UPDATES

Apologies for the lack of posts here recently, folks. Been busier than usual. I'll be getting this Blog up-to-speed in the next week or two.

Cheers,

Mike.

Chrissie Pearlman demands contact

Latest from Marty Rathbun's Blog. A letter from Chrissie Pearlman:

"Attention OSA and Flag

I demand that you release my boyfriend Shane Weightman from the illegal activity of false imprisonment at Flag.

Placing him under 24 hour surveillance and forbidding him to call me is not only a violation of his human rights, but also in violation of the Creed of the Church of Scientology which states: “We of the Church Believe... That all men have inalienable rights to think freely, to talk freely, to write freely of their own opinions and to counter or utter or write upon the opinions of others… And that no agency less than God has the power to suspend or set aside these rights, overtly or covertly…” Ron Hubbard.

"Further attempts to slander and malign my reputation in an attempt to destroy our relationship will fail.

Your plans to keep him prisoner until you can have him personally escorted onto a plane out of the country and thus hope to keep us apart will also fail.

These are suppressive abuses being committed under the pious sham that you are somehow assisting mankind by causing pain and suffering to two innocent people. Please release him from your custody at Flag so that he may have freedom of movement and speech.

If you continue to suppress him I will take necessary actions to ensure that his human rights are fully restored."

Source: tinyurl.com/ykfhq8f

Nancy Many on Rude Awakenings with Bulldog

From Xenutv today:

Nancy returned to the D.C. based morning drive radio show for a full hour of chat about her experiences in Scientology. Read more about her life inside Scientology in her new book, My Billion Year Contract.

Link: tinyurl.com/ycs9nls

Daughters of St. Paul against Scientology in Italy

"Courageous stand of the Daughters of St. Paul against Scientology in Italy"

"It is a lucid and disturbing account of the stories of former Scientologists. You begin to realize, page after page, not only the courage it took to make the stories public, but the much greater courage required to leave because, as Alberto Laggia notes, "Deciding to go public with the story of one's involvement in Scientology is painful, but it is yet more difficult to give up an experience as totalistic and pervasive as that of adhering to Hubbard's church and to overcome extremely intense psychological pressure. In reality, as Maria Pia Gardini confessed to me, 'When you withdraw from a cult like Scientology, your legs carry you out, but your head is still inside'."

Full article: tinyurl.com/yhloayg

Behind Scientology;The Lies, Deception and Beliefs

"...while Miscavige may be seen as a monster, he is merely a proxy for carrying out the evil policies of L. Ron Hubbard. Miscavige is definitely not "misapplying" the evil parts of Hubbard's tech -- we believe he is using them just as Hubbard intended.

Further, we believe the creed of Scientology has many noble elements to it but think the creed is a fraud because Scientology and most Scientologists do not act in accordance with their creed.

The creed is pure PR and Scientology and most Scientologists are hypocrites. A simple example of this hypocrisy is that their creed says that all men have an inalienable right to free speech yet in practice that right is only supported by the church when the speech is laudatory of Scientology. Otherwise you are publicly labeled a bigot and hatemonger and the fair game policies are applied against you."

Full article: tinyurl.com/y8rpjoz

Crush Regging- The 'New Era of Selling In Scientology'

"David Miscavige has created a whole new order of crush-sell - and just in case you reacted to it at events and thought it was odd that you were having bags of books or tapes or new releases shoved in your face and asked whether you wanted to pay with credit card, check or cash, and just in case you quietly thought to yourself (like most of us) that you would NEVER bring a friend or family member to these events because you'd be too embarrassed to expose them to this treatment, you were right. NONE of that has anything to do with Scientology."

Full article: tinyurl.com/ygjc4mg

Class IV auditor dumps the cult

"Recently I read the book: "My billion year contract" by Nancy Many. Several times when I was reading it, I thought: "Is she stupid? Why didn't she just...?" and so forth. But I too was like that. I joined. How could this happened? Slowly and systematic brainwash by blind to obey, control, repeatments and isolation. I did it myself."

Outpoints write-up: tinyurl.com/ycj9l5n

Scientology WISE Member kills employee, attempts suicide?

Is scientology becoming the new cult of sports?

From today's blackathlete.net:

"Is scientology becoming the new cult of sports??"

"In fact, the other night I was watching ESPN when an intriguing commerical captured my attention. In my mind, I'm thinking this must be a new commerical from Nike. No, maybe it's Reebok. Or even Adidas. But to my surprise, it was the latest advertisement for Scientology. Scientology??? (WTF) Get the hell out of here!!!"

Full article: tinyurl.com/ylnyzga

The truth about hypnotism

From today's Leaving Scientology Blog:

"The truth about hypnotism."

