When the Spotlight Hits Scientology
Magoo
This person has put TONS of money into Scientology, for years,
and finally they did their typical Crap, that offended this person
to the point where they began watching my video, and reading.
This person told me suddenly so much came to light.
I told him it's a lot like that: You're in the dark, flipping off various
"Outpoints"...until one day SOMETHING happens that is just too
big, too wrong, too much NOT Ok with you, that you cannot just flip
it off.
It's almost like a huge spotlight comes onto *That* (Whatever that
may be)...but suddenly, you're ready to LOOK, listen, Read, Learn.
Once the spotlight begins to shine, ALL of that yard that was sort of in
black and white............now it' all gets illuminated.
What a view!
This person is *really* learning a bunch. Granted, it's not easy at the
start....but they're very thankful to each person who has helped expose and
shine the light on this insidious CULT.
Thanks to all :)
Tory/Magoo~~Your local, Friendly, SP
In Scientology for 30 years, out happily for 6 years!
X-Sea Org, X-Staff, X-OT 7, X-Class 4 auditor, X-OSA Volunteer after 20
years (Mostly in PR)
X-Top Secret OSA Int Internet Mafia, Until I realized what they were really
doing and soon after left C of S forever.
For thinking and speaking my mind, Scientology declared me
a "Suppressive Person" (SP 6 ^Cumulative Cluster :)
& Expelled me from The Church of $cientology :)
Free at LAST!
www.xenu.net (What Scientology Doesn't want you to know)
www.xenutv.com (Excellent videos)
www.torymagoo.org (My writings about Scientology from ARS)
www.lermanet.com/cos/toryonosa.htm (Top Secret Int Mafia)
or Type in Scientology in Google
(Read, Look, Listen, Make up your ~own~Mind)
mag...@charter.net
Burbank, CA
(818) 841-3632
"They, who give up essential liberty
to purchase a little temporary safety,
deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-- Benjamin Franklin
Susan
Thanks,
Susan
"Magoo" <mag...@charter.net> wrote in message
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Magoo
Susan" <enlighte...@ca.rr.com> wrote in message
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> Simply wonderful that you are there for all of these folks, Tory.
Yeah...as I told him: I've been able to help *way* more people while out,
than I was ever able to help when I was "in"...and that was my only real
goal while in Scientology.
Do you think they had any time to help me with that? Naw....
"Pay up, get others to pay up, or shut up".
They routed me out of the Sea Org, telling me I was "unfit"
due to taking medication. (Later a top Exec told me that
was utter BS and should have never happened).
They Cancelled the "non-Sea Org" Staff contract I had where I was auditing
at CC and AOLA.(Both of these were in the '70's)
They paid me $26,000 in Training Awards which they still owe me, for helping
"handle" Clearwater, in 1979....but have never paid that.
Then I tried putting on Dianetic Seminars, in the '80's, and they cancelled
*that* unit, declaring Riggs Eckleberry an SP (Which they later rescinded,
years later after it had all fallen apart).
Later I worked for RPR (Ron's Public Relations office)---setting up Dianetic
Radio Talk Interviews, and helped get Dianetics to # 1 with that. They
cancelled that group, saying "The Sea Org could do it". (Once they realized
they could not, they tried re-hiring all of us, but we'd moved on and gotten
other jobs, plus our trust in them had dropped to zero).
I helped them with The Wollersheim case (volunteer--I've told Larry I was
very sorry for that) and the RICCO case (David Mayo), and other legal cases
for about one year in the late '80's, volunteering for OSA. Then when I went
to get onto OT 4 at FLAG, I was told: "You are not allowed on the Flag Land
Base!" ((by a 15 year old Italian Kid)). Doing the Taxi Routine ("You talkin
to ME?" --looking around and back at him, "Are you talking to ME?") He
finally went into Doubt, got the Tech Sec, who agreed when she'd heard all
I'd done, that was wrong, and I was OK to be on the Flag Land Base. (Years
later, when I left Scientology forever, I found out why: They'd killed a man
with Epilepsy-which I have, although totally controlled by medication---by
taking him off his medication)).
