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Scientology Church Protest Draws Hundreds to Oregon
May 20, 1985, AP, New York Times
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A05E2DD133BF933A15756C0A963948260
Hundreds of members of the Church of Scientology converged in Portland
on Sunday to protest a $39 million fraud judgment against the church..
Tags: Julie Titchbourne, Trial
=====================================
Palo Alto man to pay church $75,000
May 20, 1998, Vicky Anning, Palo Alto Weekly
http://www.paloaltoonline.com/weekly/morgue/news/1998_May_20.INTERNET.html
Court rules that Internet posting violated Scientologists' copyright
Palo Alto engineer Keith Henson was ordered to pay $75,000 to the
Church of Scientology last week after he posted some of the church's
unpublished teachings on the Internet.
Tags: Helena Kobrin, Judge Whyte, Keith Henson
=====================================
Amazon Drops Controversial Book
May 20, 1999, Polly Sprenger, Wired
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/1999/05/19787
Amazon.com has removed a controversial book from its listings, a book
well known for angering the Church of Scientology.
A Piece of Blue Sky, by UK writer Jon Atack, is an exposi of the
Scientology movement from its creation in 1959 until the death of
founder L. Ron Hubbard in 1986. The book disappeared from Amazon's site
only recently.
=====================================
Amazon to restore Scientology title
May 20, 1999, Troy Wolverton, CNET
http://news.com.com/2100-1017_3-226171.html
Gray said that defamation issues, like those with A Piece of Blue Sky,
happen infrequently.
"Are there going to be issues? Yes," Gray said. "Are they more
difficult that issues faced by computer sellers or encryption
providers? I think they're far more modest."
Curry said he didn't know who advised Amazon that it was violating the
court order by offering A Piece of Blue Sky.
Representatives of the Church of Scientology were unavailable for
comment.
Tags: A Piece of Blue Sky, alt.religion.scientology, Free Speech, Jon Atack
=====================================
Off Limits
May 20, 1999, Jonathan Shikes, Denver Westword News, Village Voice Media
http://www.westword.com/1999-05-20/news/off-limits/full
Maloney doesn't say which religion (perhaps his?) he would like to
bring back into the schools, but it likely would not be the Church of
Scientology, which boasts among its ranks several well-known purveyors
of Maloney's "violence, hatred and sadism" and has used the shootings
to promote its own agenda.
Tags: CCHR
=====================================
Petoskey planners reject drug rehab home
May 20, 2005, Jeremy McBain, Petoskey News-Review
http://www.petoskeynews.com/articles/2005/05/20/news/local_regional/news01.txt
The company wanted to house a 63-bed residential Narconon alcohol and
drug rehabilitation center in the former Rues Residential nursing
center along Arlington Avenue, just east of MacDonald Drive. However,
the request met great opposition from area residents who feared it
would be too intensive a use for the site and would create health and
safety issues.
Tags: Battle Creek, Kate Wickstrom, Michigan, Mike Corcoran, Narconon, TIA
Corp
=====================================
Church tutors embrace methods
May 20, 2007, Robert Farley, St. Petersburg Times
http://www.sptimes.com/2007/05/20/Hillsborough/Church_tutors_embrace.shtml
An East Tampa pastor stands united with Hubbard's study technology
program.
=====================================
Cult or cure?
May 20, 2007, Holly Marney, Opinion, Scotsman
http://news.scotsman.com/opinion.cfm?id=782292007
Labelled a cult by its critics, defended as a bona fide religion by
devotees, it is never far from the headlines, though it is generally
viewed from these shores as another American oddity.
But Scientology does have a foothold in Britain, claiming up to 7,000
members in Scotland alone. And the strange world of Scientology, which
believes aliens visited Earth millions of years ago, was exposed last
week by a Panorama documentary.
