Scientology Victim Jenna Miscavige Hill on Inside Edition Feb 5, 2008

Scientology victim, Jenna Miscavige Hill on Inside Edition Feb 5, 2008




On tonite's Inside Edition show, Jenna Miscavige Hill - Victim of Tax Exempt Child Neglect, Emotional Abuse

It was very good. Short but effective. She earned the 'Medal of Valor' award from the critics, for sure!



We hear former child victim of Scientology's Sea Org Gualg for kids, Jenna Miscavige Hill, talk seeing her parents 1x a year, about being holed up with the children of other scientology elite in a compound that segregated them from their parents, attending school 1 day a week when she was 12, and then stopping that education all together at age 16. Her whole life in that mess.

Jenna left 4 years later but at the time she stayed because Scientology was all she knew. She really didn't know her parents. They fought to see her. She finally got a few more days a year to see them, her calls screened. Interrogated after each visit to make sure there were no doubts or contrary thoughts about scientology.

I hope she has reconciled with her parents, who were victims, too.

KuDos and ((HUGGS)) to Jenna and family from me and my family.

Read about other victims
http://www.taxexemptchildabuse.net/

Scientology victims -- online
http://scientology-victims-tes­timonies.com/

Mary McConnell

formerlyfooled at yahoo dot com

A Worldwide Protest Against Scientology. Be There Feb 10th. New Anon Video Released

LipGloss has taken a shine to exposing The Con of Scientology

02/05/2008 (4:08 pm)
LipGloss:
Anti-Scientology Group “Anonymous” Gears Up For February 10th Worldwide Protest



This is a very inspirational and moving video .

Mary McConnell
formerlyfooled at yahoo.com

ScientLOLojyuuichi!! or Tom Cruise vs. The Internet by Androgynous

For the most part, this is very funny!

ScientLOLojyuuichi!! or Tom Cruise vs. The Internet

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/scientolulz

Stern.de interviews Arnie Lerma: Criticism of Tom Cruise "A propaganda minister of the present" for Scientology

A unofficial translation of the very recent Stern.de interview with Arnie Lerma:

Tom Cruise- A propaganda minister of the present
Kritik an Tom Cruise: 'Ein Propagandaminister der Gegenwart' -
Lifestyle - stern.de 1/30/2008

Criticism of Tom Cruise
"A propaganda minister of the present"

The Cruise-Goebbels comparison of TV historian Guido Knopp has triggered controversial discussions. In stern.de interview explained Arnie Lerma, America Scientology's number one enemy, which he compared to perfectly justified.

Arnie Lerma is considered the best known Scientology critics in the United States. From his 18th Let on he was part of the group. In his ten years of Scientology, he climbed up into the elite Sea Organization ". When Lerma and the daughter of founder L. Ron Hubbard, Suzette Hubbard, fell in love and the wanted to get married, he was under considerable pressure by Scientology to end the relationship. Finally, it came to a Florida hours of interrogation. Lerma:

"The deal was: 'We will give you a guarantee of safe passage out of the state of Florida with all body parts attached if you tell Suzette Hubbard the marriage is off.' "

Lerma turned his back on Scientology, and since 1992 he deals intensively with researching and exposing the methods of the group. It was in the mid-nineties that the now 57-year-old made the original documents of the science-fiction-like Scientology doctrine public worldwide for the first time made. Lerma, who operates the Web site www.lermanet.com was therefore Scientology by sued.



Interview:
Mr. Lerma, that German historian said of Cruise in that video of the phrase "Are we gonna clean up this place?" Says, compared with Joseph Goebbels. The Germans once asked: "Do you want total war?". Did quite the historian - or he exaggerates?
(c) AP/Andrew Medichini

Is the historian right - or is he exaggerating?

"The parallels to a minister of propaganda aren't far fetched. The concept of a total war is deeply rooted in the mindset of every convinced scientologist. "Clean this place up" means "clear the planet" - which means to cleanse Earth of all enemies of Scientology. Cruise mediates an ideology of hate. He also does it whenever he speaks about "suppressive persons", who are enemies of Scientology, so called "suppresives". There is a Scientology textbook named
"Shattering Suppression". On the cover you can see a face being shattered."

"Unlike the latest Cruise biography, which calls him the 2nd most important Scientologist, I would take it one step further: Cruise is the most important Scientologist of them all, because he is the best promoter of the organization. So, indeed he is some kind of minister of propaganda."

Are comparisons with the "Third Reich" not generally covered?

