About this year's invasion...

Last year, Anonymous raised $1500 and printed up a combined total of 50k postcards and business cards to spread the word about Scientology’s abuses. Anonymous worldwide banded together in support of a crazy event in San Diego.

Those of you that were there remember what a fucking insane weekend it was, and those that weren’t around for it remember reading the post raid reports of that weekend.

It was definitely something to remember. There were several threads on WWP about the invasion and the like.

Exploding cars, death threats, legal threats, jailbait, running from the police, owning Scientology, etc. All in all, a great weekend for Anonymous and the largest outreach project so far in Chanology.

Full post raid report for that insane operation is here:

OPERATION: MARCAB INVASION - COMIC-CON 2008

Aftermath thread is here:

http://forums.whyweprotest.net/121-flash-raids/operation-marcab-invasion-post-report-huge-success-23785/

Plans changed quite a bit during the weekend due to various things but the invasion went off without any major hitches due to some quick thinking and being prepared with a lot of contingency plans.


Why Comic-Con?

San Diego Comic-Con is the largest gathering of media, pop culture, movie culture, and comic culture in the US, held annually during the summer in San Diego. Attendance last year topped 130,000 people and this year is expected to grow to 150,000 attendees.

Comic-Con enters it’s 40th anniversary this year and there will be many more people attending specifically for this reason.

Very few people at the Comic Con actually herald from San Diego – people come from all over the world to attend this convention and most of them have high level industry, press, and media connections. There is no better, cheaper, or more entertaining way to spread the word about the dangers of Scientology to this many people globally, especially people that are on the cutting edge of all the cultures that Comic-Con attracts. Scientology wishes they could exploit this goldmine, but we run this.

What are Marcabs?

In the Church of Scientology, the Marcab Confederacy is said to be one of the most powerful galactic civilizations still active. Church founder L. Ron Hubbard describes it as:

"Various planets united into a very vast civilization which has come forward up through the last 200,000 years, formed out of the fragments of earlier civilizations. In the last 10,000 years they have gone on with a sort of decadent kicked-in-the-head civilization that contains automobiles, business suits, fedora hats, telephones, spaceships — a civilization which looks almost an exact duplicate but is worse off than the current US civilization."

The capital of the Confederacy is said to be "one of the tail stars of the Big Dipper", probably Alkaid, a star 108 light years distant from Earth. The Marcabians used to rule Earth at some point in the past but lost control of it due to "losses in war and other things".

They also invented the income tax system, reason enough to hate them.

During the early days in the Anonymous' campaign against the Church of Scientology, it was revealed via internal leaks in Scientology that upper level Scientologists believed that Anonymous was under hypnosis or mind control from the Marcabians. The Marcabians were somehow getting psychologists to use the internet to mass brainwash people which then became Anonymous, seeing as how the Church of Scientology cannot comprehend the nature of Anonymous, or that people would do this without any sort of financial motivation and without leaders.

Scientology stated that "either the 4th or the 5th Marcab Invasion Fleet" was parked outside of Jupiter orbit, directing all the actions of brainwashing Anonymous into attacking the Church of Scientology.

Anonymous took this ludicrous claim and ran with it, with it being a staple of much of our amusement for the entirety of Chanology and especially last year’s Invasion. There have been many things that Scientology has come up with to explain the existence of Anonymous, however, this is the funniest one.

What is the Marcab Invasion 2?

The Marcab Invasion is the name for the operations that Anonymous and the groups it attracts will be taking at Comic-Con 2009 to reach the public. This is far more than a standard raid or protest. This is an invasion on an epic scale, reaching people and places that we would not be able to otherwise, taking place over four days.

Other information is posted in this forum about donations, current plans and operations, and different ideas on how to maximize effectiveness at Comic-Con, for those who are attending the convention, and those who aren't that want to help.