When they insisted, once more, that I do the same---I fought them all the
way to RTC, and got a Senior C/S Int Bulletin written about medication, with
me as the top example: And ALL of the tech team at Flag were
'crammed"/Corrected on their MU's.
In the '90's I got onto OT 7, and at that point I began seeing many things:
1) The "Tech" didn't really work, for me, or MANY other "OT's" who had
physical problems: AT ALL.
2) Scientology could be bought, with enough $
((see my write ups about WISE and Bill Bowen ripping off my
now x-husband and his partner, finally via arbitration getting
it ALL agreed Bill did have to pay $150,000 to both, and then
over NIGHT the entire Policy was "Cancelled". www.torymagoo.org))
3) The OT 8's were worse off than we screwed up OT 7's were.
4) Scientology didn't really care about anyone except those with $$$
5) Having written up to the top tech people, RTC, and DM telling them OT 7
didn't work for me, I had huge problems I needed to handle and shouldn't be
even on OT 7----they had zero time for me: "Ok Continue" was all I ever got
for 7 long years, until I finally realized THE ONLY WAY OUT IS: LEAVE!
Having quit OT 7 personally....I then decided I could do what I really came
into Scientology to do, 30 years earlier: Get trained up to Class 8 and help
people. (I'd gotten off my path when told I wasn't qualified to be in the
Sea Org, in 1972, supposedly written by Ron--which I later found out was
just written by some Sea Org girls: "Continue in the HGC and we'll see you
up the line". That for me turned me from the auditor I wanted to be, to a PC
trying to fix ME. I kept getting trained, but never got to do the Briefing
Course, which I had paid for since the early '70's).
Ok, so now (2000) I route onto the Student Hat, Golden Age of Tech style,
and realize "the Tech" has been TOTALLY altered by DM,
(With The Golden Age of Tech/Crap) and there's NO WAY I could do the
Briefing Course that way.
(((It's all memorization, and that's the one thing that I loved about
Scientology: Hubbard was against memorization, so I was able to learn. Now?
Forget it!))
My final attempt was helping my auditor, Bill Yaude, Try to "Handle the
critics on the Internet".
Being a "True Believer", I trusted him that they were "Doing the right
thing" and I did go open up some phony Internet accounts.
www.lermanet.com/cos/toryonosa.htm
(For the full story). Note, once I agreed to help him, he told me he had to
remove something from my computer: The Net Nanny! So that was another
shock). Also, that gave me an opening to read the Net, although terrified of
it due to my friend going crazy, and Bill lying telling me, "It was due to
she reading the Internet, Tory"--I didn't.
(Her story is on www.xenu.net "Catherine's Story")
This little group seemed VERY weird to me, and they began acting like the
mafia, ( I began wondering, "Did DM Hire some real mafia guy, Gavino, to
take out the critics?) so I finally decided to go LOOK on the Net and SEE
what it was they were doing, (Which I'd never done before, due to Bill lying
to me, telling me it was WAY to "Enturbulative for you, Tory"). Since he was
my auditor, and I truly trusted him, I didn't.
Now seeing that tons of accounts were spamming ARS with
recopies..............I realized "OH MY GAWD! OSA is using those accounts to
STOP FREE SPEECH.
Suddenly, I felt like I was in the movie "Pleasantville" and *I* was turning
from black and white to in color.
What a shock. I called Bill to tell him simply: "I cannot keep doing this".
He was very nice, said "ok, no problem, let's meet tonight, and you can
de-brief us".
When I walked into the dim apartment, with all men in it, and the door came
crashing open, with Gavino (The Head OSA person for this clandestine group)
yelling, "I TOLD YOU ABOUT HER!"
I *knew* something was VERY wrong.
About one hour later, I ran out crying, with Bill trying to catch me, and me
saying "It's OVER Bill!"
And it was.
