How L. Ron Hubbard came up with Scientology

Robin Williams and Harlan Ellison discuss how L. Ron Hubbard came up
with Scientology.



In the late 1940s, pulp writer L. Ron Hubbard declared, "Writing for a
penny a word is ridiculous. If a man really wants to make a million
dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion."

http://www.skeptictank.org/readdig.htm

Tom Cruise threatening to sue medical Marijuana

Tom Cruise isn't getting any giggles from a new strain of medical marijuana being marketed as "Tom Cruise Purple."

Word is that the actor's Scientology lawyers are taking a serious look at the strong brand of bud after we brought it to their attention.

One of Cruise's friends found it "outrageous" that licensed cannabis clubs in Northern California are selling vials of pot featuring a picture of Tom Cruise laughing hysterically.

Like other followers of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, Cruise is opposed to the use of psychotropic drugs.

Staffers at several California clinics we called said they were forbidden to discuss any of the herbal varieties in their "inventory."

But one weed devotee said, "I heard it's the kind of pot that makes you hallucinate."

Meanwhile, a woman who has been identified as Cruise's former alternative-medicine consultant is due to stand trial in L.A. Superior Court on April 17.

A spokesman for the L.A. City Attorney's office tells us Feline Butcher - aka Feline Kondula - has been charged with 18 counts of unlawfully practicing medicine and one count of grand theft.

The charges stem from Butcher's treatment of Clive McLean, a cancer patient who died in 2005.

McLean's widow, Erica McLean, tells us that Butcher, who's a Scientologist, and another unlicensed practitioner encouraged her husband to abandon chemotherapy in favor of a regimen of "vitamins and 'magic drops.'"

Erica McLean, who was assisted by private investigator Paul Barresi, claims that the couple paid close to $120,000 on useless treatments.

Butcher has pleaded not guilty.

Additionally, Cruise is the unwitting star of a new spoof video in which he's seen cavorting with the bouncing head of Hubbard and dancing Scientologists like Kirstie Alley, Beck and John Travolta.

The video - which you can find at http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/scientolulz - mocks the controversial church's war with Internet critics, who've come to be known as Anonymous.

A representative for Cruise declined to comment on the video and the "purple" pot, but insisted that Butcher "was not his adviser. He has nothing to do with her."

From: www.nydailynews.com/gossip/rush_molloy/

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The guys and gals at circushour.com sent me a link to a great parody they did about all of this:



TOM CRUISE PURPLE (as reported by the NY Daily News)

Generic name: xenujuana

DESCRIPTION

Medical marijuana sold in vials featuring a picture of Tom Cruise laughing hysterically. Also known as most every picture taken of Tom Cruise. Distributed by licensed cannabis clubs in Northern California.

INDICATIONS

An antiemetic for the treatment of nausea and anorexia associated with treatments for cancer, AIDS, and hepatitis. Tom Cruise Purple also treats people who demonstrate signs of normalcy and turns them into laughing loons.

RECOMMENDED DOSAGE

Enough to make patients speak solely in unintelligible acronyms.

SIDE EFFECTS

God complex; alien worship; couch-jumping; bowl haircut that spreads to rest of family; cackling; loss of respect; aversion to psychiatry; homophobia; sudden ability to be only person who can help with accidents and control forces of nature.

From: www.circushour.com/2008/04/04/tom-cruise-goes-to-pot/

Google recognizes "Scientomogy"

If you do a search for "Scientomogy" on Google, this is what you will find:

Scientology | Tom Cruise's "friendlier" Cult called the Church of ...

Site contains anti Scientology information about the Church of Scientology,Tom Cruise,Xenu,anonymous & scientology, and L Ron Hubbard.
www.scientomogy.com/ - 119k -

Cached - Similar pages - Note this

Xenu South Park The Bridge Movie Andy Dick	The basic information you need ... How you can help in stopping cult of greed and power CoS fronts
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Pretty cool! Thank you Google! Original thanks to Glen Stollery!

Contents of Andrew Morton's biography of Tom Cruise and Scientology revealed

Contents of Andrew Morton's unauthorized biography of Cruise revealed

Andrew Morton's long-awaited book, Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography, isn't out until next Tuesday, but details of the book are already showing up in the news. Here are just some of the many facts that are contained in this tell all book:

Suri Cruise was conceived like the devil in the film Rosemary's Baby.

Scientology has taken over the 45-year-old actor's life, Tom Cruise, with its officials selecting many of the staff at his Hollywood mansion.

Tom Cruise is consulted by Scientology leader David Miscavige on "every aspect of planning and policy" and has tailored his whole career to fit the aims of the 'Church'.

David Miscavige is so close to Tom Cruise that he even joined him and Katie Holmes on their honeymoon in the Maldives.

Suri Cruise was created using frozen sperm from dead Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. Some Scientology critics, such as myself, believe that this "L. Ron Hubbard sperm" was actually a mixture of sperm from Xenu the Galactic Overlord from OT3 The Wall of Fire and the Vistaril that was found in L Ron Hubbard's dead ass.

Scientology head David Miscavige ordered a wildflower field planted because Tom Cruise expressed a desire to run through one with then-wife Nicole Kidman.

Nicole Kidman's "lukewarm" feelings towards the 'Church', her insistence on remaining a Catholic and the fact that her father is a psychologist all contributed to the break-up of her marriage with Tom Cruise.

