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Scientology protests prompt new Riverside County law — Los Angeles Times (California)
Type: Press
Author(s):
David Kelly Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) The measure requires anyone protesting near private residences to remain at least 30 feet from the property line. Critics contend it violates free speech.
By David Kelly
10:10 PM PST, March 3, 2009
Reporting from Riverside – Protesters targeting a Church of Scientology compound near Hemet now face stricter limits on how they can conduct demonstrations, according to a new ordinance adopted Tuesday by the Riverside County Board of Supervisors.
The measure, which critics say violates the 1st Amendment and gives ...
Jan 13, 2009
Riverside County ordinance curtailing Scientology protests suspended — Los Angeles Times (California)
Type: Press
Author(s):
David Kelly Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) The Riverside County Board of Supervisors today temporarily suspended an ordinance it passed last week to limit protests outside a large Church of Scientology compound near Hemet. Protesters show up about once a month outside Golden Era Productions, home to 500 Scientologists, on Gilman Springs Road. In an incident last week, protesters were swarmed by sheriff's deputies trying to enforce the ordinance. After a vigorous debate among supervisors, the ordinance was suspended today. The measure, which was requested by the church ...
Jan 10, 2009
Scientology foes blast new Riverside County law — Los Angeles Times (California)
Dec 15, 2008
Religious school fees not deductible, Ninth Circuit rules — Metropolitan News-Enterprise (Los Angeles, California)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Kenneth Ofgang Source:
Metropolitan News-Enterprise (Los Angeles, California) Tuition and fees for religious day schools are not deductible for federal income tax purposes, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday.
The court, for the second time, rejected claims by local residents Michael and Marla Sklar that they received only intangible religious benefits as result of their five children’s attendance in Orthodox Jewish schools, so their school payments should be deductible, at least in part, as charitable donations.
The Sklars have been seeking to deduct their payments, going ...
Dec 4, 2008
Guard who killed sword-wielder at Scientology center won't face charges — Los Angeles Times (California)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Harriet Ryan Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) A security guard who shot and killed a man wielding samurai swords on the grounds of a Scientology facility in Hollywood will not face criminal charges, the Los Angeles County district attorney's office said Wednesday.
The decision by prosecutors was in line with the conclusion of Los Angeles police detectives, who determined that the guard, a 64-year-old retired Seal Beach police officer, acted in defense of himself and other guards at the church's Celebrity Centre.
A former Scientologist, Mario Majorski, 48, ...
Nov 25, 2008
Man killed at Hollywood Scientology center had made prior threats, police say — Los Angeles Times (California)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Harriet Ryan ,
James Wagner Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) When he was a UCLA student 15 years ago, Mario Majorski was a committed enough Scientologist that he helped file a federal lawsuit against a professor who called the church a cult. On Sunday, Majorski stormed the church's Celebrity Centre in Hollywood with a sword in each hand. He was shot dead by a security guard who police say had every reason to fear for his life and the lives of hundreds of others gathered on the property. The reasons for ...
Nov 24, 2008
Guard fatally shoots man armed with swords at Scientology building — Los Angeles Times (California)
Nov 24, 2008
Swordsman slain at Scientology center was from out of state, L.A. investigators say — Los Angeles Times (California)
Oct 29, 2008
Milton Katselas dies at 75; acting teacher and director — Los Angeles Times (California)
Jul 23, 2008
Counterfeit Dreams - Chapter 15: Nine Lives, Part One
Jun 29, 2008
Scientology is focus of flap over Will Smith's new school — Los Angeles Times (California)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Carla Rivera Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) In Los Angeles' rarefied world of private schools, where tuitions are high, academics are tough and educational philosophy is taken seriously, the newest member of the tribe is getting the kind of breathless attention reserved for a music or film star. That may be because the founders of New Village Academy are themselves such stars: Will Smith and his wife Jada Pinkett Smith. Entertainers have long flocked to private schools on the Westside and in the San Fernando Valley, where campuses ...
Jun 26, 2008
Scientology hides from Anonymous? — Radar Online
Type: Commentary
Author(s):
Adam K. Raymond Source:
Radar Online There's something fishy going on at the Church of Scientology Los Angeles, and not just the normal fishy Scientology stuff. By the looks of these
pictures posted to Flickr by former Scientologist Chuck Beatty, it seems the church is preparing for some kind of nuclear attack. Or maybe just another Anonymous protest. The pictures show stacks of shipping containers in front of the Los Angeles church. Beatty
writes that it's a part of "the hiding policy of L. Ron ...
May 30, 2008
Spinning through online entertainment and connected culture — Los Angeles Times (California)
Type: Blog
Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) Forbes has a story about YouTube with a few hard, if unsourced, financial numbers — the kind Google and YouTube keep very close to the vest. The article, by Quentin Hardy and Evan Hessel, says YouTube is going to bring in $200 million this year, and possibly $350 million next year. From one perspective that's small taters (the fourth "Indiana Jones" made $126 million in four days), but it's a heck of a lot more than YouTube was making last year, ...