Some months later, by myself in my dining room, totally out of touch with
Yaude due to my upset with his treasonous attack some months earlier, I
began posting on a message board, still trying to help JT, and there I met
the critics. I'd met them in person, but this was on-line. I even got that
message board cancelled, all by myself, but then I missed the critics, and
that's when I began making utterly weird posts....tons of them....on ARS in
June-July of 2000. I made 4,000 posts in 4 weeks...and that's when I met
Andreas there, and realizing he *wasn't* "The Devil" that OSA had told me he
was, that began my own wanting to know, "What else do they know?" The rest
IS history.
I've been able to help people ever since I left Scientology, and that has
been delightful.
All the best to all the critics who have helped so many get free, myself
included!
Happy Holidays~~:)
Tory/Magoo~~
Susan
Whoa, I never knew that. Is there any information about this person?
Thanks,
Susan
Magoo
There is, but I'm not sure where. I know I found it on the Net, soon after I
left C of S forever. It explained SO much to me,
and others have confirmed it, since.
>
> Thanks,
You're welcome...
Tory/Magoo~~
Magoo
I typed in "Flag Deaths+Epilepsy" In Google. Here ya go:
For Some Scientologists, pilgrimage has been fatal
By LUCY MORGAN
St. Petersburg Times, published December 7, 1997
CLEARWATER -- From around the world, they come to Clearwater, looking for
answers. Week after week, they are drawn to the Church of Scientology,
seeking to improve or rebuild their lives.
But for a few of these pilgrims, the search has ended in death. Since 1980,
at least eight members of the Church of Scientology have died in Clearwater
under circumstances that leave their friends, families and in some cases law
enforcement authorities looking for their own answers. "We are getting old,"
said Mary Frei, the mother of a young man from Switzerland who died while
staying at the church to receive counseling. "We'd like to have the truth
about what happened. But I don't know. Maybe we'll never get it."
Two of the deaths occurred at Scientology's Fort Harrison Hotel (Times file
photo at top), including Josephus A. Havenith's. He was found dead in his
room's bathtub. An autopsy report lists his death as "probable drowning."
The most prominent of these cases is Lisa McPherson, a 36-year-old woman who
died Dec. 5, 1995. After 17 days at Scientology's Fort Harrison Hotel, she
was finally taken to a hospital by church staff where she was pronounced
dead soon after her arrival. Police and prosecutors are wrapping up an
investigation that could result in criminal charges. But an extensive review
by the St. Petersburg Times has turned up seven other Scientologists in
apparently sound health who died suddenly after coming to Clearwater for
training or counseling.
In four of those deaths, like McPherson's, relatives or law enforcement
officials suspect that the church's health regimen or its opposition to
psychiatric care precluded appropriate medical care. The deaths examined by
the Times include:
Margarit Winkelmann, 51, who walked fully clothed into Clearwater Bay and
drowned herself in January 1980 after she quit taking Lithium and started
taking vitamins and minerals recommended by the church.
Josephus A. Havenith, 45, who died in February 1980 at the Fort Harrison
Hotel in a bathtub filled with water so hot it burned his skin off.
Andreas Ostertag, 38, head of the Scientology mission in Stuttgart, Germany,
who apparently drowned while swimming to a sailboat anchored off of Fort
Desoto Park in 1985. Reports published in Germany earlier this year raised
questions about the death.
Peter E. Frei, 37, who was found floating in a Dunedin waterway in June 1988
several days before the Church of Scientology reported him missing from his
room at the Fort Harrison Hotel.
Heribert Pfaff, 31, who died of an apparent seizure in the Fort Harrison
Hotel in August 1988 after he quit taking medication that controlled his
seizures and was placed instead on a program of vitamins and minerals.
Roger Nind, 49, a Scientologist who was reportedly trying to get a $70,000
refund, arrived in Clearwater from Australia in October 1992 and was killed
in an accident on Cleveland Street the next day.
Carrie Slaughterbeck, 23, who was found dead in her Clearwater apartment in
March 1997 after receiving nutritional counseling from a prominent
Scientologist who sells Super Blue Green Algae, a dietary supplement.
