Tuesday, July 04, 2006
a.r.s. Week in Review 7/01/06
> France Takes Political Action to Protect Minors
> Ireland Branch Going Broke Over Litigation
> St. Petersburg Times on "Suppressive Persons"
> Anti Psychiatry Celebrities, Money for Arizona Legislature
> Scientology vs. Keith Henson Update
> In Memory of Lyle Stuart
> A Threatening Introduction to Scientology
> Questioning Another Cult Suicide
> Follow and Participate in Clearwater City Council
> Scientology Unable to Handle Xenu
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> France Takes Political Action to Protect Minors
On June 28, 2006 Roger posted a report from the AFP France with translation:
Mineurs et sectes: unanimité des députés pour créer une commission d'enquête Minors and cults: deputies vote unanimously the creation of an Investigation Commission.
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PARIS, June 28, 2006 (AFP) - the deputies decided Wednesday, unanimously, to create a board of inquiry on the influence of the sects on the minors, a “enrolment” which currently touches “nearly 20.000 children” in France, according to a parliamentary report/ratio.
The motion for a resolution, envisaging the creation of a board of inquiry of 30 members relating to “the influence of the movements in sectarian matter and to the effects of their practices on the physical and mental health of the minors”, was adopted by the four political groups of the Parliament (UMP, UDF, PS, PCF).
The first meeting of this commission, whose presidency will be allotted to a deputy PS and the post of rapporteur in UMP, is envisaged as of Thursday, the political groups wishing to go quickly concerning this question.
“The endoctrination of the children is a major stake for the sectarian groups: it is indeed when the individuals are most malleable that the influence can be complete”, underline the 129 deputies signatories of the text.
The sectarian organizations “try from now on to circumvent the law by alleged remote lesson, school remedial courses escaping controls”, explain the signatories.
The board of inquiry aims “to put forward the dangerosity of some practise harmful with physical and mental health children, like with their blooming” and “to make specific proposals in order to fight more effectively against these unacceptable situations”.
According to the rapporteur of the commission of the Laws, George Fenech (UMP), “drifts and ill treatments being able to result in death are proven” and “one estimates at nearly 20.000 the number of children present in the sects”.
The whole of the speakers, like Philippe Vuilque (PS), Olivier Jardé (UDF), Jean-Pierre Brard (app. PCF) and Guy Geoffroy (UMP), underlined “the urgency” of the problem and called with the reinforcement of the fight against the proselytism of the sects near the children and the teenagers.
Two boards of inquiry into the sects had already constituted themselves under the two preceding legislatures and had returned reports/ratios in December 1995 and June 1999.
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PARIS, 28 juin 2006 (AFP) - Les députés ont décidé mercredi, à l'unanimité, de créer une commission d'enquête sur l'influence des sectes sur les mineurs, un "embrigadement" qui touche actuellement "près de 20.000 enfants" en France, selon un rapport parlementaire.
La proposition de résolution, prévoyant la création d'une commission d'enquête de 30 membres relative à "l'influence des mouvements à caractère sectaire et aux conséquences de leurs pratiques sur la santé physique et mentale des mineurs", a été adoptée par les quatre groupes politiques de l'Assemblée (UMP, UDF, PS, PCF).
La première réunion de cette commission, dont la présidence sera attribuée à un député PS et le poste de rapporteur à l'UMP, est prévue dès jeudi, les groupes politiques désirant aller vite concernant cette question.
"L'endoctrinement des enfants est un enjeu majeur pour les groupes sectaires: c'est en effet lorsque les individus sont les plus malléables que l'emprise peut être complète", soulignent les 129 députés signataires du texte.
Les organismes sectaires "tentent désormais de contourner la loi par de prétendus enseignements à distance, des cours de soutien scolaire échappant aux contrôles", expliquent les signataires.
La commission d'enquête a pour objectif de "mettre en exergue la dangerosité de certaines pratiques néfastes à la santé physique et mentale des enfants, ainsi qu'à leur épanouissement" et "faire des propositions concrètes afin de lutter plus efficacement contre ces situations inacceptables".
Selon le rapporteur de la commission des Lois, Georges Fenech (UMP), "des dérives et des mauvais traitements pouvant entraîner la mort sont avérés" et "on estime à près de 20.000 le nombre d'enfants présents dans les sectes".
L'ensemble des orateurs, à l'instar de Philippe Vuilque (PS), Olivier Jardé (UDF), Jean-Pierre Brard (app. PCF) et Guy Geoffroy (UMP), ont souligné "l'urgence" du problème et appelé au renforcement de la lutte contre le prosélytisme des sectes auprès des enfants et des adolescents.
Deux commissions d'enquête sur les sectes s'étaient déjà constituées sous les deux précédentes législatures et avaient rendu des rapports en décembre 1995 et en juin 1999.
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> Ireland Branch Going Broke Over Litigation
On June 28, 2006 a report was posted from the Religion News Blog about financial problems with the cult in Ireland:
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The Scientology spokesman in Dublin, architect Gerard Ryan, said yesterday: "Obviously, if you get into a legal thing that lasts eight years, the legal bills are going to be simply staggering. There is no pressure on us to pay the money back. It has been donated by various Scientologists across the world. In the States, we are very large and some of the more affluent people have been able to help us out."
http://www.religionnewsblog.com/15072
Source: http://www.unison.ie/
Troubled Scientology Church in Ireland is now 1m in red
Irish Independent, Ireland
June 28, 2006
Interest-free loans from abroad are propping up the troubled Irish branch of the controversial Church of Scientology.
Financial documents seen by the Irish Independent reveal that the church is more than ?1m in the red after running up huge legal bills in an epic eight-year battle brought by a disgruntled former member.
As a result, members of the mega-rich Church of Scientology in the United States have had to cough up almost ?400,000 just to keep the Dublin arm afloat.
The celebrity endorsed group landed itself in a financial hole after a case was taken against it http://www.religionnewsblog.com/1383 by a former owner of a sports equipment shop, Mary Johnston.
In the high-profile case, Ms Johnston alleged conspiracy, misrepresentation http://www.religionnewsblog.com/1442 and breach of constitutional rights, http://www.religionnewsblog.com/1448 as well as deliberate infliction of emotional harm, against the church and three of its members. The case was eventually settled out of court in 2002: http://www.religionnewsblog.com/2700
The Scientology spokesman in Dublin, architect Gerard Ryan, said yesterday: "Obviously, if you get into a legal thing that lasts eight years, the legal bills are going to be simply staggering. There is no pressure on us to pay the money back. It has been donated by various Scientologists across the world. In the States, we are very large and some of the more affluent people have been able to help us out."
Mr Ryan admitted that the growth of Scientology here had been "very, very small". Eighteen years after the Dublin office opened, it had managed to attract only a few hundred members. "We have a different point of view of things. We have teachings on past lives. From my point of view, I will be coming back next time," he said. "If someone isn't a Scientologist this time around, they may be next time."
Mr Ryan admitted, however, that the Church's ?1m deficit was making it "difficult" to achieve things in its current lifetime. The Church has also failed to achieve charitable status in Ireland, which would give it tax-free status.
The head of Scientology in Ireland is Kerryman Gerard Collins. Other prominent Scientologists here include members of Mr Ryan's family as well as a Swede, Anna-Lena Blance, who edits the church's infrequent magazine, called Freedom. Outside Ireland, Scientology - which was set up by the deceased US author L Ron Hubbard - has celebrity devotees including Tom Cruise.
"It is a double-edged sword having celebrity members," Mr Ryan said. "One the one hand, it promotes the fact that we exist, but on the other, it means we can be associated with fairy-fairy land."
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Gerald Ryan (Scientology spokesman in Dublin) might be paying an unexpected visit to a 'Comm Ev' tailored for him concerning his (above) "fairy-fairy land" statement about 'Scientology Celebrities'. A phone call 'rebuke' from Mike Rinder at the very least...
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> St. Petersburg Times on "Suppressive Persons"
On June 25, 2006 the St. Petersburg Times reported a series of articles on Suppressive Persons:
http://www.sptimes.com/2006/06/25/Tampabay/The_unperson.shtml
Special report
The unperson
Scientologists who cross their religion can be declared suppressive persons, shunned by peers and ostracized by family.
By ROBERT FARLEY, Times Staff Writer
Published June 25, 2006
"The only reason to declare someone a suppressive person is to give them a road map to their own salvation."- BEN SHAW, Scientology spokesman
"It's fun creating a new life. I just wish the ones I love more than anyone in the world could be part of it." - Caroline Brown, whose daughter no longer sees or speaks to her
"It's the ultimate weapon for them because no one can talk to you." - Randy Payne, on the threat of being declared a suppressive person
"The hardest thing for me is explaining to my daughter why she can't see her dad." - Astra Woodcraft, who left Scientology, and split with her family
Kathy Feshbach reversed an invitation when she learned her guest was labeled an SP.
Religions have always penalized those who betray the cause.
Catholics excommunicate, barring the wayward from church rites. The Amish, Jehovah's Witnesses and some orthodox Jewish sects shun their nonconformists.
In the Tampa Bay area's burgeoning Scientology community, members abide by a policy considered by some religious experts extreme: Scientologists declare their outcasts "suppressive persons."
Another Scientology policy - called "disconnection" - forbids Scientologists from interacting with a suppressive person. No calls, no letters, no contact.
An SP is a pariah. Anyone who communicates with an SP risks being branded an SP himself.
Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard wrote the policies four decades ago, church leaders say, not as a tool to oust members but to provide those going astray with a mechanism to return to the church's good graces. That aligns with Scientology's tenets of improving communication, strengthening relationships.
But SPs who have felt the sting and other church critics say the suppressive person policy is a sledgehammer to keep marginal members in line - and in the flock.
Whatever Scientology's motivation, its suppressive person policy results in wrenching pain, say a dozen SPs interviewed by the St. Petersburg Times.
Some have gone years without seeing or talking with sons, daughters, mothers, fathers - all of whom abide by Scientology's no-contact requirement.
For a Scientologist thinking of forsaking the church, the decision is grueling: stay in or risk being ostracized from loved ones and friends.
It left Caroline Brown in Cincinnati, weeping at the sight of a basketball court.
Like so many Scientologists, Caroline and her family came to Clearwater in 1991 to escape the "wog" non-Scientology world.
By 1998, she was divorced and living with her teenage daughter, Darby Zoccali. Her ex-husband and son lived together just a few miles away.
Caroline was unhappy, depressed. Her drinking strained her relationship with Darby.
Mother and daughter agreed Caroline could give her life new purpose by taking a Scientology job in Ohio. As a church staffer, her Scientology counseling would be free.
Darby, who just turned 18, stayed in Clearwater in her own apartment.
But the counseling in Cincinnati didn't help, Caroline said. Depressed and having anxiety attacks, she was flat broke and crying herself to sleep.
Walking past a basketball court one day, she burst into tears.
Her son played basketball. What was she doing in Cincinnati, working 14 hours a day, seven days a week, a thousand miles away from her son and daughter?
Caroline decided to bolt - from Cincinnati and from Scientology - even though she knew she almost certainly would be declared a suppressive person.
Hers was an "unauthorized departure," akin to going AWOL. To leave church service in good standing, Scientology staffers must complete "sec checks" - short for security checks.
They are like confessionals. Scientologists spell out transgressions to "feel better about them and take responsibility for them," Clearwater church spokesman Ben Shaw said. "It is one of the most invigorating experiences you can imagine."
The process can take months. Fellow church staffers pose questions to the outgoing member seeking to discover "crimes" deemed to be the source of suppressive acts.
Questions include whether an SP has made statements against Scientology to friends or to the media, but the sec checks can be extremely personal, according to church documents obtained by the Times. Questions can probe possible drug use, history of theft or nonpayment of taxes, or ask about masturbation or homosexuality.
A staffer who leaves without routing out through sec checks violates a signed church contract, Shaw said, and likely will be declared an SP.
That's what happened to Caroline. After she returned to Clearwater, the Scientology community turned its back.
She bumped into an old Scientology friend at a Dollar Store. Without so much as a hello, the woman said, "Go handle it. You go fix it. Handle it."
Darby wrote her mother a disconnection letter, and helped her brother, then 14, write one too. The letters are clear: Until you get back on good terms with Scientology, Mom, we're disconnecting.
Darby says her decision to disconnect from her mother had nothing to do with Scientology. She says her mother doesn't need to become a Scientologist again for them to have a relationship. But she needs to do the sec checks to remove the SP label.
Her message for her mother: "All you have to do is fix it. So do it. It's not that horrible."
Now 23, Darby is a Pilates instructor and a service broker for her boyfriend's telecom company. She took her first Scientology class when her mother was in Cincinnati.
"Every time I used it, my life got better," she said. "I'm not going to give that up for someone who created so much pain."
Her mother knew the consequences of walking away. "It's more like she disconnected from me," Darby said.
When Caroline got her son's disconnection letter, she called a lawyer. Her parental rights trumped Scientology's disconnection doctrine. She and the boy met at Cody's Roadhouse in Clearwater.
"I love you more than any other human being on the planet," she told her son.
He lit up, she said. She now sees him regularly. But not Darby.
"My heart is still broken about not having my family," Caroline said. "I'm the one who got her (Darby) in it, I'd like to be the one who gets her out."
Remarried now, Caroline attends St. Petersburg College, hoping to become an art teacher.
"It's fun creating a new life," she said. "I just wish the ones I love more than anyone in the world could be part of it."
The suppressive persons who spoke to the Times were declared SPs because they publicly and repeatedly challenged the church. They also faced the church's regimented internal justice system.
The process typically begins with a Scientologist writing a "knowledge report" about another church member, outlining alleged transgressions. The accused may be directed to undergo ethics counseling or ordered to face a "committee of evidence," a tribunal of church staff members who, acting as jurors, determine if the person has committed suppressive acts.
Suppressive acts must be renounced, and suppressive persons must atone. Failing to comply carries heavy consequences, as Randy Payne discovered.
For two decades, Payne, 53, was a dedicated Scientologist. He and his wife published a Scientology newspaper in Clearwater. He paid tens of thousands of dollars for Scientology training.
He expanded his Clearwater private school, Lighthouse, which incorporated L. Ron Hubbard's study techniques, and opened sister schools in Scientology's target markets of Hungary, the Czech Republic and Italy.
To use Hubbard's "tech" and materials, Payne agreed to pay 10 percent of his schools' revenues. He paid the fee initially, but stopped in 1997 because he said his curriculum had evolved to a point where Hubbard's techniques were used only marginally.
The church threatened to declare him an SP.
"It's the ultimate weapon for them because no one can talk to you," Payne said.
He pleaded his case through four committees of evidence - two held in Clearwater, two in Los Angeles. He formally was declared a suppressive person on May 11, 2003. The order said Payne "spread false and derogatory statements to others about Scientology and Church staff."
Scientology agents sought to cut off Payne's ties to the church community. A church ethics officer told an employee at Payne's school that he needed to quit, according to a note the employee wrote to Payne. Church staffers informed Payne's students who were Scientologists that Payne had been declared and that they should leave the school, he said.
The suppressive person policy was used against him as a form of extortion, Payne said, to get him to pay the fees.
He wrote legislators and met with law enforcement officials, asking they investigate his claim of extortion.
Last October, Payne made a more public protest that could happen only in Clearwater. During the opening moments of a Clearwater City Council meeting, when residents typically complain about parking problems and potholes, Payne stood and with TV cameras recording his every word, complained about the Church of Scientology:
"It is my belief that this church's leadership has created a corrupt internal justice system to enforce its money-making scheme on individuals and businesses."
Council members sat mute.
Extreme? Perhaps. Effective? Definitely.
That's the view of many religious scholars who say the motive behind Scientology's suppressive person doctrine is clear: keep members from breaking ranks.
"That's the way the church keeps discipline," said J. Gordon Melton, director of the Institute for the Study of American Religion, a think tank in Santa Barbara, Calif., that focuses on smaller groups. "For them, that's an internal control mechanism."
Scientology's disconnection requirement is far more extreme than the severing practices of most modern religions, Melton said.
"I just think it would be better for all concerned if they just let them go ahead and get out and everyone goes their own way, and not make such a big deal of it," said Melton. "The policy hurts everybody."
Church spokesman Shaw suggested the Times interview two other professors who have testified in Scientology's behalf in legal cases.
"It is rather strict," said the first, F.K. Flinn, adjunct professor of religious studies at Washington University in St. Louis. It also is characteristic of a young religion, he said.
"It has to do with feeling threatened because you're not that big. You do everything you can to keep unity in the group."
Scientology is not as controlling as were the early Christians, Flinn said. Its SP practices are akin to the shunning of the Amish and Jehovah's Witnesses. Some Amish communities allow contact with close friends and families; Jehovah's Witnesses cut off all communication except in cases of family business or emergency.
The second expert Shaw suggested, Newton Maloney, a professor at the Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, Calif., characterized Scientology's disconnection policy as "too extreme," particularly as it affects families.
"Some people I've talked to, they just wanted to go on with their lives and they wanted to be in touch with their daughter or son or parent. The shunning was just painful. And I don't know what it was accomplishing.
"And the very terms they use are scary, aren't they?"
Shaw says the church's policy is far from extreme. Doesn't everyone distance themselves from negative influences?
"Prisoners are disconnected from society," Shaw said. "Employees are fired, spouses scorned and divorced by their partner."
Unethical lawyers are disbarred. Discriminatory businesses are boycotted. Journalists who fabricate stories are fired, he said.
"All of these actions represent the practice of disconnection in cases where an antisocial person will not reform or restrain their destructive actions."
The suppressive person and disconnection policies are a last resort, Shaw said.
"The only reason to declare someone a suppressive person is to give them a road map to their own salvation."
And many SPs have returned.
Hubbard once wrote that SPs were "fair game," meaning that they could be "tricked, sued or lied to or destroyed." Hubbard canceled the "fair game" policy in 1976, saying it was never intended to authorize "illegal or harassment type acts against anyone." Church critics, however, remain wary.
Potential Trouble Source. No Scientologist wants to be called that. PTSs can't take classes or get the spiritual counseling called auditing. But if you maintain contact with a suppressive person, that's what you are.
Two recorded messages left last year on the answering machine of Creed Pearson illustrate just how serious this can be.
The caller: Scientologist Kathy Feshbach, a major contributor and founder of a Scientology mission in Belleair.
The first call was placed on March 2.
"Hi ... this is Kathy Feshbach. ... Ah, George Mariani is running for mayor again in Belleair, called us; wants us to have all our friends over on Sunday at our house at 4 for him to talk. It's really important because No.1, he is reaching for us, the Scientologists. So that's really a good indicator. So I really want to have a big showing for him. ... So, anyway, it's a big deal that the mayor called us so I really want you guys to come over."
What Feshbach did not know was that Pearson - a Scientologist for 25 years and big church donor - had been declared a suppressive person the previous month. Pearson, 50, said he was declared because he told his friends in Scientology that the religion was being altered by current management. He also said L. Ron Hubbard had lied while ticking off his accomplishments during a speech.
Four days later Feshbach called Pearson back and left a second message. It was clear she had learned he was a suppressive.
"Hi, Creed, this is Kathy Feshbach. Sunday morning ... I just heard that you were under some kind of ethics cycle. So, you are not invited to our house today. I am sure you understand. So, ah, thank you very much for understanding. Please do not attend the event. Thank you very much for understanding."
As the community of Scientologists has grown to an estimated 10,000 in the Tampa Bay area, so too has the number of declared SPs increased, according to church officials and former members.
Shaw said there are only about 40 SPs in the bay area. Former Scientologists say the number of suppressive people is much higher.
Thousands of SP declare files are kept at the church's administrative headquarters in California, said Astra Woodcraft, who worked there for three years ending in 1998.
Now, she is in those files herself.
The Woodcrafts are a family divided. The mother, a son and grandmother are Scientologists. The father and two daughters left.
The two sides do not speak.
Raised with her brother and sister in Scientology, Astra Woodcraft spent two years in Clearwater as a teen, living in a church-owned motel on U.S. 19 and serving as a Scientology cadet.
Her family later moved to Los Angeles and at 14 she joined the Sea Org, the legion of church staffers who dedicate their lives to church service. Woodcraft was assigned to the ethics security team, which tried to keep people from leaving Scientology.
One month after turning 15, she married a 22-year-old fellow Sea Org member. A few years later, she traveled to England to attend her grandmother's funeral. Enthralled with "the outside world," she stayed on for a time in England and decided to leave Scientology.
Her husband wrote her from Los Angeles: "What really will happen if you decide not to come back and get declared? I will have to disconnect from you, and so will the rest of your family - your Mom, your Dad, Grandma, Matt and Zoe. Or, you come back and standardly handle the situation, with whatever decision you have made."
Woodcraft, pregnant, filed for divorce. She was 20. She returned to the church in L.A. in April 1998 and did her sec checks. It took a month. She signed a document admitting to trying marijuana at age 13 and once stealing a pair of pantyhose.
Then she left. Scientology hit her with a "freeloader's bill" for $80,000. Sea Org staffers get Scientology courses and auditing for free. But leave, and you are billed retroactively. She refused to pay.
Later, Woodcraft's younger sister, then 15, also left Scientology. She was in the Cadet Org, living with her mother, then a church staffer in Clearwater. She called her father, who had been declared an SP years earlier. He picked her up at the Clearwater Library and spirited her away.
Shaw provided the Times a letter from Astra Woodcraft's mother, Leslie Woodcraft.
"While not happy about it, I could have accepted her (Astra's) decision to leave church staff," Leslie Woodcraft wrote. "But what is very, very upsetting is that she reverted to her old, dishonest ways."
Astra became a "puppet of vested interests and her 'story' - lies and false accusations really," Leslie stated, likely made as a way to seek attention.
The letter ended, "Still, I have not given up hope that one day Astra will realize that she made a decision that, as final as it may appear to her now, can be reverted."
Astra says she left "not hating Scientology," but the church's reaction left her wanting nothing to do with it.
"The hardest thing for me is explaining to my daughter why she can't see her dad," who did not contest Astra getting sole custody. "I don't want him to see her. I don't want Scientology to touch her in any form."
But she wishes she could speak to her brother and mother and grandmother, all of whom remain Scientologists.
"I really love my mom and I miss her a lot," Astra said. "I would love for her to see my daughter."
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http://www.sptimes.com/2006/06/25/Tampabay/SP_profiles.shtml
SP profiles
Published June 25, 2006
Karen Pressley of Atlanta and her then-husband Peter Schless - a musician and composer who wrote the hit song On the Wings of Love - became Scientologists and later joined staff. Pressley mostly worked for the church's international organization in Los Angeles, but she spent six months in Clearwater. She said she designed the new uniforms still worn by staffers today.
Pressley left Scientology in 1998 and refused to come back for sec checks. She has publicly denounced "substandard" child care at church facilities around the world and criticized the church for the "condition of poverty" that staffers lived in. After she left the church, her husband "faithfully applied the rule (of disconnection)," she said.
She calls the suppressive person declare "a form of psychological terrorism. It obliterates families. ... People who leave are afraid to talk about Scientology."
In a letter to the Times, Peter Schless - who works for the church's Golden Era Productions - states that Pressley was unfaithful in their marriage, and that she came to resent his success. He said she walked out on him in 1998, took his BMW car, left him with $17,000 in credit card debt and "insisted on taking half (his) income." If someone did that to you, he wrote, "you probably wouldn't be too interested in speaking to your ex-wife either - and it would have nothing to do with whether you were a Christian, Buddhist, Jew or Scientologist."
Tom Smith, 49, of Clearwater, was declared an SP in August 2005 after he repeatedly challenged the validity of a "patter drill" in which he was instructed to read passages of a course to a wall. Smith insisted the drill was not based on Hubbard teachings.
A year and a half earlier, Smith attended a charter review committee meeting to express his opposition to the county plan to fluoridate the drinking water. Smith followed committee chairman Ed Armstrong to the parking lot and aggressively argued the issue should be put to voters.
Soon after, Smith was summoned to the Fort Harrison Hotel, the locus of Scientology operations. A church ethics officer confronted him with a report, written by Ben Shaw, criticizing Smith for being rude to Armstrong. It noted that Armstrong is an attorney for the church.
"You are going to be declared," Smith says the ethics officer warned him. The message was clear, to Smith: Back off.
Shaw said he wrote the report, but said it's ridiculous for Smith to contend he was threatened with a suppressive person declare over it.
Grace Aaron of Los Angeles was declared a suppressive person five years ago after she wrote several internal reports insisting that current church management had altered some of L. Ron Hubbard's directives. She said church officials tried to convince her husband of 28 years to divorce her and said he had to make a choice: his wife or his religion. He stayed with her and was declared a couple of months later.
Their son, Zachary, then 22, was on staff at the Beverly Hills mission and living with his parents. She said the church also gave him an ultimatum: move out within 24 hours and sever all ties with his parents or he would be kicked out of Scientology himself. He went with Scientology.
"I don't think that any religion has a right to disrupt a family," she said. "It may not be illegal. But when it comes to human rights and morality, I consider it immoral."
In a letter to the Times, Zachary Aaron wrote that he has no interest in speaking to his mother.
"Her actions were calculated to attack the Church, she knew exactly what she was doing, she was told multiple times exactly what would happen and she refused everybody's efforts to help her sort things out.
"So very simply, I've refused to speak to her until she becomes a member of the Church again. And she could do this very easily! ... All she has to do is apologize and make up for any damage that she's done. That's all! But she won't do it."
Aaron took her story to local cable TV two years ago and put out an appeal to Zachary: "Daddy and I really love you," she said. " ... We want to share in your life to some extent. We don't want to control you or to force our realities on you. We just want to see what you're doing."
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http://www.sptimes.com/2006/06/25/Tampabay/Some_Scientology_terms.shtml
Special report
Some Scientology terms
By Times Staff
Published June 25, 2006
Here is how Scientology defines some of the terms used in this story:
Suppressive person: "Those who are destructively antisocial. A person who
possesses a distinct set of characteristics and mental attitudes that cause him
to suppress other people in his vicinity. Or one who actively seeks to suppress
or damage Scientology or a Scientologist."
Disconnection: "A self-determined decision made by an individual that he is not
going to be connected to another. It is a severing of a communication line."
Auditing: Scientology counseling "which helps an individual look at his
existence and improves his ability to confront what he is and where he is."
Potential Trouble Source: "A person who is in some way connected to and being
adversely affected by a suppressive person." So called because "he can be a lot
of trouble to himself and to others."
Sources: "Introduction to Scientology Ethics" and "What Is Scientology?"
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> Anti Psychiatry Celebrities, Money for Arizona Legislature
On June 26, 2006 the Arizona Republic reported:
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0625lobbyists-spending0625.html
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0625lobbyists-spending0625.html
Arizona lobbyists spending more
Free meals, concert tickets among perks used to try to gain clout at
state Capitol
The Arizona Republic
Jun. 25, 2006 12:00 AM
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A group called the Citizens Commission on Human Rights, affiliated with the Church of Scientology, has spent thousands of dollars to take a dozen legislators to Hollywood over the past two years.
There, lawmakers hobnobbed with celebrities at Scientology functions, learned about the church's opposition to psychiatric drugs and were presented with legislation that they could introduce here. Commission lobbyists Leslie Koel and Richard Haworth said the trips, among the more than $12,000 worth of travel and lodging expenses paid by lobbyists and special-interest groups last year, were necessary to combat all the money spent by lobbyists for pharmaceutical companies. "
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Commission lobbyists Leslie Koel and Richard Haworth...
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Richard Haworth - Scientology Service Completions:
http://www.truthaboutscientology.com/stats/by-name/r/richard-haworth.html
Richard Haworth (myhomepage)Site:
http://scientologist.myhomepage.org/~richardhaworth/
Scientology group finds support in Legislature
Tinseltown trips linked to anti-psychiatry push
The Arizona Republic/March 11, 2006
http://www.rickross.com/reference/scientology/psychiatry/psychiatry20.html
[Rick Ross]
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> Scientology vs. Keith Henson Update
On June 27, 2006 "Keith Henson" posted
In the previous Dezotell hearing the judge ordered them to send papers to me by email and "not" physically.
So two weeks ago Barbz who has been dealing with my hard copy mail gets this 20 pound package from David Cook.
So I complain to Cook with a cc to the court and a week later, just before filing a motion to compel I got the files in email. 6.3M bytes of PDF.
Here is the first one. You might notice that they are still asking for an "injunction" to be made non-dischargeable. An illegal injunction at that, but a bankruptcy court simply does not have authority over anything except money and last time Judge Weissbrodt told them so. Amazing.
Keith Henson
DAVID .1. COOK, ESQ. (State Bar # 060859) ROBERT ,J. PERKISS, ESQ
(State Bar # 62386) DEBRA D. LEW, ESQ. (State Bar # 114537) COOK,
PERKISS & LEW
A PROFESSIONAL LAW CORPORATION 333 Pine Street. Suite 300
San Francisco, CA 94104-3381
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 270
San Francisco. CA 94104-0270
Tel: (415) 989-4730 Fax: (415) 989-0491 File No. 45.658
Attorneys for Creditors HILARY DEZOTELL, KEN HODEN. AND BRUCE WAGONER
UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURT
NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
SAN JOSE DIVISION
CASE NO. 98-51326 AS W-7 ADV. NO. 035136
In re:
KEITH HENSON, Debtor.
HILARY DEZOTELL. an individual: KEN HODEN, an individual; and BRUCE
WAGONER, an individual.
Plaintiffs, vs.
H. KEITH HENSON. an individual, Debtor,
Defendant.
MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT PURSUANT TO F.R.C.P. § 56 AND BKRTCY.C. §
7056
Date: TO BE SET
Time: TO BE SET
Courtroom: 3099
Judge: Arthur S. Weissbrodt
Plaintiffs HILARY DEZOTELL, an individual. KEN HODEN. an individual, and BRUCE WAGONER, an individual. hereby move this court for a summary judgment on the basis that there is no triable issue of material fact:
that these Plaintiffs are entitled to an order and judgment declaring that the underlying state court indebtedness is subject to the exemption from the discharge under Bkrtcy.C. § 523(a)(6), that the injunctive relief in the Judgment of October 7. 2002 and the injunctive relief in the permanent injunction against H. KEITH HENSON of October 8, 2002, be exempted from the discharge; finding that the underlying state court judgments are based upon the willful and malicious conduct of the Defendant, leading to a pecuniary injury therein. that these Plaintiffs are entitled to a judgment declaring that the subject judgment. including but not limited to. the judgment entered in the Superior Court. County of Riverside, Hemet Branch, entitled Hilary Dezotell, Ken Hoden, and Bruce Wagoner v. H. Keith Henson, Case No. HEC 009 673. be and the same is declared nondischargeable under Bkrtcy.C. § 523(a)(6), and that the indebtedness in the amount of $25,000 for statutory civil penalties for each Plaintiff, thus for a
total f $75.000. and Attorney's fees in the amount of $23,666.65, be and the same is hereby declared nondischargeable thereunder. and all injunctive relief in the Judgment of October 7. 2002 and permanent injunction of October 8, 2002 likewise be declared exempt from the discharge.
This motion is based upon the grounds that Plaintiffs have obtained a state court Judgment against Defendant, and that Plaintiffs are entitled to an order declaring that the indebtedness set forth therein be and the same be declared nondischargeable under Bkrtcy.C. 523(a)(6).
This motion is based upon this Motion, the attached Notice, the attached Memorandum of Points and Authorities, the Declaration of Elliot Abelson, upon all matters by which this court may take judicial notice thereof, and upon all pleadings, papers. and other matters on file herein, and upon all oral evidence and argument which may be presented at the hearing hereof.
DATED: June 12. 2006
COOK, PERKISS & LEW, P.L.C.
By: /s/ David J. Cook, Esq.
DAVID J. COOK, ESQ. (SB# 060859) Attorneys for Creditors HILARY
DEZOTELL. KEN HODEN, AND BRUCE WAGONER
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> In Memory of Lyle Stuart
On June 27, 2006 the Washington Post reported the death of author and free speech advocate, Lyle Stuart:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/27/AR2006062701683.html
Controversial Publisher Lyle Stuart, 83
By Matt Schudel
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, June 28, 2006
Lyle Stuart, a maverick publisher who built his career on best-selling books on sex, scandal and radical politics that others thought too hot to handle, died June 24 at a New Jersey hospital after a heart attack. He was 83 and lived in Fort Lee, N.J.
Mr. Stuart, who proudly called himself a "First Amendment fanatic," developed his reputation by snapping up controversial titles that most publishing houses refused to touch. A cheerful iconoclast often pilloried as a purveyor of sleaze, he published books that revealed government secrets, exposed the private lives of celebrities and became how-to guides for the radical left and the radical right.
As the owner of Lyle Stuart Inc. and later Barricade Books, Mr. Stuart had an eclectic portfolio that defied all categories except his own interests. Gambling guides -- which Mr. Stuart wrote -- appeared alongside biographies, sex manuals and books about the FBI and CIA.
One of his most notorious titles, 1970's "The Anarchist Cookbook" by William Powell, was essentially a field manual for radicals.
"I liked it, but nobody else did -- and of course no other publisher would touch it," he told The Washington Post in 1978. "You know, it tells you how to make Molotov cocktails and blow up police stations."
In 1996, he republished William L. Pierce's "The Turner Diaries," a white supremacist fantasy written in 1978 about bombing federal buildings and killing blacks and Jews. Mr. Stuart agreed to publish the "Diaries" -- which Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh once sold at gun shows -- only if he could write an introduction, in which he pronounced it "ignorant" and "a dreadful book."
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"Dilbert Perkins" wrote:
What a great piece on an original, principled and courageous human being.
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"Ida J. Camburn" wrote:
I was the mother who Lyle referenced in his letter to the New York Times. I can't remember my first contact with Lyle tho I never met him we became friends.
My heart goes out to his wife and family . His children can be proud of their fathers stamina and will to publish where others were afraid to go.
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> A Threatening Introduction to Scientology
On June 26, 2006 "Charon" posted:
Download of video file not required:
http://jayinvt.blogspot.com/2006/06/scientology-video-released.html
Someone has leaked an orientation video from Scientology. It is about 3 mins long, but hang in there. At one point the host says:
"If you leave today and never think about Scientology again, you are welcome to do that. You can also jump off a bridge, or blow your brains out. It is your choice. "
[...]
Opening Narrative(Video):
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"Right this instant, you are at the threshold of your next trillion years. You will live it, with shivering agonized darkness, or you will live it triumphantly in the light. The choice is yours. Not ours! "
This 3 minute spot of the Orientation film is terrifying, as cult induced insanity 'wearing a tie'. Enjoy the 'restimulative' whole-track 'ruin find' that the film tries to instill, because, if you don't get the message, you just might spend the next trillion years in TOTAL Darkness!!! Muahahaha!!!!
Found also at YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search=scientology+%2Borientation&search_type=search_videos&search=Search
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On June 26, 2006 the Post Chronicle reported:
http://www.postchronicle.com/news/entertainment/tittletattle/article_21225091.shtml
Tom Cruise, Dianetics & Scientology's Orientation Video
by Mike Baron
Thanx to a tip from our friend Jossip this morning, we got to watch the Scientology's orientation video. So like Jossip, we threw some Orville Redenbacher into the microwave, dimmed the lights, and tuned in for some really cheesy canned interviews.
Like our friend Jossip, Our biggest problem wasn't with the film's peddling L. Ron Hubbard's medicine-man-like wares, but rather with the poor production value. One would think with all of Scientology's cash and the fact that they boast some serious star power the least they could have done was whip-up a little special effects besides those awful meteorites in the beginning of the film.
IMDB has this summary:
"okay, this was bad. Unspeakably bad, but to the person informed about the truth about Scientology, kind of funny in a very sad way (think "Battlefield Earth," only worse, and with a lot of the same people involved). The audience won't be getting an unbiased view of this cult, but that's to be expected in a feature produced by the Church. What's unexpected is the degree to which it is pure, unadulterated propaganda, at a level that would make Leni Riefenstahl blush with envy. For example, Kirstie Alley, with a look of seriousness that is unsettling, declares, "Without Scientology, I would be dead today." The viewer is paraded with a number of Scientology suits, each with their own title. (One person, introduced as the "Director of Processing," acts as Orwellian as his job title implies. A sinister, b-movie villian chuckle, and the exacerbated sigh, (paraphrased) "The world out there is such a corrupting influence. We really have our work cut out for us in breaking our new recruits of that influence." Ick.
Nevertheless, the propaganda of this film is produced in such a cheesy way that the film approaches self-parody. When actors like John Travolta are tapped as intellectual spokesmen (no offense to Travolta, but he isn't exactly Stephen Hawking), when L. Ron Hubbard is portrayed as the ultimate renaissance man/prophet/saint with utter sincerity, it's difficult to take any of the film's claims seriously. And as self-parody, you almost don't even need the MST3K crew to heckle the show; one would have to have the intelligence of peanut brittle to be unable to do it oneself.
Despite a rating of 1, I will recommend people see this movie at their local Scientology centers (the only place this movie can be seen), if anything else, for a good laugh, and a view at how intellectually bankrupt this excuse for a film really is. A word of caution though: after this film, I and the group of friends I saw it with were split up and separately "interviewed" by members of the church. They were reluctant to allow us to leave, and were eager to have us confess personal shortcomings that caused us distress and difficulty in life, which of course they alone could solve. How you choose to handle this is up to you, but I ultimately found any attempt at a dialogue futile. I recommend that you treat this situation like you would a telemarketer, politely thank them for their movie and their time, but state you aren't interested and leave. Certainly don't give them personal info like your address and phone number.
See the film for the sheer hilarity of it, but don't expect to see Tom Cruise like we did.
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"Roger Gonnet" posted:
[Orientation film: they have tricked the OCA results!]
Looking at the Orientation film on the web
Une mauvaise copie de "Orientation", le film d'introduction à la scientologie,
est disponible sur le web en ce moment:
http://www.onetruemedia.com/otm_site/share_view_player?p=a80507d771dc11c0d19a8
i was hit by the OCA results they show: I've seen perhaps ONCE on the ca 1000 persons to whom I interpreted or corrected the OCA, who had such lowe low lines to begin with.
Almost everybody has at least two lines in the grey part or over the grey part when starting; This is intentional, since these lines are "Active" and "efficient".
This is "interpreted" by the tester as meaning that since the person is active plus efficient, she is more dangerous since all the other points are so low.
So, my opinion is that these liars are not even able to take real testings and show them during their orientation film.
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> Questioning Another Cult Suicide
On June 25, 2006 "Out of the Dark" posted:
[DALE BOGEN Jan 06,1952 - Nov 11,1984]
I've not seen anything mentioned at whyaretheydead or anywhere on the internet about Dale Bogen's suicide while she was on services at ASHO back in Nov 1984. Does anyone remember her or the situation?
I was out of town for 2 months and when I came back I asked around ASHO if any one had seen her. The D of P told me to speak to the Dir I & R, Bobby Schaffner, who I knew pretty well. I said," Bob, What's going on with Dale Bogen? The D of P told me to ask you." He asked me to step in and close the door, which I did.
Now, my 1st thought was this: I knew that she was getting auditing but I also knew she was a petition-approved pc so I thought maybe something changed on that and asked him. I knew he'd be straight with me. "No, she was a pc" on a rundown that is sometimes given to people who are overwhelmed and unable to proceed in processing but she'd committed suicide after leaving the org one night back in November (1984).
I was shocked. Here it was over a month later I did not know how to respond. This was, for me, the 3rd unexpected death of a scientologist in over 1 year. It was so unreal. I could not imagine Dale doing something like that but then again, I did not know every personal thing about her. I asked how she died and how did he find out. He said the police contacted ASHO when they found her because she had receipts and some books in the car. He said she took her car way up the main road in the Los Angeles Mountains, parked and plugged up the exhaust line with a rag or something and then got back in the car and went to sleep with the engine on. He knew nothing else.
I put my 'KSW hat' on and I asked him if he made sure her folders got to Qual for rev and correction. He said "yes", but we both knew at that time that nothing was predictable and 'what was supposed to be and what actually happened were often 2 different things' . We just looked at each other and I could tell he was not the happy Bob I'd all come to know in the past. He looked so tired. We chatted for a few minutes about other things and I left.
I finished up my cycles in Los Angeles and returned home shortly thereafter, seemingly blocking the whole thing out until I got news that Bobby had died after he'd struck a truck with his motorcycle on June 05,1987.
I never got the courage to follow up, after that, until now. This is the first time I have talked about Dale's suicide to anyone. Thank you to all those who are making it easier for ex-members to come out and speak up but most thanks to Mr. Creed Pearson, for writing the truth in your letter to ED INT. You see, I've stepped out of the shadows because it inspired and strengthened me to hold firm my faith in God and speak up today to show my support in getting the truth out.
I have no animosity against anyone in or out of scientology. Some of the most wonderful and intelligent people have fallen prey to it's trap. I will be writing more in the future, and I will be asking about these people and hoping that what I say can reach them or be of help to someone else.
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"Android Cat" wrote:
There is a section about Creed in Robert Farley's article "The unperson" in yesterday's SPT:
http://www.sptimes.com/2006/06/24/Tampabay/The_unperson.shtml
"Hi, Creed, this is Kathy Feshbach. Sunday morning . I just heard that you were under some kind of ethics cycle. So, you are not invited to our house today. I am sure you understand. So, ah, thank you very much for understanding. Please do not attend the event. Thank you very much for understanding."
Hrphm. Well, she said understanding three times, and I guess that makes it true for her.
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"Roger Gonnet" wrote:
This adds to the three [undisclosed in critics websites ] italian suicides i added this week.
5 more suicides -- or at least 4 plus the story of the guy killed on his motorcycle -- linked to the crime cult, in one week. I'm quasi certain that scientology has something like 500 suicides linked to it, but that we ignore 80 percent of those. Not to speak of other causes of death (bad cures for letal illnesses like cancer, accidents caused by overwhelmed scientologists, sauna overdosages of niacin, etc etc.)
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> Follow and Participate in Clearwater City Council
On June 26, 2006 "Maggie" posted:
Now you can get all CW City Council documents, agendas, everything the council has, and participate in meetings online:
http://www.sptimes.com/2006/06/26/Northpinellas/Feel_like_a_council_m.shtml
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> Scientology Unable to Handle Xenu
On June 25, 2006 "bc" posted a report of a radio show in San Francisco, featuring Scientolgist Bob Adams:
Friday june 23 2006 interview by Ronn Owens on KGO, San Francisco
Ronn Owens: It is 10:54, Ronn Owens, Bob Adams, Scientology, KGO, Jason in San Jose, good morning.
Caller: Yes, good morning Ronn, hi...
BA: Hi Jason
Caller: I just wanted to go ahead, I wanted to reel this off real quick and then just have your guest comment on it. I know you're running short on time ... so my understanding is, and I lived in Los Angeles for a while, seen the big complex and all that, and have been exposed to Dianetics and Scientology a bit, my understanding is, in Scientology doctrine Xenu is the alien ruler of the galactic confederacy, 75 million years ago, brought billions of people to earth in a DC spacecraft, DC-8 spacecraft..
Ronn: Well, let me stop it there only because you're nodding your head and saying it's absolutely not true?
BA: Well, you know this has been passed around the internet on and on and on, just, it's just an effort to try to minimize the church and it's religion, its theology...
Ronn: but what's the spacecraft thing, didn't, didn't Hubbard have something?
BA: I don't know what he's talking about..
Ronn: Hubbard never mentioned anything about spacecraft, rocketships, things like that?
BA: Nothing I've ever read...
Ronn: ok, never?
BA: I don't know what he's really talking about...
Ronn: Ok, alright..
BA: Let's move on to the real important things, Scientology is really about you and me and ability and confidence and awareness and helping people overcome their difficulties in life and providing answers. I don't know what this other stuff is. It has nothing to do with anything.
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"David Touretzky" posted:
Bob Adams was never the brightest bulb on the Christmas tree. Here's a page about his dubious career as a Scientology spokesdroid:
http://Stop-Narconon.org/Bob-Adams
-- Dave
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> Ireland Branch Going Broke Over Litigation
> St. Petersburg Times on "Suppressive Persons"
> Anti Psychiatry Celebrities, Money for Arizona Legislature
> Scientology vs. Keith Henson Update
> In Memory of Lyle Stuart
> A Threatening Introduction to Scientology
> Questioning Another Cult Suicide
> Follow and Participate in Clearwater City Council
> Scientology Unable to Handle Xenu
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> France Takes Political Action to Protect Minors
On June 28, 2006 Roger posted a report from the AFP France with translation:
Mineurs et sectes: unanimité des députés pour créer une commission d'enquête Minors and cults: deputies vote unanimously the creation of an Investigation Commission.
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[google translation then french text]:
PARIS, June 28, 2006 (AFP) - the deputies decided Wednesday, unanimously, to create a board of inquiry on the influence of the sects on the minors, a “enrolment” which currently touches “nearly 20.000 children” in France, according to a parliamentary report/ratio.
The motion for a resolution, envisaging the creation of a board of inquiry of 30 members relating to “the influence of the movements in sectarian matter and to the effects of their practices on the physical and mental health of the minors”, was adopted by the four political groups of the Parliament (UMP, UDF, PS, PCF).
The first meeting of this commission, whose presidency will be allotted to a deputy PS and the post of rapporteur in UMP, is envisaged as of Thursday, the political groups wishing to go quickly concerning this question.
“The endoctrination of the children is a major stake for the sectarian groups: it is indeed when the individuals are most malleable that the influence can be complete”, underline the 129 deputies signatories of the text.
The sectarian organizations “try from now on to circumvent the law by alleged remote lesson, school remedial courses escaping controls”, explain the signatories.
The board of inquiry aims “to put forward the dangerosity of some practise harmful with physical and mental health children, like with their blooming” and “to make specific proposals in order to fight more effectively against these unacceptable situations”.
According to the rapporteur of the commission of the Laws, George Fenech (UMP), “drifts and ill treatments being able to result in death are proven” and “one estimates at nearly 20.000 the number of children present in the sects”.
The whole of the speakers, like Philippe Vuilque (PS), Olivier Jardé (UDF), Jean-Pierre Brard (app. PCF) and Guy Geoffroy (UMP), underlined “the urgency” of the problem and called with the reinforcement of the fight against the proselytism of the sects near the children and the teenagers.
Two boards of inquiry into the sects had already constituted themselves under the two preceding legislatures and had returned reports/ratios in December 1995 and June 1999.
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PARIS, 28 juin 2006 (AFP) - Les députés ont décidé mercredi, à l'unanimité, de créer une commission d'enquête sur l'influence des sectes sur les mineurs, un "embrigadement" qui touche actuellement "près de 20.000 enfants" en France, selon un rapport parlementaire.
La proposition de résolution, prévoyant la création d'une commission d'enquête de 30 membres relative à "l'influence des mouvements à caractère sectaire et aux conséquences de leurs pratiques sur la santé physique et mentale des mineurs", a été adoptée par les quatre groupes politiques de l'Assemblée (UMP, UDF, PS, PCF).
La première réunion de cette commission, dont la présidence sera attribuée à un député PS et le poste de rapporteur à l'UMP, est prévue dès jeudi, les groupes politiques désirant aller vite concernant cette question.
"L'endoctrinement des enfants est un enjeu majeur pour les groupes sectaires: c'est en effet lorsque les individus sont les plus malléables que l'emprise peut être complète", soulignent les 129 députés signataires du texte.
Les organismes sectaires "tentent désormais de contourner la loi par de prétendus enseignements à distance, des cours de soutien scolaire échappant aux contrôles", expliquent les signataires.
La commission d'enquête a pour objectif de "mettre en exergue la dangerosité de certaines pratiques néfastes à la santé physique et mentale des enfants, ainsi qu'à leur épanouissement" et "faire des propositions concrètes afin de lutter plus efficacement contre ces situations inacceptables".
Selon le rapporteur de la commission des Lois, Georges Fenech (UMP), "des dérives et des mauvais traitements pouvant entraîner la mort sont avérés" et "on estime à près de 20.000 le nombre d'enfants présents dans les sectes".
L'ensemble des orateurs, à l'instar de Philippe Vuilque (PS), Olivier Jardé (UDF), Jean-Pierre Brard (app. PCF) et Guy Geoffroy (UMP), ont souligné "l'urgence" du problème et appelé au renforcement de la lutte contre le prosélytisme des sectes auprès des enfants et des adolescents.
Deux commissions d'enquête sur les sectes s'étaient déjà constituées sous les deux précédentes législatures et avaient rendu des rapports en décembre 1995 et en juin 1999.
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> Ireland Branch Going Broke Over Litigation
On June 28, 2006 a report was posted from the Religion News Blog about financial problems with the cult in Ireland:
[...]
The Scientology spokesman in Dublin, architect Gerard Ryan, said yesterday: "Obviously, if you get into a legal thing that lasts eight years, the legal bills are going to be simply staggering. There is no pressure on us to pay the money back. It has been donated by various Scientologists across the world. In the States, we are very large and some of the more affluent people have been able to help us out."
http://www.religionnewsblog.com/15072
Source: http://www.unison.ie/
Troubled Scientology Church in Ireland is now 1m in red
Irish Independent, Ireland
June 28, 2006
Interest-free loans from abroad are propping up the troubled Irish branch of the controversial Church of Scientology.
Financial documents seen by the Irish Independent reveal that the church is more than ?1m in the red after running up huge legal bills in an epic eight-year battle brought by a disgruntled former member.
As a result, members of the mega-rich Church of Scientology in the United States have had to cough up almost ?400,000 just to keep the Dublin arm afloat.
The celebrity endorsed group landed itself in a financial hole after a case was taken against it http://www.religionnewsblog.com/1383 by a former owner of a sports equipment shop, Mary Johnston.
In the high-profile case, Ms Johnston alleged conspiracy, misrepresentation http://www.religionnewsblog.com/1442 and breach of constitutional rights, http://www.religionnewsblog.com/1448 as well as deliberate infliction of emotional harm, against the church and three of its members. The case was eventually settled out of court in 2002: http://www.religionnewsblog.com/2700
The Scientology spokesman in Dublin, architect Gerard Ryan, said yesterday: "Obviously, if you get into a legal thing that lasts eight years, the legal bills are going to be simply staggering. There is no pressure on us to pay the money back. It has been donated by various Scientologists across the world. In the States, we are very large and some of the more affluent people have been able to help us out."
Mr Ryan admitted that the growth of Scientology here had been "very, very small". Eighteen years after the Dublin office opened, it had managed to attract only a few hundred members. "We have a different point of view of things. We have teachings on past lives. From my point of view, I will be coming back next time," he said. "If someone isn't a Scientologist this time around, they may be next time."
Mr Ryan admitted, however, that the Church's ?1m deficit was making it "difficult" to achieve things in its current lifetime. The Church has also failed to achieve charitable status in Ireland, which would give it tax-free status.
The head of Scientology in Ireland is Kerryman Gerard Collins. Other prominent Scientologists here include members of Mr Ryan's family as well as a Swede, Anna-Lena Blance, who edits the church's infrequent magazine, called Freedom. Outside Ireland, Scientology - which was set up by the deceased US author L Ron Hubbard - has celebrity devotees including Tom Cruise.
"It is a double-edged sword having celebrity members," Mr Ryan said. "One the one hand, it promotes the fact that we exist, but on the other, it means we can be associated with fairy-fairy land."
[...]
Gerald Ryan (Scientology spokesman in Dublin) might be paying an unexpected visit to a 'Comm Ev' tailored for him concerning his (above) "fairy-fairy land" statement about 'Scientology Celebrities'. A phone call 'rebuke' from Mike Rinder at the very least...
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> St. Petersburg Times on "Suppressive Persons"
On June 25, 2006 the St. Petersburg Times reported a series of articles on Suppressive Persons:
http://www.sptimes.com/2006/06/25/Tampabay/The_unperson.shtml
Special report
The unperson
Scientologists who cross their religion can be declared suppressive persons, shunned by peers and ostracized by family.
By ROBERT FARLEY, Times Staff Writer
Published June 25, 2006
"The only reason to declare someone a suppressive person is to give them a road map to their own salvation."- BEN SHAW, Scientology spokesman
"It's fun creating a new life. I just wish the ones I love more than anyone in the world could be part of it." - Caroline Brown, whose daughter no longer sees or speaks to her
"It's the ultimate weapon for them because no one can talk to you." - Randy Payne, on the threat of being declared a suppressive person
"The hardest thing for me is explaining to my daughter why she can't see her dad." - Astra Woodcraft, who left Scientology, and split with her family
Kathy Feshbach reversed an invitation when she learned her guest was labeled an SP.
Religions have always penalized those who betray the cause.
Catholics excommunicate, barring the wayward from church rites. The Amish, Jehovah's Witnesses and some orthodox Jewish sects shun their nonconformists.
In the Tampa Bay area's burgeoning Scientology community, members abide by a policy considered by some religious experts extreme: Scientologists declare their outcasts "suppressive persons."
Another Scientology policy - called "disconnection" - forbids Scientologists from interacting with a suppressive person. No calls, no letters, no contact.
An SP is a pariah. Anyone who communicates with an SP risks being branded an SP himself.
Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard wrote the policies four decades ago, church leaders say, not as a tool to oust members but to provide those going astray with a mechanism to return to the church's good graces. That aligns with Scientology's tenets of improving communication, strengthening relationships.
But SPs who have felt the sting and other church critics say the suppressive person policy is a sledgehammer to keep marginal members in line - and in the flock.
Whatever Scientology's motivation, its suppressive person policy results in wrenching pain, say a dozen SPs interviewed by the St. Petersburg Times.
Some have gone years without seeing or talking with sons, daughters, mothers, fathers - all of whom abide by Scientology's no-contact requirement.
For a Scientologist thinking of forsaking the church, the decision is grueling: stay in or risk being ostracized from loved ones and friends.
It left Caroline Brown in Cincinnati, weeping at the sight of a basketball court.
Like so many Scientologists, Caroline and her family came to Clearwater in 1991 to escape the "wog" non-Scientology world.
By 1998, she was divorced and living with her teenage daughter, Darby Zoccali. Her ex-husband and son lived together just a few miles away.
Caroline was unhappy, depressed. Her drinking strained her relationship with Darby.
Mother and daughter agreed Caroline could give her life new purpose by taking a Scientology job in Ohio. As a church staffer, her Scientology counseling would be free.
Darby, who just turned 18, stayed in Clearwater in her own apartment.
But the counseling in Cincinnati didn't help, Caroline said. Depressed and having anxiety attacks, she was flat broke and crying herself to sleep.
Walking past a basketball court one day, she burst into tears.
Her son played basketball. What was she doing in Cincinnati, working 14 hours a day, seven days a week, a thousand miles away from her son and daughter?
Caroline decided to bolt - from Cincinnati and from Scientology - even though she knew she almost certainly would be declared a suppressive person.
Hers was an "unauthorized departure," akin to going AWOL. To leave church service in good standing, Scientology staffers must complete "sec checks" - short for security checks.
They are like confessionals. Scientologists spell out transgressions to "feel better about them and take responsibility for them," Clearwater church spokesman Ben Shaw said. "It is one of the most invigorating experiences you can imagine."
The process can take months. Fellow church staffers pose questions to the outgoing member seeking to discover "crimes" deemed to be the source of suppressive acts.
Questions include whether an SP has made statements against Scientology to friends or to the media, but the sec checks can be extremely personal, according to church documents obtained by the Times. Questions can probe possible drug use, history of theft or nonpayment of taxes, or ask about masturbation or homosexuality.
A staffer who leaves without routing out through sec checks violates a signed church contract, Shaw said, and likely will be declared an SP.
That's what happened to Caroline. After she returned to Clearwater, the Scientology community turned its back.
She bumped into an old Scientology friend at a Dollar Store. Without so much as a hello, the woman said, "Go handle it. You go fix it. Handle it."
Darby wrote her mother a disconnection letter, and helped her brother, then 14, write one too. The letters are clear: Until you get back on good terms with Scientology, Mom, we're disconnecting.
Darby says her decision to disconnect from her mother had nothing to do with Scientology. She says her mother doesn't need to become a Scientologist again for them to have a relationship. But she needs to do the sec checks to remove the SP label.
Her message for her mother: "All you have to do is fix it. So do it. It's not that horrible."
Now 23, Darby is a Pilates instructor and a service broker for her boyfriend's telecom company. She took her first Scientology class when her mother was in Cincinnati.
"Every time I used it, my life got better," she said. "I'm not going to give that up for someone who created so much pain."
Her mother knew the consequences of walking away. "It's more like she disconnected from me," Darby said.
When Caroline got her son's disconnection letter, she called a lawyer. Her parental rights trumped Scientology's disconnection doctrine. She and the boy met at Cody's Roadhouse in Clearwater.
"I love you more than any other human being on the planet," she told her son.
He lit up, she said. She now sees him regularly. But not Darby.
"My heart is still broken about not having my family," Caroline said. "I'm the one who got her (Darby) in it, I'd like to be the one who gets her out."
Remarried now, Caroline attends St. Petersburg College, hoping to become an art teacher.
"It's fun creating a new life," she said. "I just wish the ones I love more than anyone in the world could be part of it."
The suppressive persons who spoke to the Times were declared SPs because they publicly and repeatedly challenged the church. They also faced the church's regimented internal justice system.
The process typically begins with a Scientologist writing a "knowledge report" about another church member, outlining alleged transgressions. The accused may be directed to undergo ethics counseling or ordered to face a "committee of evidence," a tribunal of church staff members who, acting as jurors, determine if the person has committed suppressive acts.
Suppressive acts must be renounced, and suppressive persons must atone. Failing to comply carries heavy consequences, as Randy Payne discovered.
For two decades, Payne, 53, was a dedicated Scientologist. He and his wife published a Scientology newspaper in Clearwater. He paid tens of thousands of dollars for Scientology training.
He expanded his Clearwater private school, Lighthouse, which incorporated L. Ron Hubbard's study techniques, and opened sister schools in Scientology's target markets of Hungary, the Czech Republic and Italy.
To use Hubbard's "tech" and materials, Payne agreed to pay 10 percent of his schools' revenues. He paid the fee initially, but stopped in 1997 because he said his curriculum had evolved to a point where Hubbard's techniques were used only marginally.
The church threatened to declare him an SP.
"It's the ultimate weapon for them because no one can talk to you," Payne said.
He pleaded his case through four committees of evidence - two held in Clearwater, two in Los Angeles. He formally was declared a suppressive person on May 11, 2003. The order said Payne "spread false and derogatory statements to others about Scientology and Church staff."
Scientology agents sought to cut off Payne's ties to the church community. A church ethics officer told an employee at Payne's school that he needed to quit, according to a note the employee wrote to Payne. Church staffers informed Payne's students who were Scientologists that Payne had been declared and that they should leave the school, he said.
The suppressive person policy was used against him as a form of extortion, Payne said, to get him to pay the fees.
He wrote legislators and met with law enforcement officials, asking they investigate his claim of extortion.
Last October, Payne made a more public protest that could happen only in Clearwater. During the opening moments of a Clearwater City Council meeting, when residents typically complain about parking problems and potholes, Payne stood and with TV cameras recording his every word, complained about the Church of Scientology:
"It is my belief that this church's leadership has created a corrupt internal justice system to enforce its money-making scheme on individuals and businesses."
Council members sat mute.
Extreme? Perhaps. Effective? Definitely.
That's the view of many religious scholars who say the motive behind Scientology's suppressive person doctrine is clear: keep members from breaking ranks.
"That's the way the church keeps discipline," said J. Gordon Melton, director of the Institute for the Study of American Religion, a think tank in Santa Barbara, Calif., that focuses on smaller groups. "For them, that's an internal control mechanism."
Scientology's disconnection requirement is far more extreme than the severing practices of most modern religions, Melton said.
"I just think it would be better for all concerned if they just let them go ahead and get out and everyone goes their own way, and not make such a big deal of it," said Melton. "The policy hurts everybody."
Church spokesman Shaw suggested the Times interview two other professors who have testified in Scientology's behalf in legal cases.
"It is rather strict," said the first, F.K. Flinn, adjunct professor of religious studies at Washington University in St. Louis. It also is characteristic of a young religion, he said.
"It has to do with feeling threatened because you're not that big. You do everything you can to keep unity in the group."
Scientology is not as controlling as were the early Christians, Flinn said. Its SP practices are akin to the shunning of the Amish and Jehovah's Witnesses. Some Amish communities allow contact with close friends and families; Jehovah's Witnesses cut off all communication except in cases of family business or emergency.
The second expert Shaw suggested, Newton Maloney, a professor at the Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, Calif., characterized Scientology's disconnection policy as "too extreme," particularly as it affects families.
"Some people I've talked to, they just wanted to go on with their lives and they wanted to be in touch with their daughter or son or parent. The shunning was just painful. And I don't know what it was accomplishing.
"And the very terms they use are scary, aren't they?"
Shaw says the church's policy is far from extreme. Doesn't everyone distance themselves from negative influences?
"Prisoners are disconnected from society," Shaw said. "Employees are fired, spouses scorned and divorced by their partner."
Unethical lawyers are disbarred. Discriminatory businesses are boycotted. Journalists who fabricate stories are fired, he said.
"All of these actions represent the practice of disconnection in cases where an antisocial person will not reform or restrain their destructive actions."
The suppressive person and disconnection policies are a last resort, Shaw said.
"The only reason to declare someone a suppressive person is to give them a road map to their own salvation."
And many SPs have returned.
Hubbard once wrote that SPs were "fair game," meaning that they could be "tricked, sued or lied to or destroyed." Hubbard canceled the "fair game" policy in 1976, saying it was never intended to authorize "illegal or harassment type acts against anyone." Church critics, however, remain wary.
Potential Trouble Source. No Scientologist wants to be called that. PTSs can't take classes or get the spiritual counseling called auditing. But if you maintain contact with a suppressive person, that's what you are.
Two recorded messages left last year on the answering machine of Creed Pearson illustrate just how serious this can be.
The caller: Scientologist Kathy Feshbach, a major contributor and founder of a Scientology mission in Belleair.
The first call was placed on March 2.
"Hi ... this is Kathy Feshbach. ... Ah, George Mariani is running for mayor again in Belleair, called us; wants us to have all our friends over on Sunday at our house at 4 for him to talk. It's really important because No.1, he is reaching for us, the Scientologists. So that's really a good indicator. So I really want to have a big showing for him. ... So, anyway, it's a big deal that the mayor called us so I really want you guys to come over."
What Feshbach did not know was that Pearson - a Scientologist for 25 years and big church donor - had been declared a suppressive person the previous month. Pearson, 50, said he was declared because he told his friends in Scientology that the religion was being altered by current management. He also said L. Ron Hubbard had lied while ticking off his accomplishments during a speech.
Four days later Feshbach called Pearson back and left a second message. It was clear she had learned he was a suppressive.
"Hi, Creed, this is Kathy Feshbach. Sunday morning ... I just heard that you were under some kind of ethics cycle. So, you are not invited to our house today. I am sure you understand. So, ah, thank you very much for understanding. Please do not attend the event. Thank you very much for understanding."
As the community of Scientologists has grown to an estimated 10,000 in the Tampa Bay area, so too has the number of declared SPs increased, according to church officials and former members.
Shaw said there are only about 40 SPs in the bay area. Former Scientologists say the number of suppressive people is much higher.
Thousands of SP declare files are kept at the church's administrative headquarters in California, said Astra Woodcraft, who worked there for three years ending in 1998.
Now, she is in those files herself.
The Woodcrafts are a family divided. The mother, a son and grandmother are Scientologists. The father and two daughters left.
The two sides do not speak.
Raised with her brother and sister in Scientology, Astra Woodcraft spent two years in Clearwater as a teen, living in a church-owned motel on U.S. 19 and serving as a Scientology cadet.
Her family later moved to Los Angeles and at 14 she joined the Sea Org, the legion of church staffers who dedicate their lives to church service. Woodcraft was assigned to the ethics security team, which tried to keep people from leaving Scientology.
One month after turning 15, she married a 22-year-old fellow Sea Org member. A few years later, she traveled to England to attend her grandmother's funeral. Enthralled with "the outside world," she stayed on for a time in England and decided to leave Scientology.
Her husband wrote her from Los Angeles: "What really will happen if you decide not to come back and get declared? I will have to disconnect from you, and so will the rest of your family - your Mom, your Dad, Grandma, Matt and Zoe. Or, you come back and standardly handle the situation, with whatever decision you have made."
Woodcraft, pregnant, filed for divorce. She was 20. She returned to the church in L.A. in April 1998 and did her sec checks. It took a month. She signed a document admitting to trying marijuana at age 13 and once stealing a pair of pantyhose.
Then she left. Scientology hit her with a "freeloader's bill" for $80,000. Sea Org staffers get Scientology courses and auditing for free. But leave, and you are billed retroactively. She refused to pay.
Later, Woodcraft's younger sister, then 15, also left Scientology. She was in the Cadet Org, living with her mother, then a church staffer in Clearwater. She called her father, who had been declared an SP years earlier. He picked her up at the Clearwater Library and spirited her away.
Shaw provided the Times a letter from Astra Woodcraft's mother, Leslie Woodcraft.
"While not happy about it, I could have accepted her (Astra's) decision to leave church staff," Leslie Woodcraft wrote. "But what is very, very upsetting is that she reverted to her old, dishonest ways."
Astra became a "puppet of vested interests and her 'story' - lies and false accusations really," Leslie stated, likely made as a way to seek attention.
The letter ended, "Still, I have not given up hope that one day Astra will realize that she made a decision that, as final as it may appear to her now, can be reverted."
Astra says she left "not hating Scientology," but the church's reaction left her wanting nothing to do with it.
"The hardest thing for me is explaining to my daughter why she can't see her dad," who did not contest Astra getting sole custody. "I don't want him to see her. I don't want Scientology to touch her in any form."
But she wishes she could speak to her brother and mother and grandmother, all of whom remain Scientologists.
"I really love my mom and I miss her a lot," Astra said. "I would love for her to see my daughter."
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http://www.sptimes.com/2006/06/25/Tampabay/SP_profiles.shtml
SP profiles
Published June 25, 2006
Karen Pressley of Atlanta and her then-husband Peter Schless - a musician and composer who wrote the hit song On the Wings of Love - became Scientologists and later joined staff. Pressley mostly worked for the church's international organization in Los Angeles, but she spent six months in Clearwater. She said she designed the new uniforms still worn by staffers today.
Pressley left Scientology in 1998 and refused to come back for sec checks. She has publicly denounced "substandard" child care at church facilities around the world and criticized the church for the "condition of poverty" that staffers lived in. After she left the church, her husband "faithfully applied the rule (of disconnection)," she said.
She calls the suppressive person declare "a form of psychological terrorism. It obliterates families. ... People who leave are afraid to talk about Scientology."
In a letter to the Times, Peter Schless - who works for the church's Golden Era Productions - states that Pressley was unfaithful in their marriage, and that she came to resent his success. He said she walked out on him in 1998, took his BMW car, left him with $17,000 in credit card debt and "insisted on taking half (his) income." If someone did that to you, he wrote, "you probably wouldn't be too interested in speaking to your ex-wife either - and it would have nothing to do with whether you were a Christian, Buddhist, Jew or Scientologist."
Tom Smith, 49, of Clearwater, was declared an SP in August 2005 after he repeatedly challenged the validity of a "patter drill" in which he was instructed to read passages of a course to a wall. Smith insisted the drill was not based on Hubbard teachings.
A year and a half earlier, Smith attended a charter review committee meeting to express his opposition to the county plan to fluoridate the drinking water. Smith followed committee chairman Ed Armstrong to the parking lot and aggressively argued the issue should be put to voters.
Soon after, Smith was summoned to the Fort Harrison Hotel, the locus of Scientology operations. A church ethics officer confronted him with a report, written by Ben Shaw, criticizing Smith for being rude to Armstrong. It noted that Armstrong is an attorney for the church.
"You are going to be declared," Smith says the ethics officer warned him. The message was clear, to Smith: Back off.
Shaw said he wrote the report, but said it's ridiculous for Smith to contend he was threatened with a suppressive person declare over it.
Grace Aaron of Los Angeles was declared a suppressive person five years ago after she wrote several internal reports insisting that current church management had altered some of L. Ron Hubbard's directives. She said church officials tried to convince her husband of 28 years to divorce her and said he had to make a choice: his wife or his religion. He stayed with her and was declared a couple of months later.
Their son, Zachary, then 22, was on staff at the Beverly Hills mission and living with his parents. She said the church also gave him an ultimatum: move out within 24 hours and sever all ties with his parents or he would be kicked out of Scientology himself. He went with Scientology.
"I don't think that any religion has a right to disrupt a family," she said. "It may not be illegal. But when it comes to human rights and morality, I consider it immoral."
In a letter to the Times, Zachary Aaron wrote that he has no interest in speaking to his mother.
"Her actions were calculated to attack the Church, she knew exactly what she was doing, she was told multiple times exactly what would happen and she refused everybody's efforts to help her sort things out.
"So very simply, I've refused to speak to her until she becomes a member of the Church again. And she could do this very easily! ... All she has to do is apologize and make up for any damage that she's done. That's all! But she won't do it."
Aaron took her story to local cable TV two years ago and put out an appeal to Zachary: "Daddy and I really love you," she said. " ... We want to share in your life to some extent. We don't want to control you or to force our realities on you. We just want to see what you're doing."
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http://www.sptimes.com/2006/06/25/Tampabay/Some_Scientology_terms.shtml
Special report
Some Scientology terms
By Times Staff
Published June 25, 2006
Here is how Scientology defines some of the terms used in this story:
Suppressive person: "Those who are destructively antisocial. A person who
possesses a distinct set of characteristics and mental attitudes that cause him
to suppress other people in his vicinity. Or one who actively seeks to suppress
or damage Scientology or a Scientologist."
Disconnection: "A self-determined decision made by an individual that he is not
going to be connected to another. It is a severing of a communication line."
Auditing: Scientology counseling "which helps an individual look at his
existence and improves his ability to confront what he is and where he is."
Potential Trouble Source: "A person who is in some way connected to and being
adversely affected by a suppressive person." So called because "he can be a lot
of trouble to himself and to others."
Sources: "Introduction to Scientology Ethics" and "What Is Scientology?"
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> Anti Psychiatry Celebrities, Money for Arizona Legislature
On June 26, 2006 the Arizona Republic reported:
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0625lobbyists-spending0625.html
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0625lobbyists-spending0625.html
Arizona lobbyists spending more
Free meals, concert tickets among perks used to try to gain clout at
state Capitol
The Arizona Republic
Jun. 25, 2006 12:00 AM
[...]
A group called the Citizens Commission on Human Rights, affiliated with the Church of Scientology, has spent thousands of dollars to take a dozen legislators to Hollywood over the past two years.
There, lawmakers hobnobbed with celebrities at Scientology functions, learned about the church's opposition to psychiatric drugs and were presented with legislation that they could introduce here. Commission lobbyists Leslie Koel and Richard Haworth said the trips, among the more than $12,000 worth of travel and lodging expenses paid by lobbyists and special-interest groups last year, were necessary to combat all the money spent by lobbyists for pharmaceutical companies. "
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Commission lobbyists Leslie Koel and Richard Haworth...
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Richard Haworth - Scientology Service Completions:
http://www.truthaboutscientology.com/stats/by-name/r/richard-haworth.html
Richard Haworth (myhomepage)Site:
http://scientologist.myhomepage.org/~richardhaworth/
Scientology group finds support in Legislature
Tinseltown trips linked to anti-psychiatry push
The Arizona Republic/March 11, 2006
http://www.rickross.com/reference/scientology/psychiatry/psychiatry20.html
[Rick Ross]
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> Scientology vs. Keith Henson Update
On June 27, 2006 "Keith Henson" posted
In the previous Dezotell hearing the judge ordered them to send papers to me by email and "not" physically.
So two weeks ago Barbz who has been dealing with my hard copy mail gets this 20 pound package from David Cook.
So I complain to Cook with a cc to the court and a week later, just before filing a motion to compel I got the files in email. 6.3M bytes of PDF.
Here is the first one. You might notice that they are still asking for an "injunction" to be made non-dischargeable. An illegal injunction at that, but a bankruptcy court simply does not have authority over anything except money and last time Judge Weissbrodt told them so. Amazing.
Keith Henson
DAVID .1. COOK, ESQ. (State Bar # 060859) ROBERT ,J. PERKISS, ESQ
(State Bar # 62386) DEBRA D. LEW, ESQ. (State Bar # 114537) COOK,
PERKISS & LEW
A PROFESSIONAL LAW CORPORATION 333 Pine Street. Suite 300
San Francisco, CA 94104-3381
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 270
San Francisco. CA 94104-0270
Tel: (415) 989-4730 Fax: (415) 989-0491 File No. 45.658
Attorneys for Creditors HILARY DEZOTELL, KEN HODEN. AND BRUCE WAGONER
UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURT
NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
SAN JOSE DIVISION
CASE NO. 98-51326 AS W-7 ADV. NO. 035136
In re:
KEITH HENSON, Debtor.
HILARY DEZOTELL. an individual: KEN HODEN, an individual; and BRUCE
WAGONER, an individual.
Plaintiffs, vs.
H. KEITH HENSON. an individual, Debtor,
Defendant.
MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT PURSUANT TO F.R.C.P. § 56 AND BKRTCY.C. §
7056
Date: TO BE SET
Time: TO BE SET
Courtroom: 3099
Judge: Arthur S. Weissbrodt
Plaintiffs HILARY DEZOTELL, an individual. KEN HODEN. an individual, and BRUCE WAGONER, an individual. hereby move this court for a summary judgment on the basis that there is no triable issue of material fact:
that these Plaintiffs are entitled to an order and judgment declaring that the underlying state court indebtedness is subject to the exemption from the discharge under Bkrtcy.C. § 523(a)(6), that the injunctive relief in the Judgment of October 7. 2002 and the injunctive relief in the permanent injunction against H. KEITH HENSON of October 8, 2002, be exempted from the discharge; finding that the underlying state court judgments are based upon the willful and malicious conduct of the Defendant, leading to a pecuniary injury therein. that these Plaintiffs are entitled to a judgment declaring that the subject judgment. including but not limited to. the judgment entered in the Superior Court. County of Riverside, Hemet Branch, entitled Hilary Dezotell, Ken Hoden, and Bruce Wagoner v. H. Keith Henson, Case No. HEC 009 673. be and the same is declared nondischargeable under Bkrtcy.C. § 523(a)(6), and that the indebtedness in the amount of $25,000 for statutory civil penalties for each Plaintiff, thus for a
total f $75.000. and Attorney's fees in the amount of $23,666.65, be and the same is hereby declared nondischargeable thereunder. and all injunctive relief in the Judgment of October 7. 2002 and permanent injunction of October 8, 2002 likewise be declared exempt from the discharge.
This motion is based upon the grounds that Plaintiffs have obtained a state court Judgment against Defendant, and that Plaintiffs are entitled to an order declaring that the indebtedness set forth therein be and the same be declared nondischargeable under Bkrtcy.C. 523(a)(6).
This motion is based upon this Motion, the attached Notice, the attached Memorandum of Points and Authorities, the Declaration of Elliot Abelson, upon all matters by which this court may take judicial notice thereof, and upon all pleadings, papers. and other matters on file herein, and upon all oral evidence and argument which may be presented at the hearing hereof.
DATED: June 12. 2006
COOK, PERKISS & LEW, P.L.C.
By: /s/ David J. Cook, Esq.
DAVID J. COOK, ESQ. (SB# 060859) Attorneys for Creditors HILARY
DEZOTELL. KEN HODEN, AND BRUCE WAGONER
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> In Memory of Lyle Stuart
On June 27, 2006 the Washington Post reported the death of author and free speech advocate, Lyle Stuart:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/27/AR2006062701683.html
Controversial Publisher Lyle Stuart, 83
By Matt Schudel
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, June 28, 2006
Lyle Stuart, a maverick publisher who built his career on best-selling books on sex, scandal and radical politics that others thought too hot to handle, died June 24 at a New Jersey hospital after a heart attack. He was 83 and lived in Fort Lee, N.J.
Mr. Stuart, who proudly called himself a "First Amendment fanatic," developed his reputation by snapping up controversial titles that most publishing houses refused to touch. A cheerful iconoclast often pilloried as a purveyor of sleaze, he published books that revealed government secrets, exposed the private lives of celebrities and became how-to guides for the radical left and the radical right.
As the owner of Lyle Stuart Inc. and later Barricade Books, Mr. Stuart had an eclectic portfolio that defied all categories except his own interests. Gambling guides -- which Mr. Stuart wrote -- appeared alongside biographies, sex manuals and books about the FBI and CIA.
One of his most notorious titles, 1970's "The Anarchist Cookbook" by William Powell, was essentially a field manual for radicals.
"I liked it, but nobody else did -- and of course no other publisher would touch it," he told The Washington Post in 1978. "You know, it tells you how to make Molotov cocktails and blow up police stations."
In 1996, he republished William L. Pierce's "The Turner Diaries," a white supremacist fantasy written in 1978 about bombing federal buildings and killing blacks and Jews. Mr. Stuart agreed to publish the "Diaries" -- which Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh once sold at gun shows -- only if he could write an introduction, in which he pronounced it "ignorant" and "a dreadful book."
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"Dilbert Perkins" wrote:
What a great piece on an original, principled and courageous human being.
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"Ida J. Camburn" wrote:
I was the mother who Lyle referenced in his letter to the New York Times. I can't remember my first contact with Lyle tho I never met him we became friends.
My heart goes out to his wife and family . His children can be proud of their fathers stamina and will to publish where others were afraid to go.
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> A Threatening Introduction to Scientology
On June 26, 2006 "Charon" posted:
Download of video file not required:
http://jayinvt.blogspot.com/2006/06/scientology-video-released.html
Someone has leaked an orientation video from Scientology. It is about 3 mins long, but hang in there. At one point the host says:
"If you leave today and never think about Scientology again, you are welcome to do that. You can also jump off a bridge, or blow your brains out. It is your choice. "
[...]
Opening Narrative(Video):
[...]
"Right this instant, you are at the threshold of your next trillion years. You will live it, with shivering agonized darkness, or you will live it triumphantly in the light. The choice is yours. Not ours! "
This 3 minute spot of the Orientation film is terrifying, as cult induced insanity 'wearing a tie'. Enjoy the 'restimulative' whole-track 'ruin find' that the film tries to instill, because, if you don't get the message, you just might spend the next trillion years in TOTAL Darkness!!! Muahahaha!!!!
Found also at YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search=scientology+%2Borientation&search_type=search_videos&search=Search
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On June 26, 2006 the Post Chronicle reported:
http://www.postchronicle.com/news/entertainment/tittletattle/article_21225091.shtml
Tom Cruise, Dianetics & Scientology's Orientation Video
by Mike Baron
Thanx to a tip from our friend Jossip this morning, we got to watch the Scientology's orientation video. So like Jossip, we threw some Orville Redenbacher into the microwave, dimmed the lights, and tuned in for some really cheesy canned interviews.
Like our friend Jossip, Our biggest problem wasn't with the film's peddling L. Ron Hubbard's medicine-man-like wares, but rather with the poor production value. One would think with all of Scientology's cash and the fact that they boast some serious star power the least they could have done was whip-up a little special effects besides those awful meteorites in the beginning of the film.
IMDB has this summary:
"okay, this was bad. Unspeakably bad, but to the person informed about the truth about Scientology, kind of funny in a very sad way (think "Battlefield Earth," only worse, and with a lot of the same people involved). The audience won't be getting an unbiased view of this cult, but that's to be expected in a feature produced by the Church. What's unexpected is the degree to which it is pure, unadulterated propaganda, at a level that would make Leni Riefenstahl blush with envy. For example, Kirstie Alley, with a look of seriousness that is unsettling, declares, "Without Scientology, I would be dead today." The viewer is paraded with a number of Scientology suits, each with their own title. (One person, introduced as the "Director of Processing," acts as Orwellian as his job title implies. A sinister, b-movie villian chuckle, and the exacerbated sigh, (paraphrased) "The world out there is such a corrupting influence. We really have our work cut out for us in breaking our new recruits of that influence." Ick.
Nevertheless, the propaganda of this film is produced in such a cheesy way that the film approaches self-parody. When actors like John Travolta are tapped as intellectual spokesmen (no offense to Travolta, but he isn't exactly Stephen Hawking), when L. Ron Hubbard is portrayed as the ultimate renaissance man/prophet/saint with utter sincerity, it's difficult to take any of the film's claims seriously. And as self-parody, you almost don't even need the MST3K crew to heckle the show; one would have to have the intelligence of peanut brittle to be unable to do it oneself.