Tom Cruise is the No. 2 power in the 'Church'. Jesse Prince, a former Scientologist, is quoted as saying that David Miscavige and Tom Cruise "were like glue, two little people who really enjoyed each other."

David and Victoria Beckham are the next recruitment target for the 'Church'.

Katie Holmes signed a billion year contract before committing to Scientology, a contract that is similar to this.

Nicole Kidman "feared blackmail" over sex tapes made with Scientologists.

Katie Holmes signed a pre-nup that nets her 3 million dollars for each year of marriage. This pre-nup was brokered by none other than Katie's own father.

Another document that was signed when Tom and Katie started dating states that Katie must "turn only to Scientology's treatment only" and "must never use psychiatric care or psychiatric drugs." Lisa McPherson tragically followed these same rules.

The Andrew Morton book is not being published in England, due to that country's libel laws. Scientologists may sue in Britain if the book is distributed there.Scientology lawyers are believed to be drawing up a lawsuit seeking £50million in compensation from Andrew Morton's publishers, St Martin's Press.

A member of the Scientology 'Church', who has not read the unauthorized biography by Andrew Morton, said the book is "really badly written".Tom Cruise's lawyer has denied every one of Andrew Morton's claims and calls the book "boring, poorly researched." Cruise's lawyer has also stated that Tom Cruise refuses to read the book but said he knows for a fact that everything written in the book is nothing but lies. Claims of Scientologists around the world, who also have not read the book, are coming forward stating that the book is "%100 complete lies". The Scientology 'Church' has said that it is forbidding any of it's members from reading the truths found in this book because they might wake up and realize that they belong to an evil dangerous cult. Even though the 'Church' is not allowing their members to read the book they are encouraging their negative reviews to be seen everywhere.

More news on Andrew Morton's book, Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography, coming soon!

Scientology working overtime to slam Andrew Morton's new book

The 'Church' is working overtime to discredit and slam Andrew Morton's new Unauthorized Biography on Tom Cruise and Scientology. Everywhere I turn on the net for news about this book I see Blogs and websites (owned and operated by Scientologists) saying nothing but bad things about this book. I wonder if they have even read it?

This Blog by the "Church" says:

"The recent media feeding frenzy about the really badly written unauthorized biography on Tom Cruise has put attention on how the Church of Scientology is organized and run."

http://myscientology.blogspot.com

Really badly written? Why? How? Why don't they explain?

This person in the article goes as far as calling Andrew Morton a liar.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22538821/

A lawyer for Tom Cruise said that the book is, "outrageous, sick stuff."

He goes on to say, "Clearly the book is actionable, but I'm not commenting on anything to do with legal issues." He said Cruise has no plans to read the book.

But why? Why don't these people read the book? Why don't they explain what is not factual about what is written in the book? If the book is just complete lies, then that is one thing, but if the book tells the truth and the only way to bash it is to use ad hominems and false logic then they are just doing more of what Scientology is known for. Scientology needs to change their policy of looking the other way of the truth and to stop speaking out against Entheta regardless of it's factual base.

The other news going around is the noise Scientology is making about a possible lawsuit against the publishers of Andrew Morton's book. How can you sue over the truth? You can't. So if you can't sue over facts, this must be just another attempt by the 'church' to scare would be critics and authors of future books on Tom and the 'Church'.

How can this "religion" ever become a real bona fide religion if it keeps on being so closed minded? People will forever look at Scientology as a dangerous cult until they wise up and change their evil ways.

Maybe I don't know what I'm talking about here but it seems to me the only way to be accepted by society as a real religion is to accept criticism and change their current ways, instead of doing more of the same.

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Learn about the evils of Scientology and then educate others!

This is a Scientology Blog that shows Scientology videos to find out what is Scientology. One of these critical videos is the South Park Scientology episode. There is the also the "Chef returns to South Park" and "Super Best Friends or Blainetology" episodes too. You can watch all the South Park Scientology episodes at ScienTOMogy.com.

The first critical movie of Scientology to ever to be released is the Bridge movie. Watch this and then learn about the people that have died because of Scientology like Jeremy Perkins and Lisa McPherson.

You can learn more about this cult by reading the real Religious Freedom Watch website. This is a site devoted to the critics of Scientology. Make sure you are careful when you ask questions about Scientology because you will become an enemy of the 'Church" and L. Ron Hubbard. They will make you an SP and you may become a target of "Fair Game". One of these questions they don't want you to ask is anything about is Xenu, who is the main belief of Scientology and who is in the story of OT3. It is important to learn about this dangerous cult and then educate others!

South Park Scientology Episodes

These are the three South Park episodes that have a story line based around Scientology. These videos made headlines and I feel are extremely controversial. The most notable episode, "Trapped in the Closet", received an Emmy nomination. That same episode is the sole reason Scientologist Isaac Hayes (Chef) quit South Park. The videos are great viewing for anyone who has never seen them before and fun for those who haven't watched them in a while. Enjoy!

Trapped in the closet

About this episode:
"Trapped in the Closet", the twelfth episode of the ninth season of the Comedy Central series South Park, originally aired on November 16, 2005. The plot of the episode centers on the South Park character Stan Marsh, as he joins Scientology in an attempt to find something "fun and free". After the discovery of his surprisingly high "thetan levels", he is recognized as the reincarnation of the founder of the church, L. Ron Hubbard. Episode makes almost 100 references to Tom Cruise being "In the closet".

