Something has happened to the Torygraph. It should be a comforting bastion of reactionary idiocy; a pompous rag to lampoon mercilessly. And yet - note the author of this.

Not a Thatcherite.

I trust it’s a momentary lapse. Else, the world will be set out of kilter and the seas shall rise and Labour will win a 4th term…

And about time to.

My own write-up of events is forthcoming although I might not get around to it seeing as I only showed up at about half twelve or so. Notably afterwards there was Buck Foris which led me to believe the Blonde Devil may well have lost the youth, so is most likely worth of an article or a half.

Their article is a fine one and was a front page article in the Times 2. Most pleasing, but a placing that has left many of the old school anonymous fearing that the next shall be flooded with “newfags” apparently convinced that protesting is sexy again. I wouldn’t worry.

Also note the article by Caitlan Moron. One of three in that edition. She started off as a singular tumour located in the Times 2 but her inexplicable popularity has led to her spreading through the newspaper like the cancer she truly is. It may be too late for chemotherapy and Murdoch doubtless considers this part of his lunge for Middle England and the logical next step (although unfortunately far from the conclusion) of his ongoing project to turn The Times into a more expensive Daily Mail so would never authorise it. Perhaps once he’s dead we can purge her, although to do so may require amputation of the T2 and extensive radiotherapy of the rest of our Paper of Record.

Regardless, her rise makes me thoroughly miserable. I do hope that it is followed by a particularly grisly downfall.

It seems like there is a project underway aiming to Bait Bush. He’s here on the 15th and although I have no idea what exactly the plan is I am certain that I want in.

Andrew Marr’s interview with BoJo this morning was weak. As Mr. Stop Boris points out, Marr clearly had been briefed poorly: compared to the grilling he received on BBC London on Friday, the mayor had an easy ride. Suddenly mislaid £465,000, Boris? Don’t worry, Andrew never knew…

My own contribution is somewhat more trivial: on the matter of those mysterious wine-bottles:

The Times, meanwhile, cut the number of bottles of wine from “over a hundred” to just 39. This leaves us with 3 possibilities: that the Times itself is lying, or that Boris lied in the first place.

Or that, since the discovery, he polished off 61 bottles of Chataeu Neuf du Pape.

Now, read on…

Oh, and did anyone notice how nice Marr was to Smith, too? She left smiling. When she’s defending such a heinous assault on basic civil freedoms, that shouldn’t happen. The next time a Tory whines about “liberal bias” I’ll send them for a nice, easy interview on Sunday Morning…

I remembered yesterday I had an account on Boris Watch. Note this is the actually critical .co.uk version, not the “LOL! BOZZA IS A LEGERND!!!” .com version.

So, my first post there:

Boris Johnson is bad for the environment and tells lies. That’s virtually the message coming today from a Tory Council leader in Dartford over Boris’ wish for an airport in the Thames Estuary.

Now, read on…

It seems like the comments sections has been a little bit silent lately. So, our possibly imaginary readership, let us know where you spent the last day you were able to drink on the Underground - should you be from London, that is…

As you may have noticed my usual write-up of the now reliably monthly Anonymous protests of Scientology failed to materialise, this owing to a simply massive amount of work I’ve got to deal with. This, however, is beyond my ability to allow pass by.

I was there when the Anon who calls himself Epic Nose Guy but I preferred to refer to as BeakFag got summoned, as was a journalist from the Guardian. The Church of Scientology had, as it has done many times before, seemingly possessed an insidious influence over the police and thus they were taking the hard-line on us. No usage of the word “Cult” was allowed in any sign, but this proscription did not prevent us from yelling it at their UK cult headquarters constantly.

The underage ENG, however, refused to submit to this apparent splash of theocracy and the first I knew of this was when a sudden surge of motion occurred towards part of the balcony which most of the anons were to be found on. It was first assumed that the “Swastiget” planned by 711Chan was taking place, but thankfully we were spared such idiocy although it was widely assumed that the chap getting his details taken was an /i/nsurgent, for a time.

It quickly became apparent, however, that instead we had an innocent young anon being cornered. The entire process was watched over by a former Scientologist who I mentioned during my last write-up, in addition to the journalist who I mentioned above. Both of them seemed perfectly friendly and the bravery of the underage protester was considerable.

I found the conduct of the police highly disturbing at this stage of the protest. No insults were made towards any followers and the word “Cult” has been used by a judge in reference to the cult during his summary on a case concerning them. The free expression of the protesters was blatantly disregarded and it seems concerning that the police would be willing to act as the lackeys of the Co$ legal department. It was somehow made even worse by the total tolerance displayed by the Metropolitan Police during the second part of the protest at Tottenham Court Road. There they were friendly and charming as ever, not minding our cult signs a jot.

