Well I wouldn’t exactly call it an “Intelligence” branch since it lacks any actual intelligence and doesn’t seem interested in actually acquiring any.

My name for it would be more like FBB as in “Foot Bullet Bureau”.

But anyhoo…

Well the fact is that most Churches and Religions have a intel branch of some kind even it is as rudimentary as keeping tabs on their members or as complex as the Jesuit network and Opus Dei.

Or more militant as in paramilitary what CIA calls “Special Ops” like say the Knights Templar or the Mormon’s Avenging Angels.

Corporations have ’em too. In fact Industrial Espionage is now more common than espionage between nations.

Also what whistle blowers like for instance Julian Assange and Investigative Journalist do is actually an intelligence operation. Only instead of turning this information over to some state they turn it over to the public.

For that matter when you are reading the Internet or reading a news paper you are acquiring intel and therefore involved in an Intelligence Operation even if its only on behalf of yourself.

According to a Former DCI “its the second oldest profession”.

Anyway.

I got nothing against gathering Intel as such but in the way it is used at times.

Regarding Guy Fawkes. You watch the movie “V for Vendetta” and he IMHO is presented more as a Martyr than a “fall guy” or patsy.

And I figure this is the way many of Anonymous view him as well.

I mean if you guys needed a Mask to protect you from OSA.

Why not one of Hubbard or even more sacrilegious these days Miscavige?

I mean that would have confused the hella outta those OSA bots 🙂

You mean the movie where the main character V blows up the Old Bailey, carries out a course of vengeance in other words a “Vendetta” against those who exposed him to a virulent biological weapon developed by some shadowy corporation who managed to turn Britain into a Fascist state and says “You can’t kill an idea” before he strangles the Secret Police Chief?

Then the girl Evie the girl he mentored eventually does blows up the Parliament buildings at exactly midnight of November 5th which as we all know is “Guy Fawkes” day in Merry Old England.

The catch phrase being:

“Remember, remember the 5th of November”

A bit more than the average log line but you could say I’ve seen it once or twice or maybe more and also I vaguely remember reading the original Graphic Novel it came from in “Heavy Metal”.

So what is your point Splog?

I mean the movie and the Graphic Novel is based on a Jesuit mercenary who was one of conspirators involved in the conspiracy known the Gun Powder Plot.

Which was the effort to blow up the British parliament because of the religious persecution that Catholics were facing at the time under Elizabethan rule.

As I wrote a more drastic solution to religious persecution than say an Intelligence operation erroneously called “Snow White” (Snow White’s purpose was to acquire this intel “by any *legal* (emphasis mine) means through various FOIAs enacted Internationaly) which was actually based on “Project Hunter” (which targeted the USG specifically by first expanding FOIA and again acquiring the information *legally* and then suing the Government if the Government was forthcoming with this information as many Journalists have done John Marks for example.) and actually known as “GO 1361” (an illegal covert operation conceived by Mike Meisner the USGO’s AGI and approved by the Guardian Jane Kember) directed against the USG who weren’t exactly friendly toward Scientology and had who the courts dismiss the lawsuit against them for “reasons of National Security”.

As I wrote it seems like a double standard that Anonymous goes on & on about “Operation Snow White” a covert operation that never actually harmed anyone to uncover information that should have been freely available if the USG had given more than lip service to the concept of “open government”.

Yet proudly wears the mask of an actual terrorist who had planned to kill all the members of Parliament so that they could bring down the current Government.

I like the idea of h iring some of our own off duty cops to help the outside camera people (Mark Bunker or Indies or whoever), but if their bosses are in DM’s pockets which I think they are, they’ll get in trouble for helping “the enemy.” Maybe Dave Labow will want to change sides if we wave more money in front of his nose? That would make Davie really mad.

Florida is full of retirement communities so their public would probably consist of a lot of tour buses so parking wouldn’t be much of a problem.

The rest could probably park in the FH parking structure or take a shuttle from the airport or at any point in downtown Clearwater.

I think Meyer and the Mob wanted to set it up like Atlantic City south back in the days before Indian Casinos and such.

Now they’ve got some pretty tough competition from the Osceola Nation and less of a “amenable” as in probably not as corrupt as Gaby and the Gang.

Also you’ve got a lot of holly rolling bible thumpers in that neck of the woods which is probably why the “United Churches” Operation worked so well against the pull of big money from the mob..er …I mean Resort International’s corporate interests.

(Personally I’ve got nothing against RI. Worked for them when I was a kid setting up appointments for Time Sharing.

Never found out about their connection to Murder Inc. and such until years afterward.

Most of what they do these days is pretty legit.

Paid well 😉

Anyhoo….)

Maybe the Casino idea wouldn’t fly these days Dollar.

Could work as a spa, maybe a skating rink( maybe the Town Fathers should see ’bout getting an NHL franchise) or a concert venue of some kind or a big parking structure.

To me the whole idea even when I was “in” was a monument to idiocy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chqi8m4CEEY

The mask is part of a meme. Guy Fawkes failed epicly so he is Epic Failguy. And masks were needed to protest a litigious church with an Intelligence branche

Don’t use a full on big-a___ drone. Get one of those hi-tech mosquitos that are practically invisible to spot (especially in Florida where they are indigenous). It can be moved around to get all the action. What the hell, I really don’t want to see this anyhow. I just want to see people walking out in street clothes with piled up suitcases and duffle bags hung over each shoulder. Sunglasses and smiles would be a nice addition. Let’s mock it up now!

to All in; Reading your post made me think of WWII prison camps being taken by the Allied armies. Those few family members on the outside awaiting news of the fate of their loved ones, hoping beyond hope to be re-united finally. It’s exciting to think of everyone who will no longer be afraid to reach and communicate. Underneath all this are points of personal integrity, but that can be dealt with in once we are all out from the shadows of suppression.
I like the way Dollar Morgue put it “I’m tired of waiting for the damn balloon to deflate. Step on it already!”

No matter one’s personal feelings about the church, the prospect of having 10,000 people show up in a congested place must seem a daunting problem to deal with. And here comes the church saying, “Look, don’t worry, we have a plan.”

So it might help clarify things for the mayor and the city if they could be shown that the 10,000 number is completely made-up and unrealistic. The true number is likely on the order of one-fifth of that, most of whom are already in town and being accommodated with no need for extraordinary arrangements. Comparison might be drawn to Portland, where MONTHS of hype and preparation could only muster some 400 attendees out of a predicted 2,000.

The RCS seems to excel at generating “flap” and urgency at the drop of a hat. Any effort to counteract this with sobering reality might help the city to a reasonable decision. I suspect there will be some compromise — the mayor is hinting in that direction — but giving David anything less than everything he wants will probably drive him even crazier. So every little nudge to the city, especially by local residents, can only help.

Hey ‘Still’, what’s that saying? “preaching to the choir”. It’s probably not too late to make your point to the right terminals at city hall. Even the mayor’s face book page at least tells everyone that the tide may actually be changing, for good.