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Scientology defector tells all — Boston Phoenix
Type: Press
Author(s):
Chris Faraone Source:
Boston Phoenix If every last allegation that Church of Scientology (CoS) defector Nancy Many charges in My Billion Year Contract is true, then her book should inspire several FBI raids and a Lifetime mini-series to rival any Charles Manson documentary. But even if just some of her trials really happened — we'll leave that debate to Many and her ex-cronies — her new memoir might still be the most shocking nonfiction work featured at this week's American Library Association (ALA) Midwinter Meeting in ...
Mar 11, 2009
Miniature Tigers: Almost Everyone Loves Charlie Brand — Phoenix New Times
Type: Press
Author(s):
Benjamin Leatherman Source:
Phoenix New Times Like many musicians, Charlie Brand was not a happy high-schooler. Discussing his days as an art school dropout — a troubled kid sent to a Scientology-run youth camp, where he lied to the E-Meter reader to escape, only to become a chronically depressed and morbidly obese pothead — the 24-year-old singer grimaces. Fast-forward to today: Brand's undeniably infectious and quirky indie-pop songs are getting a huge response for his band, Miniature Tigers. The four-piece has been lauded by Spin and Rolling ...
Mar 3, 2009
Feedback from the issue of Thursday, March 5, 2009 — Phoenix New Times
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Phoenix New Times [...]
Dianetics does, indeed, work: There must be some reason that Dianetics was on the New York Times bestseller list twice. Get a copy, sit down in a comfortable chair some evening and find out for yourself.
Missing from all the criticism is any indication that Dianetics doesn't work. It, in fact, does work, as millions of people around the world have discovered for themselves.
Yes, I'm a Scientologist and have been, going on 40 years. Those many years ago, I ...
Feb 3, 2009
Will the L. Ron Hubbard house turn a Camelback neighborhood into a Scientology recruitment Mecca? — Phoenix New Times
Type: Press
Author(s):
Robrt L. Pela Source:
Phoenix New Times On a recent December Sunday, on a still street nestled against Camelback Mountain, a party is in full swing at the L. Ron Hubbard House. It's meant to be a holiday open house, to show off the stunning renovation of the simple brick dwelling where Hubbard founded Scientology a half-century ago, and to smooth relations with neighbors, some of whom have lately been up in arms about plans to turn the house into a Scientology museum. These concerned neighbors, none of ...
Oct 24, 2008
“Battling Scientology” Follow-Up — Boston Phoenix
Type: Blog
Author(s):
Chris Faraone Source:
Boston Phoenix Depending on whom you ask, Massachusetts-based protest organizer Gregg Housh had a major victory — or a significant loss — in Boston Municipal Court this Wednesday. As reported in The Phoenix this past week in the feature “Battling Scientology,” Housh faced charges of harassment, disturbing the peace, and disturbing religious worship for his involvement with the picket group Anonymous and his actions against the Boston Church of Scientology. According to an Anonymous press statement that circulated earlier this afternoon: “On October ...
Oct 23, 2008
Battling Scientology — Boston Phoenix
Sep 29, 2008
Fringe candidates add colour, ideas to campaign — Star Phoenix
Type: Press
Author(s):
Rod Nickel Source:
Star Phoenix Fringe candidates add colour, ideas to campaign Rod Nickel, The StarPhoenix Published: Monday, September 29, 2008 Kevin Stricker had just introduced himself on the doorstep as a candidate for the Libertarian Party when he got a proposition that was philosophical and physical all at the same time. "One guy said, 'Libertarianism means I can do whatever I want,' " Stricker, a 28-year-old software consultant and candidate in Saskatoon-Rosetown-Biggar, said. " 'So I could punch you if I wanted to and I ...
Feb 10, 2008
Masked 'Anonymous' group protests Scientology — Arizona Republic
Sep 5, 2007
Museum for Scientology founder may open in Arcadia — Arizona RepublicMore: groups.google.com
Aug 15, 2007
Scientology founder's Phoenix home restored — Associated Press
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Associated Press L. Ron Hubbard had a restlessness that led to a lifetime of traversing the globe. So it was scarcely three years that the eclectic writer and adventurer lived at his "House on Camelback." That modest home in Phoenix, recently restored to how it looked in 1952, is regarded as a religious historic site _ the birthplace of Scientology. "For it was here that he developed the first exteriorization process and advanced fully into the realm of the human spirit, and here ...