Tags: ABLE, Cult Information Centre, Operation Clambake, UK
=====================================
Former resident faces extradition over Scientology clash
May 20, 2007, Kristina Peterson, Palo Alto Daily News
http://www.paloaltodailynews.com/article/padn/2007-5-20-pa-keith-henson
Around 1998, he began to frequently picket outside the Palo Alto Church
of Scientology. In turn, church members occasionally went to his home
over the next two years to stage their own pickets in front, Amber
Henson said. "When I had parties, my friends would have to walk past
the picket lines to get to our house," said Henson, now 24 and a
pre-school teacher in Los Angeles.
Lucas remembers those days, and how church members also picketed the
Purple Yogi software company in Sunnyvale where she worked, and
followed her and her daughter around. "They carried signs saying my
husband was a bigot," she said.
Tags: Amber Henson, Arel Lucas, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bill Mailey, Fair
Game, Golden Era Productions, Int Base, Jeanne Roy, Judge Wallerstein, Keith
Henson, Michael Kielsky, Riverside, William Mitchell
=====================================
MPs call for tax probe into cult
May 20, 2007, James Murray, Daily Express
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/7506
THE INLAND Revenue is being asked to investigate why British
Scientologists are refusing to pay a tax on the grounds they do
charitable work even though the controversial religion has been
refused charitable status.
Scientology, which came under fierce attack on the BBC last week, was
denied the special status by the Charity Commission eight years ago.
Tags: Australia, Bob Keenan, Massimo Angius, Mike Rinder, Tommy Davis, UK, UK
Charity Commission
=====================================
Scientology makes it in classroom door
May 20, 2007, Robert Farley, St. Petersburg Times
http://www.sptimes.com/2007/05/20/Worldandnation/Scientology_makes_it_.shtml
BATON ROUGE, La. - Inside the industrial looking brick walls of one of
Louisiana's poorest performing middle schools, Scientologists finally
have achieved a longtime goal.
Tags: Applied Scholastics, Bennetta Slaughter, Carol Woodruff, David
Touretzky, Diola Bagayoko, Elida Bera, Linda Behar-Horenstein, Michele Gill,
Study tech, Venetta Whitaker
=====================================
Teen battles City of London cops over anti-Scientology placard
May 20, 2008, Chris Williams, The Register
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/20/city_london_scientology_protest_summons/
Anti-Scientology campaigners are up in arms after it emerged that City
of London police issued a court summons to a teenager for displaying a
sign that branded the Hollywood-bothering, UFO-fancying sect a "cult".
The incident occurred on 10 May outside Scientology's controversial
Square Mile headquarters, at a rally spearheaded by the online activist
movement Anonymous. The unnamed GCSE student involved posted a request
for advice the next day to the anti-Scientology messages boards at
Enturbulation.org.
His sign read: "Scientology is not a religion, it is a dangerous cult."
Tags: Anonymous, Epic Nose Guy, Justice Latey, Kevin Hurley, London, Rob
Bastable, UK
=====================================
Teenager faces prosecution for calling Scientology 'cult'
May 20, 2008, The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/may/20/1
A policewoman later read him section five of the Public Order Act and
"strongly advised" him to remove the sign. The section prohibits signs
which have representations or words which are threatening, abusive or
insulting.
The teenager refused to back down, quoting a 1984 high court ruling
from Mr Justice Latey, in which he described the Church of Scientology
as a "cult" which was "corrupt, sinister and dangerous".
Tags: Anonymous, Crown Prosecution Service, Cult Information Centre, Epic
Nose Guy, Ian Haworth, Justice Latey, Ken Stewart, Kevin Hurley, London, UK
=====================================
Church of Scientology accused of covering up sexual abuse
May 20, 2010, Timothy McDonald, ABC News (Australia)
http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2010/s2904389.htm
TIMOTHY MCDONALD: Carmen Rainer says she was sexually abused by her
stepfather Robert Kerr over several years when she was a child.
Her mother Phoebe didn't want to seek outside help, and instead took
Carmen to see their chaplain within the church.
CARMEN RAINER: They told me that it was my fault because I'd been bad
in a past life. I'd probably done something bad in a past life so I
pulled it in.
TIMOTHY MCDONALD: Carmen Rainer says she was told to hide her story by
a senior church member.
