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Body is found in Clearwater Harbor
July 1, 1988, Mike Jackson, St. Petersburg Times
http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/access/51337591.html?dids=51337591:51337591&FMT=FT
The body was found about 10 a.m. floating face-down along the shore off
Victoria Drive near Main Street, Dunedin police said.
The body probably had been in the water about eight hours, said Dunedin
Police Sgt. G. M. Hollis. The man apparently drowned, Hollis said, and
no foul play was suspected. The medical examiner's office planned an
autopsy and had not determined the cause of death Thursday.
Tags: Clearwater, Death, Peter Frei
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PR firm quits working for Scientologists
July 1, 1991, AP, Toronto Star
http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/thestar/doc/436436145.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT
The PR firm was also under pressure from its parent, WPP Group PLC, to
drop the Scientologists, but the agency executive said that was not the
determining factor in Hill & Knowlton's decision.
WPP also owns the ad agency J. Walter Thompson, whose clients include
Eli Lilly & Co., an Indianapolis-based drugmaker that has been feuding
with the Scientologists over Prozac, a Lilly anti- depressant drug.
Tags: Hill & Knowlton
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The Two Faces of Scientology
July 1, 1992, William W. Horne, American Lawyer
https://web.archive.org/web/20070704153623/http://www.thecia.net/users/rnewman/scientology/media/amlawyer-7.92
The Church of Scientology uses private detectives and bulldog
litigators to pursue its numerous detractors. It also hires low-key
establishment lawyers who work quietly within the system. So who is
directing the $ 416 million libel suit against Time?
Tags: Alan Clow, Bob Lobsinger, Charles O'Reilly, Church of Spiritual
Technology, Cult Awareness Network, Cynthia Kisser, David Miscavige,
Disconnection, Donald Randolph, Earle Cooley, Eric Lieberman, Fair Game, FBI,
Freedom of Information Act, Gerald Feffer, Gerry Armstrong, IRS, James Kolts,
John Peterson, Jonathan Lubell, Judge Breckenridge, Judge Ideman, Judge
Letts, Judge Ronald Swearinger, Julie Titchbourne, Kendrick Moxon, Kurt
Weiland, Lawrence Wollersheim, Leonard Boudin, Lyman Spurlock, Marilyn
Anderson, Marty Rathbun, Michael Flynn, Mike Rinder, Monique Yingling,
Narconon, Peter Georgiades, Reader's Digest, Richard Aznaran, Sanford Katz,
Secondary copy, Sterling Management, Steven Fishman, Ted Koppel, Thomas
Small, Thomas Spring, Time Warner, Timothy Bowles, William Drescher, William
Walsh
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France OKs Scientology Acquittals
July 1, 1999, Associated Press
http://www.apnewsarchive.com/1999/France-OKs-Scientology-Acquittals/id-99ec2afe3a7d7410b492ac619d8eff9a
PARIS (AP) _ France's highest court has upheld the acquittal of nine
members of the Church of Scientology accused of corruption and theft,
ruling it lacks the authority to decide whether Scientology is a
religion.
In 1997, the nine church members were acquitted by an appeals court in
the southeastern city of Lyon which ruled that they had been convicted
without sufficient evidence.
Prosecutors had argued the church was a sect that defrauded people of
their money. The defense had argued it was a legitimate religion with
the right to ask members for money.
Tags: 1954, 1995, 1997, France, Los Angeles, Lyon, Quicky, Solar Temple
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L. Ron Hubbard and Scientology: An annotated bibliographical survey of
primary and selected secondary literature
July 1, 1999, Marco Frenschkowski, Marburg Journal of Religion
http://www.uni-marburg.de/fb03/ivk/mjr/pdfs/1999/articles/frenschkowski1999.pdf
No New Religious Movement has been a subject of more public interest
and of more heated discussions in Germany during the last two decades
than Scientology. I first became interested in this debate in the early
Eighties, but only in 1996/1997 - after completing a similar project
about Theosophy and Helena Blavatsky - I seriously started to search
for available material on Hubbard and the movement he founded. Only
then I became aware of the rather paradoxical situation in Germany
Tags: Academic, L. Ron Hubbard
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Scientology -- Is this a Religion?
July 1, 1999, Stephen A. Kent, Marburg Journal of Religion
http://www.uni-marburg.de/fb03/ivk/mjr/pdfs/1999/articles/kent1999.pdf
Although some social scientists insist that Scientology is a religion,
the more appropriate position to take is that the organization is a
multi-faceted transnational corporation that has religion as only one
of its many components. Other components include political aspirations,
business ventures, cultural productions, pseudo-medical practices,
pseudo-psychiatric claims, and (among its most devoted members who have
joined the Sea Organization), an alternative family structure.
Tags: Academic, Sea Org, Stephen Kent
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Scientology - Are we Clear on This?
July 1, 2002, Bob Gersztyn, The Wittenburg Door
http://web.archive.org/web/20070217084514/http://www.wittenburgdoor.com/archives/bezazian.html
We don't have to tell YOU about L.Ron Hubbard, his book Dianetics, and
the religion it spawned -- Scientology. In fact, until just recently,
most media outlets WOULDn't tell you about it given Scientology's
well-deserved reputation for litigation. Instead, let us tell you about
Tory Bezazian.