Oct 6, 2005
Phoenix DO SAC Timothy J. Landrum Speaks Before The National Foundation for Women Legislators — U.S. Department of Justice
Aug 3, 2002
Scientology connection — The Press
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The Press Key players in the controversial Hokitika plastics factory proposal are devotees of the Church of Scientology. Wayne Byrne, of Sydney, and Soren Kierkegaard, of Tauranga, are the two principals of FT Manufacturing (Westland) Ltd, which has received a $500,000 loan from the Westland District Council, along with a council commitment to build the factory for a further $2.2 million. Several others involved in the Hokitika project are believed to have links with the American-based church, which is centred on a controversial ...
Dec 23, 1999
Double Crossed — Phoenix New Times
Jan 21, 1999
Picket Fencing — Phoenix New Times
Type: Press
Author(s):
Tony Ortega Source:
Phoenix New Times In response to the July 24 Post-Gazette news articles "Scientology Comes to Town":
As a 60-year resident of Pittsburgh and a 20-year member of the Church of Scientology, I am compelled to set the record straight on your July 24 articles about Scientology.
The article missed the help the church and its members are extending to millions around the world, including residents of Pennsylvania.
The terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, were a rude awakening for everyone. For many of us, ...
Dec 19, 1996
What's $2.995 Million Between Former Enemies? — Phoenix New Times
Type: Press
Author(s):
Tony Ortega Source:
Phoenix New Times In 1995, a jury awarded Jason Scott $5 million, ruling that his civil rights had been violated during an involuntary "deprogramming" by Rick Ross, a Phoenix resident and well-known cult expert. That judgment eventually forced Ross into bankruptcy court, put an anticult group out of business and made national news.
Last week, however, the case made a sudden and surprising about-face.
Scott and Ross reached a settlement that requires the deprogrammer to pay Scott not $3 million–his share of the judgment–but ...
Jun 7, 1996
BU's Scientology Connection - More Responses — Boston Phoenix
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Boston Phoenix I am a musician, mainly a bassist, in the local area. My lovely mug has graced the pages of your paper on occasion, featured, you may recall, with my band of a few years back called Brouhaha or, more recently, with Earthwurm. I am also an ordained priest of the Order of Vedantan Monists. If you consult rudimentary reference materials, you will find that Vedanta has been the voice of religious freedom for about the last seven to ten thousand years. ...
May 3, 1996
BU's Scientology Connection // Dan Kennedy's Response — Boston Phoenix
Type: Press
Author(s):
Dan Kennedy Source:
Boston Phoenix It is simply untrue to state that I did not bother to contact a Church of Scientology representative. I conducted a one-and-a-half-hour interview with Earle Cooley, a leading lawyer for the church — and, based on his past statements, a member. He described for me in great detail his work for the church and his view of a number of church policies and doctrines. What is he if not a church representative? Cooley and his relationship to Boston University was the ...
May 3, 1996
BU's Scientology Connection // Scientology's Response — Boston Phoenix
Type: Press
Author(s):
Beth Akiyama Source:
Boston Phoenix In "BU's Scientology Connection" (News, April 19), Dan Kennedy tried to make an issue out of Scientology by questioning whether Mr. Earle Cooley, an attorney who has represented the Church of Scientology and is also a Boston University trustee, is a Scientologist. Next, Kennedy will be inquiring whether the president of IBM is a Catholic or demanding how many New York judges are Muslims. Kennedy tries to hang his anti-Scientology diatribe on Mr. Cooley's representation of the church, but he cannot ...
Apr 19, 1996
BU's Scientology Connection -- Scientology's Tangled Web — Boston Phoenix
Type: Press
Author(s):
Dan Kennedy Source:
Boston Phoenix The Church of Scientology has waged a war in cyberspace to keep its secret documents from being seen, and it is on the Internet that some of its best insights can be found. * alt.religion.scientology is the most active cyberstation. Church critics and supporters post several hundred messages a day, and anonymous critics such as the notorious "Scamizdat" upload copyrighted Scientology documents they have obtained. Church critics charge that Scientologists have illegally forged "cancel" messages to erase these postings. Church lawyer ...
Apr 19, 1996
BU's Scientology Connection -- the Secrets of Scientology — Boston Phoenix
Type: Press
Author(s):
Dan Kennedy Source:
Boston Phoenix To Scientologists, Steven Fishman is an apostate who's spread vicious lies about the church to which he used to belong. To church critics, he's a hero who's exposed the truth about Scientology. Evaluating Fishman's credibility is difficult, to say the least. He's an ex-convict who served a prison term for financial crimes that he claims he was ordered to commit. Church officials deny there was any such order, and they deny just about everything else Fishman has said about his old ...
