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Dec 4, 2008
How Scientologists pressurise publishers // Over and over again, critical publications have been blocked — The Guardian (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s):
David V. Barrett Source:
The Guardian (UK) Last week we learned that Amazon.co.uk has bowed to pressure to stop selling a book by a former senior Irish Scientologist. The Complex: An Insider Exposes the Covert World of the Church of Scientology (Merlin Publishing, Dublin) describes John Duignan's 21 years in the religion, not all of it a happy tale. According to Amazon, "Unfortunately, we have had to withdraw The Complex by John Duignan in the UK because we received a specific allegation that a passage in the book ...
Dec 1, 2008
'The Complex' author John Duignan cites Tom Cruise control — NY Daily News (New York)
Nov 8, 2008
Church of Scientology waiting to pounce in Mumbai, India — Counterknowledge.com
Nov 3, 2008
I'd have killed for Cruise cult — The Sun (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s):
David Lowe Source:
The Sun (UK) A TOP Scientologist who escaped the cult has given the most explosive insight yet into the shady "celebrity religion". A-list followers including Tom Cruise, Kirstie Alley and John Travolta believe their faith is the secret of their success. But for John Duignan it cost him everything and everyone he held dear after he become a leading figure in the church's British branch. John says he was so brainwashed that he would have killed for Scientology. And he claims another member was ...
Oct 6, 2008
Former office block to be handed to Scientologists — Birmingham Mail
Type: Press
Author(s):
Edward Chadwick Source:
Birmingham Mail THE controversial Church of Scientology is set to complete a multi-million pound deal for a huge new HQ in a leafy Birmingham street within weeks, it emerged today. Leaders of the organisation have written to members to confirm that the handover of Moseley’s Grade II listed Pitmaston building will take place on October 24. The Birmingham Mail exclusively revealed the sect — famed for its celebrity disciples like Tom Cruise and a belief in aliens — was ready to stump up ...
Aug 29, 2008
Ashdown Park Hotel and Country Club: Hotel watch — The Telegraph (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Adriaane Pielou Source:
The Telegraph (UK) In search of luxury in the countryside, Adriaane Pielou visits the baronial Ashdown Park Hotel deep in rural East Sussex. The location Unnerving if, like me, you arrive in the dark. Deep in rural East Sussex, 20 minutes by car from Glyndebourne opera house, the 106-room hotel is hidden behind trees on a unlit B-road running through Ashdown Forest. The next morning, though, all is sunny and serene. Sweeping acres of grounds (lake, croquet lawn, 18-hole golf course) surround the baronial ...
Aug 23, 2008
£5,000 to find council chief’s undefined self — The Telegraph (UK)
Type: Press
Source:
The Telegraph (UK) £5,000 to find council chief’s undefined self
A council chief executive is attending a £5,000 self-awareness training course in Germany and Florida to learn to become “more likeable and able to like herself”.
Last Updated: 12:12PM BST 23 Aug 2008
Dr Allison Fraser, who is in charge of Sandwell Council, signed up to attend the Avatar Professional Course.
The Avatar website claims the course teaches people how to become “more real, authentic”, to “protect themselves against the abrasions of the world” ...
Aug 22, 2008
£140,000 council chief goes on £5,000 course to protect herself against 'abrasions of the world' — Daily Mail (UK)
Type: Press
Source:
Daily Mail (UK) A town hall boss is spending £5,000 of taxpayers money to go on a self-awareness training course in Germany and Florida to teach her to 'like herself'.
Dr Allison Fraser, who has been in charge of Sandwell Council in the West Midlands over the last two years, will attend courses in the Avatar Professional Course to learn how to become 'more likeable'.
Chief Executive Dr Fraser - who has an annual salary package of £140,000 - has already spent a week ...
Jul 16, 2008
Church of Scientology banned from shopping centre — Birmingham Mail
Type: Press
Author(s):
Edward Chadwick Source:
Birmingham Mail THE Church of Scientology has been banned from a Midland shopping centre after a string of complaints that they had been preaching to children. Church leaders understood to be from Birmingham set up a stall at Wolverhampton’s Wulfrun Centre after making a booking under the name Dianetics, the church’s main theory. Bosses ordered preachers to pack up and leave after angry parents said their children had been invited to take part in “stress tests” and then lectured about the religion. “We ...
