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.
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Karen Pressley (formerly Karen Schless Pressley)Former scientologist,
left after 16 years, 9 years as staff member. «Tom [Cruise] is just a 'public Scientologist.' I worked there on the
inside. I saw the other side that Tom doesn't see.» —
Karen Pressley in
The Sunday Paper
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Karen Pressley (as of February 2008): "The saga of publishing Karen's Scientology story"
Evidently, the Church of Scientology once again felt too threatened by what could be exposed in this book to allow this story to make it into public hands. Elliott Abelson, Chief Legal Counsel for CSI, exerted enough influence over the publisher into believing they should not release the book. He lied to the New Hope publisher by saying that I had signed a covenant bond of confidentiality that, if violated, would make me culpable for a $500,000 fine, to which the publisher would be accountable. However, I had never signed such a bond! His claim was fabricated. I attested this to the publisher's legal department. Abelson's threat was nothing but a fabrication used to instill fear in the publisher and suppress the release of the book. [...]
St. Petersburg Times (June 2006): "SP profiles" by Robert Farley
Pressley left Scientology in 1998 and refused to come back for sec checks. She has publicly denounced "substandard" child care at church facilities around the world and criticized the church for the "condition of poverty" that staffers lived in. After she left the church, her husband "faithfully applied the rule (of disconnection)," she said.
She calls the suppressive person declare "a form of psychological terrorism. It obliterates families. ... People who leave are afraid to talk about Scientology."
MSNBC (Mat 2006): "Cruise control" by Hoda Kotb
Karen Pressley: We were put under incredible duress actually, to recruit celebrities.
Kotb: Was there a list?
Pressley: Actually there was. Young actors that were really making it in film at the time. I think were our biggest priorities.
The talk of space aliens having come to earth a millennia ago, the authoritative worldview, the buffed movie star glibly handing out solutions to personal conflicts.
Movie star Tom Cruise may be spouting the truth according to the Church of Scientology these days, but Pressley has lived in that world longer than Cruise and knows firsthand the nightmare it entails.