Despite a rating of 1, I will recommend people see this movie at their local Scientology centers (the only place this movie can be seen), if anything else, for a good laugh, and a view at how intellectually bankrupt this excuse for a film really is. A word of caution though: after this film, I and the group of friends I saw it with were split up and separately "interviewed" by members of the church. They were reluctant to allow us to leave, and were eager to have us confess personal shortcomings that caused us distress and difficulty in life, which of course they alone could solve. How you choose to handle this is up to you, but I ultimately found any attempt at a dialogue futile. I recommend that you treat this situation like you would a telemarketer, politely thank them for their movie and their time, but state you aren't interested and leave. Certainly don't give them personal info like your address and phone number.
See the film for the sheer hilarity of it, but don't expect to see Tom Cruise like we did.
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"Roger Gonnet" posted:
[Orientation film: they have tricked the OCA results!]
Looking at the Orientation film on the web
Une mauvaise copie de "Orientation", le film d'introduction à la scientologie,
est disponible sur le web en ce moment:
http://www.onetruemedia.com/otm_site/share_view_player?p=a80507d771dc11c0d19a8
i was hit by the OCA results they show: I've seen perhaps ONCE on the ca 1000 persons to whom I interpreted or corrected the OCA, who had such lowe low lines to begin with.
Almost everybody has at least two lines in the grey part or over the grey part when starting; This is intentional, since these lines are "Active" and "efficient".
This is "interpreted" by the tester as meaning that since the person is active plus efficient, she is more dangerous since all the other points are so low.
So, my opinion is that these liars are not even able to take real testings and show them during their orientation film.
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> Questioning Another Cult Suicide
On June 25, 2006 "Out of the Dark" posted:
[DALE BOGEN Jan 06,1952 - Nov 11,1984]
I've not seen anything mentioned at whyaretheydead or anywhere on the internet about Dale Bogen's suicide while she was on services at ASHO back in Nov 1984. Does anyone remember her or the situation?
I was out of town for 2 months and when I came back I asked around ASHO if any one had seen her. The D of P told me to speak to the Dir I & R, Bobby Schaffner, who I knew pretty well. I said," Bob, What's going on with Dale Bogen? The D of P told me to ask you." He asked me to step in and close the door, which I did.
Now, my 1st thought was this: I knew that she was getting auditing but I also knew she was a petition-approved pc so I thought maybe something changed on that and asked him. I knew he'd be straight with me. "No, she was a pc" on a rundown that is sometimes given to people who are overwhelmed and unable to proceed in processing but she'd committed suicide after leaving the org one night back in November (1984).
I was shocked. Here it was over a month later I did not know how to respond. This was, for me, the 3rd unexpected death of a scientologist in over 1 year. It was so unreal. I could not imagine Dale doing something like that but then again, I did not know every personal thing about her. I asked how she died and how did he find out. He said the police contacted ASHO when they found her because she had receipts and some books in the car. He said she took her car way up the main road in the Los Angeles Mountains, parked and plugged up the exhaust line with a rag or something and then got back in the car and went to sleep with the engine on. He knew nothing else.
I put my 'KSW hat' on and I asked him if he made sure her folders got to Qual for rev and correction. He said "yes", but we both knew at that time that nothing was predictable and 'what was supposed to be and what actually happened were often 2 different things' . We just looked at each other and I could tell he was not the happy Bob I'd all come to know in the past. He looked so tired. We chatted for a few minutes about other things and I left.
I finished up my cycles in Los Angeles and returned home shortly thereafter, seemingly blocking the whole thing out until I got news that Bobby had died after he'd struck a truck with his motorcycle on June 05,1987.
I never got the courage to follow up, after that, until now. This is the first time I have talked about Dale's suicide to anyone. Thank you to all those who are making it easier for ex-members to come out and speak up but most thanks to Mr. Creed Pearson, for writing the truth in your letter to ED INT. You see, I've stepped out of the shadows because it inspired and strengthened me to hold firm my faith in God and speak up today to show my support in getting the truth out.
I have no animosity against anyone in or out of scientology. Some of the most wonderful and intelligent people have fallen prey to it's trap. I will be writing more in the future, and I will be asking about these people and hoping that what I say can reach them or be of help to someone else.
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"Android Cat" wrote:
There is a section about Creed in Robert Farley's article "The unperson" in yesterday's SPT:
http://www.sptimes.com/2006/06/24/Tampabay/The_unperson.shtml
"Hi, Creed, this is Kathy Feshbach. Sunday morning . I just heard that you were under some kind of ethics cycle. So, you are not invited to our house today. I am sure you understand. So, ah, thank you very much for understanding. Please do not attend the event. Thank you very much for understanding."
Hrphm. Well, she said understanding three times, and I guess that makes it true for her.
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"Roger Gonnet" wrote:
This adds to the three [undisclosed in critics websites ] italian suicides i added this week.
5 more suicides -- or at least 4 plus the story of the guy killed on his motorcycle -- linked to the crime cult, in one week. I'm quasi certain that scientology has something like 500 suicides linked to it, but that we ignore 80 percent of those. Not to speak of other causes of death (bad cures for letal illnesses like cancer, accidents caused by overwhelmed scientologists, sauna overdosages of niacin, etc etc.)
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> Follow and Participate in Clearwater City Council
On June 26, 2006 "Maggie" posted:
Now you can get all CW City Council documents, agendas, everything the council has, and participate in meetings online:
http://www.sptimes.com/2006/06/26/Northpinellas/Feel_like_a_council_m.shtml
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> Scientology Unable to Handle Xenu
On June 25, 2006 "bc" posted a report of a radio show in San Francisco, featuring Scientolgist Bob Adams:
Friday june 23 2006 interview by Ronn Owens on KGO, San Francisco
Ronn Owens: It is 10:54, Ronn Owens, Bob Adams, Scientology, KGO, Jason in San Jose, good morning.
Caller: Yes, good morning Ronn, hi...
BA: Hi Jason
Caller: I just wanted to go ahead, I wanted to reel this off real quick and then just have your guest comment on it. I know you're running short on time ... so my understanding is, and I lived in Los Angeles for a while, seen the big complex and all that, and have been exposed to Dianetics and Scientology a bit, my understanding is, in Scientology doctrine Xenu is the alien ruler of the galactic confederacy, 75 million years ago, brought billions of people to earth in a DC spacecraft, DC-8 spacecraft..
Ronn: Well, let me stop it there only because you're nodding your head and saying it's absolutely not true?
BA: Well, you know this has been passed around the internet on and on and on, just, it's just an effort to try to minimize the church and it's religion, its theology...
Ronn: but what's the spacecraft thing, didn't, didn't Hubbard have something?
BA: I don't know what he's talking about..
Ronn: Hubbard never mentioned anything about spacecraft, rocketships, things like that?
BA: Nothing I've ever read...
Ronn: ok, never?
BA: I don't know what he's really talking about...
Ronn: Ok, alright..
BA: Let's move on to the real important things, Scientology is really about you and me and ability and confidence and awareness and helping people overcome their difficulties in life and providing answers. I don't know what this other stuff is. It has nothing to do with anything.
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"David Touretzky" posted:
Bob Adams was never the brightest bulb on the Christmas tree. Here's a page about his dubious career as a Scientology spokesdroid:
http://Stop-Narconon.org/Bob-Adams
-- Dave
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Sunday, June 25, 2006
a.r.s. Week in Review 6/17/06
> Russian Scientologist Imprisoned for Embezzlement
> Cult Taking India for a Ride
> Turning Weapons Over to Scientology in Boston?
> Picket Reports
> Scientology-Related Media
> Courage to Speak Out
> Scientology Contradictions
> A Long History of Hiring Private Eyes
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> Russian Scientologist Imprisoned for Embezzlement
On June 12, 2006 Mosnews.com reported:
http://www.mosnews.com/news/2006/06/02/scientology.shtml
A former Russian MP, a local education chief, has been jailed for embezzlement and abuse of authority - he made his subordinates study scientology and used budget money to pay for their studies.
Boris Shalimov of the Skovorodinsk region in Russia's Far East has been sentenced to two years in prison for embezzlement and abuse of authority, the website of Russia's Prosecutor General's Office reports.
In October 2002 Shalimov became a member of the World Institute of Scientology Enterprises. To get promoted in the organization, he forced his subordinates to study the works of the philosopher L. Ron Hubbard.
Moreover, he used budget money to pay for evaluation of their progress in the subject. The newly converted scientologists had to pass tests that were sent to Moscow at the state's expense.
In all, Shalimov embezzled more than 600,000 rubles of public money - some $20,000.
Besides investing in his religious interests, Shalimov also embezzled 151,000 rubles for private needs.
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> Cult Taking India for a Ride
On June 15, 2006 : "Huntlee Brinklee Report" posted:
http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=188028
London-Based Organization Roped In To Impart Training To Officials
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Altogether 20 officials, 18 from the civil defence department and two from the Metro Railway will be imparted training by Scientology Volunteers (SV), an organisation based in London that has been roped in by the state government to train Metro and Civil defence officials in disaster management in Metro Railway.
[...]
''The training will first be conferred at public places like markets or cinema halls because understanding crowd behaviour is a part of the programme,'' Srikumar Mukherjee, minister of state, civil defence, today said. SV is going to send its teams time to time for the training, Mukherjee further added. "
Metro inks pact with civil defence dept for disaster management
Express News Service
Kolkata, June 14:
The Civil Defence department of the state government today signed an agreement with the Metro Railway with a view to start a training programme on disaster management for Metro Railway and Civil Defence department officials. The one-month programme is starting on July 1.
Altogether 20 officials, 18 from the civil defence department and two from the Metro Railway will be imparted training by Scientology Volunteers (SV), an organisation based in London that has been roped in by the state government to train Metro and Civil defence officials in disaster management in Metro Railway.
The state government has already signed an agreement with SV, who took an active role in the rescue operations during the London Tube bombing last year.
"The training will first be conferred at public places like markets or cinema halls because understanding crowd behaviour is a part of the programme,'' Srikumar Mukherjee, minister of state, civil defence, today said. SV is going to send its teams time to time for the training, Mukherjee further added.
The training will be later imparted inside Metro stations.
Later, Metro Railway will train 10 officers of the Civil Defence department in rescue operations inside Metro tunnels.
The minister also said that his department will train 68 volunteers who will be deployed at all the 17 Metro stations to help people in case any disaster strikes. ''There will be four volunteers, each at the 17 stations. They will be chosen from the general public, from youth clubs, NGOs, even political parties. They will not only help people in case of a disaster but during normal times too. If a passenger faces any problem except something related to law and order, the volunteers will come forward to help the one in need," the minister said.
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Kolkata
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kolkata (Bangla: ['kolkata](formerly Calcutta) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. It is located in eastern India on the east bank of the River Hooghly. The city has a population of almost 5 million, with an extended metropolitan population of over 13 million, thus making it the second-largest urban agglomeration and the fourth-largest city in India. "
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> Turning Weapons Over to Scientology in Boston?
On June 15, 2006 "Android Cat" posted:
From their newscrawl:
[ www.citycent.com/scientology/scientology-news.php ]
"13 June 2006: USA - The Scientology Volunteer Ministry is selected by the Boston Police Department to participate in their anti-violence initiative. The program promotes peace by reducing the number of guns in Boston. For the next month, the Ministry is one of the official locations where people can drop off their guns."
oh. my.
And what happens if CoS turns a few less guns over to the police than are handed in? What a great source of guns with no apparent connection to CoS!
And can anyone in Buffalo verify this one"
"12 June 2006: USA - A local radio host asks about all the people in the yellow shirts and the big yellow tent on the east side of Buffalo. He interviews the Executive Director of the Church of Scientology of Buffalo on the popular community outreach activities of Scientology Volunteer Ministers - part of the Church's ''Brighter Future for Buffalo'' campaign."
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"Maggie" posted:
Sweet baby Xenu.
Boston PD needs to be reminded that this organization is responsible for the largest infiltration of the US government in US history.
[...]
The guns thing is beyond scary.
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"Michael" posted:
Here is the link to the story regarding the gun buyback:
http://cbs4boston.com/local/local_story_150133600.html
[...]
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> Picket Reports
On June 11, 2006 "Jens Tingleff" posted a picket report for Dave Bird:
SUBJECT: Picket Report 2006/JUNE/10, London, England.
Hiya folks. This will probably be posted via Jens. I scrapped My old Windoze-ME system after repeated crashes (apart from the HDisk which I nkept) and have a new machine running Windoze-XP, but it will be a couple of weeks before I have the email client and PGP set up again. It also follows I'm not reading responses on a.r.s and can't easily reply to queries. Jens and I were the first to arrive at the pub and took an outside table, shortly after noon. We were soon joined by Hartley, Tony, John, and Charlotte; regrettably Duke-the-Dog is still kenelled in Bristol and couldn't be with us. Charlotte had a home-made Xenu costume and a space alien mask, plus a placard that said "HI. I'M XENU- --that will be $50,000 please."
It was quite a hot sunny day, the usual britsh summer which generally runs from 5th June to about 15th June. L loaded up on a mega-burger of real beef and salad (i.e. not McGreasyburger but lots of genuine cows butt with barbeque sauce) and diet coke. For those who've missed it, world cup soccer kicked off today played in Germany starting with, I think, England v Paraguay around 2pm to 4pm at the time of the demo. None of us follow football much, and we were glad out pub hadn't got a large screen TV running. It did mean the cops were preparing for large numbers of football-minded drinkers emerging at 4pm.
We were lined up at the eastern, traffic edge of the pavement/sidewalk and they were lined up opposite on the western, building edge -- total width is about 12ft. Tony seemed to be having fun talking to one clam of vaguely balkan appearance. I tagged on playing the old trick (one of theirs tralking to one oftheirs so neither leafleting that position, one more of us there so our leaflets got out). The clam was useless at leafleting, he was COMMANDING people to take tham, "take one, you must take one," getting in people's faces and following them down the street, which most folk don't respond at all well to.
Around this time the cops turned up, about ten or twelve officers in two vehicles. I can only infer that these guys were on stand-by to be dispatched to any pub where a fight broke out --- indeed we later passed the two vehicles, probably full of cops behind their tinted rear windows, sitting idly in a quiet side-street awaiting their next dispatch order. I hope they had air cond, it was rotten weather to be stuck in the back of a van
THey were led by a female sergeant who was giving Jens and Tony a bit of a hardtime. She said it was all a bit much, who says that, the people in the (Scientology) building, well they would wouldn't they they just don't want to be protested against... are any shoopers or shopworkers complaining? She still thought it was intimidating for people to run the gauntlet between the two lines of leafletters, I opined this wouldn't really stand up as obsstruction but just to be nice we could displace ourselves one shop up still on the east side of the pavement.
This worked out quite well. Tony, Charlotte, and I were mostly at the north end by the slot-machine arcade. Public resonse was uniformly good. One guy said he was delighted to to find, at last, someone doing a protest. Another woman was talking at some length to Charlotte about what a menace the Cof$ is in Russia.
Tony called a halt around 15:10. Jens and I went past their other building where he took some photos. Then we sat down in the pub for a long chat, and went by taxi back to the train station. All in all, we had a grand day out.
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"Jens Tingleff" posted:
Hi There!
A hearty bunch of UK suppressives braved the gorgeous weather and turned up to picket one of the London shops of the criminal organisation known as the "church" of $cientology. If there is a crack team of planners at ARSCC UK, they had taken the year off and left the crap team in charge. The crap planning team had placed the demo on the day of the first England game in the football World Cup. At least the weather was really good, and the pub (fortunately with no TV) was pretty quiet
We all admired "Charlotte's" Xenu costume and set off to protest after a nice lunch sat on the tables, in the shade, outside the pub.
The dreaded micophone lead thetans returned and made the boombox a bit of a damp squib, but a replacement micrphone+lead sorted that out, and John could have asistance for his excellent information service announcements.
The clams started leafletting. A new leafletting clam tried to get people to take his leaflets by being in their way, trying to push leaflets into their hands, and resorted to reading out the leaflet while walking alongside them. That got an even more grim reaction than usual from the passers-by.
After some time the police showed up. They were obviously just passing by, and wanted something that could get them out fo there and on with doing their actual job, as opposed to protecting the pretend-wounded feeling of a bunch of victims of the mind-fuck of the $cientology cult. We agreed that perhaps the protesters and the clams facing each other in front of the shop narrowed down the pavement a bit, and suggested that we the protesters splitup so that we could be on the edge of the pavement and not right in front of the $cientology shop. The police thought that was a good idea, and made that the rule to the clams and rode off.
The clams couldn't quite manage to stick the agreement with the police, of course, but having the protesters split in two groups probaby made the flow of pedestrian traffic a little smoother.
Nothing much more stuck to mind before we signed off at the time announced, following Dave Bird appearing on the boombox in fine voice.
On the way back to some more cold (or warm!) beer, I stopped by the new org in Whitfield street which is a bigger building than the shop we'd been in front of, with no foot traffic. At all. There was a clamette inside who insisted that I was not allowed to take pictures which I continued to do. She followed me around until I tired of having her reacting to my superior purpose.
Pictures posted on a.b.s.
Best Regards
Jens
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On June 6, 2006 "Marlysfan" posted:
[ http://ocmb.xenu.net/ocmb/index.php?f=4 ] Picket Central North America
[ http://ocmb.xenu.net/ocmb/viewtopic.php?p=198524#198524 ] Kansas City Picket #4
First of all, as you can probably tell, this is my first post. I post at OCMB as marlysfan. Anyways, someone suggested that I post my picket reports here, so here they are:
Kansas City picket #1
Oh my, it has been a busy, busy day!
First I went to Office Depot to copy fliers (100) and get poster board for my signs. I made three signs reading, "www.xenu.net", "Scientology Kills-www.whyaretheydead.net, and "Scientology is an Alien Cult", and taped them onto barricades that Scientologists put Dianetics posters on. My friend Raven and I were handing out fliers. It was pretty tame; no one came out or anything. Raven soon left; he needed to go help out a friend of his.
So, I decided to step up the effort-here's where it gets juicy, folks!
I went to Office Depot and made a sign reading, "Honk if you Think Scientology is a Cult"-now THAT did the trick! A lady came out of the org. She tried to take my sign! Can you BELIEVE? Then she told me she was calling the cops. I said that was alright in my book.
Cops didn't come, but she must have thought I was real pretty, 'cause she came out and took a picture of me! Then she went inside.
Well, wouldn't you know-another lady came out! She asked me to stop. I politely said, "No, thank you." She said I was upsetting people inside. OK, well, I'm not averse to compromise, so I said, "We'll, I'll go across the street with my sign".
So I did. The honks were plentiful! Huzzah...but two Scios came over to talk to me. One was the lady in the last paragraph, another was a man. They stood in front of me (to block my sign) and asked me for my name and address. I gave them my name, but told them no to the address. They then asked me, "What is a cult?" And I couldn't really define it (damn me!) in dictionary terms. So, they invited me in to word clear it. I took them up on it.
BUT, WHEN I GOT TO THE DOOR OF THE ORG, THERE WERE COPS THERE!! Damn!
They tricked me!
But the joke was on them, my friends. The joke was on them. The cops told them that I was on public property and not doing anything outside the bounds of the law, and that there was nothing they could do! HA! HA!
So, I went back to stand in front of the org, since it was OKed by the cops and everything. The horns kept on honking, and I kept handing out fliers. A parade of people were sent out to "handle me". What was I doing there? Who was I with? How much am I getting paid? Protesting, by myself, for free. I did admit my Clambake affiliation, though. Not to worry, I was composed and acted like a true lady. Well, as much as I could, at least.
They must have thought I was GORGEOUS because they sent out more photographers! I yelled, "I love you, OSA!! I feel like a movie star!".
Then, the Scios came up with a plan. I will admit it was pretty good. They made their own signs reading, "Honk for Religious Freedom!" They then proceeded to stand in front of me! Eventually, there were ten in all, blocking my lil sign.
[...]
Kansas City Picket #2
OK, so my friend Justin and I went out to picket today. It was really creepy-they actually went up to him and said, "You must be Justin" before he even told them his name. So, I suppose they're probably reading my posts. They were pretty rude to him-someone told him to, "grow up"
Anyways, they called the cops TWICE today. Truly ridiculous. The officers seemed exasperated that the Scios were wasting their time.
I got some nice pictures-they're on a disposable camera, so it's gonna be a little while before I have them up.
To any Scientologist reading this-
I do not hate you. I don't even dislike you. In fact, I'm assuming most of you are all good people with the best of intentions. It's the CoS I have qualms with.
To the K.C. org-
I'll see y'all at the next picket!
Kansas City Picket #3
Hey folks, I just got back from picketing and wanted to post a quick report. It was just Messenger and I, but we got a lot of fliers out. The positive response from the community was astounding-one girl tried to give us money (no, we did not accept it), and several people offered to buy us drinks (not booze) because it was pretty hot outside. One lady brought us bottled water, out of the blue. Evian, at that! Bless her heart.
Here's the interesting thing-we were not handled AT ALL. Maggie (the lady taking a picture of me taking a picture of her in the picket #2 photos) came out and asked for a flier (which we gave her), but other than that, nothing. Nothing at all. Messenger was a tad disappointed we didn't get handled. So was I, actually. I kinda like getting in comm with the Scientologists.
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> Scientology-Related Media
On June 7, 2006 "Andreas Heldal-Lund" posted a link to a new animated production, "The Origin of the Specious"
Enjoy:
http://www.xenu.net/flash/specious.swf [flash animation]
On June 14, 2006 "Mark Bunker" posted:
NEW from XENU TV: 60 Minutes New Zealand
Here it is:
http://www.xenutv.com/cruise/60min-nz.htm
Enjoy!
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On June 14, "Andrew Robertson" posted:
This was an interesting program which I think achieved a fair balance. The Church of Scientology might disagree, but they don't always take kindly to any criticism.
I believe it was a mistake choosing Virginia Stewart as the Church of Scientology spokesman. "We believe in God" was an inappropriate thing to say.
As was a claim of 7,000 followers when Census New Zealand, the official government statisticians put Church membership at barely 300 which includes infants and children in a population base of four million.
References to Professor Moriaty, Mark Bunker, LRH Jnr, Jamie Kennedy, Xenu and volcanoes were included, also some shots of Tom Cruise testing furniture durability.
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On June 14, 2006 "Richard and Bonnie Woods" posted:
Just to let you know our website is up and running again at
www.escapeint.org
Kind regards,
Richard and Bonnie Woods
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On June 20, 2006 "Patty Pieniadz" posted a link to Operation Clambake Message Board of the parody website, http://www.ytmnd.com/news/?news_id=38 that received a cease and desist letter:
http://ocmb.xenu.net/ocmb/viewtopic.php?p=192433#192433
Church of Scientology sends a cease and desist
Dear Legal:
Our office represents the L. Ron Hubbard Library, the owner of the copyrights to a number of photographs of Mr. L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of the Scientology religion.
[...]
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"Fred Durks" posted:
[Ava Paquette's CEASE and DESIST request not working at YTMND.com]
Great response so far from Ava Paquette:
"Dear Max,
I wanted to let you know that I have read your response and am researching the points you raise. I will be responding to you shortly. In the meantime, I wanted to let you know that someone, and I believe it was your customer who put up my client's materials on your website, left me a message on my firm's answering machine. The message itself was unpleasant and harassive and was not necessary at all.
I would like to know who this customer is in the event I wish to report this to the proper authorities.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Ava Paquette
This is huge!!!!! YTMND.com gets millions of unique visitors a month. They now have half their site dedicated to ripping on scientology. HUGE footbullet!
Thread was started at OCMB:
http://ocmb.xenu.net/ocmb/viewtopic.php?t=18971&postorder=asc
This is only the beginning :)
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"Ramona" posted:
[The "Un-Funny" Truth About Scientology ]
http://theunfunnytruth.ytmnd.com/
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"Mark Bunker" posted:
Since the cease and desist letters have started arriving at http://www.ytmnd.com the number of videos about Scientology has skyrocketed and many more computer savvy people are finding out info about the group.
Thanks for pulling it in, Scientology!
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"NRen2k5" posted:
http://scientseize.ytmnd.com/
You'll notice that I posted about this earlier - well at least about ytmnd being threatened. I planned between then and now to tell more of the story. Maybe I will later.
In the meantime, I recommend you guys check out the site.
The content ranges from
- variations on old ytmnd inside jokes, for example the original "lol, internet" (http://steamsteamlol.ytmnd.com/) became "lol, scientology" (http://hubbardlol.ytmnd.com/) to
- "shopped" photographs and scenes from movies made to mock scientology, for example "Cruise quits Scientology" (http://cruisequits.ytmnd.com/) to
- downright damning factual articles such as "The Un-Funny Truth About Scientology" (http://theunfunnytruth.ytmnd.com/).
Seriously. Check it out.
Also, I plan on making a YTMND about Barbara Schwarz sometime. :)
http://pcguyelevated.ytmnd.com/
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On June 12, 2006 "Mark Bunker" posted:
Yesterday, I stumbled upon a website for ex members of "Children of God." They have a good multimedia library with some fascinating videos. I was especially taken with the 20/20 piece from the 80's where a mother retrieves her children from the hands of the father who was keeping them in the cult.
The tearful cries of the daughter who was upset that the media was exposing David Berg's teachings on pedophelia reminded me so much of the various Scientologists who are upset that the outside world would dare to read Hubbard's top secret OT levels without any "understanding" the material:
http://www.xfamily.org/index.php/Category:Video_Archives#2000s
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"anti-spam-anti-scientology" posted:
Sclams have also tried to make believe that their pedophile master Kent in their school went undetected for years, then they have attacked.... the journal which had said he was a sclam cultist.
Contents:
A pervert teacher at the Scientologists Greenfield School in Forest Row who sexually assaulted young boys has been jailed for five years. Mark Kent, 32, of Lewes Road, Forest Row, molested six teenage schoolboys over a period of seven years and took filthy videos of himself in sex acts with his young victims. Hove Crown Court heard Kent was found to have a videotape shooting scenes from the cult school's fete, interspersed with sickening footage of himself and young boys, and covert filming of naked schoolchildren showering. Sentencing him Judge Gower QC said: "The boys and parents put their trust in you. You betrayed it for the gratification of your own perverted lust." Kent admitted six charges of indecent assault and one charge of indecent video, asking for two similar charges to be taken into consideration. Richard Cherrill, defending, said: "This is a very sad and anxious case from many points of view. "Mark had been teaching at the school for about ten years, and nothing untoward occurred for the
first five or so years. Money "The boys were his life. He worshipped them and spent money on them and that was not to corrupt them. The boys loved and trusted him. "He is thoroughly remorsefuland one hopes and trusts that with certain help there is a minimal chance of it recurring. "The boys are still very fond of him and anxious about his future. "Mr CHerrill added that there was a "flame of hope" for his future because he was now engaged to a woman, Inga Naurus, who he had met before being arrested by the police. She told the court: "There is no chance of anything like this happening again. I know him very well he is blaming himself very deeply. Miss Naurus, of Benchwood Close, East Grinstead, added: "I visit him in prison regularly, and we have lots of talks, and he is feeling really guilty. "We want to get married and have lots of children." Sentencing Kent to a five year jail term Judge Gower said: "The fact of the matter is when this case is stripped of all the language that can be used about it, the
bare fact is that you were in a position of trust and over a period you betrayed that trust."
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> Courage to Speak Out
On June 11, 2006 "Chuck Beatty" posted:
I've been looking back over the caliber of people in the highest positions who had the guts to speak out, despite the legal counter measures Scientology quickly employs to silence the former top people. (I was a very low level underling, I consider myself barely "visitor" status near the top ranks of the Sea Org, being almost completely unaware of things, I lived my 27 years in the movement with all the normal blinders and justifications for how things were going, and I was NOT privy to any of the damning incidents I learned only after leaving the movement and reading the internet, but even so my being such a minor underling, I still had this type of muzzling letter and legal document thrust at me:
http://www.freewebs.com/chuckbeatty77/elliotletter.htm but that was the extent of the pressure I've received since leaving, although at my site a few smear emails and pressure letters were sent my way: http://www.freewebs.com/chuckbeatty77/ )
Right as we speak there are at least a dozen MAJOR former Scientology leaders who are OUT and who could speak up with powerfully relevant opinions about their decades of service in the top ranks in the Scientology movement.
Their opinions are just a whole other level of intimacy with top
management of the movement.
Steve Marlowe
Ronnie Miscavige Jr.
Bitty Miscavige
Marty Rathbun
Pat Broeker
These people have opinions, and getting their opinions shared somehow
is what I hope to someday allow an atmosphere so these above
individuals and other top ex leaders CAN speak freely.
Inside the movement today there are a couple dozen people no longer at
the highest ranks, but who worked for decades near the top, now who are
still in working at Int, holding lower posts. And a few have gone back
up to higher posts again. ALL of these people have incredibly relevant
opinions and experiences to hopefully someday get shared publicly.
People like Mark Yager, Guilliaume Leserve, Mark Ingber, Warren McShane, Annie Tidman (Broeker), Ray Mitoff, Wendell Reynolds, Norman Starkey, Greg Wilhere, live today in incredibly confining predicaments inaccessible to public contact. Yet their opinions of what the Scientology movement's last several decades of history is, would be unprecedented were they somehow to candidly reveal their unvarnished un-PR views of how things have gone, and the details of their lives these last several decades while living under David Miscavige's leadership.
All these above individuals have every right to voice their valuable relevant and expert opinions and experiences.
I hope some do someday speak out!
I somehow hope the ex major leaders will share their views and allow their views to make it into the public domain.
Chuck Beatty
ex Sea Org (1975-2003)
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> Scientology Contradictions
On June 11, 2006, "Tory Christman" posted:
[Scientology and Contradictions: Updated in June of 2006]
11 Jan 2003
Updated June 11, 2006
CONTRADICTIONS
Having lived within the Scientology community, as part of the organization that calls itself, "The Church of Scientology" for 30 years, and then having woken up and left, I would not like to present some major contradictions from my own personal experiences.
The letter "C" will indicate the contradictions for me. Some others may find these true or not, however most people I've spoken to who were in and left feel the same about a majority of these.
I welcome any in put from people who have been in and left or even critics who have studied Scientology for some time.
1. Scientology says they are working to Free Mankind.
C) Scientology in truth actually traps a person, getting them from day one to agree to "Keeping Scientology Working" which in fact slowly builds in the "truth" that Hubbard's path IS "THE WAY". Also, ANY other thoughts, practices, teachings are considered "Other Practices" and are considered "Out Ethics".
2. Scientology says they believe "Man has the inalienable right to free speech".
C) The truth is, the higher up you go in Scientology the farther from the truth this becomes. As you move up the pyramid, you find you certainly are not supposed to read books or articles that Scientology doesn't want you to read. Actually this begins right away, again with "Keeping Scientology Working" (hereafter known as KSW).
It is considered "Out Ethics" to really speak out about anything that might be the slightest hint of criticism to the organization.
You also are encouraged not to watch the news as "It's Entheta". Now entheta means "enturbulated theta" meaning it upsets people. Yes, I agree some news stations do upset people, as they are, for the most part, filled with too much bad news, vs. a mixture of both good and bad. However, there are certainly ways to find out the news that are not all bad.
When you go for years not tuned into what is happening in the world, once again you just become surrounded that much more in the 'Scio/Truman show". Remember Truman couldn't see the walls? It is exactly the same within Scientology. Any free speech would actually help someone see the walls.
Thus, this is totally discouraged, although any Scientologist will insist this is crazy, that they are true "Freedom of Speech Advocates". Just ask them to discuss with you some of the classic lies and falsehoods, and see how far you get.
3. "Ethics"---- Scientology promotes to its members that Hubbard figured out these great tools to help someone be more ethical.
C) In Scientology people are routinely practicing deception, fraud, lies, and on staff and in WISE, people become slaves to a system where they have no recourse. Towards the last 10 years of being "in", my fellow OT 7's and I would commonly speak of:
a) Never lend a Scientologist money as they rarely if ever pay it back.
B) Never work for a WISE organization, as they are basically slave drivers, only interested in their own welfare.
C) Try to stay away from most of the registrars (people fund raising, asking for donations) as they are just milking us over and over.
d) Buy books, study up, learn for yourself. There are other solutions to problems you have, and they only cost $20.00 at Barnes and Noble.
e) The Executives in Scientology (who speak at the events) sound like robots, and whoever is putting on these events lie over and over.
Ethics? Ha! Who do you think you are fooling?
4. Spiritual Freedom: Much has been written about this, however in essence Scientology says if you do "The Bridge to Total Freedom" you will ("There's a good chance you can and will.") achieve total freedom.
One cannot-is not allowed-to discuss your spiritual 'case' with anyone, except those running the Scio/Truman show. If you do, once again, it's "Out Ethics" and they have their ways of stopping you.
I found the more I did, the higher I went 'up the Bridge' the less free I became. I was more introverted, more worried and stressed, constantly feeling guilty and secretly bad as I wasn't this or that.
Scientology always has an answer to everything, to bring one back to the fold, as does any good totalitarian group. With this, highly trained auditors (Counselors) will explain. Here are a few for me:
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Scientology also has their own secret Police ("The Office of Special Affairs") who practice Fair Game on anyone who leaves and speaks out. They consider this fine, as to them these people are "bad". However, in true justice, one should be allowed to speak your mind without harm. At the very least you should be able to represent your case in a true court of law. However, in Scientology it is a "High Crime" to take someone to court. Also, for people who have given them lots of money and then ask for it back, they would give these people their money back, if they truly followed "The tech" which says to do so.
OSA has personally tried to "Fair Game" me, within 6 months of me leaving the "Church of Scientology. They TRIED to pin (and failed) a criminal conviction on me for sitting in an empty, Red Santa's chair in Clearwater, Florida (for 2 seconds). It turned out they (C of S/OSA) had "Over 100 cameras" on us, in a 4 block area!
Justice? Go visit the KKK. You can learn a lot from history.
These are just a few of the many Contradictions within the walls of the organization who calls themselves "The Church of Scientology."
If you have a loved one in Scientology and you wonder what to do, I suggest you begin bringing up these very basic contradictions, and ask them what they think.
You never know when someone just might wake up. I did, after 30 years "in".
Love to all,
Tory/Magoo dancing in the light
In for 30 years ...now out for 5 Years, soon 6
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> A Long History of Hiring Private Eyes
On June 11, 2006 "Roget Gonnet" posted an article from 1997 detailing the use of private investigators:
NEWS FEATURE
The maker of a programme on Scientology says he has been the victim of 'subtle harassment'.
TOM UTLEY reports
Detective on trail of TV pair
An American private detective, hired by attorneys acting for the Church of Scientology has approached friends and relations of the makers of a British television biography of the Church s founder, visiting home addresses discovered by trickery.
He has then spread allegations that the film-makers may be implicated in an international conspiracy of extortion and money-laundering. Simon Berthon. the executive producer of the film about L Ron Hubbard shown in Secret Lives series on Channel 4 last night, condemned the detective of activities yesterday as a "peculiar and subtle form of harassment '. He said the Scientologists agents had somehow man- aged to establish which tele- phone numbers he and the film's producer-director. Jill Robinson, had recently rung on their private lines. Those numbers had then been rung by a woman claim- ing to be conducting a survey of television-viewing habits. The woman promised a year's free magazine subscription to those who took part in the survey - thereby tricking the film-makers' contacts into revealing their addresses. Soon afterwards the detective. Eugene M Ingram, of Los Angeles, arrived on the triends' doorsteps, saving that he vasinquiring about Mr Berthon and Ms Robinson in connection with an international conspiracy of extortion and money laundering. Mr Berthon said that the allegations appeared to have sprung from a payment of 2,000 that his company had made for access to an archive of material on the Scientologists. Ms Robinson, 45, said yesterday that about eight or her friends and associates England, including her parents and her hairdresser, had been visited by Mr Ingram. Four of those had earlier received telephone calls from a woman claiming ro be conducting a survey on television-viewing habits. She said that she and her crew- had also been followed bv detectives in the United States. Canada and England, ever since they started making the film last June. "It's a bit spooky.'' she said. "I just don t see what it is they hope to achieve. except they seek to intimidate me." Mr Berthon said that when friends began to complain that they had been visited by Mr Ingram, he checked with 12 friends and relatives whom he had recently telephoned from home. "Out of 12 calls made. I have discovered that nine have been telephoned by a woman offering a free magazine if they take part in a TV viewing-habit survey and give their name and address." Three of those nine had subsequently been visited by Mr Ingram "This is well beyond coincidence." said Mr Berthon. Among them was a friend and neighbour. Charlotte Joll, whom he had telephoned recently to accept a children's-party invitation for his daughter. She said: 'Last Fnday afternoon a man rang or. the doorbell showing me his private investgator's licence and then asked asked me if I knew someone he was trying to get in touch with. "He showed me three photographs of a man I had never seen before and said this guy was wanted for some kind of offence to do with getting money fraudulently. I had no Idea what it was about Then he mentioned Simon Berthon s name. Did I know him? I said 'Yes. our children are friends.' I then remembered that our au pair had told me a coupie of days earlier that she had been rung by someone purporting to do be doing research on our television
viewing habits, offering her a year's subscription to our favourite magazine and asking for our address."
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"Zinj" posted:
It looks like most of this refers to this, from 1997:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0433050/combined
Also related:
http://www.lermanet.com/persecution/tv4harrass.html
And, far funnier, but undated:
http://www.freedom.org.uk/mag/issuea03/index.htm
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> Cult Taking India for a Ride
> Turning Weapons Over to Scientology in Boston?
> Picket Reports
> Scientology-Related Media
> Courage to Speak Out
> Scientology Contradictions
> A Long History of Hiring Private Eyes
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> Russian Scientologist Imprisoned for Embezzlement
On June 12, 2006 Mosnews.com reported:
http://www.mosnews.com/news/2006/06/02/scientology.shtml
A former Russian MP, a local education chief, has been jailed for embezzlement and abuse of authority - he made his subordinates study scientology and used budget money to pay for their studies.
Boris Shalimov of the Skovorodinsk region in Russia's Far East has been sentenced to two years in prison for embezzlement and abuse of authority, the website of Russia's Prosecutor General's Office reports.
In October 2002 Shalimov became a member of the World Institute of Scientology Enterprises. To get promoted in the organization, he forced his subordinates to study the works of the philosopher L. Ron Hubbard.
Moreover, he used budget money to pay for evaluation of their progress in the subject. The newly converted scientologists had to pass tests that were sent to Moscow at the state's expense.
In all, Shalimov embezzled more than 600,000 rubles of public money - some $20,000.
Besides investing in his religious interests, Shalimov also embezzled 151,000 rubles for private needs.
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> Cult Taking India for a Ride
On June 15, 2006 : "Huntlee Brinklee Report" posted:
http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=188028
London-Based Organization Roped In To Impart Training To Officials
[...]
Altogether 20 officials, 18 from the civil defence department and two from the Metro Railway will be imparted training by Scientology Volunteers (SV), an organisation based in London that has been roped in by the state government to train Metro and Civil defence officials in disaster management in Metro Railway.
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''The training will first be conferred at public places like markets or cinema halls because understanding crowd behaviour is a part of the programme,'' Srikumar Mukherjee, minister of state, civil defence, today said. SV is going to send its teams time to time for the training, Mukherjee further added. "
Metro inks pact with civil defence dept for disaster management
Express News Service
Kolkata, June 14:
The Civil Defence department of the state government today signed an agreement with the Metro Railway with a view to start a training programme on disaster management for Metro Railway and Civil Defence department officials. The one-month programme is starting on July 1.
Altogether 20 officials, 18 from the civil defence department and two from the Metro Railway will be imparted training by Scientology Volunteers (SV), an organisation based in London that has been roped in by the state government to train Metro and Civil defence officials in disaster management in Metro Railway.
The state government has already signed an agreement with SV, who took an active role in the rescue operations during the London Tube bombing last year.
"The training will first be conferred at public places like markets or cinema halls because understanding crowd behaviour is a part of the programme,'' Srikumar Mukherjee, minister of state, civil defence, today said. SV is going to send its teams time to time for the training, Mukherjee further added.
The training will be later imparted inside Metro stations.
Later, Metro Railway will train 10 officers of the Civil Defence department in rescue operations inside Metro tunnels.
The minister also said that his department will train 68 volunteers who will be deployed at all the 17 Metro stations to help people in case any disaster strikes. ''There will be four volunteers, each at the 17 stations. They will be chosen from the general public, from youth clubs, NGOs, even political parties. They will not only help people in case of a disaster but during normal times too. If a passenger faces any problem except something related to law and order, the volunteers will come forward to help the one in need," the minister said.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolkata
Kolkata
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kolkata (Bangla: ['kolkata](formerly Calcutta) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. It is located in eastern India on the east bank of the River Hooghly. The city has a population of almost 5 million, with an extended metropolitan population of over 13 million, thus making it the second-largest urban agglomeration and the fourth-largest city in India. "
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> Turning Weapons Over to Scientology in Boston?
On June 15, 2006 "Android Cat" posted:
From their newscrawl:
[ www.citycent.com/scientology/scientology-news.php ]
"13 June 2006: USA - The Scientology Volunteer Ministry is selected by the Boston Police Department to participate in their anti-violence initiative. The program promotes peace by reducing the number of guns in Boston. For the next month, the Ministry is one of the official locations where people can drop off their guns."
oh. my.
And what happens if CoS turns a few less guns over to the police than are handed in? What a great source of guns with no apparent connection to CoS!
And can anyone in Buffalo verify this one"
"12 June 2006: USA - A local radio host asks about all the people in the yellow shirts and the big yellow tent on the east side of Buffalo. He interviews the Executive Director of the Church of Scientology of Buffalo on the popular community outreach activities of Scientology Volunteer Ministers - part of the Church's ''Brighter Future for Buffalo'' campaign."
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"Maggie" posted:
Sweet baby Xenu.
Boston PD needs to be reminded that this organization is responsible for the largest infiltration of the US government in US history.
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The guns thing is beyond scary.
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"Michael" posted:
Here is the link to the story regarding the gun buyback:
http://cbs4boston.com/local/local_story_150133600.html
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> Picket Reports
On June 11, 2006 "Jens Tingleff" posted a picket report for Dave Bird:
SUBJECT: Picket Report 2006/JUNE/10, London, England.
Hiya folks. This will probably be posted via Jens. I scrapped My old Windoze-ME system after repeated crashes (apart from the HDisk which I nkept) and have a new machine running Windoze-XP, but it will be a couple of weeks before I have the email client and PGP set up again. It also follows I'm not reading responses on a.r.s and can't easily reply to queries. Jens and I were the first to arrive at the pub and took an outside table, shortly after noon. We were soon joined by Hartley, Tony, John, and Charlotte; regrettably Duke-the-Dog is still kenelled in Bristol and couldn't be with us. Charlotte had a home-made Xenu costume and a space alien mask, plus a placard that said "HI. I'M XENU- --that will be $50,000 please."
It was quite a hot sunny day, the usual britsh summer which generally runs from 5th June to about 15th June. L loaded up on a mega-burger of real beef and salad (i.e. not McGreasyburger but lots of genuine cows butt with barbeque sauce) and diet coke. For those who've missed it, world cup soccer kicked off today played in Germany starting with, I think, England v Paraguay around 2pm to 4pm at the time of the demo. None of us follow football much, and we were glad out pub hadn't got a large screen TV running. It did mean the cops were preparing for large numbers of football-minded drinkers emerging at 4pm.
We were lined up at the eastern, traffic edge of the pavement/sidewalk and they were lined up opposite on the western, building edge -- total width is about 12ft. Tony seemed to be having fun talking to one clam of vaguely balkan appearance. I tagged on playing the old trick (one of theirs tralking to one oftheirs so neither leafleting that position, one more of us there so our leaflets got out). The clam was useless at leafleting, he was COMMANDING people to take tham, "take one, you must take one," getting in people's faces and following them down the street, which most folk don't respond at all well to.
Around this time the cops turned up, about ten or twelve officers in two vehicles. I can only infer that these guys were on stand-by to be dispatched to any pub where a fight broke out --- indeed we later passed the two vehicles, probably full of cops behind their tinted rear windows, sitting idly in a quiet side-street awaiting their next dispatch order. I hope they had air cond, it was rotten weather to be stuck in the back of a van
THey were led by a female sergeant who was giving Jens and Tony a bit of a hardtime. She said it was all a bit much, who says that, the people in the (Scientology) building, well they would wouldn't they they just don't want to be protested against... are any shoopers or shopworkers complaining? She still thought it was intimidating for people to run the gauntlet between the two lines of leafletters, I opined this wouldn't really stand up as obsstruction but just to be nice we could displace ourselves one shop up still on the east side of the pavement.
This worked out quite well. Tony, Charlotte, and I were mostly at the north end by the slot-machine arcade. Public resonse was uniformly good. One guy said he was delighted to to find, at last, someone doing a protest. Another woman was talking at some length to Charlotte about what a menace the Cof$ is in Russia.
Tony called a halt around 15:10. Jens and I went past their other building where he took some photos. Then we sat down in the pub for a long chat, and went by taxi back to the train station. All in all, we had a grand day out.
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"Jens Tingleff" posted:
Hi There!
A hearty bunch of UK suppressives braved the gorgeous weather and turned up to picket one of the London shops of the criminal organisation known as the "church"
We all admired "Charlotte's" Xenu costume and set off to protest after a nice lunch sat on the tables, in the shade, outside the pub.
The dreaded micophone lead thetans returned and made the boombox a bit of a damp squib, but a replacement micrphone+lead sorted that out, and John could have asistance for his excellent information service announcements.
The clams started leafletting. A new leafletting clam tried to get people to take his leaflets by being in their way, trying to push leaflets into their hands, and resorted to reading out the leaflet while walking alongside them. That got an even more grim reaction than usual from the passers-by.
After some time the police showed up. They were obviously just passing by, and wanted something that could get them out fo there and on with doing their actual job, as opposed to protecting the pretend-wounded feeling of a bunch of victims of the mind-fuck of the $cientology cult. We agreed that perhaps the protesters and the clams facing each other in front of the shop narrowed down the pavement a bit, and suggested that we the protesters splitup so that we could be on the edge of the pavement and not right in front of the $cientology shop. The police thought that was a good idea, and made that the rule to the clams and rode off.
The clams couldn't quite manage to stick the agreement with the police, of course, but having the protesters split in two groups probaby made the flow of pedestrian traffic a little smoother.
Nothing much more stuck to mind before we signed off at the time announced, following Dave Bird appearing on the boombox in fine voice.
On the way back to some more cold (or warm!) beer, I stopped by the new org in Whitfield street which is a bigger building than the shop we'd been in front of, with no foot traffic. At all. There was a clamette inside who insisted that I was not allowed to take pictures which I continued to do. She followed me around until I tired of having her reacting to my superior purpose.
Pictures posted on a.b.s.
Best Regards
Jens
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On June 6, 2006 "Marlysfan" posted:
[ http://ocmb.xenu.net/ocmb/index.php?f=4 ] Picket Central North America
[ http://ocmb.xenu.net/ocmb/viewtopic.php?p=198524#198524 ] Kansas City Picket #4
First of all, as you can probably tell, this is my first post. I post at OCMB as marlysfan. Anyways, someone suggested that I post my picket reports here, so here they are:
Kansas City picket #1
Oh my, it has been a busy, busy day!
First I went to Office Depot to copy fliers (100) and get poster board for my signs. I made three signs reading, "www.xenu.net", "Scientology Kills-www.whyaretheydead.net, and "Scientology is an Alien Cult", and taped them onto barricades that Scientologists put Dianetics posters on. My friend Raven and I were handing out fliers. It was pretty tame; no one came out or anything. Raven soon left; he needed to go help out a friend of his.
So, I decided to step up the effort-here's where it gets juicy, folks!
I went to Office Depot and made a sign reading, "Honk if you Think Scientology is a Cult"-now THAT did the trick! A lady came out of the org. She tried to take my sign! Can you BELIEVE? Then she told me she was calling the cops. I said that was alright in my book.
Cops didn't come, but she must have thought I was real pretty, 'cause she came out and took a picture of me! Then she went inside.
Well, wouldn't you know-another lady came out! She asked me to stop. I politely said, "No, thank you." She said I was upsetting people inside. OK, well, I'm not averse to compromise, so I said, "We'll, I'll go across the street with my sign".
So I did. The honks were plentiful! Huzzah...but two Scios came over to talk to me. One was the lady in the last paragraph, another was a man. They stood in front of me (to block my sign) and asked me for my name and address. I gave them my name, but told them no to the address. They then asked me, "What is a cult?" And I couldn't really define it (damn me!) in dictionary terms. So, they invited me in to word clear it. I took them up on it.
BUT, WHEN I GOT TO THE DOOR OF THE ORG, THERE WERE COPS THERE!! Damn!
They tricked me!
But the joke was on them, my friends. The joke was on them. The cops told them that I was on public property and not doing anything outside the bounds of the law, and that there was nothing they could do! HA! HA!
So, I went back to stand in front of the org, since it was OKed by the cops and everything. The horns kept on honking, and I kept handing out fliers. A parade of people were sent out to "handle me". What was I doing there? Who was I with? How much am I getting paid? Protesting, by myself, for free. I did admit my Clambake affiliation, though. Not to worry, I was composed and acted like a true lady. Well, as much as I could, at least.
They must have thought I was GORGEOUS because they sent out more photographers! I yelled, "I love you, OSA!! I feel like a movie star!".
Then, the Scios came up with a plan. I will admit it was pretty good. They made their own signs reading, "Honk for Religious Freedom!" They then proceeded to stand in front of me! Eventually, there were ten in all, blocking my lil sign.
[...]
Kansas City Picket #2
OK, so my friend Justin and I went out to picket today. It was really creepy-they actually went up to him and said, "You must be Justin" before he even told them his name. So, I suppose they're probably reading my posts. They were pretty rude to him-someone told him to, "grow up"
Anyways, they called the cops TWICE today. Truly ridiculous. The officers seemed exasperated that the Scios were wasting their time.
I got some nice pictures-they're on a disposable camera, so it's gonna be a little while before I have them up.
To any Scientologist reading this-
I do not hate you. I don't even dislike you. In fact, I'm assuming most of you are all good people with the best of intentions. It's the CoS I have qualms with.
To the K.C. org-
I'll see y'all at the next picket!
Kansas City Picket #3
Hey folks, I just got back from picketing and wanted to post a quick report. It was just Messenger and I, but we got a lot of fliers out. The positive response from the community was astounding-one girl tried to give us money (no, we did not accept it), and several people offered to buy us drinks (not booze) because it was pretty hot outside. One lady brought us bottled water, out of the blue. Evian, at that! Bless her heart.
Here's the interesting thing-we were not handled AT ALL. Maggie (the lady taking a picture of me taking a picture of her in the picket #2 photos) came out and asked for a flier (which we gave her), but other than that, nothing. Nothing at all. Messenger was a tad disappointed we didn't get handled. So was I, actually. I kinda like getting in comm with the Scientologists.
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> Scientology-Related Media
On June 7, 2006 "Andreas Heldal-Lund" posted a link to a new animated production, "The Origin of the Specious"
Enjoy:
http://www.xenu.net/flash/specious.swf [flash animation]
On June 14, 2006 "Mark Bunker" posted:
NEW from XENU TV: 60 Minutes New Zealand
Here it is:
http://www.xenutv.com/cruise/60min-nz.htm
Enjoy!
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On June 14, "Andrew Robertson" posted:
This was an interesting program which I think achieved a fair balance. The Church of Scientology might disagree, but they don't always take kindly to any criticism.
I believe it was a mistake choosing Virginia Stewart as the Church of Scientology spokesman. "We believe in God" was an inappropriate thing to say.
As was a claim of 7,000 followers when Census New Zealand, the official government statisticians put Church membership at barely 300 which includes infants and children in a population base of four million.
References to Professor Moriaty, Mark Bunker, LRH Jnr, Jamie Kennedy, Xenu and volcanoes were included, also some shots of Tom Cruise testing furniture durability.
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On June 14, 2006 "Richard and Bonnie Woods" posted:
Just to let you know our website is up and running again at
www.escapeint.org
Kind regards,
Richard and Bonnie Woods
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On June 20, 2006 "Patty Pieniadz" posted a link to Operation Clambake Message Board of the parody website, http://www.ytmnd.com/news/?news_id=38 that received a cease and desist letter:
http://ocmb.xenu.net/ocmb/viewtopic.php?p=192433#192433
Church of Scientology sends a cease and desist
Dear Legal:
Our office represents the L. Ron Hubbard Library, the owner of the copyrights to a number of photographs of Mr. L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of the Scientology religion.
[...]
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"Fred Durks" posted:
[Ava Paquette's CEASE and DESIST request not working at YTMND.com]
Great response so far from Ava Paquette:
"Dear Max,
I wanted to let you know that I have read your response and am researching the points you raise. I will be responding to you shortly. In the meantime, I wanted to let you know that someone, and I believe it was your customer who put up my client's materials on your website, left me a message on my firm's answering machine. The message itself was unpleasant and harassive and was not necessary at all.
I would like to know who this customer is in the event I wish to report this to the proper authorities.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Ava Paquette
This is huge!!!!! YTMND.com gets millions of unique visitors a month. They now have half their site dedicated to ripping on scientology. HUGE footbullet!
Thread was started at OCMB:
http://ocmb.xenu.net/ocmb/viewtopic.php?t=18971&postorder=asc
This is only the beginning :)
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"Ramona" posted:
[The "Un-Funny" Truth About Scientology ]
http://theunfunnytruth.ytmnd.com/
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"Mark Bunker" posted:
Since the cease and desist letters have started arriving at http://www.ytmnd.com the number of videos about Scientology has skyrocketed and many more computer savvy people are finding out info about the group.
Thanks for pulling it in, Scientology!
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"NRen2k5" posted:
http://scientseize.ytmnd.com/
You'll notice that I posted about this earlier - well at least about ytmnd being threatened. I planned between then and now to tell more of the story. Maybe I will later.
In the meantime, I recommend you guys check out the site.
The content ranges from
- variations on old ytmnd inside jokes, for example the original "lol, internet" (http://steamsteamlol.ytmnd.com/) became "lol, scientology" (http://hubbardlol.ytmnd.com/) to
- "shopped" photographs and scenes from movies made to mock scientology, for example "Cruise quits Scientology" (http://cruisequits.ytmnd.com/) to
- downright damning factual articles such as "The Un-Funny Truth About Scientology" (http://theunfunnytruth.ytmnd.com/).
Seriously. Check it out.
Also, I plan on making a YTMND about Barbara Schwarz sometime. :)
http://pcguyelevated.ytmnd.com/
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On June 12, 2006 "Mark Bunker" posted:
Yesterday, I stumbled upon a website for ex members of "Children of God." They have a good multimedia library with some fascinating videos. I was especially taken with the 20/20 piece from the 80's where a mother retrieves her children from the hands of the father who was keeping them in the cult.
The tearful cries of the daughter who was upset that the media was exposing David Berg's teachings on pedophelia reminded me so much of the various Scientologists who are upset that the outside world would dare to read Hubbard's top secret OT levels without any "understanding" the material:
http://www.xfamily.org/index.php/Category:Video_Archives#2000s
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"anti-spam-anti-scientology" posted:
Sclams have also tried to make believe that their pedophile master Kent in their school went undetected for years, then they have attacked.... the journal which had said he was a sclam cultist.
Contents:
A pervert teacher at the Scientologists Greenfield School in Forest Row who sexually assaulted young boys has been jailed for five years. Mark Kent, 32, of Lewes Road, Forest Row, molested six teenage schoolboys over a period of seven years and took filthy videos of himself in sex acts with his young victims. Hove Crown Court heard Kent was found to have a videotape shooting scenes from the cult school's fete, interspersed with sickening footage of himself and young boys, and covert filming of naked schoolchildren showering. Sentencing him Judge Gower QC said: "The boys and parents put their trust in you. You betrayed it for the gratification of your own perverted lust." Kent admitted six charges of indecent assault and one charge of indecent video, asking for two similar charges to be taken into consideration. Richard Cherrill, defending, said: "This is a very sad and anxious case from many points of view. "Mark had been teaching at the school for about ten years, and nothing untoward occurred for the
first five or so years. Money "The boys were his life. He worshipped them and spent money on them and that was not to corrupt them. The boys loved and trusted him. "He is thoroughly remorsefuland one hopes and trusts that with certain help there is a minimal chance of it recurring. "The boys are still very fond of him and anxious about his future. "Mr CHerrill added that there was a "flame of hope" for his future because he was now engaged to a woman, Inga Naurus, who he had met before being arrested by the police. She told the court: "There is no chance of anything like this happening again. I know him very well he is blaming himself very deeply. Miss Naurus, of Benchwood Close, East Grinstead, added: "I visit him in prison regularly, and we have lots of talks, and he is feeling really guilty. "We want to get married and have lots of children." Sentencing Kent to a five year jail term Judge Gower said: "The fact of the matter is when this case is stripped of all the language that can be used about it, the
bare fact is that you were in a position of trust and over a period you betrayed that trust."
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> Courage to Speak Out
On June 11, 2006 "Chuck Beatty" posted:
I've been looking back over the caliber of people in the highest positions who had the guts to speak out, despite the legal counter measures Scientology quickly employs to silence the former top people. (I was a very low level underling, I consider myself barely "visitor" status near the top ranks of the Sea Org, being almost completely unaware of things, I lived my 27 years in the movement with all the normal blinders and justifications for how things were going, and I was NOT privy to any of the damning incidents I learned only after leaving the movement and reading the internet, but even so my being such a minor underling, I still had this type of muzzling letter and legal document thrust at me:
http://www.freewebs.com/chuckbeatty77/elliotletter.htm but that was the extent of the pressure I've received since leaving, although at my site a few smear emails and pressure letters were sent my way: http://www.freewebs.com/chuckbeatty77/ )
Right as we speak there are at least a dozen MAJOR former Scientology leaders who are OUT and who could speak up with powerfully relevant opinions about their decades of service in the top ranks in the Scientology movement.
Their opinions are just a whole other level of intimacy with top
management of the movement.
Steve Marlowe
Ronnie Miscavige Jr.
Bitty Miscavige
Marty Rathbun
Pat Broeker
These people have opinions, and getting their opinions shared somehow
is what I hope to someday allow an atmosphere so these above
individuals and other top ex leaders CAN speak freely.
Inside the movement today there are a couple dozen people no longer at
the highest ranks, but who worked for decades near the top, now who are
still in working at Int, holding lower posts. And a few have gone back
up to higher posts again. ALL of these people have incredibly relevant
opinions and experiences to hopefully someday get shared publicly.
People like Mark Yager, Guilliaume Leserve, Mark Ingber, Warren McShane, Annie Tidman (Broeker), Ray Mitoff, Wendell Reynolds, Norman Starkey, Greg Wilhere, live today in incredibly confining predicaments inaccessible to public contact. Yet their opinions of what the Scientology movement's last several decades of history is, would be unprecedented were they somehow to candidly reveal their unvarnished un-PR views of how things have gone, and the details of their lives these last several decades while living under David Miscavige's leadership.
All these above individuals have every right to voice their valuable relevant and expert opinions and experiences.
I hope some do someday speak out!
I somehow hope the ex major leaders will share their views and allow their views to make it into the public domain.
Chuck Beatty
ex Sea Org (1975-2003)
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> Scientology Contradictions
On June 11, 2006, "Tory Christman" posted:
[Scientology and Contradictions: Updated in June of 2006]
11 Jan 2003
Updated June 11, 2006
CONTRADICTIONS
Having lived within the Scientology community, as part of the organization that calls itself, "The Church of Scientology" for 30 years, and then having woken up and left, I would not like to present some major contradictions from my own personal experiences.
The letter "C" will indicate the contradictions for me. Some others may find these true or not, however most people I've spoken to who were in and left feel the same about a majority of these.
I welcome any in put from people who have been in and left or even critics who have studied Scientology for some time.
1. Scientology says they are working to Free Mankind.
C) Scientology in truth actually traps a person, getting them from day one to agree to "Keeping Scientology Working" which in fact slowly builds in the "truth" that Hubbard's path IS "THE WAY". Also, ANY other thoughts, practices, teachings are considered "Other Practices" and are considered "Out Ethics".
2. Scientology says they believe "Man has the inalienable right to free speech".
C) The truth is, the higher up you go in Scientology the farther from the truth this becomes. As you move up the pyramid, you find you certainly are not supposed to read books or articles that Scientology doesn't want you to read. Actually this begins right away, again with "Keeping Scientology Working" (hereafter known as KSW).
It is considered "Out Ethics" to really speak out about anything that might be the slightest hint of criticism to the organization.
You also are encouraged not to watch the news as "It's Entheta". Now entheta means "enturbulated theta" meaning it upsets people. Yes, I agree some news stations do upset people, as they are, for the most part, filled with too much bad news, vs. a mixture of both good and bad. However, there are certainly ways to find out the news that are not all bad.
When you go for years not tuned into what is happening in the world, once again you just become surrounded that much more in the 'Scio/Truman show". Remember Truman couldn't see the walls? It is exactly the same within Scientology. Any free speech would actually help someone see the walls.
Thus, this is totally discouraged, although any Scientologist will insist this is crazy, that they are true "Freedom of Speech Advocates". Just ask them to discuss with you some of the classic lies and falsehoods, and see how far you get.
3. "Ethics"---- Scientology promotes to its members that Hubbard figured out these great tools to help someone be more ethical.
C) In Scientology people are routinely practicing deception, fraud, lies, and on staff and in WISE, people become slaves to a system where they have no recourse. Towards the last 10 years of being "in", my fellow OT 7's and I would commonly speak of:
a) Never lend a Scientologist money as they rarely if ever pay it back.
B) Never work for a WISE organization, as they are basically slave drivers, only interested in their own welfare.
C) Try to stay away from most of the registrars (people fund raising, asking for donations) as they are just milking us over and over.
d) Buy books, study up, learn for yourself. There are other solutions to problems you have, and they only cost $20.00 at Barnes and Noble.
e) The Executives in Scientology (who speak at the events) sound like robots, and whoever is putting on these events lie over and over.
Ethics? Ha! Who do you think you are fooling?
4. Spiritual Freedom: Much has been written about this, however in essence Scientology says if you do "The Bridge to Total Freedom" you will ("There's a good chance you can and will.") achieve total freedom.
One cannot-is not allowed-to discuss your spiritual 'case' with anyone, except those running the Scio/Truman show. If you do, once again, it's "Out Ethics" and they have their ways of stopping you.
I found the more I did, the higher I went 'up the Bridge' the less free I became. I was more introverted, more worried and stressed, constantly feeling guilty and secretly bad as I wasn't this or that.
Scientology always has an answer to everything, to bring one back to the fold, as does any good totalitarian group. With this, highly trained auditors (Counselors) will explain. Here are a few for me:
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Scientology also has their own secret Police ("The Office of Special Affairs") who practice Fair Game on anyone who leaves and speaks out. They consider this fine, as to them these people are "bad". However, in true justice, one should be allowed to speak your mind without harm. At the very least you should be able to represent your case in a true court of law. However, in Scientology it is a "High Crime" to take someone to court. Also, for people who have given them lots of money and then ask for it back, they would give these people their money back, if they truly followed "The tech" which says to do so.
OSA has personally tried to "Fair Game" me, within 6 months of me leaving the "Church of Scientology. They TRIED to pin (and failed) a criminal conviction on me for sitting in an empty, Red Santa's chair in Clearwater, Florida (for 2 seconds). It turned out they (C of S/OSA) had "Over 100 cameras" on us, in a 4 block area!
Justice? Go visit the KKK. You can learn a lot from history.
These are just a few of the many Contradictions within the walls of the organization who calls themselves "The Church of Scientology."
If you have a loved one in Scientology and you wonder what to do, I suggest you begin bringing up these very basic contradictions, and ask them what they think.
You never know when someone just might wake up. I did, after 30 years "in".
Love to all,
Tory/Magoo dancing in the light
In for 30 years ...now out for 5 Years, soon 6
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> A Long History of Hiring Private Eyes
On June 11, 2006 "Roget Gonnet" posted an article from 1997 detailing the use of private investigators:
NEWS FEATURE
The maker of a programme on Scientology says he has been the victim of 'subtle harassment'.
TOM UTLEY reports
Detective on trail of TV pair
An American private detective, hired by attorneys acting for the Church of Scientology has approached friends and relations of the makers of a British television biography of the Church s founder, visiting home addresses discovered by trickery.
He has then spread allegations that the film-makers may be implicated in an international conspiracy of extortion and money-laundering. Simon Berthon. the executive producer of the film about L Ron Hubbard shown in Secret Lives series on Channel 4 last night, condemned the detective of activities yesterday as a "peculiar and subtle form of harassment '. He said the Scientologists agents had somehow man- aged to establish which tele- phone numbers he and the film's producer-director. Jill Robinson, had recently rung on their private lines. Those numbers had then been rung by a woman claim- ing to be conducting a survey of television-viewing habits. The woman promised a year's free magazine subscription to those who took part in the survey - thereby tricking the film-makers' contacts into revealing their addresses. Soon afterwards the detective. Eugene M Ingram, of Los Angeles, arrived on the triends' doorsteps, saving that he vasinquiring about Mr Berthon and Ms Robinson in connection with an international conspiracy of extortion and money laundering. Mr Berthon said that the allegations appeared to have sprung from a payment of 2,000 that his company had made for access to an archive of material on the Scientologists. Ms Robinson, 45, said yesterday that about eight or her friends and associates England, including her parents and her hairdresser, had been visited by Mr Ingram. Four of those had earlier received telephone calls from a woman claiming ro be conducting a survey on television-viewing habits. She said that she and her crew- had also been followed bv detectives in the United States. Canada and England, ever since they started making the film last June. "It's a bit spooky.'' she said. "I just don t see what it is they hope to achieve. except they seek to intimidate me." Mr Berthon said that when friends began to complain that they had been visited by Mr Ingram, he checked with 12 friends and relatives whom he had recently telephoned from home. "Out of 12 calls made. I have discovered that nine have been telephoned by a woman offering a free magazine if they take part in a TV viewing-habit survey and give their name and address." Three of those nine had subsequently been visited by Mr Ingram "This is well beyond coincidence." said Mr Berthon. Among them was a friend and neighbour. Charlotte Joll, whom he had telephoned recently to accept a children's-party invitation for his daughter. She said: 'Last Fnday afternoon a man rang or. the doorbell showing me his private investgator's licence and then asked asked me if I knew someone he was trying to get in touch with. "He showed me three photographs of a man I had never seen before and said this guy was wanted for some kind of offence to do with getting money fraudulently. I had no Idea what it was about Then he mentioned Simon Berthon s name. Did I know him? I said 'Yes. our children are friends.' I then remembered that our au pair had told me a coupie of days earlier that she had been rung by someone purporting to do be doing research on our television
viewing habits, offering her a year's subscription to our favourite magazine and asking for our address."
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"Zinj" posted:
It looks like most of this refers to this, from 1997:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0433050/combined
Also related:
http://www.lermanet.com/persecution/tv4harrass.html
And, far funnier, but undated:
http://www.freedom.org.uk/mag/issuea03/index.htm
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Sunday, June 04, 2006
a.r.s. Week in Review 6/03/06
> Scientology News in Belgium
> Russia: Loss in Court
> No Memorial Day for L Ron Hubbard
> Lisa McPherson Fought to Leave Scientology
> Attorney Helena Kobrin Captive Under Scientology Guard
> Hubbard Letters Admit Mass Plagiarism for Scientology Sources
> Withdrawal of Support of Scientology
> Scientology-Related Media
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> Scientology News in Belgium
On May 27, 2006, "Piltdown Man" posted a translation of the first part in a series of reports from an article from the Le Soir Magazine in Brussels:
From: Le Soir Magazine, Brussels, May 16, 2006, p. 10-12.
Original title: "BRUXELLES - Nouveau centre européen de la Scientologie"
By Julie Barreau
[...]
Link:
[ http://groups.google.com/group/alt.religion.scientology/msg/54c6e8f47bf67176?hl=en& ]
Further translation of the Belgian article this week:
On May 28, 2006 "Eldon Braun" posted:
ROUGH TRANSLATION OF PART III
HEAD: The true face of scientology
SUBHEAD: How Scientology treats its members
Scientology claims 8 to 10 million followers worldwide. In reality, the total would be more like 100,000 to 200,000 members. "Scientology is the biggest pseudo-religious swindle of the 20th and 21st centuries!" declares Roger Gonnet, a former member who established the Church of Scientology of Lyon(1). Scientology promises supreme freedom and absolute power. But if you believe the testimony of former followers, it can only ruin and destroy you.
SUBHEAD: A person's ruin
[...]
Scientology "recruits" followers by different means. Initially, it is through word of mouth: members are duty-bound to proselytize. Front groups such as Criminon, Narconon, U-man [business consultants] or Management Efficiency [corporate training] are also used. But the most widespread method is the personality test. "These tests are a crock!" says Roger Gonnet, laughing. "In fact, the results are always catastrophic. 'You are depressed, you have no goals, no control over your life.' That's the explanation you'll get when a Scientologist administers the test. But they'll offer a solution -- courses in Dianetics!"
A huge number of courses are available. But watch out -- at each step, the price increases. In all, there are about thirty levels to go from "raw meat" (non-Scientologist status) to OT 15, the ultimate level. To traverse all these stages, the devotee will pay between 300,000 and 500,000 euros. People spend fortunes for courses that never bring the answers they're searching for. "They're selling hot air", says one despairing former member. Scientology is a system that stretches over a long duration. The "truth" is delivered drop by drop. When you arrive at level OT III, you'll be taught that each of us is not a single human being, but that thousands of spirits are interacting within every one of us. Yes, this is a serious belief -- that there are numerous entities within each body! "If those things were known at the beginning, nobody would have ever joined Scientology," Gonnet continues. For people within the system, this belief is cast in stone, insists the former member.
Besides taking courses, followers need "auditing". This is a form of psychoanalysis where the person describes a traumatic event until she finds it laughable. Then the event supposedly has no more influence over her. Imagine a girl who was a victim of incest quaking with laughter about describing the crime!
Finally, every good scientologist must be equipped with an e-meter. Price: 5,000 euros (manufacturing cost: about 100 euros). Scientologists often go to work for the organization because that way, their courses are supposedly free. But should they decide to leave the church, they will have to pay back the total price of the courses they took. Scientology has various contracts with durations ranging from two-and-a-half years to five years, or for a billion years -- since members believe themselves to be immortal!
SUBHEAD: Making a robot
The unacknowledged goal of Scientology is to teach its followers absolute obedience to its authority. "After a few years, I had become a genuine robot. I was ready to defend scientology at any cost," Roger Gonnet admits. "Scientology convinces people that they are profoundly flawed; the way to improve is spending enormous sums of money to reach the upper OT levels." The former member adds: "And by defending Scientology with body and soul." Reports of expulsion are mandatory. Excommunications from Scientology are made in writing, publicly, in sixteen languages on one of their websites (www.rtc.org/) established for this purpose, states Gonnet.
Scientology teaches its members how they are required to behave. These indoctrination sessions can last hours and even whole days. They are spread out over months, even years. "It's worse than a major military attack!" says a former member. And of course, in case of an error, Scientology also has its own "justice" system. Anyone with an "ethics folder" accusation must go before a "committee of evidence", which is actually a tribunal. If you are summoned by this pseudo-jurisdiction, your judgment is certain. You do not have a lawyer, are rarely allowed to testify, and are absent most of the time. These evaluations are practised undercover, by people with no legal competence. "My committee of evidence lasted more than a week," recalls Roger Gonnet.
Finally, Scientology has little tolerance for critics. It categorizes them as "suppressive". Ron Hubbard stated that 2.5% of the world's population are suppressive people. Here is how David Miscavige, the current leader, plans to conquer his opponents: "We will shoot down the suppressives like ducks in a pond."
The ultimate goal of Scientology is to have complete power over time, matter, energy and space. In two words: Become Superman!
Beginning at a certain level, you supposedly gain the ability to levitate a building, to displace yourself in time and so on. But it is forbidden in Scientology to demonstrate these super powers to anyone, because that might be traumatic, our apostate explains. Former members of Scientology still continue to suffer from this fraud for a long time after leaving the church. "The after-effects are incalculable, he concludes. They rip lives apart."
- Julie Barreau
(1) Roger Gonnet, author of La Secte [The Cult], Alban, and the website
www.antisectes.net
If you wish to report a problem with Scientology in Belgium, contact:
www.ciaosn.be
SIDEBAR:
HEAD: The power of censorship
The creators of the subversive American TV serial South Park dared to take on Scientology. In an hilarious episode called "Trapped in the closet", they exposed the truth about the methods and religious secrets of Scientology.
Stan, one of the four famous kids, takes a personality test at the Church of Scientology to kill time. He learns, to his great surprise, that he suffers from depression. Then he has other tests with the church's famous instrument, the e-meter. Immediately, it shows extraordinary results. The scientologists then take him for the reincarnation of their guru, Ron Hubbard.
The animated cartoon doesn't neglect Tom Cruise, the enthusiastic ambassador of Scientology. After Stan says his acting is poor, Cruise locks himself in a closet and refuses to come out. John Travolta and Nicole Kidman try to convince him to come out of the closet, a reference to the actor's alleged homosexuality.
Scientology beliefs like the "Wall of fire" are also objects of ridicule. "Trapped in the closet" is one of the more incisive satirical episodes of this program. It was scheduled to be repeated on a British channel in March 2006, but Scientology used its clout to prevent the repeat broadcast -- and succeeded.
Comedy Central, the cable channel that produces and broadcasts the series, suddenly decided to cancel the repeat broadcast of this polemical episode. Tom Cruise may have threatened to boycott promotion for the premiere of his current film, Mission Impossible III. The film is, in fact, produced and distributed by Paramount, which owns the Comedy Central channel.
And that's not all! South Park lost its chef in the battle. The character of Jerome McElroy, the school cook, will not appear in future episodes. Isaac Hayes' suave voice provides a high level of sarcasm to the animated cartoons. The singer is a follower of Scientology. He didn't appreciate this affront to his "beliefs", so he turned in his audio apron.
Trey Parker and Matt Stone didn't lose their sense of humour. They gave Chef a spectacular finale. In the episode entitled "The return of chef", Jerome McElroy is brainwashed by the Super Adventure Club, a reference to the Church of Scientology. This organization turns him into a paedophile before he falls from a bridge onto the rocks below to be burned, impaled, and finally devoured by a lion and a bear at the same time!
-- Julie Barreau
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"Piltdown Man" posted:
And here, finally, is part 2, all about the upcoming trial... I've decided not to add the second sidebar, which is background information about the French trial resulting from the suicide of Patrick Vic in 1988. More detail about this can be found on several websites.
From: Le Soir Magazine, Brussels, May 16, 2006, p. 10-12.
Original title: "BRUXELLES - Nouveau centre européen de la Scientologie"
By Julie Barreau
[Translator's note: Everything between square brackets is mine. I have used my own invention "legal entity" as a translation for "personne morale", partly because I don't have a specialist legal dictionary to hand. Maybe there is a more common lawyerly translation, but I think mine is at least fairly clear if YANAL.]
[SECOND PART OF MAIN ARTICLE, p. 14-17]
[headline]In the line of fire of Belgian justice
[sub-headline]Scientology to stand in the dock before the end of the year
After an investigation lasting nine years, with no less than 27 search warrants executed and multiple complaints filed by former members, the long-awaited trial of the Church of Scientology in Belgium is finally due to start. The stakes are high, and the case will have repercussions far outside our borders. For the very first time, Scientology itself could be convicted as being a criminal organisation.
[sub-headline]Four main charges
The judicial investigation started in 1997, and concerned nine Scientologists. The files on Scientology gathered since then, which take up four meters, cover offenses from the end of the 1980's until 2004. The drawing up of the formal charges that will complete matters will be finished within two months from now. The investigation took this long because two additional plaintiffs came forward. They are former members of Scientology who had risen to high levels in the church hierarchy, and where thus able to provide extremely important information. Four main charges have been established: being a criminal organisation (1), fraud, the illegal practice of medicine, and violations of the law on privacy.
[footnote] (1) According to Belgian law, a criminal organisation is a group consisting of more than two people, which exists over a period of time, with as its aim the concerted commission of criminal offenses to obtain, directly or indirectly, material advantages, by using intimidation, threats, violence, fraud or corruption, or by using commercial or other entities to hide or facilitate the commission of such offenses. [end of footnote]
Scientology until now has managed to avoid any convictions as a criminal organisation. However, this legal concept is very important, because it is the association "Church of Scientology Belgium" as a legal entity which is on trial, not its individual officials. "The people responsible will probably have made sure to be insolvent by the beginning of the trial. But if the organisation itself is found guilty, things will be quite different", explains Jean-Pierre Jouglas, a lawyer with Unafdi, the 'Union nationale des Associations de Défense des Familles et de l'Individu victimes de Sectes' [national union of defense groups for families and individuals victimised by cults]. If the Church of Scientology were to be found guilty on this charge, it would probably be instantly dissolved, on the basis of the 1998 law on the criminal responsibility of legal entities.
[Tr.: IANAL, but I think this is the law that finally solved a longstanding problem with Belgian criminal law: that only individual persons could be found guilty of crimes, not the companies or organisations they were part of.] At the same time, the judge could also order the confiscation of all real estate it owns in Belgium, including the newly acquired buildings in the Avenue de Waterloo in Brussels. What's more, such a conviction would inflict serious damage on Scientology's attempts at creating an image of respectability through its volunteer ministers and its various front groups.
But we are not yet at that stage, the more so because in this matter Belgian justice has to walk on eggshells. A conviction of Scientology as a criminal organisation could provoke a serious diplomatic incident with the United States, where the cult is considered respectable and has support at the highest levels of government.
The charges of fraud on the other hand are easier to prove. The testimony of the people who believe they have been defrauded by Scientology will however be essential. "The prohibitive prices of courses which are sold to members as well as the price of the e-meter may also be taken into consideration", adds Jean-Pierre Jouglas. As to the illegal practice of medicine, the prosecutors will build their case on the "purification", or "sweating", courses prescribed to members. The expert explains: "during these courses, Scientologists exercise, spend three hours a day in a sauna and take hugely excessive doses of vitamins, which weakens them considerably. The rest of the time is devoted to the lectures of L. Ron Hubbard, the only intellectual nourishment members are allowed". The auditing sessions, which are very similar to psychoanalytic sessions, may also be taken into account.
The last point of the charges, violations of the privacy law, should be able to be proven without any difficulty, thanks to the documents seized during the raids. As Jean-Pierre Jouglas explains: "Scientology keeps a file on every one of its members, containing everything that has been 'confessed' during auditing sessions".
[sub-headline]Defense through attack
With the charges almost finalised, both sides are now readying their arms. The prosecutors are using all legal means at their disposal. Scientology on its part has hired a number of well-known Brussels lawyers, and is working on its defense strategy of... attacking the plaintiffs! Many victims of Scientology don't have the courage to demand justice. Even after they've left the Church, it still holds a considerable grip on its former members. Jean-Pierre Jouglas explains: "Many victims never file a complaint. This is because these people continue to think along the lines of the cult's belief system for a long time. Such a break happens very gradually and is quite distressing. Victims don't want to hear anything about Scientology anymore, and are afraid to go beyond that because they are still intimidated." As an illustration, not one of the plaintiffs in this case was willing to have their identity revealed in this article. One plaintiff says: "When you leave Scientology, all your values, all your truths
fall apart, and you're left in total confusion. You don't have any certainties left. You feel guilty and afraid. The only thing you want to do is unplug the phone and lock yourself in at home." In a stroke of luck for Scientology, its victims continue to protect it indirectly. For those who might be brave enough to go the authorities, it has several means at its disposal to persuade them otherwise. The plaintiff: "Scientology knows all the weaknesses of each of the plaintiffs, and knows how to manipulate them to achieve its aims. They don't have scruples. They are well-trained, willing to do anything, and think they're immortal. They are real kamikazes". In this case, three people have been offered settlements for undisclosed amounts. Jean-Pierre Jouglas explains: "Scientology's method to defend itself against any charges is to pay the people who come forward to withdraw their complaint. They usually pay the amount the plaintiff is demanding. With the plaintiff gone, Scientology concludes that there has been no breach of the law. What's more, plaintiffs are often in debt as a result of paying for courses. They therefore often prefer getting their money back immediately, rather than sit through ten years of legal proceedings". Other methods have also been revealed by former members. "Through intimidation, spying, slander, threats, harassment, dirty tricks, blackmail, and... suing people at every possible opportunity. That's how Scientology defends itself", Roger Gonnet, a former member, says angrily. The Church of Scientology has its own intelligence service in Belgium, called the 'Office of Special Affairs'. Jean-Pierre Jouglas adds: "Scientology thinks it wields all powers. It has its own police, its own system of justice... It is really a state within the state. The system of values of any country where it installs itself is thus thought irrelevant. This is why the cult thinks it is above any law that doesn't suit it. It threatens to blackmail its supposed enemies with the information it gathers on them. Also, confidential information revealed during auditing sessions is used to put pressure on people to stay in the cult, or not do anything that might harm it." But despite all of Scientology's efforts to keep its alleged crimes from being put under the public spotlight and avoid a conviction, the trial is definitely going ahead. In criminal law, even if the plaintiffs withdraw their complaints, the judicial authorities continue their work.
