. They work all the time to
suppress Freedom of Speech. (Just imagine the poor soul who accepts
that as their job.)

Scientology's trolls appear to be similar to regular trolls or to very
stupid people. It is sometimes difficult to differentiate between
these different types of troublemakers.

The Scientology Troll has specific characteristics:

* Always states "I am not a Scientologist".
* Always parrots the Church of Scientology party line.
* Always attacks anyone the church wants attacked.
* Always "gets very upset" when outed as a Scientologist or an OSA
troll.
* They persist in forwarding the church's agenda even after all
their false claims have been debunked and disproven. This is because
they are not allowed to move from that position.
* They claim to have read any referenced web sites containing the
truth about the Church of Scientology, but they remain completely
ignorant of such information.

"You're a cult!" "No, you're a cult!"

The latest party line from the Church of Scientology is for their OSA
trolls to call everyone and everything a "cult". The attempt,
apparently, is to water the word down into meaninglessness. Right now,
the trolls call all churches "cults" and, amusingly, have even been
working to brand Anonymous as a "cult".

This has the hallmarks of being another "bright idea" from David
Miscavige.

I, and many others, have addressed this issue. There are some rather
vague definitions of "cult" which makes this kind of deception
possible. After all, there are "cult movies" and "band cults".
However, if you use any definition of destructive cult, such as laid
out in Dr. Robert Lifton's Thought Reform and the Psychology of
Totalism, or the great information on cults and mind control by Steve
Hassan, you will see the ambiguities disappear.

Destructive cults are rather few and identifying them is pretty
straightforward—and the Church of Scientology does not want you
looking at them with that definition in mind!

So, the big push by OSA trolls is to muddy all the discussions of
Scientology crimes with this bogus and usually off-topic accusation of
"you're a cult!"

"I am not a Scientologist"

This may be one of the most amusing claims of the OSA trolls. They are
very, very insistent that they are not a Scientologist. If you out
them as an OSA troll they get very, very upset—and loud.

Sometimes, to forward this masquerade they will even say something
mildly disrespectful of the Church of Scientology (but if they mention
any wrongdoing on the part of the church, it is dismissed as far in
the past and well-justified).

You think "Gee, they're so insistent, maybe they aren't a
Scientologist." But, you see, they hew exactly to the Church of
Scientology party line. They always attack those the church wants
attacked. Their only activities are to forward the Church of
Scientology's agenda. Period.

There are two possibilities when someone does this consistently:
Either they are an OSA troll who has specific orders, or they are
very, very stupid and believe the Church of Scientology's lies. I
figure I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt by calling them OSA
trolls. I really hate to call someone "abysmally stupid".

Insults, not logic

You can never get an OSA troll to work through the facts logically. If
you carefully document the falsity of a dozen of their claims, they
will bring up a dozen more, equally false. When you carefully document
those as lies, they go back to their original false claims and pretend
those were never disproven. This can go on forever. They never can and
never will admit that all their "facts" from the church are totally
bogus.

And if you make good points and disprove their claims, they inevitably
answer with ... insults! You might think you're having a rational
discussion when suddenly, they will start calling you vicious,
insulting names. That means you won the argument. You see, since they
are required to adhere to the Church of Scientology party line, and
since the party line is composed only of lies, misinformation and is
totally illogical, there is no possibility they can defend their
position. So, when they are totally proven wrong, what can they do?
Why, throw insults and flame around to completely distract and degrade
the discussion. (They seem fond of yelling "Nazi".)

The OSA trolls used to be more effective than they are today. Today,
their tricks are pretty well known, and their efforts are laughable.

Scientology trolls: You lose!

For the Church of Scientology and their OSA trolls, it is a losing
battle. They may temporarily divert the discussion of the church's
crimes in a few forums, but the flood of facts about the Church of
Scientology's crimes cannot be stopped. Their efforts are like a
teaspoon against the flood. The church's trolls are the laughingstock
of the Internet, easily spotted and easily handled.

The church's newest "everything is a cult" campaign will backfire, as
do all of their "clever" tricks; the flood of truth will continue.

The truth about the Church of Scientology is known. And, boy, do they
hate that!
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