"If you take a closer look at the whole thing, you can see it: the way Scientology does things undercover and makes propaganda for its own ideas is identical to the totalitarian dogma of the Third Reich. The obscure Scientology slang, which Tom Cruise uses as well, is nothing but a cover-up tactic. The strange diction hides the horrible goals and the obvious historic precursors. This language makes scrutinization very difficult, because most people have never heard of made-up terms like "suppressive person". The master-plan is to hide the true dimension of the whole thing."

" Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard wanted to program members of Scientology in a way, that makes euthanasia seem like a feasible alternative, instead of fulfilling the needs of a human society. Hubbard was hoping that one day, when enough people realized what Scientology really is, it would already be too late. He said: "Because of that, we have to make sure that (on that day) we are the ones who so say what is the law and what is not."

Nevertheless, the Scientologist Cruise has just played Count Stauffenberg, also an opponent of Hitler.

"Shooting the movie "Valkyrie" had a lot in common with a diversionary tactic. It's stage magic. It's supposed to get the attention of the Germans and focus it into another direction, so they won't be aware of how dangerous the organization really is. I'm pretty sure, that the minds behind Scientology knew exactly why Cruise chose to shoot "Valkyrie", and why he chose to shoot it in Germany. They have an agenda. Because of their history, Germans tend to see the ideology of Scientology for what it really is. Plus: their country (Germany) shares its history with people from around the world. "Valkyrie" was a pre-emptive measure to take the wind out of the critics' sails. It's just another cover-up tactic"

And Cruise is part of this tactic?

"Yes. He truly believes, what other people tell him to believe. The videos of him prove it. At the same time, they show the psychological warfare, that the organization uses against its own members, in order to keep them trapped in some sort of dream-world. How are we supposed to take those people seriously? A scientologist believes, that the spirits of dead aliens are inside his body."


Interview: Jof Isert
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My God,! Arnie Lerma did it! He managed to get that message out to the very people who will be able to understand it the most and be able to do something with it!! Excellent!! Together with the video is priceless

Read this via Google translation page

The video of Cruise accepting his award is against this backdrop of information. There are links to many other articles on scientology, seemingly all current and including another interview by a german fellow.

Mary McConnell

Jenna Miscavige Hill, Niece of Scientology's leader, backs Cruise biography

Niece of Scientology's leader backs Cruise biography4 hours ago

PARIS (AFP) — The author of a controversial new biography on celebrity Scientologist Tom Cruise has found an unexpected new ally: the niece of Scientology's current leader, David Miscavige.

In an open letter to a senior Scientology official that has been widely posted on the Internet, Jenna Miscavige Hill described how her own family was broken apart by the movement's policies.

Hill's father is Ron Miscavige, the older brother of David Miscavige, the current leader of the Church of Scientology.

"Hell, if Scientology can't keep his family together -- then why on earth should anyone believe the church helps brings families together!" she wrote. [..]

It's terrific to see that this is getting some press coverage. The article below refers to Jenna Miscavige Hill, daughter of Elizabeth and Ron Miscavige, and the letter she wrote to church public relations spokesperson, Karen Pouw. After reading the lies Pouw wrote in defense of Scientology against Andrew Morton's Cruise biography, Jenna stepped up to the plate and called her on the carpet for lying about Scientology's Disconnection Policy and how it destroys families, including her own.

Scientology Disconnection Policy has been separating and destroying families for far too many years. It's a type of religious shunning. I know. During my 18 years in Scientology, I cut off family members because I really believed I was doing the right thing by Scientology. In retrospect, I was jaded and felt I had no choice. That's what happens when you are numb from being brainwashed for so long. Most of my family has forgiven me, but there are still a few people I have to find and apologize to for hurting them by severing ties because they didn't agree with Scientology.

Thank God I am FREE FROM SCIENTOLOGY!

Thank God, so is she! Way to go Jenna Miscavige Hill!




email: formerlyfooled at yahoo dot com

Scientology Questions From Anonymous

"Some honest questions scientologists need to ask themselves. Feel free to respond in comments" That's what this YouTube video says. It's an important message.

Scientology Questions from Anonymous


Well, I'm all for this video. The current situation is more than about a Tom Cruise video or menacing the Church of Scientology just because ther Anons feel it's way past payback time for all the dirty deeds CoS done to mankind.

It's about the members who are not being allow to question things - a necessary componient of the freedom to think for themself. I was once one of them, for many years. Asking why is a start. Kudos for Anonymous in Netherlands for posting this.

You can find the video at YouTube

Fun with "Psychiatry: An Industry of Death" - A Scientology Propaganda Project

Fun at the Church of Scientology’s "Psychiatry: An Industry of Death" Museum!
by brian ( at catsandbeer.com )

Last month, author Brian's cousin Pete "came out to Los Angeles on a trip for work, and since then all he ever talks about is his visit to the Church of Scientology’s "Psychiatry: An Industry of Death" museum. Seriously, he won’t shut up about the thing." Priceless :)


Hubbard in the House -- the State House!