All over the world, organisations that fight against cults are awaiting the start of this trial with impatience. Will Belgium succeed where others have failed? The 65 boxes of documents seized during the raids might make all the difference...
- Julie Barreau.
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> Russia: Loss in Court
On May 30, 2006 "Roger Gonnet' posted the translation of a report from ANNews in Russia:
Scientology 0: Government 1
http://www.annews.ru [in Russian]
Velikiy Novgorod, May 22, 2006, ANN correspondent Gennadiy Aleksandrov. On Monday Novgorod City court validated the legal claim of city Duma deputy Aleksander Daina against Novgorod's "Scientology and Dianetics Distribution Center."
As the plaintiff, Aleksander Daina stated during the legal proceedings, the prior history of his conflict with the Novgorod Scientologists happened in Spring 2005, when voters came to the city Duma deputy with complaints about operations by activists from Novgorod's "Scientology and Dianetics Distribution Center."
According to Aleksander Daina, the methods of their activity in the Novgorod region did not differ much from the city. With an importunity typical for adepts of this organization, they "confronted" people on the street, at the large neighboring market and anyone who came into their office (the NPA company, which Daina manages, is in the same building as the "Scientology and Dianetics Distribution Center) and offered them "tests" and "promises." All this, in Aleksander Daina's opinion, served one purpose: "to attract city residents into the sect." In a fairly short period of time nearly 50 statements, written and verbal, appeared on his desk with requests to help and to somehow "regulate" the behavior of the Scientologists.
When Aleksander Daina got in touch with the Scientology Center's management and tried to make himself heard, they met with him in a way he says was unfriendly, and were indignant at the "interference with the activity of an officially registered organization" and declared that he was trying to restrict their freedom to practice religion.
What's more, on May 24, 2005 the Scientology Center's director sent letters to the city prosecutor, to the regional and city Dumas and to the Velikiy Novgorod city mayor's office. These letters asserted specifically that Deputy Daina "used his position" to encroach upon the religious rights of the people, a violation of the RF Constitution, and that his actions were unbecoming of a city Duma deputy. Scientology asked that "measures of an ethical character" be taken with regard to Aleksander Daina.
The mayor's office took the Scientologists' letter seriously and decided to bring the issue "on Aleksander Daina's conduct" to the ethics committee. This step, in the words of Aleksander Daina himself, was the straw that broke the camel's back. Without waiting to be called and be "put through the mill" by the committee, Aleksander Daina went to the Novgorod city court with a complaint concerning his defense of honor and dignity, and specifically asserted that the Scientologists' letter was a framework of negative information that, first, did not correspond to reality and second, did him mental harm. Aleksander Daina assessed his complaint against Scientology in the amount of one million and one rubles. He explained this figure by saying that in the event he won, he would give one million rubles to charity and keep the one for himself, "as a souvenir."
Legal proceedings chaired by Judge Anatoliy Viyuk began June of 2005. The defendants refused to acknowledge the legal claim, asserting that in no way could their letter have affected the deputy's honor and dignity. For an impartial assessment of the situation two linguistic experts were called: the first in Velikiy Novgorod and the second in Moscow. The experts worked nearly four months on the linguistic assessment of the Scientologists' letter, and at the end they came to the conclusion that the letter that had been distributed by the Scientologists contained "negative information" about the plaintiff.
Judge Anatoliy Viyuk concurred with that position on Monday, and he made a decision about satisfying, in part, the deputy's claim. The amount the court set in accordance with the principle of justice was 10,000 rubles, to be collected from the Novgorod "Scientology and Dianetics Distribution Center." Besides that, Scientology is instructed to rescind the letter sent to the city prosecutor, the regional and city Dumas and the mayor's office.
"The amount to be collected, of course, is not a big deal, but I still won't back down from what I said. When the Scientology Centers pays me 10,000 rubles for discrediting me, I will keep one ruble and all the rest goes to charity," Aleksander Daina told an ANN correspondent as soon as the court hearing, which had lasted a little less than year, ended.
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> No Memorial Day for L Ron Hubbard
On May 27, 2006 "Muldoon" posted the topic, "L. Ron Hubbard's false claims to have been a war hero make Scientology's observance of Memorial Day an awkward issue:"
Scientology PR people are not patriotic, yet their anxiety at participating in ceremonies, honoring fallen soldiers and sailors, can be traced to the exposure of Hubbard's disgraceful lies about his past.
About Ron "the war hero":
http://www.xs4all.nl/~kspaink/cos/warhero
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"Tory Christman" posted the topic, "Memorial Day Week-end & Freedom, Scientology, and Suppression:"
What does Memorial Day Week-end, Scientology--Freedom and Suppression have in common?
Well, first of all, my thanks to any and all soldiers who have spent their lives working and fighting to safeguard our country. Although I've been against a number of wars, including the one we're in now, I'm always for the soldiers. They do what they're told, and they do it under the name of safeguarding freedoms we each enjoy daily. Secondly, my love to all of the families who have lost loved ones trying to fight suppression.
This week-end, to me, is a week-end to spend honoring those who have fought to safeguard freedoms we all enjoy daily.
Granted, we are not military and we are not in a physical war, certainly not like the military, and I'm not in any way saying they're the same, as they are not. However, I would also like to thank each and ever critic who has spent part of their lives fighting the suppression Scientology has tried to instill in our country, and other countries.
Granted, it's a LOT easier to sit behind a key board and fight suppression than to be face-to-face with warriors ready to KILL. That comparison alone should help each person realize how lucky we are.
It is my hope that Scientology's OSA and their nasty actions get snuffed out of the bushes totally, out into the light, where they literally can no longer:
"lie, cheat, steal, destroy someone utterly" as their master, L. Ron Hubbard, said in "Fair Game." He said it was fine for people to do such actions, against those who dared speak out against them. (and I know, I believed that policy was cancelled too. I'm here to tell any and all lurkers: IT WAS NOT. Just go read RFW and Scientology's 5 pages of flat out lies about me alone, to tell you yes! They DO still practice "Fair Game").
Blessings to all ...and my thanks to each of you :)
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Tory/Magoo Dancing in the moonlight In Scientology for 30 years, out happily for 5 years!
For thinking and speaking my mind, Scientology declared me a 'suppressive person' and expelled me from their so called 'church' Free at LAST!
http://www.xenu.net, www.xenutv.com
http://www.torymagoo.org, www.altreligionscientology.net
http://www.lermanet.com/cos/toryonosa.htm
"Those that give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-- Benjamin Franklin
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"Arnaldo Lerma" posted:
Memorial Day - L Ron Hubbard - the War ZERO - Subject description: Hubbard "UNFIT TO COMMAND" Exposing a Phoney War "hero" Reply with quote Edit/Delete this post Delete this post Scientology PR people are not patriotic, yet their anxiety at participating in ceremonies, honoring fallen soldiers and sailors, can be traced to the exposure of Hubbard's disgraceful lies about his past.
About Ron "the war hero":
http://www.xs4all.nl/~kspaink/cos/warhero
AND
Summary of Hubbard Navy Record
http://www.lermanet.com/L_Ron_Hubbard/
with images of 600 pages also..
AND
Ron the WAR ZERO flyer for distribution to Veterans groups HERE:
http://www.lermanet2.com/reference/RON_THE_WAR_ZERO2.rtf
This is a handy tri-fold handout, useful for pickets, memorial day, and 4th of July and in .htm
http://www.lermanet.com/L_Ron_Hubbard/L_Ron_Hubbard.htm
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> Lisa McPherson Fought to Leave Scientology
On May 28, 2006 "Arnaldo Lerma" posted:
AMC Publishing...despite FALSE representations that Lisa was just a lowly salesperson at AMC, it turns out that at one time she was Mary De Moss"s #1 salesperson !! Apparently Lisa was a big time "producer" for the outfit.
Mary De Moss acted like she ran the show, but in fact she was only a 1/3rd owner of AMC, the real owner was a "wog"...
Some questions arose today in a conversation with creed Pearson. seems Lisa McPherson had been asked by Mary De Moss to make fundraising calls for Winter Wonderland... one of the people she called was Creed Pearson.. Creed was not one to hide his feelings... and refused to 'donate' any money to Winter Wonderland, because he had donated the previous year and later learned that they had thrown out all the decorations purchased then...so now were asking for more money...He also told Lisa about what he had discovered Hubbard said about Christ and why winter wonderland someone who is was such a farce http://www.lermanet.com/cos/nochrist.wav
Lisa was also reported to have been completing cycles... finishing everything she had said she was going to do, as if she were preparing to leave... scientology.
Evidently Lisa McPherson concluded that Creed Pearson was somebody she could talk to..about whatever she was thinking about... and called creed, and asked creed if she could meet with him.
Then strange things started to happen.. His wife begged him NOT to meet with Lisa... ( as if she, herself, had been contacted by OSA, who evidentially had been survielling Lisa ) and then creeds own daughter begged him not to meet with Lisa... Creed did not meet with Lisa McPherson, because at the time he did not connect the dots, but he has now.
this was shortly before she took her clothes off after she bumped that car
http://www.lermanet.com/scientologynews/washingtonpost/lisa-120698.htm
I recall posting requests back then for information about AMC publishing.. what the hell do they really do? why are they important...because my gut feeling was that I needed to find out what did Lisa know that could have been a motive for murder?
Creed pointed out a VERY interesting tidbit...
1) one of the common symptoms.. of someone who has been DOSED with angel dust - PCP - is that they take off their clothes! - The "irrational" conduct of Lisa McPherson might not have been "irrational" at all, but the result of having been dosed with angel dust/PCP. This would generate a psychotic paranoid reaction.. which then COULD BE USED BY SCIENTOLOGY TO INCARCERATE THE PERSON USING THE "POLICY" OF THE INTROSPECTION RUNDOWN!!
2) Another person, I KNOW PERSONALLY, who had found out what Scientology really was, and wanted to leave was brought a drugged drink BY A FAMILY MEMBER!! In retrospect this makes sense, if what OSA was trying to do was CREATE psychotic reactions in those who wished to leave ( because after all... Hubbard said only PSYCHOTICS and CRIMINALS oppose scientology! And so it is OSA's job to make it so! This person refused to drink it, and survived.. but is too scared by their perception of scientology's ruthlessness to file a report with the police!
3) I was dosed with LSD during the raid on my home in 1995, and had I http://www.lermanet.com/cos/motion22.html not had a great time at Woodstock after Jerry Garcia threw those baggies filled with tabs of acid out to the crowd during his two hour rendition of Lovelight.. I might not be here right now...as I would have thought I was going crazy but thanks to Jerry Garcia, I knew it was LSD!
4) EXTREME efforts were taken to drive Joan Woods (the coroner in the Lisa case) off the deep end... she thought she had been dosed with LSD also... and ended up in psychiatric ward at one point...
5) Scientology claimed under penalty of perjury starting with that lying scum bag Scientologist attorney Earle C Cooley's claim that Scientology's belief system demands that bodies be cremated...
I hereby challenge ANYONE to cite the SOURCE in Hubbard's materials about scientology that supports this statement. Hubbard's own words direct that his "body be BURIED in the date fields" and don't tell anyone where.
There is nothing about cremation!!
It was used to hide the evidence about whatever REALLY happened when Hubbard died. The conundrum is this... The blood samples provided by the now dead of cancer scientology "OT" Dr Denk, the same DR that prescribed Chloral Hydrate for Lisa McPherson...were provided "For the convenience" of the coroner.. (Now isn't that NICE of him???) he provided 3 vials of blood of El Rum Hubtoad.. prior to his death..Now please pay close attention...
NONE OF THAT BLOOD in the three vials provided for the coroner's convenience TESTED POSITIVE FOR VISTARIL - AN ANTI PSYCHOTIC MEDICATION!!
However, the blood sample taken by the coroner DID test positive!! And this tidbit was pointed out by Michael Tilse, the same Michael Tilse who was told that all the stuff on the web critical of scientology was lies! Michael Tilse went to the coroners office in San Luis Obispo and pulled the copies of the coroners report and the full toxicology report, showing that Hubbard's blood contained VISTARIL, and ANTI PSYCHOTIC medication..
But wait... It is even worse than you think!
The clinical test for vistaril is NOT QUANTITATIVE!
That is, the test, only provides a POSITIVE result ( if a trace or BETTER! ) or a NEGATIVE - the test does not show HOW MUCH
Now.. in the fine print of the coroners report, Hubbard had a signed a "Statement of belief" witnessed by 1) Pat Broeker, 2) Anne Broeker and 3) Stephen J Pfauth ( who the hell is he???)
this piece of art, was supposedly signed by "Ron" on the 20th of January 86...4 days before he was dead...
now... dig this
http://www.lermanet.com/image/cremation-affidavit.jpg
TEN RECENT NEEDLE MARKS!!
So he was getting Vit B-12, *I* have prescription for injectable Vit 12.. I've never taken more than one a week, and cant imagine more than one a day... TEN recent needle marks... The VIALS of blood provided by 4) Dr Denk for the "convenience" of the coroner did NOT contain vistaril!
TEN needle marks...
http://www.lermanet.com/image/ten-recent-needle-marks.jpg
Denk would have known the limits of the clinical test for vistaril.
Since this event..Denk died of cancer. And No one has see Pat and Anne Broker...the Coroner was delivered the documents by none other than attorney 5) Sherman Lenske, and attorney 6) Lawrence Heller....
Did they kill Hubbard AND Lisa Mcpherson..for the money?
WITT:
The finances are significant in this case because Lisa was making well over $100,000 a year, working for a Scientology-owned company. And when her family took over her account, there was only a couple hundred dollars left in that account. Cruz is a Scientologist, and also testified that Kurt Paine is a member of the Church of Scientology as well.
ANCHOR:
Well, an attorney for the Church of Scientology said this afternoon this is not a church matter, but rather a personal matter
Ch. 28 News, Tampa, Tuesday, October 14, 1997, 6:00 pm]
http://www.lermanet.com/persecution/vampires.html
and the scientology lawyer response...............
'ANCHOR:
Well, an attorney for the Church of Scientology said this afternoon this is not a church matter, but rather a personal matter'
the lawyers that represent a business and direct vehicle for laundering the regged money must hide the method of the disappearing money. it is also what pays them elaborately
lermanet_com wrote:
Lisa was also reported to have been completing cycles... finishing everything she had said she was going to do, as if she were preparing to leave... scientology
Newscast
November 20, 1998
News Channel 8 -WFAA
"Scientology - Church Charged"
"Kellie Davis: She said that she was getting out and coming home, and I asked her, I told her, I said "you mean your getting out of Scientology?" and she said "let's not talk about it over the phone," she said," I'll tell you all about it when I get home." But she said "but I'm getting out and coming home to stay." And she said that I'll definitely be there before Christmas.
Byron Harris: The next time that Kellie Davis saw Lisa McPherson was at her funeral in Dallas."
Q: Arnie, could you clarify.
I don't see how (1) Lisa being a top saleswoman, and (2) her talking to Creed Pearson would constitute a motive.
How long was it from the time of Lisa's accident to when she died at Ft Harrison and authorities were given her body? How long would the described drug be traceable in the body?
Answer:
Frankly, Neither do I... in so many details, however, there is the distinct appearance to this student of Scientology's deceptive practices that the "Purification Rundown" in this case, was used with intent to "dispose of utterly and without sorrow" one of those who by the mere fact of living interfered with the continued extraction of money from rubes.
This is a paradym shift in perception of intent.
After she took her clothes off, ( after she was 'dosed' ) 17 days worth of scientology's mecca of technical perfection's ' care' later, she was dead.
I believe PCP can be detected in hair samples for a very long time, but it would have to be tested..for that..
As top salesman she would have access to the client lists. A source that wishes to remain anonymous told me that payments to Flag were forced out of employees by DeMoss.
a source wrote:
If I were looking into a motive, I would look at Benetta Slaughter. [a person who] worked at AMC publishing after all the Dallas folks moved to Clearwater. She moved back and would never explain why she left AMC, only to say it was "Benetta". She was also upset about some forced donations Benetta made her staff make to FLAG. I know Benetta funelled money into the C of S, and I'm wondering if she did it illegally.
Which is what I wondered too... If seek justice, find the truth, if you want the truth, follow the money.
Whatever was going on at AMC Publishing, what if the downside risk in lost income to Flag weighed more in the eyes of OSA than one young girl's "Meat Body" ??
The contact with creed, would not have been the motive, but a precipitating event, Lisa was exiting scientology!
It would have been a person (lisa) who was in "doubt" getting re-enforcement for her view..(what disconnection policies are supposed to prevent) (Reality is defined as agreement by Hubtoad the Greatest CON Man on Earth) that all was not well inscientology's la-la land...and that it was okay to speak about what you know... if a person still has MONEY, and is willing to give it to scientology, you will NOT get into ethics trouble.. unless you are caught driving the wrong the way on a one way street at a high rate of speed and rear end a police car.
At the instant you refuse to continue to PAY...Even a raised eyebrow will become an "ethics offense".
Evidently there may have been A LOT OF MONEY involved...
Cremation, which is NOT PART OF THE SCIENTOLOGY BELIEF SYSTEM (The best place to hide a really big WHOPPER of a lie is right in front of you ) is being used by Scientology to destroy the evidence of foul play.
Can ANYONE, provide a citation from Hubbard's written works to support Earle Cooley's claim that Cremation is part of Scientology?
No.. it is NOT THERE!
Nobody can supply a source in Hubbard's writings from which ANY of those quotes in Way To Happiness came from either.
I believe that The magnitude of the LIES we are dealing with from Scientology have been underestimated, IMMENSELY.
The purpose of this posting was to shake the tree and see what falls out, results so far have not been dissapointing.
thought some of these details should be outlined for a number of reasons, including this lesson, that what is important is NOT whether they killed a young girl with intent, or whether they killed L Ron Hubbard, and covered it up by enforced SILENCE by requiring that each person (witness) there be made a perpetrator of a capital offense.. with no statute of limitations, by requiring each of them to inject one syringe full of vistaril into the old mans rump. (ten needle marks, but no vistaril in samples provided by Denk)
What is imperatively important, is to understand Scientology's overall PATTERN of conduct... and to understand that PATTERN of conduct in glowing red hot neon letters burned into the deepest recesses of your mind.
I would like to thank 27 year member of Scientology, Michael Tilse for http://www.lermanet.com/scientology/dear-scientologist.htm
having a damn fine mind, and not being intimidated into silence by Hubbard the King of CON's scam dba Scientology and varous other frontgroups
http://www.lermanet.com/frontgroups.html
"the Court is now convinced that the primary motivation of RTC [$cientology] in suing Lerma, DGS and The Post is to stifle criticism of Scientology in general and to harass its critics."
http://www.lermanet.com/xenu-in-southpark-is-real.htm
Arnaldo Lerma
Lermanet.com Exposing the CON
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On May 29, 2006 the New York North County Gazette published a commentary paralleling the death of Terri Schiavo with Lisa McPherson's:
COMMENTARY - The Schiavo Case: Anatomy Of A Cover-Up
By June Maxam
The stench of Florida's criminal justice system is permeating the entire country.
Unfortunately the cover-ups and injustices aren't confined solely to Florida.
Part of the problem in Florida is in the state attorney's offices and county medical examiners---and it may extend all the way to Tallahassee and the Office of Gov. Jeb Bush.
The old story of one lies, the other swears to it. The nucleus of the stench appears to be in Pinellas County.
A large factor in the cover-up equation which is being exposed in Florida involves Guy Tunnell, forced to resign in April by Gov. Bush as the commissioner of Florida's Department of Law Enforcement. Unbelievably, Tunnell has now been appointed by Steve Meadows, state attorney for the 14th Judicial Circuit, to be a coordinator of cold case squads in the 14th judicial circuit's six counties.
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Pinellas County is not without precedent for controversies surrounding autopsies and smack in the middle of the case which precipitated the removal of former Pinellas County Medical Examiner Joan Wood and the appointment of Thogmartin is none other than McCabe, chairman of the search committee and who appointed an interim medical examiner to serve for the period between the time Wood resigned and Thogmartin assumed the office.
Wood had been forced out of office in September 2000 after McCabe and his staff dropped charges against the Church of Scientology, blaming Wood's reversal in her autopsy relating to the 1995 death of Scientologist Lisa McPherson, a case which had some shocking similarities to the Terri Schiavo case in that it was first determined that McPherson died of dehydration.
McPherson, 36, had died after a 17-day stay at the church's spiritual headquarters in the Fort Harrison Hotel in Clearwater following an automobile accident.
According to records issued in the McPherson case, Wood and McCabe had tangled long before she reversed her autopsy findings and he helped force her out of office because he disapproved of her appearing on Inside Edition to discuss the McPherson case.
McCabe dropped felony charges of abuse of a disabled adult and practicing medicine without a license against the church. Wood had unexpectedly and without explanation changed her autopsy findings, saying that McPherson's death was accidental and that "psychosis and history of auto accident" were significant conditions that contributed to her death. She expunged "bed rest and severe dehydration" from the initial autopsy which had been listed as underlying causes of death.
Following the June 15, 2005, release of the autopsy report in the Schiavo case which raised more questions than it provided answers in the 15-year-old case, Gov. Bush asked the Pinellas-Pasco County state attorney's office and state attorney McCabe to investigate the discrepancies in times surrounding Michael Schiavo's actions and response in summoning emergency medical assistance for Terri during the early morning hours of her sudden collapse.
As expected, McCabe claimed in early July that there was no evidence that any criminal activity was involved in Terri's collapse. McCabe's determination came as no surprise as he had repeatedly stonewalled any criminal investigation into the Schiavo case.
The case of Terri Schiavo and the handling of it is remarkably mirrored in the case of Lori Klausutis, a 28-year-old worker for Rep. Joe Scarborough (R-Fl) who was found dead in the congressman's district office in Fort Walton Beach on June 20, 2001, shortly after 8 a.m. Preliminary findings from the medical examiner's office by associate ME Dr. Michael Berkland of Okaloosa County showed "no foul play or any outward indication of suicide".
There was no follow-up, no investigation but instead what appeared to be yet another big cover-up. There were no witnesses to the death and the cause of death was not apparent. Klausutis' boss, Rep. Scarborough had recently unexpectedly resigned from Congress when rumors began circulating about his marital fidelity. He also abruptly resigned as publisher of the Independent Florida Sun.
Chairman of the Medical Examiners Commission at the time of the Klausutis death was Dr. Stephen Nelson, Thogmartin's assistant in the Schiavo autopsy.
The young woman had been the picture of health and vitality before her death, just like Terri Schiavo was before her collapse. Klausutis was an avid runner who ran five miles a day.
Police denied finding any sign of trauma to her body the day she was found dead and said there was no indication of foul play. Berkland's press release issued two weeks later acknowledged that there was "a scratch and a bruise" on her head. He said the original denials by the police "were designed to prevent undue speculation about the cause of death", admitting that the police had lied to the public.
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> Attorney Helena Kobrin Captive Under Scientology Guard
On May 28, 2006 "Anonymous" posted:
Helena Kobrin now has her own 'handler' who follows Kobrin wherever she goes. Word out of AOLA is that Kobrin expressed the desire to quit Scientology and Moxon entirely and was promptly assigned a 24-hour- a-day guard (a woman) to keep her from blowing. Kobrin cannot even step out of her office for a cigarette without her guard with her. More, she is not allowed to go anywhere except when her absence would be noted and questioned by wogs. This started about two years go.
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"Andrew Robertson" posted links to pictures of Helena Kobrin:
It's all the fault of that Viking rascal, for on his Ministry of Silly Hats page:
http://www.xenu.net/archive/photoalbum/7a-1200.jpg
he suggests that the delectable maiden in the second row, far left is the stunning Ms Kobrin.
http://www.xenu.net/archive/photoalbum/ (scroll to the bottom for the small version with caption)
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"Warrior" posted:
Isn't this Helena Kobrin at the front right in this photo?
http://www.xenu.net/archive/photoalbum/3.jpg
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"Mike O'Connor" posted:
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A lot of us realize that Scientology is not a simple scam. It is complex and well crafted. It has attracted many, many smart people and people who only want to improve themselves and help mankind. It's a long road and a slow snare. It takes a long time to get you into a position where you feel trapped.
I think Helena feels trapped right now, and rightfully so. She of all people knows the ways that would be used to suppress her if she tried to leave, if she tried to express herself, if she tried to tell her story.
Helena, you're tired - exhausted. But things always seem worse than they really are. You CAN escape! And you CAN tell your story! People do want to hear it, some people NEED to hear it. Getting the truth and the real story out there will do much more for the people than all you hoped to accomplished when you first joined for good. Believe me, you'll find friends you never thought you'd have, and you'll be doing a real service for people. And you'll feel better - at peace.
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"Arnaldo Lerma" posted:
Helena is a very good copyright lawyer
But her skills would ONLY be marketable in the WOG world if she denounced scientology. However, I suspect, and .. this would be, If *I* were David Miscavige.. I would have to make sure that she had a mortal accident, before I would allow her to leave...she knows TOO much.
Her testimony regarding what was really done in RTC vs Lerma.. and many other cases including Wollersheim.., would reopen them.. and gawd knows what else she knows.
Im afraid, that if that missive is true, Helena Kobrin is in mortal danger.
She should give me a call at 703 241 1498, I promise to do whatever it takes to keep Ms Kobrin from being 'disposed of utterly and without sorrow'...
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considering the extreme magnitude of this Ms Kobrin should contact Mary Ann Werner, VP Legal At the Washington Post....
Arnie Lerma
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"Anti-Hippy" posted:
At the latest telephone hearing Keith Henson had Kobrin showed up with a mysterious woman to "drive her home" after the hearing,,, maybe that was her garude.
"Keith Henson posted:" posted:
That hearing was even stranger on the tape than it reads. I was there by phone and there was an interesting exchange between David Cook entering his appearance and me stating my name where the judge listed the people in the court.
COOK: Thank you, Your Honor. David Cook for Plaintiffs
WEISSBRODT: Mr. Henson, are you on the phone.
HENSON: Yes, and I . . . are you the only one there?
WEISSBRODT: No, there are a number of other people who have not entered their appearance. Ms Luce is here. Ms Seid is here. Ms Kobrin is here. And there's another person in the courtroom whom I don't . . . I know has been here many times, but I don't know who she is. Who is that, Ms Seid?
[Muttered conversation in the background.]
WEISSBRODT: I was told that she's just somebody that's giving Ms Kobrin a ride later. I don't know what that means, other than that she's giving Ms Kobrin a ride later.
HENSON: Well, anyway, I'm here.
WEISSBRODT: OK, can I have your full name, please?
HENSON: Howard Keith Henson.
WEISSBRODT: Thank you. OK. Sit down, Mr. Cook.
COOK: Oh, thank you, Your Honor.
Whoever was Helena's "driver" had been at enough previous hearings for the judge to recognize her. Perhaps the choke collar and leash she was holding gave her away. Another odd business, I have not been able to reach David Cook since that hearing and the second Hoden interrogatory is way over due.
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"Phill Scott" posted:
Helena, hang on in there. You know me. I am your friemd. You used to send me emails. I know it's tough going with all those body thetans crawling around under your skin tittering with their cruel laughter and giving you pains to punish you when you don't obey their commands, but L. Ron HUbbard has the tech to cure it. After you have done OT levels III, IV, V, VI and VII then you will be free of them and you will feel great relief. Yo DO want to be free of those little demons, don't you? Well, the way out is the way through, as Mankind's Greatest Friend used to say.
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"Stefano MacGregor" posted:
The next picket of the cult (and is there one planned soon?) should have some signs about Rathbun and Kobrin, maybe "SCIENTOLOGY: WHERE IS MARTY RATHBUN?" and "SCIENTOLOGY: WILL HELENA KOBRIN BE YOUR NEXT VICTIM?"
The next time there's a critic on the radio with a cultie, it might be well if these questions were raised.
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"Maggie" posted:
There was an anonymous message posting that Scn, Inc. attorney Helena Kobrin may be in mortal danger.
I received an email letter from Helena back in the mid-90's. It addressed six lines of something Hubbard wrote that were posted, and I responded to, including the worrisome six lines in my response (as netiquette suggests).
This was the time that the first batch of Kobringrams were sent out, calling us all "copyright terrorists" for wanting to comment on some of the hinkier policies and practices Hubbard dreamed up for his followers to pay for. It was an attempt to shudder us into silence; one of many that obviously has not worked.
I hope Helena's had time to form a plan for herself, and get the hell out and somewhere safe. I hope they're not holding the health of any of her relatives as security for her good behavior.
I wonder if she knows where Marty Rathbun and Warren McShane are, and I wonder if that knowledge is worrisome to her. I hope she will get in touch with media and law enforcement, such as Arnie suggested --going to the VP of Legal at Washington Post, for instance. Or the FBI. Hasn't this gone on long enough?
-maggie, human being
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> Hubbard Letters Admit Plagiarism for Scientology Sources
"Roger Gonnet" posted several letters revealing Hubbard's plagiarized sources of Scientology and instructional advice:
This letter from L. Ron Hubbard shows that he wanted to use someone else works . I wonder if hubbie used it to fabricate his scam and his "battylefield earth or other fictions.
0 Marlborough Place
London N.W.8
27th March 1953
Dear Helen,
I sent you a cable a week or ten days ago but have not heard anything from you concerning the plot genie.
The book to which I hare reference is quite necessary in the composition of what will be the master text book on Scientology. The book can. be obtained in many places but certainly can be obtained through Writers' Digest in Cincinnati, Ohio.
There are many such books but there is only one of the kind I want.. There are decks of cards, whirligig devices, anyone of which, is supposed to assist a writer in plotting. The book .to which I have reference is in a book form and is the first and only important book for the. creation of limitless plots. It is not a book on how to plot; it is a book which contains all the elements of plots which, when combined, will derive an infinity of new plots. This book has in it boundless lists; it goes on for hundreds and hundreds of pages with very small type giving conditions of things, objects and types of beings. The man who' compiled this book went mad in the process. It was done about 30 years ago. The book has maintained itself in print because it is the standard book used by writers who plot in that fashion. If you have received the cable and if you have sent something, please look at this data again and be fairly sure it was the book. I have forgotten the name of it; It might be called Plotto. This book is,
so far as I know, the most complete list of conditions of beingness and objects available on earth today. What I will do is get permission from the publisher to use some fractions of its lists for an entirely different purpose than Plotto. It is necessary that we do this because the book which we are going to publish will have to be, in order to guarantee its sales volume and get rid of the squirrels, so thick and so exhaustive that it will never be replaced, and lesser editions of its processes which are unauthorised and so on, will not have even remotely a chance. In other words, we should be able to fill the requirements on mockup processing so extremely well that there will be no question as to what volume one procures and uses. The best way I know to guarantee this is to take the work of Plotto whioh was I think about 20 years in the process of compilation and is a feat which has never been equalled. I will, of course, give the individual credit. I will take care of the publisher arrangements of our
using this work from here. In passing let me remark that the problem is cracked and has been cracked for several days, so far as processing and the human mind is concerned. There will be more data and ramifications, but this has
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been so high and so effective with a process so easy to work that there is no question as. to what is going to happen to the whole field of psycho-therapy. Our thought now is to get this material down in digestible form, get our organisation in shape and move into the field with a Macedonian phalanx rather than a bamboo whistle.
All my love
RON
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Now Hubbard the Brainwasher:
(original image soon on ABS as well)
Box 242
Silver Spring, Md.
Sept. 6, 1955
Dear Manney;
Here is the linotype ms of this do-in-ahurry hook. It has been proofed and smoothed out for typesetting. soon Please send me back/the unproofed ms I sent you for estimate as I want the original of it clean. Also please salvage and return to me when completed this linotype copy of the ms. There is a degree of security involved with the work and we don't want this copy of the ms to get lost or any copies to go astray. I have several pieces of work to do for submission to the government so lets get this one out of the way PAST so we can get on with the show. If it wouldn't be much more we could run a second run of BRAINWASHING right along with the first run making another 5,000 or 7,000 in all.
Best
Ron
PRINTING DIRECTIONS
NO COPYRIGHT NOTICE
NO PUBLISHER OR AUTHORS NAME
OMIT "Synthesized by" line at top of each page. This does not belong in the printed edition. 2,000 5x7 or thereabouts Booklet to look somewhat like an Army training manual
Cheap paper for the pages and the cover
No proofs to be furnished but production should be undertaken, and completed at once.
This ms wanted in a HURRY.
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July 19 - 53
Spain
Dear Hellen -
You have many times mentioned the "electronic eager beavers" around there. Well here is a vital project for advanced research which I must have. I have tried three times to get this gadget, simple as it is, and three times the persons who engaged upon it suddenly decided it was "too terribly deadly" and although they had it almost complete, stopped work on it in something like horror.
War,according to Klausewitz, is the art of inducing "A more agreeable and reasonable frame of mind in an adversary". Our adversary, insanity, is far from reasonable. I have been licking the problem of insanity with mechanical aids.
You may have wondered why I keep telling auditors to lay off the insane - It is because it is too tough on the auditor when I have, in development stage, five mechanical aids which anyone of them, lick the problem without destroying the person, the last being the favored method today in psychiatry. If I came over for a series of lectures, I will want to have these five mechanical aids to demonstrate and a means to manufacture them to hand. We can "Take Richmond" if I can put in psychiatric use, these simple aids. They are four of them, nothing to build. The fifth is another matter. It is the fifth we want to finish this stage of the "mechanical aids project". If we spring any of this before I can demonstrate and we can manufacture and supply, the squirrels will ruin the entire show with unworkable gimmicks re Howes. So this is secret. It is also secret that the 5th aid, the one requested here, will never be released gnerally and must remain secret. The other four are simplicity. One is reduction of charge by grounding. Two is release of charge by double terminaling with mirrors.
Three is reduction of charge with Bl and protein in quantity (already tested, never understood by our public"). Four is attention shifting by mechanical aid. Five is the induction in the insane of instantaneous hypnosis and theta clearing while tranced - very effective but very hard to do without a mechanical aid. The work I am doing here is assisted by the fact that in Spain I have an unlimited freedom to practice on the insane.
There are so many insane in the US and so few auditors that only mechanical aids plus group processing, can get us over this hump. We really can solve insanity in the U.S. but not with individual auditing at 2 or 3 weeks per insane patient. They go crazy faster than we can audit. The 5th aid uses a type of hypnosis not generally known. It is physical hypnosis. The Thetan agrees with the body. The body is pretty crazy. When the 9n agrees too much theta + body are crazy = insanity. The body goes easily into a sommolence.
If the body can be made not to interfere for a short time the 9n can be exteriorized and worked. Drugs and shock hit the thetan too as these connect with the brain control centers. The body can be hypnotized via the vagus nerve in the stomach. By creating a regulated series of impacts against this nerve it may be possible to hypnotize the body and leave the thetan fairly free in many cases. In order to accomplish this the device must not be suspected. Either by sanitarium officials or the insane.
The device must be packaged in a very ordinary tan brief case of the type lawyers use and which has yet enough room to permit papers being carried in it, taken out and put casually before witnesses. The "trigger" must be part of the lock of the case so that it can be turned on and off at will.
The device itself is a super sonic alternately directed and dispersed, beam, dry battery operated, without recoil upwards or backwards against the user.
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19 July 1953 Spain
The device must not make audible noises or howls. It must, to the human ear, be silent. It must deliver an impact of considerable force on a small target with a concentrated beam. This beam must go on and off and alternate with a dispersed but directed beam on a slighter greater area target. At five feet the beam should strike a target about 2" in diameter. The second beam should strike a target, same direction and area, about 8" or 10" in diameter. The number of times the beams strike, each, a minute, should be variable from 12 to 84 at the control of the operator. He could then set the machine for 12 narrow beams per minute and increase it to 84 narrow beams per minute. Narrow beams always followed by broad beams without another control. (These number, approximiate the breathing and heart rate; by bringing these into outward control, hypnotisim is induced.)
The force of impact of the beams should be as great as possible. They should emanate from one of the narrow ends of the brief case horizontally. The Japanese have registered many patents on such a device and have even, I think, killed a goat with one at 300 yeards. The device is not, however, practical as a weapon as it uses too much time. If the feeling that such a device as # 5, being deadly, should not be built or placed in anyones hands deters its construction, recall that it already exists and could be built for murderous purposes by anyone.
I want to be able to walk into a sanitorium, confront an insane patient, quiet him in a few seconds, exteriorize him, change his mind, wake him up physically. And I want a few auditors to be able to do it. This would mean the immediate end of psychiatric resistence to Scientology. Then we would take aids 1 to 4 and demonstrate and widely install them. I need then, here, soon , the 5th aid. I am testing and improving the others. Only good engineering can build # 5. Can you have it built and airfreighted to me quickly. I need it. The soundscriber came through fine and is working well, thanks to you I am organizing material for 2 more large issues in the Journal. I expect you will get out filler issues on their scheduled dates.
All is well here.
My love to you both --
Ron
On shipping #5 give it a spurious use for the benifit of customs here. Send the
instructions by letter, not with the machine.
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> Withdrawal of Support of Scientology
On may 29, 2006 "Michael Pattinson" posted:
PUBLIC STATEMENT
This posting may be freely posted to the wwweb, copied or published as long as it is correctly quoted without being altered from its original meaning.
In case I have never posted this, or made it publicly clear, I want to state that I hereby withdraw any and all support I have ever given to Scientology since 1973.
I was misled by trickery, false PR, lies and deceit into believing that Scientology was "mankind's only hope", "the only way out of the trap of death-and-rebirth' and that it wanted to "clear the planet of war, criminality and insanity". I have since found out that the cult of $cientology does not really achieve results towards those ends. It works to perpetuate ITSELF at any cost, and that is ALL. Period.
After being loyal to that cause for over 24 years, helping broadly as a celebrity with news PR, a volunteer, auditor, and FSM contributing heavily all the time, and going all the way to the top of the "Bridge" (which goes only into the centre of the abyss and leaves you there) i.e. New OT8 I was suddenly subjected to fair game by OSA. For no valid reason my "OT status" (pause for guffaws of laughter) was revoked even though I had attained the level of "New OT8" by paying hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The idiots at OSA France and the even more idiotic local CC Exec. decided that, after all that loyalty I must really be "the enemy" as I was writing articles on Art and Culture. This was utterly unacceptable (even though it had been my profession for 20 years) to OSA that I was "writing" as only LRH could write on Art, and anything else was "squirreling". Suddenly I found myself being treated as a kind of "criminal". False reports were written in quantity from people who were told what to write by OSA, and sent to the OT8 Ethics Officer etc.....
I fought the injustice by applying policy, standardly and to the letter,... for 6 years, with fair game and attacks on me all the way. false "Issues" from HCO on me, Committees of Evidence that lasted for years, Sec Checks, Ethics handlings, false reports by the dozen with no copies to me, repeated Fair Game by OSA on my businesses and friends, covert gossip campaigns by OSA, expensive ransom payments to be freed from being held against my will on the Freewinds ship, etc...(lots more). The constant strictly applied use of policy against this assault was INEFFECTIVE.
The Scientology "justice system" (what a JOKE!) was based on whims not facts, and on the politics of money, money, money not truth. In the end I had enough, and had spent over $125,000 just to try to clear my name of the false reports from OSA France and CC Paris and their robotic minions who would betray a friend so easily.
In 1997 I finally had more than enough of the deceit, lies and treason of Int Management and left the cult.
I went to the Clearwater Police Dept for help but they did not act on my complaint. They did, however, supply me with a copy of the book "L.Ron Hubbard. Madman or Messiah?", and I was finally in touch with the the truths that Scientology had hidden from me for all those years. I found the book fascinating and very enlightening!
So then I was finally out, in September 1997. It was a considerable relief, and I don't miss Scientology one bit. I have never once "needed a session" since then , not because of the effectiveness of the bogus auditing programs but because I reconnected with my reality of the "Supreme Being".
I tried to get my money back from Scientology by litigation but they preferred to harass and fair game me and my attorney into bankruptcy and personal ruin rather than follow the laws of due process of litigation.
Therefore I revoke and cancel any and all support, recommendation or positive PR I have ever given to Scientology at any time.
The truth of the real behavior and results of the Scientology cult, in my extensive experience, is the opposite of its stated goals and purposes. I got both no-results and bad results from Scientology. It was very costly in time, money and stressfully enforced loyalty of personal contribution and the end product was nowhere near worth the investment. Not even remotely a good investment.
This is posted on the 10th anniversary of the day the CC Paris Exec. first violated policy under orders from OSA France and fair gamed an OT8. Reposted today after seeing the spamming of the alt.religion.scientology newsgroup by Scientology trolls.
Silly OSA. Silly Sea Org.
Much love and compassion to those who have been similarly duped and harmed by Scientology.
Michael.
I urge other a.r.s. regulars to post their own thoughts and emotions on new threads here regarding having once supported Scientology and whether they still do. Public disavowal of Scientology can help prevent others from getting sucked in and harmed.
These views are far more valuable and relevant than all this anti-psych Hubbard-spew from the cult's trolls.
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> Scientology-Related Media
On May 27, 2006 the Quixstar Blog featured a report on David Touretzky:
Touretzky Speaks on Scientology (From a Quixtar blog)
http://www.webraw.com/quixtar/archives/2006/05/touretzky_speaks_on_scientology.php
One of the most popular destinations for Quixtar information seekers is Dave Touretzky's "Amway/Alticor/Quixtar Sucks!" website. Touretzky is a world-famous research professor at Carnegie Mellon University and an avid Free Speech proponent who's had some personal clashes with Quixtar.
However, his real passion is exposing the "vengeful religious cult" known as the Church of Scientology. I found an interesting video interview of Touretzky on YouTube from a recent episode of Keith Olberman's show on MSNBC.
"Dave Touretzky appears on Countdown with Keith Olbermann to discuss Tom Cruise, Silent Birth and Scientology."
(video)
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"Woggle" posted:
[Tory Christman on Scientology (from Daily Motion Video)]
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/201702
with a link to XenuTV in the sidebar
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Mark Bunker posted:
I uploaded it yesterday. I'm taking Daily Motion out for a test spin. The only other clip I put up there is the birth of Suri Cruise clip:
http://www.dailymotion.com/visited/XENUTV/video/126521
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"Michael" posted:
[LRH is on myspace.com]
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=74371637
i was searching for groups related to Co$ to post in, lots of young kids that are interested in Scientology. UH oh time for them to learn the truth!
http://www.myspace.com/scientology_is_fun
http://www.myspace.com/ironhubbard -- the link contains robotic music used to "spread the word" of LRH
http://www.myspace.com/dianetics
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=6785851
http://www.myspace.com/iheartxenu
I'm posting all over myspace to make sure that young people like me get the message, STAY AWAY FROM Cof$!
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"Woggle" posted a link to RINF News:
http://www.rinf.com/columnists/news/scientology-the-dark-side-of-scientology
Scientology crimes: Murder; extortion; blackmail; kidnapping; child abuse; child neglect; slave labor camps; burglary; racketeering. These crimes and more are part of life within the Scientology mob. This video explores these crimes, with interviews from a few of the Scientologists ordered by the Scientology mob to commit them. "To the Scientology organization," one victim of Scientology said, "human life does not mean a thing." Garry Scarff explained Scientology's RPF: the mob's "Rehabilitation Project Force," where Scientologists who no longer want to be Scientologists are sent to be "re-educated" via forced-labor reindoctrination camps where prisoners receive very little food and almost no sleep. Some Scientology prisoners have been observed being chained up in cellars to keep them from leaving Scientology. Several mysterious Scientology deaths are also explored. "Tom Cruise profited from the slave labor of Scientology prisoners," Andre Tabayoyon testified in a sworn declaration
http://holysmoke.org/sm/taayoyon. htm
Human rights abuses within Scientology are systemic and all-pervasive. Suicide and child abuse are also common within Scientology. The victims of Scientology are almost always Scientologists.
Scientology: "The Dark Side of Scientology," Part 1 & 2
The World Wide Wogs
26 min 16 sec
narconon-exposed.org
(Video)
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> Russia: Loss in Court
> No Memorial Day for L Ron Hubbard
> Lisa McPherson Fought to Leave Scientology
> Attorney Helena Kobrin Captive Under Scientology Guard
> Hubbard Letters Admit Mass Plagiarism for Scientology Sources
> Withdrawal of Support of Scientology
> Scientology-Related Media
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> Scientology News in Belgium
On May 27, 2006, "Piltdown Man" posted a translation of the first part in a series of reports from an article from the Le Soir Magazine in Brussels:
From: Le Soir Magazine, Brussels, May 16, 2006, p. 10-12.
Original title: "BRUXELLES - Nouveau centre européen de la Scientologie"
By Julie Barreau
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Link:
[ http://groups.google.com/group/alt.religion.scientology/msg/54c6e8f47bf67176?hl=en& ]
Further translation of the Belgian article this week:
On May 28, 2006 "Eldon Braun" posted:
ROUGH TRANSLATION OF PART III
HEAD: The true face of scientology
SUBHEAD: How Scientology treats its members
Scientology claims 8 to 10 million followers worldwide. In reality, the total would be more like 100,000 to 200,000 members. "Scientology is the biggest pseudo-religious swindle of the 20th and 21st centuries!" declares Roger Gonnet, a former member who established the Church of Scientology of Lyon(1). Scientology promises supreme freedom and absolute power. But if you believe the testimony of former followers, it can only ruin and destroy you.
SUBHEAD: A person's ruin
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Scientology "recruits" followers by different means. Initially, it is through word of mouth: members are duty-bound to proselytize. Front groups such as Criminon, Narconon, U-man [business consultants] or Management Efficiency [corporate training] are also used. But the most widespread method is the personality test. "These tests are a crock!" says Roger Gonnet, laughing. "In fact, the results are always catastrophic. 'You are depressed, you have no goals, no control over your life.' That's the explanation you'll get when a Scientologist administers the test. But they'll offer a solution -- courses in Dianetics!"
A huge number of courses are available. But watch out -- at each step, the price increases. In all, there are about thirty levels to go from "raw meat" (non-Scientologist status) to OT 15, the ultimate level. To traverse all these stages, the devotee will pay between 300,000 and 500,000 euros. People spend fortunes for courses that never bring the answers they're searching for. "They're selling hot air", says one despairing former member. Scientology is a system that stretches over a long duration. The "truth" is delivered drop by drop. When you arrive at level OT III, you'll be taught that each of us is not a single human being, but that thousands of spirits are interacting within every one of us. Yes, this is a serious belief -- that there are numerous entities within each body! "If those things were known at the beginning, nobody would have ever joined Scientology," Gonnet continues. For people within the system, this belief is cast in stone, insists the former member.
Besides taking courses, followers need "auditing". This is a form of psychoanalysis where the person describes a traumatic event until she finds it laughable. Then the event supposedly has no more influence over her. Imagine a girl who was a victim of incest quaking with laughter about describing the crime!
Finally, every good scientologist must be equipped with an e-meter. Price: 5,000 euros (manufacturing cost: about 100 euros). Scientologists often go to work for the organization because that way, their courses are supposedly free. But should they decide to leave the church, they will have to pay back the total price of the courses they took. Scientology has various contracts with durations ranging from two-and-a-half years to five years, or for a billion years -- since members believe themselves to be immortal!
SUBHEAD: Making a robot
The unacknowledged goal of Scientology is to teach its followers absolute obedience to its authority. "After a few years, I had become a genuine robot. I was ready to defend scientology at any cost," Roger Gonnet admits. "Scientology convinces people that they are profoundly flawed; the way to improve is spending enormous sums of money to reach the upper OT levels." The former member adds: "And by defending Scientology with body and soul." Reports of expulsion are mandatory. Excommunications from Scientology are made in writing, publicly, in sixteen languages on one of their websites (www.rtc.org/) established for this purpose, states Gonnet.
Scientology teaches its members how they are required to behave. These indoctrination sessions can last hours and even whole days. They are spread out over months, even years. "It's worse than a major military attack!" says a former member. And of course, in case of an error, Scientology also has its own "justice" system. Anyone with an "ethics folder" accusation must go before a "committee of evidence", which is actually a tribunal. If you are summoned by this pseudo-jurisdiction, your judgment is certain. You do not have a lawyer, are rarely allowed to testify, and are absent most of the time. These evaluations are practised undercover, by people with no legal competence. "My committee of evidence lasted more than a week," recalls Roger Gonnet.
Finally, Scientology has little tolerance for critics. It categorizes them as "suppressive". Ron Hubbard stated that 2.5% of the world's population are suppressive people. Here is how David Miscavige, the current leader, plans to conquer his opponents: "We will shoot down the suppressives like ducks in a pond."
The ultimate goal of Scientology is to have complete power over time, matter, energy and space. In two words: Become Superman!
Beginning at a certain level, you supposedly gain the ability to levitate a building, to displace yourself in time and so on. But it is forbidden in Scientology to demonstrate these super powers to anyone, because that might be traumatic, our apostate explains. Former members of Scientology still continue to suffer from this fraud for a long time after leaving the church. "The after-effects are incalculable, he concludes. They rip lives apart."
- Julie Barreau
(1) Roger Gonnet, author of La Secte [The Cult], Alban, and the website
www.antisectes.net
If you wish to report a problem with Scientology in Belgium, contact:
www.ciaosn.be
SIDEBAR:
HEAD: The power of censorship
The creators of the subversive American TV serial South Park dared to take on Scientology. In an hilarious episode called "Trapped in the closet", they exposed the truth about the methods and religious secrets of Scientology.
Stan, one of the four famous kids, takes a personality test at the Church of Scientology to kill time. He learns, to his great surprise, that he suffers from depression. Then he has other tests with the church's famous instrument, the e-meter. Immediately, it shows extraordinary results. The scientologists then take him for the reincarnation of their guru, Ron Hubbard.
The animated cartoon doesn't neglect Tom Cruise, the enthusiastic ambassador of Scientology. After Stan says his acting is poor, Cruise locks himself in a closet and refuses to come out. John Travolta and Nicole Kidman try to convince him to come out of the closet, a reference to the actor's alleged homosexuality.
Scientology beliefs like the "Wall of fire" are also objects of ridicule. "Trapped in the closet" is one of the more incisive satirical episodes of this program. It was scheduled to be repeated on a British channel in March 2006, but Scientology used its clout to prevent the repeat broadcast -- and succeeded.
Comedy Central, the cable channel that produces and broadcasts the series, suddenly decided to cancel the repeat broadcast of this polemical episode. Tom Cruise may have threatened to boycott promotion for the premiere of his current film, Mission Impossible III. The film is, in fact, produced and distributed by Paramount, which owns the Comedy Central channel.
And that's not all! South Park lost its chef in the battle. The character of Jerome McElroy, the school cook, will not appear in future episodes. Isaac Hayes' suave voice provides a high level of sarcasm to the animated cartoons. The singer is a follower of Scientology. He didn't appreciate this affront to his "beliefs", so he turned in his audio apron.
Trey Parker and Matt Stone didn't lose their sense of humour. They gave Chef a spectacular finale. In the episode entitled "The return of chef", Jerome McElroy is brainwashed by the Super Adventure Club, a reference to the Church of Scientology. This organization turns him into a paedophile before he falls from a bridge onto the rocks below to be burned, impaled, and finally devoured by a lion and a bear at the same time!
-- Julie Barreau
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"Piltdown Man" posted:
And here, finally, is part 2, all about the upcoming trial... I've decided not to add the second sidebar, which is background information about the French trial resulting from the suicide of Patrick Vic in 1988. More detail about this can be found on several websites.
From: Le Soir Magazine, Brussels, May 16, 2006, p. 10-12.
Original title: "BRUXELLES - Nouveau centre européen de la Scientologie"
By Julie Barreau
[Translator's note: Everything between square brackets is mine. I have used my own invention "legal entity" as a translation for "personne morale", partly because I don't have a specialist legal dictionary to hand. Maybe there is a more common lawyerly translation, but I think mine is at least fairly clear if YANAL.]
[SECOND PART OF MAIN ARTICLE, p. 14-17]
[headline]In the line of fire of Belgian justice
[sub-headline]Scientology to stand in the dock before the end of the year
After an investigation lasting nine years, with no less than 27 search warrants executed and multiple complaints filed by former members, the long-awaited trial of the Church of Scientology in Belgium is finally due to start. The stakes are high, and the case will have repercussions far outside our borders. For the very first time, Scientology itself could be convicted as being a criminal organisation.
[sub-headline]Four main charges
The judicial investigation started in 1997, and concerned nine Scientologists. The files on Scientology gathered since then, which take up four meters, cover offenses from the end of the 1980's until 2004. The drawing up of the formal charges that will complete matters will be finished within two months from now. The investigation took this long because two additional plaintiffs came forward. They are former members of Scientology who had risen to high levels in the church hierarchy, and where thus able to provide extremely important information. Four main charges have been established: being a criminal organisation (1), fraud, the illegal practice of medicine, and violations of the law on privacy.
[footnote] (1) According to Belgian law, a criminal organisation is a group consisting of more than two people, which exists over a period of time, with as its aim the concerted commission of criminal offenses to obtain, directly or indirectly, material advantages, by using intimidation, threats, violence, fraud or corruption, or by using commercial or other entities to hide or facilitate the commission of such offenses. [end of footnote]
Scientology until now has managed to avoid any convictions as a criminal organisation. However, this legal concept is very important, because it is the association "Church of Scientology Belgium" as a legal entity which is on trial, not its individual officials. "The people responsible will probably have made sure to be insolvent by the beginning of the trial. But if the organisation itself is found guilty, things will be quite different", explains Jean-Pierre Jouglas, a lawyer with Unafdi, the 'Union nationale des Associations de Défense des Familles et de l'Individu victimes de Sectes' [national union of defense groups for families and individuals victimised by cults]. If the Church of Scientology were to be found guilty on this charge, it would probably be instantly dissolved, on the basis of the 1998 law on the criminal responsibility of legal entities.
[Tr.: IANAL, but I think this is the law that finally solved a longstanding problem with Belgian criminal law: that only individual persons could be found guilty of crimes, not the companies or organisations they were part of.] At the same time, the judge could also order the confiscation of all real estate it owns in Belgium, including the newly acquired buildings in the Avenue de Waterloo in Brussels. What's more, such a conviction would inflict serious damage on Scientology's attempts at creating an image of respectability through its volunteer ministers and its various front groups.
But we are not yet at that stage, the more so because in this matter Belgian justice has to walk on eggshells. A conviction of Scientology as a criminal organisation could provoke a serious diplomatic incident with the United States, where the cult is considered respectable and has support at the highest levels of government.
The charges of fraud on the other hand are easier to prove. The testimony of the people who believe they have been defrauded by Scientology will however be essential. "The prohibitive prices of courses which are sold to members as well as the price of the e-meter may also be taken into consideration", adds Jean-Pierre Jouglas. As to the illegal practice of medicine, the prosecutors will build their case on the "purification", or "sweating", courses prescribed to members. The expert explains: "during these courses, Scientologists exercise, spend three hours a day in a sauna and take hugely excessive doses of vitamins, which weakens them considerably. The rest of the time is devoted to the lectures of L. Ron Hubbard, the only intellectual nourishment members are allowed". The auditing sessions, which are very similar to psychoanalytic sessions, may also be taken into account.
The last point of the charges, violations of the privacy law, should be able to be proven without any difficulty, thanks to the documents seized during the raids. As Jean-Pierre Jouglas explains: "Scientology keeps a file on every one of its members, containing everything that has been 'confessed' during auditing sessions".
[sub-headline]Defense through attack
With the charges almost finalised, both sides are now readying their arms. The prosecutors are using all legal means at their disposal. Scientology on its part has hired a number of well-known Brussels lawyers, and is working on its defense strategy of... attacking the plaintiffs! Many victims of Scientology don't have the courage to demand justice. Even after they've left the Church, it still holds a considerable grip on its former members. Jean-Pierre Jouglas explains: "Many victims never file a complaint. This is because these people continue to think along the lines of the cult's belief system for a long time. Such a break happens very gradually and is quite distressing. Victims don't want to hear anything about Scientology anymore, and are afraid to go beyond that because they are still intimidated." As an illustration, not one of the plaintiffs in this case was willing to have their identity revealed in this article. One plaintiff says: "When you leave Scientology, all your values, all your truths
fall apart, and you're left in total confusion. You don't have any certainties left. You feel guilty and afraid. The only thing you want to do is unplug the phone and lock yourself in at home." In a stroke of luck for Scientology, its victims continue to protect it indirectly. For those who might be brave enough to go the authorities, it has several means at its disposal to persuade them otherwise. The plaintiff: "Scientology knows all the weaknesses of each of the plaintiffs, and knows how to manipulate them to achieve its aims. They don't have scruples. They are well-trained, willing to do anything, and think they're immortal. They are real kamikazes". In this case, three people have been offered settlements for undisclosed amounts. Jean-Pierre Jouglas explains: "Scientology's method to defend itself against any charges is to pay the people who come forward to withdraw their complaint. They usually pay the amount the plaintiff is demanding. With the plaintiff gone, Scientology concludes that there has been no breach of the law. What's more, plaintiffs are often in debt as a result of paying for courses. They therefore often prefer getting their money back immediately, rather than sit through ten years of legal proceedings". Other methods have also been revealed by former members. "Through intimidation, spying, slander, threats, harassment, dirty tricks, blackmail, and... suing people at every possible opportunity. That's how Scientology defends itself", Roger Gonnet, a former member, says angrily. The Church of Scientology has its own intelligence service in Belgium, called the 'Office of Special Affairs'. Jean-Pierre Jouglas adds: "Scientology thinks it wields all powers. It has its own police, its own system of justice... It is really a state within the state. The system of values of any country where it installs itself is thus thought irrelevant. This is why the cult thinks it is above any law that doesn't suit it. It threatens to blackmail its supposed enemies with the information it gathers on them. Also, confidential information revealed during auditing sessions is used to put pressure on people to stay in the cult, or not do anything that might harm it." But despite all of Scientology's efforts to keep its alleged crimes from being put under the public spotlight and avoid a conviction, the trial is definitely going ahead. In criminal law, even if the plaintiffs withdraw their complaints, the judicial authorities continue their work.
All over the world, organisations that fight against cults are awaiting the start of this trial with impatience. Will Belgium succeed where others have failed? The 65 boxes of documents seized during the raids might make all the difference...
- Julie Barreau.
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> Russia: Loss in Court
On May 30, 2006 "Roger Gonnet' posted the translation of a report from ANNews in Russia:
Scientology 0: Government 1
http://www.annews.ru [in Russian]
Velikiy Novgorod, May 22, 2006, ANN correspondent Gennadiy Aleksandrov. On Monday Novgorod City court validated the legal claim of city Duma deputy Aleksander Daina against Novgorod's "Scientology and Dianetics Distribution Center."
As the plaintiff, Aleksander Daina stated during the legal proceedings, the prior history of his conflict with the Novgorod Scientologists happened in Spring 2005, when voters came to the city Duma deputy with complaints about operations by activists from Novgorod's "Scientology and Dianetics Distribution Center."
According to Aleksander Daina, the methods of their activity in the Novgorod region did not differ much from the city. With an importunity typical for adepts of this organization, they "confronted" people on the street, at the large neighboring market and anyone who came into their office (the NPA company, which Daina manages, is in the same building as the "Scientology and Dianetics Distribution Center) and offered them "tests" and "promises." All this, in Aleksander Daina's opinion, served one purpose: "to attract city residents into the sect." In a fairly short period of time nearly 50 statements, written and verbal, appeared on his desk with requests to help and to somehow "regulate" the behavior of the Scientologists.
When Aleksander Daina got in touch with the Scientology Center's management and tried to make himself heard, they met with him in a way he says was unfriendly, and were indignant at the "interference with the activity of an officially registered organization" and declared that he was trying to restrict their freedom to practice religion.
What's more, on May 24, 2005 the Scientology Center's director sent letters to the city prosecutor, to the regional and city Dumas and to the Velikiy Novgorod city mayor's office. These letters asserted specifically that Deputy Daina "used his position" to encroach upon the religious rights of the people, a violation of the RF Constitution, and that his actions were unbecoming of a city Duma deputy. Scientology asked that "measures of an ethical character" be taken with regard to Aleksander Daina.
The mayor's office took the Scientologists' letter seriously and decided to bring the issue "on Aleksander Daina's conduct" to the ethics committee. This step, in the words of Aleksander Daina himself, was the straw that broke the camel's back. Without waiting to be called and be "put through the mill" by the committee, Aleksander Daina went to the Novgorod city court with a complaint concerning his defense of honor and dignity, and specifically asserted that the Scientologists' letter was a framework of negative information that, first, did not correspond to reality and second, did him mental harm. Aleksander Daina assessed his complaint against Scientology in the amount of one million and one rubles. He explained this figure by saying that in the event he won, he would give one million rubles to charity and keep the one for himself, "as a souvenir."
Legal proceedings chaired by Judge Anatoliy Viyuk began June of 2005. The defendants refused to acknowledge the legal claim, asserting that in no way could their letter have affected the deputy's honor and dignity. For an impartial assessment of the situation two linguistic experts were called: the first in Velikiy Novgorod and the second in Moscow. The experts worked nearly four months on the linguistic assessment of the Scientologists' letter, and at the end they came to the conclusion that the letter that had been distributed by the Scientologists contained "negative information" about the plaintiff.
Judge Anatoliy Viyuk concurred with that position on Monday, and he made a decision about satisfying, in part, the deputy's claim. The amount the court set in accordance with the principle of justice was 10,000 rubles, to be collected from the Novgorod "Scientology and Dianetics Distribution Center." Besides that, Scientology is instructed to rescind the letter sent to the city prosecutor, the regional and city Dumas and the mayor's office.
"The amount to be collected, of course, is not a big deal, but I still won't back down from what I said. When the Scientology Centers pays me 10,000 rubles for discrediting me, I will keep one ruble and all the rest goes to charity," Aleksander Daina told an ANN correspondent as soon as the court hearing, which had lasted a little less than year, ended.
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> No Memorial Day for L Ron Hubbard
On May 27, 2006 "Muldoon" posted the topic, "L. Ron Hubbard's false claims to have been a war hero make Scientology's observance of Memorial Day an awkward issue:"
Scientology PR people are not patriotic, yet their anxiety at participating in ceremonies, honoring fallen soldiers and sailors, can be traced to the exposure of Hubbard's disgraceful lies about his past.
About Ron "the war hero":
http://www.xs4all.nl/~kspaink/cos/warhero
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"Tory Christman" posted the topic, "Memorial Day Week-end & Freedom, Scientology, and Suppression:"
What does Memorial Day Week-end, Scientology--Freedom and Suppression have in common?
Well, first of all, my thanks to any and all soldiers who have spent their lives working and fighting to safeguard our country. Although I've been against a number of wars, including the one we're in now, I'm always for the soldiers. They do what they're told, and they do it under the name of safeguarding freedoms we each enjoy daily. Secondly, my love to all of the families who have lost loved ones trying to fight suppression.
This week-end, to me, is a week-end to spend honoring those who have fought to safeguard freedoms we all enjoy daily.
Granted, we are not military and we are not in a physical war, certainly not like the military, and I'm not in any way saying they're the same, as they are not. However, I would also like to thank each and ever critic who has spent part of their lives fighting the suppression Scientology has tried to instill in our country, and other countries.
Granted, it's a LOT easier to sit behind a key board and fight suppression than to be face-to-face with warriors ready to KILL. That comparison alone should help each person realize how lucky we are.
It is my hope that Scientology's OSA and their nasty actions get snuffed out of the bushes totally, out into the light, where they literally can no longer:
"lie, cheat, steal, destroy someone utterly" as their master, L. Ron Hubbard, said in "Fair Game." He said it was fine for people to do such actions, against those who dared speak out against them. (and I know, I believed that policy was cancelled too. I'm here to tell any and all lurkers: IT WAS NOT. Just go read RFW and Scientology's 5 pages of flat out lies about me alone, to tell you yes! They DO still practice "Fair Game").
Blessings to all ...and my thanks to each of you :)
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Tory/Magoo Dancing in the moonlight In Scientology for 30 years, out happily for 5 years!
For thinking and speaking my mind, Scientology declared me a 'suppressive person' and expelled me from their so called 'church' Free at LAST!
http://www.xenu.net, www.xenutv.com
http://www.torymagoo.org, www.altreligionscientology.net
http://www.lermanet.com/cos/toryonosa.htm
"Those that give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-- Benjamin Franklin
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"Arnaldo Lerma" posted:
Memorial Day - L Ron Hubbard - the War ZERO - Subject description: Hubbard "UNFIT TO COMMAND" Exposing a Phoney War "hero" Reply with quote Edit/Delete this post Delete this post Scientology PR people are not patriotic, yet their anxiety at participating in ceremonies, honoring fallen soldiers and sailors, can be traced to the exposure of Hubbard's disgraceful lies about his past.
About Ron "the war hero":
http://www.xs4all.nl/~kspaink/cos/warhero
AND
Summary of Hubbard Navy Record
http://www.lermanet.com/L_Ron_Hubbard/
with images of 600 pages also..
AND
Ron the WAR ZERO flyer for distribution to Veterans groups HERE:
http://www.lermanet2.com/reference/RON_THE_WAR_ZERO2.rtf
This is a handy tri-fold handout, useful for pickets, memorial day, and 4th of July and in .htm
http://www.lermanet.com/L_Ron_Hubbard/L_Ron_Hubbard.htm
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> Lisa McPherson Fought to Leave Scientology
On May 28, 2006 "Arnaldo Lerma" posted:
AMC Publishing...despite FALSE representations that Lisa was just a lowly salesperson at AMC, it turns out that at one time she was Mary De Moss"s #1 salesperson !! Apparently Lisa was a big time "producer" for the outfit.
Mary De Moss acted like she ran the show, but in fact she was only a 1/3rd owner of AMC, the real owner was a "wog"...
Some questions arose today in a conversation with creed Pearson. seems Lisa McPherson had been asked by Mary De Moss to make fundraising calls for Winter Wonderland... one of the people she called was Creed Pearson.. Creed was not one to hide his feelings... and refused to 'donate' any money to Winter Wonderland, because he had donated the previous year and later learned that they had thrown out all the decorations purchased then...so now were asking for more money...He also told Lisa about what he had discovered Hubbard said about Christ and why winter wonderland someone who is was such a farce http://www.lermanet.com/cos/nochrist.wav
Lisa was also reported to have been completing cycles... finishing everything she had said she was going to do, as if she were preparing to leave... scientology.
Evidently Lisa McPherson concluded that Creed Pearson was somebody she could talk to..about whatever she was thinking about... and called creed, and asked creed if she could meet with him.
Then strange things started to happen.. His wife begged him NOT to meet with Lisa... ( as if she, herself, had been contacted by OSA, who evidentially had been survielling Lisa ) and then creeds own daughter begged him not to meet with Lisa... Creed did not meet with Lisa McPherson, because at the time he did not connect the dots, but he has now.
this was shortly before she took her clothes off after she bumped that car
http://www.lermanet.com/scientologynews/washingtonpost/lisa-120698.htm
I recall posting requests back then for information about AMC publishing.. what the hell do they really do? why are they important...because my gut feeling was that I needed to find out what did Lisa know that could have been a motive for murder?
Creed pointed out a VERY interesting tidbit...
1) one of the common symptoms.. of someone who has been DOSED with angel dust - PCP - is that they take off their clothes! - The "irrational" conduct of Lisa McPherson might not have been "irrational" at all, but the result of having been dosed with angel dust/PCP. This would generate a psychotic paranoid reaction.. which then COULD BE USED BY SCIENTOLOGY TO INCARCERATE THE PERSON USING THE "POLICY" OF THE INTROSPECTION RUNDOWN!!
2) Another person, I KNOW PERSONALLY, who had found out what Scientology really was, and wanted to leave was brought a drugged drink BY A FAMILY MEMBER!! In retrospect this makes sense, if what OSA was trying to do was CREATE psychotic reactions in those who wished to leave ( because after all... Hubbard said only PSYCHOTICS and CRIMINALS oppose scientology! And so it is OSA's job to make it so! This person refused to drink it, and survived.. but is too scared by their perception of scientology's ruthlessness to file a report with the police!
3) I was dosed with LSD during the raid on my home in 1995, and had I http://www.lermanet.com/cos/motion22.html not had a great time at Woodstock after Jerry Garcia threw those baggies filled with tabs of acid out to the crowd during his two hour rendition of Lovelight.. I might not be here right now...as I would have thought I was going crazy but thanks to Jerry Garcia, I knew it was LSD!
4) EXTREME efforts were taken to drive Joan Woods (the coroner in the Lisa case) off the deep end... she thought she had been dosed with LSD also... and ended up in psychiatric ward at one point...
5) Scientology claimed under penalty of perjury starting with that lying scum bag Scientologist attorney Earle C Cooley's claim that Scientology's belief system demands that bodies be cremated...
I hereby challenge ANYONE to cite the SOURCE in Hubbard's materials about scientology that supports this statement. Hubbard's own words direct that his "body be BURIED in the date fields" and don't tell anyone where.
There is nothing about cremation!!
It was used to hide the evidence about whatever REALLY happened when Hubbard died. The conundrum is this... The blood samples provided by the now dead of cancer scientology "OT" Dr Denk, the same DR that prescribed Chloral Hydrate for Lisa McPherson...were provided "For the convenience" of the coroner.. (Now isn't that NICE of him???) he provided 3 vials of blood of El Rum Hubtoad.. prior to his death..Now please pay close attention...
NONE OF THAT BLOOD in the three vials provided for the coroner's convenience TESTED POSITIVE FOR VISTARIL - AN ANTI PSYCHOTIC MEDICATION!!
However, the blood sample taken by the coroner DID test positive!! And this tidbit was pointed out by Michael Tilse, the same Michael Tilse who was told that all the stuff on the web critical of scientology was lies! Michael Tilse went to the coroners office in San Luis Obispo and pulled the copies of the coroners report and the full toxicology report, showing that Hubbard's blood contained VISTARIL, and ANTI PSYCHOTIC medication..
But wait... It is even worse than you think!
The clinical test for vistaril is NOT QUANTITATIVE!
That is, the test, only provides a POSITIVE result ( if a trace or BETTER! ) or a NEGATIVE - the test does not show HOW MUCH
Now.. in the fine print of the coroners report, Hubbard had a signed a "Statement of belief" witnessed by 1) Pat Broeker, 2) Anne Broeker and 3) Stephen J Pfauth ( who the hell is he???)
this piece of art, was supposedly signed by "Ron" on the 20th of January 86...4 days before he was dead...
now... dig this
http://www.lermanet.com/image/cremation-affidavit.jpg
TEN RECENT NEEDLE MARKS!!
So he was getting Vit B-12, *I* have prescription for injectable Vit 12.. I've never taken more than one a week, and cant imagine more than one a day... TEN recent needle marks... The VIALS of blood provided by 4) Dr Denk for the "convenience" of the coroner did NOT contain vistaril!
TEN needle marks...
http://www.lermanet.com/image/ten-recent-needle-marks.jpg
Denk would have known the limits of the clinical test for vistaril.
Since this event..Denk died of cancer. And No one has see Pat and Anne Broker...the Coroner was delivered the documents by none other than attorney 5) Sherman Lenske, and attorney 6) Lawrence Heller....
Did they kill Hubbard AND Lisa Mcpherson..for the money?
WITT:
The finances are significant in this case because Lisa was making well over $100,000 a year, working for a Scientology-owned company. And when her family took over her account, there was only a couple hundred dollars left in that account. Cruz is a Scientologist, and also testified that Kurt Paine is a member of the Church of Scientology as well.
ANCHOR:
Well, an attorney for the Church of Scientology said this afternoon this is not a church matter, but rather a personal matter
Ch. 28 News, Tampa, Tuesday, October 14, 1997, 6:00 pm]
http://www.lermanet.com/persecution/vampires.html
and the scientology lawyer response...............
'ANCHOR:
Well, an attorney for the Church of Scientology said this afternoon this is not a church matter, but rather a personal matter'
the lawyers that represent a business and direct vehicle for laundering the regged money must hide the method of the disappearing money. it is also what pays them elaborately
lermanet_com wrote:
Lisa was also reported to have been completing cycles... finishing everything she had said she was going to do, as if she were preparing to leave... scientology
Newscast
November 20, 1998
News Channel 8 -WFAA
"Scientology - Church Charged"
"Kellie Davis: She said that she was getting out and coming home, and I asked her, I told her, I said "you mean your getting out of Scientology?" and she said "let's not talk about it over the phone," she said," I'll tell you all about it when I get home." But she said "but I'm getting out and coming home to stay." And she said that I'll definitely be there before Christmas.
Byron Harris: The next time that Kellie Davis saw Lisa McPherson was at her funeral in Dallas."
Q: Arnie, could you clarify.
I don't see how (1) Lisa being a top saleswoman, and (2) her talking to Creed Pearson would constitute a motive.
How long was it from the time of Lisa's accident to when she died at Ft Harrison and authorities were given her body? How long would the described drug be traceable in the body?
Answer:
Frankly, Neither do I... in so many details, however, there is the distinct appearance to this student of Scientology's deceptive practices that the "Purification Rundown" in this case, was used with intent to "dispose of utterly and without sorrow" one of those who by the mere fact of living interfered with the continued extraction of money from rubes.
This is a paradym shift in perception of intent.
After she took her clothes off, ( after she was 'dosed' ) 17 days worth of scientology's mecca of technical perfection's ' care' later, she was dead.
I believe PCP can be detected in hair samples for a very long time, but it would have to be tested..for that..
As top salesman she would have access to the client lists. A source that wishes to remain anonymous told me that payments to Flag were forced out of employees by DeMoss.
a source wrote:
If I were looking into a motive, I would look at Benetta Slaughter. [a person who] worked at AMC publishing after all the Dallas folks moved to Clearwater. She moved back and would never explain why she left AMC, only to say it was "Benetta". She was also upset about some forced donations Benetta made her staff make to FLAG. I know Benetta funelled money into the C of S, and I'm wondering if she did it illegally.
Which is what I wondered too... If seek justice, find the truth, if you want the truth, follow the money.
Whatever was going on at AMC Publishing, what if the downside risk in lost income to Flag weighed more in the eyes of OSA than one young girl's "Meat Body" ??
The contact with creed, would not have been the motive, but a precipitating event, Lisa was exiting scientology!
It would have been a person (lisa) who was in "doubt" getting re-enforcement for her view..(what disconnection policies are supposed to prevent) (Reality is defined as agreement by Hubtoad the Greatest CON Man on Earth) that all was not well inscientology's la-la land...and that it was okay to speak about what you know... if a person still has MONEY, and is willing to give it to scientology, you will NOT get into ethics trouble.. unless you are caught driving the wrong the way on a one way street at a high rate of speed and rear end a police car.
At the instant you refuse to continue to PAY...Even a raised eyebrow will become an "ethics offense".
Evidently there may have been A LOT OF MONEY involved...
Cremation, which is NOT PART OF THE SCIENTOLOGY BELIEF SYSTEM (The best place to hide a really big WHOPPER of a lie is right in front of you ) is being used by Scientology to destroy the evidence of foul play.
Can ANYONE, provide a citation from Hubbard's written works to support Earle Cooley's claim that Cremation is part of Scientology?
No.. it is NOT THERE!
Nobody can supply a source in Hubbard's writings from which ANY of those quotes in Way To Happiness came from either.
I believe that The magnitude of the LIES we are dealing with from Scientology have been underestimated, IMMENSELY.
The purpose of this posting was to shake the tree and see what falls out, results so far have not been dissapointing.
thought some of these details should be outlined for a number of reasons, including this lesson, that what is important is NOT whether they killed a young girl with intent, or whether they killed L Ron Hubbard, and covered it up by enforced SILENCE by requiring that each person (witness) there be made a perpetrator of a capital offense.. with no statute of limitations, by requiring each of them to inject one syringe full of vistaril into the old mans rump. (ten needle marks, but no vistaril in samples provided by Denk)
What is imperatively important, is to understand Scientology's overall PATTERN of conduct... and to understand that PATTERN of conduct in glowing red hot neon letters burned into the deepest recesses of your mind.
I would like to thank 27 year member of Scientology, Michael Tilse for http://www.lermanet.com/scientology/dear-scientologist.htm
having a damn fine mind, and not being intimidated into silence by Hubbard the King of CON's scam dba Scientology and varous other frontgroups
http://www.lermanet.com/frontgroups.html
"the Court is now convinced that the primary motivation of RTC [$cientology] in suing Lerma, DGS and The Post is to stifle criticism of Scientology in general and to harass its critics."
http://www.lermanet.com/xenu-in-southpark-is-real.htm
Arnaldo Lerma
Lermanet.com Exposing the CON
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On May 29, 2006 the New York North County Gazette published a commentary paralleling the death of Terri Schiavo with Lisa McPherson's:
COMMENTARY - The Schiavo Case: Anatomy Of A Cover-Up
By June Maxam
The stench of Florida's criminal justice system is permeating the entire country.
Unfortunately the cover-ups and injustices aren't confined solely to Florida.
Part of the problem in Florida is in the state attorney's offices and county medical examiners---and it may extend all the way to Tallahassee and the Office of Gov. Jeb Bush.
The old story of one lies, the other swears to it. The nucleus of the stench appears to be in Pinellas County.
A large factor in the cover-up equation which is being exposed in Florida involves Guy Tunnell, forced to resign in April by Gov. Bush as the commissioner of Florida's Department of Law Enforcement. Unbelievably, Tunnell has now been appointed by Steve Meadows, state attorney for the 14th Judicial Circuit, to be a coordinator of cold case squads in the 14th judicial circuit's six counties.
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Pinellas County is not without precedent for controversies surrounding autopsies and smack in the middle of the case which precipitated the removal of former Pinellas County Medical Examiner Joan Wood and the appointment of Thogmartin is none other than McCabe, chairman of the search committee and who appointed an interim medical examiner to serve for the period between the time Wood resigned and Thogmartin assumed the office.
Wood had been forced out of office in September 2000 after McCabe and his staff dropped charges against the Church of Scientology, blaming Wood's reversal in her autopsy relating to the 1995 death of Scientologist Lisa McPherson, a case which had some shocking similarities to the Terri Schiavo case in that it was first determined that McPherson died of dehydration.
McPherson, 36, had died after a 17-day stay at the church's spiritual headquarters in the Fort Harrison Hotel in Clearwater following an automobile accident.
According to records issued in the McPherson case, Wood and McCabe had tangled long before she reversed her autopsy findings and he helped force her out of office because he disapproved of her appearing on Inside Edition to discuss the McPherson case.
McCabe dropped felony charges of abuse of a disabled adult and practicing medicine without a license against the church. Wood had unexpectedly and without explanation changed her autopsy findings, saying that McPherson's death was accidental and that "psychosis and history of auto accident" were significant conditions that contributed to her death. She expunged "bed rest and severe dehydration" from the initial autopsy which had been listed as underlying causes of death.
Following the June 15, 2005, release of the autopsy report in the Schiavo case which raised more questions than it provided answers in the 15-year-old case, Gov. Bush asked the Pinellas-Pasco County state attorney's office and state attorney McCabe to investigate the discrepancies in times surrounding Michael Schiavo's actions and response in summoning emergency medical assistance for Terri during the early morning hours of her sudden collapse.
As expected, McCabe claimed in early July that there was no evidence that any criminal activity was involved in Terri's collapse. McCabe's determination came as no surprise as he had repeatedly stonewalled any criminal investigation into the Schiavo case.
The case of Terri Schiavo and the handling of it is remarkably mirrored in the case of Lori Klausutis, a 28-year-old worker for Rep. Joe Scarborough (R-Fl) who was found dead in the congressman's district office in Fort Walton Beach on June 20, 2001, shortly after 8 a.m. Preliminary findings from the medical examiner's office by associate ME Dr. Michael Berkland of Okaloosa County showed "no foul play or any outward indication of suicide".
There was no follow-up, no investigation but instead what appeared to be yet another big cover-up. There were no witnesses to the death and the cause of death was not apparent. Klausutis' boss, Rep. Scarborough had recently unexpectedly resigned from Congress when rumors began circulating about his marital fidelity. He also abruptly resigned as publisher of the Independent Florida Sun.