Tags: Amy Scobee, Australia, Carmen Rainer, CCHR, Jan Eastgate, Nick
Xenophon, Robert Kerr
=====================================
Dossiers found in Italy Scientology raid
May 20, 2010, UPI
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/International/2010/05/20/Dossiers-found-in-Italy-Scientology-raid/UPI-47571274400755/
Italian police who raided a Scientology chapter said they found what
appeared to be extensive files on law-enforcement officials and former
members.
The documents were in a locked room of the Scientology chapter in Turin
and were said to contain information on the subjects' health, politics
and sexual habits, the ANSA news agency said Thursday.
Tags: Enemies list, Italy, Raid
=====================================
Information on 'enemies of Scientology found' in Italian police raid
May 20, 2010, Nick Squires, The Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/7746221/Information-on-enemies-of-Scientology-found-in-Italian-police-raid.html
During a nine-hour search of the offices, Carabinieri officers are said
to have discovered a cache of files hidden in a basement behind a
locked door.
The files allegedly contained personal information relating to judges,
magistrates, journalists and police who had reportedly been deemed
hostile to the US-based Church of Scientology, Italian media reported.
Tags: Italy, Raid
=====================================
Scientologist accused of covering up abuse
May 20, 2010, AAP, The Australian
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/breaking-news/scientologist-accused-of-covering-up-abuse/story-fn3dxity-1225868915950
A SENIOR Scientologist has been accused of covering up a case of sexual
abuse by telling the young victim to lie to the police.
Carmen Rainer says she was coached by Jan Eastgate after revealing
she'd been abused by her stepfather when aged between seven and
11-years-old.
At the time, Ms Eastgate was head of the Australian wing of a
Scientology commission which campaigns against psychiatry.
Tags: Australia, Carmen Rainer, CCHR, Jan Eastgate, Janice Meyer, Nick
Xenophon, Phoebe Rainer
=====================================
Web version:
http://home.primus.ca/~ronsharp/FrontCiteTW.html#ScientologyToday
=====================================
Scientology Church Protest Draws Hundreds to Oregon
May 20, 1985, AP, New York Times
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A05E2DD133BF933A15756C0A963948260
Hundreds of members of the Church of Scientology converged in Portland
on Sunday to protest a $39 million fraud judgment against the church..
Tags: Julie Titchbourne, Trial
=====================================
Palo Alto man to pay church $75,000
May 20, 1998, Vicky Anning, Palo Alto Weekly
http://www.paloaltoonline.com/weekly/morgue/news/1998_May_20.INTERNET.html
Court rules that Internet posting violated Scientologists' copyright
Palo Alto engineer Keith Henson was ordered to pay $75,000 to the
Church of Scientology last week after he posted some of the church's
unpublished teachings on the Internet.
Tags: Helena Kobrin, Judge Whyte, Keith Henson
=====================================
Amazon Drops Controversial Book
May 20, 1999, Polly Sprenger, Wired
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/1999/05/19787
Amazon.com has removed a controversial book from its listings, a book
well known for angering the Church of Scientology.
A Piece of Blue Sky, by UK writer Jon Atack, is an exposi of the
Scientology movement from its creation in 1959 until the death of
founder L. Ron Hubbard in 1986. The book disappeared from Amazon's site
only recently.
=====================================
Amazon to restore Scientology title
May 20, 1999, Troy Wolverton, CNET
http://news.com.com/2100-1017_3-226171.html
Gray said that defamation issues, like those with A Piece of Blue Sky,
happen infrequently.
"Are there going to be issues? Yes," Gray said. "Are they more
difficult that issues faced by computer sellers or encryption
providers? I think they're far more modest."
Curry said he didn't know who advised Amazon that it was violating the
court order by offering A Piece of Blue Sky.
Representatives of the Church of Scientology were unavailable for
comment.