Chef returns to South Park

About this episode:
"The Return of Chef", or referred to as "Life Without Chef Part 2", is episode 140 of Comedy Central's animated series South Park and aired on March 22, 2006. It was advertised as the tenth season premiere. It was also #1 on the "10 South Parks That Changed The World" list.

The episode parodies so-called "very special episodes", heavily satirizes Scientology, and is notable for its timing after the sudden departure of Isaac Hayes, who had voiced Chef on the series since its inception. His leaving South Park was because of the highly controversial Scientology episode, "Trapped in the Closet".

The Church of Blainetology

About this episode:
A street magician named David Blaine comes to South Park. The boys are tricked into becoming "Blaintologists". Stan is creeped out and soon leaves; Kyle refuses to join him. Stan looks for help from South Park's own resident messiah, Jesus. The comparisons to Scientology are really interesting. It shows everything from disconnection to brainwashing.


From the creators of South Park:
"So, Scientology, you may have won THIS battle, but the million-year war for earth has just begun! Temporarily anozinizing our episode will NOT stop us from keeping Thetans forever trapped in your pitiful man-bodies. Signed: "Trey Parker and Matt Stone, servants of the dark lord Xenu."

Germany moves to ban Scientology

BERLIN, Germany (AP) -- Germany's top security officials said Friday they consider the goals of the Church of Scientology to be in conflict with the principles of the nation's constitution and will seek to ban the organization.

The German government considers Scientology a commercial enterprise.

The interior ministers of the nation's 16 states plan to give the nation's domestic intelligence agency the task of preparing the necessary information to ban the organization, which has been under observation for a decade on allegations that it "threatens the peaceful democratic order" of the country.

The Church of Scientology, in a response sent to CNN, denounced the German proposal, calling it out of step with various international court rulings. Read the Church of Scientology response

The ministers, as well as federal Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, "consider Scientology to be an organization that is not compatible with the constitution," said Berlin Interior Minister Ehrhart Koerting, who presided over the officials' two-day conference.

Sabine Weber, president of the Church of Scientology in Berlin, said she views the renewed attempt to ban the organization as a reaction to increasing acceptance of Scientologists in several European countries.

"It is very, very clear that the true picture of what Scientology is about is pushing its way through," Weber said. "The interior ministers are clearly reacting to that."

The Scientologists have long battled to end the surveillance, saying it is an abuse of their right to freedom of religion. They point to several lower court rulings in favor of their right to practice in Germany as a religious organization.

The U.S. State Department regularly criticizes Germany in its annual Human Rights Report for the monitoring practice.

The interior ministers gave no specific examples for their decision, but the most recent annual report on extremism compiled by their agencies criticized the organization for disregarding human rights.

"From a number of sources, some of them not available to the public, it has been determined that (the organization) seeks to limit or rescind basic and human rights, such as the right to develop one's personality and the right to be treated equally," the report said.

Earlier this year, the German government initially refused to allow the producers of a movie starring Scientology member Tom Cruise as the most famous anti-Hitler plotter to film at the site where the hero was executed, although it did not expressly state Scientology as its reason. It later allowed the production to go ahead.

The Los Angeles-based Church of Scientology was founded in 1954 by the late science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard. It first set up in Germany in 1970 and officials estimate it counts some 6,000 members in the country. E-mail to a friend E-mail to a friend

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/12/07/germany.scientology.ap/index.html

Another person stabbed in Scientology because they were not allowed their necessary medication

LAUDERHILL, FLORIDA - A mute autistic child may be permanently blind following an attack at his home where his aunt jammed a large knife into the boy's eyes, authorities say. The woman then stabbed herself in the eye, police said.

The boy, 12, was being evaluated by eye specialists at Jackson Memorial Hospital, officials said. Lauderhill Fire-Rescue paramedics who treated the boy Friday morning said that when they found him he could not see.

Earlier, the boy was left helpless for about 10 hours as other relatives in the home failed to call 911 following the attack at 1 a.m., said Lt. Rick Rocco, Lauderhill police spokesman. It was unclear what led to the delay in calling for help, officials said. Some are believing this tragic event happened do to the fact that the aunt, who is a practicing Scientologist, had not been taking the necessary medication that she was supposed to be taking. It is a known fact that any kind of medication is not allowed in Scientology.

No one was immediately charged but officials took the aunt into custody and continued to try to sort through the details. The woman gave no reason for the stabbing and no names have been released yet, according to police.

The boy can't easily tell them what happened because of his autism, a developmental disorder that often impairs speech and other communication skills.

``The preliminary prognosis is that the child is going to be blind,'' said Lt. Rick Rocco, spokesman for the Lauderhill Police Department.

Neighbors in the 8500 block of Northwest 53rd Street said they had not noticed any problems at the home, where the boy lived with his grandmother. County property records show the house is owned by Stella Babington, 72.

"She adored that child," neighbor Peggy Burrows said of Babington. "Sometimes the boy would be running around the lawn in his underwear, but we rarely saw him. They kept mostly to themselves."

"They were pulling the woman away, and she was ranting and raving about suppressed people," neighbor Joanne Kull said. "She looked very angry."

A suppressive person in Scientology is defined as anyone whom the Church of Scientology perceive as an enemy. Read the full Wikipedia definition of Suppressive Person here.