Tags: alt.religion.scientology, Celebrity Centre, David Miscavige,
International Association of Scientologists, John Travolta, Office of Special
Affairs, Richard Tenning, Robert Minton, Scientology Parishioners League, Sea
Org, Stacy Brooks, Tory Christman
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Close Encounters of the Scientology Kind
July 1, 2005, Jonann Brady, ABC News
http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=910479&page=1
We had seen the Scientologists offering "free stress tests" in the
middle of the Times Square subway station. In the name of research and
curiosity, we decided to take them up on the offer, approaching
discreetly and separately.
Tags: Body routing, E-meter, New York City
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Scientology's war on psychiatry
July 1, 2005, Katharine Mieszkowski, Salon
http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2005/07/01/sci_psy/index.html
But the Church of Scientology's war on psychiatry is no joke. For
decades, Scientologists have maintained that the very notion of mental
illness is a fraud. They base this belief on the views of Scientology
founder L. Ron Hubbard, who proclaimed that psychiatry was an evil
enterprise, a form of terrorism, and the cause of crime. Now, they're
attempting to enshrine their contempt for psychiatry in laws across the
country.
Recently, Scientologists have promoted legislation in Florida, Utah and
New Hampshire that seeks to discredit psychiatry and drug therapies,
especially for kids. The laws would penalize, even criminalize,
schoolteachers who recommended mental health treatments to students or
parents. At the same time, Scientologists have infiltrated the public
schools, promoting a drug abuse program that presents information --
that drugs like marijuana and LSD, for instance, accumulate in body fat
and create constant cravings -- roundly dismissed by medical experts.
Tags: CCHR
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War of Words
July 1, 2005, Brooke Shields, Op-Ed, New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/01/opinion/01shields.html
I WAS hoping it wouldn't come to this, but after Tom Cruise's interview
with Matt Lauer on the NBC show "Today" last week, I feel compelled to
speak not just for myself but also for the hundreds of thousands of
women who have suffered from postpartum depression. While Mr. Cruise
says that Mr. Lauer and I do not "understand the history of
psychiatry," I'm going to take a wild guess and say that Mr. Cruise has
never suffered from postpartum depression.
Tags: CCHR, Tom Cruise
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Church of Scientology buys site in Center City
July 1, 2007, Michael Klein, Philadelphia Inquirer
https://web.archive.org/web/20070703205937/http://www.philly.com/inquirer/local/philadelphia/20070701_Church_of_Scientology_buys_site_in_Center_City.html
The Church of Scientology last month paid just under $8 million for a
vacant 15-story office building and an adjoining one-story former toy
store in the heart of downtown: the 1300 block of Chestnut Street -
across the street from Macy's and next door to the furniture store
Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams.
The Scientologists - outgrowing their modest home on Race Street - plan
to combine and renovate the properties at 1312-16 Chestnut St. into a
center that will include a chapel, offices, an academy, and displays on
the church's community programs, said Bruce Thompson, public-affairs
director of the Church of Scientology of Pennsylvania.
Tags: Bruce Thompson, Cunningham Building, Philadelphia, Real estate
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Will Smith: Getting His $100 Goat
July 1, 2008, Roger Friedman, Celebrity Gossip, Fox News
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,374246,00.html
But the goat - this is what is making me nervous about New Village
Academy. It's not just the presence of a Scientology curriculum; it's
that the school was devised by movie stars who homeschooled their kids
because they didn't concur with the National Education Association or
the United Teachers, groups that disseminate public education to 99
percent of the schoolkids in the United States.
Tags: Jada Pinkett-Smith, New Village Leadership Academy, Will Smith
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Scientology and the Nation of Islam: A Heartwarming Independence Weekend
Parable
July 1, 2011, Tony Ortega, Runnin' Scared, Village Voice
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2011/07/scientology_and_1.php
Your reward for slogging through the impenetrable Dianetics: Face time
with Farrakhan! There's nothing like the Fourth of July weekend to amp
up our pursuit of happiness and help us reflect on what this country
stands for: freedom, baby!
Of course, having our great freedoms of conscience and speech means
that some folks are going to do some pretty freaky things with their
time, money, and independence!
For example, we've been watching warily as members of the Nation of
Islam are spending their spare time with e-meters, engrams, and the
writings of L. Ron Hubbard.
Tags: David Miscavige, Dianetics, E-meter, Houston, Houston Chronicle, Isaac
Hayes, Janet Reitman, Jesse Muhammad, Louis Farrakhan, Nation of Islam, New
York Times, Quicky
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Radar Gets It Wrong: How Scientology Is Likely To Be an Issue in the Divorce
of Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise
July 1, 2012, Tony Ortega, Runnin' Scared, Village Voice
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2012/07/scientology_family_court_katie_holmes_suri_cruise.php
Yesterday, RadarOnline, one of several online tabs trying to churn out
incremental stories about the celebrity story of the year, grabbed for
attention by quoting two lawyers who said it was unlikely that Tom
Cruise's Scientology would be allowed as an issue in his divorce with
Katie Holmes.