Scientology officials say these deaths are isolated cases. Statistically,
they say, the death rate among the many thousands of visitors to their
Clearwater headquarters is no higher than the death rates among Catholics,
Lutherans or members of other religious denominations.
The cases, Scientology officials charge, are connected only by the
ill-formed suspicions of critics, including Clearwater police, Scientology
defectors and the news media.
"Scientology helps people," insisted Ben Shaw, director of the Clearwater
Office of Special Affairs. "It's generally for those who are able, to make
them more able."
But even in apparently routine deaths, the Scientologists act in such
controlling ways that they raise the hackles and suspicions of the police.
Consider the 1996 death of Arthur Orwat, a 69-year-old lung cancer patient
whose death was expected.
Clearwater police reports say Scientology caregiver Judy Goldberr-Weber told
officers that she did not immediately call 911 when Orwat appeared to be
dying because she was supposed to first notify church elders.
Almost two hours elapsed before Scientology officials Brian Anderson and
Judy Fontana arrived at Orwat's Hacienda Gardens apartment and called 911.
Clearwater police say they routinely encounter church officials at the scene
of any incident involving Scientologists.
Scientology spokesman Ben Shaw vehemently insists that church officials
never alter circumstances or otherwise interfere in scenes of members'
deaths. But Shaw and Anderson could not explain why two Clearwater church
officials were summoned to the scene of a cancer patient's death before
police were called.
"I got a call that Arthur Orwat died and I went to the Hacienda," Anderson
said.
* * *
Lawyer Lee Fugate of Clearwater, who represents the church, blames the
controversy surrounding McPherson's death on the German government, which
has been in a heated battle with Scientology's German chapters in recent
years.
German television reporters, Fugate says, a year ago raised questions about
whether Ostertag's drowning in 1985 was actually a homicide. Fugate believes
the questions caused local authorities to pursue the McPherson
investigation. Pinellas County officials had ruled the Ostertag death a
drowning.
But some Pinellas County officials say all the Scientology deaths would have
gotten more scrutiny if they had occurred today because of what officials
have learned through McPherson's death, years of dealing with the Church of
Scientology and better investigative technology.
"We would handle things differently today," said Paul Maser, deputy police
chief in Clearwater. "We'd be more cautious and we'd talk to more people and
look at the scene in more depth."
Before the McPherson case, Maser said, many officers in his department
considered Scientology overly secretive and aggressive, but posing no
physical danger to its members. Now,
they take a harder look.
Clearwater police are suspicious about the number of 911 calls that come
from rooms at the Fort Harrison Hotel. Police respond to each call only to
be told most of the time by Scientology security guards that the call was a
mistake. Police are not allowed to check individual rooms
where the calls originated.
In the past 11 months, 161 calls to 911 were made from rooms in the hotel,
but each time Scientology security guards said there was no emergency.
Scientology officials say most of the calls are mistakes that occur when
foreign visitors try to dial the international access code, 011, after
dialing a 9 to get an outside line. They are working with police to resolve
the problem, Fugate said.
Some former Scientologists say the deaths, even those that appear
accidental, contribute to a level of fear that keeps members from leaving
the church.
"With no money, frightened and intimidated and knowing that others have
committed suicide, have died in accidents or perhaps been murdered, they
cannot leave," wrote Lawrence Lee Sr., in a 1989 affidavit prepared for a
lawsuit against Scientology. "Without contact with the outside world, they
have no one to turn to for help or protection."
Scientology officials say Lee is wrong. There is no fear among
Scientologists, insists spokesman Ben Shaw, just paranoia among the police.
"Scientology deals with matters of the spirit," says Shaw. "We offer
spiritual gain. Look at the people who come in and are benefitted.
Scientology is about improving conditions."
Scientology has long denounced the practice of psychiatry, blaming it for
various problems. Scientologists are not allowed to take psychiatric drugs
or seek treatment from psychiatrists or psychologists.
But Scientology officials say they would never block members from seeking
medical treatment and have a policy against offering services to members who
are taking mind-altering drugs.
Scientology does not interfere when the member's own doctor has recommended
a course of treatment, Shaw insists.