At Queen Victoria, meanwhile, the tone was serious and concerning. An attempt to lighten the mood was made by changing a massive sign draped over the ramparts from “SCIENTOLOGY = CULT” to “SCIENTOLOGY = BAD?” but really to me the affair was rendered slightly grim by the police faggotry. This was a disturbing breach of free expression and it heartens me to see that Liberty have involved themselves.

For those of you interesting in learning new memes this entire affair is what is known as a “Footbullet”. As in “Shot yourself in the foot”. The Church of Scientology seems to specialise in these and this is no exception. Their efforts to crush the truth and prevent criticisms being aired outside its doors resulted in a lengthy article {which may well be published in tomorrow’s print edition} being placed upon the website of a national newspaper’s website.

Furthermore I fully expect the case to be thrown out of the courts, giving us a perfect mandate to use the word at our discretion come the next protest. This, however, is less of a win as it might seen given that this was pretty much what we had prior to all of the oppressive nonsense kicked in…

Despite these conditions influencing it the day was one filled with joy and victory. The scientologists seemed more depressed than ever and Angry Woman was, once again, angry.

Although our numbers were roughly the same as in April’s reduced showing this was almost certainly due to exams the protesting was vigorous and half the street at TCR got blocked off again. On this occasion I was doing some duties beyond leafleteering, assisting in the purchase and distribution of “Delicious lollies” to the anons, which took a surprisingly short amount of time thanks to high demand. I gave out 60 but by the end of the day a total of 206 had been bought and given out, largely funded by a single veiled anon who also brought along hand-fans.

There was also, of course, a truly epic amount of cake and music and lulz. A high-point was delivering the call of “Anonymous, what is your profession?” from the top of an escalator and hear the standard reply from a horde ascending it behind and beneath me. I also could not fail to notice that while the Scientologists handed out under a dozen leaflets, most of which were immediately ripped up to delight the crowd of anons, my vast wad of warning pamphlets about the cult left my hand in about ten minutes or so.

(All pictures belong to a variety of Flickr accounts, all courtesy of Anonymous, none belonging to Mr. Fenby. Aim the OSA attack dogs elsewhere, kay? Thanks to Anonymous and Anonymous for the pics.)

It seems unlikely now that the prosecution will be dealt with before the next protest and at present it seems not to matter much. The Church of Scientology is bleeding member and money and seems increasingly more of a laughingstock than a threat. It remains a wealthy organisation {just consider its recent “Sponsorship” of YouTube, which must at least have cost it millions} and one that has a startling lack of ethical standards. But increasingly it is diminishing as a source of fear.

Given that it has been less than half a year since the declaration of hostilities began this seems like a sterling achievement, although there is much work still to be done. I would hope that a considerable part of this is those that matter asking exactly how a police force allowed itself to become quite so cuddly with a criminal organisation, and would urge them strongly to do so loudly.

I had assumed that the mistreatment of those in the Occupied Territories was something that I knew the horrific basics of until I read this. It seems that 94% of the settlements have inadequate provisions for their sewage, often resulting in excrement being pumped in fashions that can either contaminate drinking water or occasionally sweep free of their position and drown infants and the elderly. This is usually the point where I’m expected to say something balancing about the terrible suffering of the Jews in the Holocaust {perpetrated by the Palestinians, of course} or talk about suicide bombings or rocket attacks or so on, or at least state that I acknowledge Israel’s “right to exist” to show everyone that I’m not a raging anti-semite.

I won’t.

This is horrific and I shouldn’t have to compromise my belief in the merits of internationalism to say so. The settlers have such little regard {or perhaps so much contempt} for those who’s land they have stolen that they are prepared to allow their waste to flood them. That is not something that you can argue the suffering of “Your people” has mitigated, it is a basically accepted point amongst civilised humanity that you do not flood other people with your shit. To try and bring in some non sequiters about a group of deranged bigots that stand little hope of ever defeating the equally prejudiced and unhinged IDF is effectively an act of apologism.

This sort of horrible nonsense is the sort of natural conclusion that Zionism can’t help itself but lead to. If you base any philosophy around the principle that your own group’s interest can be advanced over that of another you will lead to somewhere dire and anyone saying that this sort of treatment of people isn’t has obviously become such a ruthless partisan that any attempts at debate are bound to be futile.