Tags: A Piece of Blue Sky, alt.religion.scientology, Free Speech, Jon Atack
=====================================
Off Limits
May 20, 1999, Jonathan Shikes, Denver Westword News, Village Voice Media
http://www.westword.com/1999-05-20/news/off-limits/full
Maloney doesn't say which religion (perhaps his?) he would like to
bring back into the schools, but it likely would not be the Church of
Scientology, which boasts among its ranks several well-known purveyors
of Maloney's "violence, hatred and sadism" and has used the shootings
to promote its own agenda.
Tags: CCHR
=====================================
Petoskey planners reject drug rehab home
May 20, 2005, Jeremy McBain, Petoskey News-Review
http://www.petoskeynews.com/articles/2005/05/20/news/local_regional/news01.txt
The company wanted to house a 63-bed residential Narconon alcohol and
drug rehabilitation center in the former Rues Residential nursing
center along Arlington Avenue, just east of MacDonald Drive. However,
the request met great opposition from area residents who feared it
would be too intensive a use for the site and would create health and
safety issues.
Tags: Battle Creek, Kate Wickstrom, Michigan, Mike Corcoran, Narconon, TIA
Corp
=====================================
Church tutors embrace methods
May 20, 2007, Robert Farley, St. Petersburg Times
http://www.sptimes.com/2007/05/20/Hillsborough/Church_tutors_embrace.shtml
An East Tampa pastor stands united with Hubbard's study technology
program.
=====================================
Cult or cure?
May 20, 2007, Holly Marney, Opinion, Scotsman
http://news.scotsman.com/opinion.cfm?id=782292007
Labelled a cult by its critics, defended as a bona fide religion by
devotees, it is never far from the headlines, though it is generally
viewed from these shores as another American oddity.
But Scientology does have a foothold in Britain, claiming up to 7,000
members in Scotland alone. And the strange world of Scientology, which
believes aliens visited Earth millions of years ago, was exposed last
week by a Panorama documentary.
Tags: ABLE, Cult Information Centre, Operation Clambake, UK
=====================================
Former resident faces extradition over Scientology clash
May 20, 2007, Kristina Peterson, Palo Alto Daily News
http://www.paloaltodailynews.com/article/padn/2007-5-20-pa-keith-henson
Around 1998, he began to frequently picket outside the Palo Alto Church
of Scientology. In turn, church members occasionally went to his home
over the next two years to stage their own pickets in front, Amber
Henson said. "When I had parties, my friends would have to walk past
the picket lines to get to our house," said Henson, now 24 and a
pre-school teacher in Los Angeles.
Lucas remembers those days, and how church members also picketed the
Purple Yogi software company in Sunnyvale where she worked, and
followed her and her daughter around. "They carried signs saying my
husband was a bigot," she said.
Tags: Amber Henson, Arel Lucas, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bill Mailey, Fair
Game, Golden Era Productions, Int Base, Jeanne Roy, Judge Wallerstein, Keith
Henson, Michael Kielsky, Riverside, William Mitchell
=====================================
MPs call for tax probe into cult
May 20, 2007, James Murray, Daily Express
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/7506
THE INLAND Revenue is being asked to investigate why British
Scientologists are refusing to pay a tax on the grounds they do
charitable work even though the controversial religion has been
refused charitable status.
Scientology, which came under fierce attack on the BBC last week, was
denied the special status by the Charity Commission eight years ago.
Tags: Australia, Bob Keenan, Massimo Angius, Mike Rinder, Tommy Davis, UK, UK
Charity Commission
=====================================
Scientology makes it in classroom door
May 20, 2007, Robert Farley, St. Petersburg Times
http://www.sptimes.com/2007/05/20/Worldandnation/Scientology_makes_it_.shtml
BATON ROUGE, La. - Inside the industrial looking brick walls of one of
Louisiana's poorest performing middle schools, Scientologists finally
have achieved a longtime goal.
Tags: Applied Scholastics, Bennetta Slaughter, Carol Woodruff, David
Touretzky, Diola Bagayoko, Elida Bera, Linda Behar-Horenstein, Michele Gill,
Study tech, Venetta Whitaker
=====================================
Teen battles City of London cops over anti-Scientology placard
May 20, 2008, Chris Williams, The Register
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/20/city_london_scientology_protest_summons/
Anti-Scientology campaigners are up in arms after it emerged that City
of London police issued a court summons to a teenager for displaying a
sign that branded the Hollywood-bothering, UFO-fancying sect a "cult".
