The true structure of Anonymous.
Over at the good old newsgroup alt.religion.scientology, someone posts their brilliant analysis of the insidious organization that is Anonymous. (Source link here, Enturb forum thread here.)

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At the top you have the agents of the mainstream psychotherapeutical/psychopharmacology industry (whose livelihoods are threatened by the relative cheapness and effectiveness of the Scientological alternatives) feeding ideas and money to:

A small group of former Scientologists who were kicked out of the organization because they were complete assholes. These are the visible leaders of 'Anonymous'. But they wouldn't be able to do what they do without the above agents funding their websites and such.

At the bottom you have the trolls, the general membership, anxious to take their abusive ways out into the real world. But they just can't do it the way they do it on the Internet. If they start walking up to people and abusing them like they do on the Internet they'll spend most of their lives in the hospital and in jail.

So they need to band together for protection and power, but even that isn't enough. They still won't be able to get away with randomly abusing people in gangs, wearing masks, which is what they'd really like to do.

They need a cover. Camouflage. They need to seem to be involved in some kind of worthwhile activity, like destroying a Great Evil.

And so the expelled Scientologists with personal grudges, financed by the mainstream psychotherapy/psychopharmaceutical industries, have given them the camouflage they need.

They can now take their abuse and hatred into the real world without being promptly beaten up and jailed.

At least for a while. But they can't hide what they really are, and don't even seem to be aware that they should try, judging from the posts on this group.

But the people using them don't care what happens to them. They will sacrifice as many pawns as it takes to accomplish their ends.

And you have the brilliant strategists at the Church of Scientology turning the whole thing to their advantage, baiting the trolls in certain ways to gain the maximum amount of free publicity for the CoS.

Which must be driving the "Psychs" nuts. If you will pardon the expression. :)

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Now with visual aids.

A brilliant satirist? Or a truly sincere Scilon? Either way, it's (possibly) hilarious.