JEFFERSON CITY | The halls of the Capitol are pretty quiet on this Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday.

The rotunda, though, is jumping. A group called the Citizen Commission on Human Rights has packed the central space with no fewer than eight flat-panel TVs and 185 feet of six-foot-tall, full-color displays, all of them blasting the practice of psychiatry.

The exhibit’s title captures its subtlety: “Psychiatry: An Industry of Death.” [..]
(Yes, another priceless article. )

Nicole Kidman and her 'Confidential - Priest - Penitent Protected' Scientology Confessional Folders

I read a recent Defamer.com.au article
Scientologists Do Not Have Tapes Of Tom Making Nicole Call Him "Xenu" While Wearing Conor's Baseball Uniform

and I remembered something which I am surprised I had not thought of before, considering I'd been a brainwashed victim of the cult for 18 yrs:

"Confidential - Priest - Penitent Protected". How could I have forgotten that?

Well, anyway, as I explained to Defamer:

Scientology 'auditors; ( counselors ) ALWAYS write down what the 'preclear' or 'OT' says in a counseling session. Always. To do otherwise is a violation of their technology. So everything that Tom and Nicole have ever said in a session are recorded by hand by the counselor/ auditor.

There are taped sessions but that is usually done for monitoring the skills of the auditor- in training. Could they have taped Nicole's sessions? Well, nothing would surprise me when it comes to how the church treats it's celebrities. But certainly there were notes taken of all she'd ever spoken in those sessions.

I, personally, want my folders back and I bet Nicole would want them back too. We were convinced that we were dealing with a real church who had real principles and that the 'confessions' were sacred. Even the folders stated " Confidential- Priest-Penitent Protected"
and we fringe Catholics who joined Scientology actually believed that the session information was held sacred and confidential like a confession is in the catholic church! What fools we were. Nicole had good reason to fear that, as do so many other former scientologists.

One day there will be a class action suit brought against the 'church' to gather up and return all the folders of all the written notes from each person's sessions but until that day, believe me when I say she had something to fear. More than a few ex-members have had dirty laundry or the appearance of dirty laundry aired on the internet for criticising the church.

You can get more information on the Priest-Penitent privilage related to the keeping of "confessions"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clergy-penitent_privilege

Nicole, you are not alone. It was a con game. We were conned.

Mary McConnell
formerlyfooled at yahoo dot com

Good sites to visit:
http://www.narcononvictims.com
http://www.lermanet.com
http://www.xenu.net
http://www.xenutv.com
and my blog: http://free-from-scientology.blogspot.com

Another Lisa McPherson case: Three French citizen scientologists arrested in Nuoro, Italy charged with kidnapping and holding captive a woman

3 French members of Scientology were arrested yesterday in Italy for kidnapping and holding hostage a woman, who was found in a condition similar to the one the Late Lisa McPherson was in just before she died in 1995.

As Jeff Jacobson posted today over at alt.religion.scientology usenet group:

"On December 5, 1995, Lisa McPherson was dead on arrival at a hospital 45 minutes north of Clearwater Florida. According to the coroner's report, Lisa was underweight, severely dehydrated, and had bruises and bug bites (see the entire report here).

Lisa's last address was listed by the police as 210 S. Ft. Harrison in Clearwater Florida, which is the Fort Harrison Hotel, a Scientology property. Lisa had been a Scientologist from the age of 18 to her death at age 36.

Lisa was put on the Introspection Rundown that Scientology uses to handle those who have had a psychotic break.

On November 18, 1995, Lisa was involved in a minor car accident. She was apparently not hurt, but she got out of her car and took all her clothes off and seemed mentally unstable. She was taken to a hospital where she was physically evaluated as being unharmed, but the hospital wanted her to be psychologically cared for. However, some Scientologists arrived and stated that Lisa did not believe in psychiatry, and she checked out after a short evaluation and left with the Scientologists. She went with them to Room 174 of the Ft. Harrison Hotel for "rest and relaxation" according to the church, but church logs from Lisa's stay there from November 18 to her death December 5 show differently. Some logs are missing, and a high ranking ex-Scientologist has written an affidavit in which he claims that the church has in the past destroyed documents that might get the church in trouble.