Jul 9, 2008
Scientology targets city — The Argus (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Richard Gurner Source:
The Argus (UK) The Church of Scientology is planning to increase its foothold in Sussex, The Argus can reveal. Graeme Wilson, the director of public affairs, said the organisation was looking at the local property market and it is thought any new premises could provide a headquarters for members in Brighton and Hove. Mr Wilson said: "The Church of Scientology internationally is very much expanding and to accommodate that expansion, new premises are being acquired for our existing churches worldwide. advertisement "There is nothing ...
Jun 26, 2008
Church of Scientology deal funds blow — Birmingham Mail
Type: Press
Author(s):
Edward Chadwick Source:
Birmingham Mail THE Church of Scientology today admitted it has not yet done a deal to buy the Grade II listed Birmingham building which it plans to turn in to its Midlands headquarters. The organisation hopes to part with £4.25 million to snap up Moseley’s plush Pitmaston building on leafy Moor Green Lane, but says it must raise more funds before moving in. The news may come as a surprise to neighbours who say they have seen followers turn up for a string ...
Jun 20, 2008
Scientology: the Anonymous protestors — The Times (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Tom Whipple Source:
The Times (UK) The Church of Scientology, notoriously ruthless at crushing its critics, may have met its match.The Times joins a demo by ‘Anonymous' - the vanguard of a new internet-fuelled radicalism There were signs, if you knew where to look, that the launch of Operation Sea Arrrgh was imminent. In a hundred corners of the internet plots were being plotted; in fancydress shops sales of Guy Fawkes masks were rising and in thousands of dank teenage bedrooms young men and women were making ...
Jun 17, 2008
Scientology protester faces court over 'ambiguous' sign — Evening News (Edinburgh)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Alan McEwen Source:
Evening News (Edinburgh) A PROTESTER has been charged with breach of the peace after carrying an "ambiguous" sign during a rally against the Church of Scientology. The 57-year-old was arrested after taking part in a protest at Hunter Square, near the controversial church's Scottish base on South Bridge. The protest was organised by campaign group Anonymous, which has been fighting for the right to describe the church as a cult. The protester who was arrested was wearing a Mexican wrestler's mask and carrying signs ...
Jun 1, 2008
Scientology Scandals — The Skeptic (Australia)
May 28, 2008
Scientology protest: Liberty challenges police over summons — The Guardian (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Anil Dawar Source:
The Guardian (UK) The police force that issued a teenager with a court summons for calling Scientology a cult could face a judicial review over the legality of its policing guidelines. Although prosecutors last week declined to take the 16-year-old to court, freedom of speech campaigners are to ask City of London police to explain how the initial decision to issue the summons was made. Campaigners said they would call for a judicial review if it is found that the force's guidelines for policing ...
May 26, 2008
The Post editorial board on Britain's censorship of a Scientology protest sign: A defeat for free expression — National Post
Type: Press
Author(s):
Marni Soupcoff Source:
National Post It may be one thing for freedom of expression to be an object of controversy in Canada — which is, after all, a somewhat tenuous experiment in democracy and federalism, one whose final shape and outcome may yet remain to be determined — but it is quite another to see it tormented in Great Britain, the historical anchor of most of the liberties we take for granted. When Britain injures what the rest of regard as British principles, it is a ...
May 24, 2008
Intergalactic tyrants beware: the boys in blue are after you — The Guardian (UK)
Type: Commentary
Author(s):
Marina Hyde Source:
The Guardian (UK) Anyone who thinks the police aren't interested in diversity will be amazed by the links they have built with Scientology Once again our great nation has entertained the world, putting on two stunning exhibition matches this week. First was the Champions League final, between the clubs who finished first and second in our very own Premier League. The second - and whether the parties were quite as closely matched as Manchester United and Chelsea will be for you to decide - ...