"Scientology uses a sort of reverse NLP to entrap people even though it predates it. This is because NLP is not a body of theory but simply a collection of useful techniques. Every person who has ever influenced another human being has used some form of NLP to do so. This occurs even when the influencer has never even heard of NLP! Scientology uses this exact same method to prevent people from reading information such as this in the Internet.

They do this by linking the act of becoming informed (and therefore free) with emotional pain."

Full article: tinyurl.com/yd6qtql

Warburg Institute to unseal the Babalon Working Documents

"L. Ron Hubbard's involvement in occult ceremonies that included sex magick: Warburg Institute to unseal the Babalon Working Documents""

"We have no doubt that if we had known the truth about Hubbard and The Babalon Working, we would never have entered Scientology or given the cult a moment of our time or a plugged penny. Because Hubbard and Scientology withheld the truth and instead, for forty years now, repeated his lies about being on a secret mission for the US Government, Scientology got me for 12 years, got Caroline for 24 years and over $60,000, and when we complained they made us fair game and got her daughter. - Gerry Armstrong"

Full article: tinyurl.com/yzem5ux

Further reading: blacklies.xenu.ca

Scientology: Caught illegally clearing the planet

"David Miscavige's interpretation of L.Ron Hubbard's dream, "clearing the planet", was brought to a grinding halt at Scientology's Golden Era Productions faculty near Hemet, Calif. by the Code Enforcement Dept. of Riverside County, with the help of some keen-eyed residents and anonymous (including not so anonymous) protesters."

Full article: tinyurl.com/ylbyref

Scientology 2009…Year Of Epic Fail

"Queen here, I decided to compile a list of Scientology’s most memorable moments blunders of 2009. This will be my final article…so I thought I would leave with a bang!

I wasn’t able to include EVERYTHING or all the pending court cases, as the list was way too LONG."

Full article: tinyurl.com/ydott46

SP Times strikes again!

Links to the three SP Times articles published today:

"Three of Scientology's elite parishioners keep faith, but leave the church"
tinyurl.com/ydfq9hp

"Recent high-profile defectors"
tinyurl.com/ylg2zjt

"Climbing The Bridge: A journey to 'Operating Thetan'"
tinyurl.com/yhkucfb

Scientology's Paramilitary 'Sea Org' is Looking for Suckers

"A recently-leaked 2009 issue of "International Scientology News" features a large advertisement recruiting for Scientology's paramilitary organization and pretend-Navy, the Sea Organization. To anyone who didn't know better (which apparently includes the 50,000 remaining Scientologists worldwide), to join the "Sea Org" is as honorable an endeavor as such legitimate public service as joining the military forces of one's own country. Those fancy uniforms must mean that the Sea Org is very important, right? Unfortunately for Scientology, being in the Sea Org is about as useless a thing as anyone can do. Moreover, it is really an intensification of Scientology brainwashing and in many ways is even a kind of slavery."

Full article: tinyurl.com/yeuuqhk

Uncertain about Clear for eternity

"After McPherson died, Miscavige successfully withheld from even those handling the criminal and civil cases that he in fact had initiated the chain of events leading to her death. Then in his inimitable every-outpoint-is-a-why style of evaluation, DM instituted a number of arbitraries to make the attestation to the state of Clear an engramic episode. He created a pendulum swing whereby it became an increasingly complicated process to attest to Clear."

Full article: tinyurl.com/ydvzxz9

Not more Xenu denying, surely?

Another "that horse has bolted" video clip featuring Kate Ceberano denying the existence of Xenu in Scientology scripture:

Next week: Tommy Davis arguing that black is white.

Enturbuation X 3

From the Leaving Scientology Blog:

"The cults problems have multiplied approximately threefold every year since the mid 1990's. In other words the collapse of sceintology has become exponential. The interesting thing about exponential change is that it appears to most people that nothing much is happening until everything simply implodes. The collapse of socialism in central Europe is a good example- years of quiet decay followed by an almighty bang."

Full article: tinyurl.com/yz68ftt

Scientologists, Trapped By Lies

From the Ask A Scientologist Blog:

"Liars will insist that you not look at opposing viewpoints, not do any research on your own or read anything that contradicts their lies. They will say terrible things about anyone who dares contradict them, accusing them of crimes and horrible behavior (but never providing actual proof).

In case anyone missed it, my description of liars' behavior is exactly what the Church of Scientology does.

To newly-out Scientologists: It is embarrassing to find out how much you've been lied to, but that isn't any reason to continue believing in lies. True freedom comes from living with the truth, whatever it is."

Full article: tinyurl.com/y9j54u6

Human Rights Activists Celebrate 2009's Many Wins Against Scientology Cult

"As 2009 comes to a close, the Scientology organization is reeling from another year of high-level defections, criminal convictions, journalistic exposes and books detailing the cult's criminal practices, and intense pressure from human rights activists. The Anonymous global network of human rights activists are keen to hold Scientology's leaders accountable for their crimes, which include organized fraud, human trafficking, kidnapping, obstruction of justice, and toxic waste dumping.