Neighbors did not recognize the woman, who was taken to Broward General Medical Center for her injury. The boy also initially was taken to Broward General before he was transferred to the Miami hospital.

Something has to be done about Scientology's stance on not allowing the mentally sick to take their necessary medication. How many more innocent victims have to get stabbed or even die?

Here are other examples of Scientology denying the mentally ill their medication:


Jeremy Perkins - Ellie Perkins video on CBS 48 Hours


Lisa McPherson

http://www.whyaretheydead.net

Scientology BANNED in St. Petersburg, Russia! Scientology is now Illegal.

Scientology BANNED in St. Petersburg, Russia!

Link Bable-fish translation here: LINK - Unofficial translation here:

St. Petersburg declared Scientology center illegal.

St. Petersburg. The Supreme Court of Russia has reaffirmed a judgment of the St. Petersburg City Court made summer, and now the Scientology organization in is Petersburg is prohibited.

St. Petersburg is the third location in Russia where the sect identified as Scientology must officially cease activities. The ban applies to St Petersburg as well as Bashkortostan and Khabarovsk.

It is not expected that the followers of Scientology will resume their activities. As the experience in other two regions shows, they will go underground and work.

Numerous violations of the law lead to the ban.

The Petersburg Scientology center had been in existence since the 1990s and was in a respectable building in the city center near the Nevskii Prospekt. Their propaganda work was conducted under the guise of a religious organization to understand Association busy Metro stations Vosstaniya and Ligovskii Prospekt.

Russian law enforcement were had been busy for years collecting information on Scientology’s illegal machinations. It was accused of charging exorbitant fees for providing medical assistance without a license.

Scientology’s widespread practice of the technique of "auditing" was classified by the law enforcement authorities as "unqualified interference in the sphere of consciousness of the people".

In December 2003, there was a temporary closure of the center. When the sect continued their activities, the Justice Ministry turned to the Public Prosecutor's Office and submitted a plea. A tug-of-war lasting several years led to the decision made yesterday.

Scientology makes you dumb

Scientology suposedly teaches you communication and awareness. Even when the camera and microphone are pointed at the Scientologist, it wasn't until the reporter from Fox news told him he was a reporter that the Scientologist realized he was a reporter.

Obvious line of the day:
"YOU'RE A REPORTER?!!"

Note the grab to the microphone and not the intelligent hand to block the camera lens.



It's alos important to notice the couple things that are wrong in this video:

First: With the high cost of Scientology's exorcisms and other cult like rituals, how do they not have $723 to pay a bill?

Second: Nobody really believes Fox does news so I'm calling the video a fake.

The TRUTH About L. Ron Hubbard - Creator of The 'Church' of Scientology

L. Ron Hubbard made many personal claims that are not true, or at least grossly exaggerated. Anyone who has studied his claims, and compared his claims to the facts, would NOT believe he is a conduit of truth.

1) He was not a decorated war hero. He spent most of WWII in various Navy schools, for administration and intelligence. He was never in battle, except for firing at an alleged Japanese submarine off the West Coast, which never fired upon his ship, and which never could be
found.

2) When he first got to England he got a DSc degree from a diploma mill ("Doctor of Science"), a phoney university, and claimed he had a "Doctor of Scientology" degree. Journalists in England started asking where he got his DSc degree from, and he soon stopped using L. Ron Hubbard, DSc., because people were asking questions about it.

3) He never spent years studing under Tibetan monks in China. He spent two weeks in China when he lived with his father on Guam. He spent a few days in Beijing and Shang-Hai and one in Hong Kong, which is the closest he ever got to Tibet.

4) For the first twenty years of Scientology, he claimed to be a nuclear physicist, and got a degree in it from Georgetown University. Fact is, he took one introduction to nuclear physics (for Freshmen) class at Geogetown, failed it, and never took it again.

5) He was NOT a champion of the rights of blacks in Rhodesia. His proposed "Rhodesian Constitution" gave all veto power to the white Upper House, and no real power to a black Lower House. Needless to say, the Rhodesian government did not accept his proposal.

6) He claimed to be Cecil Rhodes reincarnated. Cecil Rhodes was a homosexual man who used blacks as slaves in Rhodesia and Zambia. Maybe he actually was Rhodes???

7) He was a follower of Aleister Crowley, and co-ran the O.T.O. Lodge in Pasadena, where Black Magick, including sex magic, was performed.
Defenders of Hubbard claim he was spying on the Lodge for Chief Parker of the L.A.P.D., but there is no evidence of this. Pasadena is not in L.A.P.D. jurisdiction. Hubbard had an affair with the "scarlet woman" (ritual prostitute) of the Lodge and married her in a marriage he later denied having. The head of the Lodge, a man who had a real Ph.D., and who was a real rocket scientist at the Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, claims that Hubbard stole tens of thousands of dollars from him.
Click here to read an interview with L Ron Hubbard's son that details his Dad and Crowley's friendship

8) He claimed in one letter that Jesus and Buddha was barely above "Clear", both lower than any "OT Level" (Operating Thetan) in Scientology. Yet, in one of the OT levels, he claims that Christ never existed, but is a false memory implant.