The family of Lisa McPherson sued Scientology and individuals involved for wrongful death, while Scientology claimed it did nothing wrong toward Lisa While settlement talks were completed after being forced by the court, (Civil Case settled 5/28/04) the case appears to still be active. Scientology had a web page (removed or moved) that smeared Lisa's aunt and attorney. "

Now we have another victim in the news. I cannot let this important story slide by. In 1984 I lost a dear friend, Dale Bogen, who underwent this kind of treatment and she was found dead, a supposid suicide. People were afraid to speak up. Then Lisa died and what happened after that was a war with Scientology that is emblazioned in the minds of so many people who try to keep Lisa's memory alive.

Lisa and Dale are not alone. The victim in this recent situation was saved only due to her ingenuity in leaving notes outside where she was staying, so that someone would call police.

What most likely happened to latest victim is that she became irratic or psychotic during scientology 'auditing' and was put on a program called the Introspection Rundown, same as Lisa and Dale. Part of this program is a thing called muzzled destimulation, as described here.

It is degrading, inhumane and illegal in many countries to not help a person get proper medical care. Lisa and Dale died and this woman escaped. There is a very important story to be told here. This is the dark side of scientology.

Look here at what happened to Lisa McPherson: The UnFunny Truth about Scientology

'State drops charges against Scientology'Blaming the medical examiner for damaging their case, prosecutors quietly end the inquiry into Lisa McPherson's death. By THOMAS C. TOBIN ©St. Petersburg Times,6/13/00

Tampabay: Doctor in Lisa McPherson case suspended


____________ The latest case in Italy with links:
ilGiornale.it - Nuoro, donna segregata Tre francesi in manette - n. 3 del 21-01-2008
Nuoro - Three French citizens belonging to Scientology were arrested in Nuoro on charges that he kidnapped and held captive a fellow of Tunisian origin. Police Headquarters in the Nuoro intervened after a call to 113 had reported invocations help from the rural Mount
Ortobene on the hill overlooking the capital barbaricino. Police officers raided surprising on the ground floor and three French citizens on the upper floor of their fellow 47 years, closed in a room full of waste.

The woman was seminuda and slept on a mattress infested by insects and worms. Accompanied ambulance woman has been detained in hospital, but has made time to denounce his jailers. Police have arrested Decouduh Marie Claude, 42 years old, Rachid Hassereldith Kabbara and Julien Queyrou, both 18 years all on charges of abduction. The three, after the findings of rite, were locked up in the home district of Badu 'and Carros available to the judiciary.

ilGiornale.it - Nuoro, donna segregata Tre francesi in manette - n. 3 del 21-01-2008

Nuoro - Three French citizens belonging to Scientology were arrested in Nuoro on charges that he kidnapped and held captive a fellow of Tunisian origin. Police Headquarters in the Nuoro intervened after a call to 113 had reported invocations help from the rural Mount Ortobene on the hill overlooking the capital barbaricino. Police officers raided surprising on the ground floor and three French citizens on the upper floor of their fellow 47 years, closed in a room full of waste.

The woman was seminuda and slept on a mattress infested by insects and worms. Accompanied ambulance woman has been detained in hospital, but has made time to denounce his jailers. Police have arrested Decouduh Marie Claude, 42 years old, Rachid Hassereldith Kabbara and Julien Queyrou, both 18 years all on charges of abduction. The three, after the findings of rite, were locked up in the home district of Badu 'and Carros available to the judiciary.
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ilGiornale.it - Nuoro, donna segregata Tre francesi in manette - n. 3
del 21-01-2008
Nuoro - Tre cittadini francesi appartenenti a Scientology sono stati arrestati a Nuoro con l'accusa di aver sequestrato e tenuto prigioniera una connazionale di origini tunisine. I poliziotti della Questura di Nuoro sono intervenuti dopo che una telefonata al 113 aveva segnalato invocazioni d'aiuto provenienti da un'abitazione
rurale sul Monte Ortobene, l'altura che domina il capoluogo barbaricino. Gli agenti hanno fatto irruzione sorprendendo al piano terra tre cittadini francesi ed al piano superiore una loro connazionale di 47 anni, chiusa in una stanza piena di rifiuti.

La donna era seminuda e dormiva su un materasso infestato da insetti e vermi. Accompagnata in ambulanza la donna è stata ricoverata in osservazione, ma ha fatto a tempo a denunciare i suoi aguzzini. I poliziotti hanno arrestato Marie Claude Decouduh, di 42 anni, Rachid Hassereldith Kabbara e Julien Queyrou, entrambi di 18 anni tutti con l'accusa di sequestro di persona. I tre, dopo gli accertamenti di
rito, sono stati rinchiusi nella casa circondariale di Badu 'e Carros a disposizione della magistratura.