Aside from the fact that it was obvious Radar's two "experts" didn't
know the first thing about Scientology, our own legal expert tells us
that they're flat out wrong anyway -- family court is different than
civil court, he says, and the religion of a parent can become an issue
when a judge is trying to decide which parent should take custody.
After the jump: our legal expert, Scott Pilutik, a Manhattan attorney
with a deep understanding of Scientology history, fills us in on how
New York's family court may indeed be forced to consider the religious
question of Suri's upbringing.
Tags: 2004, 2008, 2009, Andrew Morton, Australia, Beck, Buffalo, California,
Catholic, Cult, Daily Mail, David Miscavige, Debbie Cook, Denver, Divorce,
Facebook, FBI, Golden Age of Tech, Google, Guadeloupe, Ideal Org,
International Association of Scientologists, Jefferson Hawkins, Jessica
Feshbach, John Allender, Katie Holmes, Luka Magnotta, Manhattan, Marc
Headley, Marty Rathbun, Narconon, Narconon Arrowhead, New York, New York
Post, Nicole Kidman, Oklahoma City, OT, Patty Moher, Penelope Cruz, Police,
Quicky, RadioPaul1, Roanne Horwich, Robert White, Ron Miscavige, Ron
Miscavige Sr, Rupert Murdoch, Scott Pilutik, Sea Org, South Africa, Squirrel
Busters, Sunday Funnies, Tom Cruise, Tommy Davis, Twitter, Wayne Baumgarten,
Xenu
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Denise Gentile: Twin sister of Scientology leader David Miscavige 'arrested
for possession of marijuana'
July 1, 2013, Daily Mail
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2352714/Denise-Gentile-Twin-sister-Scientology-leader-David-Miscavige-arrested-possession-marijuana.html
The twin sister of Scientology leader David Miscavige is fighting drug
possession charges after she was arrested earlier this year when police
allegedly found with nine marijuana-filled 'blunts' in her SUV.
It is also claimed that Denise Gentile knowingly allowed a rental
property she owned in St Petersburg, Florida, to be used as a drug den
and allowed one of her tenants to pay his utility bills by giving her
drugs.
Tags: David Miscavige, Denise Miscavige Gentile, Gerald Gentile, Jo Ann
Palchak, Roreco Currie, Zuckerman Spaeder
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Jenna Miscavige Hill Reacts to the News of the Arrest of her Aunt, Denise
Gentile
July 1, 2013, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker
http://tonyortega.org/2013/07/01/jenna-miscavige-hill-reacts-to-the-news-of-the-arrest-of-her-aunt-denise-gentile/
We reached out to Jenna Miscavige Hill for a comment about the stunning
news that showed up this weekend in the Tampa Bay Times about her aunt,
Denise Gentile, who is the twin sister of Scientology's leader, David
Miscavige.
Joe Childs reported for the Times that Gentile was arrested in January
for DUI and marijuana possession, and in his investigation of the
arrest, he found that she and her husband Gerald had rented out
run-down properties that were used by tenants for drug dealing. One
tenant claimed that he paid Denise rent in the form of marijuana
"blunts."
Jenna, meanwhile, has been on a months-long publicity campaign to
support her memoir, Beyond Belief, which was published in February. In
it, the niece of David Miscavige and Denise Gentile describes the
difficulties of her upbringing in the church. She portrays her uncle as
a cowardly bully, but Denise Gentile gets a more sympathetic treatment.
How, we asked Jenna, does she feel about this weekend's news?
Tags: 1990, 2005, Arrest, California, Claire Headley, David Miscavige, DUI,
Florida, Int Base, Jenna Miscavige Hill, Joe Childs, Quicky, Religious
Technology Center, Sea Org, Tampa Bay Times
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Scientology To Turn Over 18,000 Pages of Evidence to Laura DeCrescenzo on
Tuesday
July 1, 2013, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker
http://tonyortega.org/2013/07/01/8011/
Scientology's motion for a protective order in Laura DeCrescenzo's
forced-abortion lawsuit was denied in part today, and as a result the
church's attorneys said in court that they will be turning over a
compact disc with 18,000 pages of unredacted evidence to DeCrescenzo
tomorrow.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Ronald Sohigian did agree with the
church that third-party names in the files should be removed. So he
ordered the church to produce another set of the evidence with
third-party names redacted within 30 days.
After appeals to the California and U.S. Supreme Courts failed,
Scientology had no further way to delay turning over the documents,
which Sohigian had ordered the church to fork over this spring in
DeCrescenzo's four-year legal odyssey.
Tags: 2009, 2012, Appeal, California, California Supreme Court, Judge Ronald
Sohigian, Laura DeCrescenzo, Los Angeles Superior Court, Quicky, Sea Org, US
Supreme Court, Village Voice
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What Scientology Could Be
July 1, 2013, Mike Rinder, Something Can Be Done About It
http://www.mikerindersblog.org/what-scientology-could-be/
One of our Special Correspondents sent this in and I felt it worthy of
a separate post.
I am interested in your comments. I don't agree with some of the
sentiments expressed here but I believe it is food for thought and
perhaps from the responses we might gain some insight into what is
considered valuable, important or unwanted.