Chairman of the Medical Examiners Commission at the time of the Klausutis death was Dr. Stephen Nelson, Thogmartin's assistant in the Schiavo autopsy.
The young woman had been the picture of health and vitality before her death, just like Terri Schiavo was before her collapse. Klausutis was an avid runner who ran five miles a day.
Police denied finding any sign of trauma to her body the day she was found dead and said there was no indication of foul play. Berkland's press release issued two weeks later acknowledged that there was "a scratch and a bruise" on her head. He said the original denials by the police "were designed to prevent undue speculation about the cause of death", admitting that the police had lied to the public.
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> Attorney Helena Kobrin Captive Under Scientology Guard
On May 28, 2006 "Anonymous" posted:
Helena Kobrin now has her own 'handler' who follows Kobrin wherever she goes. Word out of AOLA is that Kobrin expressed the desire to quit Scientology and Moxon entirely and was promptly assigned a 24-hour- a-day guard (a woman) to keep her from blowing. Kobrin cannot even step out of her office for a cigarette without her guard with her. More, she is not allowed to go anywhere except when her absence would be noted and questioned by wogs. This started about two years go.
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"Andrew Robertson" posted links to pictures of Helena Kobrin:
It's all the fault of that Viking rascal, for on his Ministry of Silly Hats page:
http://www.xenu.net/archive/photoalbum/7a-1200.jpg
he suggests that the delectable maiden in the second row, far left is the stunning Ms Kobrin.
http://www.xenu.net/archive/photoalbum/ (scroll to the bottom for the small version with caption)
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"Warrior" posted:
Isn't this Helena Kobrin at the front right in this photo?
http://www.xenu.net/archive/photoalbum/3.jpg
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"Mike O'Connor" posted:
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A lot of us realize that Scientology is not a simple scam. It is complex and well crafted. It has attracted many, many smart people and people who only want to improve themselves and help mankind. It's a long road and a slow snare. It takes a long time to get you into a position where you feel trapped.
I think Helena feels trapped right now, and rightfully so. She of all people knows the ways that would be used to suppress her if she tried to leave, if she tried to express herself, if she tried to tell her story.
Helena, you're tired - exhausted. But things always seem worse than they really are. You CAN escape! And you CAN tell your story! People do want to hear it, some people NEED to hear it. Getting the truth and the real story out there will do much more for the people than all you hoped to accomplished when you first joined for good. Believe me, you'll find friends you never thought you'd have, and you'll be doing a real service for people. And you'll feel better - at peace.
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"Arnaldo Lerma" posted:
Helena is a very good copyright lawyer
But her skills would ONLY be marketable in the WOG world if she denounced scientology. However, I suspect, and .. this would be, If *I* were David Miscavige.. I would have to make sure that she had a mortal accident, before I would allow her to leave...she knows TOO much.
Her testimony regarding what was really done in RTC vs Lerma.. and many other cases including Wollersheim.., would reopen them.. and gawd knows what else she knows.
Im afraid, that if that missive is true, Helena Kobrin is in mortal danger.
She should give me a call at 703 241 1498, I promise to do whatever it takes to keep Ms Kobrin from being 'disposed of utterly and without sorrow'...
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considering the extreme magnitude of this Ms Kobrin should contact Mary Ann Werner, VP Legal At the Washington Post....
Arnie Lerma
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"Anti-Hippy" posted:
At the latest telephone hearing Keith Henson had Kobrin showed up with a mysterious woman to "drive her home" after the hearing,,, maybe that was her garude.
"Keith Henson posted:" posted:
That hearing was even stranger on the tape than it reads. I was there by phone and there was an interesting exchange between David Cook entering his appearance and me stating my name where the judge listed the people in the court.
COOK: Thank you, Your Honor. David Cook for Plaintiffs
WEISSBRODT: Mr. Henson, are you on the phone.
HENSON: Yes, and I . . . are you the only one there?
WEISSBRODT: No, there are a number of other people who have not entered their appearance. Ms Luce is here. Ms Seid is here. Ms Kobrin is here. And there's another person in the courtroom whom I don't . . . I know has been here many times, but I don't know who she is. Who is that, Ms Seid?
[Muttered conversation in the background.]
WEISSBRODT: I was told that she's just somebody that's giving Ms Kobrin a ride later. I don't know what that means, other than that she's giving Ms Kobrin a ride later.
HENSON: Well, anyway, I'm here.
WEISSBRODT: OK, can I have your full name, please?
HENSON: Howard Keith Henson.
WEISSBRODT: Thank you. OK. Sit down, Mr. Cook.
COOK: Oh, thank you, Your Honor.
Whoever was Helena's "driver" had been at enough previous hearings for the judge to recognize her. Perhaps the choke collar and leash she was holding gave her away. Another odd business, I have not been able to reach David Cook since that hearing and the second Hoden interrogatory is way over due.
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"Phill Scott" posted:
Helena, hang on in there. You know me. I am your friemd. You used to send me emails. I know it's tough going with all those body thetans crawling around under your skin tittering with their cruel laughter and giving you pains to punish you when you don't obey their commands, but L. Ron HUbbard has the tech to cure it. After you have done OT levels III, IV, V, VI and VII then you will be free of them and you will feel great relief. Yo DO want to be free of those little demons, don't you? Well, the way out is the way through, as Mankind's Greatest Friend used to say.
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"Stefano MacGregor" posted:
The next picket of the cult (and is there one planned soon?) should have some signs about Rathbun and Kobrin, maybe "SCIENTOLOGY: WHERE IS MARTY RATHBUN?" and "SCIENTOLOGY: WILL HELENA KOBRIN BE YOUR NEXT VICTIM?"
The next time there's a critic on the radio with a cultie, it might be well if these questions were raised.
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Stefano
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"Maggie" posted:
There was an anonymous message posting that Scn, Inc. attorney Helena Kobrin may be in mortal danger.
I received an email letter from Helena back in the mid-90's. It addressed six lines of something Hubbard wrote that were posted, and I responded to, including the worrisome six lines in my response (as netiquette suggests).
This was the time that the first batch of Kobringrams were sent out, calling us all "copyright terrorists" for wanting to comment on some of the hinkier policies and practices Hubbard dreamed up for his followers to pay for. It was an attempt to shudder us into silence; one of many that obviously has not worked.
I hope Helena's had time to form a plan for herself, and get the hell out and somewhere safe. I hope they're not holding the health of any of her relatives as security for her good behavior.
I wonder if she knows where Marty Rathbun and Warren McShane are, and I wonder if that knowledge is worrisome to her. I hope she will get in touch with media and law enforcement, such as Arnie suggested --going to the VP of Legal at Washington Post, for instance. Or the FBI. Hasn't this gone on long enough?
-maggie, human being
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> Hubbard Letters Admit Plagiarism for Scientology Sources
"Roger Gonnet" posted several letters revealing Hubbard's plagiarized sources of Scientology and instructional advice:
This letter from L. Ron Hubbard shows that he wanted to use someone else works . I wonder if hubbie used it to fabricate his scam and his "battylefield earth or other fictions.
0 Marlborough Place
London N.W.8
27th March 1953
Dear Helen,
I sent you a cable a week or ten days ago but have not heard anything from you concerning the plot genie.
The book to which I hare reference is quite necessary in the composition of what will be the master text book on Scientology. The book can. be obtained in many places but certainly can be obtained through Writers' Digest in Cincinnati, Ohio.
There are many such books but there is only one of the kind I want.. There are decks of cards, whirligig devices, anyone of which, is supposed to assist a writer in plotting. The book .to which I have reference is in a book form and is the first and only important book for the. creation of limitless plots. It is not a book on how to plot; it is a book which contains all the elements of plots which, when combined, will derive an infinity of new plots. This book has in it boundless lists; it goes on for hundreds and hundreds of pages with very small type giving conditions of things, objects and types of beings. The man who' compiled this book went mad in the process. It was done about 30 years ago. The book has maintained itself in print because it is the standard book used by writers who plot in that fashion. If you have received the cable and if you have sent something, please look at this data again and be fairly sure it was the book. I have forgotten the name of it; It might be called Plotto. This book is,
so far as I know, the most complete list of conditions of beingness and objects available on earth today. What I will do is get permission from the publisher to use some fractions of its lists for an entirely different purpose than Plotto. It is necessary that we do this because the book which we are going to publish will have to be, in order to guarantee its sales volume and get rid of the squirrels, so thick and so exhaustive that it will never be replaced, and lesser editions of its processes which are unauthorised and so on, will not have even remotely a chance. In other words, we should be able to fill the requirements on mockup processing so extremely well that there will be no question as to what volume one procures and uses. The best way I know to guarantee this is to take the work of Plotto whioh was I think about 20 years in the process of compilation and is a feat which has never been equalled. I will, of course, give the individual credit. I will take care of the publisher arrangements of our
using this work from here. In passing let me remark that the problem is cracked and has been cracked for several days, so far as processing and the human mind is concerned. There will be more data and ramifications, but this has
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been so high and so effective with a process so easy to work that there is no question as. to what is going to happen to the whole field of psycho-therapy. Our thought now is to get this material down in digestible form, get our organisation in shape and move into the field with a Macedonian phalanx rather than a bamboo whistle.
All my love
RON
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Now Hubbard the Brainwasher:
(original image soon on ABS as well)
Box 242
Silver Spring, Md.
Sept. 6, 1955
Dear Manney;
Here is the linotype ms of this do-in-ahurry hook. It has been proofed and smoothed out for typesetting. soon Please send me back/the unproofed ms I sent you for estimate as I want the original of it clean. Also please salvage and return to me when completed this linotype copy of the ms. There is a degree of security involved with the work and we don't want this copy of the ms to get lost or any copies to go astray. I have several pieces of work to do for submission to the government so lets get this one out of the way PAST so we can get on with the show. If it wouldn't be much more we could run a second run of BRAINWASHING right along with the first run making another 5,000 or 7,000 in all.
Best
Ron
PRINTING DIRECTIONS
NO COPYRIGHT NOTICE
NO PUBLISHER OR AUTHORS NAME
OMIT "Synthesized by" line at top of each page. This does not belong in the printed edition. 2,000 5x7 or thereabouts Booklet to look somewhat like an Army training manual
Cheap paper for the pages and the cover
No proofs to be furnished but production should be undertaken, and completed at once.
This ms wanted in a HURRY.
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July 19 - 53
Spain
Dear Hellen -
You have many times mentioned the "electronic eager beavers" around there. Well here is a vital project for advanced research which I must have. I have tried three times to get this gadget, simple as it is, and three times the persons who engaged upon it suddenly decided it was "too terribly deadly" and although they had it almost complete, stopped work on it in something like horror.
War,according to Klausewitz, is the art of inducing "A more agreeable and reasonable frame of mind in an adversary". Our adversary, insanity, is far from reasonable. I have been licking the problem of insanity with mechanical aids.
You may have wondered why I keep telling auditors to lay off the insane - It is because it is too tough on the auditor when I have, in development stage, five mechanical aids which anyone of them, lick the problem without destroying the person, the last being the favored method today in psychiatry. If I came over for a series of lectures, I will want to have these five mechanical aids to demonstrate and a means to manufacture them to hand. We can "Take Richmond" if I can put in psychiatric use, these simple aids. They are four of them, nothing to build. The fifth is another matter. It is the fifth we want to finish this stage of the "mechanical aids project". If we spring any of this before I can demonstrate and we can manufacture and supply, the squirrels will ruin the entire show with unworkable gimmicks re Howes. So this is secret. It is also secret that the 5th aid, the one requested here, will never be released gnerally and must remain secret. The other four are simplicity. One is reduction of charge by grounding. Two is release of charge by double terminaling with mirrors.
Three is reduction of charge with Bl and protein in quantity (already tested, never understood by our public"). Four is attention shifting by mechanical aid. Five is the induction in the insane of instantaneous hypnosis and theta clearing while tranced - very effective but very hard to do without a mechanical aid. The work I am doing here is assisted by the fact that in Spain I have an unlimited freedom to practice on the insane.
There are so many insane in the US and so few auditors that only mechanical aids plus group processing, can get us over this hump. We really can solve insanity in the U.S. but not with individual auditing at 2 or 3 weeks per insane patient. They go crazy faster than we can audit. The 5th aid uses a type of hypnosis not generally known. It is physical hypnosis. The Thetan agrees with the body. The body is pretty crazy. When the 9n agrees too much theta + body are crazy = insanity. The body goes easily into a sommolence.
If the body can be made not to interfere for a short time the 9n can be exteriorized and worked. Drugs and shock hit the thetan too as these connect with the brain control centers. The body can be hypnotized via the vagus nerve in the stomach. By creating a regulated series of impacts against this nerve it may be possible to hypnotize the body and leave the thetan fairly free in many cases. In order to accomplish this the device must not be suspected. Either by sanitarium officials or the insane.
The device must be packaged in a very ordinary tan brief case of the type lawyers use and which has yet enough room to permit papers being carried in it, taken out and put casually before witnesses. The "trigger" must be part of the lock of the case so that it can be turned on and off at will.
The device itself is a super sonic alternately directed and dispersed, beam, dry battery operated, without recoil upwards or backwards against the user.
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19 July 1953 Spain
The device must not make audible noises or howls. It must, to the human ear, be silent. It must deliver an impact of considerable force on a small target with a concentrated beam. This beam must go on and off and alternate with a dispersed but directed beam on a slighter greater area target. At five feet the beam should strike a target about 2" in diameter. The second beam should strike a target, same direction and area, about 8" or 10" in diameter. The number of times the beams strike, each, a minute, should be variable from 12 to 84 at the control of the operator. He could then set the machine for 12 narrow beams per minute and increase it to 84 narrow beams per minute. Narrow beams always followed by broad beams without another control. (These number, approximiate the breathing and heart rate; by bringing these into outward control, hypnotisim is induced.)
The force of impact of the beams should be as great as possible. They should emanate from one of the narrow ends of the brief case horizontally. The Japanese have registered many patents on such a device and have even, I think, killed a goat with one at 300 yeards. The device is not, however, practical as a weapon as it uses too much time. If the feeling that such a device as # 5, being deadly, should not be built or placed in anyones hands deters its construction, recall that it already exists and could be built for murderous purposes by anyone.
I want to be able to walk into a sanitorium, confront an insane patient, quiet him in a few seconds, exteriorize him, change his mind, wake him up physically. And I want a few auditors to be able to do it. This would mean the immediate end of psychiatric resistence to Scientology. Then we would take aids 1 to 4 and demonstrate and widely install them. I need then, here, soon , the 5th aid. I am testing and improving the others. Only good engineering can build # 5. Can you have it built and airfreighted to me quickly. I need it. The soundscriber came through fine and is working well, thanks to you I am organizing material for 2 more large issues in the Journal. I expect you will get out filler issues on their scheduled dates.
All is well here.
My love to you both --
Ron
On shipping #5 give it a spurious use for the benifit of customs here. Send the
instructions by letter, not with the machine.
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> Withdrawal of Support of Scientology
On may 29, 2006 "Michael Pattinson" posted:
PUBLIC STATEMENT
This posting may be freely posted to the wwweb, copied or published as long as it is correctly quoted without being altered from its original meaning.
In case I have never posted this, or made it publicly clear, I want to state that I hereby withdraw any and all support I have ever given to Scientology since 1973.
I was misled by trickery, false PR, lies and deceit into believing that Scientology was "mankind's only hope", "the only way out of the trap of death-and-rebirth' and that it wanted to "clear the planet of war, criminality and insanity". I have since found out that the cult of $cientology does not really achieve results towards those ends. It works to perpetuate ITSELF at any cost, and that is ALL. Period.
After being loyal to that cause for over 24 years, helping broadly as a celebrity with news PR, a volunteer, auditor, and FSM contributing heavily all the time, and going all the way to the top of the "Bridge" (which goes only into the centre of the abyss and leaves you there) i.e. New OT8 I was suddenly subjected to fair game by OSA. For no valid reason my "OT status" (pause for guffaws of laughter) was revoked even though I had attained the level of "New OT8" by paying hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The idiots at OSA France and the even more idiotic local CC Exec. decided that, after all that loyalty I must really be "the enemy" as I was writing articles on Art and Culture. This was utterly unacceptable (even though it had been my profession for 20 years) to OSA that I was "writing" as only LRH could write on Art, and anything else was "squirreling". Suddenly I found myself being treated as a kind of "criminal". False reports were written in quantity from people who were told what to write by OSA, and sent to the OT8 Ethics Officer etc.....
I fought the injustice by applying policy, standardly and to the letter,... for 6 years, with fair game and attacks on me all the way. false "Issues" from HCO on me, Committees of Evidence that lasted for years, Sec Checks, Ethics handlings, false reports by the dozen with no copies to me, repeated Fair Game by OSA on my businesses and friends, covert gossip campaigns by OSA, expensive ransom payments to be freed from being held against my will on the Freewinds ship, etc...(lots more). The constant strictly applied use of policy against this assault was INEFFECTIVE.
The Scientology "justice system" (what a JOKE!) was based on whims not facts, and on the politics of money, money, money not truth. In the end I had enough, and had spent over $125,000 just to try to clear my name of the false reports from OSA France and CC Paris and their robotic minions who would betray a friend so easily.
In 1997 I finally had more than enough of the deceit, lies and treason of Int Management and left the cult.
I went to the Clearwater Police Dept for help but they did not act on my complaint. They did, however, supply me with a copy of the book "L.Ron Hubbard. Madman or Messiah?", and I was finally in touch with the the truths that Scientology had hidden from me for all those years. I found the book fascinating and very enlightening!
So then I was finally out, in September 1997. It was a considerable relief, and I don't miss Scientology one bit. I have never once "needed a session" since then , not because of the effectiveness of the bogus auditing programs but because I reconnected with my reality of the "Supreme Being".
I tried to get my money back from Scientology by litigation but they preferred to harass and fair game me and my attorney into bankruptcy and personal ruin rather than follow the laws of due process of litigation.
Therefore I revoke and cancel any and all support, recommendation or positive PR I have ever given to Scientology at any time.
The truth of the real behavior and results of the Scientology cult, in my extensive experience, is the opposite of its stated goals and purposes. I got both no-results and bad results from Scientology. It was very costly in time, money and stressfully enforced loyalty of personal contribution and the end product was nowhere near worth the investment. Not even remotely a good investment.
This is posted on the 10th anniversary of the day the CC Paris Exec. first violated policy under orders from OSA France and fair gamed an OT8. Reposted today after seeing the spamming of the alt.religion.scientology newsgroup by Scientology trolls.
Silly OSA. Silly Sea Org.
Much love and compassion to those who have been similarly duped and harmed by Scientology.
Michael.
I urge other a.r.s. regulars to post their own thoughts and emotions on new threads here regarding having once supported Scientology and whether they still do. Public disavowal of Scientology can help prevent others from getting sucked in and harmed.
These views are far more valuable and relevant than all this anti-psych Hubbard-spew from the cult's trolls.
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> Scientology-Related Media
On May 27, 2006 the Quixstar Blog featured a report on David Touretzky:
Touretzky Speaks on Scientology (From a Quixtar blog)
http://www.webraw.com/quixtar/archives/2006/05/touretzky_speaks_on_scientology.php
One of the most popular destinations for Quixtar information seekers is Dave Touretzky's "Amway/Alticor/Quixtar Sucks!" website. Touretzky is a world-famous research professor at Carnegie Mellon University and an avid Free Speech proponent who's had some personal clashes with Quixtar.
However, his real passion is exposing the "vengeful religious cult" known as the Church of Scientology. I found an interesting video interview of Touretzky on YouTube from a recent episode of Keith Olberman's show on MSNBC.
"Dave Touretzky appears on Countdown with Keith Olbermann to discuss Tom Cruise, Silent Birth and Scientology."
(video)
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"Woggle" posted:
[Tory Christman on Scientology (from Daily Motion Video)]
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/201702
with a link to XenuTV in the sidebar
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Mark Bunker posted:
I uploaded it yesterday. I'm taking Daily Motion out for a test spin. The only other clip I put up there is the birth of Suri Cruise clip:
http://www.dailymotion.com/visited/XENUTV/video/126521
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"Michael" posted:
[LRH is on myspace.com]
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=74371637
i was searching for groups related to Co$ to post in, lots of young kids that are interested in Scientology. UH oh time for them to learn the truth!
http://www.myspace.com/scientology_is_fun
http://www.myspace.com/ironhubbard -- the link contains robotic music used to "spread the word" of LRH
http://www.myspace.com/dianetics
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=6785851
http://www.myspace.com/iheartxenu
I'm posting all over myspace to make sure that young people like me get the message, STAY AWAY FROM Cof$!
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"Woggle" posted a link to RINF News:
http://www.rinf.com/columnists/news/scientology-the-dark-side-of-scientology
Scientology crimes: Murder; extortion; blackmail; kidnapping; child abuse; child neglect; slave labor camps; burglary; racketeering. These crimes and more are part of life within the Scientology mob. This video explores these crimes, with interviews from a few of the Scientologists ordered by the Scientology mob to commit them. "To the Scientology organization," one victim of Scientology said, "human life does not mean a thing." Garry Scarff explained Scientology's RPF: the mob's "Rehabilitation Project Force," where Scientologists who no longer want to be Scientologists are sent to be "re-educated" via forced-labor reindoctrination camps where prisoners receive very little food and almost no sleep. Some Scientology prisoners have been observed being chained up in cellars to keep them from leaving Scientology. Several mysterious Scientology deaths are also explored. "Tom Cruise profited from the slave labor of Scientology prisoners," Andre Tabayoyon testified in a sworn declaration
http://holysmoke.org/sm/taayoyon. htm
Human rights abuses within Scientology are systemic and all-pervasive. Suicide and child abuse are also common within Scientology. The victims of Scientology are almost always Scientologists.
Scientology: "The Dark Side of Scientology," Part 1 & 2
The World Wide Wogs
26 min 16 sec
narconon-exposed.org
(Video)
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a.r.s. Week in Review 5/27/06
> Former Member in Belgian Newspaper
> A Toe Hold to Belgium
> Science Ficton Courses for Super Power
> Critics Stalked and Threatened
> Tom Cruise Rants Draw Reaction
> Consequences of Scientology Involvement
> Scientology-Related Media
> Origin of Scientology Personality Test
> Hollywood Testing Center Activity
> Erased from Scientology Media
> Scientology and Los Angeles Sheriff Baca
> Narconon Challenged in Canada
> L Ron Hubbard, on Hypnosis and Little Kangaroos:
> Anti-Psychiatry Spammers
> Cult Notoriety Expanding
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> Former Member in Belgian Newspaper
On May 26, 2006 "Scientologate" posted a translation of the first page of an article from the Belgium "Dag Allemaal:"
Article out of: Dag Allemaal,
number of readers READERS 1,7 million dutch reading people in Belgium
www.dagallemaal.be
FRONTPAGE:
DE SCIENTOLOGY-CULT
PRIMEUR: A FORMER MEMBER TESTIFIES.
"THEY EVEN COVER UP CHILD PONOGRAPHY"
PAGE 1.
A picture of Pieter Nierop.
Text: Three years ago Pieter Nierop stepped out of scientology. "I have lost 120.000 euro to this church" testifies the former member.
A picture of the entrance of Church of Scientology, European Office of Public Affairs & Human Rights.
Text: Scientology has a European Headquater in the Wetstraat in Brussels. The belgium Judiciary suspects the church to be a criminal organisation.
How Dangerous is Scientology in Belgium? For the first time a former member testifies.
"The cult is ruining lives. It drives people to suicide"
Dag Allemaal (Belgium) 05/20/2006
What does the Church of Scientology represent in Belgium? Is it really a dangerous cult, as the Belgian Judiciary says, or an innocent religion with followers such as Tom Cruise and John Travolta? Ex member Pieter Nierop (46) worked for years for scientology. He gives us a distressing insight of what lies behind the doors of the controversial church. Don't be mistaken, scientology is dangerous. The church wants world domination.
The european HQ of scientology are located in the heart of Brussels. The church owns a stately building on the Wetsraat. But this attractive facade is just that. A beautiful facade. At least, so say the Belgian Judiciary. They dont believe that scientology is a bona fide religion. Rather they view it as a dangerous cult. Ten years ago, a parliamentary specical comitee put scientology on its list of dangerous cults.
Scientology is indeed a cult . Says ex member Pieter Nierop. Nierop is a manager with a major energy entreprise. He worked for years with the Office of Specical Affairs (OSA). This division of scientology gathers information on members, but also on opponents and on politicians.
My first contact with scientology took place on april 1st 1994 remembers Pieter. I was approached on the street. They asked me if I would like to take a personality test. Then they sold me their Dianetics book. In the eyes of the church, once you've bought something, you'r e a member for life.
Why did the message of Dianetics appeal to you? I had previously known someone who was a personal friend of L. Ron Hubbard. This got me interested. And the first test was free of charge. What did I have to loose? If you want to know more about scientology, the prices go right up. As things went going, I found myself paying more than 300 euros for just one book.
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Full article in Dutch:
Artikel uit: Dag Allemaal, gelezen door 1,7 miljoen nederlandstaligen
in Belgie.
www.dagallemaal.be
Op voorpagina:
DE SCIENTOLOGY-SEKTE
PRIMEUR: EEN EX-LID GETUIGT.
"ZELFS KINDERPORNO WORDT ER IN DE DOOFPOT GESTOPT"
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> A Toe Hold in Belgium
On May 27, 2006, "Piltdown Man" posted a translation of the first part in a series of reports from an article from the Le Soir Magazine in Brussels:
From: Le Soir Magazine, Brussels, May 16, 2006, p. 10-12.
Original title: "BRUXELLES - Nouveau centre européen de la Scientologie"
By Julie Barreau
[Translator's note: This is the first part of a three-part article, and the first sidebar out of four. Everything between square brackets is mine. I've kept street names in French. People who want to web this might want to take a look at the publisher's original PDF files, available at http://www.anti-scientologie.ch/lesoir-magazine.htm to make sense of the layout and perhaps, ahem, borrow the photographs. Note: doing so, as well as posting this translation itself, is undoubtedly in breach of copyright, but don't tell anyone that, ok? Until a few years ago, I would have politely asked the publication for permission before posting, but it has been my experience that newspapers and other periodicals don't really mind when single articles from past issues are reproduced for an audience that is outside their sales area anyway. This is a quick-and-dirty effort, there are some things for which better alternatives will no doubt come into my mind just after I've posted this.]
[FIRST PART OF MAIN ARTICLE, p. 10-12]
[headline] BRUSSELS: Scientology's new European center
[sub-headline] Scientology's mask drops. Their objective: seizing power.
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[sub-headline] 7000 square meters right under the windows of the Ministry of Justice.
Only three years after the controversy caused by buying a building at No. 91, Rue de la Loi [Tr.: the street where the Belgian federal parliament and a whole host of other government buildings are located], Scientology strikes again. The American mother Church has set its sights on Belgium. Its European center of operations is going to be transferred from Copenhagen to Brussels. The international Church of Scientology has the means to back up its ambitions. It has accumulated a vast war chest, which it doesn't hesitate to use. It has also bought other buildings, Nos. 100, 101, 102 and 103, boulevard de Waterloo! No less than 7000 square meters, located between the Ministry of Justice and the Palace of Justice... The location is as strategic as it is symbolic. This sensational bit of news is announced to the followers during the first part of the meeting. "This building will be twice as large as the largest Church of Scientology in Europe. It will have fourteen auditing rooms, and will be able to accommodate
hundreds of people", the speaker proudly proclaims. Perspective sketches of the building are shown on the overhead projector, amidst deafening applause from the audience. Its grand opening is planned for October. The conference doesn't stop there. The acquisition of real estate by Scientology in Brussels is just a first step in their plan to infiltrate the EU institutions.
[sub-headline] The road to power
In fact, the Scientologists are already in the process of trying to organise a human rights conference within the European Parliament itself, their ultimate target. Scientology tries to acquire power, slowly but surely, and always in an insidious way. Their goals are clear. "We must take control in Belgium! They have the same intentions as the Nazis did! We must educate these forces of the Fourth Reich about human rights!" _Standing ovation_ [Tr.: last 2 words in English in original]. To clarify: governments that don't recognize Scientology as a legitimate religion are considered by Scientologists to be Nazis, hence the use of the term "Fourth Reich" to indicate, in this case, the EU Commission and the European Parliament. Scientologists believe it is their duty to 'educate' these institutions to rally them to their cause, and to take control of them to save the planet! Scientology's internal rhetoric is that of a totalitarian ideology. Anything that stands in its way is considered to be a malignant power,
working towards the destruction of mankind and at the root of all the evils from which our planet suffers. Under the pretext of being a "minority religion", as it calls itself, Scientology is in fact a political organisation which has as its ultimate goal to seize power and establish a dictatorship.
[sub-headline] The final act: a massive recruitment effort
Acquiring sumptuous buildings, and an unquenchable thirst for power, aren't enough. Scientology announces it wants to create ten missions and fifteen groups around the big Church in Brussels. For this titanic task, it will need a lot of manpower. The first cloud on the horizon is: its human resources are completely inadequate. In fact, even though the Church of Scientology Belgium claimed recently to have no less than 5000 members, in reality there are probably no more than about 200 active members, that is people in regular contact with the Church. The goal of this conference was therefore not only to reveal to the most devoted Scientologists in Europe the new plan of action, but also to recruit, that very day, between 70 and 150 new members! The speakers attempt to stir up the audience: "Europe is in danger, we need to wake up! If you want to win this war, you've got to be a part of it!"
The second half of the meeting is taken up by the reading out loud of a series of quotes, too many to count, and also shown on the overhead projector, from L. Ron Hubbard, about the necessity of activism and participation. After this interminable recitation of absurd phrases, a woman exhorts, in a shrieking voice, all volunteers to join her on the podium. After some hesitation, a lone figure stands up, causing a thunderous applause. In total, about a dozen people end up volunteering... not really what it will take to fill up the new building.
Hungry for power, Scientology aims for the top. But there are going to be plenty of obstacles in the way. For starters, their upcoming trial.
- Julie Barreau.
[SIDEBAR, p. 10-11]
[sub-headline]Scientology advances stealthily...
The assault of Scientology on the capital of Europe has advanced in stages. Until recently, they only owned two buildings in Brussels. The first one, in the Rue du général McArthur, is used for auditing sessions (Scientology practices of a supposed therapeutic nature). And a second one, in the Rue au Beurre, close to the Grand-Place, meant for recruitment purposes. Here, Scientologists give personality tests to members of the public in an attempt to draw them in.
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- Julie Barreau
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> Science Ficton Courses for Super Power
On May 23, 2006 "Dave Touretzky" posted:
In case you didn't get it from the FARK article: some blogger has noticed that the description of the Super Power exercises in Rob Farley's recent SP Times article
http://www.sptimes.com/2006/05/06/Tampabay/Scientology_nearly_re.shtml/
are rather similar to the "Doc Savage Method of Self-Development", described in a series of 1930s era science fiction stories about the adventures of Doc Savage, "The Man of Bronze":
http://hometown.aol.com/the86floor/novels/method.html
Here's the blog entry:
http://tenser.typepad.com/tenser_said_the_tensor/2006/05/docs_exercises.html
It appears that Hubbard's "Super Power" is just a ripoff of an idea from a much more popular science fiction series. Here's the Wikipedia entry on Doc Savage:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doc_savage
Tell your friends.
-- Dave Touretzky: "Evildoers beware."
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Secrets
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"Zinj" posted:
Many of the 'Tech' elements are stolen straight from Heinlein's 'Gulf', and the whole Cult is a horrific realization of Mike Smith's 'Stranger in a Strange Land'
It's all plagiary.
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"Dilbert Perkins" posted:
It's interesting that the description of (the fictional character) Doc Savage is similar to Hubbard's rather delusional view of himself:
"Doc Savage, whose real name is 'Doctor. Clark Savage, Jr.', also known as "the Man of Bronze", is a physician, surgeon, scientist, adventurer, inventor, explorer, researcher and musician - a renaissance man."
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> Critics Stalked and Threatened
On May 23, 2006 "Tory Christman" posted:
At midnight last night my phone rang. It was a man, sounded rather odd, said "Hello". I asked where he got my phone # from, and he said, "Alt.Personal.Ads I knew right away it was Scientology posting my name to some porn site, but I wanted the info, so I asked. "What did it say?" He: "Blonde looking for Fun" on a Yahoo board.
Ok, so I explained to him that I had been in Scientology for 30 years, and left, and have been speaking out. Due to this, they have more than once posted my name to personal sites, lying about me......basically using people such as himself, and I was sorry for that.
(To anyone new: the last time my friends traced the same site computer address saying, "For a good time, call Tory" to the same computer address as "Truthseeker" uses. Truth, my A..!)
I also told him NEVER to get suckered into Scientology. He agreed not to, and I wished him well in his adventures.
Scientology? You all are J E R K S with a capital J.
All this shall do is bring on more, faster, farther...... and many many more shall hear of your disgusting actions, learn what ALL you're about, and decide for themselves whether they want to join a group who does such things, or not.
As I told you when I was "in", and since I left 5 years ago: YOU C R E A T E your own enemies!
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Why does BS have to keep changing the title of this thread?
Ask yourself that....and remember: Scientology has to hide the truth and facts from you.
Bail while you can!
Tory/Magoo Dancing in the moonlight
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On May 24, 2006 "Mike Gormez" posted:
I was abroad using a foreign keyboard in an internet cafe, hence the strange characters in my single reply as quoted in the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th e-mail . Half of it I don't understand but then there are more pleasant things then trying to unravel rambling morons.
To: [e-mail address]
Subject: bullshit
From: Greendawn22@[e-mail address]
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 07:44:34 EDT
scientology has helped me in my life, with reading, relations with people, and getting things done in my life
narconon has saved the lives of many of my friends,
we are growing like crazy nothing will stop us nothing HAHAHAHA
bye bye
we will take over
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To: [e-mail address]
Subject: Re: bullshit
From: greendawn22@[e-mail address]
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 15:00:19 EDT
Not everyone has [expletive], it has really saved my life, it is booming because it helps people its time to turn off ur sight and focus on the real threat from islam u ignorant idiot
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To: [e-mail address]
Subject: Re: bullshit
From: greendawn22@[e-mail address]
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 15:17:15 EDT
U [expletive] clown scientology helps people to voercome depression and anxiety u [expletive] clown may u rot from cancer attacking a religion whose goal , islam is becoming a grave threat to man stifling art and freedom and u attack scientology u [expletive] clown may u die of [expletive] cancer
[...]
Mike Gormez
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"Dilbert Perkins" posted:
Has anyone else received death threats from greendawn22 at aol.com ?
He/she claims to be a Scientologist, has told me he will hunt me down and will enjoy watching me suffer. Sounds like something a child would write.
He accused me of mocking his religion (which I don't think I've done). And then he sent me a bunch of death threats and invective. Anyway, I've printed them out and I'm taking them to the police.
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"Ray" posted:
By the way, this greendawn22 poster appears to be this scientologist (or was using his email):
http://www.truthaboutscientology.com/stats/by-name/m/mark-feigin.html
Interesting to note that even a low-level scientologist is convinced that they will "take over" (and I'm guessing he means taking over psychiatry here?)
"Ray" also posted:
Tom Cruise, paraphrased: [Critics] are bigots
http://www.xenu-directory.net/critics/
He also said critics are haters...
(Added latest threat to Mike Gormez)
I will come find u [expletive]
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.religion.scientology/browse_thread/thread/240e19efc77840d4/bc8f6ecbdf9afaca
[greendawn22 at aol: http://17131.multiguestbook.com/st_20.html and
maybe http://www.helloinsidedesign.com/ ?]
you're talking bullshit I'll kill you if you don't take the homepage down
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.religion.scientology/msg/e3e0c05e5...
Taz, the vocalist for Tampa Bay area band Trocar received an anonymous death threat by telephone at his work last Thursday, saying that if he performed at the Lisa cPherson Trust benefit concert, he "wouldn't walk out alive."
http://www.holysmoke.org/cos/benefit-death-threat.htm
The GO training program included instructions in how to make an anonymous death threat to a ournal-smear
http://www.lermanet.com/scientologynews/ReadersDigest.htm
Diane and the rest of you are digging your own graves and you don't even know it. Death is around the corner for all of you.
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.org.eff.talk/msg/4e7d30a9696a836b
http://www.amazing.com/scientology/marcus-threat.html
Since Yanny quit representing the church, he has been the target of death threats, burglaries ...
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Fishman/time-behar.html
"I HOPE YOU F-----ing DIE !!" - "I HOPE YOU DIE IN A HORRIBLE CAR ACCIDENT!!"
http://www.livefreakydiefreaky.com/blog/index2.php
I also received my first death threat that same month.
http://www.xenu-directory.net/accounts/cooper19970911-2.html#Part_2
That was when the threats began, they say. On one occasion, a man phoned Gorman's father and said, "SPs don't live long. Your son and his wife, Jennifer, will be dead soon,"
http://www.lermanet.com/tomgorman/gorman-nypost.htm
I hope you die in pain
http://www.xenu.net/archive/free_speech/painful_death.html
a scientologist in Heidelberg is convicted to pay a fine for threatening to murder a 17 year old, who was critical of scientology
http://www.religio.de/publik/deufaq.html
The head of security at the Clearwater church, Bill Johnson, allegedly chases a former member through the streets, screaming death threats.
http://www.shipbrook.com/jeff/CoS/timeline.html
You have been in the presence of Mark Hanna[OSA dude]. He was the guy in dark sunnies at the Sydney demonstration who introduced the guy who made the death threat to me. Mark also told me that "these" guys will finish you (Tony).
http://www.suburbia.com.au/~fun/scn/pers/fun/nots/
Prior to his departure for Los Angeles, [Judge] Richey received several death threats.
context:
Judge Richey had already convicted and sentenced nine of the original 11 defendants, but the remaining two, recently extradited from England, were about to go on trial.
http://www.spaink.net/cos/mpoulter/scum/judges.html
... critical radio show on Scientology she had produced was aired. The male voices told her she would be killed the next day.
http://home.snafu.de/tilman/krasel/germany/ottmann1.html
YOU NEED A BULLET!
http://groups.google.com/group/de.soc.weltanschauung.scientology/msg/...
[to complete]
Ray.
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> Tom Cruise Rants Draw Reaction
On May 22, 2006 the Post Chronicle" reported:
Tom Cruise: 'Screw You. Controversy Doesn't Bother Me'
by Tashi Singh
[...]
Tom Cruise simply will not back down on his opinion of psychiatry and anti-depressant medication, because the action hero is convinced he is right.
The star, who is a devout Scientologist, wants people whose lives are being harmed to become educated - even though he concedes that his opinions aren't really popular.
[...]
"Well, you know what I say to that machine? ... I say screw you. Controversy doesn't bother me, because I know what I'm saying is right."
Whatever Tom.
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> Consequences of Scientology Involvement
On May 24, 2006 "Shawn M. Hollenshead" posted:
You are going to spend lots of money or lots of time. If you have money or access to money then you will be persuaded to spend it. I personally spent my college savings on scientology services and for 3 years I spent 8 hours a day at the church studying so that I could get the results I was promised. I lived very poorly for those 3 years and realized that I had nothing to show for all my hard work. It is scary to come to such a conclusion. I am currently seeking a refund from scientology as I feel that the services did not improving my life the way that I was promised they would. I started in scientology when I was 18; I am 30 currently and feel like I am just strting my adult life. This is only one repercussion of scientology.
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"Jack Harper" posted:
I'm nuetral here. But ask yourself if or not you did benefit in many ways? My answer was yes. I have spoken to those who have left Scientology and got a refund and regret it. Because it was dishonest. I'm not speaking for Scientology, but there is a lot to be gained from it.
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"Shawn M. Hollenshead" posted:
I feel that my request for a refund is the right thing to do.. When you are sold something that doesn't perform as it should or only sometimes works the way it is supposed to I don't see that as a fair exchage. I am able to see if something has made a great difference in my life. I think that it is dishonest to say something is beneficial to you if you can't see the daily results in your hard work. I have no interest in letting someone keep my money because I an agreement. Had scientology been as effective as it was initially sold to me I would still be involved. An agreement is based on fair exchange. If I buy a $60,000 BMW, it had better be drivable otherwise I am not just ging to keep it parked in the garage as a nice souvenir.
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"Michael Tilse" posted:
Hi Jack,
Apart from any success or failure of the "tech", or personally perceived benefit, there are some other issues I feel strongly about.
An analogy to illuminate these is in order:
How would you feel if you went into a dealership and bought a car, signed the papers and drove off the lot. Only to find later that the things you were told about the car and the dealer and the salesperson had many important details missing, and some things represented were outright lies?
You find out that rather than new, the car is actually used. Actually, it's a salvage title from being in a wreck. It's worth far less than you paid for it. And that the dealer actually had no license for business, it's mechanics were not professionally trained and for the price you paid, you could have gotten a new far more reliable car with a much higher real value.
And that perhaps, the dealer and salesperson had criminal records and used the dealership to launder money and support other criminal enterprise.
Balancing all that, you DO have a car. It runs, takes you from place to place as other cars do and only occasionally breaks down. Your agreement was to buy a car and you did. You paid for it and it works. You get some of the benefits you were looking for.
Now: What you experienced at the dealership was fraud. You were lied to, manipulated and you were not getting what you thought, from representations made to you, you were buying. Even though you agreed and bought it and have the car, does not diminish the initial criminal fraud.
And so it is with the so called "church of scientology". They sell what they sell under false pretenses, omitted material facts about Hubbard and his "tech", and use outright lies from Hubbard and others to convince you to buy. The claims that are made are far beyond what people actually achieve.
That you achieve *some* benefit, that *parts of it* met your expectations are not justifications that can legitimize the fraud. The "agreements" were made based on false, omitted and misleading information, in an environment where you disuaded from making any independent verification of the claims and information or finding out if there was omitted information that might be material to your agreeing.
The basis for calling it fraud and getting your money back has nothing to do with you getting something you think was of value. The con man always gives you *something*. It deliberately makes you feel shamefull about being outraged by the con.
It's important to sort out what actually happens. Unless it was a fully informed decision, with all information that would bear on your "agreement" freely available to you, it is not a contract. It is not a real agreement. It is fraud and you need not feel dishonest for demanding return of monies dishonestly obtained from you.
Michael Leonard Tilse
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> Scientology-Related Media
On May 26, 2006 "Mark Bunker" posted a news report of Fox TV who interviewed Tory Christman:
For the last day of May Sweeps, Fox 6 in San Diego took a special look at Scientology. My sweet Magooski was interviewed along with a new spokesperson for Scientology, Dave Meyer:
http://www.truthaboutscientology.com/stats/by-name/d/david-meyer.html
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"Jommy Cross" posted a link to the Somethingawful forum:
http://www.somethingawful.com/index.php?a=3822
Triumph of the Thetans
Note: Because the Church of Scientology is quite litigious and would gladly sue a man just to watch him go bankrupt, I am not using any images owned by the Church of Scientology, merely pictures inspired by their very private property donated by people on the SA Forums.
As luck would have it, I recently came into possession of an exciting DVD entitled "This is Scientology." Naturally, this got me all worked up in a tizzy, because I am an avid fan of Scientology media as well as crazy cults in general. If David Koresh had made a DVD before his compound burned down, I would be excited to watch it too. As is, I watched the entire 80-day standoff on TV and relished every ridiculous moment of it. Some might take a stodgier look at cults, but I find them hilarious. Where else can you find people willing to die because an insane bald man said a comet is going to take them to heaven? True, when the poison Kool-Aid and gasoline start to spread things turn tragic, but the wild ride toward certain disaster is quite exhilarating to observe from the sidelines.
This holy DVD, subtitled "An Overview of the World's Fastest Growing Religion," promises to give an "exclusive briefing" by "Mr. David Miscavige" at the "Religious Technology Center." I'm pretty sure I missed some kind of global memo, because last I heard Scientology wasn't so much a religion as a "philosophy," and only in the loose sense that taking lots of drugs and trying to convince your buddies that 5th dimensional aliens showed you the ultimate burrito recipe is a philosophy. But, since it is a religion now and not just something celebrities do in their spare time, I guess I should treat the whole thing as being THAT MUCH MORE SCARY.
Sadly, "This is Scientology" is not an exciting movie, nor is it a documentary. Rather, it is a speech given by the aforementioned Baron von Miscavige "at the occasion of 35th anniversary of the Church of Scientology Celebrity Center." Sir David Miscavige, who, for all intents and purposes, is an extremely weaselly man. Lord Miscavige spends the entire speech looking and sounding angry and contemptuous, preaching on the ills of modern society, which of course only Scientology can fix. The ills, which he calls "the real Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse," are drugs, crime, illiteracy, and immorality. I would add in a fifth Horseman, that being "people who take too long at the buffet table, blocking you from getting the roast beef," but that is just me. His tone, demeanor, and speaking style is so menacing that I have to wonder if he is trying to sound appealing to people or to inspire a violent, nationalist uprising.
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Submarine Commander Miscavige is also quick to tout Scientology's success in battling drug addiction by addressing its root causes. Well, when you consider that such causes might include a bad family life and poor upbringing, a lack of proper social support and so on, replacing drugs with the embrace of a religious cult doesn't sound so implausible. Hell, in our modern age, people are able to replace drugs with video games and Internet forums and go at them with the same manic, stab-you-for-a-fix enthusiasm.
Getting back to those high production values, The Honorable Mr. David Miscavige gives his speech on an elaborate stage dwarfed by an even more elaborate set. Most churches are not even this gaudy. The set, with large golden columns, bright strings of light, and ornate carvings, looks like some kind of demented amalgamation of a fascist convention and the Academy Awards, with perhaps even a bit of Heaven thrown in the mix for good flavor. I realize Scientology is a very "Hollywood" religion, but they sure went all out. They could easily have hosted an awards ceremony with the same set, giving off trophies for "Most Celebrities Brainwashed" or "Outstanding Performance in an Audit." The giant picture of L. Ron Hubbard is also quite fetching, because he looks more like everybody's creepy uncle than a religious figure. Again, an indie cult would never be able to pull this off.
Rear Admiral Miscavige is quick to defend Hubbard, for where would he be without such a luminous figure to guide him through the darkness of life? Rather than letting Hubbard's career writing stories about aliens impregnating humans (or whatever the hell he wrote about) be a negative, he twists it into a positive. For you see, Hubbard merely used his lucrative writing career to fund his "serious research" into how Xenu, Galactic Overlord, piled up billions of ancient humans at the base of a volcano and then erupted it with hydrogen bombs. Did I mention L. Ron Hubbard changed the world by becoming the youngest Eagle Scout in history at the age of 13? When you think about it, he sure did a lot more with his life than Christ. His idea of a merit badge was getting crucified.
All and all, I would say this was a disappointing DVD from the Church of Scientology. For one thing, it completely failed to even remotely brainwash me. The choice in Secret Agent David Miscavige as host was poor, since he is an antagonistic, ferret-like man. He seems more like an archetypical bad guy, a stock actor you get to play Joseph Goebbels in your low-budget Nazi shoot 'em up movie. I had high expectations for this video and none of them were met. If this DVD was nothing but two hours of a black and white spiral spinning around with a soothing voice whispering "You will enjoy 'Battlefield: Earth,' you will give us your money" I would have enjoyed it immensely. Scientology is too busy hiding Hubbard's bizarre teachings behind forceful propaganda these days, and that is a real shame.
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> Origin of Scientology Personality Test
On May 25, 2006 "Roger Gonnet" posted the text of a letter from 1950 that suggest the origins of the personality test:
TO: DON ROGERS
11/27/50
FROM: RON HUBBARD
Dear Don:
I have some data here on this test. I'm putting together a test battery, a psychometric test battery. I'm originating new tests and I'm going to call them by a series of names. These tests actually compare to existing tests and by publishing sets of these tests in the validation hard-cover book itself we will be able to have something there which is well in advance of the currect psychometry. I'm tired of fooling around with psychometry. The psychometry is too poor, it's too hard "to administer, and it's about time somebody took a bite on this that could line it up with dianetics. How people in the past have had this job and have fellen down on it. Right now, we're stirring around with the California test, we're going to have trouble every time we try to publish somebody else's test, so the thing to do is Just take their test and wr te good solid dianetic approximations to these tests so that they stand up in any battery.
Furthermore, none of these tests have enough variations. They have one, two and that's all. They have a and b. We need an abcd test form on a single sheet. I'm getting together a Minnesota Multiphasic test which is built exactly and squarely out of engrams which will show the psychoses and neuroses of every individual to which it is given. This is something they have never had before and I know that this thing will check across the boards.
The final forms for these tests will be forwarded to you for part of your validation booklet. Actually, the test we're giving on these graph sheets, will have been given on California Test for Mental Health, California Test on Mental Maturity, and several other forms. Now we're celling our tests, Standard International Mental Health Analysis, and Standard International Multiphasic Test for Neurosis and Psychoses. In other words, we're going to change the name of It and we're going to use an alternate form of well known tests. I'm going to work on these things for the next three days and turn out the whole battery of them, have them drawn up properly and send them back to you so that you can use those names. Therefore you never have to use California Test Bureau or refer to the Ameri can Psychoanalytical or American Psychological Association. Just leave them in the dust! It's about time somebody junked psychometry, so here they go ! Now you want to stand by them, for this material. It's coming through to
you soon as it can be entigrated. It will be sent through to you and it will be used in this form, I don't care what your local psychometrist says about this. He can whine, cry, tear his hair out, or lie down on the floor and kick. These are the tests that are going to be given and that finishes that!
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It's too bad, we tried to salvage what we could of old time psychology but I guess it's just as dead as the dodo bird. So, there is your validation program. I'll send you copies of this test to be printed as fast as I can turn them out. It isn't very hard to write these tests up by the way, they can be written up so they make sense. The main trouble with them will be getting a concordance between one test and another and establishing the factor for the a b c and d ones. This should be fairly easy. I think possibly if I work very very hard, why, I should be able to get all these tests done in about three days. I think this is reasonable in view of the fact that it took psychology about fifty years to develope a battery. We should move at about that ratio so let's go on it and I want you to have everything all set and ready to fire as soon as you get this material from out here. I want you to collect as many medical validations as you possibly can around there, get these things all written up and ready to put
into the validation booklet. O.K.? Would you please tell Maloney about this and let him listen to this record? O. K.
Best regards,
Ron
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> Hollywood Testing Center Activity
On May 25, 2006 "Dilbert Perkins" posted:
The other day, the Testing Center on Hollywood Boulevard had a couple of dump trucks in the parking lot. Nothing was in them, but they were there.
I wonder if the $10M Tom Cruise reportedly gave to the Church of Scientology for property in the San Fernando Valley went toward this project.
The place has been boarded up for three years, supposedly to remodel the lobby and basement. Nobody takes three years to decorate/remodel two rooms, no matter how big they are, no matter how exacting and pain-staking the renovation.
It has been speculated that the Church of Scientology has run out of money. Instead of the 8 million adherents they claim, it has been documented through various census reports that there are fewer than 500,000 Scientologists worldwide (see http://www.adherents.com/Religions_By_Adherents.html ). Personally, I believe there are maybe half that figure. In Los Angeles it appears that there are more people actually working for the Church of Scientology then there are public Scientologists. Low interest rates, and possibly bad investments, may have significantly depleted Co$'s formerly vast stash of cash. $10M would be a much-needed boon to restore the confidence of the few remaining faithful.
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> Erased from Scientology Media
On May 25, 2006 "Simkatu" posted:
Marty Rathbun (AKA Mark Rathbun) was once a high powered and influential Church of Scientology executive that was both well-respected by his peers and many other people. Marty worked as the Inspector General of RTC. The Church of Scientology used to proclaim that Marty played an influential role in obtaining the IRS tax exempt status for the CoS and its members who pay for courses. Marty was highly regarded within the Church as an effective leader and a "go to guy" that could really get things done.
Here's a picture of Marty when he was at the groundbreaking ceremony for the Super Power building 8 years ago in Clearwater:
http://groundbreaking.scientology.org/ (he is next to D.M. on the right)
Marty also used to have his full biography linked from here, but they've removed it. Pretty soon, I would expect that they will cut his body out of the picture and attempt to put someone else in his place.
There are some more remnants of Marty that are left on various Scientology web pages. Here's some pictures of Marty that are still hosted on CoS servers, but the Church of Scientology has removed all the pages that actually had these pictures on them:
http://davidmiscavige.rtc.org/eng/bio/img/Rathbun.jpg
http://www.scientology.org/pics/std/news-media/biographies/rathbun.jpg
http://www.scientology.org/scnnews/img/rathbun.jpg
http://www.rtc.org/pics/std/board/ig.jpg
http://www.lascientologie.com/p_jpg/scnnews/img/rathbun.jpg
Marty Rathbun (and/or Mark Rathbun) is still listed in the meta-tag information (go to VIEW | SOURCE to see the meta-tags) at over 4000 Scientology owned web pages including these:
http://italian.drugrehab.lronhubbard.org/page55.htm
http://www.scientology.org/p_jpg/helpitl/sh6_5.htm
www.lascientologie.com/p_jpg/helpspn/sh6_5.htm
http://www.lascientologie.com/p_jpg/world/worldger/indexgr.htm
http://www.lronhubbard.org/P_JPG/human/twth.htm
www.cienciologia.com/world/worldeng/indexesp.htm
plus 4000 other pages! The Church included him on so many pages that they are having difficulty finding and removing every last reference of Marty Rathbun. His name is listed in the meta-tags right next to David MisCavige's name.
The Church of Scientology can be expected to remove these traces of Marty soon.
A recent newspaper article documents that Marty Rathbun worked side-by-side with David Miscavige for over 20 years:
http://www.sptimes.com/TampaBay/102598/scientologypart3.html
However, around Sept. 15, 2005, Marty Rathbun's name was systematically removed from nearly every single internet page about him that was maintained by the Church of Scientology. All of his years of service and good works for the Church were completely erased from existence.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Rathbun
Why has the Church of Scientology been trying to erase all the records of Marty Rathbun? Why was the sheriff in Hemet, CA unable to locate Marty Rathbun in order to serve him with divorce papers?
http://www.xenu.net/archive/rtc/
Did Marty do something to make David Miscavige angry? Was he sent off to some sort of prison, or worse?
http://www.wwwaif.net/scn/scn_mr_list.php
Did Marty just leave Scientology willingly, and now he is in hiding, fearing for his life, scared of the organization that he dedicated 25+ years of his life to?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Rathbun
It's time for the police and media to do some investigations into the disappearance of Marty Rathun. When the number 2 man in a religious cult goes missing for 270 plus days and even the Sheriff of his hometown cannot locate him, its time for the media to investigate.
http://home.earthlink.net/~snefru/loose-ends/marty.html
Oh, and by the way, another high-powered exec, Warren McShane was also erased systematically from all the Scientology controlled web pages around the same date. McShane is also missing.
Did the Church of Scientology dispose of or otherwise harm Marty Rathbun and Warren McShane? It is time that the national media examine this question.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_McShane
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"Roger Gonnet" posted:
[erasing names from lists is a very old mania!]
I have searched for the first time my name in the Kristi's lists... it's in no lists, apparently; my ex-wife françoise is clear 6494 , but I'm not there, though we attested near the same period.
I'm not on OT3 completions (true, data are missing from AOSH EU). Nevertheless, I think my name was doctored, possibly.
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> Scientology and Los Angeles Sheriff Baca
On May 25, 2006 "David Touretzky" posted:
Okay, this is gross. Don't say I didn't warn you...
My current copy of International Scientology News, issue 33, showed up with a photo of none other than Los Angeles Sheriff Leroy Baca slobbering over the cursed corpse of L. Ron Hubbard, to honor the dead fraud on his birthday. The Sheriff allegedly said:
"The story of L. Ron Hubbard can be found in each individual who has taken the time to understand the information that he provides, the wisdom that it brings to dealing with life's needs and therein the real story can be told. And the tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions of people who have been exposed to what his ideas are -- it's all about goodness, it's all about improving yourself, it's all about finding a way to empower other human beings. It's reverence for life. Those are the important things."
You can see a scan of the page here:
http://Stop-Narconon.org/Baca
Shall we deconstruct?
1) "The story of L. Ron Hubbard can be found in each individual who has taken the time to understand the information that he provides, the wisdom that it brings to dealing with life's needs and therein the real story can be told."
This sentence says nothing. It's a truly ugly example of politician-speak. Reminds me of the famous non-endorsement: "For those readers who like this sort of thing, this is the sort of thing they will like."
2) And the tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions of people who have been exposed to what his ideas are ...
You mean the millions of visitors to Xenu.net? Or the people who read the 1991 TIME Magazine article?
3) it's all about goodness, it's all about improving yourself, it's all about finding a way to empower other human beings.
It's all about a man named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the largest domestic espionage case in US history, for which he allowed his own wife to go to prison. It's also about money. And mental self-abuse. And space aliens. Hail Xenu!
4) It's reverence for life.
All together now: can you say "Sea Org abortions"? I knew you could!
5) Those are the important things.
Not important to Scientology, and certainly not to L. Ron Hubbard. In the immortal words of Mae West: "Goodness has nothing to do with it."
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On May 23, 2006 "Feisty" posted:
[Sheriff Baca -Guns and badges for donations?]
A strange website listing lots of presentations with Sheriff Baca. The donations and subsequent "Partisans control the LAPD" is exceptionally odd considering the lack of reference to $cientology. Are they clueless or distracting away from Sheriff Baca's very supportive $cientology celebrity actors, and other donors and partisans? The second article addresses quite strongly the recent Federal Consent Decree of which $cientology may be using to help get programs into jails and prisons.
http://www.fulldisclosure.net/news/2006/03/guns-badges-for-political-donors.html
Los Angeles, CA. Watch this eight minute video news blog debate that was originally videotaped in 2005 between Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona and Los Angeles County Sheriff Leroy Baca. http://www.fulldisclosure.net/flash/VideoBlogs/VideoBlog11.php This free video is available "On Demand" 24/7, as a public service of the Full Disclosure Network.
You will see Baca & Carona explaining their policies on taking political contributions from Reserve Deputies, Under Sheriffs and personnel in their Departments. The Full Disclosure NetworkT is providing this video news blog worldwide on our web site at www.fulldisclosure.net.
Moderating the debate is Emmy Award winning host Leslie Dutton who interviewed both Baca and Carona in separate hour-long interviews covering many important subjects as well as the Sheriff's policies on giving guns and badges to political donor.
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Also!
http://www.fulldisclosure.net/news/2006/03/partisians-control-lapd.html
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
PARTISIANS CONTROL THE LAPD?
Los Angeles, CA The Full Disclosure Network is re-releasing a full half hour program on the Internet entitled "Partisians Own the LAPD" available as a public service 24/7, "On Demand".
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"Feisty" also posted:
[$cientology using Consent Decree to push programs?]
http://www.dailybreeze.com/news/articles/2809691.html
Tuesday, May 23, 2006
A federal judge Monday extended for three years the entire consent decree requiring federal monitoring of Los Angeles Police Department reforms, rejecting a move by city and U.S. officials who wanted only parts of the court order to continue for two more years.
U.S. District Judge Gary Feess acknowledged that the LAPD has made "progress in ways that never have been done" in reforms designed to weed out corruption and racial discrimination. The decree was implemented in 2001 in the aftermath of a department scandal involving frame-ups and beatings by officers in the Rampart Division.
What the extension will mean to taxpayers was not immediately clear. It costs the city roughly $10 million a year to meet the consent decree's requirements. That cost includes an $11 million, five-year contract to Kroll Inc., the firm of the decree's independent monitor, Michael Cherkasky.
**Gerald Chaleff, the department's administrator in charge of implementing the decree, said the Kroll contract will be renegotiated.**
But Feess said that since a "core" element of the decree -- a computer system called TEAMS II designed to help track potential problem officers -- would not be running until September, three additional years were appropriate.
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http://home.snafu.de/tilman/prolinks/
The L.A.P.D. accepted $25,000 from Scientology. It is also often seen together with scientology; one example is the Hollywood Police Activities League (PAL), read an article in scientology's propaganda paper, or see Hollywood police captain Michael Downing accepting $15,000 from Greg LaClaire of the Scientology Celebrity Centre, or supporting The Way to Happiness. Even more amazing is that until February 2001, the LAPD was controlled by Scientology's attorney Gerald L. Chaleff, who headed the police commission. Gerald Chaleff's employer is the lawfirm Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP. On December 10th of the same year, Chaleff joined the City Attorney's Office to "help trim city liabilities and lead a new risk management effort". In other words: Scientology is sitting on both sides of law enforcement.
Right now there are lots of news articles about ruin in L.A. jails naming Sheriff Baca, (at spam level and even from India in google news) and the budget cuts...Would this article talk about the same Federal Consent Decree, ordering more jails to be opened? That would include rehab programs. Budgets have been cut. Sheriff Baca has input in the budget. The longer this decree is around, it seems that it gives $cientology more time to use the race card to forge through its programs, unfortunately. They do need Sheriff Baca, and whoever else can help stack the cards.
http://ktla.trb.com/news/la-me-jail14may14,0,5951827.story?coll=ktla-...
In the summer of 1983, with the building filled to twice its capacity, hundreds of inmates were given four blankets each and slept under the stars on the roof of Men's Central Jail.
By then a class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of inmates by the American Civil Liberties Union was making its way through the court system. A federal court found the overcrowding to be cruel and unusual punishment and ordered the county to stop overloading its jails. At the time, more than 22,000 inmates were being housed in space meant for half as many. County officials, under a federal consent decree, agreed to open new facilities.
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In 1988, the judge allowed the county to institute what was to be a temporary solution to the overcrowding: early release.
Baca was already dealing with a jail system that had lost...
Baca's critics point to "nonessential" pet projects, like rehabilitation programs in the jail, that could have been cut to keep inmates in jail longer.
"That's nice, but that's not our job. Our job is custody," said Los Angeles County Sheriff's Sgt. Paul Jernigan, who works in Men's Central and is one of four candidates running against Baca in the June 6 election.
But the sheriff said these programs amounted to a fraction of the money he needed to save. With cuts down to the bone, he said he faced laying off deputies or closing the jails.
It appears that the consent decree is being used to forge the way for the detox program. In Compton, California, $cientology paid for Way to Happiness books for the NAACP, and $cientology claims that they, on behalf of the whole NAACP -
"WHEREAS: The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) passed a resolution on July 15th at their 94th Annual Convention in Miami Beach, Florida, entitled, "The Concerns and Discrepancies in Special Education and the Use of Psychotropic Drugs on Children and Teens," in which they resolved that its members on a national and local level recommend and support legislation such as the Child Medication Safety Act of 2003"
http://www.womenlegislators.org/news/article.php?article=51
The ruin is being affixed to the minority population and Sheriff Baca is most likely the newest person to try to get the detox in for criminal reentry. Maybe they are already volunteering in the prison there, like they have been in the faith-based prison in Florida.
Is there a connection and conflict between the consent decree commander, Gerald Chaleff, $cientology and Sheriff Baca?
This blog raises a different conflict of interest, I wonder if they are full aware of a possible $cientology connection or a part of the distraction?
http://www.fulldisclosure.net/news/2006/03/video-news-blog-bratton-co...
Video News Blog: BRATTON CONFLICT ON LAPD CONSENT DECREE?
Los Angeles, CA. Allegations that LAPD Chief William Bratton may have a conflict of interest in the ongoing LAPD Federal Consent decree that is being monitored by his former employer Kroll & Associates are featured in a thirteen minute Full Disclosure NetworkT Video News Blog. In the video are Chief Bratton, Councilman Bernard Parks, LAPD Captain Ken Hillman (ret), Assistant Chief David Gascon (ret), and LAPD Inspector General Jeffery Eglash (1998-2003). Available on the URL:
http://www.fulldisclosure.net/flash/VideoBlogs/VideoBlog26.php "Free", on demand, 24/7 as a public service of the Full Disclosure NetworkT.
In a February 2006 interview with the Full Disclosure NetworkT, Bratton predicted the Federal Consent Decree mandates would be extended beyond the five-year deadline to comply. Reasons cited were the Department's failure to develop an experimental and comprehensive computer tracking system for officers, known as Teams II. According to LAPD Captain Ken Hillman, the specifications for the computer system are "pie in the sky", and that no such computer system exists in the nation or the world.
Hillman went on to say "The problem is that Chief Bratton previously was an Associate with Kroll (International Consultants) and as such he was put in a position to oversee and monitor the implementation of the Federal Consent Decree for LAPD prior to being selected as Chief of Police (LAPD). I don't know if there is really an incentive for Chief Bratton to get out of the Federal Consent Decree because, in turn, if he were to get the Police Department out of the Federal Consent decree, his friends and Associates at Kroll would no longer have a job with the City of Los Angeles.
Hosted by Leslie Dutton, the Full Disclosure NetworkT Video News Blog contains comments from former LAPD Chief and now Councilman Bernard Parks who describes the "useless" ethnic and racial data that is being collected by police officers under the mandate of the Federal Consent Decree and he describes it as a "politically correct" function. Bratton agrees.
Former Assistant LAPD Chief Dave Gascon describes how the 300 best and brightest (police employees) were to be taken off the streets to perform (paper work) functions of the Federal Consent Decree. Chief Bratton defends the use of highly trained personnel, including himself in performing the Court mandated functions. LAPD Inspector General Jeffery Eglash describes how the under the Federal Consent Decree the auditors are now auditing the auditors and "there are a lot of redundancies in the process."
On November 2, 2000 the elected officials of Los Angeles agreed to a comprehensive court settlement of a civil rights case brought by the U.S. Department of Justice against the Los Angeles police department. This settlement agreement is referred to as the LAPD Federal Consent Decree, it was to be in force for five years and if compliance for two consecutive years, the lapd would be relieved of the federal oversight and monitoring costs and procedures. as of this year, that period is up.
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Programs going back to 2002 featuring Sheriff Baca
http://www.fulldisclosure.net/fmsearch/search.html
search for Baca
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> Narconon Challenged in Canada
On May 26, 2006 Simkatu posted an article by the Canadian Edmonton Journal:
Narconon has again been exposed as a fraud by medical profesionals.
http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=e02a9f92-72eb-4881-96d8-25ed0fdadda4&k=29223
or if the above link is broken try:
http://tinyurl.com/jckmd
Experts challenge claims of Scientology's sweat-it-out treatment for addicts
by Charles Rusnell, The Edmonton Journal
Published: Tuesday, May 23, 2006
EDMONTON - A drug and alcohol treatment program backed by the controversial Church of Scientology is promising addicted Albertans an extraordinary 70-per-cent success rate.
The Narconon program is marketed as "100-per-cent natural," and prescribes intensive saunas, exercise and high doses of vitamins to cleanse the body of "radiation, drugs and toxins."
Advertisements for the Narconon program have appeared in recent months on Edmonton's CKUA radio and in weekly newspapers throughout the province.
Addiction experts and academics in Canada, the United States and Europe have long warned the Narconon program has no scientific basis for its claims.
University of Alberta sociologist Dr. Steve Kent said the program may serve another purpose.
"The program provides the Scientology organization with claims of socially beneficial programs," said Kent, a world-recognized expert in the Church of Scientology. "It provides some Scientologists with employment and it certainly provides the Scientology organization with income and a possible recruitment vehicle for new members."
Narconon spokesman Brad Melnychuk of Toronto insists the program has verified its results, and he said no attempt is made to use it to recruit new members to Scientology. He said rules are in place to ensure "vulnerable" drug- or alcohol-addicted individuals are not subjected to any pressure from Scientologists working for Narconon. He said only four or five per cent of the addicts who go through Narconon programs become Scientologists.
Melnychuk is the executive director of the Association for Better Living and Education Canada (ABLE Canada), a non-profit group that offers several programs, including Narconon, that are based on the teachings of the late American author L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology.
Scientology emphasizes self-improvement and rejects psychiatry and psychotherapy as inhumane pseudo-science. Believers hold that mental well-being can be achieved though "auditing," a process of discussing harmful unconscious memories of past trauma, including those in previous lives.
Begun by Hubbard in the 1950s, Scientology now boasts 5,200 churches, missions and groups worldwide, and operates drug rehabilitation and education programs through ABLE Canada, which incorporated in Calgary in March. Scientology boasts several Hollywood stars as members, including Tom Cruise, John Travolta and Kirstie Alley, who says the Narconon program saved her life.
Melnychuk said the full four-month program costs about $20,000. Albertans are referred to Narconon's residential facility in Trois Rivieres, Que., northeast of Montreal.
Since 2002, 37 Albertans have graduated from the program: 14 from Calgary, six from Edmonton and the remainder from rural Alberta. The most common drug addictions reported by Albertans were to crack cocaine and painkillers, Melnychuk said.
He said the program's 70-per-cent success rate is measured by graduates of the program who remain drug- and alcohol-free for two years.
Various independent assessments of Narconon's physiological claims have found they are not based on widely accepted medical and scientific evidence.
"These kinds of claims, if you're looking at them scientifically, have to be corroborated by data," said Dr. Tom Brown, a drug rehab researcher at McGill University in Montreal. "They have a lot of underlying assumptions that are not really borne out by the current state of scientific literature."
[...]
Melnychuk insists there are studies that prove Narconon's program not only works as claimed, but also produces the 70-per-cent success rate. He directed a Journal reporter to studies on the Narconon website, which prominently features a scientific advisory panel.
"Not all of them are Scientologists, but a lot of them either are or have close affiliations with the organization," the U of A's Kent said. He said there have been independent studies of the program, but they showed the success rate is very low.
Brown, the McGill researcher, said Narconon, while not scientifically substantiated, may be no worse than many other popular drug and alcohol rehab programs that are also not backed by science. He said an important element in the effectiveness of a rehab program is the addict's belief in the program.
"Treatments that are actively sought by clients and are valued by the client tend to be the most effective," he said.
[e-mail address]
DETOX PROGRAM
Based on the writings of L. Ron Hubbard, the Narconon program claims drug residues remain indefinitely in body fat, causing people to experience repeated drug flashbacks and cravings.
The Narconon "New Life Detoxification Program" prescribes a regime of intensive saunas and exercise to sweat out from the body the residues that cause addiction. The physiological detoxification program is followed by several rehab programs for the addict's potential psychological problems, including the "Ups & Downs in Life Course" and "The Way to Happiness Course."
Narconon spokesman Brad Melnychuk said he has personally witnessed the effectiveness of the sauna program. "You can actually see the toxins come out," he said. "You see the colour of the skin change, you can test the sweat, put it under a microscope and see in fact that these toxins do come out and you can see the person change daily and get better."
Narconon has alcohol- and drug-rehabilitation centres throughout North America and Europe. One of the best known is Arrowhead in Oklahoma. Narconon applied to the state's board of mental health for certification. In a report, the board noted that most drugs are removed from the body through the liver, kidney and lungs. "Although minute quantities of some drugs may be found in sweat, the amount represents a small fraction of drug elimination," the board's report stated.
Source: Journal Staff, Edmonton
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> L Ron Hubbard, on Hypnosis and Little Kangaroos
On May 26, 2006 "Arnaldo Lerma" posted:
PICK UP THE CANS PLEASE
THIS IS THE SESSION
That IS EXACTLY what hubbard did to YOU
And you are now "protesting" because we don't see your cute little kangaroo ?????
http://www.lermanet.com/exit/hubbard-the-hypnotist.htm
http://www.lermanet.com/images/FORRY_ACKERMAN.JPG
This is Forrest Ackerman, who was Hubbard's Literary agent... in his journal, from typwritten pages from the late 1940's in Los Angeles at the Science Fiction club..
http://www.lermanet.com/excalibur/Image5.jpg
Well, 45 years ago there was established a Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society. I'm a charter member. I was at the very first meeting and I've been to 1500 meetings off and on in between. It was a period when Ron came around to our club. He was living in Los Angeles. And what I particularly remember about his a appearances there was an evening of spectacular hypnotism when he hypnotized just about every kid in the club. I remember he gave one young man a . . . what would you call it... In any event, the boy was convinced that cupped in his hand, he had a little tiny kangaroo that was hopping around and I remember he came over and showed the Kangaroo to me. And, ah, one by one RON was hypnotizing everybody in the club. he gave one boy a post hypnotic suggestion, he said now ah, I'll snap my fingers and bring you out of it and about 5 now snap out of it
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A 30 year member of scientology was reading LERMANET.COM's pages about about Hubbard and hypnosis... and found the pages posted above to the pitbull/not-sure-yet/null-portal/et al....
This old fellow is an OT 7 that Scientology thinks is still in good standing!, and send me these scans of a Scientology transcript of Hubbard's Philadelphia "doctorate" course tapes, where hubbard, not only discusses HYPNOSIS, but mentions the Little cute kangaroo! If someone else recalls this, or can authenticate these as being real, I would appreciate it..
If somebody has a recording of this lecture, I really really would like an audio snippit of this part it!!
PDC tape number 4
Enjoy, L Ron Hubbard, on Hypnosis and Little Kangaroos:
L Ron Hubbard wrote:
Now, let's look at that in another bracket. Let's look at it in the field of hypnotism. Here's real phenomena; here's something you can go and investigate. If you want to investigate this, go get yourself a little book, How to Hypnotize Somebody in Five Easy Lessons, or something of the sort-it's very easy to do. Set up a candle in front of them, tell them to stare at the candle. There are a certain percentage of people hypnotize just like that. And a certain percentage of them are running so hard that any time you say, "Go into an hypnotic trance," they run madly the opposite direction. They'll hypnotize-in opposites. This is awfully interesting business hypnotism is.
All right. All you're asking him to do is concentrate a sense channel on something a communication line on something, and then fix it there. Well, he agreed to do that the second he puts his eyes on the candle. Now, your trick is to make him agree to something else. There is nothing very weirdabout hypnotism. It is the easiest thing in the world.
Now, you got his eye on the candle. "All right, now you stare at the candle, stare at the candle. Now, you know that concentration of that sort can make youAnd he'll say, "All right." See, he's agreed that concentration on that can make him sleepy. All right. You've got that one.
"Now, let's go into a sort of a-of-let's look at this candle a little- a little closer and now let's feel-let's feel the body becoming more and more relaxed." And he agrees to feel that the body's becoming more and more relaxed.
That's all there is to that. He just agrees little by little. The next thing you know he's-the hypnotist says, "Now your eyes will close," and his eyes go bonk. Of course. He agreed to that.
Now the hypnotist says, "Now your right hand will rise." And with some slight amazement, this fellow watches his right hand come up.
And he says, "Who-o-ow, I'm hypnotized." So, he just gives it up then. And the hypnotist now says, "Now you see that kangaroo on your right knee?"
"Yes." He sees a kangaroo on his right knee.
"Now, take it on the right knee and now let's see it jump over to the left knee. Now, you got that? All right, now let's put-let's put a bonnet on this kangaroo. Got the bonnet on it? Now have the kangaroo sing a song." And the hypnotized person is very happy to sit there and watch this. The trouble is he's seeing it; he's seeing it completely.
This is frightening to people that this can happen to them. Well, that's just a nice MEST universe trick that it could be frightening to them. And it's very weird that they think they have to go along through all this mumbo jumbo and ritual of hypnotism and be in a state of sound asleep and be out of control of themselves and can only see this when they're taking orders from a hypnotist. That's the silliest thing in the world.
I mean, here we've got a long chain of laws and agreements. And what do you know, they operate on more people out here. And they're there as agreements-that if you agree to this, then you'll get that. And if you agree to that and you agree to that and agree to that and next thing you know, the fellow is unaware of his surroundings.
Hypnotized person can see a whole room on fire and he can. He can hear the flames crackle and everything else. He's just in wonderful shape on the thing. You see he doesn't have to take responsibility for it. He can do it all the time and the whole trick is he's saying, "Now look, that hypnotist can be responsible for my really seeing this and building a universe around here and it's up to him to get me out of it again," and so forth. "And so I'll just make him responsible and therefore I'll be able to handle illusions."
Thank you L Ron Hubbard - this snippit AUTHENTICATES the 1940's snippet about Hubbard's stage hypnosis performance as described by Forrest Ackerman, posted above.
This is important stuff...
Thank you
Arnie Lerma
Lermanet.com Exposing the CON
"the Court is now convinced that the primary motivation of RTC [$cientology] in suing Lerma, DGS and The Post is to stifle criticism of Scientology in general and to harass its critics.
"http://www.lermanet.com/xenu-in-southpark-is-real.htm
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> Anti-Psychiatry Spammers
On May 26, 2006 "Android Cat" posted a number of e-mail addresses used by Scientology anti-psychiatry spammers, observing the posting history:
Since January, this posting identity has only replied to these other identities:
gloriasmithkline@yahoo.com:
"Barbara.Schwarz@thunderstar.com" (Barbara.Schwarz@gmail.com)
"knowledgespeak" (knowledgespeak@yahoo.com)
"thoughtsmithee@gmail.com" (thoughtsmithee@gmail.com)
"Zorg" (zorg8@hotmail.com)
Caswell (Caswell_member@newsguy.com)
coffeecup@aussieisp.com
Dagny Thorn (Dagny_member@newsguy.com)
gloriasmithkline (gloriasmithkline@yahoo.com)
gloriasmithkline@yahoo.com
Jimchi (jimchi7070@yahoo.com)
Mikkiblack313 (mikkiblack313@yahoo.com)
Mikkiblack313 (Mikkiblack313_member@newsguy.com)
Mikkiblack313@aol.com
pwaltblitz@yahoo.com
Stu Miller Stu_member@newsguy.com
knowledgespeak@yahoo.com:
"Audrey" (knowledgespeak@yahoo.com)
"RED37" (RED37HONEY@aol.com)
baby3ducks@yahoo.com
blubberbutt321@yahoo.com
Caswell (Caswell_member@newsguy.com)
gloriasmithkline@yahoo.com
Jimchi (jimchi7070@yahoo.com)
knowledgespeak@yahoo.com
Mikkiblack313 (mikkiblack313@yahoo.com)
Mikkiblack313@aol.com
pwaltblitz@yahoo.com
smurf (smurf@smurf.net)
Stu Miller Stu_member@newsguy.com
Mikkiblack313:
"Gina_and_Phil" (phillip_gina_t@hotmail.com)
"knowledgespeak" (knowledgespeak@yahoo.com)
"pwaltblitz@yahoo.com" (pwaltblitz@yahoo.com)
"the even harder to handle .Lily Firered." (lily_firered@yahoo.com)
baby3ducks@yahoo.com
Caswell (Caswell_member@newsguy.com)
Dagny Thorn (Dagny_member@newsguy.com)
gloriasmithkline (gloriasmithkline@yahoo.com)
gloriasmithkline@yahoo.com
Jimchi (jimchi7070@yahoo.com)
Mikkiblack313@aol.com
pwaltblitz@yahoo.com
smurf (smurf@smurf.net)
Stu Miller Stu_member@newsguy.com
And so on... Maybe I'll do a network bubble chart showing volume of posts and connecting arrows, but it's not like there are any surprises there.
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Feisty posted:
[Attn: Psych Spammers]
Have you been busy on Israel networks? This reminds me of $cientology's plan to shut down a.r.s.
Clever choice to use the name "PharmaMaster" to spam with. That would make alot of people angry at the "big, evil pharma," no?
"However, one spammer decided to attack back instead. Starting May 1, the spammers--who Blue Security identified as PharmaMaster--attacked the company's Web site and spammed Blue Frog users with even more mass mailings. The attacks not only disrupted Blue Security's operations but knocked out the Web blog hosting service Six Apart and a handful of Internet service providers, including Tucows."
http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11392
Blue Security folds under spammer's wrath
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2006-05-17
Israeli anti-spam startup Blue Security decided on Tuesday to shutter its aggressive anti-spam service, citing threats of further--and more malicious--attacks on its service and users.
" We deal with attacks on a regular basis, and this was an order of magnitude larger than what we are used to seeing. For the first part of the attack, this was seen as a network problem, because it caused connectivity issues for two of our three upstream providers. "
Elliot Noss, CEO, Tucows
[...]
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> Cult Notoriety Expanding
Florida Governor Jeb Bush and CBS broadcaster Mike Wallace each gave social reactions to Scientology this past week.
Posted from the St. Petersburg Times on May 21, 2006:
http://www.sptimes.com/2006/05/21/State/Harris_challenger_s_d.shtml
The Buzz
Harris challenger's deep pockets attract speculation
By Times Staff
Published May 21, 2006
[...]
WRITING OFF THE SCIENTOLOGY VOTE:
After being honored Friday night by the social conservative group Florida Family Policy Council, [Gov. Jeb] Bush mused that reporters were so fascinated by the gathering because they view religion as a strange concept.
"People who act on their faith are a large number of people in our state. Sometimes I think you guys write about them like they're mutants out there, like they're some weird little group, like they're Scientologists or something," the governor said. "
[...]
