Its about freedom of religon stupid!

My friend Michael Farnum is a big boy and doesn't need me to stick up for him.  But reading the comments to Michael's article on an admittedly mistaken DDos attack on a school in the Netherlands that was intended against the Church of Scientology moves me to write.  The overwhelming majority of comments seem to be negative to Michael's position. The comments which are overwhelmingly from anonymous folks seem to be from the no harm, no foul school of thought. However, underlying these comments and more outwardly in others is that the COS is a bad thing or is somehow worthy of DDOS attacks. That it was just a shame that this school got in the way, but pleeease give me a break about the poor students. 

Now, I don't know a lot about COS and am not a member or even a fan. I know even less about the school in question. But I am a fan of the constitution of this country which grants us all the right to practice religion as we see fit. I think the folks commenting about the no harm, no foul attitude miss the point. It isn't the fact that the school suffered little, if any damage. It isn't even the fact that it was a school that was attacked. I have a problem with this group attacking any religion because they don't agree with that religion. I don't care whether it is Islamic fundamentalist sites, Christian sites, Jewish sites or any other religion, including the COS.  People have a right to practice and to attack them either physically or via cyberspace because of it by using illegal means is just plain wrong.  If you want to do something about the COS, do so within the bounds of legality and by all means have the stones to at least state your name and don't hide behind the veil of anonymity.