Fire away!
Tags: 1979, Auditing, Clear, DEA, Fire, International Association of
Scientologists, L. Ron Hubbard, Membership, Mission, OT, Quicky, Review,
Saint Hill, Scientology organization, Sea Org, Volunteer Ministers
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More IAS BS
July 1, 2014, Mike Rinder, Something Can Be Done About It
http://www.mikerindersblog.org/more-ias-bs/
Shake and Bake Flash is at it again. I wonder if he knows the
information he is circulating is bs, or if he thinks it is the
"greatest good" to keep getting money out of people to "save the
planet" even though there is not a shred of evidence any such thing is
happening.
Check out his pitch and then a few comments afterwards to put things
into perspective.
Here are the ACTUAL statistics for scientology.org from Alexa.
Tags: International Association of Scientologists, Las Vegas, Marc Headley,
Quicky, Underground Bunker
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Rathbun: 'Scientology never endorsed anyone where there wasn't a clear self-
interest'
July 1, 2014, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker
http://tonyortega.org/2014/07/01/rathbun-scientology-never-endorsed-anyone-where-there-wasnt-a-clear-self-interest/
Pam Bondi, Florida AG On Sunday, we broke the news that Scientologists
were holding a campaign fundraiser for Florida Attorney General Pam
Bondi, who is running for re-election this year.
One of our tipsters had forwarded to us a mailer that was not meant to
be spread outside the church, showing that several high-level
Scientologists were organizing the event at the luxury Clearwater
condominium of wealthy church members Michael and Liz Baybak. The
fundraiser is scheduled for tonight, and attendees are asked to donate
at least $1,000 each to Bondi's campaign.
Bondi is a Republican and former prosecutor who was endorsed by Sarah
Palin when she first ran for election and won in 2010. Most recently,
she's been in the news for announcing that she would be vigorously
defending Florida's ban on gay marriage in the state and federal courts.
Tags: 1995, 2000, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, Brett Miller, Christian, Christina
Johnson, Clearwater, David Miscavige, Eric Roux, FBI, Florida, Florida
Attorney General, Fort Harrison, Infinite Complacency, Jehovah's Witnesses,
Joe Childs, Jonny Jacobsen, Karen de la Carriere, Lisa McPherson, Liz Baybak,
Marty Rathbun, OT 8, Pam Bondi, Paris, Quicky, Rehabilitation Project Force,
Sarah Palin, Sea Org, Stephen Kent, Tampa Bay Times, University of Alberta
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Scientologists Host Pam Bondi Fundraiser Tonight
July 1, 2014, Fire Ant, New Times Broward-Palm Beach
http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/pulp/2014/07/scientologists_host_pam_bondi_fundraiser_tonight.php
So there's a big party and fundraiser for Florida Attorney General Pam
Bondi tonight, in some swanky digs in Clearwater. If you're in the
neighborhood and have a spare grand, you might wanna drop by. Just be
prepared to be audited at the door. Not IRS audited. Scientology audited.
Tags: Bob Duggan, Florida Attorney General, LGBT, Liz Baybak, Marty Rathbun,
Michael Baybak, Pam Bondi, Tony Ortega, Trish Duggan
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Is David Miscavige really planning to extend Scientology's 'Bridge'?
July 1, 2015, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker
http://tonyortega.org/2015/07/01/is-david-miscavige-really-planning-to-extend-scientologys-bridge/
We don't always see the newest issue of the Freewinds, a Scientology
publication that gets passed around a little less often than Impact or
Celebrity or International Scientology News.
But a new edition made its way to us, and it contained a story we
thought you'd want to hear about. We'd been hearing some things about
New Jersey dentist Louis Feldman. He's an OT 8, the highest level of
spiritual achievement that a Scientologist can attain. And he penned an
article in Freewinds about how he's gone back down to the bottom end of
the Bridge to do low-level courses like the Student Hat, a basic
introduction to learning.
Why? Well, Louis says he's getting ready for the next great Scientology
advance, the release of levels OT 9 and OT 10. He's also reportedly
been telling people that he's been given the role as ambassador
specifically to prepare people for the release of the new levels. We
wanted to ask him about that, but the number at his dentist's office
asked us to enter a code to access a voice mail system. Odd.
Tags: 1960, 1987, 2013, Celebrity, Claire Headley, David Miscavige,
Freewinds, International Association of Scientologists, Karen de la Carriere,
Marty Rathbun, Michael Chan, New Jersey, OT, OT 8, Purification Rundown,
Quicky, Ray Mithoff, Saint Hill, Saint Hill Manor, Scientology executive,
Student Hat, Super Power, Truth Revealed, UK
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It's Epic, It's Monumental
July 1, 2015, Mike Rinder, Something Can Be Done About It
http://www.mikerindersblog.org/its-epic-its-monumental/
This one sure got some hype.
Look at those poor excluded souls, peering through the gaps in the door.