9) He authorized SPs (Supressive Persons) to be lied to, lied about, and "destroyed"; which some could interpret as "murder". There is plenty of evidence that anti-Scientologists have been false FRAMED for bomb threats, and even one for murder. This is called "Fair Game" as seen here:
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/images/pl-1967-10-18-penalties.gif

10) LRH defined "Truth" as "anything you and I agree is true"; thereby justifying his cons. If he could lie, and another person believed it was TRUE, it WAS TRUE.

11) Dianetics "WORKS" in helping get rid of abberant behaviors and thoughts. True, but LHR DID NOT INVENT IT! It was invented by a German back in the 1920s, who called it "Scientologia". LHR simply stole the idea and claimed he invented it.

12) LRH did NOT invent the E-Meter. That was invented by another too.

13) The 'religion' of Scientology is a combination of Jainism, Buddhism, and Hermeticism, science fiction (including some of his own works), and the teachings of Black Magicians such as Aleister Crowley, a bi-sexual, satan-worshipping, woman-abusing drug addict whom Hubbard followed for several years in Pasadena about 10 years before he founded Scientology. The "OT" levels are based upon the O.T.O. (Ordo Templi Orientis) degrees. The O.T.O. was an offshoot of the New Order of the Temple, founded by Lanz von Liebenfels, who is called in Germany "The man who gave Hitler his ideas".

L. Ron Hubbard was a con-man, pure and simple. Like all con-men, he was very charismatic, which people are naturally attracted to.

Other charismatic men have been:

• Hitler
• Stalin
• Mussolini
• Mao
• Pol Pot

Not all charismatic men are evil! Many are good men too. However, LHR
is not among them.

These things are FACTS, regardless of who they come from. If you wish to continue to exist in Scientology, then do so! But, you should know its origins, and the truth about LHR, so that you can continue in the con with EYES __WIDE___ OPEN!

It is customary for the ignorant to attack the messenger when they are confronted with FACTS they do not wish to accept.

MORE ON RON.........

He had a psychiatric drug in his system when he died. Just so you know, Scientologists are not supposed to even think about doing psychiatric drugs more or less actually doing them.
CLICK - L RON HUBBARD FULL CORONER REPORT AND DEATH CERTIFICATE

http://www.ronthenut.org - Showing all of L Ron' Hubbard's drug use, woman beating, and even pedophile behavior.

Petition to revoke the 'Church' of Scientology tax-exemption status

Sign our petition to revoke the 'Church' of Scientology tax-exempt status. Once the Scientology's tax exempt status is removed, this lame "So called religion" will be nothing more than a Dungeons and Dragons club full of nerds who follow the teachings of a space cadet. L. Ron Hubbard who beat woman and molested little boys currently has a following with %92 of them still living at home with mommy and since they are unemployed, the highlight of the day consists of chore time, taking out the trash, cleaning their room, reading Dianetic books and masturbating to pictures of L Ron Hubbard above their bed using tears for lubrication.

Anyway......

We believe The Church of Scientology is a cult and not a religion, because of this, the Internal Revenue Service should cancel their current tax-exempt status. They should not enjoy tax-exempt status similar to that of other religions, houses of worship, and legitimate social service and educational organizations.

We feel the cult was created by its founder, L. Ron Hubbard as a scam to become a millionaire. We, the undersigned, allege that the Church of Scientology and their affiliate organizations are involved in a multitude of illegal activities, including, but not limited to, perjury, subornation of perjury, murder, harboring a fugitive, harassment, treason, practicing medicine without a license, hate crimes, battery, assault, negligence, violations of international law and other crimes.

If you agree, please add your name and contact information below. Your "signature" will be used to encourage U.S. government officials to take action. The Church of Scientology has previously been investigated by the IRS and with Tom Cruise so wildly promoting this cult; I believe this is the perfect time to make your opinion known.

Note: We will not sell or otherwise transfer your personal information to any business, organization, or government agency.

I, the undersigned, urge the United States Treasury Department to cancel the tax-exempt status currently extended to The Church of Scientology and its affiliated organizations under Section 501(c) of the U.S. Treasury Code.

By repeatedly and continuously showing signs of being a cult, The Church of Scientology has demonstrated that it is incapable of conducting itself in a manner expected of nonprofit groups receiving federal tax subsidies.

- Petition created and promoted by Paul Horner AKA "Fred Durks"

Click here to sign our petition to "Revoke the 'Church' of Scientology's tax exempt status"

Fun fact: This petition has almost 7,000 unique verified signatures and climbing. SHOW YOUR SUPPORT!

Boycott Tom Cruise and his movies!

