Anonymous: The Book The Church of Scientology has published countless works of literature. They could likely fill libraries of pamphlets and texts. Anonymous on the other hand has, besides the occasional coverage on television news networks, almost no significant presence outside of live protests and the internet. I have a solution which could perhaps be one of the most significant events in Project Chanology since the first irl protests, or could simply fall into the abyss of insignificance which dominates most of the individual ideas of anonymous (these ideas had to go into such an abyss because there were better, more relevant ideas in their stead). I propose that a collaborative book be written about anonymous, and that this book be submitted to a serious publisher, for the sake of the public having a ready and reliable source of knowledge pertaining to the nature of Anonymous. Unfortunately, despite it being collaborative, it cannot be totally open to anyone, because if it were, the Church would quickly come and spam it to demise once they realized what we are doing. Therefore, I am considering gathering a VERY large group of volunteer collaborators to work together on single chaptors or sections of the book. Of course, there is one more problem, and this is what I see as the most significant problem: Why should I have the authority over who is permitted into the collaboration and who isn't? Let me make this clear: The collaborators will not be an elite group. They will merely be ANYONE who I do not suspect as being a member or proponent of the Church of Scientology or its affiliates. Finally, there is one more dilemma to address: Money. If the book were to become a hit success, who would get the money, and what would it go to? The answer to that is simple: Legal fees. I have no doubt that the Church of Scientology would attempt to bring our book into a legal battle. Therefore, all profit I get from this book shall go to battling the Church in court (since all other collaborators shall remain anonymous myself, I can take full blame and leave anonymous safe from legal attack). If there is any money left over it shall go to a free stuff fund, where we can give free anon related t-shirts, mugs, masks, or something like that, to bystanders and passerby's of our protests ^^ Anonymous, decide, do we make this happen or not?
Re: Anonymous: The Book maybe a moderator from this site could oversee it instead of me, that way it would be someone Anonymous can trust...
Re: Anonymous: The Book ah yes, there was operation book it back in the day. I won't reveal my handle now, (for tinfoil hat reasons) but I was the dude who started to write chapter one and I didn't go farther than that. School work really took over, and there were more relevant things to do at the time. In light of more recent updates, I would gladly help with some aspects, as long as I am not the only one who is writing. I also can take a more active role later in the winter. tl;dr, If there is enough interest, I will help write some more.
Re: Anonymous: The Book This is definitely an interesting idea. I'd be down with it! I know some other ink-and-paint fags are working on an Anon comic (graphic novel? ), but this would be able to reach the fanciers of the dusty tomes, as well, which is another segment of the population we need to keep in mind. A lot of people think of us as teenage basement-dwelling troublemakers with nothing better to do, but not all of us are - like, we'll just drop this as soon as the next shiny thing comes along. I think it'd lend a great deal of credibility to Anon and maybe help people take our message more seriously if they can read stuff directly from us. Read about why we got involved in the movement, what pushed us to get off of our asses and do something and our thoughts and feelings about various cult-related injustices. The chapters could all be sub-headed with various pseudonyms, of course, but I still think it would go a long way in humanizing us quite a bit. Helping people to understand who we are and that we all come from a wide variety of backgrounds and lifestyles -- most of us probably wouldn't get along outside of this cause, given just how different we are -- but the one thing we all can agree on is the fact that what $cientology does to its followers is fucked. up. We're all just everyday people, just like the people who'd be holding the book. It's just that we all got fired up about this and made up our minds to do something about it. tl;dr: I'm IN! WEENWEENWEEN! ;D
Re: Anonymous: The Book Just a suggestion, but we could sell the book at cost price, no profit at all, this way no need to worry about how to handle the money, and more people will buy it since it will be cheaper
Re: Anonymous: The Book Oh wow I didnt realize the response would be so positive! Ok I know how I am gonna do this. I am gonna start a thread in the think tank forum. In that thread, I will outline how the chapters will work, etc, and just give a broad outline. Thats where anonymous comes in. You guys fill in the chapters, edit, think, collaborate, you get the point. But first, lets spread the word as much as possible! lets inform all of the mods, admins, admins of different sites, anyone you know, this will take a lot of people for this to work, so we will have to work to get as many people collaborating as possible. Here is the general rule: Once we have thirty people agree to assist in collaboration we post on Think Tank. Once that is done we have a rough draft. We post the rough draft on the projects forum for projects that are gonna happen. The we edit more. Collab more. This will take a very very long time. It should take a very very long time. It depends on us advertising it very much over irc, youtube, everything. Guys, if we can get this into the major websites, we can really get a book that will capture the public and generate over 9,000 wins at life!