More story links:
http://www.corriere.it/cronache/08_gennaio_21/nuoro_rapimento_scientology_d2cd3c4c-c826-11dc-8c83-0003ba99c667.shtml

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/regioni/sardegna/news/2008-01-21_121157631.html
http://www.javno.com/en/world/clanak.php?id=116530

Christopher Caldwell of Financial Times : 'Confusion over Scientology..........:

Financial Times
Confusion over Scientology
Is it a religion? A cult? A business? Or something else?
By Christopher Caldwell
Published: January 18 2008 19:45 | Last updated: January 18 2008 19:45

Christopher Caldwell asks how the hybrid should be handled

Here's a fair use bit from this excellent article.
[..]
" How Scientology gets treated is important. Hybrid organisations – which look religious from one angle and secular from another – are not what our laws on freedom of religion anticipated. When a Muslim charity gives money to, say, Hamas, or when a Bible-belt church starts a business, the line between sacred and secular gets harder to draw.

Scientology’s doctrines are based on Hubbard’s writings and programmes, sales of which are a considerable source of income for the Church. Some of its scriptures are “confidential”. They reportedly involve extraterrestrials who lived 75m years ago and sent spirit clusters (called “thetans”) to earth. The basic practice is “auditing”, which has been compared to Catholic confession or to self-help “talking cures”, but which is directed by a church member. Its goal is to eliminate “engrams” – negative mental pictures that block human development. It should not be confused with psychiatry, to which the Church has a special hostility, and which Hubbard considered a form of terrorism.

Readers Digest, Time magazine and others have reported that the Church keeps records of its confessional “audits” in case a member should turn against it. Defectors from the group have claimed that they were subjected to psychological pressure and, in some cases, lost their life’s savings. Scientology is rich. It has a real estate empire in Clearwater, Florida and desirable properties in the major cities of the world, along with reported assets in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

Scientology “devotes vast resources to squelching its critics”, Time magazine wrote in 1991 – and this was before Scientology sued Time Warner for $416m over the article in which that passage appeared. In 2001, the US Supreme Court, in refusing to revisit Scientology’s filed suit against Time Warner, cited a 1984 California Superior Court case that found: “The Church or its minions is fully capable of intimidation or other physical or psychological abuse if it suits their ends. The record is replete with evidence of such abuse.”

The Church repeatedly sued a US watchdog group called the Cult Awareness Network until it went bankrupt in the 1990s. And Mr Morton told the Toronto-based Globe and Mail this week that his biography of Mr Cruise had not been published in Britain “because the publishers, Pan-Macmillan, felt the costs of defending any action outweighed any kind of freedom of expression”. "[..]

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Recently, the Editor of the St Petersburg Times in Clearwater, FL had similar concerns about scientology because of the city's history with the church. The editoria makes a public suggestion to Sen. Grassley in an editorial titled Opinion: A Church Accounting .


"Politicians should be careful when delving into religious matters, but Grassley has raised some legitimate issues about enforcement of tax laws. While religious institutions have constitutional protection against certain taxation, they are also expected not to abuse their special status. In fact, while Grassley is looking into such matters, he should add the Church of Scientology to the list.

Scientology's shameful past includes a 25-year legal and psychological campaign against the IRS to be recognized as a tax-exempt religion. Scientology tactics included a criminal conspiracy in the 1970s to bug IRS offices, which led to 11 convictions of church members including founder L. Ron Hubbard's wife. Scientology filed dozens of lawsuits against the IRS, hired private investigators to dig up dirt on IRS employees and financed other IRS critics.

In an unprecedented concession in 1993, the IRS dropped its long-held position that Scientology operations where commercial, and granted the organization tax-exempt status as a religion. Mysteriously, that decision came after then IRS Commissioner Fred T. Goldberg Jr. held an impromptu private meeting with top Scientologist David Miscavige. Goldberg and the IRS still refuse to discuss their decision or release details of the settlement even though there is no legal obligation for them to remain silent. Perhaps Grassley could shed some light on what happened in that private meeting.

While federal law gives great leeway to recognized religions to collect money without paying taxes, there are some clear limitations. A religion's income and assets cannot be used to benefit church insiders beyond their normal compensation, and must be used for charitable, educational or religious purposes rather than to enrich individuals"

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That took courage and the article put the church on notice. So has Christopher Caldwell and Financial Times. This is a timely subject worthy of a complete review.

"The World's Largest Global Scam" is The Church of Scientology

Of the Tom Cruise Video, Lerma says "Scientology is the World's Largest Global Scam"

Arnie Lerma of Lermanet.com discusses "the video the Church of Scientology did not want you to see".

Here he's interviewed on January 16, 2008, by SKY tv UK, a UK Satellite TV broadcaster run by Rupert Murdoch, from the DC Fox News affiliate station about the bizzare claims Tom Cruise made in the video.