But at least two of the deaths examined by the Times occurred when a member
quit taking a prescription drug and began a Scientology course designed to
rid the body of drugs and other toxins.
"You just don't want to take people who have been medically treated off of
drugs without contact with the doctor who put them on the drugs and
monitoring," said Margaret Singer, a clinical psychologist and a former
professor at the University of California Berkley. "It's a
very dangerous thing."
Singer is an expert on cults who has often been critical of Scientology.
Dr. Joan Wood, medical examiner in Pinellas County, also questions taking
patients off some medications without adequate support.
After reviewing autopsy reports of the seven deaths at the request of the
Times, Wood said the cause of death may never be known for some of them. In
some cases Wood was not sure what caused the deaths, but could rule out foul
play. With others, Wood thinks more investigation is
needed.
Pasco-Pinellas State Attorney Bernie McCabe said he was unaware of any
Scientology deaths other than McPherson's until the Times asked him about
them.
Margarit Winkelmann, 51
Elvira Borden, a 71-year-old resident of Oak Bluff Apartments in Clearwater,
watched in horror on the morning of Jan. 11, 1980, as a woman ran down the
street toward the Clearwater waterfront.
From her ninth-floor apartment, Mrs. Borden saw Margarit Winkelmann, a
51-year-old visitor from Zurich, walk fully clothed into the water, struggle
back to the shore and then throw herself face down into the water.
By the time police arrived, Mrs. Winkelmann was floating dead in the water,
still clutching a Scientology pamphlet in her hand. Her husband, Ernst
Winkelmann, and other Scientologists told police she had been receiving
psychiatric treatment for years but had come to Clearwater
seeking a Scientology prescribed cure that did not include drugs or
psychiatry.
At the time she died, Mrs. Winkelmann was taking vitamins and minerals
prescribed by Scientology and apparently was on a program designed to clear
her body of toxins.
She seemed to be "progressing," Ernst Winkelmann told police. But earlier in
the week she told him she had felt better when she was taking the Lithium
prescribed by her psychiatrist in Europe. An autopsy found no Lithium in her
bloodstream and determined her death to be a suicide by drowning.
Today Scientology officials say Mrs. Winkelmann probably should not have
been accepted for treatment because of her medical history, but say an
exception may have been made in 1980.
Wood said she believes it would be unwise to take a patient off Lithium
without careful supervision.
Josephus A. Havenith, 45
Josephus A. Havenith was a Dutch citizen living in Munich, Germany, where he
taught music. On Feb. 25, 1980, Havenith had been at the Fort Harrison Hotel
for two months taking counseling and following a regimen of vitamins and
minerals prescribed by Scientology.
A maid said Havenith left a note on his door -- Room 771. It read
"sleeping," so he was not disturbed until later in the day when other guests
discovered that the carpet outside his room was soaked. Inside, the hot
water was still running in the tub.
* * *
At the time, church officials and police told reporters that Havenith was in
his "50s or 60s" and was found dead in bed. In truth, Havenith was found by
the maid lying dead in the bathtub. The water was so hot it had taken the
skin off of his body.
No one is certain when he died.
An autopsy report lists his death as "probable drowning" but notes that his
head was not under water. In 1980 when Havenith died, Florida officials had
little knowledge of the vitamin and mineral programs used by Scientology.
"Is it possible that given whatever was going on in his body, getting into
hot water did something?" asks medical examiner Wood in reviewing the case.
"Perhaps."
With no evidence of a struggle in his room or other foul play, Wood said she
had to presume that some sudden event occurred involving his heart or his
diet.
"We'll never know what happened, the questions remain unanswered," she said.
His body was cremated and shipped home to the Netherlands at the expense of
the Church of Scientology. Family members could not be located.
Andreas Ostertag, 38
Andreas Ostertag, 38, was a longtime Scientologist and head of the church's
mission in Stuttgart, Germany, when it was founded in the early 1970s. His
brother and sister also were prominent Scientologists.