Re: Anonymous: The Book Well, for now we can just try to spread the idea and get it to be taken as a serious operation
Re: Anonymous: The Book That would be ok, but not ideal. An ebook would never reach the same level of circulation, and more importantly it wouldnt be accessible to people who arent frequent internet users. A book would reach a whole new demographic for anonymous. Remember, the media isnt our target audience, the people are. The media is a tool to access the common people, but with a physical book we could inform them directly.
Re: Anonymous: The Book I agree. It would also mean that the media wouldnt be the primary source of knowledge about anon for average people
Re: Anonymous: The Book I am not jumping on a band wagon here or anything, but I had a short exchange with AlbanyAnon earlier today on yewtube and was thinking that parallel to this we could also make a "We are legion" 30 to 45 min mini HD video clip. One can of course give it another title but it should be our story. Basically top ten what prompted us to start or join chanology, to start the clip, the this is why part in the middle with our world wide pickets to add the Anon flavor, and a long haul eco to end it. The advantage is that we can edit it ourselves, and use it for all our PR motives. We can use it against the Scilon Anonymous crimes and insist from some point onward that significant parts always be used for, from our point of view, a balanced report. A tool that we use to have a world wide uniform voice. I might be sucking cocks here but it sounds good to me.
Re: Anonymous: The Book Right. But ... they'll 'sell' it to others at their price, perhaps? You know, like some anon could buy it from the publisher at their selling price (wholesale) and re-sell it as such? OR if someone knew of some not-for-profit legal organization that could use it as a fund raiser for a (hopefully soon) future legal battle ... hmm ....
Re: Anonymous: The Book I am really not too worried about the price, considering as long as it is decent, people will pay. Mostly we just need to keep the price decent. What I am more worried about is actually contacting the more influential factors of anonymous (mods, etc), because they seem to be hard to get in touch with (at least its hard for me). Besides, the publishing contract should also be collaborative, it should not be mine alone to formulate, we can all decide together how we should set up the monetary gains, etc.
Re: Anonymous: The Book The combined efforts of a book and a clip targeted for our one year Anniversary next year could be epic. If we think tank the book the cult will do all it can to stop it from being published. And it will take longer to make than the clip but we could advertise the book in the clip.
Re: Anonymous: The Book I think that once we finish the book project, we should begin an entire media project. This could be a huge overall project. Lets call it...Project MediaMind? doesnt matter what we call it anyways. the press and attention would give a popular demand for more, in fact, we could use the money from the book to produce more media! this will need to be a huge project though.
Re: Anonymous: The Book Does anybody remember the publishing problems that Andrew Morton had with his book on Tom Cruise ?
Re: Anonymous: The Book We will not need more than 100 people for the book....nevertheless, project whatever were calling it (Ive dubbed it Project MediaMind) will encompass as many forms of popular media as possible. A book is in my opinion ideal, becuase we could use the book money to hire pros to produce the other stuff after that for a while. Also, as long as we keep it less than a hundred collabors, the cult wont make it in time. I think we could get this written within the next six months. However, getting it published will be a challenge. Really, I cannot stress this more, we need the support of Anonymous' most well known proponents. the only problem is how do we get their attention?
Re: Anonymous: The Book This is different, If CoS uses drastic measures to prevent us from publishing, than we can merely exploit that and use their fear etc as a propaganda victory for anon. It could inspire more protests even. This would mean that they would either have to back down, and face the damage our book would to to them, or fight, and face the damage of anon feeling motivated to pick up the pace of action!
Re: Anonymous: The Book We are Anonymous we multitask. We just need some Anons that can run with this. I have about 150 clips of Media reports on Scientology Anonymous, and Tom Cruise with the intertwinings and so forth and I can truly say that the Anon related reports are about 10% accurate. Think about it, one clip 10 languages = 9000 boners.
Re: Anonymous: The Book I get what you are saying. I think we should do both at the same time, and on the same thread (once this is on its next thread on think tank). However the reason the book is of greater importance is because anon already has made hundreds of clips. We have not however written our own book.