May 23, 2008
Schoolboy avoids prosecution for branding Scientology a 'cult' — The Guardian (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Anil Dawar Source:
The Guardian (UK) A teenager who was facing legal action for calling the Church of Scientology a cult has today been told he will not be taken to court. The Crown Prosecution Service ruled the word was neither "abusive or insulting" to the church and no further action would be taken against the boy. The unnamed 16-year-old was handed a court summons by City of London police for refusing to put down a placard saying "Scientology is not a religion, it is a dangerous ...
May 21, 2008
Breach of public order act — BBC News
Type: TV
Source:
BBC News A teenager could face prosecution for calling scientology a "dangerous cult" during a protest.
May 21, 2008
Church of Scientology: Boy faces court for 'cult not religion' placard — The Telegraph (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s):
John Bingham Source:
The Telegraph (UK) A teenage boy is facing a possible criminal prosecution for holding a sign describing the Church of Scientology as a "cult", police said on Tuesday. The boy, who is described only as a minor, was taking part in a demonstration outside the church's central London headquarters on May 10 when City of London Police officers ordered him to remove the placard. It read: "Scientology is not a religion, it is a dangerous cult." When he refused, he was issued with a ...
May 20, 2008
Teen battles City of London cops over anti-Scientology placard — The Register (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Chris Williams Source:
The Register (UK) Faces prosecution for branding Hubbardites a cu*t Anti-Scientology campaigners are up in arms after it emerged that City of London police issued a court summons to a teenager for displaying a sign that branded the Hollywood-bothering, UFO-fancying sect a "cult". The incident occurred on 10 May outside Scientology's controversial Square Mile headquarters, at a rally spearheaded by the online activist movement Anonymous. The unnamed GCSE student involved posted a request for advice the next day to the anti-Scientology messages boards at ...
May 20, 2008
Teenager faces prosecution for calling Scientology 'cult' — The Guardian (UK)
May 6, 2008
Counterfeit Dreams - Chapter 3: Thistle Street Lane
May 6, 2008
Declaration of Lawrence H. Brennan
Type: Declaration
Author(s):
Lawrence H. "Larry" Brennan Tag(s):
Author Services, Inc. (ASI) (dba, Galaxy Press) (subsidiary of Church of Spiritual Technology) •
Bridge Publications, Inc. (BPI) •
Church of Scientology International (CSI) •
Church of Scientology of California (CSC) •
Church of Spiritual Technology (CST) (dba, L. Ron Hubbard Library) •
David Miscavige •
David Miscavige: physical violence •
Disconnection •
Elwood Rickless •
Fair game •
Fort Harrison Hotel (also, Flag Land Base) @ 210 South Fort Harrison Avenue Clearwater FL United States •
Fraud, lie, deceit, misrepresentation •
Front groups •
Gordon Cook •
Hana Eltringham Whitfield •
Hard sell •
Internal Revenue Service (IRS) •
International Association of Scientologists (IAS) •
Inurement •
Julie Christofferson Titchbourne •
L. Ron Hubbard •
Lawrence "Larry" Wollersheim •
Lawrence H. "Larry" Brennan •
Legal •
Lyman D. Spurlock •
Mark C. "Marty" Rathbun •
Mary Sue (Whipp) Hubbard •
Mission Corporate Category Sort out (MCCS) •
New Era Publications International, ApS (NEPI) •
Norman F. Starkey •
Office of Special Affairs (OSA) (formerly, Guardian's Office) •
Omar V. Garrison •
Patrick D. "Pat" Broeker (aka Mike Mitchell) •
Perjury •
Rehabilitation Project Force (RPF) •
Religious cloaking •
Religious Research Foundation (RRF) •
Religious Technology Center (RTC) •
Ronald L. Pook •
Royalties, license, trademark, management fees •
Scientology Missions International (SMI) •
Sea Organization (Sea Org, SO) •
Security check ("sec check") •
Southern Land Development and Leasing Corporation (SLDLC) •
Tax matter •
United Churches of Florida •
United Kingdom (UK) •
Watchdog Committee (WDC) •
William W. "Bill" Franks •
World Institute of Scientology Enterprises (WISE) Feb 20, 2008
York students join Scientology protest — Nouse (University of York)
Feb 11, 2008
Masked protesters hike up pressure on Scientologists — The Scotsman (UK)
Jan 20, 2008
Scientologists enlist police to push antidrugs drive in school — The Times (UK)
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