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Mar 31, 2010
Scientology: A History of Violence / Church of Scientology says abuse claims handled internally — CNN
Type: Press
Author(s):
Anderson Cooper ,
Ismael Estrada Source:
CNN If you believe Marty Rathbun, people in the top ranks of the Church of Scientology have used physical intimidation and outright beatings as a means of discipline. Scientology's current leaders, including Rathbun's ex-wife, call him a liar and an "apostate." They say the only beatings were those inflicted by Rathbun and a small number of others, all of whom have left Scientology. But both sides appear to agree that periodic beatings occurred among the highest echelons of the church for some ...
Mar 31, 2010
Scientology: A History of Violence / Scientology: How was abuse addressed? — CNN
Mar 30, 2010
Scientology: A History of Violence / Ex-members spar with Scientology over beating allegations — CNN
Type: Press
Author(s):
Anderson Cooper ,
Ismael Estrada Source:
CNN Los Angeles, California (CNN) – Marty Rathbun used to beat people. He admits it. But he says he was pressured to do it by his boss. Rathbun was once a senior official of the Church of Scientology, reporting directly to church leader David Miscavige. He says that Scientology's leadership fostered a culture of violence among its top ranks and that Miscavige "constantly pushed me to get physical with people" during his time among its top ranks. "And I've got to tell ...
Mar 30, 2010
Scientology: A History of Violence / Scientology: Allegations of violence — CNN
Mar 29, 2010
Infinite Complacency: Tracing it Back to Source
Type: Blog
Author(s):
Jonny Jacobsen Violence and abuse in Scientology can be traced right back to the founder, L. Ron Hubbard, said a former Sea Org veteran who worked alongside him. At a conference in Hamburg Friday a former veteran Scientologist who worked directly with L. Ron Hubbard painted a devastating picture of the movement’s founder. [...]
Mar 29, 2010
Scientology: A history of violence / Scientology under scrutiny — CNN
Mar 26, 2010
Hana Eltringham Whitfield: Hamburg Talk [uncut] More: Youtube
Type: Account
Author(s):
Hana Whitfield [Hana was kind enough to send her whole transcript, which she did not have time to read completely at the Hamburg Symposium.] Talk given in 2010 in Hamburg, Germany My name is Hana Eltringham Whitfield. I was a Scientologist and a member of the Sea Organization for over twenty years. I captained two of Hubbard’s ships, ran his organizations, and was Deputy Commodore under Hubbard in the United States for two years. After I left, and as a way of giving ...
Mar 26, 2010
Scientology Workgroup of the Ministry of the Interior in Hamburg: Educational Symposium [Hana Eltringham Whitfield] [Part 1] More: Part 2 , Transcript by Anonymous
Type: Account
[Transcript by Anonymous @
http://forums.whyweprotest.net/1207504-post1/ ] My name is Hana Eltringham Whitfield and, just to give you a brief biography, I was a Scientologist and a Sea Org member for over twenty-two years. I captained two of Hubbard's ships and ran many of his organizations. He took on the title of Commodore in 1967 and I served as Deputy Commodore under him in the United States for two years. I held many subsequent positions. The account of my personal disillusionment and ...
Mar 13, 2010
Xenophon vows to pursue 'cults' — The Age (Australia)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Michael Bachelard Source:
The Age (Australia) Nick Xenophon will re-write and re-submit his motion for a parliamentary inquiry into Scientology and similar organisations after the South Australian senator declared himself a “stubborn bastard” who would not give up on cult victims. Both major parties voted to defeat Senator Xenophon's motion last Thursday to inquire into introducing a public benefit test before religions could claim a tax exemption. But he said he had been encouraged by conversations with some Coalition MPs since the vote to believe they might ...
Mar 6, 2010
Defectors say Church of Scientology hides abuse — New York TimesMore: New York Times' Youtube channel: Christie Collbran interview
Type: Press
Author(s):
Laurie Goodstein Source:
New York Times CLEARWATER, Fla. — Raised as Scientologists, Christie King Collbran and her husband, Chris, were recruited as teenagers to work for the elite corps of staff members who keep the Church of Scientology running, known as the Sea Organization, or Sea Org. They signed a contract for a billion years — in keeping with the church’s belief that Scientologists are immortal. They worked seven days a week, often on little sleep, for sporadic paychecks of $50 a week, at most. But after ...
