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heavyweather !4AIf7oXcbA
My favorite shot from the Austin Scientology protest... kind of encapsulates the whole affair in one picture. My editor wanted to run it, but got shot down at budget because the managing editor thought it'd be too incendiary or something? Piss off the scientos?

Anyways, here's our article on it.
http://media.www.dailytexanonline.com/media/storage/paper410/news/2008/02/11/TopStories/Masked.Prote
sters.Demonstrate.Outside.Church.Of.Scientology-3200735.shtml
I made the video that accompanies the story, but I had nothing to do with the copy. It misses a few things, but it's pretty fair reporting.
>> Anonymous
>>125059
First of all, absolutely great shot.

>Piss off the scientos?
Very probably. The problem with Scientology isn't its strange and unproven beliefs (which are on par with reincarnation, virgin birth, pillars of fire, flying to Jerusalem on a horse, etc.) but in the church organization and how it runs like a spiritual mob.

I would've run it anyway if it was my call, but the Church of Scientology has been known to make trouble over people opposing it. And this could set them off... not the text on the sign, but just by how strong the opposition of the photograph is.
>> elf_man !!DdAnyoDMfCe
I just love the fact that they claim not to be a religion, but fought for years to get tax-exempt status as a church. What fun!
>> heavyweather !4AIf7oXcbA
I personally like the spacefaring DC-9s (but with different engines for space travel, obviously).
>> Anonymous
wow, that's a really awesome shot!
>> Anonymous
>>125059

Mirrored photo is mirrored.
>> Anonymous
>>125067
>>The problem with Scientology isn't its strange and unproven beliefs (which are on par with reincarnation, virgin birth, pillars of fire, flying to Jerusalem on a horse, etc.) but in the church organization and how it runs like a spiritual mob.

Word. My aunt went to a Scientology seminar at the recommendation of a friend (she didn't know what Scientology was), they got her phone number and address and kept pestering her for a couple of weeks. After two weeks of politely giving them the brush-off ("I'm real busy, I don't have time for this, etc.) three representatives from the Dianetics Center showed up at her house unannounced at 11 o'clock at night like an unpaid loan shark to talk to her.
>> Anonymous
sage
>> Anonymous
>>125059
Also my favorite out of all the photos you took of the texas raid.
>> Anonymous
>>125234
At first I was like "wtf you talking about, he shot the reflection of the protestors in the glass," but then I noticed the police van's writing and that the car was on the wrong side of the road, so the book and suits must've been the reflection.

Still, I thing it's a much nicer shot this way, the focus is drawn to the sign, but the book gives it context and having the book written forwards makes it more interesting even though it's out of focus.
>> Anonymous
>>125320
That's just fucked up.