He says " Scientology is the World's Largest Global Scam. " " It's based on hypnosis and the propaganda techniques that built the Third Reich."

I was unable to catch the anchor's name but he's with Sky's 24 hour MOR news channel. This and other interviews about the Tom Cruise video played every 20 minutes round the clock, I suppose much to the dismay of the Church of Scientology:




Arnie Lerma has the distinct unofficial title of being Scientology's most persistent and effective ex-member critic on the internet and in the history of the church. No matter what the church has done to him to try and stop his efforts to inform the world about the 'con game' he calls Scientology, he's never given up.
He has helped thousands and thousands of people by helping make the internet a viable and accessable place to get the critical facts and information people need in order to know and understand the Church of Scientology.

Back in 1995 Scientology sued Lerma, his ISP: Digital Gateway, The Washington Post, and investigative journalists Richard Leiby and Marc Fisher. The lawsuit was filed against Lerma and his Internet service provider by the church's Religious Technology Center, (RTC), claiming copyright infringement and trade secret misappropriation. " In that case the "The Washington Post, et al were released from the suit when USDJ Leonie Brinkema ruled in a memorandum on Nov 28, 1995:
"When the RTC first approached the Court with its ex parte request for the seizure warrant and temporary restraining order, the dispute was presented as a straight-forward one under copyright and trade secret law. However, the Court is now convinced that the primary motivation of RTC in suing Lerma, DGS and The Post is to stifle criticism of Scientology in general and to harass its critics. As the increasingly vitriolic rhetoric of its briefs and oral argument now demonstrates, the RTC appears far more concerned about criticism of Scientology than vindication of its secrets."

(Memorandum Opinion of November 28, 1995, by U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema; Religious Technology Center v. Arnaldo Lerma, Washington Post, Mark Fisher, and Richard Leiby)

The Memorandum Opinion acknowledges what critics believe Scientology practices to this day: the "Fair Game" policy, a written directive by L. Ron Hubbard that encourages harassment of anyone who speaks out against the church.

In conclusion, the court awarded RTC the statutory minimum of $2,500 for five instances of non-willful copyright violation."

Lerma has researched Scientology for many years to determine how it was that he gave the organization 10 uears of his life, as so many others have in the promised hopes of becoming happy and godlike. You can find much of his research at Lermanet.com

Grateful thanks to youtube's quentinkrisp for getting the interviews up on the internet:
Tom Cruise & Scientology: Career Death 1of4

Tom Cruise & Scientology: Career Death 2of4

Tom Cruise & Scientology: Career Death 3of4

Tom Cruise & Scientology: Career Death 4of4


* quentinkrisp Note to YouTube Legal:
These fair use reportage clips are owned by my friend Rupert. They are not the property of the so called "Church" of Scientology or the hetrosexual actor Tom Cruise. If you actually bother to watch the clip then you'll see that any tiny percentage of non-rupert footage clearly passes the legal test of News Reportage with respect to copyright claims on the whole clip.

ConnieTalk on Tom Cruise Scientologist

There's Something Very Wrong With Tom Cruise by ConnieTalk.com
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008



ConnieTalk, very funny site. Love the photos you have there, too.
There is something wrong with Tom Cruise, and all scientologists indoctrinated like he is. I know. I was at one time, for many years in fact, one of them.

Arnie Lerma of Lermanet.com explains it best:
Hubbard's Use of Covert Hypnosis - Exposed

Andrew Morton Interviewed

Jan. 15: Andrew Morton answers email questions on MSNBC. Listen carefully.

In the below video, he's interviewed on the Today Show, where he defends his unauthorized biography of the celebrity and talks about why the Church of Scientology is so against it.



Very interesting.

Unauthorized biographer defends Tom Cruise claims

To All the Curious Current, Former and Never Members Of Scientology

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The Scientologilization of Will Smith, a friend of Tom Cruise

Colbert Reports on: The Scientologilization of Will Smith


Scientology: Is Will Smith a Scientologist?( I hope not )
Colbert gives his advise
1 min 50 sec - 10-Jan-08
for Video iPod/Sony PSP
http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-8442343306779874234

The Nuts And Bolts of Tom Cruise - Part 1

Tomorrow we have Andrew Morton's Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography coming out.

Today, we have the Canadian Press interview with Morton where much of the bruhaha of the past week get's dispelled

" Author of Tom Cruise biography dispels rumours about Scientology actor"

states:

Morton says Cruise is now the No. 2 Scientologist in the world.

"I just thought the Scientology was just like an add-on to his life and he just paid lip service to it," Morton says.