Feb 18, 2010
The Senate lends Scientology a helping hand — Crikey (Australia)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Bernard Keane Source:
Crikey (Australia) Last week, the Senate Privileges Committee permitted the Church of Scientology to respond in Hansard to issues raised by Senator Nick Xenophon in November last year. The Scientologists promptly issued a press release declaring they had responded to Xenophon “in Parliament”, as if they had some sort of elected status. In allowing the Scientologist response into Hansard , the Privileges Committee has allowed itself to be made party to an attack on individuals who were brave enough to raise their treatment at ...
Feb 12, 2010
Los Angeles Press Conference: Ex-Scientologists speak out More: ustream.tv
Type: Account
Tag(s):
Anonymous (group) •
Castile Canyon School (Happy Valley ranch) @ 45750 Castile Canyon Road Hemet CA United States •
Child labor •
Children, youth •
Chris Guider •
Commissions •
Confidential preclear (PC) folder •
David Miscavige •
David Miscavige: physical violence •
Disconnection •
Divorce •
False imprisonment •
Fraud, lie, deceit, misrepresentation •
Freeloader's debt •
Gold Base (also, "INT Base") @ Gilman Hot Springs •
Golden Era Productions •
Harassment •
Jeff Hawkins •
Laura Ann Dieckman (formerly, DeCrescenzo) •
Marc Headley •
Mark Bunker •
Maureen Smith Bolstad •
Michael J. "Mike" Rinder •
Nancy Many •
Office of Special Affairs (OSA) (formerly, Guardian's Office) •
Operating Thetan (OT) •
Operation Snow White •
Pregnancy •
Private investigator(s) •
Protest, picket •
Rehabilitation Project Force (RPF) •
Release contract, form, waiver •
Salary •
Sea Organization (Sea Org, SO) •
Security check ("sec check") •
Silencing criticism, censorship •
Slave labor •
Suicide •
Suppressive person (SP) •
Will Fry •
Xenu (Operating Thetan level 3, OT 3, Wall of Fire)
Feb 1, 2010
Whistleblower: working for Scientology — New Humanist (UK)
Jan 29, 2010
Robert S. Minton, a former Scientology critic, dies of heart ailment — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Jan 24, 2010
He wants his money back from Church of Scientology — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: Larry Anderson's meeting with Tommy Davis , (transcript by Anonymous) , Scientologists and money
Jan 23, 2010
Trouble in the house of Hubbard — Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)More: Partial scan of article
Jan 9, 2010
New Bound Brook councilman facing lawsuit against his business from former employees — MyCentralJersey.com
Dec 31, 2009
Three of Scientology's elite parishioners keep faith, but leave the church — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: Recent high-profile defectors , Climbing The Bridge: A journey to "Operating Thetan'' , Scientology's response
Dec 21, 2009
Tom Cruise sued for allegedly spying — TMZ
Type: Press
Source:
TMZ Tom Cruise is being sued for allegedly hiring a notorious P.I. to illegally wiretap a magazine editor's phone ... according to documents obtained by TMZ. [Link to document: http://tmz.vo.llnwd.net/o28/newsdesk/1221_cruise.PDF] The plaintiff, Michael Davis Sapir, claims Cruise, attorney Bert Fields and jailed private investigator Anthony Pellicano conspired to spy on him. There is a long history between Cruise and Sapir. In 2001, Cruise sued Sapir for $100 million after Sapir claimed to have video evidence that Cruise "engaged in a homosexual relationship." ...
Dec 11, 2009
'This Is the Crusade': Leaked Scientology Video Features the Voice of Bart Simpson — Gawker
Dec 2, 2009
Intimidating and violent: defector — Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Nick O'Malley Source:
Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) A former Scientology leader says bullying is widespread in the church, writes investigations reporter Nick O'Malley. Coerced abortion, violence, intimidation and demands for ever greater "donations" have become unofficial Church of Scientology policy, beginning at its Florida head office and leaching around the world, the church's most senior defector has said. Marty Rathbun, who until 2004 was the church's second-most powerful man, answering only to the present leader, David Miscavige, said the church leadership was obsessed with destroying dissent and increasing ...
Nov 29, 2009
Scientology DVDs in schools — New Zealand Herald
Type: Press
Author(s):
Matt Nippert Source:
New Zealand Herald A scientologist doctor, who gave evidence on the suicide of a church member she treated, is promoting a controversial educational resource in New Zealand schools. Dr Helen Smith gave evidence this year to a coroner's inquiry after the death of David Sampson in December 2008. Sampson had won $651,000 in Lotto's first division in 1991, but battled with alcohol abuse and depression. A friend of Sampson was upset at the church's policy against psychiatric help: "He was suffering from depression, but ...