An "EPIC COB BRIEFING"
Tags: Chairman of the Board, Clear, L. Ron Hubbard, OT, Purif, Quicky,
Religious Technology Center, Sandy Dodwell
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July 1 in Scientlology web page:
http://umbraxenu.no-ip.biz/days/07-01.html
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Body is found in Clearwater Harbor
July 1, 1988, Mike Jackson, St. Petersburg Times
http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/access/51337591.html?dids=51337591:51337591&FMT=FT
The body was found about 10 a.m. floating face-down along the shore off
Victoria Drive near Main Street, Dunedin police said.
The body probably had been in the water about eight hours, said Dunedin
Police Sgt. G. M. Hollis. The man apparently drowned, Hollis said, and
no foul play was suspected. The medical examiner's office planned an
autopsy and had not determined the cause of death Thursday.
Tags: Clearwater, Death, Peter Frei
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PR firm quits working for Scientologists
July 1, 1991, AP, Toronto Star
http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/thestar/doc/436436145.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT
The PR firm was also under pressure from its parent, WPP Group PLC, to
drop the Scientologists, but the agency executive said that was not the
determining factor in Hill & Knowlton's decision.
WPP also owns the ad agency J. Walter Thompson, whose clients include
Eli Lilly & Co., an Indianapolis-based drugmaker that has been feuding
with the Scientologists over Prozac, a Lilly anti- depressant drug.
Tags: Hill & Knowlton
=====================================
The Two Faces of Scientology
July 1, 1992, William W. Horne, American Lawyer
https://web.archive.org/web/20070704153623/http://www.thecia.net/users/rnewman/scientology/media/amlawyer-7.92
The Church of Scientology uses private detectives and bulldog
litigators to pursue its numerous detractors. It also hires low-key
establishment lawyers who work quietly within the system. So who is
directing the $ 416 million libel suit against Time?
Tags: Alan Clow, Bob Lobsinger, Charles O'Reilly, Church of Spiritual
Technology, Cult Awareness Network, Cynthia Kisser, David Miscavige,
Disconnection, Donald Randolph, Earle Cooley, Eric Lieberman, Fair Game, FBI,
Freedom of Information Act, Gerald Feffer, Gerry Armstrong, IRS, James Kolts,
John Peterson, Jonathan Lubell, Judge Breckenridge, Judge Ideman, Judge
Letts, Judge Ronald Swearinger, Julie Titchbourne, Kendrick Moxon, Kurt
Weiland, Lawrence Wollersheim, Leonard Boudin, Lyman Spurlock, Marilyn
Anderson, Marty Rathbun, Michael Flynn, Mike Rinder, Monique Yingling,
Narconon, Peter Georgiades, Reader's Digest, Richard Aznaran, Sanford Katz,
Secondary copy, Sterling Management, Steven Fishman, Ted Koppel, Thomas
Small, Thomas Spring, Time Warner, Timothy Bowles, William Drescher, William
Walsh
=====================================
France OKs Scientology Acquittals
July 1, 1999, Associated Press
http://www.apnewsarchive.com/1999/France-OKs-Scientology-Acquittals/id-99ec2afe3a7d7410b492ac619d8eff9a
PARIS (AP) _ France's highest court has upheld the acquittal of nine
members of the Church of Scientology accused of corruption and theft,
ruling it lacks the authority to decide whether Scientology is a
religion.
In 1997, the nine church members were acquitted by an appeals court in
the southeastern city of Lyon which ruled that they had been convicted
without sufficient evidence.
Prosecutors had argued the church was a sect that defrauded people of
their money. The defense had argued it was a legitimate religion with
the right to ask members for money.
Tags: 1954, 1995, 1997, France, Los Angeles, Lyon, Quicky, Solar Temple
=====================================
L. Ron Hubbard and Scientology: An annotated bibliographical survey of
primary and selected secondary literature
July 1, 1999, Marco Frenschkowski, Marburg Journal of Religion
http://www.uni-marburg.de/fb03/ivk/mjr/pdfs/1999/articles/frenschkowski1999.pdf
No New Religious Movement has been a subject of more public interest
and of more heated discussions in Germany during the last two decades
than Scientology. I first became interested in this debate in the early
Eighties, but only in 1996/1997 - after completing a similar project
about Theosophy and Helena Blavatsky - I seriously started to search
for available material on Hubbard and the movement he founded. Only
then I became aware of the rather paradoxical situation in Germany
Tags: Academic, L. Ron Hubbard
=====================================
Scientology -- Is this a Religion?
July 1, 1999, Stephen A. Kent, Marburg Journal of Religion
http://www.uni-marburg.de/fb03/ivk/mjr/pdfs/1999/articles/kent1999.pdf
Although some social scientists insist that Scientology is a religion,
the more appropriate position to take is that the organization is a
multi-faceted transnational corporation that has religion as only one
of its many components. Other components include political aspirations,
business ventures, cultural productions, pseudo-medical practices,
pseudo-psychiatric claims, and (among its most devoted members who have
joined the Sea Organization), an alternative family structure.
Tags: Academic, Sea Org, Stephen Kent
=====================================
Scientology - Are we Clear on This?
July 1, 2002, Bob Gersztyn, The Wittenburg Door
http://web.archive.org/web/20070217084514/http://www.wittenburgdoor.com/archives/bezazian.html
We don't have to tell YOU about L.Ron Hubbard, his book Dianetics, and
the religion it spawned -- Scientology. In fact, until just recently,
most media outlets WOULDn't tell you about it given Scientology's
well-deserved reputation for litigation. Instead, let us tell you about
Tory Bezazian.
