All of them, those in power, and those who want the power, would pamper us, if we agreed to overlook their crookedness by wilfully restricting our activities.
Disclaimer: Dianetics and Scientology are trademarks of the Religious Technology Center (RTC.) These pages and their author are not connected with the Church of Scientology or RTC, or any other organization residing under their corporate umbrella.
This site is best viewed using a highly standards-compliant browser
More than 300 articles and programmes from print, broadcast and online sources.
Official opinionsThe
official UK
Government report into Scientology exposed deceptive
recruitment, strict internal discipline and smear campaigns against
opponents.
"[Scientology] is corrupt, sinister and dangerous" said
Justice Latey in
the High Court.
There have been many street-protests at Scientology shops around the UK since 1996. Jens Tingleff maintains the definitive list of UK protests.
[...]
Human Right Abuses in Scientology
An organisation cannot be held responsible for every crime of its members, so Donald Strawn's abuse of two girls, aged 11 and 13, is not necessarily a reflection on Scientology as a whole. What does reflect very badly on the cult is that they directed the mother not to report the abuse to the authorities; the concern for Scientology's public image outweighing the need for justice and for children to be protected. [...]
Coerced Abortions
Andre Tabayoyon's wife, Mary, is also a very high-level
defector. Her affidavit lists several specific incidents in
which Sea Org women
were forced to have abortions. Apparently this was so that
they would be able to work harder for Scientology. She
alleges that the women and spouses who wouldn't accept this
were given severe "ethics handling": in other words,
punishment. [...]
Conspiracy to Murder
Gerald Scarff has testified that while in Scientology he was
instructed to kill two enemies of the cult; lawyer Ford
Greene and head of the Cult Awareness Network Cynthia
Kisser. He says that the conspirators also considered
planting drugs and child pornography in Greene's office and
then tipping off the police. [...]
Conspiracy to Murder
Gerald Scarff has testified that while in Scientology he was
instructed to kill two enemies of the cult; lawyer Ford
Greene and head of the Cult Awareness Network Cynthia
Kisser. He says that the conspirators also considered
planting drugs and child pornography in Greene's office and
then tipping off the police.
Inside Scientology: First-Person Accounts
Stacy Young's Affidavit: "Such methods include brutal interrogations in which two or more people gang up on someone (who has usually been deprived of sleep for days) in a locked room and scream abuses until the person confesses to anything they want him or her to confess to."
Diary of a Dying OT7: A heart-wrenching story of the callous disregard for a dying man, Albert Jacquier, shown by the International Association of Scientologists and by his fellow scientologists.