BoycottTomCruise.com

1. Tom Cruise earns his income from acting in movies. 2. Tom Cruises uses his wealth and fame to spread the gospel of L. Ron Hubbard, which gospel includes these tenets: A. L. Ron Hubbard is God. He is considered to have been the reincarnation of Buddha. B. Man's problems stems from Body Thetans (BT's) and these BT's were caused by an evil galactic overlord. C. For $360,000 and perhaps 10 - 20 years of your life, Scientology can rid you of Body Thetans. In OT VIII, you will reportedly cognate that L. Ron Hubbard is God or the anti-christ. OT8 is a little tough reading considering L Ron Hubbard was hopped up plenty of psychedelic drugs along with pinks, greys and rum when he wrote it. D. Psychiatry is evil. Scientology is engaged in an ethnic cleansing program against psychiatry and psychiatrists. Scientology wishes to financially destroy and imprison psychiatrists and to outlaw psychiatry. Scientology calls psychology the "cousin of psychiatry" and intends also to destroy psychology and to imprison psychologists. E. Scientology has the intent to destroy psychiatry and to make itself the sole provider of mental health on the planet. Scientology's mental health program is a $360,000 therapy based around Body Thetans. F. Tom Cruise believes in an alien named Xenu and is taught in OT3, which turns out to be the core belief in Scientology. This is the reason Scientology charges hundreds of thousands of dollars for auditing - To get rid of all the space cooties attached to your body. 3. Tom is the largest single financial contributor to Scientology at $3.5 million and counting. 4. There are dozens of documented lies told by L. Ron Hubbard told and Tom Cruise is either ignorant of them or perhaps helps to cover them up. For example, Hubbard claimed to have won two Purple Hearts in WWII when he never saw one single day of combat. In fact, Hubbard claimed to have won 29 medals in WWII, including the Bronze Star. This "stolen valor" is a disgrace and yet Tom Cruise, who played an American Navy aviator in Top Gun, has never denounced Hubbard for this horrendous lie of claiming twice to have been wounded in combat. This does not make Tom Cruise a friend of the US Military, the men and women of whom are even now fighting and dying in Iraq. It is clear that Tom Cruise, like LRH before him, is eager to drape himself in the glory, suffering, and blood of the US military if it will help him make millions of dollars, increase his fame, and spread the Gospel of Scientology. LRH also claimed to have been a nuclear physicist when in fact he was a college drop-out. More significantly, LRH was an unindicted co-conspirator in the largest ever domestic espionage case in American history in which eleven of Hubbard's top aides went to prison while Hubbard remained in hiding. Astonishingly, while L. Ron Hubbard declared a jihad on psychiatry, the San Luis Obispo coroner found the psychiatric drug Vistaril in Hubbard's blood during a post-mortem exam. The lies in Hubbard's life go on and on and on. Does Tom Cruise want to know the truth about LRH? Or can Tom Cruise not handle the truth about LRH? 5. If you pay to see MI3, some of the money Tom Cruise receives will make its way to Scientology and will help to finance Scientology's disturbing goals furthering the teachings of L. Ron Hubbard, a man whose lies have been repeatedly exposed. Tom Cruise is either ignorant of Hubard's dozens of major lies or chooses to sweep them under the rug as a dutiful Scientologist. Hubbard's teachings shockingly include a clear call for a genocide against all people who are at 2.0 or below on Hubbard's Tone Scale and who cannot be raised above 2.0 by Scientology processing. Does Tom Cruise know about Hubbard's call for genocide or does he participate in some kind of cover up? ***** This is not even a boycott per se. It is simply about making a choice to spend your entertainment dollar to watch a great movie that stars an actor who is more humane and compassionate than Tom Cruise. It is about calling Tom Cruise to account for his hostile attitudes towards non-Scientologists who do not share his belief in L. Ron Hubbard as God, his faith in Scientology's teachings, or his insistence that people should not be allowed to make their own medical choices based upon the advice of their own doctor and their own research. This has nothing to do with hurting the movie industry or the people in front of the camera or behind the camera. This is only about Tom Cruise and his attempts to force his very dangerous religious beliefs upon the public. For example, people have expressed concern for Katie Holmes and the "quiet birth" of Suri that L. Ron Hubbard insisted upon. That should not concern people. What should concern people is that Hubbard taught, and Hubbard's word is sacred scripture in Scientology, that infants must be fed a mixture of barley water and honey. It is a medical fact that it is very dangerous to feed babies honey as their bodies can't break down honey. Yet Hubbard taught that babies be fed honey and barley water instead of being breastfed as Nature intended. Hubbard also taught that cigarette smoking was good for the body as it "ran out" radiation and incipient cancers. Look, Tom Cruise can believe whatever he wants, but one can easily see that Hubbard's dangerous "nutritional" advice for infants could harm Tom and Katie's new baby. ***** This action is meant simply to send Tom Cruise a message: The public does not support the goals of Scientology nor your behavior. For example, it was wrong of you to publicly condemn Brooke Shields for using anti-depressants to treat her post-partum depression. Tom, who are you to think less of Brooke Shields? You are not a medical doctor. Psychiatrists, however, are medical doctors, Tom. They are qualified to diagnose and treat medical problems such as depression and you are not Mr. Cruise! Scientology is dead wrong when it says that there is no science behind psychiatry. Scientology is also dead wrong when it says that it is a science. Despite the facts, Tom Cruise says that psychiatry is a fiction and that Scientology is a science. Tom Cruise can believe whatever he wants; the problem is that he is forcing his beliefs on people and he may even harm people by convincing them not to take the medicines their doctors prescribed. It is not acceptable for an actor to give medical advice nor to condemn an entire field of medicine based upon his very esoteric religious beliefs, which beliefs concern themselves with Body Thetans and Xenu. Tom Cruise can put an end to this whole matter in the next few weeks by making a very simple public statement to the effect that he supports the right of each person to make medical choices appropriate to their own lives and that he does not support Scientology's goal to destroy psychiatry, financially ruin and imprison psychiatrists, and make Scientology the only mental health care provider on Earth. If Tom can't do this, then the public needs to know that Tom Cruise supports these goals of Scientology. ***** Essentially, what is being said is that the public loves movies and movie stars. We always have and always will. And we have choices of which movies and which movie stars we want to pay our money to see. What has happened is that Tom Cruise the shrill Scientologist has eclipsed Tom Cruise the actor. Thus, Tom won't be believable as Ethan Hunt in MI3 because the audience will be thinking of Tom the Scientologist who yelled at Brooke Shields, called Matt Lauer glib and insinuated that he was stupid, and jumped on Oprah's sofa. MI3 may well determine Tom's career as a movie star. If Tom wants a fight with the public over our right to make our own health care decisions, then this is not really an actor whose next movie we care to see. If Tom wants to argue with the public that psychiatry is not a science but that Scientology is, people will doubt his intellect and wonder if he has gone off the deep end. To Don Carlo's point, there are other great movies and great stars. People can buy a movie ticket at a cineplex to see any number of movies, Instead of plopping down your hard-earned money to see Tom Cruise and thereby help support Scientology and it aims, you can just go into a different theater at the cineplex. Go enjoy some popcorn, a movie, and a movie star that you like more than Tom Cruise and Scientology. ***** We as consumers of movies have choices. When we find actors to be personally offensive, we don't pay money to see their movies. The producers of MI3 knew they were taking a risk when, after watching Tom Cruise hijack the publicity tour of WOTW, still decided to green light MI3. That decision is not the public's responsibility. We owe the producers of MI3 nothing. If anything, they need to set boundaries for Tom and not allow him and Scientology to hijack MI3 as happened with WOTW. TOM CRUISE AND ANYONE ELSE THAT IS IN SCIENTOLOGY OR THINKING ABOUT JOINING THIS CULT HAS TO SIGN THIS AGREEMENT AND GENERAL RELEASE Church of Scientology Flag Service Organization (hereinafter referred to as "the Church") Agreement and General Release Regarding Spiritual Assistance 1. I, ___________________________________, recognize, acknowledge and agree that I am exclusively responsible for my present and future condition in life and for the choices and decisions I make affecting my life. With that in mind, and solely of my own volition and in the independent exercise of my own free will, I am voluntarily signing and submitting to CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY ___________________________________ (hereinafter the "Church") this AGREEMENT AND GENERAL RELEASE REGARDING SPIRITUAL ASSISTANCE (hereinafter this "Contract") so that, upon its acceptance by the Church, I may participate in Scientology Religious Services and spiritual assistance under the terms, conditions, covenants, waivers and releases I agree to by signing this contract, and by doing so, I specifically acknowledge and reaffirm all other waivers, releases and agreements I have signed with any Church of Scientology. 