-
"Mike Wallace Rips Tom Cruise" was posted 20 May 2006 from
http://jeffscelebritygossipblog.blog.co.uk/2006/05/20/mike_wallace_rips_tom_cruise~815602
Mike Wallace is set to take a quasi retirement from the news business as the veteran CBS broadcaster, who turns 88 on Tuesday, officially becomes "correspondent emeritus" at the end of this month. So on the way out, he's speaking his mind.
One of those in the cross hairs, actor and Scientologist Tom Cruise and he flat out says, "Tom simply does not know what he is talking about."
The anchor has slammed the actor for campaigning against anti-depressants and psychiatry.
The 60 Minutes host, who has long suffered from crippling depression, claims Cruise can't credibly speak about the issue, because he hasn't experienced it. As a devout Scientologist, the actor doesn't believe in medication or counseling to treat depression.
Wallace says, "Tom simply does not know what he is talking about. Scientology is a different thing and God bless him. "But he doesn't know his tail from third base about depression. Simple as that."
[...]
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> A Toe Hold to Belgium
> Science Ficton Courses for Super Power
> Critics Stalked and Threatened
> Tom Cruise Rants Draw Reaction
> Consequences of Scientology Involvement
> Scientology-Related Media
> Origin of Scientology Personality Test
> Hollywood Testing Center Activity
> Erased from Scientology Media
> Scientology and Los Angeles Sheriff Baca
> Narconon Challenged in Canada
> L Ron Hubbard, on Hypnosis and Little Kangaroos:
> Anti-Psychiatry Spammers
> Cult Notoriety Expanding
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> Former Member in Belgian Newspaper
On May 26, 2006 "Scientologate" posted a translation of the first page of an article from the Belgium "Dag Allemaal:"
Article out of: Dag Allemaal,
number of readers READERS 1,7 million dutch reading people in Belgium
www.dagallemaal.be
FRONTPAGE:
DE SCIENTOLOGY-CULT
PRIMEUR: A FORMER MEMBER TESTIFIES.
"THEY EVEN COVER UP CHILD PONOGRAPHY"
PAGE 1.
A picture of Pieter Nierop.
Text: Three years ago Pieter Nierop stepped out of scientology. "I have lost 120.000 euro to this church" testifies the former member.
A picture of the entrance of Church of Scientology, European Office of Public Affairs & Human Rights.
Text: Scientology has a European Headquater in the Wetstraat in Brussels. The belgium Judiciary suspects the church to be a criminal organisation.
How Dangerous is Scientology in Belgium? For the first time a former member testifies.
"The cult is ruining lives. It drives people to suicide"
Dag Allemaal (Belgium) 05/20/2006
What does the Church of Scientology represent in Belgium? Is it really a dangerous cult, as the Belgian Judiciary says, or an innocent religion with followers such as Tom Cruise and John Travolta? Ex member Pieter Nierop (46) worked for years for scientology. He gives us a distressing insight of what lies behind the doors of the controversial church. Don't be mistaken, scientology is dangerous. The church wants world domination.
The european HQ of scientology are located in the heart of Brussels. The church owns a stately building on the Wetsraat. But this attractive facade is just that. A beautiful facade. At least, so say the Belgian Judiciary. They dont believe that scientology is a bona fide religion. Rather they view it as a dangerous cult. Ten years ago, a parliamentary specical comitee put scientology on its list of dangerous cults.
Scientology is indeed a cult . Says ex member Pieter Nierop. Nierop is a manager with a major energy entreprise. He worked for years with the Office of Specical Affairs (OSA). This division of scientology gathers information on members, but also on opponents and on politicians.
My first contact with scientology took place on april 1st 1994 remembers Pieter. I was approached on the street. They asked me if I would like to take a personality test. Then they sold me their Dianetics book. In the eyes of the church, once you've bought something, you'r e a member for life.
Why did the message of Dianetics appeal to you? I had previously known someone who was a personal friend of L. Ron Hubbard. This got me interested. And the first test was free of charge. What did I have to loose? If you want to know more about scientology, the prices go right up. As things went going, I found myself paying more than 300 euros for just one book.
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Full article in Dutch:
Artikel uit: Dag Allemaal, gelezen door 1,7 miljoen nederlandstaligen
in Belgie.
www.dagallemaal.be
Op voorpagina:
DE SCIENTOLOGY-SEKTE
PRIMEUR: EEN EX-LID GETUIGT.
"ZELFS KINDERPORNO WORDT ER IN DE DOOFPOT GESTOPT"
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> A Toe Hold in Belgium
On May 27, 2006, "Piltdown Man" posted a translation of the first part in a series of reports from an article from the Le Soir Magazine in Brussels:
From: Le Soir Magazine, Brussels, May 16, 2006, p. 10-12.
Original title: "BRUXELLES - Nouveau centre européen de la Scientologie"
By Julie Barreau
[Translator's note: This is the first part of a three-part article, and the first sidebar out of four. Everything between square brackets is mine. I've kept street names in French. People who want to web this might want to take a look at the publisher's original PDF files, available at http://www.anti-scientologie.ch/lesoir-magazine.htm to make sense of the layout and perhaps, ahem, borrow the photographs. Note: doing so, as well as posting this translation itself, is undoubtedly in breach of copyright, but don't tell anyone that, ok? Until a few years ago, I would have politely asked the publication for permission before posting, but it has been my experience that newspapers and other periodicals don't really mind when single articles from past issues are reproduced for an audience that is outside their sales area anyway. This is a quick-and-dirty effort, there are some things for which better alternatives will no doubt come into my mind just after I've posted this.]
[FIRST PART OF MAIN ARTICLE, p. 10-12]
[headline] BRUSSELS: Scientology's new European center
[sub-headline] Scientology's mask drops. Their objective: seizing power.
[...]
[sub-headline] 7000 square meters right under the windows of the Ministry of Justice.
Only three years after the controversy caused by buying a building at No. 91, Rue de la Loi [Tr.: the street where the Belgian federal parliament and a whole host of other government buildings are located], Scientology strikes again. The American mother Church has set its sights on Belgium. Its European center of operations is going to be transferred from Copenhagen to Brussels. The international Church of Scientology has the means to back up its ambitions. It has accumulated a vast war chest, which it doesn't hesitate to use. It has also bought other buildings, Nos. 100, 101, 102 and 103, boulevard de Waterloo! No less than 7000 square meters, located between the Ministry of Justice and the Palace of Justice... The location is as strategic as it is symbolic. This sensational bit of news is announced to the followers during the first part of the meeting. "This building will be twice as large as the largest Church of Scientology in Europe. It will have fourteen auditing rooms, and will be able to accommodate
hundreds of people", the speaker proudly proclaims. Perspective sketches of the building are shown on the overhead projector, amidst deafening applause from the audience. Its grand opening is planned for October. The conference doesn't stop there. The acquisition of real estate by Scientology in Brussels is just a first step in their plan to infiltrate the EU institutions.
[sub-headline] The road to power
In fact, the Scientologists are already in the process of trying to organise a human rights conference within the European Parliament itself, their ultimate target. Scientology tries to acquire power, slowly but surely, and always in an insidious way. Their goals are clear. "We must take control in Belgium! They have the same intentions as the Nazis did! We must educate these forces of the Fourth Reich about human rights!" _Standing ovation_ [Tr.: last 2 words in English in original]. To clarify: governments that don't recognize Scientology as a legitimate religion are considered by Scientologists to be Nazis, hence the use of the term "Fourth Reich" to indicate, in this case, the EU Commission and the European Parliament. Scientologists believe it is their duty to 'educate' these institutions to rally them to their cause, and to take control of them to save the planet! Scientology's internal rhetoric is that of a totalitarian ideology. Anything that stands in its way is considered to be a malignant power,
working towards the destruction of mankind and at the root of all the evils from which our planet suffers. Under the pretext of being a "minority religion", as it calls itself, Scientology is in fact a political organisation which has as its ultimate goal to seize power and establish a dictatorship.
[sub-headline] The final act: a massive recruitment effort
Acquiring sumptuous buildings, and an unquenchable thirst for power, aren't enough. Scientology announces it wants to create ten missions and fifteen groups around the big Church in Brussels. For this titanic task, it will need a lot of manpower. The first cloud on the horizon is: its human resources are completely inadequate. In fact, even though the Church of Scientology Belgium claimed recently to have no less than 5000 members, in reality there are probably no more than about 200 active members, that is people in regular contact with the Church. The goal of this conference was therefore not only to reveal to the most devoted Scientologists in Europe the new plan of action, but also to recruit, that very day, between 70 and 150 new members! The speakers attempt to stir up the audience: "Europe is in danger, we need to wake up! If you want to win this war, you've got to be a part of it!"
The second half of the meeting is taken up by the reading out loud of a series of quotes, too many to count, and also shown on the overhead projector, from L. Ron Hubbard, about the necessity of activism and participation. After this interminable recitation of absurd phrases, a woman exhorts, in a shrieking voice, all volunteers to join her on the podium. After some hesitation, a lone figure stands up, causing a thunderous applause. In total, about a dozen people end up volunteering... not really what it will take to fill up the new building.
Hungry for power, Scientology aims for the top. But there are going to be plenty of obstacles in the way. For starters, their upcoming trial.
- Julie Barreau.
[SIDEBAR, p. 10-11]
[sub-headline]Scientology advances stealthily...
The assault of Scientology on the capital of Europe has advanced in stages. Until recently, they only owned two buildings in Brussels. The first one, in the Rue du général McArthur, is used for auditing sessions (Scientology practices of a supposed therapeutic nature). And a second one, in the Rue au Beurre, close to the Grand-Place, meant for recruitment purposes. Here, Scientologists give personality tests to members of the public in an attempt to draw them in.
[...]
- Julie Barreau
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> Science Ficton Courses for Super Power
On May 23, 2006 "Dave Touretzky" posted:
In case you didn't get it from the FARK article: some blogger has noticed that the description of the Super Power exercises in Rob Farley's recent SP Times article
http://www.sptimes.com/2006/05/06/Tampabay/Scientology_nearly_re.shtml/
are rather similar to the "Doc Savage Method of Self-Development", described in a series of 1930s era science fiction stories about the adventures of Doc Savage, "The Man of Bronze":
http://hometown.aol.com/the86floor/novels/method.html
Here's the blog entry:
http://tenser.typepad.com/tenser_said_the_tensor/2006/05/docs_exercises.html
It appears that Hubbard's "Super Power" is just a ripoff of an idea from a much more popular science fiction series. Here's the Wikipedia entry on Doc Savage:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doc_savage
Tell your friends.
-- Dave Touretzky: "Evildoers beware."
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Secrets
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"Zinj" posted:
Many of the 'Tech' elements are stolen straight from Heinlein's 'Gulf', and the whole Cult is a horrific realization of Mike Smith's 'Stranger in a Strange Land'
It's all plagiary.
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"Dilbert Perkins" posted:
It's interesting that the description of (the fictional character) Doc Savage is similar to Hubbard's rather delusional view of himself:
"Doc Savage, whose real name is 'Doctor. Clark Savage, Jr.', also known as "the Man of Bronze", is a physician, surgeon, scientist, adventurer, inventor, explorer, researcher and musician - a renaissance man."
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> Critics Stalked and Threatened
On May 23, 2006 "Tory Christman" posted:
At midnight last night my phone rang. It was a man, sounded rather odd, said "Hello". I asked where he got my phone # from, and he said, "Alt.Personal.Ads I knew right away it was Scientology posting my name to some porn site, but I wanted the info, so I asked. "What did it say?" He: "Blonde looking for Fun" on a Yahoo board.
Ok, so I explained to him that I had been in Scientology for 30 years, and left, and have been speaking out. Due to this, they have more than once posted my name to personal sites, lying about me......basically using people such as himself, and I was sorry for that.
(To anyone new: the last time my friends traced the same site computer address saying, "For a good time, call Tory" to the same computer address as "Truthseeker" uses. Truth, my A..!)
I also told him NEVER to get suckered into Scientology. He agreed not to, and I wished him well in his adventures.
Scientology? You all are J E R K S with a capital J.
All this shall do is bring on more, faster, farther...... and many many more shall hear of your disgusting actions, learn what ALL you're about, and decide for themselves whether they want to join a group who does such things, or not.
As I told you when I was "in", and since I left 5 years ago: YOU C R E A T E your own enemies!
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Why does BS have to keep changing the title of this thread?
Ask yourself that....and remember: Scientology has to hide the truth and facts from you.
Bail while you can!
Tory/Magoo Dancing in the moonlight
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On May 24, 2006 "Mike Gormez" posted:
I was abroad using a foreign keyboard in an internet cafe, hence the strange characters in my single reply as quoted in the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th e-mail . Half of it I don't understand but then there are more pleasant things then trying to unravel rambling morons.
To: [e-mail address]
Subject: bullshit
From: Greendawn22@[e-mail address]
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 07:44:34 EDT
scientology has helped me in my life, with reading, relations with people, and getting things done in my life
narconon has saved the lives of many of my friends,
we are growing like crazy nothing will stop us nothing HAHAHAHA
bye bye
we will take over
[...]
To: [e-mail address]
Subject: Re: bullshit
From: greendawn22@[e-mail address]
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 15:00:19 EDT
Not everyone has [expletive], it has really saved my life, it is booming because it helps people its time to turn off ur sight and focus on the real threat from islam u ignorant idiot
[...]
To: [e-mail address]
Subject: Re: bullshit
From: greendawn22@[e-mail address]
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 15:17:15 EDT
U [expletive] clown scientology helps people to voercome depression and anxiety u [expletive] clown may u rot from cancer attacking a religion whose goal , islam is becoming a grave threat to man stifling art and freedom and u attack scientology u [expletive] clown may u die of [expletive] cancer
[...]
Mike Gormez
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"Dilbert Perkins" posted:
Has anyone else received death threats from greendawn22 at aol.com ?
He/she claims to be a Scientologist, has told me he will hunt me down and will enjoy watching me suffer. Sounds like something a child would write.
He accused me of mocking his religion (which I don't think I've done). And then he sent me a bunch of death threats and invective. Anyway, I've printed them out and I'm taking them to the police.
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"Ray" posted:
By the way, this greendawn22 poster appears to be this scientologist (or was using his email):
http://www.truthaboutscientology.com/stats/by-name/m/mark-feigin.html
Interesting to note that even a low-level scientologist is convinced that they will "take over" (and I'm guessing he means taking over psychiatry here?)
"Ray" also posted:
Tom Cruise, paraphrased: [Critics] are bigots
http://www.xenu-directory.net/critics/
He also said critics are haters...
(Added latest threat to Mike Gormez)
I will come find u [expletive]
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.religion.scientology/browse_thread/thread/240e19efc77840d4/bc8f6ecbdf9afaca
[greendawn22 at aol: http://17131.multiguestbook.com/st_20.html and
maybe http://www.helloinsidedesign.com/ ?]
you're talking bullshit I'll kill you if you don't take the homepage down
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.religion.scientology/msg/e3e0c05e5...
Taz, the vocalist for Tampa Bay area band Trocar received an anonymous death threat by telephone at his work last Thursday, saying that if he performed at the Lisa cPherson Trust benefit concert, he "wouldn't walk out alive."
http://www.holysmoke.org/cos/benefit-death-threat.htm
The GO training program included instructions in how to make an anonymous death threat to a ournal-smear
http://www.lermanet.com/scientologynews/ReadersDigest.htm
Diane and the rest of you are digging your own graves and you don't even know it. Death is around the corner for all of you.
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.org.eff.talk/msg/4e7d30a9696a836b
http://www.amazing.com/scientology/marcus-threat.html
Since Yanny quit representing the church, he has been the target of death threats, burglaries ...
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Fishman/time-behar.html
"I HOPE YOU F-----ing DIE !!" - "I HOPE YOU DIE IN A HORRIBLE CAR ACCIDENT!!"
http://www.livefreakydiefreaky.com/blog/index2.php
I also received my first death threat that same month.
http://www.xenu-directory.net/accounts/cooper19970911-2.html#Part_2
That was when the threats began, they say. On one occasion, a man phoned Gorman's father and said, "SPs don't live long. Your son and his wife, Jennifer, will be dead soon,"
http://www.lermanet.com/tomgorman/gorman-nypost.htm
I hope you die in pain
http://www.xenu.net/archive/free_speech/painful_death.html
a scientologist in Heidelberg is convicted to pay a fine for threatening to murder a 17 year old, who was critical of scientology
http://www.religio.de/publik/deufaq.html
The head of security at the Clearwater church, Bill Johnson, allegedly chases a former member through the streets, screaming death threats.
http://www.shipbrook.com/jeff/CoS/timeline.html
You have been in the presence of Mark Hanna[OSA dude]. He was the guy in dark sunnies at the Sydney demonstration who introduced the guy who made the death threat to me. Mark also told me that "these" guys will finish you (Tony).
http://www.suburbia.com.au/~fun/scn/pers/fun/nots/
Prior to his departure for Los Angeles, [Judge] Richey received several death threats.
context:
Judge Richey had already convicted and sentenced nine of the original 11 defendants, but the remaining two, recently extradited from England, were about to go on trial.
http://www.spaink.net/cos/mpoulter/scum/judges.html
... critical radio show on Scientology she had produced was aired. The male voices told her she would be killed the next day.
http://home.snafu.de/tilman/krasel/germany/ottmann1.html
YOU NEED A BULLET!
http://groups.google.com/group/de.soc.weltanschauung.scientology/msg/...
[to complete]
Ray.
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> Tom Cruise Rants Draw Reaction
On May 22, 2006 the Post Chronicle" reported:
Tom Cruise: 'Screw You. Controversy Doesn't Bother Me'
by Tashi Singh
[...]
Tom Cruise simply will not back down on his opinion of psychiatry and anti-depressant medication, because the action hero is convinced he is right.
The star, who is a devout Scientologist, wants people whose lives are being harmed to become educated - even though he concedes that his opinions aren't really popular.
[...]
"Well, you know what I say to that machine? ... I say screw you. Controversy doesn't bother me, because I know what I'm saying is right."
Whatever Tom.
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> Consequences of Scientology Involvement
On May 24, 2006 "Shawn M. Hollenshead" posted:
You are going to spend lots of money or lots of time. If you have money or access to money then you will be persuaded to spend it. I personally spent my college savings on scientology services and for 3 years I spent 8 hours a day at the church studying so that I could get the results I was promised. I lived very poorly for those 3 years and realized that I had nothing to show for all my hard work. It is scary to come to such a conclusion. I am currently seeking a refund from scientology as I feel that the services did not improving my life the way that I was promised they would. I started in scientology when I was 18; I am 30 currently and feel like I am just strting my adult life. This is only one repercussion of scientology.
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"Jack Harper" posted:
I'm nuetral here. But ask yourself if or not you did benefit in many ways? My answer was yes. I have spoken to those who have left Scientology and got a refund and regret it. Because it was dishonest. I'm not speaking for Scientology, but there is a lot to be gained from it.
[...]
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"Shawn M. Hollenshead" posted:
I feel that my request for a refund is the right thing to do.. When you are sold something that doesn't perform as it should or only sometimes works the way it is supposed to I don't see that as a fair exchage. I am able to see if something has made a great difference in my life. I think that it is dishonest to say something is beneficial to you if you can't see the daily results in your hard work. I have no interest in letting someone keep my money because I an agreement. Had scientology been as effective as it was initially sold to me I would still be involved. An agreement is based on fair exchange. If I buy a $60,000 BMW, it had better be drivable otherwise I am not just ging to keep it parked in the garage as a nice souvenir.
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"Michael Tilse" posted:
Hi Jack,
Apart from any success or failure of the "tech", or personally perceived benefit, there are some other issues I feel strongly about.
An analogy to illuminate these is in order:
How would you feel if you went into a dealership and bought a car, signed the papers and drove off the lot. Only to find later that the things you were told about the car and the dealer and the salesperson had many important details missing, and some things represented were outright lies?
You find out that rather than new, the car is actually used. Actually, it's a salvage title from being in a wreck. It's worth far less than you paid for it. And that the dealer actually had no license for business, it's mechanics were not professionally trained and for the price you paid, you could have gotten a new far more reliable car with a much higher real value.
And that perhaps, the dealer and salesperson had criminal records and used the dealership to launder money and support other criminal enterprise.
Balancing all that, you DO have a car. It runs, takes you from place to place as other cars do and only occasionally breaks down. Your agreement was to buy a car and you did. You paid for it and it works. You get some of the benefits you were looking for.
Now: What you experienced at the dealership was fraud. You were lied to, manipulated and you were not getting what you thought, from representations made to you, you were buying. Even though you agreed and bought it and have the car, does not diminish the initial criminal fraud.
And so it is with the so called "church of scientology". They sell what they sell under false pretenses, omitted material facts about Hubbard and his "tech", and use outright lies from Hubbard and others to convince you to buy. The claims that are made are far beyond what people actually achieve.
That you achieve *some* benefit, that *parts of it* met your expectations are not justifications that can legitimize the fraud. The "agreements" were made based on false, omitted and misleading information, in an environment where you disuaded from making any independent verification of the claims and information or finding out if there was omitted information that might be material to your agreeing.
The basis for calling it fraud and getting your money back has nothing to do with you getting something you think was of value. The con man always gives you *something*. It deliberately makes you feel shamefull about being outraged by the con.
It's important to sort out what actually happens. Unless it was a fully informed decision, with all information that would bear on your "agreement" freely available to you, it is not a contract. It is not a real agreement. It is fraud and you need not feel dishonest for demanding return of monies dishonestly obtained from you.
Michael Leonard Tilse
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> Scientology-Related Media
On May 26, 2006 "Mark Bunker" posted a news report of Fox TV who interviewed Tory Christman:
For the last day of May Sweeps, Fox 6 in San Diego took a special look at Scientology. My sweet Magooski was interviewed along with a new spokesperson for Scientology, Dave Meyer:
http://www.truthaboutscientology.com/stats/by-name/d/david-meyer.html
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The video is also available here:
http://www.xenutv.com/cruise/foxsd.htm
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"Jommy Cross" posted a link to the Somethingawful forum:
http://www.somethingawful.com/index.php?a=3822
Triumph of the Thetans
Note: Because the Church of Scientology is quite litigious and would gladly sue a man just to watch him go bankrupt, I am not using any images owned by the Church of Scientology, merely pictures inspired by their very private property donated by people on the SA Forums.
As luck would have it, I recently came into possession of an exciting DVD entitled "This is Scientology." Naturally, this got me all worked up in a tizzy, because I am an avid fan of Scientology media as well as crazy cults in general. If David Koresh had made a DVD before his compound burned down, I would be excited to watch it too. As is, I watched the entire 80-day standoff on TV and relished every ridiculous moment of it. Some might take a stodgier look at cults, but I find them hilarious. Where else can you find people willing to die because an insane bald man said a comet is going to take them to heaven? True, when the poison Kool-Aid and gasoline start to spread things turn tragic, but the wild ride toward certain disaster is quite exhilarating to observe from the sidelines.
This holy DVD, subtitled "An Overview of the World's Fastest Growing Religion," promises to give an "exclusive briefing" by "Mr. David Miscavige" at the "Religious Technology Center." I'm pretty sure I missed some kind of global memo, because last I heard Scientology wasn't so much a religion as a "philosophy," and only in the loose sense that taking lots of drugs and trying to convince your buddies that 5th dimensional aliens showed you the ultimate burrito recipe is a philosophy. But, since it is a religion now and not just something celebrities do in their spare time, I guess I should treat the whole thing as being THAT MUCH MORE SCARY.
Sadly, "This is Scientology" is not an exciting movie, nor is it a documentary. Rather, it is a speech given by the aforementioned Baron von Miscavige "at the occasion of 35th anniversary of the Church of Scientology Celebrity Center." Sir David Miscavige, who, for all intents and purposes, is an extremely weaselly man. Lord Miscavige spends the entire speech looking and sounding angry and contemptuous, preaching on the ills of modern society, which of course only Scientology can fix. The ills, which he calls "the real Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse," are drugs, crime, illiteracy, and immorality. I would add in a fifth Horseman, that being "people who take too long at the buffet table, blocking you from getting the roast beef," but that is just me. His tone, demeanor, and speaking style is so menacing that I have to wonder if he is trying to sound appealing to people or to inspire a violent, nationalist uprising.
[...]
Submarine Commander Miscavige is also quick to tout Scientology's success in battling drug addiction by addressing its root causes. Well, when you consider that such causes might include a bad family life and poor upbringing, a lack of proper social support and so on, replacing drugs with the embrace of a religious cult doesn't sound so implausible. Hell, in our modern age, people are able to replace drugs with video games and Internet forums and go at them with the same manic, stab-you-for-a-fix enthusiasm.
Getting back to those high production values, The Honorable Mr. David Miscavige gives his speech on an elaborate stage dwarfed by an even more elaborate set. Most churches are not even this gaudy. The set, with large golden columns, bright strings of light, and ornate carvings, looks like some kind of demented amalgamation of a fascist convention and the Academy Awards, with perhaps even a bit of Heaven thrown in the mix for good flavor. I realize Scientology is a very "Hollywood" religion, but they sure went all out. They could easily have hosted an awards ceremony with the same set, giving off trophies for "Most Celebrities Brainwashed" or "Outstanding Performance in an Audit." The giant picture of L. Ron Hubbard is also quite fetching, because he looks more like everybody's creepy uncle than a religious figure. Again, an indie cult would never be able to pull this off.
Rear Admiral Miscavige is quick to defend Hubbard, for where would he be without such a luminous figure to guide him through the darkness of life? Rather than letting Hubbard's career writing stories about aliens impregnating humans (or whatever the hell he wrote about) be a negative, he twists it into a positive. For you see, Hubbard merely used his lucrative writing career to fund his "serious research" into how Xenu, Galactic Overlord, piled up billions of ancient humans at the base of a volcano and then erupted it with hydrogen bombs. Did I mention L. Ron Hubbard changed the world by becoming the youngest Eagle Scout in history at the age of 13? When you think about it, he sure did a lot more with his life than Christ. His idea of a merit badge was getting crucified.
All and all, I would say this was a disappointing DVD from the Church of Scientology. For one thing, it completely failed to even remotely brainwash me. The choice in Secret Agent David Miscavige as host was poor, since he is an antagonistic, ferret-like man. He seems more like an archetypical bad guy, a stock actor you get to play Joseph Goebbels in your low-budget Nazi shoot 'em up movie. I had high expectations for this video and none of them were met. If this DVD was nothing but two hours of a black and white spiral spinning around with a soothing voice whispering "You will enjoy 'Battlefield: Earth,' you will give us your money" I would have enjoyed it immensely. Scientology is too busy hiding Hubbard's bizarre teachings behind forceful propaganda these days, and that is a real shame.
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> Origin of Scientology Personality Test
On May 25, 2006 "Roger Gonnet" posted the text of a letter from 1950 that suggest the origins of the personality test:
TO: DON ROGERS
11/27/50
FROM: RON HUBBARD
Dear Don:
I have some data here on this test. I'm putting together a test battery, a psychometric test battery. I'm originating new tests and I'm going to call them by a series of names. These tests actually compare to existing tests and by publishing sets of these tests in the validation hard-cover book itself we will be able to have something there which is well in advance of the currect psychometry. I'm tired of fooling around with psychometry. The psychometry is too poor, it's too hard "to administer, and it's about time somebody took a bite on this that could line it up with dianetics. How people in the past have had this job and have fellen down on it. Right now, we're stirring around with the California test, we're going to have trouble every time we try to publish somebody else's test, so the thing to do is Just take their test and wr te good solid dianetic approximations to these tests so that they stand up in any battery.
Furthermore, none of these tests have enough variations. They have one, two and that's all. They have a and b. We need an abcd test form on a single sheet. I'm getting together a Minnesota Multiphasic test which is built exactly and squarely out of engrams which will show the psychoses and neuroses of every individual to which it is given. This is something they have never had before and I know that this thing will check across the boards.
The final forms for these tests will be forwarded to you for part of your validation booklet. Actually, the test we're giving on these graph sheets, will have been given on California Test for Mental Health, California Test on Mental Maturity, and several other forms. Now we're celling our tests, Standard International Mental Health Analysis, and Standard International Multiphasic Test for Neurosis and Psychoses. In other words, we're going to change the name of It and we're going to use an alternate form of well known tests. I'm going to work on these things for the next three days and turn out the whole battery of them, have them drawn up properly and send them back to you so that you can use those names. Therefore you never have to use California Test Bureau or refer to the Ameri can Psychoanalytical or American Psychological Association. Just leave them in the dust! It's about time somebody junked psychometry, so here they go ! Now you want to stand by them, for this material. It's coming through to
you soon as it can be entigrated. It will be sent through to you and it will be used in this form, I don't care what your local psychometrist says about this. He can whine, cry, tear his hair out, or lie down on the floor and kick. These are the tests that are going to be given and that finishes that!
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It's too bad, we tried to salvage what we could of old time psychology but I guess it's just as dead as the dodo bird. So, there is your validation program. I'll send you copies of this test to be printed as fast as I can turn them out. It isn't very hard to write these tests up by the way, they can be written up so they make sense. The main trouble with them will be getting a concordance between one test and another and establishing the factor for the a b c and d ones. This should be fairly easy. I think possibly if I work very very hard, why, I should be able to get all these tests done in about three days. I think this is reasonable in view of the fact that it took psychology about fifty years to develope a battery. We should move at about that ratio so let's go on it and I want you to have everything all set and ready to fire as soon as you get this material from out here. I want you to collect as many medical validations as you possibly can around there, get these things all written up and ready to put
into the validation booklet. O.K.? Would you please tell Maloney about this and let him listen to this record? O. K.
Best regards,
Ron
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> Hollywood Testing Center Activity
On May 25, 2006 "Dilbert Perkins" posted:
The other day, the Testing Center on Hollywood Boulevard had a couple of dump trucks in the parking lot. Nothing was in them, but they were there.
I wonder if the $10M Tom Cruise reportedly gave to the Church of Scientology for property in the San Fernando Valley went toward this project.
The place has been boarded up for three years, supposedly to remodel the lobby and basement. Nobody takes three years to decorate/remodel two rooms, no matter how big they are, no matter how exacting and pain-staking the renovation.
It has been speculated that the Church of Scientology has run out of money. Instead of the 8 million adherents they claim, it has been documented through various census reports that there are fewer than 500,000 Scientologists worldwide (see http://www.adherents.com/Religions_By_Adherents.html ). Personally, I believe there are maybe half that figure. In Los Angeles it appears that there are more people actually working for the Church of Scientology then there are public Scientologists. Low interest rates, and possibly bad investments, may have significantly depleted Co$'s formerly vast stash of cash. $10M would be a much-needed boon to restore the confidence of the few remaining faithful.
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> Erased from Scientology Media
On May 25, 2006 "Simkatu" posted:
Marty Rathbun (AKA Mark Rathbun) was once a high powered and influential Church of Scientology executive that was both well-respected by his peers and many other people. Marty worked as the Inspector General of RTC. The Church of Scientology used to proclaim that Marty played an influential role in obtaining the IRS tax exempt status for the CoS and its members who pay for courses. Marty was highly regarded within the Church as an effective leader and a "go to guy" that could really get things done.
Here's a picture of Marty when he was at the groundbreaking ceremony for the Super Power building 8 years ago in Clearwater:
http://groundbreaking.scientology.org/ (he is next to D.M. on the right)
Marty also used to have his full biography linked from here, but they've removed it. Pretty soon, I would expect that they will cut his body out of the picture and attempt to put someone else in his place.
There are some more remnants of Marty that are left on various Scientology web pages. Here's some pictures of Marty that are still hosted on CoS servers, but the Church of Scientology has removed all the pages that actually had these pictures on them:
http://davidmiscavige.rtc.org/eng/bio/img/Rathbun.jpg
http://www.scientology.org/pics/std/news-media/biographies/rathbun.jpg
http://www.scientology.org/scnnews/img/rathbun.jpg
http://www.rtc.org/pics/std/board/ig.jpg
http://www.lascientologie.com/p_jpg/scnnews/img/rathbun.jpg
Marty Rathbun (and/or Mark Rathbun) is still listed in the meta-tag information (go to VIEW | SOURCE to see the meta-tags) at over 4000 Scientology owned web pages including these:
http://italian.drugrehab.lronhubbard.org/page55.htm
http://www.scientology.org/p_jpg/helpitl/sh6_5.htm
www.lascientologie.com/p_jpg/helpspn/sh6_5.htm
http://www.lascientologie.com/p_jpg/world/worldger/indexgr.htm
http://www.lronhubbard.org/P_JPG/human/twth.htm
www.cienciologia.com/world/worldeng/indexesp.htm
plus 4000 other pages! The Church included him on so many pages that they are having difficulty finding and removing every last reference of Marty Rathbun. His name is listed in the meta-tags right next to David MisCavige's name.
The Church of Scientology can be expected to remove these traces of Marty soon.
A recent newspaper article documents that Marty Rathbun worked side-by-side with David Miscavige for over 20 years:
http://www.sptimes.com/TampaBay/102598/scientologypart3.html
However, around Sept. 15, 2005, Marty Rathbun's name was systematically removed from nearly every single internet page about him that was maintained by the Church of Scientology. All of his years of service and good works for the Church were completely erased from existence.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Rathbun
Why has the Church of Scientology been trying to erase all the records of Marty Rathbun? Why was the sheriff in Hemet, CA unable to locate Marty Rathbun in order to serve him with divorce papers?
http://www.xenu.net/archive/rtc/
Did Marty do something to make David Miscavige angry? Was he sent off to some sort of prison, or worse?
http://www.wwwaif.net/scn/scn_mr_list.php
Did Marty just leave Scientology willingly, and now he is in hiding, fearing for his life, scared of the organization that he dedicated 25+ years of his life to?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Rathbun
It's time for the police and media to do some investigations into the disappearance of Marty Rathun. When the number 2 man in a religious cult goes missing for 270 plus days and even the Sheriff of his hometown cannot locate him, its time for the media to investigate.
http://home.earthlink.net/~snefru/loose-ends/marty.html
Oh, and by the way, another high-powered exec, Warren McShane was also erased systematically from all the Scientology controlled web pages around the same date. McShane is also missing.
Did the Church of Scientology dispose of or otherwise harm Marty Rathbun and Warren McShane? It is time that the national media examine this question.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_McShane
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AJ Simkatu
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"Roger Gonnet" posted:
[erasing names from lists is a very old mania!]
I have searched for the first time my name in the Kristi's lists... it's in no lists, apparently; my ex-wife françoise is clear 6494 , but I'm not there, though we attested near the same period.
I'm not on OT3 completions (true, data are missing from AOSH EU). Nevertheless, I think my name was doctored, possibly.
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> Scientology and Los Angeles Sheriff Baca
On May 25, 2006 "David Touretzky" posted:
Okay, this is gross. Don't say I didn't warn you...
My current copy of International Scientology News, issue 33, showed up with a photo of none other than Los Angeles Sheriff Leroy Baca slobbering over the cursed corpse of L. Ron Hubbard, to honor the dead fraud on his birthday. The Sheriff allegedly said:
"The story of L. Ron Hubbard can be found in each individual who has taken the time to understand the information that he provides, the wisdom that it brings to dealing with life's needs and therein the real story can be told. And the tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions of people who have been exposed to what his ideas are -- it's all about goodness, it's all about improving yourself, it's all about finding a way to empower other human beings. It's reverence for life. Those are the important things."
You can see a scan of the page here:
http://Stop-Narconon.org/Baca
Shall we deconstruct?
1) "The story of L. Ron Hubbard can be found in each individual who has taken the time to understand the information that he provides, the wisdom that it brings to dealing with life's needs and therein the real story can be told."
This sentence says nothing. It's a truly ugly example of politician-speak. Reminds me of the famous non-endorsement: "For those readers who like this sort of thing, this is the sort of thing they will like."
2) And the tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions of people who have been exposed to what his ideas are ...
You mean the millions of visitors to Xenu.net? Or the people who read the 1991 TIME Magazine article?
3) it's all about goodness, it's all about improving yourself, it's all about finding a way to empower other human beings.
It's all about a man named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the largest domestic espionage case in US history, for which he allowed his own wife to go to prison. It's also about money. And mental self-abuse. And space aliens. Hail Xenu!
4) It's reverence for life.
All together now: can you say "Sea Org abortions"? I knew you could!
5) Those are the important things.
Not important to Scientology, and certainly not to L. Ron Hubbard. In the immortal words of Mae West: "Goodness has nothing to do with it."
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On May 23, 2006 "Feisty" posted:
[Sheriff Baca -Guns and badges for donations?]
A strange website listing lots of presentations with Sheriff Baca. The donations and subsequent "Partisans control the LAPD" is exceptionally odd considering the lack of reference to $cientology. Are they clueless or distracting away from Sheriff Baca's very supportive $cientology celebrity actors, and other donors and partisans? The second article addresses quite strongly the recent Federal Consent Decree of which $cientology may be using to help get programs into jails and prisons.
http://www.fulldisclosure.net/news/2006/03/guns-badges-for-political-donors.html
Los Angeles, CA. Watch this eight minute video news blog debate that was originally videotaped in 2005 between Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona and Los Angeles County Sheriff Leroy Baca. http://www.fulldisclosure.net/flash/VideoBlogs/VideoBlog11.php This free video is available "On Demand" 24/7, as a public service of the Full Disclosure Network.
You will see Baca & Carona explaining their policies on taking political contributions from Reserve Deputies, Under Sheriffs and personnel in their Departments. The Full Disclosure NetworkT is providing this video news blog worldwide on our web site at www.fulldisclosure.net.
Moderating the debate is Emmy Award winning host Leslie Dutton who interviewed both Baca and Carona in separate hour-long interviews covering many important subjects as well as the Sheriff's policies on giving guns and badges to political donor.
[...]
Also!
http://www.fulldisclosure.net/news/2006/03/partisians-control-lapd.html
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
PARTISIANS CONTROL THE LAPD?
Los Angeles, CA The Full Disclosure Network is re-releasing a full half hour program on the Internet entitled "Partisians Own the LAPD" available as a public service 24/7, "On Demand".
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"Feisty" also posted:
[$cientology using Consent Decree to push programs?]
http://www.dailybreeze.com/news/articles/2809691.html
Tuesday, May 23, 2006
A federal judge Monday extended for three years the entire consent decree requiring federal monitoring of Los Angeles Police Department reforms, rejecting a move by city and U.S. officials who wanted only parts of the court order to continue for two more years.
U.S. District Judge Gary Feess acknowledged that the LAPD has made "progress in ways that never have been done" in reforms designed to weed out corruption and racial discrimination. The decree was implemented in 2001 in the aftermath of a department scandal involving frame-ups and beatings by officers in the Rampart Division.
What the extension will mean to taxpayers was not immediately clear. It costs the city roughly $10 million a year to meet the consent decree's requirements. That cost includes an $11 million, five-year contract to Kroll Inc., the firm of the decree's independent monitor, Michael Cherkasky.
**Gerald Chaleff, the department's administrator in charge of implementing the decree, said the Kroll contract will be renegotiated.**
But Feess said that since a "core" element of the decree -- a computer system called TEAMS II designed to help track potential problem officers -- would not be running until September, three additional years were appropriate.
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http://home.snafu.de/tilman/prolinks/
The L.A.P.D. accepted $25,000 from Scientology. It is also often seen together with scientology; one example is the Hollywood Police Activities League (PAL), read an article in scientology's propaganda paper, or see Hollywood police captain Michael Downing accepting $15,000 from Greg LaClaire of the Scientology Celebrity Centre, or supporting The Way to Happiness. Even more amazing is that until February 2001, the LAPD was controlled by Scientology's attorney Gerald L. Chaleff, who headed the police commission. Gerald Chaleff's employer is the lawfirm Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP. On December 10th of the same year, Chaleff joined the City Attorney's Office to "help trim city liabilities and lead a new risk management effort". In other words: Scientology is sitting on both sides of law enforcement.
Right now there are lots of news articles about ruin in L.A. jails naming Sheriff Baca, (at spam level and even from India in google news) and the budget cuts...Would this article talk about the same Federal Consent Decree, ordering more jails to be opened? That would include rehab programs. Budgets have been cut. Sheriff Baca has input in the budget. The longer this decree is around, it seems that it gives $cientology more time to use the race card to forge through its programs, unfortunately. They do need Sheriff Baca, and whoever else can help stack the cards.
http://ktla.trb.com/news/la-me-jail14may14,0,5951827.story?coll=ktla-...
In the summer of 1983, with the building filled to twice its capacity, hundreds of inmates were given four blankets each and slept under the stars on the roof of Men's Central Jail.
By then a class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of inmates by the American Civil Liberties Union was making its way through the court system. A federal court found the overcrowding to be cruel and unusual punishment and ordered the county to stop overloading its jails. At the time, more than 22,000 inmates were being housed in space meant for half as many. County officials, under a federal consent decree, agreed to open new facilities.
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In 1988, the judge allowed the county to institute what was to be a temporary solution to the overcrowding: early release.
Baca was already dealing with a jail system that had lost...
Baca's critics point to "nonessential" pet projects, like rehabilitation programs in the jail, that could have been cut to keep inmates in jail longer.
"That's nice, but that's not our job. Our job is custody," said Los Angeles County Sheriff's Sgt. Paul Jernigan, who works in Men's Central and is one of four candidates running against Baca in the June 6 election.
But the sheriff said these programs amounted to a fraction of the money he needed to save. With cuts down to the bone, he said he faced laying off deputies or closing the jails.
It appears that the consent decree is being used to forge the way for the detox program. In Compton, California, $cientology paid for Way to Happiness books for the NAACP, and $cientology claims that they, on behalf of the whole NAACP -
"WHEREAS: The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) passed a resolution on July 15th at their 94th Annual Convention in Miami Beach, Florida, entitled, "The Concerns and Discrepancies in Special Education and the Use of Psychotropic Drugs on Children and Teens," in which they resolved that its members on a national and local level recommend and support legislation such as the Child Medication Safety Act of 2003"
http://www.womenlegislators.org/news/article.php?article=51
The ruin is being affixed to the minority population and Sheriff Baca is most likely the newest person to try to get the detox in for criminal reentry. Maybe they are already volunteering in the prison there, like they have been in the faith-based prison in Florida.
Is there a connection and conflict between the consent decree commander, Gerald Chaleff, $cientology and Sheriff Baca?
This blog raises a different conflict of interest, I wonder if they are full aware of a possible $cientology connection or a part of the distraction?
http://www.fulldisclosure.net/news/2006/03/video-news-blog-bratton-co...
Video News Blog: BRATTON CONFLICT ON LAPD CONSENT DECREE?
Los Angeles, CA. Allegations that LAPD Chief William Bratton may have a conflict of interest in the ongoing LAPD Federal Consent decree that is being monitored by his former employer Kroll & Associates are featured in a thirteen minute Full Disclosure NetworkT Video News Blog. In the video are Chief Bratton, Councilman Bernard Parks, LAPD Captain Ken Hillman (ret), Assistant Chief David Gascon (ret), and LAPD Inspector General Jeffery Eglash (1998-2003). Available on the URL:
http://www.fulldisclosure.net/flash/VideoBlogs/VideoBlog26.php "Free", on demand, 24/7 as a public service of the Full Disclosure NetworkT.
In a February 2006 interview with the Full Disclosure NetworkT, Bratton predicted the Federal Consent Decree mandates would be extended beyond the five-year deadline to comply. Reasons cited were the Department's failure to develop an experimental and comprehensive computer tracking system for officers, known as Teams II. According to LAPD Captain Ken Hillman, the specifications for the computer system are "pie in the sky", and that no such computer system exists in the nation or the world.
Hillman went on to say "The problem is that Chief Bratton previously was an Associate with Kroll (International Consultants) and as such he was put in a position to oversee and monitor the implementation of the Federal Consent Decree for LAPD prior to being selected as Chief of Police (LAPD). I don't know if there is really an incentive for Chief Bratton to get out of the Federal Consent Decree because, in turn, if he were to get the Police Department out of the Federal Consent decree, his friends and Associates at Kroll would no longer have a job with the City of Los Angeles.
Hosted by Leslie Dutton, the Full Disclosure NetworkT Video News Blog contains comments from former LAPD Chief and now Councilman Bernard Parks who describes the "useless" ethnic and racial data that is being collected by police officers under the mandate of the Federal Consent Decree and he describes it as a "politically correct" function. Bratton agrees.
Former Assistant LAPD Chief Dave Gascon describes how the 300 best and brightest (police employees) were to be taken off the streets to perform (paper work) functions of the Federal Consent Decree. Chief Bratton defends the use of highly trained personnel, including himself in performing the Court mandated functions. LAPD Inspector General Jeffery Eglash describes how the under the Federal Consent Decree the auditors are now auditing the auditors and "there are a lot of redundancies in the process."
On November 2, 2000 the elected officials of Los Angeles agreed to a comprehensive court settlement of a civil rights case brought by the U.S. Department of Justice against the Los Angeles police department. This settlement agreement is referred to as the LAPD Federal Consent Decree, it was to be in force for five years and if compliance for two consecutive years, the lapd would be relieved of the federal oversight and monitoring costs and procedures. as of this year, that period is up.
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Programs going back to 2002 featuring Sheriff Baca
http://www.fulldisclosure.net/fmsearch/search.html
search for Baca
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> Narconon Challenged in Canada
On May 26, 2006 Simkatu posted an article by the Canadian Edmonton Journal:
Narconon has again been exposed as a fraud by medical profesionals.
http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=e02a9f92-72eb-4881-96d8-25ed0fdadda4&k=29223
or if the above link is broken try:
http://tinyurl.com/jckmd
Experts challenge claims of Scientology's sweat-it-out treatment for addicts
by Charles Rusnell, The Edmonton Journal
Published: Tuesday, May 23, 2006
EDMONTON - A drug and alcohol treatment program backed by the controversial Church of Scientology is promising addicted Albertans an extraordinary 70-per-cent success rate.
The Narconon program is marketed as "100-per-cent natural," and prescribes intensive saunas, exercise and high doses of vitamins to cleanse the body of "radiation, drugs and toxins."
Advertisements for the Narconon program have appeared in recent months on Edmonton's CKUA radio and in weekly newspapers throughout the province.
Addiction experts and academics in Canada, the United States and Europe have long warned the Narconon program has no scientific basis for its claims.
University of Alberta sociologist Dr. Steve Kent said the program may serve another purpose.
"The program provides the Scientology organization with claims of socially beneficial programs," said Kent, a world-recognized expert in the Church of Scientology. "It provides some Scientologists with employment and it certainly provides the Scientology organization with income and a possible recruitment vehicle for new members."
Narconon spokesman Brad Melnychuk of Toronto insists the program has verified its results, and he said no attempt is made to use it to recruit new members to Scientology. He said rules are in place to ensure "vulnerable" drug- or alcohol-addicted individuals are not subjected to any pressure from Scientologists working for Narconon. He said only four or five per cent of the addicts who go through Narconon programs become Scientologists.
Melnychuk is the executive director of the Association for Better Living and Education Canada (ABLE Canada), a non-profit group that offers several programs, including Narconon, that are based on the teachings of the late American author L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology.
Scientology emphasizes self-improvement and rejects psychiatry and psychotherapy as inhumane pseudo-science. Believers hold that mental well-being can be achieved though "auditing," a process of discussing harmful unconscious memories of past trauma, including those in previous lives.
Begun by Hubbard in the 1950s, Scientology now boasts 5,200 churches, missions and groups worldwide, and operates drug rehabilitation and education programs through ABLE Canada, which incorporated in Calgary in March. Scientology boasts several Hollywood stars as members, including Tom Cruise, John Travolta and Kirstie Alley, who says the Narconon program saved her life.
Melnychuk said the full four-month program costs about $20,000. Albertans are referred to Narconon's residential facility in Trois Rivieres, Que., northeast of Montreal.
Since 2002, 37 Albertans have graduated from the program: 14 from Calgary, six from Edmonton and the remainder from rural Alberta. The most common drug addictions reported by Albertans were to crack cocaine and painkillers, Melnychuk said.
He said the program's 70-per-cent success rate is measured by graduates of the program who remain drug- and alcohol-free for two years.
Various independent assessments of Narconon's physiological claims have found they are not based on widely accepted medical and scientific evidence.
"These kinds of claims, if you're looking at them scientifically, have to be corroborated by data," said Dr. Tom Brown, a drug rehab researcher at McGill University in Montreal. "They have a lot of underlying assumptions that are not really borne out by the current state of scientific literature."
[...]
Melnychuk insists there are studies that prove Narconon's program not only works as claimed, but also produces the 70-per-cent success rate. He directed a Journal reporter to studies on the Narconon website, which prominently features a scientific advisory panel.
"Not all of them are Scientologists, but a lot of them either are or have close affiliations with the organization," the U of A's Kent said. He said there have been independent studies of the program, but they showed the success rate is very low.
Brown, the McGill researcher, said Narconon, while not scientifically substantiated, may be no worse than many other popular drug and alcohol rehab programs that are also not backed by science. He said an important element in the effectiveness of a rehab program is the addict's belief in the program.
"Treatments that are actively sought by clients and are valued by the client tend to be the most effective," he said.
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DETOX PROGRAM
Based on the writings of L. Ron Hubbard, the Narconon program claims drug residues remain indefinitely in body fat, causing people to experience repeated drug flashbacks and cravings.
The Narconon "New Life Detoxification Program" prescribes a regime of intensive saunas and exercise to sweat out from the body the residues that cause addiction. The physiological detoxification program is followed by several rehab programs for the addict's potential psychological problems, including the "Ups & Downs in Life Course" and "The Way to Happiness Course."
Narconon spokesman Brad Melnychuk said he has personally witnessed the effectiveness of the sauna program. "You can actually see the toxins come out," he said. "You see the colour of the skin change, you can test the sweat, put it under a microscope and see in fact that these toxins do come out and you can see the person change daily and get better."
Narconon has alcohol- and drug-rehabilitation centres throughout North America and Europe. One of the best known is Arrowhead in Oklahoma. Narconon applied to the state's board of mental health for certification. In a report, the board noted that most drugs are removed from the body through the liver, kidney and lungs. "Although minute quantities of some drugs may be found in sweat, the amount represents a small fraction of drug elimination," the board's report stated.
Source: Journal Staff, Edmonton
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> L Ron Hubbard, on Hypnosis and Little Kangaroos
On May 26, 2006 "Arnaldo Lerma" posted:
PICK UP THE CANS PLEASE
THIS IS THE SESSION
That IS EXACTLY what hubbard did to YOU
And you are now "protesting" because we don't see your cute little kangaroo ?????
http://www.lermanet.com/exit/hubbard-the-hypnotist.htm
http://www.lermanet.com/images/FORRY_ACKERMAN.JPG
This is Forrest Ackerman, who was Hubbard's Literary agent... in his journal, from typwritten pages from the late 1940's in Los Angeles at the Science Fiction club..
http://www.lermanet.com/excalibur/Image5.jpg
Well, 45 years ago there was established a Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society. I'm a charter member. I was at the very first meeting and I've been to 1500 meetings off and on in between. It was a period when Ron came around to our club. He was living in Los Angeles. And what I particularly remember about his a appearances there was an evening of spectacular hypnotism when he hypnotized just about every kid in the club. I remember he gave one young man a . . . what would you call it... In any event, the boy was convinced that cupped in his hand, he had a little tiny kangaroo that was hopping around and I remember he came over and showed the Kangaroo to me. And, ah, one by one RON was hypnotizing everybody in the club. he gave one boy a post hypnotic suggestion, he said now ah, I'll snap my fingers and bring you out of it and about 5 now snap out of it
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A 30 year member of scientology was reading LERMANET.COM's pages about about Hubbard and hypnosis... and found the pages posted above to the pitbull/not-sure-yet/null-portal/et al....
This old fellow is an OT 7 that Scientology thinks is still in good standing!, and send me these scans of a Scientology transcript of Hubbard's Philadelphia "doctorate" course tapes, where hubbard, not only discusses HYPNOSIS, but mentions the Little cute kangaroo! If someone else recalls this, or can authenticate these as being real, I would appreciate it..
If somebody has a recording of this lecture, I really really would like an audio snippit of this part it!!
PDC tape number 4
Enjoy, L Ron Hubbard, on Hypnosis and Little Kangaroos:
L Ron Hubbard wrote:
Now, let's look at that in another bracket. Let's look at it in the field of hypnotism. Here's real phenomena; here's something you can go and investigate. If you want to investigate this, go get yourself a little book, How to Hypnotize Somebody in Five Easy Lessons, or something of the sort-it's very easy to do. Set up a candle in front of them, tell them to stare at the candle. There are a certain percentage of people hypnotize just like that. And a certain percentage of them are running so hard that any time you say, "Go into an hypnotic trance," they run madly the opposite direction. They'll hypnotize-in opposites. This is awfully interesting business hypnotism is.
All right. All you're asking him to do is concentrate a sense channel on something a communication line on something, and then fix it there. Well, he agreed to do that the second he puts his eyes on the candle. Now, your trick is to make him agree to something else. There is nothing very weirdabout hypnotism. It is the easiest thing in the world.
Now, you got his eye on the candle. "All right, now you stare at the candle, stare at the candle. Now, you know that concentration of that sort can make youAnd he'll say, "All right." See, he's agreed that concentration on that can make him sleepy. All right. You've got that one.
"Now, let's go into a sort of a-of-let's look at this candle a little- a little closer and now let's feel-let's feel the body becoming more and more relaxed." And he agrees to feel that the body's becoming more and more relaxed.
That's all there is to that. He just agrees little by little. The next thing you know he's-the hypnotist says, "Now your eyes will close," and his eyes go bonk. Of course. He agreed to that.
Now the hypnotist says, "Now your right hand will rise." And with some slight amazement, this fellow watches his right hand come up.
And he says, "Who-o-ow, I'm hypnotized." So, he just gives it up then. And the hypnotist now says, "Now you see that kangaroo on your right knee?"
"Yes." He sees a kangaroo on his right knee.
"Now, take it on the right knee and now let's see it jump over to the left knee. Now, you got that? All right, now let's put-let's put a bonnet on this kangaroo. Got the bonnet on it? Now have the kangaroo sing a song." And the hypnotized person is very happy to sit there and watch this. The trouble is he's seeing it; he's seeing it completely.
This is frightening to people that this can happen to them. Well, that's just a nice MEST universe trick that it could be frightening to them. And it's very weird that they think they have to go along through all this mumbo jumbo and ritual of hypnotism and be in a state of sound asleep and be out of control of themselves and can only see this when they're taking orders from a hypnotist. That's the silliest thing in the world.
I mean, here we've got a long chain of laws and agreements. And what do you know, they operate on more people out here. And they're there as agreements-that if you agree to this, then you'll get that. And if you agree to that and you agree to that and agree to that and next thing you know, the fellow is unaware of his surroundings.
Hypnotized person can see a whole room on fire and he can. He can hear the flames crackle and everything else. He's just in wonderful shape on the thing. You see he doesn't have to take responsibility for it. He can do it all the time and the whole trick is he's saying, "Now look, that hypnotist can be responsible for my really seeing this and building a universe around here and it's up to him to get me out of it again," and so forth. "And so I'll just make him responsible and therefore I'll be able to handle illusions."
Thank you L Ron Hubbard - this snippit AUTHENTICATES the 1940's snippet about Hubbard's stage hypnosis performance as described by Forrest Ackerman, posted above.
This is important stuff...
Thank you
Arnie Lerma
Lermanet.com Exposing the CON
"the Court is now convinced that the primary motivation of RTC [$cientology] in suing Lerma, DGS and The Post is to stifle criticism of Scientology in general and to harass its critics.
"http://www.lermanet.com/xenu-in-southpark-is-real.htm
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> Anti-Psychiatry Spammers
On May 26, 2006 "Android Cat" posted a number of e-mail addresses used by Scientology anti-psychiatry spammers, observing the posting history:
Since January, this posting identity has only replied to these other identities:
gloriasmithkline@yahoo.com:
"Barbara.Schwarz@thunderstar.com" (Barbara.Schwarz@gmail.com)
"knowledgespeak" (knowledgespeak@yahoo.com)
"thoughtsmithee@gmail.com" (thoughtsmithee@gmail.com)
"Zorg" (zorg8@hotmail.com)
Caswell (Caswell_member@newsguy.com)
coffeecup@aussieisp.com
Dagny Thorn (Dagny_member@newsguy.com)
gloriasmithkline (gloriasmithkline@yahoo.com)
gloriasmithkline@yahoo.com
Jimchi (jimchi7070@yahoo.com)
Mikkiblack313 (mikkiblack313@yahoo.com)
Mikkiblack313 (Mikkiblack313_member@newsguy.com)
Mikkiblack313@aol.com
pwaltblitz@yahoo.com
Stu Miller Stu_member@newsguy.com
knowledgespeak@yahoo.com:
"Audrey" (knowledgespeak@yahoo.com)
"RED37" (RED37HONEY@aol.com)
baby3ducks@yahoo.com
blubberbutt321@yahoo.com
Caswell (Caswell_member@newsguy.com)
gloriasmithkline@yahoo.com
Jimchi (jimchi7070@yahoo.com)
knowledgespeak@yahoo.com
Mikkiblack313 (mikkiblack313@yahoo.com)
Mikkiblack313@aol.com
pwaltblitz@yahoo.com
smurf (smurf@smurf.net)
Stu Miller Stu_member@newsguy.com
Mikkiblack313:
"Gina_and_Phil" (phillip_gina_t@hotmail.com)
"knowledgespeak" (knowledgespeak@yahoo.com)
"pwaltblitz@yahoo.com" (pwaltblitz@yahoo.com)
"the even harder to handle .Lily Firered." (lily_firered@yahoo.com)
baby3ducks@yahoo.com
Caswell (Caswell_member@newsguy.com)
Dagny Thorn (Dagny_member@newsguy.com)
gloriasmithkline (gloriasmithkline@yahoo.com)
gloriasmithkline@yahoo.com
Jimchi (jimchi7070@yahoo.com)
Mikkiblack313@aol.com
pwaltblitz@yahoo.com
smurf (smurf@smurf.net)
Stu Miller Stu_member@newsguy.com
And so on... Maybe I'll do a network bubble chart showing volume of posts and connecting arrows, but it's not like there are any surprises there.
--
Feisty posted:
[Attn: Psych Spammers]
Have you been busy on Israel networks? This reminds me of $cientology's plan to shut down a.r.s.
Clever choice to use the name "PharmaMaster" to spam with. That would make alot of people angry at the "big, evil pharma," no?
"However, one spammer decided to attack back instead. Starting May 1, the spammers--who Blue Security identified as PharmaMaster--attacked the company's Web site and spammed Blue Frog users with even more mass mailings. The attacks not only disrupted Blue Security's operations but knocked out the Web blog hosting service Six Apart and a handful of Internet service providers, including Tucows."
http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11392
Blue Security folds under spammer's wrath
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2006-05-17
Israeli anti-spam startup Blue Security decided on Tuesday to shutter its aggressive anti-spam service, citing threats of further--and more malicious--attacks on its service and users.
" We deal with attacks on a regular basis, and this was an order of magnitude larger than what we are used to seeing. For the first part of the attack, this was seen as a network problem, because it caused connectivity issues for two of our three upstream providers. "
Elliot Noss, CEO, Tucows
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> Cult Notoriety Expanding
Florida Governor Jeb Bush and CBS broadcaster Mike Wallace each gave social reactions to Scientology this past week.
Posted from the St. Petersburg Times on May 21, 2006:
http://www.sptimes.com/2006/05/21/State/Harris_challenger_s_d.shtml
The Buzz
Harris challenger's deep pockets attract speculation
By Times Staff
Published May 21, 2006
[...]
WRITING OFF THE SCIENTOLOGY VOTE:
After being honored Friday night by the social conservative group Florida Family Policy Council, [Gov. Jeb] Bush mused that reporters were so fascinated by the gathering because they view religion as a strange concept.
"People who act on their faith are a large number of people in our state. Sometimes I think you guys write about them like they're mutants out there, like they're some weird little group, like they're Scientologists or something," the governor said. "
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"Mike Wallace Rips Tom Cruise" was posted 20 May 2006 from
http://jeffscelebritygossipblog.blog.co.uk/2006/05/20/mike_wallace_rips_tom_cruise~815602
Mike Wallace is set to take a quasi retirement from the news business as the veteran CBS broadcaster, who turns 88 on Tuesday, officially becomes "correspondent emeritus" at the end of this month. So on the way out, he's speaking his mind.
One of those in the cross hairs, actor and Scientologist Tom Cruise and he flat out says, "Tom simply does not know what he is talking about."
The anchor has slammed the actor for campaigning against anti-depressants and psychiatry.
The 60 Minutes host, who has long suffered from crippling depression, claims Cruise can't credibly speak about the issue, because he hasn't experienced it. As a devout Scientologist, the actor doesn't believe in medication or counseling to treat depression.
Wallace says, "Tom simply does not know what he is talking about. Scientology is a different thing and God bless him. "But he doesn't know his tail from third base about depression. Simple as that."
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Sunday, May 21, 2006
a.r.s. Week in Review 05/20/06
> Russian Scientologist Convicted
> Scientology Fact & Fiction
> Scientology Foggery a Cult Operation
> Nazi Foggery a Cult Operation
> Power Hour Promotes Scientology Solution
> Social Response to Scientology
> UK Freezone Conference
> National Parents Association a Front Group
> Narconon's Day in Court
> Superpower HCOBs
> International Xenu Day
> Report from Ybor City
> Possible Cult Connection
> News from Belgium
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> Russian Scientologist Convicted
"Russian Official convicted 2 years 2 months for having spent govt money to send people in scientology" was posted 17 May 2006.
This is an update on Boris Shalimov, a Far East Russian district official who was caught several years ago sending workers to Hubbardist courses at government expense. It is revealed in recent news that his former district is to be one end of an oil pipeline. Previous articles give accounts of events leading up to his present predicament.
[the translator, thanks a lot to what he did! has collected a number of the articles of that story]]
In a different, unrelated 2006 case, former Russian Scientology student Viktor Kirienko was involved in the talks concerning Russia offering to provide Iran with enriched uranium for peaceful purposes
[Kirienko was prime minister for six months.]
* 5-16-06 Shalimov sentenced to two years two months
* 3-16-06 Simple Issues interview with Anatoliy Gaynutdinov, administration chief of the Skovorodinsky district
* 11-21-05 A visit to Boris Shalimov's holding cell
* 11-21-05 News in the criminal cases of former government officials
* 9-7-05 Boris Shalimov's criminal case not closed
* 7-29-05 Former Skovorodinsky district chief Boris Shalimov released from prison
* 7-27-05 Shalimov will not be released right away
* 7-25-05 Boris Shalimov in corrections center awaiting papers from capital
* 7-5-05 Supreme Court examines complaint by former head of Skovorodinsky district
* 6-2-05 Regional council upholds appeal to release Boris Shalimov
* 5-23-05 Boris Shalimov still under lock and key
* 4-18-05 Boris Shalimov detained illegally says lawyer
* 4-13-05 Skovorodinsky district judges refuse Shalimov case
* 3-16-05 Three Lawyers for Boris Shalimov
* 2-24-05 Boris Shalimov has not been at work this term
* 2-15-05 4,000 pages in Boris Shalimov's criminal case
May 16, 2006
Alpha Channel
http://www.alphatv.ru
Former chief of Skovorodinsky district in Amursky region Boris Shalimov has been sentenced to two years two months confinement in general population. The court's decision was released late yesterday evening.
Shalimov's criminal case was filed in 2004, when he was a deputy of the regional council of people's deputies and head of the Skovorodinsky district of Amursky region. The investigation established that 750,000 rubles were transferred from the district's budge to a Moscow company. Boris Shalimov was in a cell in Blagoveshchensk prison from January to July 2005, but then was released on condition he remain in the area. Shalimov gave his interpretation of the case against him on the "Simple Issues" program on Alpha channel in August 2005. The hearing for Shalimov's case in Skovorodinsky district court took place on Monday, continued for six extra hours and ended at almost 9 p.m. The former district chief was convicted on a total of three articles of the criminal code, two of which are classified as felonies: article 160, misappropriation of another's property, committed in performance of official duties; article 285, misuse of authority by agency head of local self-government; and article 289, illegal collaboration of government official with business operations.
In addition to that, the court decided Shalimov was libel to make up damages to the district budget in the amount of 641,000 rubles. He will not be able to hold a government position for two years.
From AlphaTV.Ru
Simple Issues
March 16, 2006
Anatoliy Gaynutdinov, administration chief of the Skovorodinsky district
Igor Gorevoi:
-- One of the richest districts of the Amursky region is the Skovorodinsky district. It is also one of the most notorious of recent times. Its former head, Boris Shalimov, is currently in custody as a flight risk. The current head, Anatoliy Gaynutdinov, is today's guest on the Simple Issues program.
-- Anatoliy Nurzagayanovich Gaynutdinov, how did the Skovorodinsky district suddenly become rich? Where do you make your money?
-- One can say that the first matter was to collect tax debts. There was a time when the railroad, for a long period, and not only with us, but with other districts too, did not pay their taxes. They were accumulating, and the first action we took was to send a statement to the transportation ministry and the transportation chief, now he's the president. The case was properly examined, and finances started to flow. We are starting to get something back.
-- While other districts have not managed to do this, you succeeded completely, and therefore the district is receiving large payments.
-- We went through a vast amount of correspondence besides. According to the vertical line of authority, by this I mean the Transportation Ministry, we sent in all the particulars so that taxes were easily settled. This was their debt. The debt was settled satisfactorily and successfully.
-- They say the former district chief was giddy with success. Possibly from this, too. And he began to criticize the governor too obviously and too frequently, perhaps to point out his faults. What a result this brought. You were Shalimov's first deputy. Is there any measure of truth in these rumors?
-- I think there is more speculation than truth to the matter.
-- Your prognosis on how the story will come to a close? Is it going to court now?
-- Yes it's going to court, starting this fall. The case will be a procedural decision, this is understandable. There they will listen to the other side, too. They will study the evidence. And there I'll appear as a witness. Now the two sides are engaged in debate. That means one side presents an argument and the other, the defense, defends his position. It's difficult to predict what is yet to come.
-- What is your prediction?
-- I think that nothing serious will happen there.
-- Today you hear about Skovorodino at the highest levels almost as often as Blagoveshchensk. This is in connection with construction of the "Taishet - Skovorodino - Pacific Ocean" oil pipeline. What has been done already in preparation for construction or research?
-- This project will require a lot of time. From 13 to 16 December, at the
invitation of Transnefti, I and a delegation from the Amursky regional administration went to Omsk to familiarize ourselves with the existing network there, and with the existing system of supplying the oil pipeline. We also got together with general director Chemakiniy. Correspondingly, we had a press conference, where certain questions were asked. How is Skovorodinsky district affected? That the pipe will go all the way from Taishet to Skovorodino is understandable. The most natural point in this sector is Skovorodino. A huge terminal will be constructed there, judging from what we saw in Omsk. 150,000 tons of oil are permanently kept in Omsk. In Skovorodinsky district that will be 500,000 tones. This is a huge volume of oil that will be permanently stored, will be pumped into containers. A two-way spur track -- in different directions -- will be created as soon as possible. The line will be flowing constantly and, of course, by demand.
-- You are getting a lot of new labor positions. How many are you planning for?
(article continues)
November 21, 2005
Journalists from AlphaTV.Ru managed to visit the holding cell where well-known city and regional men Boris Shalimov and Evgeniy Grigorev are in custody. Detention cell management does not usually tell journalists who is where. Actually, cell 237's current occupants were brought someplace else while the camera was rolling, and did not manage to give their opinion about their famous bunkmates. But correctional officers say that neither Boris Shalimov nor Evgeniy Grigorev were model prisoners.
The cell's occupants' sense of humor did not extend all the way inside. The "Welcome" sign on the mat made in China belies its goodwill and naiveté. But this is the only object here whose purpose is to create comfort. All the rest is standard and official.
This is not a VIP cell, the correctional officer specifies. They wanted to make a cell with a two-digit number, furnished like a hotel, with air conditioner, stuffed furniture and other odds and ends that would perhaps ease the burden of confinement, but that would take money, which they don't have. Therefore instead of the air conditioner they have the usual little fort: you start with a bit and get more. Relatives of the inmates brought in the refrigerator and the television. Actually, it is almost impossible to get them back. This is humanitarian aid which has been left for the brothers in need, says the corrections officer. Naturally the prison knows that there are famous people in this cell, but they do not do anything special for them. The only thing, they say in confinement, is that now these prisoners - intelligent people - are a rarity. They behave themselves and don't break the rules. The list of rules on the wall in the cell is old and yellow, but penciled in is an item about financial remuneration for work in the corrections system. After all, Shalimov and Grigorev were accused of financial crimes. On the whole, cell number 237 is the same as the rest in this building. Former duties and regalia somehow fade away behind the steel doors and grilled windows. The only people here are those restricted in freedom of movement.
November 21, 2005
News in the criminal cases of former government officials.
This week the criminal case concerning a former government official has been reborn. The city court changed the preventive detention for former chairman of the committee for municipal property administration Evgeniy Grigorev and released him from confinement, where he has been since the beginning of June. As a reminder, in May the prosecutor filed the criminal case against the former government official, specifying articles on fraud and negligence.
However the investigation did not manage to prove a number of violations that Grigorev had been accused of. He is also being detained as a flight risk. Nevertheless, they say, this does not affect the investigation for the days he spent in China with former first mayor of Blagoveshchensk Viktor Cheremisiniy. In the opinion of many observers, Evgeniy Grigorev's criminal case is a continuation of a conflict with old and new city management.
Still being detained as a flight risk is a former government official, former Skovorodinsky district head Boris Shalimov. He was accused under three articles of the criminal code: misappropriation of another's property, misuse of official authority and illicit collaboration in business activity.
Boris Shalimov's court hearing had been set for October 26, but was rescheduled for December because of illness of the accused's attorney. According to unofficial information, the defense is trying to gain time. Boris Shalimov has two lawyers, and the illness of one of them is said to be only a pretext to delay proceedings.
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> Scientology Fact & Fiction
Chip Gallo posted "Scientology Is (Scary) News!" on 19 May 2006.
If you have walked the streets near a Scientology "org," you probably have seen the body routers, book sellers or foot soldiers handing out lecture/video tickets. These operations are part of the human intake system described below.
Scientology, Inc. has a number of "entry routes" used to procure customers. These so-called entry routes attempt to replace legitimate functions or services of society with Hubbard's twisted model of reality, actively encouraged by various arms of the organization and not always under the corporate banner. Anti-drug lobbying is a continual activity and can even be observed in the a.r.s. newsgroup.
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TV Reporters and other media usually can't assess and report on it because, by org policy, reporters cannot be allowed on Introductory Courses. They fail the mandatory "A-J" security check by being someone who is there to report on Scientology. Occasionally a reporter gets past the metered interview, takes a class, writes a piece and it blows up all over Scientology, Inc.'s area of control. This has happened recently in LA, NY and London and illustrates why the A-J check is key in maintaining the veil of secrecy.
In place of truthful reporting, we get Sylvia Stanard or someone like her, well drilled in PR and routinely security checked for any slight chink in the thought control armor. The Office of Special Affairs (OSA) manages all external media contacts to assure that only "acceptable truths" are told. For that reason you will never see a Scientology spokesperson asserting that black people are more aberrated and harder to audit (although Hubbard said this numerous times both in writing and on tape) or that all women are below 1.1/covert hostility on the tone scale (the book "Science of Survival") or that any orientation other than heterosexual is low toned and dangerous to society (again SOS); or even that a woman's place is in the home. To his further discredit, Hubbard spoke out against democracy and democratic principles in a policy letter that is required to be at the front of every course pack.
No matter how much real estate is bought or how lavish the orgs become, it doesn't make these kinds of ideas any more palatable to general society. Scientology is in fact news but for all the wrong reasons.
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> Scientology Foggery a Cult Operation
On 19 May 2006, "Muldoon" posted "Why does 'Truth Seeker' spam this NG?". ("Truth Seeker" is a poster disruptive to the news group.)
Truth Seeker is a Scientology cult fake-critic mental-confusion spam bot operation.
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.religion.scientology/browse_frm/thread/8582d2686e15273a?scoring=d&q=why+so+many+truth+seeker&
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"Truth Seeker" responded
Why does "Muldoon" pretend to be a critic when in fact he's really a scientologist?
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"Magoo" posted
["Truth Seeker" i]s not a critic: He's running programs, and that's EXACTLY how they run.
The articles he's written/copied, for the most part, that sound critical of Scientology, have been written by others way before he arrived. He copy's my posts on OSA all the time, claiming now they're his. They're not his: You can go LOOK in Google and find my old posts, or on www.torymagoo.org and read them. I posted it way before he did.
He's a rip off, con artist: PERIOD, with zero character, zero courage, and thus he hides behind a phony nick.
END OF STORY.
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> Nazi Foggery a Cult Operation
Under the subject "Persecution complex after 1st Mission Impossible", "Feisty" posted several texts illustrating the cult tactic of recrimination as described above, but on a grander scale. This post was part of an exchange with a possible ex-Scientologist and former resident of the Federal Republic of Germany who now lives in the US.
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$cientology Freedom Magazine claims:
www.freedommag.org/english/spegerm/page24.htm
Attempted boycott of Mission: Impossible Art of the Third Reich
In addition to boycotting works involving Scientology artists, German officials have also employed propaganda art to spread outrageous falsehoods-not only about Scientology...
In a paper entitled "Art As Propaganda Against Jews and Scientologists: Echoes of the Past Renewed in Germany," Dr. Stephen C. Feinstein,
http://www.freedommag.org/english/spegerm/page27a.htm
Jewish authority on European history and art, writes that current attacks in Germany on minority religions, including Scientology, are indisputably replays of the attacks on Jews in the 1930s.
Feinstein, chairman of the history department at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls, says that "many of the attacks and representations of Scientology bear more than a slight resemblance to the misuse of art during the Third Reich in the anti-Semitic campaigns against the Jews ". His paper...describes them thus:
"The extremely negative and anti-Semitic images of the Jew which appeared in Julius Streicher's Der Stürmer are well-known. Certain themes which appeared in that Nazi newspaper and other manifestations of public propaganda art during the Third Reich are useful to cite, as they seem to have provided some sort of negative memory which has now been recalled and applied to the attack on Scientology.
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Author David Irving (from the IHR) says something different about the quotes of from the Mission Impossible persecution Freedom Magazine article author, Mr. Feinstein -
http://www.fpp.co.uk/online/99/05/Schoenfeld070599.html
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For one thing, Mr. Feinstein asserts that he wrote the pamphlet in the service of "human rights," but he says not a word about how he came in the first place to make the Church of Scientology his cause, an organization that Time magazine has called a "cult of greed and power" and "a ruthless global scam." Whether one agrees with Time's characterization or not, surely there were many other more pressing human-rights concerns that might have engaged his interest in 1996, the year he wrote his pamphlet?
The mystery of Mr. Feinstein's involvement in this strange cause is not hard to solve. As he has admitted to the Forward, he was paid to write the pamphlet by the Scientologists themselves. The Scientologists are known for being both extremely wealthy and extremely generous to those who consent to serve their purposes. Mr. Feinstein has thus far declined to reveal exactly what compensation he received but other such cases involved sums in excess of $10,000.
What is particularly unsettling is that Mr. Feinstein's pamphlet appeared while the Scientologists were in the midst of an aggressive crusade against the German government, which they incessantly likened to Adolph Hitler's Third Reich. As can be seen from the title of Mr. Feinstein's publication, "Art as Propaganda Against Jews and Scientologists in Germany: Echoes of the Past Reverberate in the Present," it fully joins in the spirit of the Scientology propaganda effort. The essay is replete with analogies likening the "victimization" of Scientologists in Germany today to the Nazi war against the Jews.
Mr. Feinstein is being disingenuous when he states that the U.S. State Department has expressed concerns about Germany's treatment of the Scientologists. He fails to inform readers of a crucial fact: the State Department has unequivocally condemned the very same Scientology campaign in which he has taken such an active part.
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, for example, has said that "comparisons between what happened under Nazism and what is happening now [to Scientologists] are historically inaccurate and totally distasteful." In 1996, the year Mr. Feinstein's pamphlet came out, the State Department's official spokesman declared that the analogies are "outrageous" and "wildly inaccurate" and that "we in the U.S. Government feel a responsibility to defend the German Government from those charges."
The State Department is hardly alone in this stance. Leaders of major Jewish organizations like Abraham Foxman, president of the Anti-Defamation League, have also spoken out. Foxman has called the analogies "an affront to the Jewish community." Ignatz Bubis, the leader of Germany's Jewish community, has characterized the Scientologists' campaign as "a smear against the memory of the victims of national-socialism."
While I do not believe, as Mr. Feinstein incorrectly imputes to me, that all parallels between the Holocaust and other instances of genocide are ipso facto out of bounds, the analogies he has drawn between the Scientologists and Hitler's victims are an insult to the memory of the Jews of Europe who were driven from their homes and murdered in concentration camps. For a professor of Holocaust studies to indulge in such comparisons is bad enough. That it was done for money and in the service of a dangerous cult makes it a far more serious transgression.
This guy writes for the IHR?
http://www.ihr.org/other/authorbios.html
$cientology had something to do with the IHR, didn't they?
http://www.lermanet.com/cisar/carto/ldidx.htm#november
November 2005 anniversary: Escape Route from Scientology
The scheme to take over the IHR was unveiled on Oct. 1, 1993. By pre-arrangement on that date the IRS also granted the tax exemption to Scientology that it had tried to get for three decades... In return for the tax exemption, the deceitful Scientology agents pulled off a coup inside the IHR.
http://www.lermanet.com/cisar/recog/index.htm
Can $cientology deny that Mr. Feinstein was paid to write that for the Freedom Magazine?
And can they deny what Madeleine Albright and other people who have said the claims made by $cientology in this article are disgusting?
http://www.fallacyfiles.org/adnazium.html
The Hitler Card
Alias: Argumentum ad Nazium
Type: Guilt by Association
Exposition:
In almost every heated debate, one side or the other-often both-plays the "Hitler card", that is, criticizes their opponent's position by associating it in some way with Adolf Hitler or the Nazis in general. No one wants to be associated with Nazism because it has been so thoroughly discredited in both theory and practise, and Hitler of course was its most famous exponent. So, linking an idea with Hitler or Nazism has become a common form of argument ascribing guilt by association.
Some instances of the Hitler card are factually incorrect, or even ludicrous, in ascribing ideas to Hitler or other Nazis that they did not hold. However, from a logical point of view, even if Hitler or other Nazis did accept an idea, this historical fact alone is insufficient to discredit it.
The Hitler Card is often combined with other fallacies, for instance, a weak analogy between an opponent and Hitler, or between the opposition political group and the Nazis. A related form of fallacious analogy is that which compares an opposition's actions with the Holocaust. This is a form of the ad Nazium fallacy because it casts the opposition in the role of Nazi. Not only do such arguments assign guilt by association, but the analogy used to link the opposition's actions with the Holocaust may be superficial or question-begging.
Resources:
* Josie Appleton, "I'm right because.....you're a Nazi", Spiked, 1/24/2002
* Nigel Warburton, Thinking from A to Z (Second Edition) (Routledge, 2001), "Bad Company Fallacy".
The peasant's love of the land is stimulated and transferred to an acceptance of his place in the present regime by such pronouncements as this:(28)
The peasant, sticking to his soil, tilling all the time, knows what it means to own the ground. There is a higher value besides the one registered in the Hall of Records. Men of the big cities, the heaps of stones, of the fountain pen, of the ledger, of the sewing needle . . . do not know any more what Mother Earth should mean to them.
http://www.maebrussell.com/Articles%20and%20Notes/German%20Propaganda...
" Actually, have you ever noticed how a Negro, in particular down south, where they're pretty close to the soil, personifies MEST? The gatepost and the wagon and the whip and anything around there-a hat. They talk to them, you know. "What'sa mattuh wi' you hat?" They imbue them with personality."
-L. Ron Hubbard, Therapy section of Technique 80, Part I, "Route to Infinity", 21 May 1952
MEST stands for Matter, Energy, Space, and Time. In the above context, it can be likened to mud or solids or non-awareness. As one moves up in spirituality, Scientology style, one moves further and further from MEST, or rather, from the effects of MEST. One becomes able to shape and control MEST by will power alone. But our sorry Negro here is so far down the ladder of spirituality that he personifies MEST. The insult does not end there. Picture some guy taking his hat off his head, holding it in front of his face, and talking to it. He actually thinks that the hat can give him attention.
http://www.solitarytrees.net/racism/deny.htm
Other generalities are effective in appealing to special groups. The farmers have been heartened to endure the poor return from their toil by a whole magnificat, written on the theme of Blut und Boden (blood and soil). They are told that they are of the "glorious peasant state," and each householder is given the honored title of Bauer. (The translation of this word, "peasant" or "farmer," does not convey the same connotation which the original does to National Socialist Germany, where the meaning is more that of a "creative builder.")