Tags: alt.religion.scientology, Celebrity Centre, David Miscavige,
International Association of Scientologists, John Travolta, Office of Special
Affairs, Richard Tenning, Robert Minton, Scientology Parishioners League, Sea
Org, Stacy Brooks, Tory Christman
=====================================
Close Encounters of the Scientology Kind
July 1, 2005, Jonann Brady, ABC News
http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=910479&page=1
We had seen the Scientologists offering "free stress tests" in the
middle of the Times Square subway station. In the name of research and
curiosity, we decided to take them up on the offer, approaching
discreetly and separately.
Tags: Body routing, E-meter, New York City
=====================================
Scientology's war on psychiatry
July 1, 2005, Katharine Mieszkowski, Salon
http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2005/07/01/sci_psy/index.html
But the Church of Scientology's war on psychiatry is no joke. For
decades, Scientologists have maintained that the very notion of mental
illness is a fraud. They base this belief on the views of Scientology
founder L. Ron Hubbard, who proclaimed that psychiatry was an evil
enterprise, a form of terrorism, and the cause of crime. Now, they're
attempting to enshrine their contempt for psychiatry in laws across the
country.
Recently, Scientologists have promoted legislation in Florida, Utah and
New Hampshire that seeks to discredit psychiatry and drug therapies,
especially for kids. The laws would penalize, even criminalize,
schoolteachers who recommended mental health treatments to students or
parents. At the same time, Scientologists have infiltrated the public
schools, promoting a drug abuse program that presents information --
that drugs like marijuana and LSD, for instance, accumulate in body fat
and create constant cravings -- roundly dismissed by medical experts.
Tags: CCHR
=====================================
War of Words
July 1, 2005, Brooke Shields, Op-Ed, New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/01/opinion/01shields.html
I WAS hoping it wouldn't come to this, but after Tom Cruise's interview
with Matt Lauer on the NBC show "Today" last week, I feel compelled to
speak not just for myself but also for the hundreds of thousands of
women who have suffered from postpartum depression. While Mr. Cruise
says that Mr. Lauer and I do not "understand the history of
psychiatry," I'm going to take a wild guess and say that Mr. Cruise has
never suffered from postpartum depression.
Tags: CCHR, Tom Cruise
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Church of Scientology buys site in Center City
July 1, 2007, Michael Klein, Philadelphia Inquirer
https://web.archive.org/web/20070703205937/http://www.philly.com/inquirer/local/philadelphia/20070701_Church_of_Scientology_buys_site_in_Center_City.html
The Church of Scientology last month paid just under $8 million for a
vacant 15-story office building and an adjoining one-story former toy
store in the heart of downtown: the 1300 block of Chestnut Street -
across the street from Macy's and next door to the furniture store
Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams.
The Scientologists - outgrowing their modest home on Race Street - plan
to combine and renovate the properties at 1312-16 Chestnut St. into a
center that will include a chapel, offices, an academy, and displays on
the church's community programs, said Bruce Thompson, public-affairs
director of the Church of Scientology of Pennsylvania.
Tags: Bruce Thompson, Cunningham Building, Philadelphia, Real estate
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Will Smith: Getting His $100 Goat
July 1, 2008, Roger Friedman, Celebrity Gossip, Fox News
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,374246,00.html
But the goat - this is what is making me nervous about New Village
Academy. It's not just the presence of a Scientology curriculum; it's
that the school was devised by movie stars who homeschooled their kids
because they didn't concur with the National Education Association or
the United Teachers, groups that disseminate public education to 99
percent of the schoolkids in the United States.
Tags: Jada Pinkett-Smith, New Village Leadership Academy, Will Smith
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Scientology and the Nation of Islam: A Heartwarming Independence Weekend
Parable
July 1, 2011, Tony Ortega, Runnin' Scared, Village Voice
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2011/07/scientology_and_1.php
Your reward for slogging through the impenetrable Dianetics: Face time
with Farrakhan! There's nothing like the Fourth of July weekend to amp
up our pursuit of happiness and help us reflect on what this country
stands for: freedom, baby!
Of course, having our great freedoms of conscience and speech means
that some folks are going to do some pretty freaky things with their
time, money, and independence!
For example, we've been watching warily as members of the Nation of
Islam are spending their spare time with e-meters, engrams, and the
writings of L. Ron Hubbard.
Tags: David Miscavige, Dianetics, E-meter, Houston, Houston Chronicle, Isaac
Hayes, Janet Reitman, Jesse Muhammad, Louis Farrakhan, Nation of Islam, New
York Times, Quicky
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Radar Gets It Wrong: How Scientology Is Likely To Be an Issue in the Divorce
of Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise
July 1, 2012, Tony Ortega, Runnin' Scared, Village Voice
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2012/07/scientology_family_court_katie_holmes_suri_cruise.php
Yesterday, RadarOnline, one of several online tabs trying to churn out
incremental stories about the celebrity story of the year, grabbed for
attention by quoting two lawyers who said it was unlikely that Tom
Cruise's Scientology would be allowed as an issue in his divorce with
Katie Holmes.