"What I didn't realize was how absolutely to the bone this is in him, and in a way it helps to explain why he's so suspicious of the outside world. Scientology is controlling, it's dominating, it's their way or the highway. They believe that only they have the answers to all the problems in the world, and in a way it kind of meshes quite nicely with his own fairly authoritarian character. It's a good fit."

Cruise is, in fact, a control freak who likes to manage every aspect of not only his personal and professional lives, but also of the lives of his wives - current and former - and children, Morton says.

"Scientology is quite technical, and it seems sort of pseudo-scientific at first and the early courses are quite accessible. It teaches you that you can actually leave your past behind and reinvent yourself, you can remake the script if you like, you can take control of your life - and Tom Cruise is very much about control."


See for yourself:
Tom Cruise on Scientology

Tom Cruise on Scientology
Uploaded by mtechevo

NOTE: Because the Church of Scientology keeps having the video removed, I will be updating this page with a current link to where one can see it:

Defamer presents:
The Tom Cruise Indoctrination Video Scientologists Dont Want You To See
http://tinyurl.com/2wqkjw
http://defamer.com/344987/the-tom-cruise-indoctrination-video-scientologists-dont-want-you-to-see

German ministers say Scientology unconstitutional

Scientology is unconstitutional in many countries, including the United States despite it's tax exempt status. Scientology is like Wisteria - invasive, destructive and difficult to get rid of.

The Germans are trying to avoid what happened in their past and what happened to America.

Catch The Washington Post's article:

German ministers say Scientology unconstitutional
By Louis Charbonneau
Reuters
Additional reporting by Markus Krah; Editing by Andrew Dobbie
Friday, December 7, 2007; 9:15 AM

The Hightee Hana Butzlaff scam. Another Scientologist Scammer Caught in the act.

I was over at usenet Newsgroupsalt.religion.scientology today and read:
The sad story of a young scientologist.

The author, navy.internetoplicht...@gmail.com starts out by informing us that

"Her parents are scientologists. She is a scientologist. What went wrong? Did the tech, again, not work? Is she the product of what is widely recognized as a scam CULT? All I know is that she became a con, a scam artist......."

He supplies some links, which I proceed to visit and read. The INQUIRER: Boy racers catch dumb blonde fraudster :

"A BOARD devoted to boy racers has done a sterling job outing a woman who tried to con one of its number out of cash for a Wii."

Scam Busters - The Hightee Hana Butzlaff scam

"Due to the stupidity of the scammer, within a day the game was up, and more info had been dug up than most would dream of making available on the net. Proving the stupidity of the scammer." [..]

"Given the response of the appeal to the victim of the scam, and the humour generated by it all, it was decided it was worthy of a tribute site. Now when you Google Hightee Butzlaff, voila, the truth is out."..... [..]

The outcome of this story began when the youthful victim decided to post this comment over at scoobynet's Subaru forum :

EBAY SCUMBAG
On the 9th of November I was searching for some Wii's on ebay ... pressing the newly listed button Three come for sale @ £180+£30 postage 110191167492 , so i thought right i'll have one thiniking the guy would be making his money on the postage and all looked fine ,

Anyhow a few days passed and it didnt turn up , so i contacted the seller and didnt get a reply ..... right time for a paypal dispute , As you know these things take time , after checking again I see that the guy has been kicked off ebay,

Thought I would drop him/her a email saying I will be reporting him to the police if he doesn't refund my money and I got a reply....

"Look mate, I don't even live in the Uk so go ahead."

So I replied , Look I have your details so please refund my money"

Miss Hightee H. Butzlaff

Mobile: xxxxxxx

E-mail: hightee.butzlaff@xxxxx

xxxxxxx road , sunnyside east grinstead

And she replied ... "in your dreams"

That was the beginning of the end of this scam. There are over 33 pages of comments filled with information about this girl, including the fact that she's a scientologist, raised by scientologists.

She is now in the league with other criminal scientologist scam artists . The organization itself is considered an unethical organization in numerous countries, including Holland and France, and it's been said that "The only "Sin" in Scientology is Getting Caught" The recent Inside Edition story on Mortgage Scam Artist, scientologist Herb Zerden, proves that point. There are so many criminal convictions of scientologists that the Lermanet page titled 'Index of the Criminal History of Scientology, Scientology Ministers, and L Ron Hubbard' is a continual work in progress.

I do feel sorry for the girl, in a way. Being raised in scientology is a terrible experience, as demonstrated in this article ' Scientology's Effect on Children ' You would have thought that Hightee Hana Butzlaff would have considered the consequences. Her professional reputation cannot but be ruined. Her provactive photos are is all over the net now

Look to her myspace... She apparently has few friends/ Actually, her only "friends" are named Tom. hehehe!