"Strength through Joy"(17) is designed to employ all of the laborer's leisure activities and to see that in these his "spirit" is coördinated with the "common" good. This makes it possible to check the way he spends his leisure hours and to prevent his developing and expressing opposition to the régime
Such words as "labor" and "sacrifice" are given additional "virtue" by ceremonials and dramatic awards.(15)
The régime utilizes the word "science" to sanction practices, policies, beliefs, and races which it wants approved.
They are told that they are of the "glorious peasant state," and each householder is given the honored title of Bauer. (The translation of this word, "peasant" or "farmer," does not convey the same connotation which the original does to National Socialist Germany, where the meaning is more that of a "creative builder.")
The flattery, the insignia, and the verbal consolations offered to workers on the land have their parallels in those offered to industrial laborers. Nazi propagandists praise the "dignity of labor" and organize festivals in its honor. Labor, they assert, is filled with a new spirit; and to guard this spirit is the task, or mission
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> Power Hour Promotes Scientology Solution
"Lisa Ruby" posted "The Power Hour Promotes Scientology Solution for Child Protection Racket" on 20 May 2006.
The Power Hour Promotes Scientology Solution for Child Protection Racket
Like Alex Jones of infowars.com, The Power Hour is promoting the "Church" of Scientology--not by a verbal endorsement, but by allowing their spokesmen to recruit for this dangerous New World Order organization by offering Scientology's solution to a very serious problem.
Joyce Riley and Dave VonKleist interviewed the Scientologist editor of Freedom Magazine, Thomas Whittle on The Power Hour radio broadcast on May 18th, 2006. Whittle presented the problem-the Child Protection Racket-and offered the "solution," which is found in the two free issues of Freedom Magazine. This interview (which included no warning about this dangerous New Age/NWO organization) and free magazine offer ultimately serves the purpose of all Scientology public relations endeavors: recruitment.
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http://libertytothecaptives.net/power_hour_scn_magazine.html
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> Social Response to Scientology
on television and in Blogs.
Chip Gallo posted a reference to a popular television show and Woggle posted a couple of blogs describing typical public reaction to Scientology.
Chip Gallo posted "SVU 'Derek Lord' Character Mentions Scientology" on 17 May 2006.
Tonight's entry of LAW AND ORDER SVU featured a teen who stopped taking her meds that had been effectively treated bipolar disorder. The teen ended up killing one and injuring others with her parent's vehicle along with some other unsavory behavior.
Rock star "Derek Lord" shows up to help defend the teenage girl. He rails against psychiatric drugs, says that the cops and prosecutor don't know what they are talking about on the subject. His litany of anti-drug crusaders includes Scientology. Eventually the girl goes off her meds again and the judge sends her to Bellevue because continuing the medication was a condition of her parole.
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"Woggle" posted "So we visited the Scientology Center in New York today and took a tour from one of their reverends" on 18 May 2006 from
http://fagats.blogspot.com/2006/05/see-cat-see-cradle.html
When we walked in, we were immediately struck by the fact that everyone was walking around smiling. Naturally, we felt completely alienated.
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But we did ask our guide (who is relatively high up in the organization) about the Church's policy on homosexuality. The marriage, the family, and procreation are very important to the religion. In addition, celebrities like Tom Cruise and John Travolta are often rumored to have joined the religion to curb those impulses, so it seemed like an obvious question. But our guide was stumped. It made us wonder whether the Pope ever says things like "I don't know." He stammered and said that Scientology didn't really deal with sexuality.
We pressed the issue, and eventually got him to concede that while gays are allowed to join, if they WANT to stop liking men, the Church has WAYS of making that happen. In other words, they have a cure. Since Scientology techniques are all about improving your life, it follows that one such improvement would be ridding yourself of the handicap of loving members of your own sex.
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"Woggle" also posted "I Fear For the Children : East Toronto Scientology Mission" on 20 May 2006 from
http://jasonvoulgaris.blogspot.com/2006/05/i-fear-for-children.html
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There was one store set back from the rest, fronted by a large, sparsley decorated wooden facade, which, set into it was a few shelves of books.
My interest piqued, I took a quick second look.
The books read "Dianetics," on their covers. A sinking sensation filled my stomach.
My gaze shot quickly up to the stores signage. "East Toronto Scientology Mission".
I groaned. Seemingly overnight, like some evil garden weed, a Scientology brainwashing station had popped up in my backyard. In my backyard!
Is nothing sacred anymore?
I quickly resumed my walking, worried my fear induced paralysis might be interpreted as genuine interest on the part of the Mission's trained zombies.
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So now the evil agents of L. Ron Hubbard have invaded our quiet corner of Toronto. I fear for the children.
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> UK Freezone Conference
"bb" posted "TECH outside COS: UK Freezone conference" on 18 May 2006.
Briefing on the Spring Seminar in London by Henrik Sabol
We were at the Freezone Forum in London this month (May).
We met many people there keen to do Scientology whatever it takes. Some had not been in the Church for a long time; some were even trained in the 1950s under LRH in London. A number were interested in Rons Orgsdue to the way the technology of LRH is rigidly stuck to.
Three new people will be starting with us one from East Grinstead .:-)
I gave a briefing about my own progress on the Bridge (I am currently on Excalibur and doing very well indeed) and informed the audience that there is an unsuppressed Bridge to be had in Rons Orgs. I emphasised how important it was to have course rooms and properly supervised training, as Rons Orgs now have in Russia, Switzerland, Germany, Holland, Denmark and here in the UK. Some of the American guests noted that we now have that in USA too.
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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Freezone101/
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> National Parents Association a Front Group
This post includes quotes from University of Alberta sociology professor Stephen Kent.
"Patty Pieniadz" posted "New Scientology Front Group-- National Parents Association" to the newsgroup on 17 May 2006, citing an article from
http://www.macleans.ca/topstories/health/article.jsp?content=20060515_126736_126736
of
May 10, 2005
A new war over Ritalin
Scientology gets involved in a school board battle
DANYLO HAWALESHKA
At first glance, it seemed like a classic David-and-Goliath punch-up: Danielle Lavigueur, a separated mother of two living in Longueuil, on Montreal's South Shore, claims the high school her 12-year-old son Gabriel attends is pressuring her to medicate him with Ritalin for hyperactivity. She refuses to yield to the alleged demand, and eventually someone calls in the Children's Aid Society. Feeling besieged, Lavigueur confides in a friend, who introduces her to Raphaël Huppé, head of research for the Montreal-based National Parents Association (NPA). With the group's help, she finds herself a lawyer, and soon she's heading up a class-action suit for $11 million, claiming parents have the final say when it comes to whether a child should be given drugs. But what appears to be a story of a woman of modest means standing up to a school board is actually much more. It is also the tale of Quebec school boards confronted by the controversial Church of Scientology.
The NPA is a fledgling, two-man operation with a number of volunteers. George Mentis, the NPA's president, works alongside Huppé. Both men are open about being Scientologists when asked, although they deny the church has anything to do with the NPA. Scientology, they say, is simply their religion, and the NPA is only trying to help Lavigueur. In early media reports, Mentis has spoken up about the Lavigueur case, but without mentioning Scientology -- or the religion's objections to drug use. But Mentis acknowledges he has worked for the Montreal chapter of an organization called the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), which makes no effort to hide its connection to Scientology in the literature it freely hands out.
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But the church's defence of parental rights is troubling because Scientologists have for decades waged a ferociously ideological war against psychiatry and modern mental health practices. The church is decidedly anti-drug. (Recall how Tom Cruise, the planet's most identifiable Scientologist, famously criticized Brooke Shields for having taken medication for her postpartum depression.) The CCHR is one of the means by which Scientologists wage that war.
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University of Alberta sociology professor Stephen Kent, who has studied the Church of Scientology for 20 years, says it is laced with references to Russians and psychiatry as a red menace.
Scientologists view Hubbard's writings as scripture, which gives what he said in The War a lot of weight. Psychiatry, he wrote, is "a vehicle to undermine and destroy the West!" Hubbard vowed that Scientology will "take over total control of all mental healing in the West." In 1987, the CCHR undertook a major campaign against Ritalin. "There is a war, by Scientology, against psychiatry," Kent says, "and the CCHR is just part of that war."
Historically, the church has had two goals when it backs someone like Lavigueur, Kent says. The first is to discredit psychiatry and its treatments; the second is to convince people to adopt Scientology's own set of mental health techniques as a replacement for modern psychiatry. Lavigueur says neither Mentis nor Huppé have tried any such thing. Her only contact with the CCHR is indirect, through Mentis.
During the course of a 90-minute talk with Lavigueur, her son sits quietly in the living room. Like his mother, Gabriel is soft-spoken and comes across, in a brief meeting at least, as calm, sensitive and thoughtful. "I was mean to my mother a lot of the time, even though I didn't want to be," Gabriel recalls. He feels better now and says he doesn't want to take drugs anymore. He misses school. "I want to go back, but they won't let me. I'm losing all the friends I made." Throughout the ups and downs, Lavigueur has not seen fit to seek a second opinion from a pediatrician on what, if anything, ails Gabriel. "I regret giving him the drugs," she says. "It was hell, and now I see he's fine -- he's like any other kid. The more I think about it, the more I think it was all the change -- the new schools, the friends." And right now, some new friends include Scientologists.
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> Narconon's Day in Court
"Orkeltatte aka Ulf Brettstam" posted "Narconon granted a day in Court" on 16 May 2006.
Administrational court of appeal has granted Narconon a day in court. That is to say the ruling from the county administrational court that revoked the initial permission of starting ( actually relocating the Stockholm facility to outside N=E4ssj=F6 where I live) a new "rehabcentre" will be tried. . ( Kammarr=E4tten)
http://www.kammarrattenijonkoping.dom.se/
An appeal is always granted when a ruling in lower court needs to be changed OR if it is of importance to the judicial praxis OR if there are other specific reasons to do so.
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A court ruling from the administrational court of appeal can be expected sometime in early fall. In the meantime Narconon are somewhat drained of money probably having to pay some kind of lease but not allowed to take in any clients.
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More about this local struggle against the beast can be read here:
http://ulf.ing-steen.se/~ulf/narconondebateinenglish.htm
Original ars threads here: http://tinyurl.com/hcymz ,
http://tinyurl.com/hoqv4 , http://tinyurl.com/eaopt
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> Superpower HCOBs
Ex-Sea Org staff Chuck Beatty posted "Answers someone asked me regarding Superpower HCOBs" on 14 May 2006.
QUESTION someone asked me a week ago on ARS:
" on superpower, are the superpower issues, are these *new* hcobs, 'discovered' among hubbard's writings or possibly written by someone else 'based on the works of lrh'? or are they *old* hcobs put together in a special collection for the superpower rundown? the sp rundown has been 'in planning' for years, hasn't it? didn't hubbard himself originate it?
Chuck Beatty's ANSWER:
The superpower issues will be "new" HCOBs compiled per LRH's checklist on how to compile new HCOBs. The LRH issue in 1978 on superpowerI saw in 1978, and again I seem to have seen it on the web, the same issue. It is by LRH, it's in ED (executive directive) form, either Central Office of LRH ED or some other Flag Base executive directive issue type.
On the point of how LRH's orders are compiled into issues, I think that will become real one day, when some day you get to actually see a couple dozen different examples of how LRH orders are turned into HCOBs. It is only done specifically per LRH's guidelines.
LRH was almost constantly dishing out orders. His orders in later years, from late 70's on, he'd dictate his orders to messengers who shorthanded his words, then messengers typed the despatches. A little later the messengers tape recorded him, and then typed his orders into despatches and distributed his orders as despatches. Later when LRH was "off the lines" his tapes would come down, people at Int transcribed the tapes, despatches were issued with the orders.
He was prolific in his orders. He even separately issued orders to certain people to gather up his other orders and compile a group of similar subject orders into a single HCOB or HCOPL.
So not only did he issue despatch orders, he orders those despatch orders to be sometimes compiled into HCO PLs.
Separately he issued over the years, a slew of orders about writing his orders into issues, and all sorts of nitty gritty details and guidelines.
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Today all that's happening are the straggler old LRH orders never complied with somehow overlooked, or on the list of known unresolved but need still to resolved technical orders.
On these superpower HCOBs that will come out for the superpower traineees detailing how they will do the rundowns, these HCOBs are actually based LRH's specific 1978 superpower related orders, which many many people have priorly seen, including me, I saw the big long LRH written 1978 issue on superpower in 1978 when it came out, and it looks the same as the one I saw on the web in the last couple years.
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> International Xenu Day
"The Stark Fist of Removal" fielded a proposal for "International Xenu Day" on 15 May 2006.
I've been to a couple crazy events here in San Francisco, that happen around the world.
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I'd like to see how much interest there is in an International Xenu Day on March 13th(or the nearest weekend), LRons Birthday. Every year all 80000 scientologists across the world have a big event to celebrate L Ron. That would be a perfect time for a group of trouble makers to dress up like aliens and hang out in front of the Shriners Auditorium (where they have it in LA), or in front of your local Scientology building.
Same terms apply, get drunk, surly, cause trouble etc.
We have 10 months to spread the word.
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Barbz replied:
If the web can spawn an international Talk Like A Pirate day, it's certainly feasible that International Xenu Day could be a huge success.
Arrrr!
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> Report from Ybor City
An anonymous person posted "How LOW Can They Go?" on 16 May 2006.
This is my second report from Ybor City and I'm pleased to report that the Ybor City Life Improvement Center is in such bad shape it's practically being run by the Sea Org. Now, Peggy Haag, the E.D. is left to sending out Sea Orgers in UNIFORM to recruit in the streets of Ybor---talk about a turn off for the bar crowd that hangs out around here.
Since the Ybor Org is virtually empty day after day and night after night, I was wondering how they were managing to get the rent paid on the building. Well, last night I found out!
[...]
Last night though they were using the space to rehearse a play. I like plays so I stopped and watched the rehearsal. You could see right away it was a very amateurish production when two slouching teenagers crossed the "stage" carrying floppy, sloppy signs that said "BOO" and "HISS."
The "actors" were unattractive and slovenly---but worse, they were lousy actors! True dorks. Anyway, the scene that I watched involved a wacked out old man playing a psychiatrist called Dr. Loathesome. He was seeing a patient, an old snaggle toothed lady. The next thing I see he is dragging her to the couch and rolling around on top of her while the "voice over people" on mikes described the fact that Dr. Loathesome was sexually molesting his patient.
On cue, the two slouchy teenages glumphed across the stage with their Boo and Hiss signs as the "actors" scrambled to get to the next scene.
I figured right away this was our favorite cult. So I asked the people who work in the store what was going on with that play. They told me that it was a rehearsal for a FUNDRAISER being held there this Saturday night. I asked what they were raising funds for---they told me they're raising funds for the Ybor Life Improvement center. They also told me that if I wanted to buy a ticket for Saturday's performance, tickets were $60 if purchased in advance.
[...]
... with the only people who will buy those tickets: other Scientologists.
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barbz wrote:
I thought that most businesses in Ybor think the cult is a pestiferous annoyance. How come the International Bazaar is helping their fund raising? Are the owners aware that it's Scientology they're supporting?
"banchukita" replied:
The International Bazaar is located in a larger, historic building that used to be the Spanish Club mutual aid society. They probably don't care who they're renting space to as long as it looks like they're having an artsy 'happening' on-site. The viejos who so lovingly laid the tile floor are spinning in their graves.
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Tickets to Heatwave are $30 in advance, $35 at the door -- about half the cost of the tickets to the Scn play. (The radio station is also a nonprofit, and this is their biggest fundraiser of the year)
Part of this annual event is a street bazaar with mostly progressive organizations renting affordable table space to promote their causes or sell food or clothes. Scn, Inc. has rented table space for the past few years. I have noticed the table doesn't get much action.
-maggie, human being
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> Possible Cult Connection
"Feisty" posted "GovTech/$cientology and Blackwell campaign (for Ohio Governor)" on 16 May 2006.
Govtech is E-Republic = $cientology
http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060416/NEWS09/604160656
excerpts:
New Media Communications and its spin-off, Govtech Solutions, have received about $465,000 from the secretary of state's office, and New Media received $30,335 for its work on the Blackwell campaign.
Mr. Redfern characterized the relationships as "seedy," but Carlo LoParo, a spokesman for the Blackwell campaign, said the vendors were probably chosen for the campaign and the official office because of "familiarity" and "quality of work."
$cientology related?
From 2000 through 2004, Smart Solutions Inc., a computer systems integration, equipment, and networking company with three Ohio offices, received $1.1 million from the secretary of state's office. Since 1999, the company's employees have contributed
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> News from Belgium
"8 pages article against the crime cult in Brussels, Belgium" was posted 17 May 2006.
Cultists want or have already bought à buiolding near the Justice Courts in Brussels.
They want, they say, install their european scam there.
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A 8 pages article has been written in to-day's "Le Soir Hebdo" . Bravo to the journalist, Julie Barreau. Great SP job she did, xenu and company are very happy to name her an honorary ARS CC (wdne) member.
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> Scientology Fact & Fiction
> Scientology Foggery a Cult Operation
> Nazi Foggery a Cult Operation
> Power Hour Promotes Scientology Solution
> Social Response to Scientology
> UK Freezone Conference
> National Parents Association a Front Group
> Narconon's Day in Court
> Superpower HCOBs
> International Xenu Day
> Report from Ybor City
> Possible Cult Connection
> News from Belgium
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> Russian Scientologist Convicted
"Russian Official convicted 2 years 2 months for having spent govt money to send people in scientology" was posted 17 May 2006.
This is an update on Boris Shalimov, a Far East Russian district official who was caught several years ago sending workers to Hubbardist courses at government expense. It is revealed in recent news that his former district is to be one end of an oil pipeline. Previous articles give accounts of events leading up to his present predicament.
[the translator, thanks a lot to what he did! has collected a number of the articles of that story]]
In a different, unrelated 2006 case, former Russian Scientology student Viktor Kirienko was involved in the talks concerning Russia offering to provide Iran with enriched uranium for peaceful purposes
[Kirienko was prime minister for six months.]
* 5-16-06 Shalimov sentenced to two years two months
* 3-16-06 Simple Issues interview with Anatoliy Gaynutdinov, administration chief of the Skovorodinsky district
* 11-21-05 A visit to Boris Shalimov's holding cell
* 11-21-05 News in the criminal cases of former government officials
* 9-7-05 Boris Shalimov's criminal case not closed
* 7-29-05 Former Skovorodinsky district chief Boris Shalimov released from prison
* 7-27-05 Shalimov will not be released right away
* 7-25-05 Boris Shalimov in corrections center awaiting papers from capital
* 7-5-05 Supreme Court examines complaint by former head of Skovorodinsky district
* 6-2-05 Regional council upholds appeal to release Boris Shalimov
* 5-23-05 Boris Shalimov still under lock and key
* 4-18-05 Boris Shalimov detained illegally says lawyer
* 4-13-05 Skovorodinsky district judges refuse Shalimov case
* 3-16-05 Three Lawyers for Boris Shalimov
* 2-24-05 Boris Shalimov has not been at work this term
* 2-15-05 4,000 pages in Boris Shalimov's criminal case
May 16, 2006
Alpha Channel
http://www.alphatv.ru
Former chief of Skovorodinsky district in Amursky region Boris Shalimov has been sentenced to two years two months confinement in general population. The court's decision was released late yesterday evening.
Shalimov's criminal case was filed in 2004, when he was a deputy of the regional council of people's deputies and head of the Skovorodinsky district of Amursky region. The investigation established that 750,000 rubles were transferred from the district's budge to a Moscow company. Boris Shalimov was in a cell in Blagoveshchensk prison from January to July 2005, but then was released on condition he remain in the area. Shalimov gave his interpretation of the case against him on the "Simple Issues" program on Alpha channel in August 2005. The hearing for Shalimov's case in Skovorodinsky district court took place on Monday, continued for six extra hours and ended at almost 9 p.m. The former district chief was convicted on a total of three articles of the criminal code, two of which are classified as felonies: article 160, misappropriation of another's property, committed in performance of official duties; article 285, misuse of authority by agency head of local self-government; and article 289, illegal collaboration of government official with business operations.
In addition to that, the court decided Shalimov was libel to make up damages to the district budget in the amount of 641,000 rubles. He will not be able to hold a government position for two years.
From AlphaTV.Ru
Simple Issues
March 16, 2006
Anatoliy Gaynutdinov, administration chief of the Skovorodinsky district
Igor Gorevoi:
-- One of the richest districts of the Amursky region is the Skovorodinsky district. It is also one of the most notorious of recent times. Its former head, Boris Shalimov, is currently in custody as a flight risk. The current head, Anatoliy Gaynutdinov, is today's guest on the Simple Issues program.
-- Anatoliy Nurzagayanovich Gaynutdinov, how did the Skovorodinsky district suddenly become rich? Where do you make your money?
-- One can say that the first matter was to collect tax debts. There was a time when the railroad, for a long period, and not only with us, but with other districts too, did not pay their taxes. They were accumulating, and the first action we took was to send a statement to the transportation ministry and the transportation chief, now he's the president. The case was properly examined, and finances started to flow. We are starting to get something back.
-- While other districts have not managed to do this, you succeeded completely, and therefore the district is receiving large payments.
-- We went through a vast amount of correspondence besides. According to the vertical line of authority, by this I mean the Transportation Ministry, we sent in all the particulars so that taxes were easily settled. This was their debt. The debt was settled satisfactorily and successfully.
-- They say the former district chief was giddy with success. Possibly from this, too. And he began to criticize the governor too obviously and too frequently, perhaps to point out his faults. What a result this brought. You were Shalimov's first deputy. Is there any measure of truth in these rumors?
-- I think there is more speculation than truth to the matter.
-- Your prognosis on how the story will come to a close? Is it going to court now?
-- Yes it's going to court, starting this fall. The case will be a procedural decision, this is understandable. There they will listen to the other side, too. They will study the evidence. And there I'll appear as a witness. Now the two sides are engaged in debate. That means one side presents an argument and the other, the defense, defends his position. It's difficult to predict what is yet to come.
-- What is your prediction?
-- I think that nothing serious will happen there.
-- Today you hear about Skovorodino at the highest levels almost as often as Blagoveshchensk. This is in connection with construction of the "Taishet - Skovorodino - Pacific Ocean" oil pipeline. What has been done already in preparation for construction or research?
-- This project will require a lot of time. From 13 to 16 December, at the
invitation of Transnefti, I and a delegation from the Amursky regional administration went to Omsk to familiarize ourselves with the existing network there, and with the existing system of supplying the oil pipeline. We also got together with general director Chemakiniy. Correspondingly, we had a press conference, where certain questions were asked. How is Skovorodinsky district affected? That the pipe will go all the way from Taishet to Skovorodino is understandable. The most natural point in this sector is Skovorodino. A huge terminal will be constructed there, judging from what we saw in Omsk. 150,000 tons of oil are permanently kept in Omsk. In Skovorodinsky district that will be 500,000 tones. This is a huge volume of oil that will be permanently stored, will be pumped into containers. A two-way spur track -- in different directions -- will be created as soon as possible. The line will be flowing constantly and, of course, by demand.
-- You are getting a lot of new labor positions. How many are you planning for?
(article continues)
November 21, 2005
Journalists from AlphaTV.Ru managed to visit the holding cell where well-known city and regional men Boris Shalimov and Evgeniy Grigorev are in custody. Detention cell management does not usually tell journalists who is where. Actually, cell 237's current occupants were brought someplace else while the camera was rolling, and did not manage to give their opinion about their famous bunkmates. But correctional officers say that neither Boris Shalimov nor Evgeniy Grigorev were model prisoners.
The cell's occupants' sense of humor did not extend all the way inside. The "Welcome" sign on the mat made in China belies its goodwill and naiveté. But this is the only object here whose purpose is to create comfort. All the rest is standard and official.
This is not a VIP cell, the correctional officer specifies. They wanted to make a cell with a two-digit number, furnished like a hotel, with air conditioner, stuffed furniture and other odds and ends that would perhaps ease the burden of confinement, but that would take money, which they don't have. Therefore instead of the air conditioner they have the usual little fort: you start with a bit and get more. Relatives of the inmates brought in the refrigerator and the television. Actually, it is almost impossible to get them back. This is humanitarian aid which has been left for the brothers in need, says the corrections officer. Naturally the prison knows that there are famous people in this cell, but they do not do anything special for them. The only thing, they say in confinement, is that now these prisoners - intelligent people - are a rarity. They behave themselves and don't break the rules. The list of rules on the wall in the cell is old and yellow, but penciled in is an item about financial remuneration for work in the corrections system. After all, Shalimov and Grigorev were accused of financial crimes. On the whole, cell number 237 is the same as the rest in this building. Former duties and regalia somehow fade away behind the steel doors and grilled windows. The only people here are those restricted in freedom of movement.
November 21, 2005
News in the criminal cases of former government officials.
This week the criminal case concerning a former government official has been reborn. The city court changed the preventive detention for former chairman of the committee for municipal property administration Evgeniy Grigorev and released him from confinement, where he has been since the beginning of June. As a reminder, in May the prosecutor filed the criminal case against the former government official, specifying articles on fraud and negligence.
However the investigation did not manage to prove a number of violations that Grigorev had been accused of. He is also being detained as a flight risk. Nevertheless, they say, this does not affect the investigation for the days he spent in China with former first mayor of Blagoveshchensk Viktor Cheremisiniy. In the opinion of many observers, Evgeniy Grigorev's criminal case is a continuation of a conflict with old and new city management.
Still being detained as a flight risk is a former government official, former Skovorodinsky district head Boris Shalimov. He was accused under three articles of the criminal code: misappropriation of another's property, misuse of official authority and illicit collaboration in business activity.
Boris Shalimov's court hearing had been set for October 26, but was rescheduled for December because of illness of the accused's attorney. According to unofficial information, the defense is trying to gain time. Boris Shalimov has two lawyers, and the illness of one of them is said to be only a pretext to delay proceedings.
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> Scientology Fact & Fiction
Chip Gallo posted "Scientology Is (Scary) News!" on 19 May 2006.
If you have walked the streets near a Scientology "org," you probably have seen the body routers, book sellers or foot soldiers handing out lecture/video tickets. These operations are part of the human intake system described below.
Scientology, Inc. has a number of "entry routes" used to procure customers. These so-called entry routes attempt to replace legitimate functions or services of society with Hubbard's twisted model of reality, actively encouraged by various arms of the organization and not always under the corporate banner. Anti-drug lobbying is a continual activity and can even be observed in the a.r.s. newsgroup.
[...]
TV Reporters and other media usually can't assess and report on it because, by org policy, reporters cannot be allowed on Introductory Courses. They fail the mandatory "A-J" security check by being someone who is there to report on Scientology. Occasionally a reporter gets past the metered interview, takes a class, writes a piece and it blows up all over Scientology, Inc.'s area of control. This has happened recently in LA, NY and London and illustrates why the A-J check is key in maintaining the veil of secrecy.
In place of truthful reporting, we get Sylvia Stanard or someone like her, well drilled in PR and routinely security checked for any slight chink in the thought control armor. The Office of Special Affairs (OSA) manages all external media contacts to assure that only "acceptable truths" are told. For that reason you will never see a Scientology spokesperson asserting that black people are more aberrated and harder to audit (although Hubbard said this numerous times both in writing and on tape) or that all women are below 1.1/covert hostility on the tone scale (the book "Science of Survival") or that any orientation other than heterosexual is low toned and dangerous to society (again SOS); or even that a woman's place is in the home. To his further discredit, Hubbard spoke out against democracy and democratic principles in a policy letter that is required to be at the front of every course pack.
No matter how much real estate is bought or how lavish the orgs become, it doesn't make these kinds of ideas any more palatable to general society. Scientology is in fact news but for all the wrong reasons.
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> Scientology Foggery a Cult Operation
On 19 May 2006, "Muldoon" posted "Why does 'Truth Seeker' spam this NG?". ("Truth Seeker" is a poster disruptive to the news group.)
Truth Seeker is a Scientology cult fake-critic mental-confusion spam bot operation.
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.religion.scientology/browse_frm/thread/8582d2686e15273a?scoring=d&q=why+so+many+truth+seeker&
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"Truth Seeker" responded
Why does "Muldoon" pretend to be a critic when in fact he's really a scientologist?
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"Magoo" posted
["Truth Seeker" i]s not a critic: He's running programs, and that's EXACTLY how they run.
The articles he's written/copied, for the most part, that sound critical of Scientology, have been written by others way before he arrived. He copy's my posts on OSA all the time, claiming now they're his. They're not his: You can go LOOK in Google and find my old posts, or on www.torymagoo.org and read them. I posted it way before he did.
He's a rip off, con artist: PERIOD, with zero character, zero courage, and thus he hides behind a phony nick.
END OF STORY.
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> Nazi Foggery a Cult Operation
Under the subject "Persecution complex after 1st Mission Impossible", "Feisty" posted several texts illustrating the cult tactic of recrimination as described above, but on a grander scale. This post was part of an exchange with a possible ex-Scientologist and former resident of the Federal Republic of Germany who now lives in the US.
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$cientology Freedom Magazine claims:
www.freedommag.org/english/spegerm/page24.htm
Attempted boycott of Mission: Impossible Art of the Third Reich
In addition to boycotting works involving Scientology artists, German officials have also employed propaganda art to spread outrageous falsehoods-not only about Scientology...
In a paper entitled "Art As Propaganda Against Jews and Scientologists: Echoes of the Past Renewed in Germany," Dr. Stephen C. Feinstein,
http://www.freedommag.org/english/spegerm/page27a.htm
Jewish authority on European history and art, writes that current attacks in Germany on minority religions, including Scientology, are indisputably replays of the attacks on Jews in the 1930s.
Feinstein, chairman of the history department at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls, says that "many of the attacks and representations of Scientology bear more than a slight resemblance to the misuse of art during the Third Reich in the anti-Semitic campaigns against the Jews ". His paper...describes them thus:
"The extremely negative and anti-Semitic images of the Jew which appeared in Julius Streicher's Der Stürmer are well-known. Certain themes which appeared in that Nazi newspaper and other manifestations of public propaganda art during the Third Reich are useful to cite, as they seem to have provided some sort of negative memory which has now been recalled and applied to the attack on Scientology.
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Author David Irving (from the IHR) says something different about the quotes of from the Mission Impossible persecution Freedom Magazine article author, Mr. Feinstein -
http://www.fpp.co.uk/online/99/05/Schoenfeld070599.html
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For one thing, Mr. Feinstein asserts that he wrote the pamphlet in the service of "human rights," but he says not a word about how he came in the first place to make the Church of Scientology his cause, an organization that Time magazine has called a "cult of greed and power" and "a ruthless global scam." Whether one agrees with Time's characterization or not, surely there were many other more pressing human-rights concerns that might have engaged his interest in 1996, the year he wrote his pamphlet?
The mystery of Mr. Feinstein's involvement in this strange cause is not hard to solve. As he has admitted to the Forward, he was paid to write the pamphlet by the Scientologists themselves. The Scientologists are known for being both extremely wealthy and extremely generous to those who consent to serve their purposes. Mr. Feinstein has thus far declined to reveal exactly what compensation he received but other such cases involved sums in excess of $10,000.
What is particularly unsettling is that Mr. Feinstein's pamphlet appeared while the Scientologists were in the midst of an aggressive crusade against the German government, which they incessantly likened to Adolph Hitler's Third Reich. As can be seen from the title of Mr. Feinstein's publication, "Art as Propaganda Against Jews and Scientologists in Germany: Echoes of the Past Reverberate in the Present," it fully joins in the spirit of the Scientology propaganda effort. The essay is replete with analogies likening the "victimization" of Scientologists in Germany today to the Nazi war against the Jews.
Mr. Feinstein is being disingenuous when he states that the U.S. State Department has expressed concerns about Germany's treatment of the Scientologists. He fails to inform readers of a crucial fact: the State Department has unequivocally condemned the very same Scientology campaign in which he has taken such an active part.
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, for example, has said that "comparisons between what happened under Nazism and what is happening now [to Scientologists] are historically inaccurate and totally distasteful." In 1996, the year Mr. Feinstein's pamphlet came out, the State Department's official spokesman declared that the analogies are "outrageous" and "wildly inaccurate" and that "we in the U.S. Government feel a responsibility to defend the German Government from those charges."
The State Department is hardly alone in this stance. Leaders of major Jewish organizations like Abraham Foxman, president of the Anti-Defamation League, have also spoken out. Foxman has called the analogies "an affront to the Jewish community." Ignatz Bubis, the leader of Germany's Jewish community, has characterized the Scientologists' campaign as "a smear against the memory of the victims of national-socialism."
While I do not believe, as Mr. Feinstein incorrectly imputes to me, that all parallels between the Holocaust and other instances of genocide are ipso facto out of bounds, the analogies he has drawn between the Scientologists and Hitler's victims are an insult to the memory of the Jews of Europe who were driven from their homes and murdered in concentration camps. For a professor of Holocaust studies to indulge in such comparisons is bad enough. That it was done for money and in the service of a dangerous cult makes it a far more serious transgression.
This guy writes for the IHR?
http://www.ihr.org/other/authorbios.html
$cientology had something to do with the IHR, didn't they?
http://www.lermanet.com/cisar/carto/ldidx.htm#november
November 2005 anniversary: Escape Route from Scientology
The scheme to take over the IHR was unveiled on Oct. 1, 1993. By pre-arrangement on that date the IRS also granted the tax exemption to Scientology that it had tried to get for three decades... In return for the tax exemption, the deceitful Scientology agents pulled off a coup inside the IHR.
http://www.lermanet.com/cisar/recog/index.htm
Can $cientology deny that Mr. Feinstein was paid to write that for the Freedom Magazine?
And can they deny what Madeleine Albright and other people who have said the claims made by $cientology in this article are disgusting?
http://www.fallacyfiles.org/adnazium.html
The Hitler Card
Alias: Argumentum ad Nazium
Type: Guilt by Association
Exposition:
In almost every heated debate, one side or the other-often both-plays the "Hitler card", that is, criticizes their opponent's position by associating it in some way with Adolf Hitler or the Nazis in general. No one wants to be associated with Nazism because it has been so thoroughly discredited in both theory and practise, and Hitler of course was its most famous exponent. So, linking an idea with Hitler or Nazism has become a common form of argument ascribing guilt by association.
Some instances of the Hitler card are factually incorrect, or even ludicrous, in ascribing ideas to Hitler or other Nazis that they did not hold. However, from a logical point of view, even if Hitler or other Nazis did accept an idea, this historical fact alone is insufficient to discredit it.
The Hitler Card is often combined with other fallacies, for instance, a weak analogy between an opponent and Hitler, or between the opposition political group and the Nazis. A related form of fallacious analogy is that which compares an opposition's actions with the Holocaust. This is a form of the ad Nazium fallacy because it casts the opposition in the role of Nazi. Not only do such arguments assign guilt by association, but the analogy used to link the opposition's actions with the Holocaust may be superficial or question-begging.
Resources:
* Josie Appleton, "I'm right because.....you're a Nazi", Spiked, 1/24/2002
* Nigel Warburton, Thinking from A to Z (Second Edition) (Routledge, 2001), "Bad Company Fallacy".
The peasant's love of the land is stimulated and transferred to an acceptance of his place in the present regime by such pronouncements as this:(28)
The peasant, sticking to his soil, tilling all the time, knows what it means to own the ground. There is a higher value besides the one registered in the Hall of Records. Men of the big cities, the heaps of stones, of the fountain pen, of the ledger, of the sewing needle . . . do not know any more what Mother Earth should mean to them.
http://www.maebrussell.com/Articles%20and%20Notes/German%20Propaganda...
" Actually, have you ever noticed how a Negro, in particular down south, where they're pretty close to the soil, personifies MEST? The gatepost and the wagon and the whip and anything around there-a hat. They talk to them, you know. "What'sa mattuh wi' you hat?" They imbue them with personality."
-L. Ron Hubbard, Therapy section of Technique 80, Part I, "Route to Infinity", 21 May 1952
MEST stands for Matter, Energy, Space, and Time. In the above context, it can be likened to mud or solids or non-awareness. As one moves up in spirituality, Scientology style, one moves further and further from MEST, or rather, from the effects of MEST. One becomes able to shape and control MEST by will power alone. But our sorry Negro here is so far down the ladder of spirituality that he personifies MEST. The insult does not end there. Picture some guy taking his hat off his head, holding it in front of his face, and talking to it. He actually thinks that the hat can give him attention.
http://www.solitarytrees.net/racism/deny.htm
Other generalities are effective in appealing to special groups. The farmers have been heartened to endure the poor return from their toil by a whole magnificat, written on the theme of Blut und Boden (blood and soil). They are told that they are of the "glorious peasant state," and each householder is given the honored title of Bauer. (The translation of this word, "peasant" or "farmer," does not convey the same connotation which the original does to National Socialist Germany, where the meaning is more that of a "creative builder.")
"Strength through Joy"(17) is designed to employ all of the laborer's leisure activities and to see that in these his "spirit" is coördinated with the "common" good. This makes it possible to check the way he spends his leisure hours and to prevent his developing and expressing opposition to the régime
Such words as "labor" and "sacrifice" are given additional "virtue" by ceremonials and dramatic awards.(15)
The régime utilizes the word "science" to sanction practices, policies, beliefs, and races which it wants approved.
They are told that they are of the "glorious peasant state," and each householder is given the honored title of Bauer. (The translation of this word, "peasant" or "farmer," does not convey the same connotation which the original does to National Socialist Germany, where the meaning is more that of a "creative builder.")
The flattery, the insignia, and the verbal consolations offered to workers on the land have their parallels in those offered to industrial laborers. Nazi propagandists praise the "dignity of labor" and organize festivals in its honor. Labor, they assert, is filled with a new spirit; and to guard this spirit is the task, or mission
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> Power Hour Promotes Scientology Solution
"Lisa Ruby" posted "The Power Hour Promotes Scientology Solution for Child Protection Racket" on 20 May 2006.
The Power Hour Promotes Scientology Solution for Child Protection Racket
Like Alex Jones of infowars.com, The Power Hour is promoting the "Church" of Scientology--not by a verbal endorsement, but by allowing their spokesmen to recruit for this dangerous New World Order organization by offering Scientology's solution to a very serious problem.
Joyce Riley and Dave VonKleist interviewed the Scientologist editor of Freedom Magazine, Thomas Whittle on The Power Hour radio broadcast on May 18th, 2006. Whittle presented the problem-the Child Protection Racket-and offered the "solution," which is found in the two free issues of Freedom Magazine. This interview (which included no warning about this dangerous New Age/NWO organization) and free magazine offer ultimately serves the purpose of all Scientology public relations endeavors: recruitment.
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http://libertytothecaptives.net/power_hour_scn_magazine.html
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> Social Response to Scientology
on television and in Blogs.
Chip Gallo posted a reference to a popular television show and Woggle posted a couple of blogs describing typical public reaction to Scientology.
Chip Gallo posted "SVU 'Derek Lord' Character Mentions Scientology" on 17 May 2006.
Tonight's entry of LAW AND ORDER SVU featured a teen who stopped taking her meds that had been effectively treated bipolar disorder. The teen ended up killing one and injuring others with her parent's vehicle along with some other unsavory behavior.
Rock star "Derek Lord" shows up to help defend the teenage girl. He rails against psychiatric drugs, says that the cops and prosecutor don't know what they are talking about on the subject. His litany of anti-drug crusaders includes Scientology. Eventually the girl goes off her meds again and the judge sends her to Bellevue because continuing the medication was a condition of her parole.
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"Woggle" posted "So we visited the Scientology Center in New York today and took a tour from one of their reverends" on 18 May 2006 from
http://fagats.blogspot.com/2006/05/see-cat-see-cradle.html
When we walked in, we were immediately struck by the fact that everyone was walking around smiling. Naturally, we felt completely alienated.
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But we did ask our guide (who is relatively high up in the organization) about the Church's policy on homosexuality. The marriage, the family, and procreation are very important to the religion. In addition, celebrities like Tom Cruise and John Travolta are often rumored to have joined the religion to curb those impulses, so it seemed like an obvious question. But our guide was stumped. It made us wonder whether the Pope ever says things like "I don't know." He stammered and said that Scientology didn't really deal with sexuality.
We pressed the issue, and eventually got him to concede that while gays are allowed to join, if they WANT to stop liking men, the Church has WAYS of making that happen. In other words, they have a cure. Since Scientology techniques are all about improving your life, it follows that one such improvement would be ridding yourself of the handicap of loving members of your own sex.
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"Woggle" also posted "I Fear For the Children : East Toronto Scientology Mission" on 20 May 2006 from
http://jasonvoulgaris.blogspot.com/2006/05/i-fear-for-children.html
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There was one store set back from the rest, fronted by a large, sparsley decorated wooden facade, which, set into it was a few shelves of books.
My interest piqued, I took a quick second look.
The books read "Dianetics," on their covers. A sinking sensation filled my stomach.
My gaze shot quickly up to the stores signage. "East Toronto Scientology Mission".
I groaned. Seemingly overnight, like some evil garden weed, a Scientology brainwashing station had popped up in my backyard. In my backyard!
Is nothing sacred anymore?
I quickly resumed my walking, worried my fear induced paralysis might be interpreted as genuine interest on the part of the Mission's trained zombies.
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So now the evil agents of L. Ron Hubbard have invaded our quiet corner of Toronto. I fear for the children.
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> UK Freezone Conference
"bb" posted "TECH outside COS: UK Freezone conference" on 18 May 2006.
Briefing on the Spring Seminar in London by Henrik Sabol
We were at the Freezone Forum in London this month (May).
We met many people there keen to do Scientology whatever it takes. Some had not been in the Church for a long time; some were even trained in the 1950s under LRH in London. A number were interested in Rons Orgsdue to the way the technology of LRH is rigidly stuck to.
Three new people will be starting with us one from East Grinstead .:-)
I gave a briefing about my own progress on the Bridge (I am currently on Excalibur and doing very well indeed) and informed the audience that there is an unsuppressed Bridge to be had in Rons Orgs. I emphasised how important it was to have course rooms and properly supervised training, as Rons Orgs now have in Russia, Switzerland, Germany, Holland, Denmark and here in the UK. Some of the American guests noted that we now have that in USA too.
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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Freezone101/
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> National Parents Association a Front Group
This post includes quotes from University of Alberta sociology professor Stephen Kent.
"Patty Pieniadz" posted "New Scientology Front Group-- National Parents Association" to the newsgroup on 17 May 2006, citing an article from
http://www.macleans.ca/topstories/health/article.jsp?content=20060515_126736_126736
of
May 10, 2005
A new war over Ritalin
Scientology gets involved in a school board battle
DANYLO HAWALESHKA
At first glance, it seemed like a classic David-and-Goliath punch-up: Danielle Lavigueur, a separated mother of two living in Longueuil, on Montreal's South Shore, claims the high school her 12-year-old son Gabriel attends is pressuring her to medicate him with Ritalin for hyperactivity. She refuses to yield to the alleged demand, and eventually someone calls in the Children's Aid Society. Feeling besieged, Lavigueur confides in a friend, who introduces her to Raphaël Huppé, head of research for the Montreal-based National Parents Association (NPA). With the group's help, she finds herself a lawyer, and soon she's heading up a class-action suit for $11 million, claiming parents have the final say when it comes to whether a child should be given drugs. But what appears to be a story of a woman of modest means standing up to a school board is actually much more. It is also the tale of Quebec school boards confronted by the controversial Church of Scientology.
The NPA is a fledgling, two-man operation with a number of volunteers. George Mentis, the NPA's president, works alongside Huppé. Both men are open about being Scientologists when asked, although they deny the church has anything to do with the NPA. Scientology, they say, is simply their religion, and the NPA is only trying to help Lavigueur. In early media reports, Mentis has spoken up about the Lavigueur case, but without mentioning Scientology -- or the religion's objections to drug use. But Mentis acknowledges he has worked for the Montreal chapter of an organization called the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), which makes no effort to hide its connection to Scientology in the literature it freely hands out.
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But the church's defence of parental rights is troubling because Scientologists have for decades waged a ferociously ideological war against psychiatry and modern mental health practices. The church is decidedly anti-drug. (Recall how Tom Cruise, the planet's most identifiable Scientologist, famously criticized Brooke Shields for having taken medication for her postpartum depression.) The CCHR is one of the means by which Scientologists wage that war.
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University of Alberta sociology professor Stephen Kent, who has studied the Church of Scientology for 20 years, says it is laced with references to Russians and psychiatry as a red menace.
Scientologists view Hubbard's writings as scripture, which gives what he said in The War a lot of weight. Psychiatry, he wrote, is "a vehicle to undermine and destroy the West!" Hubbard vowed that Scientology will "take over total control of all mental healing in the West." In 1987, the CCHR undertook a major campaign against Ritalin. "There is a war, by Scientology, against psychiatry," Kent says, "and the CCHR is just part of that war."
Historically, the church has had two goals when it backs someone like Lavigueur, Kent says. The first is to discredit psychiatry and its treatments; the second is to convince people to adopt Scientology's own set of mental health techniques as a replacement for modern psychiatry. Lavigueur says neither Mentis nor Huppé have tried any such thing. Her only contact with the CCHR is indirect, through Mentis.
During the course of a 90-minute talk with Lavigueur, her son sits quietly in the living room. Like his mother, Gabriel is soft-spoken and comes across, in a brief meeting at least, as calm, sensitive and thoughtful. "I was mean to my mother a lot of the time, even though I didn't want to be," Gabriel recalls. He feels better now and says he doesn't want to take drugs anymore. He misses school. "I want to go back, but they won't let me. I'm losing all the friends I made." Throughout the ups and downs, Lavigueur has not seen fit to seek a second opinion from a pediatrician on what, if anything, ails Gabriel. "I regret giving him the drugs," she says. "It was hell, and now I see he's fine -- he's like any other kid. The more I think about it, the more I think it was all the change -- the new schools, the friends." And right now, some new friends include Scientologists.
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> Narconon's Day in Court
"Orkeltatte aka Ulf Brettstam" posted "Narconon granted a day in Court" on 16 May 2006.
Administrational court of appeal has granted Narconon a day in court. That is to say the ruling from the county administrational court that revoked the initial permission of starting ( actually relocating the Stockholm facility to outside N=E4ssj=F6 where I live) a new "rehabcentre" will be tried. . ( Kammarr=E4tten)
http://www.kammarrattenijonkoping.dom.se/
An appeal is always granted when a ruling in lower court needs to be changed OR if it is of importance to the judicial praxis OR if there are other specific reasons to do so.
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A court ruling from the administrational court of appeal can be expected sometime in early fall. In the meantime Narconon are somewhat drained of money probably having to pay some kind of lease but not allowed to take in any clients.
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More about this local struggle against the beast can be read here:
http://ulf.ing-steen.se/~ulf/narconondebateinenglish.htm
Original ars threads here: http://tinyurl.com/hcymz ,
http://tinyurl.com/hoqv4 , http://tinyurl.com/eaopt
Ulf
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> Superpower HCOBs
Ex-Sea Org staff Chuck Beatty posted "Answers someone asked me regarding Superpower HCOBs" on 14 May 2006.
QUESTION someone asked me a week ago on ARS:
" on superpower, are the superpower issues, are these *new* hcobs, 'discovered' among hubbard's writings or possibly written by someone else 'based on the works of lrh'? or are they *old* hcobs put together in a special collection for the superpower rundown? the sp rundown has been 'in planning' for years, hasn't it? didn't hubbard himself originate it?
Chuck Beatty's ANSWER:
The superpower issues will be "new" HCOBs compiled per LRH's checklist on how to compile new HCOBs. The LRH issue in 1978 on superpowerI saw in 1978, and again I seem to have seen it on the web, the same issue. It is by LRH, it's in ED (executive directive) form, either Central Office of LRH ED or some other Flag Base executive directive issue type.
On the point of how LRH's orders are compiled into issues, I think that will become real one day, when some day you get to actually see a couple dozen different examples of how LRH orders are turned into HCOBs. It is only done specifically per LRH's guidelines.
LRH was almost constantly dishing out orders. His orders in later years, from late 70's on, he'd dictate his orders to messengers who shorthanded his words, then messengers typed the despatches. A little later the messengers tape recorded him, and then typed his orders into despatches and distributed his orders as despatches. Later when LRH was "off the lines" his tapes would come down, people at Int transcribed the tapes, despatches were issued with the orders.
He was prolific in his orders. He even separately issued orders to certain people to gather up his other orders and compile a group of similar subject orders into a single HCOB or HCOPL.
So not only did he issue despatch orders, he orders those despatch orders to be sometimes compiled into HCO PLs.
Separately he issued over the years, a slew of orders about writing his orders into issues, and all sorts of nitty gritty details and guidelines.
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Today all that's happening are the straggler old LRH orders never complied with somehow overlooked, or on the list of known unresolved but need still to resolved technical orders.
On these superpower HCOBs that will come out for the superpower traineees detailing how they will do the rundowns, these HCOBs are actually based LRH's specific 1978 superpower related orders, which many many people have priorly seen, including me, I saw the big long LRH written 1978 issue on superpower in 1978 when it came out, and it looks the same as the one I saw on the web in the last couple years.
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> International Xenu Day
"The Stark Fist of Removal" fielded a proposal for "International Xenu Day" on 15 May 2006.
I've been to a couple crazy events here in San Francisco, that happen around the world.
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I'd like to see how much interest there is in an International Xenu Day on March 13th(or the nearest weekend), LRons Birthday. Every year all 80000 scientologists across the world have a big event to celebrate L Ron. That would be a perfect time for a group of trouble makers to dress up like aliens and hang out in front of the Shriners Auditorium (where they have it in LA), or in front of your local Scientology building.
Same terms apply, get drunk, surly, cause trouble etc.
We have 10 months to spread the word.
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Barbz replied:
If the web can spawn an international Talk Like A Pirate day, it's certainly feasible that International Xenu Day could be a huge success.
Arrrr!
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> Report from Ybor City
An anonymous person posted "How LOW Can They Go?" on 16 May 2006.
This is my second report from Ybor City and I'm pleased to report that the Ybor City Life Improvement Center is in such bad shape it's practically being run by the Sea Org. Now, Peggy Haag, the E.D. is left to sending out Sea Orgers in UNIFORM to recruit in the streets of Ybor---talk about a turn off for the bar crowd that hangs out around here.
Since the Ybor Org is virtually empty day after day and night after night, I was wondering how they were managing to get the rent paid on the building. Well, last night I found out!
[...]
Last night though they were using the space to rehearse a play. I like plays so I stopped and watched the rehearsal. You could see right away it was a very amateurish production when two slouching teenagers crossed the "stage" carrying floppy, sloppy signs that said "BOO" and "HISS."
The "actors" were unattractive and slovenly---but worse, they were lousy actors! True dorks. Anyway, the scene that I watched involved a wacked out old man playing a psychiatrist called Dr. Loathesome. He was seeing a patient, an old snaggle toothed lady. The next thing I see he is dragging her to the couch and rolling around on top of her while the "voice over people" on mikes described the fact that Dr. Loathesome was sexually molesting his patient.
On cue, the two slouchy teenages glumphed across the stage with their Boo and Hiss signs as the "actors" scrambled to get to the next scene.
I figured right away this was our favorite cult. So I asked the people who work in the store what was going on with that play. They told me that it was a rehearsal for a FUNDRAISER being held there this Saturday night. I asked what they were raising funds for---they told me they're raising funds for the Ybor Life Improvement center. They also told me that if I wanted to buy a ticket for Saturday's performance, tickets were $60 if purchased in advance.
[...]
... with the only people who will buy those tickets: other Scientologists.
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barbz wrote:
I thought that most businesses in Ybor think the cult is a pestiferous annoyance. How come the International Bazaar is helping their fund raising? Are the owners aware that it's Scientology they're supporting?
"banchukita" replied:
The International Bazaar is located in a larger, historic building that used to be the Spanish Club mutual aid society. They probably don't care who they're renting space to as long as it looks like they're having an artsy 'happening' on-site. The viejos who so lovingly laid the tile floor are spinning in their graves.
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Tickets to Heatwave are $30 in advance, $35 at the door -- about half the cost of the tickets to the Scn play. (The radio station is also a nonprofit, and this is their biggest fundraiser of the year)
Part of this annual event is a street bazaar with mostly progressive organizations renting affordable table space to promote their causes or sell food or clothes. Scn, Inc. has rented table space for the past few years. I have noticed the table doesn't get much action.
-maggie, human being
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> Possible Cult Connection
"Feisty" posted "GovTech/$cientology and Blackwell campaign (for Ohio Governor)" on 16 May 2006.
Govtech is E-Republic = $cientology
http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060416/NEWS09/604160656
excerpts:
New Media Communications and its spin-off, Govtech Solutions, have received about $465,000 from the secretary of state's office, and New Media received $30,335 for its work on the Blackwell campaign.
Mr. Redfern characterized the relationships as "seedy," but Carlo LoParo, a spokesman for the Blackwell campaign, said the vendors were probably chosen for the campaign and the official office because of "familiarity" and "quality of work."
$cientology related?
From 2000 through 2004, Smart Solutions Inc., a computer systems integration, equipment, and networking company with three Ohio offices, received $1.1 million from the secretary of state's office. Since 1999, the company's employees have contributed
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> News from Belgium
"8 pages article against the crime cult in Brussels, Belgium" was posted 17 May 2006.
Cultists want or have already bought à buiolding near the Justice Courts in Brussels.
They want, they say, install their european scam there.
[...]
A 8 pages article has been written in to-day's "Le Soir Hebdo" . Bravo to the journalist, Julie Barreau. Great SP job she did, xenu and company are very happy to name her an honorary ARS CC (wdne) member.
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Saturday, May 13, 2006
a.r.s. Week in Review 05/13/06
> Mission Impossible III
> German View of Scientology
> Polish Scientologists Ordered to Remove Tents
> News from Ukraine Part Four
> Critic Threatened by Scientology
> LA Picket Reports
> Scientology "Cruising" for money in D.C.
> Scientology-Related Multi-Media
> FBI documents on Hubbard
> News from Inside Gold Base
> Bankrupt Cult Victims
> Gratitude
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> Mission Impossible III
A number of posts were made about MI-3 relating to "Cruise Crashes," "Paramount Panics" and "Ticket Tampering by the Cult".
On May 7, 2006 "David Germain" from the Associated Press Online posted:
LOS ANGELES - Fewer people chose to accept Tom Cruise's latest mission, a possible sign that the odd behavior of Hollywood's biggest star may have taken a toll on his box-office charm.
Paramount's "Mission: Impossible III" debuted with $48.025 million, a solid opening yet well below industry expectations and almost $10 million lower than the franchise's previous installment, according to studio estimates Sunday.
[...]
Cruise's antics in the past year or so, publicity over his romance with Katie Holmes and the tabloid blitz regarding their daughter's birth in April may have left some movie-goers burned out or disenchanted with the actor.
[...]
Traditionally reserved about his private life, Cruise abruptly became an open book, jumping up and down on a couch while professing his love for Holmes in an interview with Oprah Winfrey and spouting his Scientology beliefs, including rants against psychiatry.
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Newsday reported:
http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/movies/la-fi-mission8may08,0,2821900.story
'Mission' Falls Short of Being Successful
The Tom Cruise film takes in $48 million in its opening weekend, far less than expected.
[...]
...Analyst Paul Dergarabedian of Exhibitor Relations Co. said the film could have been hurt by the distraction of Cruise's off-screen antics. Cruise's public life has been on display for the last year as he promotes the Scientology religion, and while he romanced actress Katie Holmes, who recently gave birth to their daughter.
"The only thing competing for attention in the marketplace was all the talk about Cruise's public persona," Dergarabedian said. "It's hard to ever know why a film fails to live up to expectations, but in this case you can't fault the marketing campaign. The reasons lie elsewhere."
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From the Box Office Prophets:
http://www.boxofficeprophets.com/column/index.cfm?columnID=9553
[...]
Kim Hollis: We're talking about three million fewer people that went to see III versus I and over three million that saw III versus II. That's a pathetic downturn.
David Mumpower: That three million in ticket sales may be partially explained (say 50%) by a changing marketplace and some questionable marketing. The rest is all on You Know Who. For legal purposes, BOP would like to state that it believes Tom Cruise's behavior is normal and rational
Tim Briody: I never thought one man's descent into dementia would be worth so much bank at the box office.
Kim Hollis: Addressing the elephant in the living room, is North America offering an indictment of Tom Cruise?
Joel Corcoran: Absolutely and without a doubt, yes.
David Mumpower: Make no mistake on the point. North America has just given Tom Cruise a code red. Even Colonel Jessep would be impressed by the hostility exhibited by this.
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From Deadline Hollywood Daily:
http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/unusual-mi3-ticket-sales-at-arclight-near-scientology-celeb-center/
Unusual MI3 Ticket Sales at Hollywood ArcLight Near Scientology Celeb Center
by Nikki Finke
Deadline Hollywood Daily
I have confirmed today that there has been an unusual pattern of ticket sales for Tom Cruise's Mission Impossible 3 at Hollywood's ArcLight Theater, which just happens to be located right near the Church of Scientology Celebrity Center where Cruise belongs. Unconfirmed anecdotes are circulating on the Internet this weekend of individuals buying hundreds of tickets at a time from the ArcLight. But an ArcLight employee did confirm to me just now that "people have been buying dozens of tickets at a time" for MI3, which is definitely an extraordinary sales pattern for the movie theater (or any theater, for that matter). Certainly, the "M" word -- for manipulation -- comes to mind.
Meanwhile, MI3's opening weekend is near-disastrous. See UPDATED: MI3 Opening Weekend Freefall. Cruise's Fault, Hollywood Players Tell Me.
http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/mi3-box-office-disappoints-cruises-fault/
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"David Barnes" posted:
Well does this remind anyone else of those reports that Church members going into bookstores and buying massive quantities of Dianetics?
History repeats itself.....
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"Arnaldo Lerma" posted:
Yes, it is a pattern opf conduct for scientology
http://www.lermanet.com/mi3-ticket-manipulation.html
Manipulation of Mission Impossible Ticket Sales
Report of one person buying 500 tickets to Premier of MI3!
http://www.perezhilton.com/topics/t...on_20060506.php
I have confirmed today that there has been an unusual pattern of ticket sales for Tom Cruise's Mission Impossible 3 at Hollywood's ArcLight Theater, which just happens to be located right near the Church of Scientology Celebrity Center where Cruise belongs. Unconfirmed anecdotes are circulating on the Internet this weekend of individuals buying hundreds of tickets at a time from the ArcLight. But an ArcLight employee did confirm to me just now that "people have been buying dozens of tickets at a time" for MI3, which is definitely an extraordinary sales pattern for the movie theater (or any theater, for that matter). Certainly, the "M" word -- for manipulation -- comes to mind.
LINK
And if the above were true, then the following makes perfect sense...unless of course you are a Scientologist, and then it is "all lies"
'Mission' Fizzling? Box Office Imploding
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,194537,00.html
Friday night's numbers are in for "Mission: Impossible III," and they aren't what Paramount or Tom Cruise might have hoped for. The JJ Abrams-directed blockbuster took in only $17 million according to website www.boxofficemojo.com. That's a good $3 million off the lowest predictions, and $8 million off what a real mega hit would have been.
Box Office Mojo's Brandon Gray says that the weekend total should now be in the $45 million range. It's not a catastrophe by any means, but it does show that star Tom Cruise's public persona and negative publicity plus a raft of mediocre reviews for the film have put a dent in his plans to rule the universe.
Grays says the new "Mission" numbers are a disappointment because both installments 1 and 2 did much better. "They each sold around 50 percent more tickets on their opening weekends (Friday-Sunday)," Gray says, "despite opening on Wednesdays."
At this rate, Cruise may want some kind of pharmacological drug to ease the pain on Sunday night. Paramount execs definitely will.
Previous Manipulations by Scientology
April 2005 - The parade.com survey - after the April article about Tom Cruise, the survey early monday morning after the article, said that 85% (85/15) of the public thought that the media was responsible for tom cruise's troubles! Scientology even had the nerve to send out an early morning press release promoting this "fact".. Later that same day, on monday, the statistics moved to 65%, 65/35, and then they rapidly moved back towards 85/15! Here is what parade had to say:
American magazine Parade has rejected the results of an opinion poll on its site after they grew very suspicious of the results.
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Well, Parade's publicist told Pagesix.com "We at Parade found this a little bit fishy, so we did some investigating. We found out more than 14,000 of the 18,000-plus votes that came in were cast from only 10 computers!
Scientology's Millenium New Years Eve hoedown:
Scientology fills in empty seats to make the place looked packed.. The the attendance in the MAN with NO HEAD story,
Endless lies about having 8 million members (actually 55,000 in US).
Manipulating Booksales figures:
A terrific newspaper article documenting scientology's PATTERN OF CONDUCT of buying its own books is HERE - HUBBARD HOT-AUTHOR STATUS CALLED ILLUSION"."
[...]
The PATTERN OF CONDUCT regarding MI3 is also the same, with current newstorys about MI3 includes stories of people buying 500 tickets to the premiere of MI3.
Of course, such a PATTERN OF CONDUCT is not extraordinary from a group that believes in XENU!
"Scientologists believe that most human problems can be traced to lingering spirits of an extraterrestrial people massacred by their ruler, Xenu, over 75 million years ago." US Federal Judge Leonie Brinkema RTC (Scientology) vs Lerma
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From the Huffington Post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nora-ephron/disaster-picture_b_20687.html
Disaster Picture
The sound of a zillion exhalations you're hearing from Hollywood this week is not the result of the Pellicano Affair but instead a wave of genuine happiness, the kind Hollywood is best at -- the kind that comes at someone else's expense but so what? Hollywood is happy. Tom Cruise is down.
Just how down remains to be seen, because there's nothing like third-world-country box-office to lift things to a spinnable level. But meanwhile Mission Impossible III has opened to $48 million, a "disappointing" figure, less than Mission Impossible II, and there's almost no one in Los Angeles who can't gleefully add all sorts of additional facts to help a hapless listener absorb the full significance of all this: MI III opened in more theatres, with higher ticket prices, and still came nowhere near the opening weekend of its predecessor. On top of this, Cruise's core audience, that quadrant of moviegoers known as younger females, stayed away "in droves."
Cruise is not a particularly interesting human being, but it's been riveting to watch him bully the movie industry in recent years, and to watch the industry roll over and play dead when he demanded, for example, that a Scientology Tent be erected next to the set of War of the Worlds. There's no precedent for anything of this sort, it's inexcusable, it's unacceptable; large American corporations do not set up a denominational churches on company premises. But after a certain amount of pretend-posturing, Paramount and Dreamworks/Universal gave in and Cruise got his tent, staffed with Thetan facilitators who were ready to give neckrubs and literature to any passerby who wandered in thinking the place was a snack bar.
Then of course came the Katie Holmes romance, with the adolescent instant messages and cell-phone photos Cruise sent out to friends within days of their first date, the manic couch-jumping on Oprah, the Elmer-Gantry-like confrontation with Matt Lauer, and the coup de grace, self-administered - Cruise's attack on psychology, anti-depressant drugs and Brooke Shields' post-partum depression.
My son Jacob off-handedly pointed out to me this week that Cruise has now become the new Michael Jackson, a weirdo, an all-purpose piñata, the freak celebrity that everyone concedes is crazy, a poster boy for career immolation, a bizarre case of arrested-development, a man still playing with childhood toys. And compounding this, of course - as they compound everything these days - are the blogs.
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All this, combined with the reported chilliness of Holmes' parents to Scientology and the increasing evidence that Holmes had become a Pod Person, turned the episode into a contemporary version of Rosemary's Baby. Longtime rumors about Cruise's sexuality were even printed in the New York Times. And Cruise himself didn't help matters. His appearance with Diane Sawyer didn't have an authentic moment, and I recommend it for his bizarrely calm reaction to Sawyer's asking him whether he was in fact the father of Holmes' baby.
It all adds up to an ideal disaster. As the writer Martin Cruz Smith once said in another context, it's like driving past a terrible automobile accident in which no one has been hurt. Except for Tom Cruise, of course, but for the moment, and thanks to him, he doesn't count.
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> German View of Scientology
On May 8, 2006 a link to the German Embassy in Washington D.C. was posted:
http://www.germany.info/relaunch/info/archives/background/scientology.html
Background Papers
Scientology and Germany
Understanding the German View of Scientology
The German government considers the Scientology organization a commercial enterprise with a history of taking advantage of vulnerable individuals and an extreme dislike of any criticism. The government is also concerned that the organization's totalitarian structure and methods may pose a risk to Germany's democratic society. Several kinds of evidence have influenced this view of Scientology, including the organization's activities in the United States.
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> Polish Scientologists Ordered to Remove Tents
On May 12, 2006 "Maquis" posted:
Newsweek, again, writes that the widely hailed inauguration of the scientology sect in Poland had a false start. No sooner had they played Armstrong's "What a Wonderful World" when the Warsaw city guards ordered the scientologists to remove their three yellow tents put up in the city centre.
The order came from the city authorities, who were worried by press reports of scientology, regarded as a dangerous sect in many countries. Its representatives had to hastily rent a room in a nearby hotel to continue the inauguration event. But despite energetic campaigning conducted by scientology volunteers in the streets, only several dozen people were interested enough to attend it. "
http://www.polskieradio.pl/polonia/article.asp?tId=36454&j=2
The radicalism test
12.05.06
Poland's reforming government and its discontents; the 'exotic trio' who are in the top three positions in the new coalition government; Polish doctors hit the bottle; and Scientologists in Warsaw are just some of the stories in this week's current affairs magazines. "
Reviewed by Krysia Kolosowska "
off topic/snipped
Polskie Radio (English Section)
http://www.polskieradio.pl/polonia/gb/
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> News from Ukraine Part Four
On May 12, 2006 "Roger Gonnet" posted:
[Ukraine, the entire article is now webbed!]
See:
www.antisectes.net/ukraine-2006.html
[Ukraine, the fourth part of the lengthy article on scientology]
Ukraine
How Much Happiness would you like for Your Money
by Taras Pano
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translated from Russian text at
Zerkalo-Nedeli.com
April 8, 2006
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Vitaliy Konstantinov, psychiatrist
- Could Dianetics be used for the treatment of mental illness or as a method of psychological correction?
-- Dianetics categorically cannot be used to treat mental illness as that requires, first of all, medicament intervention. At the present stage of the development of medical science pharmacotherapy is yielding the best results. Unfortunately, in my practice cases have not been observed in which serious mental illness has been cured without drugs.
As to using Dianetics for psychological correction, I give preference to academic psychotherapy as the most justified for attaining prolonged remission (improved state of health) for patients. The positive results that Dianetics promises those under its care could have only a temporary effect. Afterwards a worse condition ensues, and sometimes a course of illness. The desired "state of clear" is attained by extremely inaccurate and destructive methods that, for the person involved, hide the way to genuine recovery. They've made commerce out of this science, and that might explain its popularity. Every individual would like to attain the perfect "state of clear" and have uncommon abilities but, alas, this is impossible. Because often in the mentality of a person one quality predominates while others are lacking, and this gives an impulse to development. For example, often a person, who is in the medical profession, does not himself know what to study to sort out his personal problems. I would advise
selcting a specialist who uses time-proven methods of psychological correction.
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The Church of Scientology appeared in the United States of America under science fiction writer Lafayette Ronald Hubbard after the release of his book, "Dianetics: the Modern Science of Mental Health" (1950) and consolidated by admirers of the self-improvement methods Hubbard made up. The Church of Scientology was founded in 1954.
In the system of Scientology practices Dianetics is a method or technology of Scientology. It proceeds from the assertion that the human mind fixes on and conceals recordings of trauma (engrams), the aggregate of which is the "reactive mind," as though this was the reason for all problems in life, mental as well as physical. By applying the technology of Dianetics it is alleged to be possible to rid oneself of these traumata and attain a state of "clear" and to fully uncover one's potential.
Dianetics includes auditing, a face-to-face discussion between "preclear" and auditor in which engrams are located with the help of an "electropsychometer" ("e-meter"). Engrams are supposed to disappear as a result of successful auditing. After clearing away all the engrams the person supposedly turns "clear" and can continue self-improvement and be freed from the restrictions of the material world up to the state of "operating thetan."
A believer's position in the church hierarchy proceeds from the level of advancement. Each step has improvement courses that have to be learned to proceed on to the next step.
The rites and ceremonies of the Scientologists, in expert opinion, most resemble those of Christianity -- services once a week with a sermon, reading of the "creed" and group auditing. There are also rituals for weddings, naming babies, funerals and ordinations that are conducted by chaplains or Scientology ministers.
Scientologist holidays are: L. R. Hubbard's birthday, a day giving thanks to the clergy, the day the "Dianetics" book was released, the day the IRS recognized Scientology as religion and the day the International Association of Scientologists was created.
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Besides the Church of Scientology there is also the so-called "Free Zone of Scientology" (also known as "Ron's Organizations," whose members do not identify themselves with the official church of Scientology, but who practice Dianetics and Scientology in life and in business. Members of this movement do not regard Hubbard's teachings as religious. They use the technology as training to develop human ability and business organization.
The Church of Scientology acts through Dianetics centers (which appear as profit, non-profit or religious organizations), through social organizations and movements, and also as Narconon, Criminon, the World Institute of Scientology Enterprises, a Commission to promote "Psychiatry against human rights" and the Association to study life and education.
Ukraine has an official Church of Scientology as well as "Free Zone" organizations. Scientology is widespread throughout Ukraine in Dianetics Centers in Kiev, Kharkov, Kremenchug and Kherson. According to expert estimates more than 50 centers operate in Ukraine. In 2004 the Church of Scientology tried to register its religious community in Kiev but was refused.
Specialists from the department of religious studies of G. Skovorody Institute of Philosophy NAS Ukraine wrote a conclusion (published in the "Scientology in Ukraine" brochure) about the activities of the Church of Scientology. The experts considered that Scientology centers could be fully considered religious communities whose operations do not contradict Ukraine legislation. The research, signed by respected religious studies experts, contains a number of contradictions and, according to a clarification by religious studies department director A. Kolodny, cannot be considered definitive for making a decision about the registration of the Church of Scientology as a religious organization in Ukraine.
Doubt about the advisability of registration of Scientologist communities as religious organizations are evoked mainly by the activities of the church, which critics view as commercial, and by a large number of lawsuits Scientology has been and still is engaged in Europe and America. Governments of various countries have periodically begun to doubt that Scientology can be regarded as religious but some Scientology communities do not have to pay taxes.
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Thanks again to the very good translator!
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> Critic Threatened by Scientology
On May 12, 2006 "Barbara Graham" posted:
I got this email today from a relative:
"Hi Barb,
We rec'd a strange call this afternoon. Luckily xxxx let it go to voicemail. Some man said he was calling for an xxxx or xxxx xxxx, and that he was an investigator looking into the terrorist activities of a girl named Barbara Graham. (no identification given) He said he would really like to talk with us, and asked for us to call. He didn't leave a number... He then repeated his request for us to call (with no number), and hung up..."
No phone number? Can you say "noisy investigation?"
Unlike the "investigator" cruising around my parents' neighborhood last week, Scientology wasn't mentioned.
Cult, if you think this is going to work like it did with Keith Henson, think again. I am going to collect statements I asked my folks' neighbors to write up, along with this email, and pay the nice detectives at the Criminal Intelligence Unit a call. They asked me to document any sort of harassment from your sorry asses, and I've been too lax.
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> LA Picket Reports
Picket reports from May 6, 2006 in Los Angeles, California:
[Thanks Dave, Barb, Jeff, Mark, Feisty--Goonybird, and All else who picketed!]
This was one rockin day!
I really appreciate all that each of you did to make this such a successful
two pickets :)
((Dave helped on the back lines, just for the record, and that
is always appreciated!)) You don't have to be at a picket to help
out on one....FYI.
Tory/Magoo Dancing in the moonlight
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From the Operation Clambake Forum:
http://ocmb.xenu.net/ocmb/viewtopic.php?t=18287
Scientology - it's worse than you think
I'mglib wrote:
So, I'm back from my first ever picket and it was awesome. Yes, awesome.
I got to meet Tory and some other great people, who also have very healthy senses of humor, but more on that later.
First we arrived at Sherrif Baca's Office, which was unfortunately behind a gate, so we stood on a busy street with our signs. One good sign said BACA, CULT SHILL in huge letters on flourescent colored paper. People honked and waved, and then after 1 hour we packed up to go to Hollywood.
We arrived in Hollywood at the Scn building, and Xenu prepared his costume. Yes, Xenu was there. We were on a side street getting ready, when the security guard discovered us (they're quick). Someone else had a giant pole with something like 8-10 blowup Xenu dolls on it. I had my famous "Ten Reasons You Should Run Away Screaming From Scientology" flyer. The security guard turned back and went back to the building.
On the corner of Hollywood and Ivar we proceded to wave our signs and hand out flyers. The response was a lot of horn honking and head nodding from the cars and passers by. My sign said "SCIENTOLOGY, IT'S WORSE THAN YOU THINK" (borrowed from Arnie), and Tory's said "HONK IF YOU DON'T THINK YOU ARE INFESTED BY SPACE ALIENS." I also had a NARCONON=SCIENTOLOGY, and my own green Xenu doll, so I was pretty loaded down.
Then, there on the corner, stood Xenu, waving like the queen of the Rose Parade. People were laughing a pointing. I went up and handed a women a flyer through her open window, and she came back later asking for more.
Tory immediately got cornered by some current Scinos, and I think she knew some of them. Some people tried to ask me things like, "Why are you here?" "Has Scn hurt you personally?" To this second question I said, "So you're only against things that hurt you personally? That's pretty selfish." And, "I'm exercising my right to free speech." I kinda took my cues from some of the old timers who kept it low key ("It's better to make ourselves look as different as possible than the Scientologists.") and tried not to get engaged or angry because it's probably futile, and time is better spent handing out flyers.
The secrurity guard kept walking back and forth, talking on his radio. At one point he took our pictures. He had on a very official-looking, black uniform, with this belt that had about six different things in the pouches. I figured one was a flashlight, and my husband suggested that maybe the others held batteries.
Some Sea Org people walked by, and to their credit, they ignored us. I felt bad for them because here it was Saturday night in Hollywood, and they were working. They were pretty young, too, and wore white shirts and black Dickie pants. A guy who worked around the corner came by and said that the SCn building is open 24 hours.
Xenutv showed up, so maybe some of this will show up on Xenutv.com
After an hour or so we packed it in. I took a tour of Melrose and Robertson to see what the rich and famous were doing, and got an excellent bowl of corn chowder to go from Barefoot on 3rd street. It's the best corn chowder ever. Good times.
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I had a few more observations that I forgot to mention:
1. When we first got there, the Sea Org drapes were open, but within minutes they were closed.
2. As we were leaving with Xenu and the signs and the blow up dolls, a tour bus went by (double decker with the people on top out in the open). The bus driver slowed down to talk to us, and we chatted about Xenu. We gave him a blowup doll and a bunch of flyers, and he seemed happy about that.
3. Tory is as nice in person as she is on this message board.
4. I almost wish I had talked more to the Scinos who approached us. The little I did talk to them, I was surprised at how little they knew, and how poor their debating skills were.
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magoo1 wrote:
This was a terrific two pickets!
First, meeting the people from Leona Valley, and learning their story, and how on top of Narconon infesting their neighborhood they are, was really cool. As I'm Glib said, it was fun for all of us to meet. :wink:
And Jeff showed up in his Dr's outfit with his name, "Dr. Fake". He's perfect for the Dr role!!
All of us were quite surprised at how many people on this little frontage road were honking and waiving....but they were! We all picketed there for I'd say an hour, and then we moved onto Hollywood, as has been posted.
We'd met previously at the Sizzler, and that is always fun for us to do. It's sort of a tradition for the gang to meet before hand, and then go picket. Gooneybird also showed up, someone we hadn't seen in 2 years!
Xenu had arrived at my house in droves on Friday, and Freisty was the master mind of this! She put a bunch of them on dowels....so she could carry more than one. They were a hit for tons of people! :wink:
My sign wasn't about Space aliens, it says: "Honk if you Think Scientology is a CULT". Tons and Tons of people honked while we were picketing. Many wanted their pictures taken with either Xenu or me, or Dr. Fake! Mark Bunker arrived, hooked me up with a mike, and we'll see how that turns out. Barb also was there dressed up as a live XENU, and many wanted to get their pics taken with Xenu.
I had a rather long conversation with two "OT's" who were there to "handle" us. The wife, although pretty fake, was at least willing to communicate some. Her husband looked at me and said, "You're a wacko". I said first of all I wanted to congratulate his wife, as at LEAST she could, to some degree, apply the very basics of Scientology: Communication. He, one the other hand, totally violated the basics of Scientology and IS why many people are out there criticising their 'church'. I pointed out to him that he didn't even know me, that someone had put that black pr line into his head, and it's that kind of abuse (Fair Game and Scientology's attempts to silence people) that people around the world are standing up fighting them for, and shall do so until they stop. I think he began to see what I was talking about, as people continued to honk while we talked.
From that point, he got nicer, and was more willing to talk. We taked about quite a bit, and we'll see if it sticks in his head or not. I asked both of them, once they'd heard that OSA has up 5 P A G E S of flat out lies about me, IF they were going to do anything about that? Neither would commit to even trying. She tried to promote her Wins, as I had done in the past, and I told her I was just like her 5 years ago. But SEEING Such abuse, I got to a point where I couldn't just do nothing. She tried to slide off of that. I told his wife the bottom line is: "How do you know if a Scientologist is lying? If their lips are moving!" ( She said Scientologists don't lie, yet here they were, ignoring that their "Church" posts flat out lies about people---and trying to slide off with the "We don't know". Ya...right).
As the day wound down, we began to walk up the street. To our great surprise, tons of Sea Org came marching across the street. Of course Feisty had the Xenu dolls, and we both suggested they don't waste their lives. They hussled on by, and we left to come home for a delightful party here at my house.
I'm Glib....next time you'll have to drop by! We had some fun discussions after. Same for Gooney, who had to go home, too.
All in all, it was a terrific day, and now we're having a slumber party!!!
Happiness is doing what you want to do, and enjoying it! :wink:
:cheers:
My best to all,
Tory/Magoo
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"Feisty" posted:
So many places to protest, not enough hours in the day!
We met on Saturday May 6, 2006 to protest, originally because the dianetics anniversary which is/was today, May 9. Due to other recent concerns and citizens interested to stand up, we gathered to support activists in Leona Valley to protest Sheriff Baca's cult connection to endorse Narconon. We then picketed by the LRH Museum on Hollywood and Ivar. We unfortunately missed picketing at the Arc Light Theatre during the opening night of Mission Impossible 3, although we had the best of intentions to try. (We are only human!) To all of our surprise, the Arc Light has come up with its own protest of "numbers" after the weekend, the signs of a desperate cult. The fallacy of trying to inflate numbers, even if successfully done without notice, does nothing to help make $cientology look important. This is only a feeble try to cover the big league sales tactics and failing PR ech of head spokeperson and salesman for the cult, Tom Cruise.
We started off in the usual tradition by meeting at the Sizzler at noon. Had a bite to eat and headed out to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's facility on Ramona Blvd. to protest Sheriff Leroy Baca's endorsement of the Narconon program.
Tory, Jeff, Barb and I arrived and were met by three other other residents of Leona Valley, a new picketer, and later by two others. We received many honks, but due to the road being situated right near the front of the complex of buildings, foot traffic was slow. Hoewever our protest was successful. I made a sign that said "Baca Way from $cientology - Not our taxpayer dollars" with the url: http://Stop-Narconon.com/Baca Others had some good signs too, with Jeff Jacobsen's fluorescent sign the best to view from afar.
We learned alot of things that the cult had been up to in Leona Valley, and basically $cientology came into a relatively small town with big PR tactics.
The isolation of Sheriff Baca, bussing in $cientologists to meetings and fixed letter writing campaigns, strong-arming the local paper with Narconon ads and celebrity attention is all a part of the show to look like something it is not. The scales of concensus are repeatedly fixed with a faux set of actors who cannot take away the voice of the taxpayers and those who know that an endorsement here means a stepping stone somewhere else. It is a feudal, not fair.
