Shreveport Police were called to Stray Cats Bar at 222
Travis in Downtown Shreveport just after 2 a.m. Saturday morning. After
arriving at the night club police called for backup. Police say Eric
Felland, 29, was arrested for resisting arrest and public intoxication.
Six others were arrested for interfering with police including actor
Josh Brolin, 40. Brolin is in town playing George W. Bush in the movie
"W" directed by Oliver Stone. Jeffery Wright, 43, was also arrested.
Wright is playing Colin Powell in the film.
By Ryan SingelJanuary 23, 2008 | 2:16:38 PMCategories: Hacks and Cracks
A
loose confederation of online troublemakers who call themselves
Anonymous have declared war on the Church of Scientology by flooding
its servers with fake data requests, describing the attacks as
punishment for the Church's alleged abuse of copyright laws and alleged
brainwashing of its members.
Anonymous congregates on the net at various hangouts such as 711chan.org
(NSFW) and partyvan.info and sundry IRC channels. The group usually
amuses itself by stealing passwords to downloading sites and finding
ways to harass online communities that its members disdain. They were
last seen on THREAT LEVEL when a Los Angeles Fox News affiliate ran a story that hilariously implied the group's arsenal included exploding vans.
The attack on Scientology, which Anonymous has dubbed Project Chanology, started in recent days, set off by the Church's most recent attempt to censor the internet
by forcing sites to remove a creepy Tom Cruise Scientology video. A
wiki set up for the project directs Anonymous members to download and
use denial of service software, make prank calls, host Scientology
documents the Church considers proprietary, and fax endless loops of
black pages to the Church's fax machines to waste ink.
From the Wiki page for Project Chanology:
Let our message ring out from the highest e-mountain.
So you want to join Project Chanology eh? Fight the good fight for
the Internet? Or perhaps you are a skeptic, doubtful we can do
anything? I won't lie to you. I am an /i/nsurgent first, a /b/tard
second, and an all around Anonymous, but I know that for a fight
against the Beast it will take more then possible even every chan
combined could muster. We might be rivals; hell, we might hate each
other's guts, but this goes beyond just us. The people of the Internet,
Anonymous, the Goons of SA, the YTMNDers, various hacker groups, trolls
of the world, the GameFAQs members, the Gaians, the eBaumers; us old
time Internet users, and the newest of noobs, the YouTubers and
MySpacers, must band together for a fight that transcends our
differences and takes us to a level beyond our individual selves. When
things happen to Scientology, like that South Park episode or Tom
Cruise going insane on Oprah's show, Scientology loses lots of
credential. We need to finish that off, or leave it open for the major
media to deliver the coup-de-grace.
Anonymous has also sent out a press release and issued this video manifesto:
The Church of Scientology was founded by science fiction writer L.
Ron Hubbard in 1952, and has a large presence in Los Angeles.
Scientology's core beliefs center on overcoming traumas from earlier
lives, something overcome through sessions with a Scientologist
"auditor" who uses an "e-meter" to measure electrical changes in the
petitioner's body.
The highly secretive Church of Scientology is liberal in its use of
lawsuits to attack its critics and to have Church documents removed
from the internet.
The Church of Scientology did not immediately respond to a call for comment.
Correction: This story initially reported that the Church of
Scientology had issued a $5000 reward to identify members of Anonymous.
That reward was issued months ago, seemingly in response to another
online attack. Archive.org has a copy from July 2007.
THREAT LEVEL regrets the error and thanks commenters for pointing it out.
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Ten Air Force Reserve F-16 fighter jets
were the cause of the lights seen over parts of central Texas earlier
this month that many believed to be UFOs, according to an Air Force
Reserve news release.
Ricky Sorrells said he saw a flat, metallic object hovering about 300 feet over a pasture behind his Texas home.
The F-16s were on a nighttime training mission over the Brownwood
Military Operating Area on January 8, near Stephenville, Texas, the
statement said.
A military operating area is airspace designated for military training, according to Air Force officials.
Several people in the area saw lights moving fast across the night sky.
The Air Force reported it had no aircraft flying that night, which left
people wondering what they saw.
Wednesday, an Air Force Reserve
statement from the Naval Air Station Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base said
it made a mistake in its initial reporting, and that there were planes
in the area that night.
"In the interest of public awareness,
Air Force Reserve Command Public Affairs realized an error was made
regarding the reported training activity of military aircraft," the
news release said.
A spokesman for the Air Force Reserve fighter wing, Karl Lewis, said
the error in the reporting resulted from an internal communications
problem between offices at the base.
Lewis said he received the
flight information earlier this week, confirmed it with officials on
the base and sent the news release out Wednesday.
The release
said the planes were in the area between 6 p.m. and 8 p.m., about the
time many people reported seeing the lights, according to reporting at
the time.
Lewis said the planes were from the 457th Fighter Squadron based at the reserve base outside of Fort Worth, Texas.