Here are just a few of the many recent victories against the Scientology organization, which until quite recently believed itself immune to all criticism, able to do as it pleased in its insane quest to 'clear the planet' of non-Scientologists through the 'global obliteration of psychiatry.'"

Full article: tinyurl.com/yhlcl2w

And the cult's wins? They're "expanding like never before" of course :)

Scientologists: You Can Never Escape Them

From gawker.com:

"Scientologists: You Can Never Escape Them"

"A tipster in Texas flirted briefly with Scientology when college-age. Then, sensibly, she ran the hell away. Now people she's never met are sending her creepy hand-written notes trying to get her back into the cult.

The envelope was also hand-written, for the 'we're watching you' personal touch"

Full article: tinyurl.com/yeabhj2

Lise O'Kane Resigns from cult of Scientology

Yet another soon-to-be-pronounced liar dumps the CoS: Lise O'Kane Resigns.

"I was absolutely disgusted with what Miscavige has done to our technology. With Reverse Dianetics & Reverse Scientology DESTROYING SO MANY LIVES WORLDWIDE, I realized the source of that plague was Miscavige himself. The CoS management in its current form is a suppressive group who are forwarding ILLEGAL ORDERS & downright destructive activities from International Management. This group deal in PROPAGANDA AND LIES & promote this widely throughout the world as unprecedented expansion. ORGS ARE EMPTY & hatred of Scientology is at an all time high yet the focus is to get upstat buildings and raise $ for the IAS to solve the problems and attacks. You cannot get Scientology within the churches any more. The brilliant tech of LRH is just NOT available & in its place is a SQUIRREL VERSION. I assign the Church of Scientology management and all its entities the condition of TREASON."

Full text: tinyurl.com/y9cnalu

The 'True Meaning of Christmas,' Miscavige-style

From today's Leaving Scientology Blog:

"Here we have the true spirit of Christmas according to David Miscavige. Spend as much of parishioner money as possible to put on the biggest and most ostentatious display of excess that you can possibly put together. One of these, we assume, went to Tom Cruise. And we have to impress Tom, dont we? Other copies I am sure went to all of the top IAS contributors or, should we say, all of Miscaviges top enablers. Why? To impress them with how well he shepherds their donations?"

Full article: tinyurl.com/y8emqhz

Tom Cruise Sued for Allegedly Spying

"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." That lawsuit settled later that year. In the settlement, both parties issued a statement saying that no such tape existed."

Full article: tinyurl.com/ygrlvtd

Scientology and anti semitism

From the Leaving Scientology Blog today:

"Scientology and anti semitism."

"Scientology is terrified of international networks (such as Interpol) and has a generalised dislike of bankers and of 'psychs'. Both of these professions are heavily populated by Jews and yet this was not proof of anti Semitism.

LRH seems a genial and all purpose bigot. He was probably happy to take money from any race- but he was also happy to play to prejudice when it suited him. This is why he talked of black people having more overts than white people while he was in southern Africa. It was also why he denigrated Mexicans while in the USA."

Full article: tinyurl.com/ykorhn2

A Letter to David Miscavige ... What needs to be said

"In spite of the "statistical" and "good news" overload which you have fed into the system - many of us see through the veil and facade you have fabricated. Your "public relations" lies are quite transparent considering what we actually see. We have seen the actual graphs, the actual statistical information showing the contraction of Scientology since the late 1980s."

Full article: tinyurl.com/ycvcw2o

Scientology and Rhetoric

"A second defense mechanism is pretended ARC. This involves pretending to be engaged in a conversation while secretly being detached from it and remaining in a separate 'mental room' while planning what to say next."

Full article: tinyurl.com/yahs2h7

Here's video of a brilliant speech from Aaron Saxton, joining a Sydney Anonymous protest at ANZO. There were no Anons burning babies, beating old ladies, or stabbing Scientologists in the head, or anything. Just, well... a protest :)

Aaron Saxton speech to Sea Org - Sydney Dec 19, 2009 from Harvey Smith on Vimeo.

30 year veteran, Izhar Perlman, dumps the cult

Scientologists for 30 years, Izhar Perlman, publishes his Doubt Condition:

"The founder of U-MAN, Izhar Perlman has been a Scientologist for 30 years. After reading the Friends of LRH website, he now completed his Doubt condition"

Link: tinyurl.com/yhyjpor

Scientology: The Crusade' Continues

Frow Gawker.com today: Scientology: 'The Crusade' Continues.

"It turns out the video we posted last week was just one way Scientology plans to take over the world. Here's more sinister leaked footage in which leader David Miscavige lays out his plans for intergalactic domination to fervent followers."

Full article: tinyurl.com/ye6qma3