In late 1985 Ostertag was in Clearwater for meetings at Scientology's
spiritual headquarters. On Halloween day Ostertag and Joachim Bender, a
German friend, tried to swim from Fort Desoto Park to the St. Christopher, a
148-foot schooner aground on a sandbar about a
half mile off shore.
Bender, also a Scientologist, told police Ostertag disappeared while
swimming in rough water. Ostertag's body was recovered several days later.
Reports published in Germany earlier this year questioned the death, saying
Ostertag had been summoned to Clearwater by Scientology bosses to answer
questions about financial problems at the Stuttgart mission.
Scientology officials in Clearwater say rumors spread by enemies in Germany
caused people to raise unfounded questions about Ostertag's death. Records
in Clearwater do not include any disciplinary action taken against Ostertag
or explain why he was in Clearwater at the time he
drowned, Scientology officials said.
Peter E. Frei, 37
An off-duty Dunedin police officer was mullet fishing near Victoria Drive in
Dunedin when he noticed a body floating face down near the shoreline on June
30, 1988.
For days, police tried to identify the dead man without success. Then on
July 4, the Church of Scientology reported that Peter Ernst Frei had been
missing since June 29. The Swiss citizen had been in Clearwater taking
courses at the church and was supposed to have returned to
Switzerland on the day his body was found.
Church officials had already cleaned out Frei's room and packed up his
possessions by the time police arrived, but friends told police a valise
with his wallet and other valuables was missing.
Frei's parents say he left home with 20,000 Swiss francs, about $13,000, and
had already paid the church more than 40,000 francs for counseling sessions
before he left home.
While Florida authorities were trying to identify him, Frei's apartment in
Switzerland was burglarized and ransacked, adding to suspicions surrounding
his death. Wood, the medical examiner, went to the scene when Frei was
found. She remains troubled about his death. She attributed it to drowning,
but now says many questions remain. Frei had scrapes on his arm and cuts on
his head and enough fluid in his chest to have drowned. He was wearing shoes
and socks and shorts.
"What's a fully clothed man doing dead in the water?" Wood asked. "Clearly
this death should be reinvestigated. We still don't know what happened."
Frei's parents say he could not swim and would not have gone near the water.
"We have no clue what happened," Scientology spokesman Shaw said. "Most of
the drownings in the U.S. occur in Florida."
Heribert Pfaff, 31
Heribert Pfaff, 31, became a Scientologist after a brother encountered a
sidewalk solicitor who was recruiting students in Munich, Germany.
The decision to join, his family members now believe, was a fateful one.
For a decade after surviving a major car accident, Heribert Pfaff had
suffered severe seizures that often came in the middle of the night. In 1988
Pfaff traveled from his home in Munich to Clearwater to take courses at the
Church of Scientology.
Pfaff's brother, Georg, told the Times that Scientologists in Germany
promised a cure for his seizures and took Pfaff off medication that had
controlled them.
The son of a wealthy German builder, Pfaff checked into Room 758 at the Fort
Harrison Hotel. He had brought about $100,000 to finance his visit, family
members say. His wife, Anita, told police she was staying with friends so
she wouldn't be awakened by the seizures her husband
had been having since he quit taking his medicine.
On Aug. 28, 1988, Pfaff's nude body was found upside down hanging out of his
bed. An autopsy determined that a seizure probably caused his death. No
anti-convulsant drugs were found in his bloodstream.
The $100,000 disappeared, says Georg Pfaff, his brother.
The family had stopped an attempt by Heribert Pfaff to wire transfer another
$150,000 from a family bank account that was requested a few days before his
death.
Georg Pfaff said he discovered after the death that his brother had paid
$26,330 for one Scientology course and $52,000 for another. The church was
only interested in his money, says Georg Pfaff.
Scientology officials say Pfaff's treatment was not recommended by the
church.
"If someone had epilepsy, they should see a medical doctor," Shaw said.
"It was his choice to receive drugs or not."
Another of Pfaff's brothers, Joannes, remains a Scientologist.
Roger Nind, 49
Roger Nind's family says he tried several times to leave the Church of
Scientology and get a refund on the $70,000 he paid for books and courses.