Aside from the fact that it was obvious Radar's two "experts" didn't
know the first thing about Scientology, our own legal expert tells us
that they're flat out wrong anyway -- family court is different than
civil court, he says, and the religion of a parent can become an issue
when a judge is trying to decide which parent should take custody.
After the jump: our legal expert, Scott Pilutik, a Manhattan attorney
with a deep understanding of Scientology history, fills us in on how
New York's family court may indeed be forced to consider the religious
question of Suri's upbringing.
Tags: 2004, 2008, 2009, Andrew Morton, Australia, Beck, Buffalo, California,
Catholic, Cult, Daily Mail, David Miscavige, Debbie Cook, Denver, Divorce,
Facebook, FBI, Golden Age of Tech, Google, Guadeloupe, Ideal Org,
International Association of Scientologists, Jefferson Hawkins, Jessica
Feshbach, John Allender, Katie Holmes, Luka Magnotta, Manhattan, Marc
Headley, Marty Rathbun, Narconon, Narconon Arrowhead, New York, New York
Post, Nicole Kidman, Oklahoma City, OT, Patty Moher, Penelope Cruz, Police,
Quicky, RadioPaul1, Roanne Horwich, Robert White, Ron Miscavige, Ron
Miscavige Sr, Rupert Murdoch, Scott Pilutik, Sea Org, South Africa, Squirrel
Busters, Sunday Funnies, Tom Cruise, Tommy Davis, Twitter, Wayne Baumgarten,
Xenu
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Denise Gentile: Twin sister of Scientology leader David Miscavige 'arrested
for possession of marijuana'
July 1, 2013, Daily Mail
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2352714/Denise-Gentile-Twin-sister-Scientology-leader-David-Miscavige-arrested-possession-marijuana.html
The twin sister of Scientology leader David Miscavige is fighting drug
possession charges after she was arrested earlier this year when police
allegedly found with nine marijuana-filled 'blunts' in her SUV.
It is also claimed that Denise Gentile knowingly allowed a rental
property she owned in St Petersburg, Florida, to be used as a drug den
and allowed one of her tenants to pay his utility bills by giving her
drugs.
Tags: David Miscavige, Denise Miscavige Gentile, Gerald Gentile, Jo Ann
Palchak, Roreco Currie, Zuckerman Spaeder
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Jenna Miscavige Hill Reacts to the News of the Arrest of her Aunt, Denise
Gentile
July 1, 2013, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker
http://tonyortega.org/2013/07/01/jenna-miscavige-hill-reacts-to-the-news-of-the-arrest-of-her-aunt-denise-gentile/
We reached out to Jenna Miscavige Hill for a comment about the stunning
news that showed up this weekend in the Tampa Bay Times about her aunt,
Denise Gentile, who is the twin sister of Scientology's leader, David
Miscavige.
Joe Childs reported for the Times that Gentile was arrested in January
for DUI and marijuana possession, and in his investigation of the
arrest, he found that she and her husband Gerald had rented out
run-down properties that were used by tenants for drug dealing. One
tenant claimed that he paid Denise rent in the form of marijuana
"blunts."
Jenna, meanwhile, has been on a months-long publicity campaign to
support her memoir, Beyond Belief, which was published in February. In
it, the niece of David Miscavige and Denise Gentile describes the
difficulties of her upbringing in the church. She portrays her uncle as
a cowardly bully, but Denise Gentile gets a more sympathetic treatment.
How, we asked Jenna, does she feel about this weekend's news?
Tags: 1990, 2005, Arrest, California, Claire Headley, David Miscavige, DUI,
Florida, Int Base, Jenna Miscavige Hill, Joe Childs, Quicky, Religious
Technology Center, Sea Org, Tampa Bay Times
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Scientology To Turn Over 18,000 Pages of Evidence to Laura DeCrescenzo on
Tuesday
July 1, 2013, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker
http://tonyortega.org/2013/07/01/8011/
Scientology's motion for a protective order in Laura DeCrescenzo's
forced-abortion lawsuit was denied in part today, and as a result the
church's attorneys said in court that they will be turning over a
compact disc with 18,000 pages of unredacted evidence to DeCrescenzo
tomorrow.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Ronald Sohigian did agree with the
church that third-party names in the files should be removed. So he
ordered the church to produce another set of the evidence with
third-party names redacted within 30 days.
After appeals to the California and U.S. Supreme Courts failed,
Scientology had no further way to delay turning over the documents,
which Sohigian had ordered the church to fork over this spring in
DeCrescenzo's four-year legal odyssey.
Tags: 2009, 2012, Appeal, California, California Supreme Court, Judge Ronald
Sohigian, Laura DeCrescenzo, Los Angeles Superior Court, Quicky, Sea Org, US
Supreme Court, Village Voice
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What Scientology Could Be
July 1, 2013, Mike Rinder, Something Can Be Done About It
http://www.mikerindersblog.org/what-scientology-could-be/
One of our Special Correspondents sent this in and I felt it worthy of
a separate post.
I am interested in your comments. I don't agree with some of the
sentiments expressed here but I believe it is food for thought and
perhaps from the responses we might gain some insight into what is
considered valuable, important or unwanted.