It is encouraging that another meeting will be held in July for some of the facts to be reviewed. This is why it is so important to realize that paying taxes does give you the right to speak up and question and add information that $cientology leaves out or fraudulently publishes. Getting such a scam approved only means funding for programs that have to do with criminal reentry programs or others similar. Their job is to avoid review, and lessen people who can bring a fair concensus. The process is fixed and corrupt. Not if the residents of Leona Valley keep doing such a good job, and all of us keep writing.
(back to the picket...)
After an hour, we moved on to the L Ron Hubbard Life Museum at Hollywood and Ivar, across from the Sea Organization headquarters. Within minutes of arriving, the curtains on the top floor of the Sea Org bldg. were closed.
I had my hands full of space aliens, so someone else carried my sign. It said, "Tom Cruise Censors Space Aliens, Watch South Park - Save $400,000 and with http://www.Xenu.net up in the corner. I did have colorful http://www.Lermanet.com flyers that covered Isaac Hayes leaving South Park, and Tom Cruises further censorship of the rebroadcast of Episode 912 - Trapped in the Closet with the Xenu Story. I passed out every one of the 100 I brought.
Xenu stood regally at the corner of Hollywood and Ivar and drew quite a crowd. Many knew who Xenu is and several families with kids and others stopped to take pictures. I held a frame with five inflatable aliens, as a tribute to Dianetics day, and as a testament to what is on the cover of the book. The honest truth is that this is a consumer issue, a bait and switch ruse that everyone should know. "You are not infested with space aliens! We just saved you $400,000 dollars!" It is every taxpayers right to bring this issue to the forefront and bridge the gap between the bad alternative health advice, and what really is behind all those human problems.
So Xenu and the clusters of space aliens were there to commemorate and stand where they belonged - by the founder who created the implant station for this cruel con game that takes peoples money and mind - L Ron Hubbard. The building should appropriately be named, "The space opera building" (Some who think we were selling the aliens may have a good idea, as every carnival has its props and it's not surreal that this would be where Xenu belongs all the time.) Colorful aliens much cheaper!
Jeff was dressed appropriately as "Dr. Fake," the perfect role considering Tom Cruises giving advice about pregnancy and post partum one day, and chugging oil the next. Would you take advice from Dr. Fake? The statement Jeff's attire made covered many of $cientology's deadly quack teachings - fake claims of curing, the treatment and demise of Lisa McPherson and others; the list goes on and on.
The amount of handlers here was more than I have seen during the time I have protested, about seven at one point. Obvious jobs: take pictures to put in the massive database of information $cientology keeps. Identify who the people are. Ask what their motive is, and what organization then represent. I've never attended a protest where they did not do this, yet it is always interesting to see how each member adapts to this virulent practice. This is what they got into $cientology for?
This is obviously something that they must brief members on, who come out to handle someone based on crude and dishonest information. "Those people out there" must be really bad for some reason.
Some of the members tried to engage us in conversation. This is about as effective as doing this on ars, and shows the same lack of logical means to debate. Face to face however is quite an observation, to see how $cientology members are "all in their head" - or how the tech is talking and the ears are closed. The idea is not for them to understand what you are saying, as much as they are trying to get you into answering to L Ron Hubbards line of questioning, or - thinking the way they are! The built in stance in which they are so individually claiming to be speaking from includes having to have you convert to the way they are thinking. It's built into the responses they give, and is quite bizarre. This lacks debate totally and is a very indicative of the language skills they are trained with. The dialogue is repetitive and so old, very narrow and includes giving you every reason to respond in the way they expect, the entrapping and subversive cult think... It is not intimidating to talk to these members, it is just about talking plainly, avoiding these communicative traps, and get them thinking about something in a normal way if even for a while.
Tory is the best person I have ever heard communicating to members who have come out to address picketers. She knows just where the problem lies in the limitations of what these members are allowed to say when they come out to talk. She knows, she has been there. The main point is that they are not practicing what they learned if they cannot think about something another person says. And for the short time she addressed this one gentleman who came out, you can see that he stopped a few times to think. There were a few brief moments of exchange to this gentleman where what Tory said sunk. That they can read something else or hear something else is a major breakthrough that really allows people to be free. The flipside of that is seeing what I described as talking with the ears closed, and surely depriving of ones freedom of speech. I never forget what Tory says to members and it is so true, "if Hubbard said you are so free then why can't you read other things or talk to me?"
It was odd to hear the ECT story from this same gentleman Tory talked to. I asked, "what book or information have you been given," because he spoke as if it were happening so excessively, "right now." I told him it was pretty rare these days, and he started making "whoa ho ho ho" noises as if I were misinformed. You could see the level of hysteria from teaching such things are in fact, excessive. Others came from Leona Valley and Goonybird and a new picketer were there talking to members and the many people walking by.
I walked across the street to the HELP Hollywood Education Literacy Project because I saw some mothers and children leaving. The children smiled at all the colorful space aliens and asked for one, so I gave one to each of the two families. (I gave away 10 at least) The mothers said that the kids were receiving tutoring there, and I told them that although they think their children are receiving some attention, they should beware that the method used is the study technology of $cientology and that the children would be learning the language that L Ron Hubbard taught. They said they would look on the internet and read about it.
It was odd to see the uniformed sea org members march by in double lines from the sea org building to the museum and then later back to the sea org facility. They were mostly young adults, good looking kids who should be out enjoying life. Tory and I told them to leave as they walked by, amongst other things.
Mark Bunker was there to interview and film the protest at the "Space Opera Building" and did a great job.
http://www.xenutv.com/pickets/hollywood-baca.htm
After the picket we went to Tory's house for a gathering of picketers and other guests. We enjoyed some good food and conversation. Several people called in from all over, and the phone was passed around so we could all say hello. Keith Henson called too for a brief chat even though he had been busy talking to the people at the International Space Development Conference.
I took the next day to drive over to Ida Camburn's house where we spent a pleasant afternoon talking about the picket and reminisced about all the people who had passed her way over the years. We even attended a singalong at the local club which was entirely relaxing after a busy day. I am grateful to know Ida and everyone I have met who care to stand up for our Constitutional right to freedom of speech and the right to assemble.
After driving through the mountains and a little jet lag,
Feisty
Get Up, Stand Up, stand up for your right
Jeff Jacobsen's pictures from the protests
http://www.lisamcpherson.org/la_picket_06.htm
Scientology and Historic Buildings - Like Hitler and the Third Reich
http://www.lermanet.com/scientology-and-occult/historic-building.htm
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"Mark Bunker" posted:
Dr. Fake brings his quackery to the L. Ron Hubbard Life Exhibitiion in Hollywood. Xenu, Feisty and another lovely lady share in the fun. Plus, Tory gets in comm with a handler who can't believe Hubbard had Vistiril in his butt:
http://www.xenutv.com/pickets/hollywood-baca.htm
Enjoy!
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"Jeff Jacobsen" posted:
Had a great time.
[photos from LA picket]
http://www.lisamcpherson.org/la_picket_06.htm
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"Arnaldo Lerma" posted:
THIS IS GREAT!
This is the best training video for bringing a true believer to doubt I have ever seen!
Thank you Tory!
Hubbard's coroner report with the PROOF he died with the anti psytchotic medication VISTARIl in his bloodstream is linked from a page crafted by michael tilse for exiting current members - his letter is the written equivalent to Tory's verbal effort.
http://www.lermanet.com/scientology/dear-scientologist.htm
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> Scientology "Cruising" for money in D.C.
On May 7, 2006 MSNBC reported:
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12684262/
Scientology spreads out in push for D.C. members
By Erin Killian
Washington Business Journal
Jackson Wyan, a young Tom Cruise look-alike with short black hair and a black button-down shirt, greets people with laser-focused eye contact, a fixed smile and solid handshake at the Founding Church of Scientology of D.C. in Dupont Circle.
His mission not-so-impossible: Recruit more members.
Would-be Scientologists approach the landmark red building, also known as Fraser Mansion, at 20th and R streets NW, with regularity. Wyan, who's been with the D.C. church six years, gives tours that include a sweep through the first-floor library full of founder L. Ron Hubbard's writings and a basement recruitment center with free stress tests.
So many curious Scientology seekers take Wyan's tours that the church, which has occupied the high-profile site for a decade, says it can no longer handle the traffic at the 22,000-square-foot building -- so it's tripling its size in D.C. with new offices.
By the end of the year, most of the 100-member staff will move into a 50,000-square-foot building at 16th and P streets NW.
The Church of Scientology Religious Trust, a sister organization, bought a seven-story building at 1424 16th St. NW for $17.3 million from Castleton Holdings in November. The Staubach Co. real estate firm helped with the purchase, one of 22 properties the trust bought last year.
The Founding Church of Scientology of D.C. is leasing the space and plans to infuse $5 million into a renovation that includes a 500-seat auditorium and rooftop cafe once it obtains its permits. With the move and a refurbished Fraser Mansion, D.C. will have the third-largest collection of Scientologist facilities in the nation, in terms of square footage, behind Los Angeles and Clearwater, Fla.
[...]
Wyan dismisses the criticisms as just your typical slamming of a new religion. Besides, business is booming and pumping money into D.C.'s economy, he says.
And that's a very important part of the mission.
The church -- which says it has $8 million worth of assets in its D.C. coffers -- generates money not only through donations, but also through classes and counseling, which cost $36 to $2,000 a shot.
Says Wyan, laughing: "We want people to give lots and lots of money."
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"Roger Gonnet" posted:
Looks that DM puts most of its staffs to RPFs to refurbish old buildings, so as to make more money from the buildings he bought by this "trust" - look, this is no more than money placement with slaves work behind.
Here is a bylaws from one of these "trusts" declared in 1993 to the IRS:
http://www.xenufrance.net/flag-ship-trust-bylaws-and-amendment.pdf [pdf file]
and 1023 forms:
http://www.xenufrance.net/sirt-to-irs-1023.pdf [pdf file]
http://www.xenufrance.net/fst-to-irs-1023.pdf [pdf file]
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> Scientology-Related Multi-Media
On May 13, 2006 "David Touretzky" posted:
Wednesday morning (May 10, 2006) I received a phone call from a producer at KCOL, a Clear Channel radio station in Ft. Collins, Colorado. They were doing a Scientology show and wanted me to appear as a guest. The original plan was to do three segments, 10-15 minutes each, half an hour apart. The first guest was to be Bob Adams, who is this month's official spokesdroid for the Church of Scientology International. He has apparently replaced Ed Parkin, who in turn replaced the prickly and wonderfully inept Linda Simmons Haight.
An interesting side note about Bob Adams: he is a former VP of ABLE INT who was "disappeared" from the ABLE web site after he verbally threatened Pamela Lichtenwalner over her anti-Narconon work, which resulted in her filing a police report. Details here:
http://stop-narconon.org/Bob-Adams
The second guest was to be Chuck Beatty, who spent 27 years in the Sea Org, and the third guest was going to be me. While chatting with the producer, I started warning her about all the lies that Scientology tells the media (e.g., that they have 10 million members, they're compatible with Catholicism, they never heard of "Xenu", etc.) As a result of this conversation, they changed the lineup. They decided to have me on much earlier, to set things up. Then they'd have Bob Adams on at his scheduled time, and see how well I had predicted what he was going to say. And then Chuck would go. So that's what we did.
Here's what I covered:
- 10 million members is a lie; the real number is under 100,000
- Scientology is not just a cult, it's an ABUSIVE cult (with a quick explanation of the characteristics of abusive cults)
- compatibility with Catholicism is a lie; reincarnation is heresy to the Catholic Church, and Hubbard said "there was no Christ"
- Quick summary of Scientology beliefs: (1) you need therapy for all the bad stuff that's happened to you from the moment of conception onward; (2) you're an immortal being and need therapy for all the bad stuff that's happened to you in all your past lives, too -- and you have to pay by the hour; (3) you're possessed by the spirits of murdered space aliens, called "body thetans", and they need therapy too.
- Quick summary of the Xenu story the cult's attempts to suppress it, and the fact that I have the first page of OT III in L. Ron Hubbard's own handwriting up on my web site at Carnegie Mellon,
- If I had a chance to ask Bob Adams two questions, what would they be?
Answer: (1) When are you guys going to stop lying about Scientology being compatible with Christianity, and (2) When are you going to stop lying about Xenu and talk openly about what you believe?
- I ended my segment in the traditional way: with a plug for XENU.NET.
About an hour later it was time for Bob Adams. They asked him a bunch of questions based on my segment, and what was interesting was the way he dialed back his answers compared to the usual Scientology canned PR lines.
For example, they asked him how many members the church had, and he said about 10 million, but it was hard to get an exact number because it was based in part on how many people had bought books. (A tougher interviewer would have jumped on this and said "You mean anyone who buys a copy of Dianetics is considered a Scientologist? So if I buy a copy of DSM 4, does that make me a psychiatrist?")
Then they asked him if Scientology was compatible with Catholicism, and he did a major waffling job, sort of but not really conceding that different religions have different belief systems and the two weren't really compatible.
They they asked him about "space aliens", and he said something really surprising. He claimed that the critics had confused Zeno, an ancient Greek philosopher, with some of Hubbard's science fiction writings, and that's where this "Zeno story" comes from; it wasn't really part of Scientology.
Wow!!!! It looks like Scientology has come up with a new shore story for its pre-OT members who encounter the Xenu stuff: it's just part of a smear campaign invented by confused wogs.
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On May 10, 2006 "James" posted:
Hello everybody around here!
I haven't been posting for last couple of months since I was too occupied with my work. Besides that I was travelling a lot.
And I took the chance to shoot some more pics of European Orgs and missions so that people all around the globe can see how the real situation and condition of Co$ in Europe is like.
Here are some pics from the Duesseldorf Org/Germany:
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a67/anon23ster/Duesseldorf_GermanyOrg1.jpg
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a67/anon23ster/Duesseldorf_GermanyOrg2.jpg
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a67/anon23ster/Duesseldorf_GermanyOrg3.jpg
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a67/anon23ster/Duesseldorf_GermanyOrg4.jpg
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a67/anon23ster/Duesseldorf_GermanyOrg5.jpg
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Here are some pics of the CC Duesseldorf:
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a67/anon23ster/CC_DuesseldorfOrg1.jpg
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a67/anon23ster/CC_DuesseldorfOrg2.jpg
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a67/anon23ster/CC_DuesseldorfOrg3.jpg
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a67/anon23ster/CC_DuesseldorfOrg4.jpg
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a67/anon23ster/CC_DuesseldorfOrg5.jpg
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a67/anon23ster/CC_DuesseldorfOrg6.jpg
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Here are some pics of the Stuttgart Org:
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a67/anon23ster/StuttgartOrg1.jpg
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a67/anon23ster/StuttgartOrg2.jpg
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a67/anon23ster/StuttgartOrg3.jpg
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a67/anon23ster/StuttgartOrg4.jpg
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a67/anon23ster/StuttgartOrg5.jpg
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a67/anon23ster/StuttgartOrg6.jpg
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a67/anon23ster/StuttgartOrg7.jpg
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a67/anon23ster/StuttgartOrg8.jpg
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Here are some pics from the Mission Karlsruhe:
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a67/anon23ster/GermanOrg1.jpg
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a67/anon23ster/GermanOrg2.jpg
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a67/anon23ster/GermanOrg3.jpg
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a67/anon23ster/GermanOrg4.jpg
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a67/anon23ster/GermanOrg5.jpg
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Here are some pics from the Mission in Ulm (smaller town between Munich
and Stuttgart):
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a67/anon23ster/MissionUlm_GermanyOrg1.jpg
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a67/anon23ster/MissionUlm_GermanyOrg2.jpg
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a67/anon23ster/MissionUlm_GermanyOrg3.jpg
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a67/anon23ster/MissionUlm_GermanyOrg4.jpg
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a67/anon23ster/MissionUlm_GermanyOrg5.jpg
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a67/anon23ster/MissionUlm_GermanyOrg6.jpg
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a67/anon23ster/MissionUlm_GermanyOrg7.jpg
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More pictures and comments:
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On May 8, 2006 "Neil C" posted:
[DOC. DUMPED...TOO SWEET!!!]
proflex wrote:
What a great day....could you call it christmas? In the process of returning from my daily meal at the homeless shelter i took a ride down our local WISE/SCIENO ROW...(several wise buisnesses in the same strip mall)...one looked as if it was out of buisness..or the owner declared or something because all the office contents were out on the curb for garbage collection....yes my critic friends this motherload consisted of several boxes of comm.ev. reports,wise arbitration documents and statments,freewinds bills,ethics matters,LRH policies,unpaid salary complaints,tax exempt documents,OT8 ethics reports, misdeeds reports,customer lists and scieno relation w/discounts,special freewinds projects and reports,etc.,etc.,etc.
[...]
Proflex has provided photo's of the retrieved documents, and some scans.
click here
http://ocmb.xenu.net/ocmb/viewtopic.php?t=18264&postorder=asc
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"Woggle" posted:
[2,826 pages of FBI files covering L. Ron Hubbard and the Church of]
http://www.paperlessarchives.com/hubbard.html
Reposted from Andreas' thread, in case anyone wants to purchase the CD-Rom for $10.00
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"Warrior" posted:
See a.b.s. for scans of the May 9, 1982 Clearwater Sun article on Scientology.
[Witnesses tell of break-ins, conspiracy]
For those who don't subscribe to a.b.s., the scans are webbed at
http://warrior.xenu.ca/CW_Sun_9May82-1.jpg and
http://warrior.xenu.ca/CW_Sun_9May82-2.jpg
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> FBI documents on Hubbard
"Andreas Heldal-Lund" posted:
Search through 638 documents about L Ron Hubbard released from the FBI archives. The documents range from 1940 to 1983.
http://www.xenu.net/archive/FBI/
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On May 6, 2006, Barbara Schwarz posted "I will web some FBI letters on L. Ron Hubbard soon, saying they never had investigatory interest in him", then later posted a series of posts in the format:
"U.S. Dept. of Justice, Office of Information and Privacy, wrote to me
on May 3, 2001, that Anchorage FBI Field Office has no records on L.
Ron Hubbard."
Besides Anchorage, Barbara Schwarz posted the names of several dozen cities, including Las Vegas, in which the FBI had no records on Hubbard. San Juan, according to Schwarz, had only two pages on Hubbard.
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> News from Inside Gold Base
"Neil C" posted news from the Operation Clambake Forum from poster "Blown For Good:"
On May 11, 2006:
Updates on all things unimportant
Tom's camp getting tight and edgy - Miker Rinder Breathes then Takes
SHIT
Well, finally the security leaks at both Gold and Tom Cruise camp are being followed up on. There have been a few magazines that have been so insanely spot on the entire time as to what would happen with Tom and Katie that Church staff are trying to find out who the leaks are. Between the Int Base and Tom's place there are so many moles it is insane. Here is the best part, some of the people that are checking out the leaks, are involved in the leaks!
[...]
What ever Sea Org unit bought those 500 tickets for MI3 in LA effectively cancelled any remote chances that the Int Base would get to go into Hemet to see it. That story was covered far and wide! The Gold guys have not gone to the movies since Battlefield Earth came out anyway. Every single person at the Int Base HAD to watch BE 3 times!! Most people caught the first showing and ended up seeing two other movies with BE stubs.
Talking about Mike Rinder, Mr Scientology PR - He seems to be the only talking for Scientology these days since Tom so majorly fucked things up. I would love for the media to know what Mike Rinder is doing while not on TV - Here is a guy that was knee deep in shit. I am not speaking figuratively - At the Int Base the entire property is managed by their own sewage system. All of the shit is pumped out to two huge ponds (as big as two football fields) where it is aired out and evaporates into the air. Well, since the shit is so thick at the Int Base - it does not evaporate that well and must be manually taken out of the pond every few years and sent to the dump. Here comes the good part - because the all of the CMO INT staff were such assholes - Dave had them spend at least 2 weeks FULL TIME day and night (Sunrise to Midnight) cleaning all of the shit out of these ponds. We are talking about trucks and trucks loaded with shit that had to be shoveled up and bucket brigaded out of these huge ponds. When shit is
several months old it is basically like chucky dirt and very dusty. Imagine having to breathe shitdust all day and all night. Talk about the Anti-Purif! Well that is exactly what Rinder does while not on TV saying how Bruce Hines is full of shit - No Mike - YOU are full of shit - literally from breathing it full time for weeks on end. So yeah Mark Yager, Mark Ingber, G Leserve, Rinder and all of theother Top scientology "execs" shoveling shit full time becuase Dave wanted to punish them. I would love for someone to pop that question to Mike while on the air, "Is it true that you yourself are a shit expert, having worked with it for quite some time?"
Anyway, Mike Rinder himself has been calling some of the media outlets with leaky Tom intel trying to get to the leaks. He even went so far as to tell one media outlet that they could run the story on Tom in exchange for the source of the leak! While in LA or NY Mike rinder lives it up. Of course he does, When he is at the base - he is total scum and Dave loves to let him know that. If the OSA guys in LA even knew what a total fuckup Mike Rinder is when he steps onto the Int Base. No rank - no respect - just another Int Base SP waiting for the axe to drop any minute.
[...]
Anyone else with media contacts - send them my way. You would never imagine how many magazines will talk trash about Tom Cruise or Scientology now - They are practically lining up. Keep up the good work!
BFG
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On May 12, 2006 "Chuck Beatty" posted:
[blownforgood's comments on David Miscavige's (Scientology movement's top leader's) beatings......]
"The beatings were very secretive through the 90's. It was in 2000 onwards where he was beating these guys more and more and it was a regular thing. In 2003-2004 I would assume there was at least a beating each day and some time multiple ones depending on how many meeting there were. The main guys that I saw DM hit over and over again at meetings were, Mike Rinder, Marc Yager, Gueilleme Leserve, Mark Ingber, Ray Mitoff and Rick Cruzen."
-blownforgood
(I confirmed the above with two other ex Int staffers who saw the same. One of them said that David Miscavige's beating they'd witnessed from 1995 onwards to until 2005, and agree the beatings were way more frequent in the last couple years.)
Please, any other lurking ex Int staff who saw these petty beatings, please contact me or somehow share what you saw and confirm or offer your input.
Chuck Beatty
Ex-Sea Org (lifetime staffer, 1975-2003)
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> Bankrupt Cult Victims
On May 2, 2006 "Nevada Gas" posted:
[Ex-GO I/O Tom Reitze liquidates stock, for the "Third Dynamic"]
[link no longer works, text below]
(with recent photo of Tom Reitze)
http://pasa.wordpress.com/2006/05/02/invest-in-your-future-2/
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Pasadena Ideal Org Fundraisers
Just another Wordpress.com weblog
Invest in your future!
May 2, 2006 at 6:01 am
Something Sally Jensen said got me thinking. She said what we're doing in buying this building and creating an ideal org in Pasadena is converting First Dynamic assets into Third Dynamic assets.
I had an "untouchable" reserve invested in stocks. My idea was I would never tap this - I would just let it grow and grow over the years.
I looked up the definitions of two words in the World Book Dictionary. "Donation" means "a gift, contribution." "Investment" means "a laying out of money for something that is expected to produce a profit or benefit." Donation has a one-way flow to it while investment implies a two-way flow - you outflow something and then get something back in return.
I definitely didn't want to take my reserves and just outflow them.
But then I started looking at the Pasadena Org building as an investment.?
[...]
Looked at this way, it made most sense to invest my reserves in buying the new Pasadena Org building and creating an ideal org right here and now. That's the investment that in truth provides the best return. So I did!
Much love,
Tom Reitze
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Tom Reitze - Scientology Service Completions:
http://www.truthaboutscientology.com/stats/by-name/t/tom-reitze.html
Scientology Statistics - Impact 59 Patrons [1995]
http://www.truthaboutscientology.com/stats/impact/impact059patrons.html
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Tom Reitze
Slatkinfraud:
http://www.slatkinfraud.com/99_researched.htm
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Tom Reitze was the Information Officer at the Guardian's Office during the heyday of Snow White. As of 1999, he was the CEO of WISE company David Morse & Associates in Glendale, CA. Nancy Reitze, possibly Tom's wife, was a spokesman for the church in Clearwater in 1979, and is still active.
Expanded Snow White Info - New List of Unindicted Co-con[s]pirators
http://home.earthlink.net/~snefru/GO/newgo.html
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This list of names comes from additional documents relating to the Snow White convictions, and includes names that weren't found on my original list of unindicted co-conspirators.
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Tom Reitze
What's New at the GO Roundup?
http://home.earthlink.net/~snefru/GO/new.html
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What do Duke Snider and Tom Reitze have in common? Other than the fact that they're both ex-GO agents, of course? Both men are currently working for scientologist-owned insurance company David Morse and Associates."
wAiF!
http://www.wwwaif.net/scn/scn_GO_1.php
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According to a source who prefers to remain nameless, Duke is currently working for David Morse & Associates, a scientologist-owned insurance company based in beautiful -- and theta-heavy -- Glendale, California. While Duke heads up the New York and Boston offices, his fellow GO co-conspirator Tom Reitze is the secretary/treasurer of DMA Claims Administration Inc., also based in Glendale."
Supplementary
Tom Reitze [plus] scientology (Google)
http://www.google.com/search?q=Tom+Reitze+%2Bscientology&btnG=Search&hl=en&lr=
Tom Reitze +scientology (Google/Groups)
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=Tom%20Reitze%20%2Bscientology&btnG=Search&hl=en&lr=&sa=N&tab=wg
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On May 11, 2006 the St. Petersburg Times, Florida reported:
http://www.sptimes.com/2006/05/11/Tampabay/Is_he_a_slumlord_or_e.shtml
Is he a slumlord or ethical specialist?
The man who owns an apartment building evacuated by officials for safety violations also holds Scientology's highest status.
Published May 11, 2006
ST. PETERSBURG -
In the world of Scientology, Scott W. Snow is a winner.
He has achieved the religion's highest level of training, higher even than megastar Tom Cruise, a distinction that brings with it lofty ethical standards.
But in St. Petersburg, city leaders call him slumlord.
Snow, 51, is the owner of the Chinook Apartments in Midtown, which the city shut down May 2 after finding multiple fire code violations. Now two dozen Chinook tenants have hired a lawyer and are preparing a lawsuit. And the city is investigating 39 separate code violation complaints at Snow's other three St. Petersburg apartment buildings.
This is not Snow's first brush with trouble, according to documents and interviews. In 2002 he filed for bankruptcy, saying he owed more than $700,000 and had only $22 in his pocket. But a month before settling the bankruptcy lawsuit, he purchased three Midtown apartment buildings for $1.25-million, helped by a loan from a fellow Scientologist. A year later, he bought the Chinook Apartments for $2.2-million.
Now, after the unprecedented evacuation of Chinook, city officials have stepped up their criticism. Council member Bill Foster this week referred to Snow as a "slumlord." Foster called the apartment building "a cancer growing in our community" and declared "an open season on slumlords."
Snow, who lives with his second wife, Gayle, and their children in Oldsmar, has declined repeated requests for an interview, citing pending litigation. He refused to comment about Chinook, saying he did not want to "try the case in the press." The property manager for his rental buildings, Sharon Johnson, described her boss as "a mystery."
"But he's a good mystery," added Johnson, 35, who has taken a few courses offered by the Church of Scientology. "He's not this bad person, he's not this monster. He cares."
Snow filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in November 2002, with debts amounting to $718,970. At the time, he was a real estate broker and a small business owner.
He said that he had just $22 in the bank and was driving a 1984 Dodge Caravan valued at $250. The trustee in the bankruptcy case noted in a 2003 filing that she was "not able to verify the reason for the significant accumulation of debt.''
In the several years leading up to the bankruptcy, Scientology publications note that Snow took a series of Scientology courses that former members say would have cost him tens of thousands of dollars.
One of the courses, taken in 1999 aboard Scientology's cruise ship, the Freewinds, made him an "ethics specialist.'' He also took courses in 2000 and 2001, but said in court filings that he made an income of $17,765 in 2000 and just $589 in 2001.
According to Scientology publications, in 1989 Snow reached the highest level currently available to Scientologists, OT VIII; actor Tom Cruise is an OT VII.
The upper levels of Scientology, which can cost several hundred thousand dollars to complete, offer the promise of becoming an "operating thetan" or "OT," which, according to church materials, is someone who lives "with full awareness, memory and ability, independent of the physical universe."
According to a church official, only a few thousand Scientologists in the world - among the millions of members the church claims - have reached the level OT VIII.
Ben Shaw, a spokesman for Scientology in Clearwater, declined to discuss Snow's status with the church and said it was inappropriate to mention Snow's religious affiliation in the media because he is not, and never has been, in a position of authority or leadership at the church. But Shaw did note the church expects people in the advanced levels of Scientology "to have a higher level of ethics.''
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> Gratitude
On May 12, 2006 "Chuck Beatty" posted:
This is just a thankyou to all those who've done what they did over the years.
I want to thank all those ex Sea Org members, and the exiting decades long former "OTs", and all the persons speaking out the last many decades, the book writers, the persons willing to stand up and voice their opinions, it's all an ongoing helpful event for someone like me, to finally exit Scientology, and draw upon all the accumulated understandings that people who have exited already and who are live still commenting on the whole Scientology movement scene.
I thank:
First off those ex Sea Org members who stood up and walked out, in their various ways. (it was truly their examples and their reasons for getting out that I believe weighs on the minds of others like their examples weighed on my mind, as my belief is that simply departing the Sea Org is voting with one's fee, and that example accumulates and weighs on those Sea Org members still in their pitching in the Sea Org, and spurs and reassures those inside that leaving is NOT the end of the world!)
Then those ex Sea Org members who went public in various ways. (Their courage to weather the counter attacks the church has thrown at those who spoke up, but I do believe the church is lessening that counter attacking as boldly and viciously as they have done to the first many generations of ex Sea Org who felt compelled to speak out.)
Then the whole crew of people (people of sharper intellect) who've taken an interest, journalists, media, TV, the observers on ARS and other chat sites, over the years. The staying tuned to the ongoing events in Scientology and keeping alive and discussing the ongoing events and continuing Scientology created predicaments, sharing the inside information, allowing a means to leak out live the ongoing less than delightful live predicaments is just a permanently good thing about the internet, and those that keep alive a critical eye on Scientology.
Coming out of the Sea Org only 3 years ago, I was floored to find all the voluminous accumulated and live material being shared about all angles of Scientology.
Anyways, thanks to all persons living and deceased, who did something to keep alive this discussion and exposure of the less than good things about Scientology.
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> German View of Scientology
> Polish Scientologists Ordered to Remove Tents
> News from Ukraine Part Four
> Critic Threatened by Scientology
> LA Picket Reports
> Scientology "Cruising" for money in D.C.
> Scientology-Related Multi-Media
> FBI documents on Hubbard
> News from Inside Gold Base
> Bankrupt Cult Victims
> Gratitude
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> Mission Impossible III
A number of posts were made about MI-3 relating to "Cruise Crashes," "Paramount Panics" and "Ticket Tampering by the Cult".
On May 7, 2006 "David Germain" from the Associated Press Online posted:
LOS ANGELES - Fewer people chose to accept Tom Cruise's latest mission, a possible sign that the odd behavior of Hollywood's biggest star may have taken a toll on his box-office charm.
Paramount's "Mission: Impossible III" debuted with $48.025 million, a solid opening yet well below industry expectations and almost $10 million lower than the franchise's previous installment, according to studio estimates Sunday.
[...]
Cruise's antics in the past year or so, publicity over his romance with Katie Holmes and the tabloid blitz regarding their daughter's birth in April may have left some movie-goers burned out or disenchanted with the actor.
[...]
Traditionally reserved about his private life, Cruise abruptly became an open book, jumping up and down on a couch while professing his love for Holmes in an interview with Oprah Winfrey and spouting his Scientology beliefs, including rants against psychiatry.
[...]
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Newsday reported:
http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/movies/la-fi-mission8may08,0,2821900.story
'Mission' Falls Short of Being Successful
The Tom Cruise film takes in $48 million in its opening weekend, far less than expected.
[...]
...Analyst Paul Dergarabedian of Exhibitor Relations Co. said the film could have been hurt by the distraction of Cruise's off-screen antics. Cruise's public life has been on display for the last year as he promotes the Scientology religion, and while he romanced actress Katie Holmes, who recently gave birth to their daughter.
"The only thing competing for attention in the marketplace was all the talk about Cruise's public persona," Dergarabedian said. "It's hard to ever know why a film fails to live up to expectations, but in this case you can't fault the marketing campaign. The reasons lie elsewhere."
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From the Box Office Prophets:
http://www.boxofficeprophets.com/column/index.cfm?columnID=9553
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Kim Hollis: We're talking about three million fewer people that went to see III versus I and over three million that saw III versus II. That's a pathetic downturn.
David Mumpower: That three million in ticket sales may be partially explained (say 50%) by a changing marketplace and some questionable marketing. The rest is all on You Know Who. For legal purposes, BOP would like to state that it believes Tom Cruise's behavior is normal and rational
Tim Briody: I never thought one man's descent into dementia would be worth so much bank at the box office.
Kim Hollis: Addressing the elephant in the living room, is North America offering an indictment of Tom Cruise?
Joel Corcoran: Absolutely and without a doubt, yes.
David Mumpower: Make no mistake on the point. North America has just given Tom Cruise a code red. Even Colonel Jessep would be impressed by the hostility exhibited by this.
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From Deadline Hollywood Daily:
http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/unusual-mi3-ticket-sales-at-arclight-near-scientology-celeb-center/
Unusual MI3 Ticket Sales at Hollywood ArcLight Near Scientology Celeb Center
by Nikki Finke
Deadline Hollywood Daily
I have confirmed today that there has been an unusual pattern of ticket sales for Tom Cruise's Mission Impossible 3 at Hollywood's ArcLight Theater, which just happens to be located right near the Church of Scientology Celebrity Center where Cruise belongs. Unconfirmed anecdotes are circulating on the Internet this weekend of individuals buying hundreds of tickets at a time from the ArcLight. But an ArcLight employee did confirm to me just now that "people have been buying dozens of tickets at a time" for MI3, which is definitely an extraordinary sales pattern for the movie theater (or any theater, for that matter). Certainly, the "M" word -- for manipulation -- comes to mind.
Meanwhile, MI3's opening weekend is near-disastrous. See UPDATED: MI3 Opening Weekend Freefall. Cruise's Fault, Hollywood Players Tell Me.
http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/mi3-box-office-disappoints-cruises-fault/
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"David Barnes" posted:
Well does this remind anyone else of those reports that Church members going into bookstores and buying massive quantities of Dianetics?
History repeats itself.....
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"Arnaldo Lerma" posted:
Yes, it is a pattern opf conduct for scientology
http://www.lermanet.com/mi3-ticket-manipulation.html
Manipulation of Mission Impossible Ticket Sales
Report of one person buying 500 tickets to Premier of MI3!
http://www.perezhilton.com/topics/t...on_20060506.php
I have confirmed today that there has been an unusual pattern of ticket sales for Tom Cruise's Mission Impossible 3 at Hollywood's ArcLight Theater, which just happens to be located right near the Church of Scientology Celebrity Center where Cruise belongs. Unconfirmed anecdotes are circulating on the Internet this weekend of individuals buying hundreds of tickets at a time from the ArcLight. But an ArcLight employee did confirm to me just now that "people have been buying dozens of tickets at a time" for MI3, which is definitely an extraordinary sales pattern for the movie theater (or any theater, for that matter). Certainly, the "M" word -- for manipulation -- comes to mind.
LINK
And if the above were true, then the following makes perfect sense...unless of course you are a Scientologist, and then it is "all lies"
'Mission' Fizzling? Box Office Imploding
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,194537,00.html
Friday night's numbers are in for "Mission: Impossible III," and they aren't what Paramount or Tom Cruise might have hoped for. The JJ Abrams-directed blockbuster took in only $17 million according to website www.boxofficemojo.com. That's a good $3 million off the lowest predictions, and $8 million off what a real mega hit would have been.
Box Office Mojo's Brandon Gray says that the weekend total should now be in the $45 million range. It's not a catastrophe by any means, but it does show that star Tom Cruise's public persona and negative publicity plus a raft of mediocre reviews for the film have put a dent in his plans to rule the universe.
Grays says the new "Mission" numbers are a disappointment because both installments 1 and 2 did much better. "They each sold around 50 percent more tickets on their opening weekends (Friday-Sunday)," Gray says, "despite opening on Wednesdays."
At this rate, Cruise may want some kind of pharmacological drug to ease the pain on Sunday night. Paramount execs definitely will.
Previous Manipulations by Scientology
April 2005 - The parade.com survey - after the April article about Tom Cruise, the survey early monday morning after the article, said that 85% (85/15) of the public thought that the media was responsible for tom cruise's troubles! Scientology even had the nerve to send out an early morning press release promoting this "fact".. Later that same day, on monday, the statistics moved to 65%, 65/35, and then they rapidly moved back towards 85/15! Here is what parade had to say:
American magazine Parade has rejected the results of an opinion poll on its site after they grew very suspicious of the results.
[...]
Well, Parade's publicist told Pagesix.com "We at Parade found this a little bit fishy, so we did some investigating. We found out more than 14,000 of the 18,000-plus votes that came in were cast from only 10 computers!
Scientology's Millenium New Years Eve hoedown:
Scientology fills in empty seats to make the place looked packed.. The the attendance in the MAN with NO HEAD story,
Endless lies about having 8 million members (actually 55,000 in US).
Manipulating Booksales figures:
A terrific newspaper article documenting scientology's PATTERN OF CONDUCT of buying its own books is HERE - HUBBARD HOT-AUTHOR STATUS CALLED ILLUSION"."
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The PATTERN OF CONDUCT regarding MI3 is also the same, with current newstorys about MI3 includes stories of people buying 500 tickets to the premiere of MI3.
Of course, such a PATTERN OF CONDUCT is not extraordinary from a group that believes in XENU!
"Scientologists believe that most human problems can be traced to lingering spirits of an extraterrestrial people massacred by their ruler, Xenu, over 75 million years ago." US Federal Judge Leonie Brinkema RTC (Scientology) vs Lerma
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From the Huffington Post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nora-ephron/disaster-picture_b_20687.html
Disaster Picture
The sound of a zillion exhalations you're hearing from Hollywood this week is not the result of the Pellicano Affair but instead a wave of genuine happiness, the kind Hollywood is best at -- the kind that comes at someone else's expense but so what? Hollywood is happy. Tom Cruise is down.
Just how down remains to be seen, because there's nothing like third-world-country box-office to lift things to a spinnable level. But meanwhile Mission Impossible III has opened to $48 million, a "disappointing" figure, less than Mission Impossible II, and there's almost no one in Los Angeles who can't gleefully add all sorts of additional facts to help a hapless listener absorb the full significance of all this: MI III opened in more theatres, with higher ticket prices, and still came nowhere near the opening weekend of its predecessor. On top of this, Cruise's core audience, that quadrant of moviegoers known as younger females, stayed away "in droves."
Cruise is not a particularly interesting human being, but it's been riveting to watch him bully the movie industry in recent years, and to watch the industry roll over and play dead when he demanded, for example, that a Scientology Tent be erected next to the set of War of the Worlds. There's no precedent for anything of this sort, it's inexcusable, it's unacceptable; large American corporations do not set up a denominational churches on company premises. But after a certain amount of pretend-posturing, Paramount and Dreamworks/Universal gave in and Cruise got his tent, staffed with Thetan facilitators who were ready to give neckrubs and literature to any passerby who wandered in thinking the place was a snack bar.
Then of course came the Katie Holmes romance, with the adolescent instant messages and cell-phone photos Cruise sent out to friends within days of their first date, the manic couch-jumping on Oprah, the Elmer-Gantry-like confrontation with Matt Lauer, and the coup de grace, self-administered - Cruise's attack on psychology, anti-depressant drugs and Brooke Shields' post-partum depression.
My son Jacob off-handedly pointed out to me this week that Cruise has now become the new Michael Jackson, a weirdo, an all-purpose piñata, the freak celebrity that everyone concedes is crazy, a poster boy for career immolation, a bizarre case of arrested-development, a man still playing with childhood toys. And compounding this, of course - as they compound everything these days - are the blogs.
[...]
All this, combined with the reported chilliness of Holmes' parents to Scientology and the increasing evidence that Holmes had become a Pod Person, turned the episode into a contemporary version of Rosemary's Baby. Longtime rumors about Cruise's sexuality were even printed in the New York Times. And Cruise himself didn't help matters. His appearance with Diane Sawyer didn't have an authentic moment, and I recommend it for his bizarrely calm reaction to Sawyer's asking him whether he was in fact the father of Holmes' baby.
It all adds up to an ideal disaster. As the writer Martin Cruz Smith once said in another context, it's like driving past a terrible automobile accident in which no one has been hurt. Except for Tom Cruise, of course, but for the moment, and thanks to him, he doesn't count.
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> German View of Scientology
On May 8, 2006 a link to the German Embassy in Washington D.C. was posted:
http://www.germany.info/relaunch/info/archives/background/scientology.html
Background Papers
Scientology and Germany
Understanding the German View of Scientology
The German government considers the Scientology organization a commercial enterprise with a history of taking advantage of vulnerable individuals and an extreme dislike of any criticism. The government is also concerned that the organization's totalitarian structure and methods may pose a risk to Germany's democratic society. Several kinds of evidence have influenced this view of Scientology, including the organization's activities in the United States.
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> Polish Scientologists Ordered to Remove Tents
On May 12, 2006 "Maquis" posted:
Newsweek, again, writes that the widely hailed inauguration of the scientology sect in Poland had a false start. No sooner had they played Armstrong's "What a Wonderful World" when the Warsaw city guards ordered the scientologists to remove their three yellow tents put up in the city centre.
The order came from the city authorities, who were worried by press reports of scientology, regarded as a dangerous sect in many countries. Its representatives had to hastily rent a room in a nearby hotel to continue the inauguration event. But despite energetic campaigning conducted by scientology volunteers in the streets, only several dozen people were interested enough to attend it. "
http://www.polskieradio.pl/polonia/article.asp?tId=36454&j=2
The radicalism test
12.05.06
Poland's reforming government and its discontents; the 'exotic trio' who are in the top three positions in the new coalition government; Polish doctors hit the bottle; and Scientologists in Warsaw are just some of the stories in this week's current affairs magazines. "
Reviewed by Krysia Kolosowska "
off topic/snipped
Polskie Radio (English Section)
http://www.polskieradio.pl/polonia/gb/
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> News from Ukraine Part Four
On May 12, 2006 "Roger Gonnet" posted:
[Ukraine, the entire article is now webbed!]
See:
www.antisectes.net/ukraine-2006.html
[Ukraine, the fourth part of the lengthy article on scientology]
Ukraine
How Much Happiness would you like for Your Money
by Taras Pano
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translated from Russian text at
Zerkalo-Nedeli.com
April 8, 2006
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Vitaliy Konstantinov, psychiatrist
- Could Dianetics be used for the treatment of mental illness or as a method of psychological correction?
-- Dianetics categorically cannot be used to treat mental illness as that requires, first of all, medicament intervention. At the present stage of the development of medical science pharmacotherapy is yielding the best results. Unfortunately, in my practice cases have not been observed in which serious mental illness has been cured without drugs.
As to using Dianetics for psychological correction, I give preference to academic psychotherapy as the most justified for attaining prolonged remission (improved state of health) for patients. The positive results that Dianetics promises those under its care could have only a temporary effect. Afterwards a worse condition ensues, and sometimes a course of illness. The desired "state of clear" is attained by extremely inaccurate and destructive methods that, for the person involved, hide the way to genuine recovery. They've made commerce out of this science, and that might explain its popularity. Every individual would like to attain the perfect "state of clear" and have uncommon abilities but, alas, this is impossible. Because often in the mentality of a person one quality predominates while others are lacking, and this gives an impulse to development. For example, often a person, who is in the medical profession, does not himself know what to study to sort out his personal problems. I would advise
selcting a specialist who uses time-proven methods of psychological correction.
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The Church of Scientology appeared in the United States of America under science fiction writer Lafayette Ronald Hubbard after the release of his book, "Dianetics: the Modern Science of Mental Health" (1950) and consolidated by admirers of the self-improvement methods Hubbard made up. The Church of Scientology was founded in 1954.
In the system of Scientology practices Dianetics is a method or technology of Scientology. It proceeds from the assertion that the human mind fixes on and conceals recordings of trauma (engrams), the aggregate of which is the "reactive mind," as though this was the reason for all problems in life, mental as well as physical. By applying the technology of Dianetics it is alleged to be possible to rid oneself of these traumata and attain a state of "clear" and to fully uncover one's potential.
Dianetics includes auditing, a face-to-face discussion between "preclear" and auditor in which engrams are located with the help of an "electropsychometer" ("e-meter"). Engrams are supposed to disappear as a result of successful auditing. After clearing away all the engrams the person supposedly turns "clear" and can continue self-improvement and be freed from the restrictions of the material world up to the state of "operating thetan."
A believer's position in the church hierarchy proceeds from the level of advancement. Each step has improvement courses that have to be learned to proceed on to the next step.
The rites and ceremonies of the Scientologists, in expert opinion, most resemble those of Christianity -- services once a week with a sermon, reading of the "creed" and group auditing. There are also rituals for weddings, naming babies, funerals and ordinations that are conducted by chaplains or Scientology ministers.
Scientologist holidays are: L. R. Hubbard's birthday, a day giving thanks to the clergy, the day the "Dianetics" book was released, the day the IRS recognized Scientology as religion and the day the International Association of Scientologists was created.
[...]
Besides the Church of Scientology there is also the so-called "Free Zone of Scientology" (also known as "Ron's Organizations," whose members do not identify themselves with the official church of Scientology, but who practice Dianetics and Scientology in life and in business. Members of this movement do not regard Hubbard's teachings as religious. They use the technology as training to develop human ability and business organization.
The Church of Scientology acts through Dianetics centers (which appear as profit, non-profit or religious organizations), through social organizations and movements, and also as Narconon, Criminon, the World Institute of Scientology Enterprises, a Commission to promote "Psychiatry against human rights" and the Association to study life and education.
Ukraine has an official Church of Scientology as well as "Free Zone" organizations. Scientology is widespread throughout Ukraine in Dianetics Centers in Kiev, Kharkov, Kremenchug and Kherson. According to expert estimates more than 50 centers operate in Ukraine. In 2004 the Church of Scientology tried to register its religious community in Kiev but was refused.
Specialists from the department of religious studies of G. Skovorody Institute of Philosophy NAS Ukraine wrote a conclusion (published in the "Scientology in Ukraine" brochure) about the activities of the Church of Scientology. The experts considered that Scientology centers could be fully considered religious communities whose operations do not contradict Ukraine legislation. The research, signed by respected religious studies experts, contains a number of contradictions and, according to a clarification by religious studies department director A. Kolodny, cannot be considered definitive for making a decision about the registration of the Church of Scientology as a religious organization in Ukraine.
Doubt about the advisability of registration of Scientologist communities as religious organizations are evoked mainly by the activities of the church, which critics view as commercial, and by a large number of lawsuits Scientology has been and still is engaged in Europe and America. Governments of various countries have periodically begun to doubt that Scientology can be regarded as religious but some Scientology communities do not have to pay taxes.
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Thanks again to the very good translator!
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> Critic Threatened by Scientology
On May 12, 2006 "Barbara Graham" posted:
I got this email today from a relative:
"Hi Barb,
We rec'd a strange call this afternoon. Luckily xxxx let it go to voicemail. Some man said he was calling for an xxxx or xxxx xxxx, and that he was an investigator looking into the terrorist activities of a girl named Barbara Graham. (no identification given) He said he would really like to talk with us, and asked for us to call. He didn't leave a number... He then repeated his request for us to call (with no number), and hung up..."
No phone number? Can you say "noisy investigation?"
Unlike the "investigator" cruising around my parents' neighborhood last week, Scientology wasn't mentioned.
Cult, if you think this is going to work like it did with Keith Henson, think again. I am going to collect statements I asked my folks' neighbors to write up, along with this email, and pay the nice detectives at the Criminal Intelligence Unit a call. They asked me to document any sort of harassment from your sorry asses, and I've been too lax.
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> LA Picket Reports
Picket reports from May 6, 2006 in Los Angeles, California:
[Thanks Dave, Barb, Jeff, Mark, Feisty--Goonybird, and All else who picketed!]
This was one rockin day!
I really appreciate all that each of you did to make this such a successful
two pickets :)
((Dave helped on the back lines, just for the record, and that
is always appreciated!)) You don't have to be at a picket to help
out on one....FYI.
Tory/Magoo Dancing in the moonlight
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From the Operation Clambake Forum:
http://ocmb.xenu.net/ocmb/viewtopic.php?t=18287
Scientology - it's worse than you think
I'mglib wrote:
So, I'm back from my first ever picket and it was awesome. Yes, awesome.
I got to meet Tory and some other great people, who also have very healthy senses of humor, but more on that later.
First we arrived at Sherrif Baca's Office, which was unfortunately behind a gate, so we stood on a busy street with our signs. One good sign said BACA, CULT SHILL in huge letters on flourescent colored paper. People honked and waved, and then after 1 hour we packed up to go to Hollywood.
We arrived in Hollywood at the Scn building, and Xenu prepared his costume. Yes, Xenu was there. We were on a side street getting ready, when the security guard discovered us (they're quick). Someone else had a giant pole with something like 8-10 blowup Xenu dolls on it. I had my famous "Ten Reasons You Should Run Away Screaming From Scientology" flyer. The security guard turned back and went back to the building.
On the corner of Hollywood and Ivar we proceded to wave our signs and hand out flyers. The response was a lot of horn honking and head nodding from the cars and passers by. My sign said "SCIENTOLOGY, IT'S WORSE THAN YOU THINK" (borrowed from Arnie), and Tory's said "HONK IF YOU DON'T THINK YOU ARE INFESTED BY SPACE ALIENS." I also had a NARCONON=SCIENTOLOGY, and my own green Xenu doll, so I was pretty loaded down.
Then, there on the corner, stood Xenu, waving like the queen of the Rose Parade. People were laughing a pointing. I went up and handed a women a flyer through her open window, and she came back later asking for more.
Tory immediately got cornered by some current Scinos, and I think she knew some of them. Some people tried to ask me things like, "Why are you here?" "Has Scn hurt you personally?" To this second question I said, "So you're only against things that hurt you personally? That's pretty selfish." And, "I'm exercising my right to free speech." I kinda took my cues from some of the old timers who kept it low key ("It's better to make ourselves look as different as possible than the Scientologists.") and tried not to get engaged or angry because it's probably futile, and time is better spent handing out flyers.
The secrurity guard kept walking back and forth, talking on his radio. At one point he took our pictures. He had on a very official-looking, black uniform, with this belt that had about six different things in the pouches. I figured one was a flashlight, and my husband suggested that maybe the others held batteries.
Some Sea Org people walked by, and to their credit, they ignored us. I felt bad for them because here it was Saturday night in Hollywood, and they were working. They were pretty young, too, and wore white shirts and black Dickie pants. A guy who worked around the corner came by and said that the SCn building is open 24 hours.
Xenutv showed up, so maybe some of this will show up on Xenutv.com
After an hour or so we packed it in. I took a tour of Melrose and Robertson to see what the rich and famous were doing, and got an excellent bowl of corn chowder to go from Barefoot on 3rd street. It's the best corn chowder ever. Good times.
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I had a few more observations that I forgot to mention:
1. When we first got there, the Sea Org drapes were open, but within minutes they were closed.
2. As we were leaving with Xenu and the signs and the blow up dolls, a tour bus went by (double decker with the people on top out in the open). The bus driver slowed down to talk to us, and we chatted about Xenu. We gave him a blowup doll and a bunch of flyers, and he seemed happy about that.
3. Tory is as nice in person as she is on this message board.
4. I almost wish I had talked more to the Scinos who approached us. The little I did talk to them, I was surprised at how little they knew, and how poor their debating skills were.
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magoo1 wrote:
This was a terrific two pickets!
First, meeting the people from Leona Valley, and learning their story, and how on top of Narconon infesting their neighborhood they are, was really cool. As I'm Glib said, it was fun for all of us to meet. :wink:
And Jeff showed up in his Dr's outfit with his name, "Dr. Fake". He's perfect for the Dr role!!
All of us were quite surprised at how many people on this little frontage road were honking and waiving....but they were! We all picketed there for I'd say an hour, and then we moved onto Hollywood, as has been posted.
We'd met previously at the Sizzler, and that is always fun for us to do. It's sort of a tradition for the gang to meet before hand, and then go picket. Gooneybird also showed up, someone we hadn't seen in 2 years!
Xenu had arrived at my house in droves on Friday, and Freisty was the master mind of this! She put a bunch of them on dowels....so she could carry more than one. They were a hit for tons of people! :wink:
My sign wasn't about Space aliens, it says: "Honk if you Think Scientology is a CULT". Tons and Tons of people honked while we were picketing. Many wanted their pictures taken with either Xenu or me, or Dr. Fake! Mark Bunker arrived, hooked me up with a mike, and we'll see how that turns out. Barb also was there dressed up as a live XENU, and many wanted to get their pics taken with Xenu.
I had a rather long conversation with two "OT's" who were there to "handle" us. The wife, although pretty fake, was at least willing to communicate some. Her husband looked at me and said, "You're a wacko". I said first of all I wanted to congratulate his wife, as at LEAST she could, to some degree, apply the very basics of Scientology: Communication. He, one the other hand, totally violated the basics of Scientology and IS why many people are out there criticising their 'church'. I pointed out to him that he didn't even know me, that someone had put that black pr line into his head, and it's that kind of abuse (Fair Game and Scientology's attempts to silence people) that people around the world are standing up fighting them for, and shall do so until they stop. I think he began to see what I was talking about, as people continued to honk while we talked.
From that point, he got nicer, and was more willing to talk. We taked about quite a bit, and we'll see if it sticks in his head or not. I asked both of them, once they'd heard that OSA has up 5 P A G E S of flat out lies about me, IF they were going to do anything about that? Neither would commit to even trying. She tried to promote her Wins, as I had done in the past, and I told her I was just like her 5 years ago. But SEEING Such abuse, I got to a point where I couldn't just do nothing. She tried to slide off of that. I told his wife the bottom line is: "How do you know if a Scientologist is lying? If their lips are moving!" ( She said Scientologists don't lie, yet here they were, ignoring that their "Church" posts flat out lies about people---and trying to slide off with the "We don't know". Ya...right).
As the day wound down, we began to walk up the street. To our great surprise, tons of Sea Org came marching across the street. Of course Feisty had the Xenu dolls, and we both suggested they don't waste their lives. They hussled on by, and we left to come home for a delightful party here at my house.
I'm Glib....next time you'll have to drop by! We had some fun discussions after. Same for Gooney, who had to go home, too.
All in all, it was a terrific day, and now we're having a slumber party!!!
Happiness is doing what you want to do, and enjoying it! :wink:
:cheers:
My best to all,
Tory/Magoo
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"Feisty" posted:
So many places to protest, not enough hours in the day!
We met on Saturday May 6, 2006 to protest, originally because the dianetics anniversary which is/was today, May 9. Due to other recent concerns and citizens interested to stand up, we gathered to support activists in Leona Valley to protest Sheriff Baca's cult connection to endorse Narconon. We then picketed by the LRH Museum on Hollywood and Ivar. We unfortunately missed picketing at the Arc Light Theatre during the opening night of Mission Impossible 3, although we had the best of intentions to try. (We are only human!) To all of our surprise, the Arc Light has come up with its own protest of "numbers" after the weekend, the signs of a desperate cult. The fallacy of trying to inflate numbers, even if successfully done without notice, does nothing to help make $cientology look important. This is only a feeble try to cover the big league sales tactics and failing PR ech of head spokeperson and salesman for the cult, Tom Cruise.
We started off in the usual tradition by meeting at the Sizzler at noon. Had a bite to eat and headed out to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's facility on Ramona Blvd. to protest Sheriff Leroy Baca's endorsement of the Narconon program.
Tory, Jeff, Barb and I arrived and were met by three other other residents of Leona Valley, a new picketer, and later by two others. We received many honks, but due to the road being situated right near the front of the complex of buildings, foot traffic was slow. Hoewever our protest was successful. I made a sign that said "Baca Way from $cientology - Not our taxpayer dollars" with the url: http://Stop-Narconon.com/Baca Others had some good signs too, with Jeff Jacobsen's fluorescent sign the best to view from afar.
We learned alot of things that the cult had been up to in Leona Valley, and basically $cientology came into a relatively small town with big PR tactics.
The isolation of Sheriff Baca, bussing in $cientologists to meetings and fixed letter writing campaigns, strong-arming the local paper with Narconon ads and celebrity attention is all a part of the show to look like something it is not. The scales of concensus are repeatedly fixed with a faux set of actors who cannot take away the voice of the taxpayers and those who know that an endorsement here means a stepping stone somewhere else. It is a feudal, not fair.
It is encouraging that another meeting will be held in July for some of the facts to be reviewed. This is why it is so important to realize that paying taxes does give you the right to speak up and question and add information that $cientology leaves out or fraudulently publishes. Getting such a scam approved only means funding for programs that have to do with criminal reentry programs or others similar. Their job is to avoid review, and lessen people who can bring a fair concensus. The process is fixed and corrupt. Not if the residents of Leona Valley keep doing such a good job, and all of us keep writing.
(back to the picket...)
After an hour, we moved on to the L Ron Hubbard Life Museum at Hollywood and Ivar, across from the Sea Organization headquarters. Within minutes of arriving, the curtains on the top floor of the Sea Org bldg. were closed.
I had my hands full of space aliens, so someone else carried my sign. It said, "Tom Cruise Censors Space Aliens, Watch South Park - Save $400,000 and with http://www.Xenu.net up in the corner. I did have colorful http://www.Lermanet.com flyers that covered Isaac Hayes leaving South Park, and Tom Cruises further censorship of the rebroadcast of Episode 912 - Trapped in the Closet with the Xenu Story. I passed out every one of the 100 I brought.
Xenu stood regally at the corner of Hollywood and Ivar and drew quite a crowd. Many knew who Xenu is and several families with kids and others stopped to take pictures. I held a frame with five inflatable aliens, as a tribute to Dianetics day, and as a testament to what is on the cover of the book. The honest truth is that this is a consumer issue, a bait and switch ruse that everyone should know. "You are not infested with space aliens! We just saved you $400,000 dollars!" It is every taxpayers right to bring this issue to the forefront and bridge the gap between the bad alternative health advice, and what really is behind all those human problems.
So Xenu and the clusters of space aliens were there to commemorate and stand where they belonged - by the founder who created the implant station for this cruel con game that takes peoples money and mind - L Ron Hubbard. The building should appropriately be named, "The space opera building" (Some who think we were selling the aliens may have a good idea, as every carnival has its props and it's not surreal that this would be where Xenu belongs all the time.) Colorful aliens much cheaper!
Jeff was dressed appropriately as "Dr. Fake," the perfect role considering Tom Cruises giving advice about pregnancy and post partum one day, and chugging oil the next. Would you take advice from Dr. Fake? The statement Jeff's attire made covered many of $cientology's deadly quack teachings - fake claims of curing, the treatment and demise of Lisa McPherson and others; the list goes on and on.
The amount of handlers here was more than I have seen during the time I have protested, about seven at one point. Obvious jobs: take pictures to put in the massive database of information $cientology keeps. Identify who the people are. Ask what their motive is, and what organization then represent. I've never attended a protest where they did not do this, yet it is always interesting to see how each member adapts to this virulent practice. This is what they got into $cientology for?
This is obviously something that they must brief members on, who come out to handle someone based on crude and dishonest information. "Those people out there" must be really bad for some reason.
Some of the members tried to engage us in conversation. This is about as effective as doing this on ars, and shows the same lack of logical means to debate. Face to face however is quite an observation, to see how $cientology members are "all in their head" - or how the tech is talking and the ears are closed. The idea is not for them to understand what you are saying, as much as they are trying to get you into answering to L Ron Hubbards line of questioning, or - thinking the way they are! The built in stance in which they are so individually claiming to be speaking from includes having to have you convert to the way they are thinking. It's built into the responses they give, and is quite bizarre. This lacks debate totally and is a very indicative of the language skills they are trained with. The dialogue is repetitive and so old, very narrow and includes giving you every reason to respond in the way they expect, the entrapping and subversive cult think... It is not intimidating to talk to these members, it is just about talking plainly, avoiding these communicative traps, and get them thinking about something in a normal way if even for a while.
Tory is the best person I have ever heard communicating to members who have come out to address picketers. She knows just where the problem lies in the limitations of what these members are allowed to say when they come out to talk. She knows, she has been there. The main point is that they are not practicing what they learned if they cannot think about something another person says. And for the short time she addressed this one gentleman who came out, you can see that he stopped a few times to think. There were a few brief moments of exchange to this gentleman where what Tory said sunk. That they can read something else or hear something else is a major breakthrough that really allows people to be free. The flipside of that is seeing what I described as talking with the ears closed, and surely depriving of ones freedom of speech. I never forget what Tory says to members and it is so true, "if Hubbard said you are so free then why can't you read other things or talk to me?"
It was odd to hear the ECT story from this same gentleman Tory talked to. I asked, "what book or information have you been given," because he spoke as if it were happening so excessively, "right now." I told him it was pretty rare these days, and he started making "whoa ho ho ho" noises as if I were misinformed. You could see the level of hysteria from teaching such things are in fact, excessive. Others came from Leona Valley and Goonybird and a new picketer were there talking to members and the many people walking by.
I walked across the street to the HELP Hollywood Education Literacy Project because I saw some mothers and children leaving. The children smiled at all the colorful space aliens and asked for one, so I gave one to each of the two families. (I gave away 10 at least) The mothers said that the kids were receiving tutoring there, and I told them that although they think their children are receiving some attention, they should beware that the method used is the study technology of $cientology and that the children would be learning the language that L Ron Hubbard taught. They said they would look on the internet and read about it.
It was odd to see the uniformed sea org members march by in double lines from the sea org building to the museum and then later back to the sea org facility. They were mostly young adults, good looking kids who should be out enjoying life. Tory and I told them to leave as they walked by, amongst other things.
Mark Bunker was there to interview and film the protest at the "Space Opera Building" and did a great job.
http://www.xenutv.com/pickets/hollywood-baca.htm
After the picket we went to Tory's house for a gathering of picketers and other guests. We enjoyed some good food and conversation. Several people called in from all over, and the phone was passed around so we could all say hello. Keith Henson called too for a brief chat even though he had been busy talking to the people at the International Space Development Conference.
I took the next day to drive over to Ida Camburn's house where we spent a pleasant afternoon talking about the picket and reminisced about all the people who had passed her way over the years. We even attended a singalong at the local club which was entirely relaxing after a busy day. I am grateful to know Ida and everyone I have met who care to stand up for our Constitutional right to freedom of speech and the right to assemble.
After driving through the mountains and a little jet lag,
Feisty
Get Up, Stand Up, stand up for your right
Jeff Jacobsen's pictures from the protests
http://www.lisamcpherson.org/la_picket_06.htm
Scientology and Historic Buildings - Like Hitler and the Third Reich
http://www.lermanet.com/scientology-and-occult/historic-building.htm
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"Mark Bunker" posted:
Dr. Fake brings his quackery to the L. Ron Hubbard Life Exhibitiion in Hollywood. Xenu, Feisty and another lovely lady share in the fun. Plus, Tory gets in comm with a handler who can't believe Hubbard had Vistiril in his butt:
http://www.xenutv.com/pickets/hollywood-baca.htm
Enjoy!
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"Jeff Jacobsen" posted:
Had a great time.
[photos from LA picket]
http://www.lisamcpherson.org/la_picket_06.htm
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"Arnaldo Lerma" posted:
THIS IS GREAT!
This is the best training video for bringing a true believer to doubt I have ever seen!
Thank you Tory!
Hubbard's coroner report with the PROOF he died with the anti psytchotic medication VISTARIl in his bloodstream is linked from a page crafted by michael tilse for exiting current members - his letter is the written equivalent to Tory's verbal effort.
http://www.lermanet.com/scientology/dear-scientologist.htm
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> Scientology "Cruising" for money in D.C.
On May 7, 2006 MSNBC reported:
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12684262/
Scientology spreads out in push for D.C. members
By Erin Killian
Washington Business Journal
Jackson Wyan, a young Tom Cruise look-alike with short black hair and a black button-down shirt, greets people with laser-focused eye contact, a fixed smile and solid handshake at the Founding Church of Scientology of D.C. in Dupont Circle.
His mission not-so-impossible: Recruit more members.
Would-be Scientologists approach the landmark red building, also known as Fraser Mansion, at 20th and R streets NW, with regularity. Wyan, who's been with the D.C. church six years, gives tours that include a sweep through the first-floor library full of founder L. Ron Hubbard's writings and a basement recruitment center with free stress tests.
So many curious Scientology seekers take Wyan's tours that the church, which has occupied the high-profile site for a decade, says it can no longer handle the traffic at the 22,000-square-foot building -- so it's tripling its size in D.C. with new offices.
By the end of the year, most of the 100-member staff will move into a 50,000-square-foot building at 16th and P streets NW.
The Church of Scientology Religious Trust, a sister organization, bought a seven-story building at 1424 16th St. NW for $17.3 million from Castleton Holdings in November. The Staubach Co. real estate firm helped with the purchase, one of 22 properties the trust bought last year.
The Founding Church of Scientology of D.C. is leasing the space and plans to infuse $5 million into a renovation that includes a 500-seat auditorium and rooftop cafe once it obtains its permits. With the move and a refurbished Fraser Mansion, D.C. will have the third-largest collection of Scientologist facilities in the nation, in terms of square footage, behind Los Angeles and Clearwater, Fla.
[...]
Wyan dismisses the criticisms as just your typical slamming of a new religion. Besides, business is booming and pumping money into D.C.'s economy, he says.
And that's a very important part of the mission.
The church -- which says it has $8 million worth of assets in its D.C. coffers -- generates money not only through donations, but also through classes and counseling, which cost $36 to $2,000 a shot.
Says Wyan, laughing: "We want people to give lots and lots of money."
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"Roger Gonnet" posted:
Looks that DM puts most of its staffs to RPFs to refurbish old buildings, so as to make more money from the buildings he bought by this "trust" - look, this is no more than money placement with slaves work behind.
Here is a bylaws from one of these "trusts" declared in 1993 to the IRS:
http://www.xenufrance.net/flag-ship-trust-bylaws-and-amendment.pdf [pdf file]
and 1023 forms:
http://www.xenufrance.net/sirt-to-irs-1023.pdf [pdf file]
http://www.xenufrance.net/fst-to-irs-1023.pdf [pdf file]
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> Scientology-Related Multi-Media
On May 13, 2006 "David Touretzky" posted:
Wednesday morning (May 10, 2006) I received a phone call from a producer at KCOL, a Clear Channel radio station in Ft. Collins, Colorado. They were doing a Scientology show and wanted me to appear as a guest. The original plan was to do three segments, 10-15 minutes each, half an hour apart. The first guest was to be Bob Adams, who is this month's official spokesdroid for the Church of Scientology International. He has apparently replaced Ed Parkin, who in turn replaced the prickly and wonderfully inept Linda Simmons Haight.
An interesting side note about Bob Adams: he is a former VP of ABLE INT who was "disappeared" from the ABLE web site after he verbally threatened Pamela Lichtenwalner over her anti-Narconon work, which resulted in her filing a police report. Details here:
http://stop-narconon.org/Bob-Adams
The second guest was to be Chuck Beatty, who spent 27 years in the Sea Org, and the third guest was going to be me. While chatting with the producer, I started warning her about all the lies that Scientology tells the media (e.g., that they have 10 million members, they're compatible with Catholicism, they never heard of "Xenu", etc.) As a result of this conversation, they changed the lineup. They decided to have me on much earlier, to set things up. Then they'd have Bob Adams on at his scheduled time, and see how well I had predicted what he was going to say. And then Chuck would go. So that's what we did.
Here's what I covered:
- 10 million members is a lie; the real number is under 100,000
- Scientology is not just a cult, it's an ABUSIVE cult (with a quick explanation of the characteristics of abusive cults)
- compatibility with Catholicism is a lie; reincarnation is heresy to the Catholic Church, and Hubbard said "there was no Christ"
- Quick summary of Scientology beliefs: (1) you need therapy for all the bad stuff that's happened to you from the moment of conception onward; (2) you're an immortal being and need therapy for all the bad stuff that's happened to you in all your past lives, too -- and you have to pay by the hour; (3) you're possessed by the spirits of murdered space aliens, called "body thetans", and they need therapy too.
- Quick summary of the Xenu story the cult's attempts to suppress it, and the fact that I have the first page of OT III in L. Ron Hubbard's own handwriting up on my web site at Carnegie Mellon,
- If I had a chance to ask Bob Adams two questions, what would they be?
Answer: (1) When are you guys going to stop lying about Scientology being compatible with Christianity, and (2) When are you going to stop lying about Xenu and talk openly about what you believe?
- I ended my segment in the traditional way: with a plug for XENU.NET.
About an hour later it was time for Bob Adams. They asked him a bunch of questions based on my segment, and what was interesting was the way he dialed back his answers compared to the usual Scientology canned PR lines.
For example, they asked him how many members the church had, and he said about 10 million, but it was hard to get an exact number because it was based in part on how many people had bought books. (A tougher interviewer would have jumped on this and said "You mean anyone who buys a copy of Dianetics is considered a Scientologist? So if I buy a copy of DSM 4, does that make me a psychiatrist?")
Then they asked him if Scientology was compatible with Catholicism, and he did a major waffling job, sort of but not really conceding that different religions have different belief systems and the two weren't really compatible.
They they asked him about "space aliens", and he said something really surprising. He claimed that the critics had confused Zeno, an ancient Greek philosopher, with some of Hubbard's science fiction writings, and that's where this "Zeno story" comes from; it wasn't really part of Scientology.
Wow!!!! It looks like Scientology has come up with a new shore story for its pre-OT members who encounter the Xenu stuff: it's just part of a smear campaign invented by confused wogs.
[...]
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On May 10, 2006 "James" posted:
Hello everybody around here!
I haven't been posting for last couple of months since I was too occupied with my work. Besides that I was travelling a lot.
And I took the chance to shoot some more pics of European Orgs and missions so that people all around the globe can see how the real situation and condition of Co$ in Europe is like.
Here are some pics from the Duesseldorf Org/Germany:
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a67/anon23ster/Duesseldorf_GermanyOrg1.jpg
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a67/anon23ster/Duesseldorf_GermanyOrg2.jpg
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a67/anon23ster/Duesseldorf_GermanyOrg3.jpg
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a67/anon23ster/Duesseldorf_GermanyOrg4.jpg
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a67/anon23ster/Duesseldorf_GermanyOrg5.jpg
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Here are some pics of the CC Duesseldorf:
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a67/anon23ster/CC_DuesseldorfOrg1.jpg
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a67/anon23ster/CC_DuesseldorfOrg2.jpg
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a67/anon23ster/CC_DuesseldorfOrg3.jpg
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a67/anon23ster/CC_DuesseldorfOrg4.jpg
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a67/anon23ster/CC_DuesseldorfOrg5.jpg
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a67/anon23ster/CC_DuesseldorfOrg6.jpg
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Here are some pics of the Stuttgart Org:
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a67/anon23ster/StuttgartOrg1.jpg
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a67/anon23ster/StuttgartOrg2.jpg
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a67/anon23ster/StuttgartOrg3.jpg
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a67/anon23ster/StuttgartOrg4.jpg
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a67/anon23ster/StuttgartOrg5.jpg
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a67/anon23ster/StuttgartOrg6.jpg
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a67/anon23ster/StuttgartOrg7.jpg
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a67/anon23ster/StuttgartOrg8.jpg
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Here are some pics from the Mission Karlsruhe:
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a67/anon23ster/GermanOrg1.jpg
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a67/anon23ster/GermanOrg2.jpg
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a67/anon23ster/GermanOrg3.jpg
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a67/anon23ster/GermanOrg4.jpg
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a67/anon23ster/GermanOrg5.jpg
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Here are some pics from the Mission in Ulm (smaller town between Munich
and Stuttgart):
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a67/anon23ster/MissionUlm_GermanyOrg1.jpg
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a67/anon23ster/MissionUlm_GermanyOrg2.jpg
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a67/anon23ster/MissionUlm_GermanyOrg3.jpg
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a67/anon23ster/MissionUlm_GermanyOrg4.jpg
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a67/anon23ster/MissionUlm_GermanyOrg5.jpg
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a67/anon23ster/MissionUlm_GermanyOrg6.jpg
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a67/anon23ster/MissionUlm_GermanyOrg7.jpg
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On May 8, 2006 "Neil C" posted:
[DOC. DUMPED...TOO SWEET!!!]
proflex wrote:
What a great day....could you call it christmas? In the process of returning from my daily meal at the homeless shelter i took a ride down our local WISE/SCIENO ROW...(several wise buisnesses in the same strip mall)...one looked as if it was out of buisness..or the owner declared or something because all the office contents were out on the curb for garbage collection....yes my critic friends this motherload consisted of several boxes of comm.ev. reports,wise arbitration documents and statments,freewinds bills,ethics matters,LRH policies,unpaid salary complaints,tax exempt documents,OT8 ethics reports, misdeeds reports,customer lists and scieno relation w/discounts,special freewinds projects and reports,etc.,etc.,etc.
[...]
Proflex has provided photo's of the retrieved documents, and some scans.
click here
http://ocmb.xenu.net/ocmb/viewtopic.php?t=18264&postorder=asc
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"Woggle" posted:
[2,826 pages of FBI files covering L. Ron Hubbard and the Church of]
http://www.paperlessarchives.com/hubbard.html
Reposted from Andreas' thread, in case anyone wants to purchase the CD-Rom for $10.00
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"Warrior" posted:
See a.b.s. for scans of the May 9, 1982 Clearwater Sun article on Scientology.
[Witnesses tell of break-ins, conspiracy]
For those who don't subscribe to a.b.s., the scans are webbed at
http://warrior.xenu.ca/CW_Sun_9May82-1.jpg and
http://warrior.xenu.ca/CW_Sun_9May82-2.jpg
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> FBI documents on Hubbard
"Andreas Heldal-Lund" posted:
Search through 638 documents about L Ron Hubbard released from the FBI archives. The documents range from 1940 to 1983.
http://www.xenu.net/archive/FBI/
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On May 6, 2006, Barbara Schwarz posted "I will web some FBI letters on L. Ron Hubbard soon, saying they never had investigatory interest in him", then later posted a series of posts in the format:
"U.S. Dept. of Justice, Office of Information and Privacy, wrote to me
on May 3, 2001, that Anchorage FBI Field Office has no records on L.
Ron Hubbard."
Besides Anchorage, Barbara Schwarz posted the names of several dozen cities, including Las Vegas, in which the FBI had no records on Hubbard. San Juan, according to Schwarz, had only two pages on Hubbard.
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> News from Inside Gold Base
"Neil C" posted news from the Operation Clambake Forum from poster "Blown For Good:"
On May 11, 2006:
Updates on all things unimportant
Tom's camp getting tight and edgy - Miker Rinder Breathes then Takes
SHIT
Well, finally the security leaks at both Gold and Tom Cruise camp are being followed up on. There have been a few magazines that have been so insanely spot on the entire time as to what would happen with Tom and Katie that Church staff are trying to find out who the leaks are. Between the Int Base and Tom's place there are so many moles it is insane. Here is the best part, some of the people that are checking out the leaks, are involved in the leaks!
[...]
What ever Sea Org unit bought those 500 tickets for MI3 in LA effectively cancelled any remote chances that the Int Base would get to go into Hemet to see it. That story was covered far and wide! The Gold guys have not gone to the movies since Battlefield Earth came out anyway. Every single person at the Int Base HAD to watch BE 3 times!! Most people caught the first showing and ended up seeing two other movies with BE stubs.
Talking about Mike Rinder, Mr Scientology PR - He seems to be the only talking for Scientology these days since Tom so majorly fucked things up. I would love for the media to know what Mike Rinder is doing while not on TV - Here is a guy that was knee deep in shit. I am not speaking figuratively - At the Int Base the entire property is managed by their own sewage system. All of the shit is pumped out to two huge ponds (as big as two football fields) where it is aired out and evaporates into the air. Well, since the shit is so thick at the Int Base - it does not evaporate that well and must be manually taken out of the pond every few years and sent to the dump. Here comes the good part - because the all of the CMO INT staff were such assholes - Dave had them spend at least 2 weeks FULL TIME day and night (Sunrise to Midnight) cleaning all of the shit out of these ponds. We are talking about trucks and trucks loaded with shit that had to be shoveled up and bucket brigaded out of these huge ponds. When shit is
several months old it is basically like chucky dirt and very dusty. Imagine having to breathe shitdust all day and all night. Talk about the Anti-Purif! Well that is exactly what Rinder does while not on TV saying how Bruce Hines is full of shit - No Mike - YOU are full of shit - literally from breathing it full time for weeks on end. So yeah Mark Yager, Mark Ingber, G Leserve, Rinder and all of theother Top scientology "execs" shoveling shit full time becuase Dave wanted to punish them. I would love for someone to pop that question to Mike while on the air, "Is it true that you yourself are a shit expert, having worked with it for quite some time?"
Anyway, Mike Rinder himself has been calling some of the media outlets with leaky Tom intel trying to get to the leaks. He even went so far as to tell one media outlet that they could run the story on Tom in exchange for the source of the leak! While in LA or NY Mike rinder lives it up. Of course he does, When he is at the base - he is total scum and Dave loves to let him know that. If the OSA guys in LA even knew what a total fuckup Mike Rinder is when he steps onto the Int Base. No rank - no respect - just another Int Base SP waiting for the axe to drop any minute.
[...]
Anyone else with media contacts - send them my way. You would never imagine how many magazines will talk trash about Tom Cruise or Scientology now - They are practically lining up. Keep up the good work!
BFG
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On May 12, 2006 "Chuck Beatty" posted:
[blownforgood's comments on David Miscavige's (Scientology movement's top leader's) beatings......]
"The beatings were very secretive through the 90's. It was in 2000 onwards where he was beating these guys more and more and it was a regular thing. In 2003-2004 I would assume there was at least a beating each day and some time multiple ones depending on how many meeting there were. The main guys that I saw DM hit over and over again at meetings were, Mike Rinder, Marc Yager, Gueilleme Leserve, Mark Ingber, Ray Mitoff and Rick Cruzen."
-blownforgood
(I confirmed the above with two other ex Int staffers who saw the same. One of them said that David Miscavige's beating they'd witnessed from 1995 onwards to until 2005, and agree the beatings were way more frequent in the last couple years.)
Please, any other lurking ex Int staff who saw these petty beatings, please contact me or somehow share what you saw and confirm or offer your input.
Chuck Beatty
Ex-Sea Org (lifetime staffer, 1975-2003)
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> Bankrupt Cult Victims
On May 2, 2006 "Nevada Gas" posted:
[Ex-GO I/O Tom Reitze liquidates stock, for the "Third Dynamic"]
[link no longer works, text below]
(with recent photo of Tom Reitze)
http://pasa.wordpress.com/2006/05/02/invest-in-your-future-2/
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Pasadena Ideal Org Fundraisers
Just another Wordpress.com weblog
Invest in your future!
May 2, 2006 at 6:01 am
Something Sally Jensen said got me thinking. She said what we're doing in buying this building and creating an ideal org in Pasadena is converting First Dynamic assets into Third Dynamic assets.
I had an "untouchable" reserve invested in stocks. My idea was I would never tap this - I would just let it grow and grow over the years.
I looked up the definitions of two words in the World Book Dictionary. "Donation" means "a gift, contribution." "Investment" means "a laying out of money for something that is expected to produce a profit or benefit." Donation has a one-way flow to it while investment implies a two-way flow - you outflow something and then get something back in return.
I definitely didn't want to take my reserves and just outflow them.
But then I started looking at the Pasadena Org building as an investment.?
[...]
Looked at this way, it made most sense to invest my reserves in buying the new Pasadena Org building and creating an ideal org right here and now. That's the investment that in truth provides the best return. So I did!
Much love,
Tom Reitze
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Tom Reitze - Scientology Service Completions:
http://www.truthaboutscientology.com/stats/by-name/t/tom-reitze.html
Scientology Statistics - Impact 59 Patrons [1995]
http://www.truthaboutscientology.com/stats/impact/impact059patrons.html
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Tom Reitze
Slatkinfraud:
http://www.slatkinfraud.com/99_researched.htm
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Tom Reitze was the Information Officer at the Guardian's Office during the heyday of Snow White. As of 1999, he was the CEO of WISE company David Morse & Associates in Glendale, CA. Nancy Reitze, possibly Tom's wife, was a spokesman for the church in Clearwater in 1979, and is still active.