"He attempted to get out, but their clutches were too good for drawing him
back," says his brother William Nind, a contractor in Perth, Australia.
"Each time he went to try and get his money back, they'd offer the next
session free and recharge him with their crazy beliefs."
Nind arrived in Clearwater on Oct. 15, 1992. A day later he lay dying in
Cleveland Street after he ran from between two buildings into the side of a
car.
"What was going on in his mind?" asks Dr. Emile Brand, the retired
Clearwater physician who hit Nind. "It was such a strange case. It is
engraved in my mind. I wondered if he was suicidal. I could understand a man
might want to hurt himself or was under peculiar stress and
would act that way."
Police say Brand was going about 30 mph, accelerating from a stop sign at
the time of the accident and did not see Nind as he stepped into the street.
Brand was not charged and voluntarily took tests to prove he had not been
drinking.
Clearwater police said Nind may have looked the wrong way as he crossed the
street, but Nind's family still questions the accident. "I was suspicious
about the accident," said William Nind. "It seemed odd. He had been to
America before. He was fairly bright. It's odd he would have stepped out in
front of a car."
William Nind said he could never find out if his brother had been alone or
with others when he was hit. His wallet, passport and about $1,000 in cash
was never returned to the family, he said.
Roger Nind remained in a coma for several days before he died in a hospital.
William Nind said Scientologists called him daily in Australia to report on
his brother's condition.
"They said they reached into his mind and he was happy with the way things
were going," William Nind said.
Scientology officials say Nind, a Scientology staffer in Perth, had come to
Clearwater to take courses that were not available in Australia and was the
victim of an accident that was probably caused by his failure to look in the
correct direction as he took a morning jog.
Nind was wearing a leather jacket, black and white striped pants, a brown
belt, gray socks and high-top sneakers. His brother said he often took
morning walks.
Scientology officials say they have no record of Nind asking for refunds,
but did send $7,683.90 back to his relatives in Australia after receiving a
letter asking for his personal effects.
Carrie Slaughterbeck, 23
Carrie Slaughterbeck and Alan Green, her boyfriend, moved together from
Indiana to Clearwater in June 1996 to work for Kim Bright Cassano, a
prominent Scientologist who owns several Clearwater businesses.
Slaughterbeck's parents, Earl and Diane Slaughterbeck of Lafayette, Ind.,
say Cassano became Carrie's nutritional counselor, advising her to take lots
of Super Blue Green Algae, a product Cassano distributes through a
multilevel marketing program.
The algae is harvested from Upper Lake Klamath in Southern Oregon and is
popular among Scientologists in Clearwater. Sales literature promotes it for
everyone -- pregnant women, newborn babies and the family pet. Detractors
describe it as "pond scum."
Carrie Slaughterbeck took as many as 30 algae capsules at a time, says her
twin sister, Sandy Slaughterbeck. She also took other vitamins recommended
by Cassano and signed up for several Scientology courses.
Green now says Cassano was pressuring the couple to sign up for more
expensive Scientology auditing courses and indicated that she encouraged
them to move to Clearwater just so they would join the Church of
Scientology.
As news accounts poured out about the lawsuit surrounding the death of Lisa
McPherson, Green returned home from an overnight trip to Orlando and found
Slaughterbeck dead in their Island Way apartment.
He summoned Cassano to the apartment while police investigated.
There, police spokesman Wayne Shelor asked Cassano if Carrie had been on
Scientology's "purification rundown," a course that includes lots of
running, hours in a sauna and vitamins and minerals.
* * *
Shelor said Cassano angrily denied that Carrie was on the program. At the
time authorities were questioning whether McPherson had been on a similar
program.
Cassano did not return repeated telephone calls.
In an interview with the Times, Scientology officials initially said Carrie
"never set foot into the church in Clearwater," until shown her certificates
of attendance at courses she took in 1996. Ironically, the certificates were
signed by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard,
though he had died in 1986.