Re: Anonymous: The Book As you already know I feel that the book idea is very good. The money part is the greatest challenge. Most Anons will not want any profit to flow into anyone's pockets regardless of who it is.
Re: Anonymous: The Book Right you are but Anonymous has never made a 45 min documentary about why we are.
Re: Anonymous: The Book right. I have an idea about that. How about instead of me coming up with the money contract (that is assuming we even get a publisher in the first place), you guys come up with it?
Re: Anonymous: The Book Also as long as no one runs with the film part it will die with this thread. So let us concentrate on the book for now.
Re: Anonymous: The Book Ah. I see. That is different then. Ok...that should be interesting. In fact a collaborative documentary would be interesting becuase everyone could submit them telling the story and we could weed out whose is the best representation of anonymous, etc.
Re: Anonymous: The Book idk, I will try to think of something. Money wont be an issue of course for a long time. If anything, like I said, we could use it for the innevitable legal defenses which will be necesaary (although to be fair the District attorney would defend me for free anyways).
Re: Anonymous: The Book For now I want to focus on advertising our project so it becomes semi famous...also, can someone talk to the moderators about this?
Re: Anonymous: The Book Personally, I'm thinking that if we have a contributor who's already namefagged, it might be prudent to have that person sort of act as a spokesman for the collective of contributors? What do you guys think? I'll gladly contribute, but I'd much prefer to remain 100% anon. Maybe that can be part of the deal? Forfeit what might be your 'share' of the proceeds to the legal defense? Or, I suppose I should say - declare that you wouldn't try to lay any claim on any of the proceeds in exchange for anonymity? Cocks if it's a crap idea, of course; I'm sleepy. :| But yeah, I think that the book is definitely one of the more pressing things to focus on. There are a gazillion Anonymous vids floating all around the net. People can find those with relative ease, if they want to know more. I really don't think, though, that we should be mixing media. I mean, I can do both, since I'm comfortable with making videos, but I really do think that we need a bit more representation in printed format. News articles and Maxim are great, but we need something in our own words, too.
Re: Anonymous: The Book Previous threads: http://forums.whyweprotest.net/26-think-tank/another-way-get-our-point-across-25301/ and http://forums.whyweprotest.net/26-think-tank/tha-booooooooooooook-25679/ There's a wiki here: http://wiki.costruth.com/trans/index.php/Whatisanonymous_English
Re: Anonymous: The Book Someone will have to present it to a publisher and do all of that kind of stuff. I want to do it anyways, the catch is, is that once im namefagged I will no longer be a part of the anonymous collective. I will just a named critic of scientology, however, since the actual content of the book will have been written by all of you (anonymous), me being namefagged wont harm the books credibility. I will have to sacrifice my anonymity for the sake of the collective, but it is certainly worth it. I am the only one who will be namefagged. All other collaborators shall remain anonymous for safety and efficiency purposes. I think that this is fair.
Re: Anonymous: The Book Yesterday: <anonchan> also I was thinking <anonchan> if someone wrote a book titles 'anonymous' and the subject of that book was anonymous <anonchan> they would be easily published, and sell a ton of books <anonchan> the money could then be used to make anon merchandise, which could be sold to people...this money could then be used to aide the cause of anonymous <anonchan> but <anonchan> who could be trusted with such a project? <anonchan> it goes against everything anonymous stands for <anonchan> but <anonchan> it would be very lucrative <anonchan> lol <anonchan> this leaves any given anonymous with a very large responsibility <anonchan> not to do what I just said <anonchan> the money and influence thereof would be amazing, but it would damage anonymous as a whole VERY much <anonchan> This is capitolism though, it well get as big as people will allow it to get <anonchan> I will try to do whatever makes the most money lol <anonchan> The person who makes the money has the freedom to use it or abuse it however he pleases <anonchan> that freedom is integral to the freedom of the market as a whole <anonchan> Like I said, I wouldnt actually do that <anonchan> but If I did <anonchan> then yes <anonchan> it would be the false representation of anonymous for the sake of profit <anonchan> I personally have a moral dilemma with something like that <anonchan> but I would not stop someone else from doing it <anonchan> if I did, I would be a close runner up to the scilons in my suppression of freedom <anonchan> just it would be a really different freedom we are talking about <anonchan> becuase like I said earlier, freedom of the market is integral to the freedom of the state itself <anonchan> as long as no asshole tries that shit though it shouldnt become a problem