The incident occurred on 10 May outside Scientology's controversial
Square Mile headquarters, at a rally spearheaded by the online activist
movement Anonymous. The unnamed GCSE student involved posted a request
for advice the next day to the anti-Scientology messages boards at
Enturbulation.org.
His sign read: "Scientology is not a religion, it is a dangerous cult."
Tags: Anonymous, Epic Nose Guy, Justice Latey, Kevin Hurley, London, Rob
Bastable, UK
=====================================
Teenager faces prosecution for calling Scientology 'cult'
May 20, 2008, The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/may/20/1
A policewoman later read him section five of the Public Order Act and
"strongly advised" him to remove the sign. The section prohibits signs
which have representations or words which are threatening, abusive or
insulting.
The teenager refused to back down, quoting a 1984 high court ruling
from Mr Justice Latey, in which he described the Church of Scientology
as a "cult" which was "corrupt, sinister and dangerous".
Tags: Anonymous, Crown Prosecution Service, Cult Information Centre, Epic
Nose Guy, Ian Haworth, Justice Latey, Ken Stewart, Kevin Hurley, London, UK
=====================================
Church of Scientology accused of covering up sexual abuse
May 20, 2010, Timothy McDonald, ABC News (Australia)
http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2010/s2904389.htm
TIMOTHY MCDONALD: Carmen Rainer says she was sexually abused by her
stepfather Robert Kerr over several years when she was a child.
Her mother Phoebe didn't want to seek outside help, and instead took
Carmen to see their chaplain within the church.
CARMEN RAINER: They told me that it was my fault because I'd been bad
in a past life. I'd probably done something bad in a past life so I
pulled it in.
TIMOTHY MCDONALD: Carmen Rainer says she was told to hide her story by
a senior church member.
Tags: Amy Scobee, Australia, Carmen Rainer, CCHR, Jan Eastgate, Nick
Xenophon, Robert Kerr
=====================================
Dossiers found in Italy Scientology raid
May 20, 2010, UPI
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/International/2010/05/20/Dossiers-found-in-Italy-Scientology-raid/UPI-47571274400755/
Italian police who raided a Scientology chapter said they found what
appeared to be extensive files on law-enforcement officials and former
members.
The documents were in a locked room of the Scientology chapter in Turin
and were said to contain information on the subjects' health, politics
and sexual habits, the ANSA news agency said Thursday.
Tags: Enemies list, Italy, Raid
=====================================
Information on 'enemies of Scientology found' in Italian police raid
May 20, 2010, Nick Squires, The Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/7746221/Information-on-enemies-of-Scientology-found-in-Italian-police-raid.html
During a nine-hour search of the offices, Carabinieri officers are said
to have discovered a cache of files hidden in a basement behind a
locked door.
The files allegedly contained personal information relating to judges,
magistrates, journalists and police who had reportedly been deemed
hostile to the US-based Church of Scientology, Italian media reported.
Tags: Italy, Raid
=====================================
Scientologist accused of covering up abuse
May 20, 2010, AAP, The Australian
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/breaking-news/scientologist-accused-of-covering-up-abuse/story-fn3dxity-1225868915950
A SENIOR Scientologist has been accused of covering up a case of sexual
abuse by telling the young victim to lie to the police.
Carmen Rainer says she was coached by Jan Eastgate after revealing
she'd been abused by her stepfather when aged between seven and
11-years-old.
At the time, Ms Eastgate was head of the Australian wing of a
Scientology commission which campaigns against psychiatry.
Tags: Australia, Carmen Rainer, CCHR, Jan Eastgate, Janice Meyer, Nick
Xenophon, Phoebe Rainer
=====================================
Web version:
http://home.primus.ca/~ronsharp/FrontCiteTW.html#ScientologyToday
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