2. This contract is my statement of my personal understanding concerning Scientology religious tenets and my statements reflecting my own beliefs and desires. By signing this Contract, I recognize, acknowledge and agree that: a. Scientology is a religion, the Church is a church of the Scientology religion and all the services and activities of the Scientology religion are exclusively religious in nature. b. Scientology is unalterably opposed, as a matter of religious belief, to the practice of psychiatry, and espouses as a religious belief that the study of the mind and the healing of mentally caused ills should not be alienated from religion or condoned in nonreligious fields. I am in full agreement with this religious belief. I do not believe in or subscribe to psychiatric labels for individuals It is my strongly held religious belief that all mental problems are spiritual in nature and that there is no such thing as a mentally incompetent person-- only those suffering from spiritual upset of one kind or another dramatized by an individual. I reject all psychiatric labels and intend for this Contract to clearly memorialize my desire to be helped exclusively through religious, spiritual means and not through any form of psychiatric treatment, specifically including involuntary commitment based on so-called lack of competence. Under no circumstances, at any time, do I wish to be denied my right to care from members of my religion to the exclusion of psychiatric care or psychiatric directed care, regardless of what any psychiatrist, medical person, designated member of the state or family member may assert supposedly on my behalf. If circumstances should ever arise in which government, medical or psychiatric officials or personnel or family members or friends attempt to compel or coerce or commit me for psychiatric evaluation, treatment or hospitalization, I fully desire and expect that the Church or Scientologists will intercede on my behalf to oppose such efforts and/or extricate me from that predicament so my spiritual needs may be addressed in accordance with the tenets of the Scientology religion. c. As I so strongly disagree, as a matter of religious principle, with the use of psychiatric treatment for anyone, including myself, I reject the usage of psychiatric labels and I believe in assisting individuals through religious and spiritual means. Therefore, I am hereby specifying that should I get into a situation in the future, unlikely as it is, where others may think that I need psychiatric treatment of any kind, that I instead desire to receive Scientology spiritual assistance and that it can include, but is not limited to, the Introspection Rundown. Further, I realize that in the future it may consequently be suggested by a senior Scientology minister, should the need arise, that I receive such spiritual assistance, and again, I want to make it clear that under such circumstances I desire to receive Scientology Spiritual Assistance, which may include, but not be limited to, the Introspection Rundown. d. The Scientology religion teaches that the spirit can be saved and that the spirit alone may save or heal the body, and the Introspection Rundown is intended to save the spirit. I understand that the Introspection Rundown is an intensive, rigorous Religious Service that includes being isolated from all sources of potential spiritual upset, including but not limited to family members, friends or others with whom I might normally interact. As part of the Introspection Rundown, I specifically consent to Church members being with me 24 hours a day at the direction of my Case Supervisor, in accordance with the tenets and custom of the Scientology religion. The Case Supervisor will determine the time period in which I will remain isolated, according to the beliefs and practices of the Scientology religion. I further specifically acknowledge that the duration of any such isolation is uncertain, determined only by my spiritual condition, but that such duration will be completely at the discretion of the Case Supervisor. I also specifically consent to the presence of Church members around the clock for whatever length of time is necessary to perform the Introspection Rundown's processes and to achieve the spiritual results of the Introspection Rundown. I understand, acknowledge and agree that the Introspection Rundown addresses only the individual's spiritual needs and I freely consent, without reservation, and without condition or limitation, to Church members conducting the Introspection Rundown, and that I accept and assume all known and unknown risks of injury, loss, or damage resulting from my decision to participate in the Introspection Rundown and specifically absolve all persons and entities from all liabilities of any kind, without limitation, associated with my participation or their participation in my Introspection Rundown. I HAVE CAREFULLY READ THIS CONTRACT AND FULLY UNDERSTAND ITS CONTENTS AND CONSEQUENCES. I ALSO UNDERSTAND THAT I AM NOT ELIGIBLE FOR SPIRITUAL ASSISTANCE UNLESS I SIGN THIS CONTRACT. WHILE IT IS UNLIKELY THAT I WILL EVER BE IN A CONDITION WHERE PSYCHIATRIC INTERVENTION MAY BE DEEMED AN OPTION, I HEREWITH REAFFIRM THAT IN SUCH AN EVENT I WISH TO RECEIVE ONLY SCIENTOLOGY SPIRITUAL ASSISTANCE, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE INTROSPECTION RUNDOWN, AND THAT THIS CHOICE IS AN INDEPENDENT EXERCISE OF MY OWN FREE WILL. I FULLY UNDERSTAND THAT BY SIGNING BELOW, I AM FOREVER GIVING UP MY RIGHT TO SUE THE CHURCH, ITS STAFF AND ANY OF THE RELEASES NAMED IN THE GENERAL RELEASE I SIGNED, FOR ANY INJURY OR DAMAGE SUFFERED IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH SCIENTOLOGY RELIGIOUS SERVICES OR SPIRITUAL ASSISTANCE. I sign this Agreement and General Release Regarding Spiritual Assistance on this __ day of _________, 20__, intending to be legally bound to it, and request that I be permitted to participate in spiritual assistance. ______________________________________________ (SIGNATURE OF APPLICANT} ______________________________________________ (Printed Full Name) ______________________________________________ (Home Address) ______________________________________________ (SIGNATURE OF PARENT OR GUARDIAN, IF APPLICANT IS A MINOR) ______________________________________________ (Printed Full Name) ______________________________________________ (Home Address) ___________________________________________ (SIGNATURE OF WITNESS) ______________________________________________ (Printed Full Name) Having reviewed the above Agreement and General Release for spiritual assistance, including, but not limited to the Introspection Rundown, the Church, in reliance upon, and conditioned upon, the truthful promises, representation and agreements made therein, on this ___ day of _______, 20__, accepts _________________ for participation in spiritual assistance in the future as needed. CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY ____________________________________ By its: _____________________________________________ (Title) (SIGNATURE) _________________________________________________ © 2001 CSFSO all rights reserved. Flag Service Org Corporate symbol SCIENTOLOGY and INTROSPECTION RUNDOWN are trademarks & service marks owned by Religious Technology Center and are used with its permission SCIENTOLOGISTS is a collective membership mark designating members of the affiliated churches and missions of Scientology. Services relating to Scientology religious philosophy are delivered throughout the world exclusively by licensees of the Church of Scientology International with the permission of Religious Technology Center holder of the SCIENTOLOGY and DIANETICS trademarks. Printed in U S A How can this document be considered anything except inhumane? It is the ultimate CYA document for a brutal cult and is morally reprehensible. I think a court would find it invalid on its face. -J. Swift http://ocmb.xenu.net/ocmb/viewtopic.php?t=15846&postorder=asc