Butzlaff wrote and illustrated a book, Infinite Darkness, described as
"An adventure of 4 young people who have amazing powers, they have to work together to fight the evil in this world! Beautiful color pages with amazing characters. 16 A4 color pages, paperback."

Sounds like Hightee Hana Butzlaff needs to find those 3 friends she's apparently lost. I hope she realizes that the WOG world is not going to tolerate scams like scientologists do. In the real world, justice can prevail. For scientologists, apathy prevails until they escape.

Kudos to Scoobynet Subaru members

Update Dec 7,2007: Hightee took her photo album off the net and eliminated both Tom's off her myspace. The replacement photo is courtesy of MySpace

Scientology Sued For Fraud & Harrassment in Holland

Article in the dutch weekly " nieuwe revu " written by a very courageous journalist named Door Jeroen Kuiper, reposted & translated with permission and provided by ex scientologist 'Navy' of alt.religion.scientology and Operation Clambake.

* "I quit the Church with a debt of 150.000 Euros."

Ex members of the Church of Scientology in Holland sue COS Netherland for Harrasment and Fraud.

English transcript: Fair Use Quotes:

The scientology church in Holland was, other than Belgium and Germany, never troubled. But now ex-members file complaints at with the police for extortion and blackmail. "Scientology is one big money machine." [..]

[..] Complete brainwash.

Welcome to scientology, a religion leading you to a higher spiritual level through the bridge of total freedom according to one, a dangerous cult only greedy for your money and which should be prosecuted according to others.

The latter includes Willem Geurts. "I left the scientology church after being in for ten years, 150,000 euro's in dept (220,500 dollars. Navy)." Geurts lost everything he had: friends, his job, his home. He spent a total of 300,000 euro's on Scientology (441,000 dollars. Navy). He knows of people who have spent lots of money and are now tons in debt. "Almost every scientologist is in debt. Only during the last fifteen years it happened to at least 500 people."

The decision of the Belgian government to sue scientology was for Geurts the final reason to go to the police and press charges. "I pressed charges on extortion, swindle and practicing not allowed pressure. Because these are the ways scientology gets its money."

Geurts told the police of his experiences with the extortions , like the infamous donations. Geurts: : It is expected you donate to the church. This is how it goes: about 50 people gather at some place, a speakers stand in front of them and says 'we need 200,000 euro's for a media campaign. Or to obtain some real estate, it doesn't matter what. Nobody is allowed to leave before the money is donated. If needed the
whole group stays all night. Anyone trying to leave is pushed back in, being told he or she is behaving anti-social. It happened to me. There is tremendous social pressure to make you pay. Sometimes more then one person talk to you at the same time, it is complete brainwashing. They continue until you get psychotic and begin making mistakes. When you promised to donate, you have to confirm it in writing. When necessary, five people surround you. On the paper you sign it reads that you
voluntarily donated and there is nothing you can do about it. Subsequently they escort you to the bank. When the money isn't transferred on time, members of scientology come to visit you, or phone you, harass you at your job."

Afraid of law suits

Geurts not only pressed charges for extortion, he also pressed charges for swindle. Geurts: "The church sold me materials, known within the church as original materials. That is very important to study scientology. I found out these materials were altered. I spent tons for these materials. I want my money back. As far as I am concerned, this is swindle." A small part of his money Geurts got refunded. After
he left scientology, Geurts decided to found an organization to demand as much money back as possible: Scientologypayback.org. Geurts: "I managed to get refunds in the amount of 500,000 euro's, of which 26,000 euro's for myself. I asked an incasso office for advise."

Geurts wants other ex-members also to press charges. It wont be easy, because many ex-members are afraid of law suits. "The church always goes to court for long lasting court cases. Most people can not afford that."

Geurts: "Scientology is one big money machine. The first book I ever bought I payed 300 guilders for (200 dollars. Navy). The following books only were more expensive. Prices of courses you buy also increase very fast. They cost you thousands of euro's, up to 50,000 for courses that last one year (73,500 dollars. Navy). Then you have audits. They run from 1000 up to 2000 euro's an hour (1470 up to 2940 dollars). Someone wanting to reach clear needs 250 hours of auditing. Costs run into tons." He doesn't understand whyscientology is let free to do what it likes to. "Judicial authorities should invade them. They should confiscate the archives the church keeps of its members. They use it to blackmail tehir members. When the authorities would talk with ex-members, the end of scientology would be very near." [..] read on

Complete English Translation:
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.religion.scientology/msg/f30d02f7ebacf19a?
Complete Original Copy :
http://ocmb.xenu.net/ocmb/viewtopic.php?t=24389http://www.scamofscien

*foto by Clemens Rikken

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