Apr 19, 1996
Earle Cooley is chairman of BU's board of trustees. He's also made a career out of keeping L. Ron Hubbard's secrets. — Boston Phoenix
Type: Press
Author(s):
Dan Kennedy Source:
Boston Phoenix It was last August 12, a Saturday morning, and Earle Cooley did not seem happy. Cooley was among several lawyers for the Church of Scientology who, accompanied by federal agents, had just raided the Arlington, Virginia, home of Arnaldo Lerma, a former church member who'd become a harsh critic. The lawyers took quite a haul: Lerma's computer, disks, a scanner, and other materials they thought he may have used to post secret, copyrighted Scientology documents on the Internet. The success of ...
Nov 30, 1995
Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlatans — Phoenix New Times
Type: Press
Author(s):
Tony Ortega Source:
Phoenix New Times Clients of deprogrammer Rick Ross call him a savior. Perhaps that's why people he's branded cult leaders want to crucify him. Rick Ross is describing how Arizona's cults use mind control to exploit their members. He warns about 70 people gathered at Arizona State University's Memorial Union that they are prime targets for groups that tend to prey on university students. The Moonies have a house on North Central. Scientology has a church in Mesa. There's Scottsdale's CBJ, whose members believe ...
Jun 3, 1986
What's the scam? // Trying to bilk the Scientologists — Boston PhoenixMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Jim Schuh Source:
Boston Phoenix Back on the morning of June 7, 1982, a man walked into the New York branch of the Middle East Bank on the 25th floor of a Madison Avenue office building and tried to deposit a $2 million check. The man, a native of the United Arab Emirates, left without completing the transaction. The check, written on an E.F. Hutton money-market account handled by the Bank of New England, was a forgery. Although attempted bank fraud of that ilk is not ...
May 1, 1980
Now she makes her own sweet music [exact date unknown]
May 19, 1970
Narcotic-rehabilitation efforts to be rewarded — Gazette (Phoenix, AZ)More: link
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Gazette (Phoenix, AZ) Two Arizona State Prison officials will receive special awards Friday for their efforts with a narcotic-rehabilitation program at the prison. Dale F. Brandfas, assistant superintendent of custody, and John Russell, construction foreman, will receive awards from Arthur J. Maren, nationwide supervisor of Narconon. Narconon is a rehabilitative program for prisoners who are addicted to drugs, and is based on a body of philosophy known as scientology. The prison officials are receiving the awards for their contributions of "support, time and effort" ...
Nov 16, 1955
Minister's trial reset here — Republic (Phoenix, AZ)More: link
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Republic (Phoenix, AZ) Trial of Edd Clark, 56, a minister in the Church of American Science, yesterday was reset for Jan. 3 by Superior Judge Fred J. Hyder. Clark, who resides at 1811 N. First Ave., was scheduled to go on trial yesterday on a charge of practicing medicine without a license. Harry A. Stewart Jr., attorney for Clark, advised Judge Hyder he had been ill several weeks and had been unable to properly prepare his client's defense. Charles C. Stidham, chief deputy criminal ...
Sep 21, 1955
Clark trial set Nov. 16 — Republic (Phoenix, AZ)More: link
Type: Press
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Republic (Phoenix, AZ) Edd Clark, 56, a minister in the Church of American Science, will go on trial Nov. 16 in superior court on a charge of practicing medicine without a license. Clark, 1811 N. First Ave., appeared yesterday before Superior Judge Fred L. Hyder and pleaded innocent to the charge. He was arrested early this month after a police woman and a secretary in the office of County Attorney William P. Mahoney Jr., charged they paid him $55 for treatment of non-existent ailments. ...
Sep 14, 1955
Defendant to contend interviews lawful — Republic (Phoenix, AZ)
Sep 13, 1955
Court action is planned in Clark case — Gazette (Phoenix, AZ)
Sep 8, 1955
Practitioner's hearing is set — Gazette (Phoenix, AZ)More: link
Type: Press
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Gazette (Phoenix, AZ) Preliminary hearing for a practitioner of the Church of Scientology who has been accused of practicing medicine without a license has been set for 10 a.m. tomorrow. Edd Clark, 56, of 1811 N. First Ave. is accused in a complaint of accepting money from a police woman and a secretary for the county attorney's office for treating nonexistent ailments the women complained at to him.
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