Shaw, the Scientology spokesman, said Slaughterbeck must have taken the
courses at a Scientology mission, the smallest organization within
Scientology. He said she asked to take auditing courses but was rejected
because of her past bulimia until she could see a doctor.
Slaughterbeck was 5 feet 9 inches tall and weighed 101 pounds when her body
was found. Family members said she had liked being slim because she thought
it would help her gain modeling jobs.
Medical Examiner Wood attributed Carrie's death to "sudden and unexpected
death -- possible mitral valve prolapse." Carrie did have a heart problem,
identical to the one her twin sister has. The condition exists in about 5
percent of the population and sometimes causes an irregular heartbeat.
Wood said she was unaware that Carrie took blue green algae and doesn't know
what effect it had on her health.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has twice ordered blue green algae off
the market because distributors made medical claims. State and federal
officials continue to question the algae's safety amid complaints from
consumers who say it has caused increased heart rates, breathing
difficulties and other problems.
Officials say there is no evidence that the algae is a health benefit, but
are unable to regulate it as long as it is sold as a food supplement and not
as a drug.
Lisa McPherson
Meanwhile the criminal investigation into Lisa McPherson's death is drawing
to a close. Later this month agents from the Florida Department of Law
Enforcement and Clearwater police expect to meet with McCabe, the prosecutor
who must decide whether anyone faces criminal charges. Investigating
officers believe some church officials who tended McPherson during her final
days should face charges.
McCabe has also indicated he'll take the rather unusual step of hearing from
Scientology lawyers as well before deciding whether to bring charges.
a.. - Times researcher Kitty Bennett and staff writer Alisa Ulferts
contributed to this report.
b.. -----------------------------------------------Copyright 1997 St.
Petersburg Times. All rights reserved.
"Magoo" <mag...@charter.net> wrote in message
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Susan
That's an excellent article. Another well done expose that keeps on giving.
Magoo
I agree...quite informative, isn't it? I'm ever amazed at the wonders of
Google and how quickly things can be found.
Hot! :)
>
> Thanks,
Again, you're most welcome. I'm glad you asked~
Tory/Magoo~~
barbz
valuables! It's surprising that nothing more has been done about this in
Clearwater.
The police aren't allowed in when responding to a 911 call? What kind of
bullshit is this? The "church's" excuse, that it is merely foreigners
trying to get an outside line is baloney, and the CWPD surely must be
aware of that.
--
"I'm for the separation of church and hate."
Barb
Chaplain, ARSCC(wdne)
xenu...@netscape.net
R. Hill
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> >> I helped them with The Wollersheim case (volunteer--I've told Larry I was
> >> very sorry for that) and the RICCO case (David Mayo), and other legal
> >> cases for about one year in the late '80's, volunteering for OSA. Then
> >> when I went to get onto OT 4 at FLAG, I was told: "You are not allowed on
> >> the Flag Land Base!" ((by a 15 year old Italian Kid)). Doing the Taxi
> >> Routine ("You talkin to ME?" --looking around and back at him, "Are you
> >> talking to ME?") He finally went into Doubt, got the Tech Sec, who agreed
> >> when she'd heard all I'd done, that was wrong, and I was OK to be on the
> >> Flag Land Base. (Years later, when I left Scientology forever, I found
> >> out why: They'd killed a man with Epilepsy-which I have, although totally
> >> controlled by medication---by taking him off his medication)).
> >> When they insisted, once more, that I do the same---I fought them all the
> >> way to RTC, and got a Senior C/S Int Bulletin written about medication,
> >
> > Whoa, I never knew that. Is there any information about this person?
>
> There is, but I'm not sure where. I know I found it on the Net, soon after I
> left C of S forever. It explained SO much to me,
> and others have confirmed it, since.
> >
> > Thanks,
>
> You're welcome...
>
> Tory/Magoo~~
Could it be Heribert Pfaff?
http://www.whyaretheydead.net/room758.html
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Susan
"R. Hill" <rh...@xenu-directory.net> wrote in message
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The stark, cold reality of the quack sci fi medicine of the cult of
scientology.
Susan
> snip
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