Only slightly off topic, since Scientology’s PACs and advocacy groups tell Republican cult members to vote for Ron Paul:

WSMV4: Laws Broken In Scientology Church Security
There’s three videos here. One is the video of the incident. The two others are the news reports.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — There are problems with how security for a Nashville Scientology event was handled, and laws appear to have been broken.

In a home video, a group of protesters walk toward the Church of Scientology on the day of the church’s grand opening and are stopped by security guards, who knock one protester to the ground and have him arrested for criminal trespass.

The altercation happened 400 yards from the church, on the other side of the street.

Public Works pulled all of the permits taken out for the Scientology event. The permits — all of them for sidewalk closing and lane blocking — are for the wrong day. They’re for the day before the event and expire before the scuffle occurred.

In addition, three of the five security guards were off-duty Spring Hill police officers working in Nashville, which can only be done if local police are notified and officers are wearing uniforms clearly identifying them as off-duty police officers.

More at the link

So let’s sum up (includes some information not reported in the media, as an LGF “exclusive”:
- The arrest/assault took place outside the rented area (the part of the street they had a permit to close)
- It was also outside the posted signs (the signs were placed properly, the first says the left lane is closed, while the sign at Olympia says the sidewalk is closed)
- The street closure permit had EXPIRED (see the newest video report for scan)
- The protestors were approached quickly and not given any explanation. The time from approachment to “arrest” was only a few seconds. (see incident video)
- The protestors removed their masks and put down their cameras when the guards told them to, even if they had no right to order them to do that. (Thankfully, one of the protestors kept the recording going even if she had put the camera down around her neck. The footage is shaky.)
- The protestor who was taken by the guard, was facing away and trying to leave when taken down.
- The protestor was injured - probably not seriously but there were cuts and bruises.
- The responsible person told the city’s Public Works Division afterwards that the arrest had taken place inside the posted area (a lie)
- The guards also might have lied to the MPD officer who came to act on the guards’ citizens’ arrest. (The MPD wrote a citation which only made sense if the guards lied to the officer or the officer was complicit.)
- The guards did not notify the MPD of their presence as the law requires. (see second report)
- Their uniforms might not have been proper. (see second report)
- A scientology spokesperson admits that they had told the guards that the masked people were terrorists and to deal with them as harshly as possible
- But photos show the same Scientology spokesperson joking around with masked protestors earlier this year, even carrying one of their signs for a laugh. (Not yet reported in the media.)

- Bonus: While all this drama was going on outside, one “Anonymous” participant was inside the party as an invited guest, was eating their food and taking photographs.