Apr 29, 2008
Former Scientologist Actor Wants His Confessional Files Back — Village Voice
Type: Press
Author(s):
Tony Ortega Source:
Village Voice Two weeks ago, in a YouTube video and an interview in the Voice, Jason Beghe denounced Scientology as a "rip-off" that "brainwashed" its members. A veteran actor of films and TV, Beghe recently left Scientology after 12 years in the controversial church, during which he estimates he spent a million dollars on classes and training in Scientology’s arcane practices.
Beghe went public with his newest offensive against the church last night by posting online a letter addressed to Scientology leader David ...
Apr 21, 2008
Jason Beghe, Scientology's newest critic; Norway joins the fray — Los Angeles Times (California)
Apr 8, 2008
Scientology's first celebrity defector reveals church secrets // 'I was Miscavige's favorite boy,' says veteran TV actor Jason Beghe — Village VoiceMore: web.archive.org , rickross.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Tony Ortega Source:
Village Voice Veteran television actor Jason Beghe tells the Village Voice that the Church of Scientology will be feeling blindsided by the YouTube video of him that hit the Internet on March 14. Long-held frustrations with the church motivated Beghe to leave Scientology seven months ago, after he had spent about 12 years in the organization as one of its most celebrated success stories. Over the course of about a year, he negotiated his "disassociation" with the church, trying to give every indication ...
Mar 21, 2008
Renters in search of affordable housing get scammed — Los Angeles Times (California)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Jesus Sanchez Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) Many people are desperate for affordable housing in Los Angeles, so much so that there is often a long waiting list for government-issued Section 8 vouchers that help lower the rent for low-income tenants. Since they are so difficult to obtain, more than 250 people jumped at the chance to buy a voucher through a Compton nonprofit despite being charged as much as $1,500 apiece.
Turns out those vouchers were fraudulent and those renters are out of luck, the Wave Newspapers ...
Mar 12, 2008
A Prisoner of Scientology Los Angeles — Orato
Type: Press
Author(s):
John Duignan Source:
Orato Following on from my own experiences and analysis on the Scientology cult, I came across this. It is absolutely par for course as to how this 'religion' separates people from their families and creates horrendous distress in forwarding their own agenda. I hope this story creates the sense of revulsion with readers that this cult truly deserves. I am simply placing Mrs. Lentsch's story here, with no editing, it speaks for itself. Portland, Oregon - March 11, 2008 Portland resident Susan ...
Mar 11, 2008
What to get L. Ron Hubbard for his birthday — Village Voice
Type: Press
Author(s):
Tony Ortega Source:
Village Voice L. Ron Hubbard, the pulp fiction writer who gave the world Battlefield Earth, as well as a nuisance known as Scientology, would have turned 97 years old this Thursday, March 13. Ron’s been worm food for more than a score of years now, so it probably won’t matter to him that the best birthday party being held in his name will take place a couple of days late. On Saturday, March 15, the surprisingly upstart, leaderless movement known as “Anonymous” will ...
Mar 3, 2008
Scientology taking hits online — Los Angeles Times (California)More: articles.latimes.com , rickross.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
David Sarno Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) "We were born. We grew up. We escaped."
So reads the motto of ExScientologyKids.com, a website launched Thursday by three young women raised in the Church of Scientology who are speaking out against the religion. Their website accuses the church of physical abuse, denying some children a proper education and alienating members from family.
One of the women behind the site, Jenna Miscavige Hill, is the niece of David Miscavige, the head of the church, and Kendra Wiseman is the daughter ...
Feb 26, 2008
Scientology: faith and doubts — Los Angeles Times (California)
Type: Press
Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
When I was 17, I left the Church of Scientology. When I was 22, my parents and all members of my immediate family were pressured by the church to "disconnect" from me. When I heard of the protests by Anonymous on behalf of all those who have lost their families, homes and savings accounts to Scientology, I thanked God that someone was finally willing to listen. Reading Michael Shermer's op-ed article, I was surprised to find myself ...
Feb 19, 2008
What Really Happened at Scientology’s secret INCOMM facility
Feb 18, 2008
A leap beyond faith — Los Angeles Times (California)
Feb 11, 2008
L.A. takes part in Scientology protests — Los Angeles Times (California)
Feb 5, 2008
Scientology feud with its critics takes to Internet — Los Angeles Times (California)
Jan 31, 2008
Mailings to Scientology sites probed — Los Angeles Times (California)More: rickross.com
Jan 25, 2008
Hacker Group Declares War On Scientology — KNBC Los Angeles
Jan 14, 2008
Château Scientology — New Yorker
Jan 8, 2008
Cruise camp rips upcoming biography as 'tired old lies' — Los Angeles Times (California)
Dec 24, 2007
Campaigning for a 23% sales tax — Los Angeles Times (California)
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