Nov 29, 2009
[Interview with Aaron Saxton, Mike Ferriss, Mark Bunker] — Newstalk ZB (New Zealand)
Nov 26, 2009
Kiwi blows the whistle on Scientology — Channel 3 (New Zealand)
Nov 22, 2009
Celebrities lead charge against Scientology — The Observer (London, UK)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Peter Beaumont ,
Toni O'Loughlin Source:
The Observer (London, UK) Hollywood figures quit 'rip-off' church as Australian prime minister threatens parliamentary inquiry into its activities The security at the red-brick and glass-walled horseshoe of the John Joseph Moakley courthouse on Boston's waterfront was unusually tight. Anybody who was not a member of the city's bar association was swept with a search wand. Photo IDs were checked. Mobile phones were taken from guests, who included the Hollywood star Tom Cruise. The occasion was a memorial service for Scientology's top legal adviser for ...
Tag(s):
Aaron Saxton (aka Aaron Tweddell) •
Abortion •
Anonymous (group) •
Assault •
Australia •
Blackmail •
Blown for Good / Behind the iron curtain of Scientology (book) •
Carmel Underwood •
Children, youth •
Confidential preclear (PC) folder •
Copyright, trademark, patent •
Cyrus Brooks •
David Miscavige •
David Miscavige: physical violence •
Death •
Destroying/hiding/falsifying evidences •
Disconnection •
Earle C. Cooley •
False imprisonment •
France •
Fraud, lie, deceit, misrepresentation •
Homosexuality •
Inurement •
Jason Beghe •
Kevin Rudd •
Lawsuit •
Marc Headley •
Mark C. "Marty" Rathbun •
Martin Bashir •
Michael J. "Mike" Rinder •
Murder •
Nick Xenophon •
Paul David Schofield •
Paul Haggis •
Paul Harris •
Perjury •
Peter Beaumont •
Private investigator(s) •
Scientology: The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power (article) •
Security check ("sec check") •
Silencing criticism, censorship •
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) •
Suppressive person (SP) •
The Observer (London, UK) •
The Truth Rundown (St. Petersburg Times' special report) •
TIME Magazine •
Tom Cruise •
Tom Cruise's leaked video of 2004 •
Tom De Vocht •
Tommy Davis •
Toni O'Loughlin •
Washington Post •
Xenu (Operating Thetan level 3, OT 3, Wall of Fire)
Nov 14, 2009
Caught between Scientology and her husband, Annie Tidman chose the church — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Nov 5, 2009
Blown for Good / Behind the iron curtain of Scientology (book) - 02 Lie to me — BFG Books
Nov 5, 2009
Blown for Good / Behind the iron curtain of Scientology (book) - 17 Monument — BFG Books
Type: Book
Author(s):
Marc Headley Source:
BFG Books Tag(s):
Auditing •
Author Services, Inc. (ASI) (dba, Galaxy Press) (subsidiary of Church of Spiritual Technology) •
BFG Books •
Blown for Good / Behind the iron curtain of Scientology (book) •
Cause Resurgence Rundown aka "Running Program" •
Church of Scientology Advanced Organisation, Saint Hill, Europe and Africa •
Church of Spiritual Technology (CST) (dba, L. Ron Hubbard Library) •
Cost •
David Mayo •
David Miscavige •
David Miscavige: physical violence •
E-Meter •
Gelda Mithoff •
Golden Age of Tech •
Hidden camera •
International Landlord Office •
Joseph "Joe" Feshbach •
Kathy Feshbach •
Kurt Feshbach •
L rundowns •
Lisa Schroer (also, Lisa Allen) •
Marc Headley •
Matthew Feshbach •
Melissa Feshbach •
Michael J. "Mike" Rinder •
MV Freewinds (formerly, La Bohème) •
Raymond "Ray" Mithoff •
Real estate •
Richard G. "Rick" Cruzen •
Royalties, license, trademark, management fees •
Russell Bellin •
Salary •
Super Power rundowns •
Super Power/Flag building (formerly, Gray Moss Inn) @ 215 South Fort Harrison Avenue Clearwater FL United States •
The BASICS •
Thomas K. "Tom" Vorm •
Tom Willis
Nov 5, 2009
Blown for Good / Behind the iron curtain of Scientology (book) - 21 More than a party — BFG Books
Nov 5, 2009
Blown for Good / Behind the iron curtain of Scientology (book) - 25 Never let me down again — BFG Books
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