Fire away!
Tags: 1979, Auditing, Clear, DEA, Fire, International Association of
Scientologists, L. Ron Hubbard, Membership, Mission, OT, Quicky, Review,
Saint Hill, Scientology organization, Sea Org, Volunteer Ministers
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More IAS BS
July 1, 2014, Mike Rinder, Something Can Be Done About It
http://www.mikerindersblog.org/more-ias-bs/
Shake and Bake Flash is at it again. I wonder if he knows the
information he is circulating is bs, or if he thinks it is the
"greatest good" to keep getting money out of people to "save the
planet" even though there is not a shred of evidence any such thing is
happening.
Check out his pitch and then a few comments afterwards to put things
into perspective.
Here are the ACTUAL statistics for scientology.org from Alexa.
Tags: International Association of Scientologists, Las Vegas, Marc Headley,
Quicky, Underground Bunker
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Rathbun: 'Scientology never endorsed anyone where there wasn't a clear self-
interest'
July 1, 2014, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker
http://tonyortega.org/2014/07/01/rathbun-scientology-never-endorsed-anyone-where-there-wasnt-a-clear-self-interest/
Pam Bondi, Florida AG On Sunday, we broke the news that Scientologists
were holding a campaign fundraiser for Florida Attorney General Pam
Bondi, who is running for re-election this year.
One of our tipsters had forwarded to us a mailer that was not meant to
be spread outside the church, showing that several high-level
Scientologists were organizing the event at the luxury Clearwater
condominium of wealthy church members Michael and Liz Baybak. The
fundraiser is scheduled for tonight, and attendees are asked to donate
at least $1,000 each to Bondi's campaign.
Bondi is a Republican and former prosecutor who was endorsed by Sarah
Palin when she first ran for election and won in 2010. Most recently,
she's been in the news for announcing that she would be vigorously
defending Florida's ban on gay marriage in the state and federal courts.
Tags: 1995, 2000, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, Brett Miller, Christian, Christina
Johnson, Clearwater, David Miscavige, Eric Roux, FBI, Florida, Florida
Attorney General, Fort Harrison, Infinite Complacency, Jehovah's Witnesses,
Joe Childs, Jonny Jacobsen, Karen de la Carriere, Lisa McPherson, Liz Baybak,
Marty Rathbun, OT 8, Pam Bondi, Paris, Quicky, Rehabilitation Project Force,
Sarah Palin, Sea Org, Stephen Kent, Tampa Bay Times, University of Alberta
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Scientologists Host Pam Bondi Fundraiser Tonight
July 1, 2014, Fire Ant, New Times Broward-Palm Beach
http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/pulp/2014/07/scientologists_host_pam_bondi_fundraiser_tonight.php
So there's a big party and fundraiser for Florida Attorney General Pam
Bondi tonight, in some swanky digs in Clearwater. If you're in the
neighborhood and have a spare grand, you might wanna drop by. Just be
prepared to be audited at the door. Not IRS audited. Scientology audited.
Tags: Bob Duggan, Florida Attorney General, LGBT, Liz Baybak, Marty Rathbun,
Michael Baybak, Pam Bondi, Tony Ortega, Trish Duggan
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Is David Miscavige really planning to extend Scientology's 'Bridge'?
July 1, 2015, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker
http://tonyortega.org/2015/07/01/is-david-miscavige-really-planning-to-extend-scientologys-bridge/
We don't always see the newest issue of the Freewinds, a Scientology
publication that gets passed around a little less often than Impact or
Celebrity or International Scientology News.
But a new edition made its way to us, and it contained a story we
thought you'd want to hear about. We'd been hearing some things about
New Jersey dentist Louis Feldman. He's an OT 8, the highest level of
spiritual achievement that a Scientologist can attain. And he penned an
article in Freewinds about how he's gone back down to the bottom end of
the Bridge to do low-level courses like the Student Hat, a basic
introduction to learning.
Why? Well, Louis says he's getting ready for the next great Scientology
advance, the release of levels OT 9 and OT 10. He's also reportedly
been telling people that he's been given the role as ambassador
specifically to prepare people for the release of the new levels. We
wanted to ask him about that, but the number at his dentist's office
asked us to enter a code to access a voice mail system. Odd.
Tags: 1960, 1987, 2013, Celebrity, Claire Headley, David Miscavige,
Freewinds, International Association of Scientologists, Karen de la Carriere,
Marty Rathbun, Michael Chan, New Jersey, OT, OT 8, Purification Rundown,
Quicky, Ray Mithoff, Saint Hill, Saint Hill Manor, Scientology executive,
Student Hat, Super Power, Truth Revealed, UK
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It's Epic, It's Monumental
July 1, 2015, Mike Rinder, Something Can Be Done About It
http://www.mikerindersblog.org/its-epic-its-monumental/
This one sure got some hype.
Look at those poor excluded souls, peering through the gaps in the door.
An "EPIC COB BRIEFING"
Tags: Chairman of the Board, Clear, L. Ron Hubbard, OT, Purif, Quicky,
Religious Technology Center, Sandy Dodwell
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