Expanded Snow White Info - New List of Unindicted Co-con[s]pirators
http://home.earthlink.net/~snefru/GO/newgo.html
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This list of names comes from additional documents relating to the Snow White convictions, and includes names that weren't found on my original list of unindicted co-conspirators.
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Tom Reitze
What's New at the GO Roundup?
http://home.earthlink.net/~snefru/GO/new.html
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What do Duke Snider and Tom Reitze have in common? Other than the fact that they're both ex-GO agents, of course? Both men are currently working for scientologist-owned insurance company David Morse and Associates."
wAiF!
http://www.wwwaif.net/scn/scn_GO_1.php
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According to a source who prefers to remain nameless, Duke is currently working for David Morse & Associates, a scientologist-owned insurance company based in beautiful -- and theta-heavy -- Glendale, California. While Duke heads up the New York and Boston offices, his fellow GO co-conspirator Tom Reitze is the secretary/treasurer of DMA Claims Administration Inc., also based in Glendale."
Supplementary
Tom Reitze [plus] scientology (Google)
http://www.google.com/search?q=Tom+Reitze+%2Bscientology&btnG=Search&hl=en&lr=
Tom Reitze +scientology (Google/Groups)
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=Tom%20Reitze%20%2Bscientology&btnG=Search&hl=en&lr=&sa=N&tab=wg
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On May 11, 2006 the St. Petersburg Times, Florida reported:
http://www.sptimes.com/2006/05/11/Tampabay/Is_he_a_slumlord_or_e.shtml
Is he a slumlord or ethical specialist?
The man who owns an apartment building evacuated by officials for safety violations also holds Scientology's highest status.
Published May 11, 2006
ST. PETERSBURG -
In the world of Scientology, Scott W. Snow is a winner.
He has achieved the religion's highest level of training, higher even than megastar Tom Cruise, a distinction that brings with it lofty ethical standards.
But in St. Petersburg, city leaders call him slumlord.
Snow, 51, is the owner of the Chinook Apartments in Midtown, which the city shut down May 2 after finding multiple fire code violations. Now two dozen Chinook tenants have hired a lawyer and are preparing a lawsuit. And the city is investigating 39 separate code violation complaints at Snow's other three St. Petersburg apartment buildings.
This is not Snow's first brush with trouble, according to documents and interviews. In 2002 he filed for bankruptcy, saying he owed more than $700,000 and had only $22 in his pocket. But a month before settling the bankruptcy lawsuit, he purchased three Midtown apartment buildings for $1.25-million, helped by a loan from a fellow Scientologist. A year later, he bought the Chinook Apartments for $2.2-million.
Now, after the unprecedented evacuation of Chinook, city officials have stepped up their criticism. Council member Bill Foster this week referred to Snow as a "slumlord." Foster called the apartment building "a cancer growing in our community" and declared "an open season on slumlords."
Snow, who lives with his second wife, Gayle, and their children in Oldsmar, has declined repeated requests for an interview, citing pending litigation. He refused to comment about Chinook, saying he did not want to "try the case in the press." The property manager for his rental buildings, Sharon Johnson, described her boss as "a mystery."
"But he's a good mystery," added Johnson, 35, who has taken a few courses offered by the Church of Scientology. "He's not this bad person, he's not this monster. He cares."
Snow filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in November 2002, with debts amounting to $718,970. At the time, he was a real estate broker and a small business owner.
He said that he had just $22 in the bank and was driving a 1984 Dodge Caravan valued at $250. The trustee in the bankruptcy case noted in a 2003 filing that she was "not able to verify the reason for the significant accumulation of debt.''
In the several years leading up to the bankruptcy, Scientology publications note that Snow took a series of Scientology courses that former members say would have cost him tens of thousands of dollars.
One of the courses, taken in 1999 aboard Scientology's cruise ship, the Freewinds, made him an "ethics specialist.'' He also took courses in 2000 and 2001, but said in court filings that he made an income of $17,765 in 2000 and just $589 in 2001.
According to Scientology publications, in 1989 Snow reached the highest level currently available to Scientologists, OT VIII; actor Tom Cruise is an OT VII.
The upper levels of Scientology, which can cost several hundred thousand dollars to complete, offer the promise of becoming an "operating thetan" or "OT," which, according to church materials, is someone who lives "with full awareness, memory and ability, independent of the physical universe."
According to a church official, only a few thousand Scientologists in the world - among the millions of members the church claims - have reached the level OT VIII.
Ben Shaw, a spokesman for Scientology in Clearwater, declined to discuss Snow's status with the church and said it was inappropriate to mention Snow's religious affiliation in the media because he is not, and never has been, in a position of authority or leadership at the church. But Shaw did note the church expects people in the advanced levels of Scientology "to have a higher level of ethics.''
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> Gratitude
On May 12, 2006 "Chuck Beatty" posted:
This is just a thankyou to all those who've done what they did over the years.
I want to thank all those ex Sea Org members, and the exiting decades long former "OTs", and all the persons speaking out the last many decades, the book writers, the persons willing to stand up and voice their opinions, it's all an ongoing helpful event for someone like me, to finally exit Scientology, and draw upon all the accumulated understandings that people who have exited already and who are live still commenting on the whole Scientology movement scene.
I thank:
First off those ex Sea Org members who stood up and walked out, in their various ways. (it was truly their examples and their reasons for getting out that I believe weighs on the minds of others like their examples weighed on my mind, as my belief is that simply departing the Sea Org is voting with one's fee, and that example accumulates and weighs on those Sea Org members still in their pitching in the Sea Org, and spurs and reassures those inside that leaving is NOT the end of the world!)
Then those ex Sea Org members who went public in various ways. (Their courage to weather the counter attacks the church has thrown at those who spoke up, but I do believe the church is lessening that counter attacking as boldly and viciously as they have done to the first many generations of ex Sea Org who felt compelled to speak out.)
Then the whole crew of people (people of sharper intellect) who've taken an interest, journalists, media, TV, the observers on ARS and other chat sites, over the years. The staying tuned to the ongoing events in Scientology and keeping alive and discussing the ongoing events and continuing Scientology created predicaments, sharing the inside information, allowing a means to leak out live the ongoing less than delightful live predicaments is just a permanently good thing about the internet, and those that keep alive a critical eye on Scientology.
Coming out of the Sea Org only 3 years ago, I was floored to find all the voluminous accumulated and live material being shared about all angles of Scientology.
Anyways, thanks to all persons living and deceased, who did something to keep alive this discussion and exposure of the less than good things about Scientology.
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Saturday, May 06, 2006
a.r.s. Week in Review 05/06/06
> Critic's Information abused
> Cult Celebrity spurs California Legislation
> Scientology using Nigerian tax money
> LA Sheriff to be protested
> Source of cult's Florida funding questioned
> Keith Henson bankrupty hearing March 10 2006
> Scientology in Ukraine
> Garofalo promotes Scientology program
> Baby Suri at California Cult Compound?
> Archived historical documents
> Dianetics birthday
> Super Power in 2007
> Scientology a Good Neighbor
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> Critic's Information abused
In the past the cult has released personal information of targets besides Tory to fringe elements of society who are not Scientologists.
On May 1, 2006, John Dorsay posted the following:
Tory's personal contact information was posted to bondage newsgroups by the lowlife lying scumbag who posts here as Truth Seeker/ Chess Master.
*That* is the sad truth.
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> Cult Celebrity spurs California Legislation
On May 4, 2006 E! Online reported:
http://www.eonline.com/News/firstlook.html?fdnews
"CRUISING FOR A BRUISING: Inspired by Tom Cruise's purchase of an ultrasound machine to monitor baby Suri in utero, California Democratic Assemblyman Ted Lieu proposing a bill banning manufacturers in the state from selling, leasing or distributing the imaging devices to anyone but a licensed medical professional. "If someone sees Tom Cruise buy one, they think this is the thing to do," Lieu said. Um, no--not everyone's sipped the Kool-Aid. "
Not amazing is that his wealth allowed him purchase of a medical device that is only meant for diagnosis, not as a toy. Less amazing is that a bill has been written to close that possiblity in others that KNOW medicine BETTER than Physicians, or at least the claim.
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from the Sydney Morning Herald:
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/05/05/1146335911179.html
Meanwhile Democrat Ted Lieu thinks Cruise went too far when announced he had bought an ultrasound machine to see images of Suri before she was born.
The Californian politician is introducing a bill in the California Assembly which would ban manufacturers in the state from selling, leasing or distributing the imaging device to anyone but a licensed medical professional.
"There's really no medical reason for an untrained person to use this machine," he said. "
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> Scientology using Nigerian tax money
The cult is receiving tax money in Nigeria to run its programs in schools.
Posted May 3, 2006 from
http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=47101
ETF Seeks to ‘Make Every Child a Learner’
This Day (Nigeria)
2.5.2006
By Bukola Olatunji, 05.02.2006
“It is critical that students of any age are able to acquire information in a way that they are able to use. This is not possible except a child knows how to learn.” This was the submission of Ms. Benneta Slaughter [Benetta Slaughter], Chief Executive Officer of Applied Scholastics International, whose organisation, courtesy of the Education Trust Fund (ETF), is currently training about 100 master teachers in Akure, the Ondo State capital.
Tagged, ‘Applied Scholastics Teaching Technology Master Training Workshop’, it is a collaboration between three organisations - the ETF (sponsors), MaCrae and Co (project Consultants) and Applied Scholastics International (Technical experts for the training).
Briefing the press in Akure recently, Chairman of the ETF, Mrs, Olutoyin Olakunri said the workshop was, among other things, aimed at improving the quality of teaching deliverables in Nigeria by training teachers in Applied Scholastics teaching methodology.It all started in May 2003 when the ETF approached MaCrae and Co to work together to achieve the former’s mission of enhancing the quality of education in the country.
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In June 2004, ETF officially commissioned Macrae and Co to implement a pilot programme on Applied Scholastics, which commenced two months later with the training of 120 teachers from the 36 states.
Seventy-seven of the participants at the Akure training, which began on April 6 and ends on May 19, were drawn from Colleges of Education and university Faculties of Education across the six geo-political zones of the country. The remaining 23, mostly classroom teachers, were selected from the 120 that participated in the initial basic training.
The goals of the training were, to improve the quality of teaching deliverables in Nigeria, ensure sustainability of the teaching programme by training Master trainers, institutionalise Applied Scholastics into the Nigerian educational system, reduce the number of school drop outs and boost teacher morale.
The three collaborating partners are keen to ensure that Applied Scholastics Teaching Technology is entrenched and institutionalised in the Nigerian educational system.
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Mallam Aliyu Mohammed Birnin-Kebbi of the Adamu Augie College of Education, Argungu described himself as a “born-again teacher”, saying, “I never knew I lacked the skill to teach. This training is capable of causing a revolution in the country if taken to the grassroot.”
Dr. Olu Atunramu, from the College of Education, Ikere-Ekiti said though he had been teaching for 15 years, he had just realised he was not doing it the right way. “I blamed my students for not doing well. Now I know it is my fault. When I get back, my students will enjoy me because I now know how to get them interested in what I am teaching.” He also thanked ETF, “for using tax payers’ fund the right way.”
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> LA Sheriff to be protested
A Los Angeles County sheriff who has supported Scientology programs is the target of an upcoming protest.
"barbz" posted "Los Angeles action" on May 2, 2006
"Will the Sheriff of Los Angeles County Stop promoting a Criminal Organization?"
SCIENTOLOGY CRITICS AND LEONA VALLEY RESIDENTS ANNOUNCE
PICKET OF SHERIFF LEE BACA'S OFFICE
On May 6, 2006, from 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm, a group of Scientology critics, accompanied by residents of Leona Valley (a small community north of LA) will picket the Monterey Park office of Los Angeles Sheriff Leroy Baca. The protest will then move to 6331 Hollywood Boulevard, which houses the offices of the Church of Scientology's "intelligence and dirty tricks squad," the Office of Special Affairs.
The protesters are demanding that Baca sever his ties to the controversial church and stop promoting its Narconon program, an expensive drug treatment regimen that has been bluntly criticized by medical professionals as scientifically unsound and potentially dangerous. Narconon is often mistaken for Narcotics Anonymous, but the two programs are completely unrelated, and in some ways, diametrically opposed. More information is available at the Narconon-Exposed and Stop-Narconon web sites.
http://Narconon-Exposed.org
http://Stop-Narconon.org
In January 2006, Baca wrote the Los Angeles County Department of Regional Planning to support Narconon's application to open a new faclity in Leona Valley. The residents of that town have made it very clear that they do not want Narconon in their midst. County Supervisor Michael Antonovich has since expressed serious concerns about Narconon, and the planning commission has scheduled an appeal hearing for July 25.
[...]
He also participated in an event sponsored by a Scientology front group, ABLE International, the parent organization of Narconon, where he accepted an award. In 2006, Baca appeared at a fundraiser for another Scientology group, the cynically named "Youth for Human Rights International". Scientology's gross violations of its own members' human rights, and those of its critics, are well documented.
More information about Baca's Scientology ties is available here:
http://Stop-Narconon.org/Baca
For press inquiries or picket information, contact: Barbara Graham [e-mail, phone]
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> Source of cult's Florida funding questioned
On May 1, 2006, "Feisty" posted "Florida Dept of Education/Prison/$cientology Iliteracy"
$cientology recently tried to stop a suicide prevention program from being approved through the Dept of Education. Was that the state board? If so, how is it that they are allowed to be getting literacy business funding through the same organization? That would be disturbing, not to mention so feudal.
Starting here
"Florida Mentoring Partnership"
http://www.flamentoring.org/ *(clone of calmentoring see below)*
Has a program:
"Just Read Florida" (listed as supported by the Florida Dept of Education) - not encouraging -
http://www.justreadflorida.com/
On September 7, 2001, Governor Jeb Bush signed Executive Order 01-260 designating Just Read, Florida! as a comprehensive and coordinated reading initiative.
http://www.justreadflorida.com/community.asp
The "Community" link on the page has groups who support this initiative: :
Florida Literacy Coalition
http://www.floridaliteracy.org/2004/index.html
Established in 1985, The Florida Literacy Coalition (FLC) promotes, supports and advocates for the effective delivery of quality adult and family literacy services in the state of Florida. As a statewide umbrella literacy organization and the host of Florida's State Literacy Resource Center, FLC provides a range of services to support more than 300 adult education, literacy and family literacy providers throughout Florida. Special emphasis is placed on assisting community based literacy organizations with their training and program development needs.
http://www.floridaliteracy.org/2004/about_us.html
More Information About Us
Programs and Services Board of Directors
Staff 2005 Annual Program Report
(Power Point Presentation)
Organizational Members
Organizational members = World Literacy Crusade
listed here:
http://www.floridaliteracy.org/2004/pdf-docs/FloridaLiteracyCoalitionOrganizationalMembers.pdf
and
http://www.floridaliteracy.org/2004/pdf-docs/2006%20Conference%20Program-Final.pdf
p.22 - 2006 upcoming conference May 3-5, 2006 exhibitors = Applied Scholastics, booth #1
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On May 1, 2006, "Feisty" also posted "Florida Faith-based prisons/ FEMA finances VM's?"
Overview:
http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/story?id=1550733&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312
In December 2003, Gov. Jeb Bush converted the medium-security Lawtey Correctional Institution into the nation's first entirely faith-based prison At Lawtey, 28 different religions are represented - Christianity, Orthodox Judaism, Wicca, Scientology. Since Gov. Bush oversaw the conversion of Lawtey, Florida's Department of Corrections has opened two more faith- and character-based prisons - one for inmates serving long sentences and another that's exclusively for women.
(more news stories below)
Lawtey Correctional Institution (Florida)
http://www.dc.state.fl.us/oth/faith/ci.html
Staff may not attempt to convert inmates toward a particular secular, faith or religious viewpoint or affiliation. Except as provided by law, state funds may not be expended on programs that further religious indoctrination, or on inherently religious activities such as religious worship, religious instruction or proselytization.
Here's the $cientology link:
Lawtey Correctional Institution
Volunteer Programs and Activities
http://www.dc.state.fl.us/oth/faith/volunteers.html
"To learn more about becoming a volunteer, please visit the (Volunteer or Internship Opportunities) or (Volunteer Florida) Foundation."
-- Link to (Volunteer Florida Foundation) http://www.volunteerfloridafoundation.org/
$cientology is listed on this webpage under "Emergency Management Volunteers and Donations Partner Agencies"
http://www.volunteerflorida.org/secondgui/links.html
"knock out the psychs" VM's listed
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Despite Criminon being vetoed from the corrections budget by Jeb Bush in May, 2005, I wonder how much federal or state money the $cientology Literacy program gets for recruiting Volunteer Ministers to go into the "faith-based" correctional centers? FEMA is paying for this sort of volunteerism? FEMA budgeted for volunteer programs since 9-11 so $cientology can go into prisons?
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> Keith Henson bankrupty hearing March 10 2006
On April 29, 2006 "Keith Henson" posted:
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WEISSBRODT: OK, can I have your full name, please?
HENSON: Howard Keith Henson.
WEISSBRODT: Thank you. OK. Sit down, Mr. Cook.
COOK: Oh, thank you, Your Honor.
WEISSBRODT: All right. First I just want to deal with some preliminary matters. I got papers filed by the RTC, which I regard as totally inappropriate. I received papers. I even got a motion for sanctions from the RTC.
The RTC is not a party. I note that there's a case called New York News versus Keogh[SP?], 972 Fed. 2d, 42, 2nd Circuit, 1992. There the party tried to intervene, and asked the Court to award sanctions against the plaintiff on the grounds that the complaint made certain allegations concerning him.
The Court found that the nonparty didn't have standing to move for sanctions unless it satisfied the interventions requirement in Rule 24. Coming to its decision, the Court relied on the Supreme Court's reasoning that the central purpose of Rule 11 is to deter business filings . . . that is, baseless filings in the District Court and streamline the administration and procedure in the Federal Court, rather than to reward parties who are victimized by litigation.
Here, the RTC and Mr. McShane aren't parties to the adversary proceeding. They haven't sought to intervene. Their pleadings are stricken by the Court sua sponte pursuant to its authority under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12F, applicable here by Federal Rule of Bankruptcy Procedure 7012, 12B, and while the RTC and McShane don't cite Rule 911, they ask for an award of sanctions from the debtor for a pleading they don't like, and the Court is tempted to issue an Order to Show Cause why the RTC shouldn't be sanctioned for bad-faith filing under the circumstances, when they know they hadn't intervened.
[...]
Now, here's the problem that I have with this situation, Mr. Cook. Your papers don't really address most of the issues that I have concerns about.
I'm trying to fit this situation into the Jersig[??] Standard. And my understanding of the criminal statute is that any member of the group can serve as a plaintiff in this kind of a civil-rights action, and if they prevail, if the group prevails, or if the people prevail, then there can be statutory . . . an award of statutory damages to each plaintiff without a showing that any individual plaintiff was really injured.
In other words, each individual plaintiff doesn't have to show that he or she was injured in any particular way. That one may be injured in one way; one may be injured in another way. One may be injured just because they're a member of this group, and the . . . the concern is how that meshes with willful and malicious injury under Jersich[SP?].
And how the Court can possibly reconcile the two. And your brief doesn't deal with it. It deals with . . . your papers don't deal with it in the sense that I . . . I don't have a complaint, for example, from a specific person showing a specific injury to that person and asking for a specific amount of damages that were caused directly by the injury to that person.
I don't know whether the underlying judgment-first the criminal and then the civil-was based on the required subjective intent to cause injury within the meaning of the 523 standard. [Murmuring in background.]
[...]
But is, for example, taking down somebody's license plate number or putting up the coordinates of the RTC facility a willful and malicious injury to everybody in the group in the context of 523(a)6?
It may be a violation of a criminal statute. I'm not saying it isn't, but how does it fit within the cases under 523(a)6?
What evidence do I have as to the particularized injury that each of these plaintiffs have? How would I measure damages to these plaintiffs? Would I just award the statutory damages, which are not based, really, on any computation of their particularized injury?
There's no computation of their particularized injury here. How does that scheme fit within 523(a)6? [Murmuring in background.]
One person may have been injured, another not, or more than another. But I have no particularizations of the injury, and I have no particularizations of the amount. I just have this statutory scheme, and I've never seen a 523(a)6 case in that context. [Murmuring in background.]
[...]
There is no factual support before the court for the proposition that these particular plaintiffs were actually injured, as that term is used for purposes of 523(a)6, or the amount of their actual injury.
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WEISSBRODT: Right. They're going to now, basically, file their papers all over again, because their papers don't, in my opinion, satisfy a summary-judgment standard. So they're going to basically be filing papers. And I don't want your . . . .
HENSON: [??] [Starting to talk as Weissbrodt continues]
WEISSBRODT: I don't want you to incorporate all this old stuff, so I have to go back and forth between two sets of briefs, Mr. Cook. You should just file a set of papers that I don't have to go back through the old papers and try to . . . .
COOK: I . . . I . . . I certainly understand the Court's concerns, and I'd be . . . . I will honor the Court's concern on that issue.
WEISSBRODT: Thank you. Mr. Henson?
HENSON: Sure. 90 days would be fine.
WEISSBRODT: So that would be September 12. Do you want to reply?
COOK: Yes, sir.
WEISSBRODT: How much time?
COOK: Uh well, the reply should be that bad, but we're going to look at 30 days.
WEISSBRODT: OK, that would be October 12, and, Mr. Cook, you're going to have to help me, because I don't have calendars into November of 2006 yet. So if you would get in touch with Miss Bracegirdle in the summer, she'll give you a date in November for the hearing. I just don't have it yet.
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> Scientology in Ukraine
On May 1, 2006 the third part of a series about Scientology in the Ukraine was posted:
Ukraine
How Much Happiness would you like for Your Money
by Taras Pano
translated from Russian text at
Zerkalo-Nedeli.com
April 8, 2006
[...]
-- Vladimir Petukhov, psychologist, chairman of the board for the Family and Personality Protection Society and FECRIS member
- How far has Dianetics and Scientology spread in Ukraine?
-- It's spread enough through the Dianetics centers. Besides that, once people start taking Dianetics courses, they do their best not to let them out again. You can pay until it hurts. Once your money is gone, you have yourself to offer, your labor.
Our Church of Scientology reports to Moscow. That is a very strong organization. Those who have been to training in the Moscow center say that there is nothing more to do even in New York after studying in Moscow. In Ukraine the Church of Scientology is still in the formative years as a religious organization. But don't let that deceive you. The organization has a definite strategy of infiltration. Like here they've begun to infiltrate in the capacity of Dianetics centers that are engaged in introducing Hubbard's technology on administration. The first wave of infiltration and entrenchment are people in the areas of business or who are acquainted with politicians, that way they can exemplify them as products of their technology. At the next level there is the creation of Dianetics centers, which operate as social organizations. And then the first Church of Scientology appears and begins carrying out a complex program.
- There is this "standard model" of infiltration, so how can the Church of Scientology operate under diverse circumstances in each individual country?
-- That is the point, they can't. They have a strategy and technology to infiltrate society. Everything is licensed. Everything is arranged by the Religious Technology Center. And nothing will be done, written or distributed without a resolution from that center. The Church of Scientology has a strict, hierarchical structure. At its center is the Sea Organization, a small elite -- Religious Technology Center, which controls the right to the "Dianetics" and "Scientology" trademarks, the Church of Scientology International, the international mission and the local missions. But this rigid structure is awash in a mass of associated programs. For example, the program to fight psychiatry is opening up. Its registered as a social organization, distributes information about abuse by psychiatrists, says its goal is fighting them and calls this "fighting for human rights." It should be said though that at the same time a different division of the church would not scorn psychiatrists who published positive results about their work if they were to succeed in obtaining such a result. In Russia, for example, an independent psychiatric center writes laudatory articles about them, but the Serbskiy Institute criticizes their activities. It does not make sense here to uncritically believe all psychiatrists.
[...]
- Does Narconon try to hide its connection to Scientology?
-- They say they have a purely preventive program. In their program of eight stages detoxification is actually in last place. They put the emphasis on their preventive educational measures. In Kharkov the Institute of Postgraduate Education, which makes expert opinions on school programs, gave a negative review to the Narconon program. But the team from regional administration acted to authorize it. The initiator of the program, Marina Gribanova, herself actually believes in it and is very sincere. This is awful, because blind faith does not give room for doubt or for departure from the general line. That is why we call this sort of organization totalitarian.
[...]
- How does a person usually get into the Church of Scientology or into Dianetics courses?
-- For instance, I dropped in at the supermarket in Kharkov. On the counter were books, 70% of them by Hubbard. They grabbed my sleeve and pushed "Dianetics" into my hand. "Do you have higher education?" Yes? Look here, everything you studied is unimportant. You'll find everything in this book, and understand that this is true science. Not a single word about religion. Nobody can tell you this is religion. Besides that, in most cases, if you say they are dealing in religion they'll say we are the Dianetics center. We are a social organization! And the rank-and-file are perfectly sincere. And in this case there is one manager. Sometimes you hear something like, "We are only taking advantage of what Hubbard wrote, but we are not Scientologists." They try to create the impression that Scientology is one thing, but Hubbard's book are another. But that's a lie. They are overstocked. The Hubbard Institute makes the arrangements and the Religious Technology Center stands behind the purity of
technology.
- What about the "Free Zone"? It seems to us they don't have too good a relationship with the Church of Scientology.
-- That organization was one of the first to appear and is mainly engaged in using the commercial version of the technology. They had a consensus with the Church of Scientology worked out a long time ago. The Free Zone does without the religious doctrine and is directed towards people who have a pragmatic view of these things. But the ones who are behind all of this are the same ones. It is just a matter of under which roof they are operating. For example, as a social organization they operate in breach of law. They covertly rent a room and turn it into a Dianetics center. 700 griven a book. Is that a good social organization? And people buy them! And they have another program to process clients -- they say that you have to have this book. You buy it if you are persuaded that this book will solve all your problems. Why shouldn't the solution to all your problems cost 700 griven? People come under the influence and the methods of influence are well-known, described and widely adapted, especially group influence. In Scientology this sort of influence is set up as an assembly line. Unfortunately most people do not readily recognize it in context.
- Why do people go there?
-- This is a club of interests. Whatever reason people have, there is only one purpose, as in any totalitarian organization. They can serve this up to you with any sauce you like depending on your mental state of mind, education or scientific worldview. Whatever it takes to snag you, they snag. For example, if you have an interest in psychology, they "snag" you for testing. Psychology recognizes their "Oxford test" as invalid. Naturally, they don't tell you that. Same as they don't talk about the experiments with engrams that were conducted with the support of the Church of Scientology itself. There they explained there are no engrams. But people go there and will continue to do so. Because someone needs this.
- Why?
-- Money and power. Old as dirt, but it works. In this organization you can actually have a sense of yourself as a superhuman.
We went to the head of the office for religious affairs for Kiev's city administration, Anatoli Lysenko, with questions about the official status of the Church of Scientology in Kiev city.
- Why exactly was the Church of Scientology turned down for registration?
-- At the time the matter about registering the charter of the Church of Scientology with Kiev city was being examined it came to light that from 17 to 18 May 2003, with the assistance of the Russian structural unit of the Church of Scientology ("IHELP" 19-a Galushkina St., Moscow), a management skills training seminary was given in the conference auditorium of the "Turist" hotel complex (2 R. Okipnoi St.)
That event was a violation of art. 24 of Ukraine Law "On freedom of conscience and religious organizations," where it says that clergymen, religious preachers, instructors and other representatives of foreign organizations in which citizens of other countries appear and which take place in Ukraine, may engage in preaching religious beliefs, carrying out religious rites or other canonical activity only in those religious organizations from whom they have received an invitation, and with the official coordination of state organs with whom the charge (status) of the corresponding religious organization has been registered.
That event took place without informing the appropriate state organs and without their permission.
On February 18, 2004 Kiev citizen V.M. Pushkin filled out an application in the city government administration in which he asked that the activities of the Scientology center be stopped, and he based this on the negative influence the Church of Scientology activities had had upon his daughter. After taking courses at that church she gave the director of the center 1,500 griven. After her father intervened and appealed to the Denprovsky district prosecutor of Kiev city, the money was returned to the family.
In this way, one may consider that the establishment of a fixed sum of payment for receiving auditing and study of Scientology scripture in agreement with established church fees are a compulsory imposition upon believers and a violation of art. 18 of the Ukraine Law "On freedom of conscience and religious organizations."
Art. 4 of the Ukraine Law "On freedom of conscience and religious organizations" proclaims equal rights for citizens regardless of their attitude toward religion. Restrictions for the citizen who expresses a desire to attain a higher level of perfection through Scientology but who does not have the means to pay the Church's "voluntary donations" puts him in an unequal position to other people and violates his right to freedom of conscience, this is proclaimed in art. 3 of Ukraine Law "On freedom of conscience and religious organizations."
Taking into account the interpretation provided by article 15 of the Ukraine Law "On freedom of conscience and religious organizations," Kiev's city government administration passed order No. 1774 of September 23, 2004 "On the denial of registration for the charter of the religious community 'Church of Scientology City of Kiev."
The order does not violate the citizen's rights guaranteed by the Constitution of Ukraine, the Declaration on State Sovereignty of Ukraine or the standards for international rights recognized by Ukraine, the social justice, equality and protection of rights and legal interests of citizens regardless of their attitude toward religion, and provides for the observation of the obligations of religious organizations by state and society.
- The Church of Scientology has received a quite positive expert opinion from the religious studies department of the Institute of Philosophy of Ukraine's National Academy of Science. Could this influence the decision for registration?
-- In response to inquiry No. 015-1012 of 14 December 2005 from deputy chairman V. Ilgova of Kiev's city government administration to correspondent-member National Academy of Science (NAS) Ukraine, the director of G. Skovorody Institute of Philosophy NAS Ukraine, doctor of philosophical science professor M. Popuvich with regard to the official conclusion of G. Skovorody Institute of Philosophy NAS Ukraine about the religious and cult practices of the Church of Scientology, an answer was received from the deputy director of the department of religious studies of the G. Skovorody Institute of Philosophy NAS Ukraine, A. Kolodny, of July 2, 2005, ser. no. 37, that said Scientology was a complicated phenomena, but in its operations Scientology went beyond the limits of that which would be called a religious cult. Thus a definitive determination on the Church of Scientology as a religious community in Ukraine does not exist.
- Don't they consider the operations of this religious organization as those of a destructive cult?
-- The terms "totalitarian sect" and "destructive cult" do not exist in the legislation of Ukraine, so therefor the answer to your question does not fit in the competency of the main administration.
to be continued ...
The second part, posted the prior week, featured an interview with:
-- Yekaterina Penkova, Public Affairs Officers for Church of Scientology Kiev.
- Why is the Church of Scientology not registered in Ukraine as a religious organization?
-- In 2004 we submitted documents to the city administration for registration and received a rejection. Just recently we tried to register with the State Department for Issues of Religion, but they took away the documents.
- Why?
-- We understand that they refused us -- the situation for us is not favorable now. Unfortunately the decision in the Department was not very objective.
- Why don't you take them to court?
-- We don't want to. It is expensive and takes a long time. Indeed, our court system is not very perfect -- we understand that we would have to go through all the court hearings and that the result would be incomprehensible. For example, the Moscow Church had to go to the European Court for Human Rights. The judgment is supposed to be released next year. We'll be waiting for it, and because it's a European court, its decision will undoubtedly reflect on the situation in Ukraine. We are ready to cooperate and work within the framework of the state's requirements. But we were asked about our registration. You are there, and we don't bother you. It's not essential to register under Ukraine law.
- So why aren't you registered? You are there and nobody is bothering you.
-- We would like to get the status of legal person. Then we would have more opportunities. We would be able to rent a respectable office, and print material. Not have problems with getting packages from overseas. Sometimes books arrive at the customs office and we, not being a legal person, are not able to retrieve them.
- So far as we know, the Church of Scientology operates not only as a church, but also the Dianetics Center, which has the status of social organization. Are they in a position to fulfill the necessary legal formalities?
-- This is not correct. We are still a religious, not a social, organization. The practice of registering religious organizations as social organizations exists in Russia, where there is a common law for religious and social organizations. We are a religion and should be registered as religion. We have a religious cult -- we conduct baptismal ceremonies, funerals, weddings and we practice auditing. This is a spiritual practice. This, by the way, is written in the expert opinion of the Institute of Philosophy, Ukraine National Academy of Science.
- And who commissioned the study?
-- This study was done for the Church of Scientology. We did it in preparation to submit documents for registration. We were told that the matter first had to be researched. The city administration told us that the expert appraisal would not happen -- we did not have a chance. So we took it to the Institute of Philosophy.
- Are there many Scientology communities in Ukraine?
-- In Ukraine Scientology, despite the official non-acknowledgment, is spreading energetically. We have 20 religious communities in various Ukraine regions. Those are only the communities of the Church of Scientology. The biggest ones are in Kiev, Kharkov, Kremenchug, Odessa and Uzhgorod. There are nearly 3,000 practicing Scientologists in Kiev, and several thousand in Kharkov. Besides that we have social organizations that are engaged with a few other operations. It's important that you understand the difference: there is the religion of Scientology and then there are social organizations that are built on the methods of Lafayette Ron Hubbard in different areas.
- And what kind of people go to Scientology?
-- All kinds. Scientologists are relatively young, on the average between 20 and 50 years old. Basically, of course, these are people with a high level of education, since Scientology, although it is for everyone, but not everyone can read a book and delve into the terminology.
- What social organizations associated with the Church of Scientology operate in Ukraine?
-- Narconon, for example. This organization is involved in giving lectures about harm from drugs in schools and universities. Now these lectures have received approval in the Ministry of Education and Science, the Ministry for Youth Affairs and the Ministry of Health. We've received excellent press. Everybody recognizes their effectiveness. Statistics show that in the Kharkov region where the lectures are given, the level of drug addiction is receding compared to other regions. These lectures -- and they are being given in all the Kharkov schools -- are based on the methods of Lafayette Ron Hubbard.
- When these lectures are given with the ministry's approval, are people told these are the methods of Ron Hubbard?
-- Well, these are not entirely Hubbard's methods. The lectures are based on the methods of Ron Hubbard. There is a spot in the lectures that talks about this. Experts rate it highly.
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> Garofalo promotes Scientology program
Janeanne Garofalo goes gonzo promoting Scientology-linked program
http://www.cultnews.com/index.php/2006/05/01/janeanne-garofalo-goes-
gonzo-promoting-scientology-linked-program/
http://tinyurl.com/kmnho
Posted in Miscellaneous at 3:58 pm by Rick Ross
Apparently Air America Radio talk show host Janeanne Garofalo has gone gonzo for the Scientology-linked program "New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Project."
Has Garofalo gone gonzo?
On Friday April 28th Garofalo did her second show segment in the same month to promote the program based upon the teachings of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. This time the host of Majority Report allotted a 17-minute spot, for what came across as something like an infomercial.
CultNews previously reported about another Garofalo last April show promoting Tom Cruise's pet project in New York, which included Scientologist and sitcom star Leah Remini.
This time Ms. Janeanne had no Scientology celebrity, but practically chanted the Web site address of the controversial project and its phone number.
The talk-show host was like some pre-recorded device, pitching questions to Jim Woodworth, so that the project's head could hold forth with Hubbardisms.
And this isn't the first time Woodworth has run a controversial health program.
HealthMed, cited within the seminal article "Scientology: The Cult of Greed" by Time Magazine was run by Woodworth and had a history of controversy, as reported within a series of articles published by the LA Times. Doctors in the "Sunshine State" accused HealthMed of making "false medical claims" and "taking advantage of the fears of workers and the public about toxic chemicals and their potential health effects, including cancer."
Now it appears Woodworth may be attempting to do the same thing in New York, with increasing help coming from Janeanne Garofalo through Air America.
Doesn't anyone at this network read newspapers or bother to use the Internet?
It has been repeatedly reported that Woodworth and his project were officially dumped by FDNY. Its chief medical officer Dr. Kerry Kelly told the New York Times that there is no "objective evidence" to support Woodworth's bizarre claims that his subjects somehow sweat out toxins.
Never mind.
Garofalo/Woodworth, working like partners introduced "fireman/lawyer" Pete Gleason, who offered his personal testimonial. But that's subjective "evidence."
Eventually Gleason admitted that the detoxification project has no official recognition or status with NYFD.
Woodworth explained that the process he promotes often called the "purification rundown," which is something of a "religious ritual" amongst Scientologists, is a regimen of sauna stints combined with ingested doses of niacin and what housewives call "cooking oil."
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In Ireland Professor Michael Ryan, head of the pharmacology department at a university, said the purification rundown is "not supported by scientific facts" and "not medically safe" reported the Irish Times.
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"Majority Report" fans don't appear too happy and response to Woodworth wasn't good, based upon the sentiments expressed at its blog.
"I lost all respect for this show tonight. Why are they pumping up Scientology and junk science?"
"I wasn't really listening to the Scientology guy. It sounded like he kept saying he needed more funding. Is he trying to scam some faith-based initiative money?"
"Is there a specific program in the Majority Report studio to keep the television tuned to the Sci-Fi Channel?"
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MSNBC reported:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12583654/
Garofalo gushes over Scientology-linked project
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Even some fans of Janeane Garofolo's radio work were turned off by her praise for the project.
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> Baby Suri at California Cult Compound?
On May 2, 2006, "Neil C" posted a communication from "blownforgood:"
blownforgood wrote:
It is funny that Wal-Mart was mentioned here. You will never guess where the INT Base guys did their baby junk shopping for Suri at? Yes- it is true! Looks like Suri might be heading up to the INT BASE if she aint there now. Hillary was the one who had to go pick up all of the baby crap and she actually went to Wal-Mart to get it! Little does Tomknow, he is giving them millions in cash and is set to give them a cool 50 million from MI:3, and they go to Wal-Mart to get his baby stuff. Well Hillary really would know how to find baby stuff right. Super Wal-Mart is as good as any other place right?
On Dave and Shelly having kids - No they do not have kids. Whatever person hired a PI and this person said they had kids was wrong. If they do have kids, they sure have kept it very low key and Shelly did not get pregant in order to have them. Shelly slaves for Dave full time. Although it looks like she has gone off the lines a bit and is more low key lately - probably dealing with Tom and Katie more than anything.
In terms of the Int Base going off for rewards. You are kidding right? The Int Base has not gone off for rewards in years! Even the last few christmas years not one dau wasgiven for a day off. They got the required 4 hours to go shopping at that was it. With Super Wal-Mart now open - All base staff can do their christmas shopping there!
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Also if the press catch on to the fact that this is where Suri is at? Oh boy, then the press show up and then there are protesters there. This would be a total freakout for DM. The people under him would be shitting bricks ful time. Rinder would probably be up all night for days solving this one!
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> Archived historical documents
A number of links were posted with historical documents that are archived online:
Muldoon posted:
[Hubbard's 2nd wife Sara writes to author Paulette Cooper.]
In 1972, this letter was stolen from author Paulette Cooper's New York apartment, photocopied, and returned to her apartment. It ended up in Scientology's extensive file on Paulette Cooper, which was brought to light as a result of the issuing of Federal search warrants on the Scientology cult.
http://www.whyaretheydead.net/krasel/aff_sn.html
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"Jeff Jacobsen" posted:
[Co$ incorporation papers]
http://www.lisamcpherson.org/scans/incorporations.htm
If you know where any other Co$ entity incorporation papers are, let me know.
[The First Mother Church: Church of American Science, 1953]
It says so right in the document! So when did the Church of Scientology of California become the "mother church"?
"Povmec" posted:
Some documents at Roger Gonnet's web site:
http://www.xenufrance.net/index-eng.htm#1
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> Dianetics birthday
On May 6, 2006 Dave Touretzky posted "Biloxi Mission open house May 9, 2006" from:
http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/living/14505723.htm
SunHerald.com -- South Mississippi's Home Page
Scientologists plan open house
'Dianetics' 56th year to be honored
By JEAN PRESCOTT
BILOXI - The Church of Scientology, Gulf Coast Mission, will celebrate the 56th anniversary of the publication of L. Ron Hubbard's "Dianetics" with an open house from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday at the mission in Vieux Marché.
Denise Quint and her husband, Mike Quint, a local optometrist, run the mission. She said: "Certainly there will be refreshments and an anniversary cake. And there will be literature available," but at the heart of it will be a video, "showing all day about Dianetics and the reactive mind and how you can rid yourself of the reactive mind."
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The study of Dianetics and membership in the Church of Scientology are separate and distinct, Denise said.
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> Super Power in 2007
A description of Super Power that reminded a.r.s. posters of Hubbard's science fiction implant stations was posted from the St. Petersburg Times on May 6, 2006
from:
http://www.sptimes.com/2006/05/06/Northpinellas/Scientology_nearly_re.shtml
Scientology nearly ready to unveil Super Power
In the works for decades, the closely guarded spiritual training program will be revealed in Clearwater.
By ROBERT FARLEY, Times Staff Writer
Published May 6, 2006
CLEARWATER - Matt Feshbach believes he has super powers. He senses danger faster than most people. He appreciates beauty more deeply than he used to. He says he outperforms his peers in the money management industry.
He heightened his powers of perception in 1995 when he went to Los Angeles and became the first and so far only “public” Scientologist to take a highly classified Scientology program called Super Power.
Where in L.A. did he do this?
“Just in Los Angeles,” is all Feshbach will say. Super Power is that secret.
Under wraps for decades, Super Power now is being prepped for its eventual rollout in Scientology’s massive building in downtown Clearwater. That will be the only place worldwide where the program, much anticipated by Scientologists, will be offered.
A key aim of Super Power is to enhance one’s perceptions - and not just the five senses we all know - hearing, sight, touch, taste and smell.
Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard taught that people have 57 “perceptics.” They include an ability to discern relative sizes, blood circulation, balance, compass direction, temperature, gravity and an “awareness of importance, unimportance.”
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Super Power uses machines, apparatus and specially designed rooms to exercise and enhance a person’s so-called perceptics. Those machines include an anti-gravity simulator and a gyroscope-like apparatus that spins a person around while blindfolded to improve perception of compass direction, said the former Scientologists.
A video screen that moves forward and backward while flashing images is used to hone a viewer’s ability to identify subliminal messages, they said.
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Feshbach now lives in Belleair, where his wife, Kathy, runs a Scientology mission. Because he donated millions to the Super Power building fund, he was invited to undergo the program.
It’s geared toward creating a “more competent spiritual being,” he said. “I’m not dependant on my physical body to perceive things.”
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Former Scientologists Bruce Hines and Chuck Beatty, once staffers at the church’s international base in Hemet, Calif., said that while on punishment detail, they made chairs of various sizes - ones big enough for a giant, others too small even for a child - that were set up in a room designed to hone one’s sense of relative sizes.Hines also said the Super Power program, which Hubbard wanted rolled out in 1978, met with delays during the 20-plus years that it was being piloted on church staffers.
One setback occurred when the church checked back on the staffers who had been through Super Power. It turned out, Hines said, many had left the church - hardly the expected outcome.
“The fact that it was around in 1978 and it’s still not worked out 28 years later, that’s pretty significant,” Hines said.
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The Super Power program will be ready to go the moment the new building is completed, he said. Scientology officials promise that will be 2007.
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> Scientology a Good Neighbor
On May 6, 2006 "memerider" posted "New DC location for COS".
I saw a bit on TV where the DC church is expanding to a larger building, and the news reporters set out to find what people in the neighborhood think. It was all positive, except one woman who complained that she walks on the sidewalk in front of the church a lot and they have repeatedly invited her in for a tour over the years. I was a little surprised that no one had anything much negative to say and the majority thought they are good neighbors and welcome them.
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> Cult Celebrity spurs California Legislation
> Scientology using Nigerian tax money
> LA Sheriff to be protested
> Source of cult's Florida funding questioned
> Keith Henson bankrupty hearing March 10 2006
> Scientology in Ukraine
> Garofalo promotes Scientology program
> Baby Suri at California Cult Compound?
> Archived historical documents
> Dianetics birthday
> Super Power in 2007
> Scientology a Good Neighbor
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> Critic's Information abused
In the past the cult has released personal information of targets besides Tory to fringe elements of society who are not Scientologists.
On May 1, 2006, John Dorsay posted the following:
Tory's personal contact information was posted to bondage newsgroups by the lowlife lying scumbag who posts here as Truth Seeker/ Chess Master.
*That* is the sad truth.
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> Cult Celebrity spurs California Legislation
On May 4, 2006 E! Online reported:
http://www.eonline.com/News/firstlook.html?fdnews
"CRUISING FOR A BRUISING: Inspired by Tom Cruise's purchase of an ultrasound machine to monitor baby Suri in utero, California Democratic Assemblyman Ted Lieu proposing a bill banning manufacturers in the state from selling, leasing or distributing the imaging devices to anyone but a licensed medical professional. "If someone sees Tom Cruise buy one, they think this is the thing to do," Lieu said. Um, no--not everyone's sipped the Kool-Aid. "
Not amazing is that his wealth allowed him purchase of a medical device that is only meant for diagnosis, not as a toy. Less amazing is that a bill has been written to close that possiblity in others that KNOW medicine BETTER than Physicians, or at least the claim.
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from the Sydney Morning Herald:
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/05/05/1146335911179.html
Meanwhile Democrat Ted Lieu thinks Cruise went too far when announced he had bought an ultrasound machine to see images of Suri before she was born.
The Californian politician is introducing a bill in the California Assembly which would ban manufacturers in the state from selling, leasing or distributing the imaging device to anyone but a licensed medical professional.
"There's really no medical reason for an untrained person to use this machine," he said. "
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> Scientology using Nigerian tax money
The cult is receiving tax money in Nigeria to run its programs in schools.
Posted May 3, 2006 from
http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=47101
ETF Seeks to ‘Make Every Child a Learner’
This Day (Nigeria)
2.5.2006
By Bukola Olatunji, 05.02.2006
“It is critical that students of any age are able to acquire information in a way that they are able to use. This is not possible except a child knows how to learn.” This was the submission of Ms. Benneta Slaughter [Benetta Slaughter], Chief Executive Officer of Applied Scholastics International, whose organisation, courtesy of the Education Trust Fund (ETF), is currently training about 100 master teachers in Akure, the Ondo State capital.
Tagged, ‘Applied Scholastics Teaching Technology Master Training Workshop’, it is a collaboration between three organisations - the ETF (sponsors), MaCrae and Co (project Consultants) and Applied Scholastics International (Technical experts for the training).
Briefing the press in Akure recently, Chairman of the ETF, Mrs, Olutoyin Olakunri said the workshop was, among other things, aimed at improving the quality of teaching deliverables in Nigeria by training teachers in Applied Scholastics teaching methodology.It all started in May 2003 when the ETF approached MaCrae and Co to work together to achieve the former’s mission of enhancing the quality of education in the country.
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In June 2004, ETF officially commissioned Macrae and Co to implement a pilot programme on Applied Scholastics, which commenced two months later with the training of 120 teachers from the 36 states.
Seventy-seven of the participants at the Akure training, which began on April 6 and ends on May 19, were drawn from Colleges of Education and university Faculties of Education across the six geo-political zones of the country. The remaining 23, mostly classroom teachers, were selected from the 120 that participated in the initial basic training.
The goals of the training were, to improve the quality of teaching deliverables in Nigeria, ensure sustainability of the teaching programme by training Master trainers, institutionalise Applied Scholastics into the Nigerian educational system, reduce the number of school drop outs and boost teacher morale.
The three collaborating partners are keen to ensure that Applied Scholastics Teaching Technology is entrenched and institutionalised in the Nigerian educational system.
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Mallam Aliyu Mohammed Birnin-Kebbi of the Adamu Augie College of Education, Argungu described himself as a “born-again teacher”, saying, “I never knew I lacked the skill to teach. This training is capable of causing a revolution in the country if taken to the grassroot.”
Dr. Olu Atunramu, from the College of Education, Ikere-Ekiti said though he had been teaching for 15 years, he had just realised he was not doing it the right way. “I blamed my students for not doing well. Now I know it is my fault. When I get back, my students will enjoy me because I now know how to get them interested in what I am teaching.” He also thanked ETF, “for using tax payers’ fund the right way.”
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> LA Sheriff to be protested
A Los Angeles County sheriff who has supported Scientology programs is the target of an upcoming protest.
"barbz" posted "Los Angeles action" on May 2, 2006
"Will the Sheriff of Los Angeles County Stop promoting a Criminal Organization?"
SCIENTOLOGY CRITICS AND LEONA VALLEY RESIDENTS ANNOUNCE
PICKET OF SHERIFF LEE BACA'S OFFICE
On May 6, 2006, from 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm, a group of Scientology critics, accompanied by residents of Leona Valley (a small community north of LA) will picket the Monterey Park office of Los Angeles Sheriff Leroy Baca. The protest will then move to 6331 Hollywood Boulevard, which houses the offices of the Church of Scientology's "intelligence and dirty tricks squad," the Office of Special Affairs.
The protesters are demanding that Baca sever his ties to the controversial church and stop promoting its Narconon program, an expensive drug treatment regimen that has been bluntly criticized by medical professionals as scientifically unsound and potentially dangerous. Narconon is often mistaken for Narcotics Anonymous, but the two programs are completely unrelated, and in some ways, diametrically opposed. More information is available at the Narconon-Exposed and Stop-Narconon web sites.
http://Narconon-Exposed.org
http://Stop-Narconon.org
In January 2006, Baca wrote the Los Angeles County Department of Regional Planning to support Narconon's application to open a new faclity in Leona Valley. The residents of that town have made it very clear that they do not want Narconon in their midst. County Supervisor Michael Antonovich has since expressed serious concerns about Narconon, and the planning commission has scheduled an appeal hearing for July 25.
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He also participated in an event sponsored by a Scientology front group, ABLE International, the parent organization of Narconon, where he accepted an award. In 2006, Baca appeared at a fundraiser for another Scientology group, the cynically named "Youth for Human Rights International". Scientology's gross violations of its own members' human rights, and those of its critics, are well documented.
More information about Baca's Scientology ties is available here:
http://Stop-Narconon.org/Baca
For press inquiries or picket information, contact: Barbara Graham [e-mail, phone]
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> Source of cult's Florida funding questioned
On May 1, 2006, "Feisty" posted "Florida Dept of Education/Prison/$cientology Iliteracy"
$cientology recently tried to stop a suicide prevention program from being approved through the Dept of Education. Was that the state board? If so, how is it that they are allowed to be getting literacy business funding through the same organization? That would be disturbing, not to mention so feudal.
Starting here
"Florida Mentoring Partnership"
http://www.flamentoring.org/ *(clone of calmentoring see below)*
Has a program:
"Just Read Florida" (listed as supported by the Florida Dept of Education) - not encouraging -
http://www.justreadflorida.com/
On September 7, 2001, Governor Jeb Bush signed Executive Order 01-260 designating Just Read, Florida! as a comprehensive and coordinated reading initiative.
http://www.justreadflorida.com/community.asp
The "Community" link on the page has groups who support this initiative: :
Florida Literacy Coalition
http://www.floridaliteracy.org/2004/index.html
Established in 1985, The Florida Literacy Coalition (FLC) promotes, supports and advocates for the effective delivery of quality adult and family literacy services in the state of Florida. As a statewide umbrella literacy organization and the host of Florida's State Literacy Resource Center, FLC provides a range of services to support more than 300 adult education, literacy and family literacy providers throughout Florida. Special emphasis is placed on assisting community based literacy organizations with their training and program development needs.
http://www.floridaliteracy.org/2004/about_us.html
More Information About Us
Programs and Services Board of Directors
Staff 2005 Annual Program Report
(Power Point Presentation)
Organizational Members
Organizational members = World Literacy Crusade
listed here:
http://www.floridaliteracy.org/2004/pdf-docs/FloridaLiteracyCoalitionOrganizationalMembers.pdf
and
http://www.floridaliteracy.org/2004/pdf-docs/2006%20Conference%20Program-Final.pdf
p.22 - 2006 upcoming conference May 3-5, 2006 exhibitors = Applied Scholastics, booth #1
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On May 1, 2006, "Feisty" also posted "Florida Faith-based prisons/ FEMA finances VM's?"
Overview:
http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/story?id=1550733&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312
In December 2003, Gov. Jeb Bush converted the medium-security Lawtey Correctional Institution into the nation's first entirely faith-based prison At Lawtey, 28 different religions are represented - Christianity, Orthodox Judaism, Wicca, Scientology. Since Gov. Bush oversaw the conversion of Lawtey, Florida's Department of Corrections has opened two more faith- and character-based prisons - one for inmates serving long sentences and another that's exclusively for women.
(more news stories below)
Lawtey Correctional Institution (Florida)
http://www.dc.state.fl.us/oth/faith/ci.html
Staff may not attempt to convert inmates toward a particular secular, faith or religious viewpoint or affiliation. Except as provided by law, state funds may not be expended on programs that further religious indoctrination, or on inherently religious activities such as religious worship, religious instruction or proselytization.
Here's the $cientology link:
Lawtey Correctional Institution
Volunteer Programs and Activities
http://www.dc.state.fl.us/oth/faith/volunteers.html
"To learn more about becoming a volunteer, please visit the (Volunteer or Internship Opportunities) or (Volunteer Florida) Foundation."
-- Link to (Volunteer Florida Foundation) http://www.volunteerfloridafoundation.org/
$cientology is listed on this webpage under "Emergency Management Volunteers and Donations Partner Agencies"
http://www.volunteerflorida.org/secondgui/links.html
"knock out the psychs" VM's listed
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Despite Criminon being vetoed from the corrections budget by Jeb Bush in May, 2005, I wonder how much federal or state money the $cientology Literacy program gets for recruiting Volunteer Ministers to go into the "faith-based" correctional centers? FEMA is paying for this sort of volunteerism? FEMA budgeted for volunteer programs since 9-11 so $cientology can go into prisons?
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> Keith Henson bankrupty hearing March 10 2006
On April 29, 2006 "Keith Henson" posted:
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WEISSBRODT: OK, can I have your full name, please?
HENSON: Howard Keith Henson.
WEISSBRODT: Thank you. OK. Sit down, Mr. Cook.
COOK: Oh, thank you, Your Honor.
WEISSBRODT: All right. First I just want to deal with some preliminary matters. I got papers filed by the RTC, which I regard as totally inappropriate. I received papers. I even got a motion for sanctions from the RTC.
The RTC is not a party. I note that there's a case called New York News versus Keogh[SP?], 972 Fed. 2d, 42, 2nd Circuit, 1992. There the party tried to intervene, and asked the Court to award sanctions against the plaintiff on the grounds that the complaint made certain allegations concerning him.
The Court found that the nonparty didn't have standing to move for sanctions unless it satisfied the interventions requirement in Rule 24. Coming to its decision, the Court relied on the Supreme Court's reasoning that the central purpose of Rule 11 is to deter business filings . . . that is, baseless filings in the District Court and streamline the administration and procedure in the Federal Court, rather than to reward parties who are victimized by litigation.
Here, the RTC and Mr. McShane aren't parties to the adversary proceeding. They haven't sought to intervene. Their pleadings are stricken by the Court sua sponte pursuant to its authority under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12F, applicable here by Federal Rule of Bankruptcy Procedure 7012, 12B, and while the RTC and McShane don't cite Rule 911, they ask for an award of sanctions from the debtor for a pleading they don't like, and the Court is tempted to issue an Order to Show Cause why the RTC shouldn't be sanctioned for bad-faith filing under the circumstances, when they know they hadn't intervened.
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Now, here's the problem that I have with this situation, Mr. Cook. Your papers don't really address most of the issues that I have concerns about.
I'm trying to fit this situation into the Jersig[??] Standard. And my understanding of the criminal statute is that any member of the group can serve as a plaintiff in this kind of a civil-rights action, and if they prevail, if the group prevails, or if the people prevail, then there can be statutory . . . an award of statutory damages to each plaintiff without a showing that any individual plaintiff was really injured.
In other words, each individual plaintiff doesn't have to show that he or she was injured in any particular way. That one may be injured in one way; one may be injured in another way. One may be injured just because they're a member of this group, and the . . . the concern is how that meshes with willful and malicious injury under Jersich[SP?].
And how the Court can possibly reconcile the two. And your brief doesn't deal with it. It deals with . . . your papers don't deal with it in the sense that I . . . I don't have a complaint, for example, from a specific person showing a specific injury to that person and asking for a specific amount of damages that were caused directly by the injury to that person.
I don't know whether the underlying judgment-first the criminal and then the civil-was based on the required subjective intent to cause injury within the meaning of the 523 standard. [Murmuring in background.]
[...]
But is, for example, taking down somebody's license plate number or putting up the coordinates of the RTC facility a willful and malicious injury to everybody in the group in the context of 523(a)6?
It may be a violation of a criminal statute. I'm not saying it isn't, but how does it fit within the cases under 523(a)6?
What evidence do I have as to the particularized injury that each of these plaintiffs have? How would I measure damages to these plaintiffs? Would I just award the statutory damages, which are not based, really, on any computation of their particularized injury?
There's no computation of their particularized injury here. How does that scheme fit within 523(a)6? [Murmuring in background.]
One person may have been injured, another not, or more than another. But I have no particularizations of the injury, and I have no particularizations of the amount. I just have this statutory scheme, and I've never seen a 523(a)6 case in that context. [Murmuring in background.]
[...]
There is no factual support before the court for the proposition that these particular plaintiffs were actually injured, as that term is used for purposes of 523(a)6, or the amount of their actual injury.
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WEISSBRODT: Right. They're going to now, basically, file their papers all over again, because their papers don't, in my opinion, satisfy a summary-judgment standard. So they're going to basically be filing papers. And I don't want your . . . .
HENSON: [??] [Starting to talk as Weissbrodt continues]
WEISSBRODT: I don't want you to incorporate all this old stuff, so I have to go back and forth between two sets of briefs, Mr. Cook. You should just file a set of papers that I don't have to go back through the old papers and try to . . . .
COOK: I . . . I . . . I certainly understand the Court's concerns, and I'd be . . . . I will honor the Court's concern on that issue.
WEISSBRODT: Thank you. Mr. Henson?
HENSON: Sure. 90 days would be fine.
WEISSBRODT: So that would be September 12. Do you want to reply?
COOK: Yes, sir.
WEISSBRODT: How much time?
COOK: Uh well, the reply should be that bad, but we're going to look at 30 days.
WEISSBRODT: OK, that would be October 12, and, Mr. Cook, you're going to have to help me, because I don't have calendars into November of 2006 yet. So if you would get in touch with Miss Bracegirdle in the summer, she'll give you a date in November for the hearing. I just don't have it yet.
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> Scientology in Ukraine
On May 1, 2006 the third part of a series about Scientology in the Ukraine was posted:
Ukraine
How Much Happiness would you like for Your Money
by Taras Pano
translated from Russian text at
Zerkalo-Nedeli.com
April 8, 2006
[...]
-- Vladimir Petukhov, psychologist, chairman of the board for the Family and Personality Protection Society and FECRIS member
- How far has Dianetics and Scientology spread in Ukraine?
-- It's spread enough through the Dianetics centers. Besides that, once people start taking Dianetics courses, they do their best not to let them out again. You can pay until it hurts. Once your money is gone, you have yourself to offer, your labor.
Our Church of Scientology reports to Moscow. That is a very strong organization. Those who have been to training in the Moscow center say that there is nothing more to do even in New York after studying in Moscow. In Ukraine the Church of Scientology is still in the formative years as a religious organization. But don't let that deceive you. The organization has a definite strategy of infiltration. Like here they've begun to infiltrate in the capacity of Dianetics centers that are engaged in introducing Hubbard's technology on administration. The first wave of infiltration and entrenchment are people in the areas of business or who are acquainted with politicians, that way they can exemplify them as products of their technology. At the next level there is the creation of Dianetics centers, which operate as social organizations. And then the first Church of Scientology appears and begins carrying out a complex program.
- There is this "standard model" of infiltration, so how can the Church of Scientology operate under diverse circumstances in each individual country?
-- That is the point, they can't. They have a strategy and technology to infiltrate society. Everything is licensed. Everything is arranged by the Religious Technology Center. And nothing will be done, written or distributed without a resolution from that center. The Church of Scientology has a strict, hierarchical structure. At its center is the Sea Organization, a small elite -- Religious Technology Center, which controls the right to the "Dianetics" and "Scientology" trademarks, the Church of Scientology International, the international mission and the local missions. But this rigid structure is awash in a mass of associated programs. For example, the program to fight psychiatry is opening up. Its registered as a social organization, distributes information about abuse by psychiatrists, says its goal is fighting them and calls this "fighting for human rights." It should be said though that at the same time a different division of the church would not scorn psychiatrists who published positive results about their work if they were to succeed in obtaining such a result. In Russia, for example, an independent psychiatric center writes laudatory articles about them, but the Serbskiy Institute criticizes their activities. It does not make sense here to uncritically believe all psychiatrists.
[...]
- Does Narconon try to hide its connection to Scientology?
-- They say they have a purely preventive program. In their program of eight stages detoxification is actually in last place. They put the emphasis on their preventive educational measures. In Kharkov the Institute of Postgraduate Education, which makes expert opinions on school programs, gave a negative review to the Narconon program. But the team from regional administration acted to authorize it. The initiator of the program, Marina Gribanova, herself actually believes in it and is very sincere. This is awful, because blind faith does not give room for doubt or for departure from the general line. That is why we call this sort of organization totalitarian.
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- How does a person usually get into the Church of Scientology or into Dianetics courses?
-- For instance, I dropped in at the supermarket in Kharkov. On the counter were books, 70% of them by Hubbard. They grabbed my sleeve and pushed "Dianetics" into my hand. "Do you have higher education?" Yes? Look here, everything you studied is unimportant. You'll find everything in this book, and understand that this is true science. Not a single word about religion. Nobody can tell you this is religion. Besides that, in most cases, if you say they are dealing in religion they'll say we are the Dianetics center. We are a social organization! And the rank-and-file are perfectly sincere. And in this case there is one manager. Sometimes you hear something like, "We are only taking advantage of what Hubbard wrote, but we are not Scientologists." They try to create the impression that Scientology is one thing, but Hubbard's book are another. But that's a lie. They are overstocked. The Hubbard Institute makes the arrangements and the Religious Technology Center stands behind the purity of
technology.
- What about the "Free Zone"? It seems to us they don't have too good a relationship with the Church of Scientology.
-- That organization was one of the first to appear and is mainly engaged in using the commercial version of the technology. They had a consensus with the Church of Scientology worked out a long time ago. The Free Zone does without the religious doctrine and is directed towards people who have a pragmatic view of these things. But the ones who are behind all of this are the same ones. It is just a matter of under which roof they are operating. For example, as a social organization they operate in breach of law. They covertly rent a room and turn it into a Dianetics center. 700 griven a book. Is that a good social organization? And people buy them! And they have another program to process clients -- they say that you have to have this book. You buy it if you are persuaded that this book will solve all your problems. Why shouldn't the solution to all your problems cost 700 griven? People come under the influence and the methods of influence are well-known, described and widely adapted, especially group influence. In Scientology this sort of influence is set up as an assembly line. Unfortunately most people do not readily recognize it in context.
- Why do people go there?
-- This is a club of interests. Whatever reason people have, there is only one purpose, as in any totalitarian organization. They can serve this up to you with any sauce you like depending on your mental state of mind, education or scientific worldview. Whatever it takes to snag you, they snag. For example, if you have an interest in psychology, they "snag" you for testing. Psychology recognizes their "Oxford test" as invalid. Naturally, they don't tell you that. Same as they don't talk about the experiments with engrams that were conducted with the support of the Church of Scientology itself. There they explained there are no engrams. But people go there and will continue to do so. Because someone needs this.
- Why?
-- Money and power. Old as dirt, but it works. In this organization you can actually have a sense of yourself as a superhuman.
We went to the head of the office for religious affairs for Kiev's city administration, Anatoli Lysenko, with questions about the official status of the Church of Scientology in Kiev city.
- Why exactly was the Church of Scientology turned down for registration?
-- At the time the matter about registering the charter of the Church of Scientology with Kiev city was being examined it came to light that from 17 to 18 May 2003, with the assistance of the Russian structural unit of the Church of Scientology ("IHELP" 19-a Galushkina St., Moscow), a management skills training seminary was given in the conference auditorium of the "Turist" hotel complex (2 R. Okipnoi St.)
That event was a violation of art. 24 of Ukraine Law "On freedom of conscience and religious organizations," where it says that clergymen, religious preachers, instructors and other representatives of foreign organizations in which citizens of other countries appear and which take place in Ukraine, may engage in preaching religious beliefs, carrying out religious rites or other canonical activity only in those religious organizations from whom they have received an invitation, and with the official coordination of state organs with whom the charge (status) of the corresponding religious organization has been registered.
That event took place without informing the appropriate state organs and without their permission.
On February 18, 2004 Kiev citizen V.M. Pushkin filled out an application in the city government administration in which he asked that the activities of the Scientology center be stopped, and he based this on the negative influence the Church of Scientology activities had had upon his daughter. After taking courses at that church she gave the director of the center 1,500 griven. After her father intervened and appealed to the Denprovsky district prosecutor of Kiev city, the money was returned to the family.
In this way, one may consider that the establishment of a fixed sum of payment for receiving auditing and study of Scientology scripture in agreement with established church fees are a compulsory imposition upon believers and a violation of art. 18 of the Ukraine Law "On freedom of conscience and religious organizations."
Art. 4 of the Ukraine Law "On freedom of conscience and religious organizations" proclaims equal rights for citizens regardless of their attitude toward religion. Restrictions for the citizen who expresses a desire to attain a higher level of perfection through Scientology but who does not have the means to pay the Church's "voluntary donations" puts him in an unequal position to other people and violates his right to freedom of conscience, this is proclaimed in art. 3 of Ukraine Law "On freedom of conscience and religious organizations."
Taking into account the interpretation provided by article 15 of the Ukraine Law "On freedom of conscience and religious organizations," Kiev's city government administration passed order No. 1774 of September 23, 2004 "On the denial of registration for the charter of the religious community 'Church of Scientology City of Kiev."
The order does not violate the citizen's rights guaranteed by the Constitution of Ukraine, the Declaration on State Sovereignty of Ukraine or the standards for international rights recognized by Ukraine, the social justice, equality and protection of rights and legal interests of citizens regardless of their attitude toward religion, and provides for the observation of the obligations of religious organizations by state and society.
- The Church of Scientology has received a quite positive expert opinion from the religious studies department of the Institute of Philosophy of Ukraine's National Academy of Science. Could this influence the decision for registration?
-- In response to inquiry No. 015-1012 of 14 December 2005 from deputy chairman V. Ilgova of Kiev's city government administration to correspondent-member National Academy of Science (NAS) Ukraine, the director of G. Skovorody Institute of Philosophy NAS Ukraine, doctor of philosophical science professor M. Popuvich with regard to the official conclusion of G. Skovorody Institute of Philosophy NAS Ukraine about the religious and cult practices of the Church of Scientology, an answer was received from the deputy director of the department of religious studies of the G. Skovorody Institute of Philosophy NAS Ukraine, A. Kolodny, of July 2, 2005, ser. no. 37, that said Scientology was a complicated phenomena, but in its operations Scientology went beyond the limits of that which would be called a religious cult. Thus a definitive determination on the Church of Scientology as a religious community in Ukraine does not exist.
- Don't they consider the operations of this religious organization as those of a destructive cult?
-- The terms "totalitarian sect" and "destructive cult" do not exist in the legislation of Ukraine, so therefor the answer to your question does not fit in the competency of the main administration.
to be continued ...
The second part, posted the prior week, featured an interview with:
-- Yekaterina Penkova, Public Affairs Officers for Church of Scientology Kiev.
- Why is the Church of Scientology not registered in Ukraine as a religious organization?
-- In 2004 we submitted documents to the city administration for registration and received a rejection. Just recently we tried to register with the State Department for Issues of Religion, but they took away the documents.
- Why?
-- We understand that they refused us -- the situation for us is not favorable now. Unfortunately the decision in the Department was not very objective.
- Why don't you take them to court?
-- We don't want to. It is expensive and takes a long time. Indeed, our court system is not very perfect -- we understand that we would have to go through all the court hearings and that the result would be incomprehensible. For example, the Moscow Church had to go to the European Court for Human Rights. The judgment is supposed to be released next year. We'll be waiting for it, and because it's a European court, its decision will undoubtedly reflect on the situation in Ukraine. We are ready to cooperate and work within the framework of the state's requirements. But we were asked about our registration. You are there, and we don't bother you. It's not essential to register under Ukraine law.
- So why aren't you registered? You are there and nobody is bothering you.
-- We would like to get the status of legal person. Then we would have more opportunities. We would be able to rent a respectable office, and print material. Not have problems with getting packages from overseas. Sometimes books arrive at the customs office and we, not being a legal person, are not able to retrieve them.
- So far as we know, the Church of Scientology operates not only as a church, but also the Dianetics Center, which has the status of social organization. Are they in a position to fulfill the necessary legal formalities?
-- This is not correct. We are still a religious, not a social, organization. The practice of registering religious organizations as social organizations exists in Russia, where there is a common law for religious and social organizations. We are a religion and should be registered as religion. We have a religious cult -- we conduct baptismal ceremonies, funerals, weddings and we practice auditing. This is a spiritual practice. This, by the way, is written in the expert opinion of the Institute of Philosophy, Ukraine National Academy of Science.
- And who commissioned the study?
-- This study was done for the Church of Scientology. We did it in preparation to submit documents for registration. We were told that the matter first had to be researched. The city administration told us that the expert appraisal would not happen -- we did not have a chance. So we took it to the Institute of Philosophy.
- Are there many Scientology communities in Ukraine?
-- In Ukraine Scientology, despite the official non-acknowledgment, is spreading energetically. We have 20 religious communities in various Ukraine regions. Those are only the communities of the Church of Scientology. The biggest ones are in Kiev, Kharkov, Kremenchug, Odessa and Uzhgorod. There are nearly 3,000 practicing Scientologists in Kiev, and several thousand in Kharkov. Besides that we have social organizations that are engaged with a few other operations. It's important that you understand the difference: there is the religion of Scientology and then there are social organizations that are built on the methods of Lafayette Ron Hubbard in different areas.
- And what kind of people go to Scientology?
-- All kinds. Scientologists are relatively young, on the average between 20 and 50 years old. Basically, of course, these are people with a high level of education, since Scientology, although it is for everyone, but not everyone can read a book and delve into the terminology.
- What social organizations associated with the Church of Scientology operate in Ukraine?
-- Narconon, for example. This organization is involved in giving lectures about harm from drugs in schools and universities. Now these lectures have received approval in the Ministry of Education and Science, the Ministry for Youth Affairs and the Ministry of Health. We've received excellent press. Everybody recognizes their effectiveness. Statistics show that in the Kharkov region where the lectures are given, the level of drug addiction is receding compared to other regions. These lectures -- and they are being given in all the Kharkov schools -- are based on the methods of Lafayette Ron Hubbard.
- When these lectures are given with the ministry's approval, are people told these are the methods of Ron Hubbard?
-- Well, these are not entirely Hubbard's methods. The lectures are based on the methods of Ron Hubbard. There is a spot in the lectures that talks about this. Experts rate it highly.
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> Garofalo promotes Scientology program
Janeanne Garofalo goes gonzo promoting Scientology-linked program
http://www.cultnews.com/index.php/2006/05/01/janeanne-garofalo-goes-
gonzo-promoting-scientology-linked-program/
http://tinyurl.com/kmnho
Posted in Miscellaneous at 3:58 pm by Rick Ross
Apparently Air America Radio talk show host Janeanne Garofalo has gone gonzo for the Scientology-linked program "New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Project."
Has Garofalo gone gonzo?
On Friday April 28th Garofalo did her second show segment in the same month to promote the program based upon the teachings of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. This time the host of Majority Report allotted a 17-minute spot, for what came across as something like an infomercial.
CultNews previously reported about another Garofalo last April show promoting Tom Cruise's pet project in New York, which included Scientologist and sitcom star Leah Remini.
This time Ms. Janeanne had no Scientology celebrity, but practically chanted the Web site address of the controversial project and its phone number.
The talk-show host was like some pre-recorded device, pitching questions to Jim Woodworth, so that the project's head could hold forth with Hubbardisms.
And this isn't the first time Woodworth has run a controversial health program.
HealthMed, cited within the seminal article "Scientology: The Cult of Greed" by Time Magazine was run by Woodworth and had a history of controversy, as reported within a series of articles published by the LA Times. Doctors in the "Sunshine State" accused HealthMed of making "false medical claims" and "taking advantage of the fears of workers and the public about toxic chemicals and their potential health effects, including cancer."
Now it appears Woodworth may be attempting to do the same thing in New York, with increasing help coming from Janeanne Garofalo through Air America.
Doesn't anyone at this network read newspapers or bother to use the Internet?
It has been repeatedly reported that Woodworth and his project were officially dumped by FDNY. Its chief medical officer Dr. Kerry Kelly told the New York Times that there is no "objective evidence" to support Woodworth's bizarre claims that his subjects somehow sweat out toxins.
Never mind.
Garofalo/Woodworth, working like partners introduced "fireman/lawyer" Pete Gleason, who offered his personal testimonial. But that's subjective "evidence."
Eventually Gleason admitted that the detoxification project has no official recognition or status with NYFD.
Woodworth explained that the process he promotes often called the "purification rundown," which is something of a "religious ritual" amongst Scientologists, is a regimen of sauna stints combined with ingested doses of niacin and what housewives call "cooking oil."
[...]
In Ireland Professor Michael Ryan, head of the pharmacology department at a university, said the purification rundown is "not supported by scientific facts" and "not medically safe" reported the Irish Times.
[...]
"Majority Report" fans don't appear too happy and response to Woodworth wasn't good, based upon the sentiments expressed at its blog.
"I lost all respect for this show tonight. Why are they pumping up Scientology and junk science?"
"I wasn't really listening to the Scientology guy. It sounded like he kept saying he needed more funding. Is he trying to scam some faith-based initiative money?"
"Is there a specific program in the Majority Report studio to keep the television tuned to the Sci-Fi Channel?"
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MSNBC reported:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12583654/
Garofalo gushes over Scientology-linked project
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Even some fans of Janeane Garofolo's radio work were turned off by her praise for the project.
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> Baby Suri at California Cult Compound?
On May 2, 2006, "Neil C" posted a communication from "blownforgood:"
blownforgood wrote:
It is funny that Wal-Mart was mentioned here. You will never guess where the INT Base guys did their baby junk shopping for Suri at? Yes- it is true! Looks like Suri might be heading up to the INT BASE if she aint there now. Hillary was the one who had to go pick up all of the baby crap and she actually went to Wal-Mart to get it! Little does Tomknow, he is giving them millions in cash and is set to give them a cool 50 million from MI:3, and they go to Wal-Mart to get his baby stuff. Well Hillary really would know how to find baby stuff right. Super Wal-Mart is as good as any other place right?
On Dave and Shelly having kids - No they do not have kids. Whatever person hired a PI and this person said they had kids was wrong. If they do have kids, they sure have kept it very low key and Shelly did not get pregant in order to have them. Shelly slaves for Dave full time. Although it looks like she has gone off the lines a bit and is more low key lately - probably dealing with Tom and Katie more than anything.
In terms of the Int Base going off for rewards. You are kidding right? The Int Base has not gone off for rewards in years! Even the last few christmas years not one dau wasgiven for a day off. They got the required 4 hours to go shopping at that was it. With Super Wal-Mart now open - All base staff can do their christmas shopping there!
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Also if the press catch on to the fact that this is where Suri is at? Oh boy, then the press show up and then there are protesters there. This would be a total freakout for DM. The people under him would be shitting bricks ful time. Rinder would probably be up all night for days solving this one!
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> Archived historical documents
A number of links were posted with historical documents that are archived online:
Muldoon posted:
[Hubbard's 2nd wife Sara writes to author Paulette Cooper.]
In 1972, this letter was stolen from author Paulette Cooper's New York apartment, photocopied, and returned to her apartment. It ended up in Scientology's extensive file on Paulette Cooper, which was brought to light as a result of the issuing of Federal search warrants on the Scientology cult.
http://www.whyaretheydead.net/krasel/aff_sn.html
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"Jeff Jacobsen" posted:
[Co$ incorporation papers]
http://www.lisamcpherson.org/scans/incorporations.htm
If you know where any other Co$ entity incorporation papers are, let me know.
[The First Mother Church: Church of American Science, 1953]
It says so right in the document! So when did the Church of Scientology of California become the "mother church"?
"Povmec" posted:
Some documents at Roger Gonnet's web site:
http://www.xenufrance.net/index-eng.htm#1
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> Dianetics birthday
On May 6, 2006 Dave Touretzky posted "Biloxi Mission open house May 9, 2006" from:
http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/living/14505723.htm
SunHerald.com -- South Mississippi's Home Page
Scientologists plan open house
'Dianetics' 56th year to be honored
By JEAN PRESCOTT
BILOXI - The Church of Scientology, Gulf Coast Mission, will celebrate the 56th anniversary of the publication of L. Ron Hubbard's "Dianetics" with an open house from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday at the mission in Vieux Marché.
Denise Quint and her husband, Mike Quint, a local optometrist, run the mission. She said: "Certainly there will be refreshments and an anniversary cake. And there will be literature available," but at the heart of it will be a video, "showing all day about Dianetics and the reactive mind and how you can rid yourself of the reactive mind."
[...]
The study of Dianetics and membership in the Church of Scientology are separate and distinct, Denise said.
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> Super Power in 2007
A description of Super Power that reminded a.r.s. posters of Hubbard's science fiction implant stations was posted from the St. Petersburg Times on May 6, 2006
from:
http://www.sptimes.com/2006/05/06/Northpinellas/Scientology_nearly_re.shtml
Scientology nearly ready to unveil Super Power
In the works for decades, the closely guarded spiritual training program will be revealed in Clearwater.
By ROBERT FARLEY, Times Staff Writer
Published May 6, 2006
CLEARWATER - Matt Feshbach believes he has super powers. He senses danger faster than most people. He appreciates beauty more deeply than he used to. He says he outperforms his peers in the money management industry.
He heightened his powers of perception in 1995 when he went to Los Angeles and became the first and so far only “public” Scientologist to take a highly classified Scientology program called Super Power.
Where in L.A. did he do this?
“Just in Los Angeles,” is all Feshbach will say. Super Power is that secret.
Under wraps for decades, Super Power now is being prepped for its eventual rollout in Scientology’s massive building in downtown Clearwater. That will be the only place worldwide where the program, much anticipated by Scientologists, will be offered.
A key aim of Super Power is to enhance one’s perceptions - and not just the five senses we all know - hearing, sight, touch, taste and smell.
Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard taught that people have 57 “perceptics.” They include an ability to discern relative sizes, blood circulation, balance, compass direction, temperature, gravity and an “awareness of importance, unimportance.”
[...]
Super Power uses machines, apparatus and specially designed rooms to exercise and enhance a person’s so-called perceptics. Those machines include an anti-gravity simulator and a gyroscope-like apparatus that spins a person around while blindfolded to improve perception of compass direction, said the former Scientologists.
A video screen that moves forward and backward while flashing images is used to hone a viewer’s ability to identify subliminal messages, they said.
[...]
Feshbach now lives in Belleair, where his wife, Kathy, runs a Scientology mission. Because he donated millions to the Super Power building fund, he was invited to undergo the program.
It’s geared toward creating a “more competent spiritual being,” he said. “I’m not dependant on my physical body to perceive things.”
[...]
Former Scientologists Bruce Hines and Chuck Beatty, once staffers at the church’s international base in Hemet, Calif., said that while on punishment detail, they made chairs of various sizes - ones big enough for a giant, others too small even for a child - that were set up in a room designed to hone one’s sense of relative sizes.Hines also said the Super Power program, which Hubbard wanted rolled out in 1978, met with delays during the 20-plus years that it was being piloted on church staffers.
One setback occurred when the church checked back on the staffers who had been through Super Power. It turned out, Hines said, many had left the church - hardly the expected outcome.
“The fact that it was around in 1978 and it’s still not worked out 28 years later, that’s pretty significant,” Hines said.
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The Super Power program will be ready to go the moment the new building is completed, he said. Scientology officials promise that will be 2007.
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> Scientology a Good Neighbor
On May 6, 2006 "memerider" posted "New DC location for COS".
I saw a bit on TV where the DC church is expanding to a larger building, and the news reporters set out to find what people in the neighborhood think. It was all positive, except one woman who complained that she walks on the sidewalk in front of the church a lot and they have repeatedly invited her in for a tour over the years. I was a little surprised that no one had anything much negative to say and the majority thought they are good neighbors and welcome them.
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