Petition to revoke Tom Cruises citizenship

Petition to revoke the 'Church' of Scientology's tax exempt status

Why are Scientology members so dumb?

Only in Scientology can you get away with being so dumb

Could this be from a result or combination of a steady diet consisting of L Ron Hubbard, Dianetics books, overdosing on Niacin and hating Psychiatrists?

Case in point: I've been finding more and more of these idiotic type postings by Scientologists on the net. Enjoy signature 2217 on http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/boycottmi3, Amanda.

"I'm a Scientologist and I'll tell you that this crazy story about Xenu is total crap. Some people in the press keep saying that this Xenu story is what Scientologists believe. This is such garbage and it's a story repeated over and over and is intended to keep people from looking into what Scientology actually is. So why would some in the media intentionally try and keep people away from Scientology you ask? Because most media is well paid by the pharmaceutical industry. They see Scientology as a threat to their profits because it is. Scientology has many, many answers that work and are practical. Let's look at 1 example of how the psychiatric drugging industry is hurt by Scientology technology... Let's assume you know someone who has been depressed for several months or even years. Did you know that with Scientology you can literally snap him out of his dark days and make him feel happy again, sometimes in less than five minutes. How could this be? Because Scientology helps and works like nothing else before it. There is no need to be on a psychiatric drug everyday for the rest of your life. This is just one of thousands of solutions Scientology has and it would take literally books to tell you all it has to offer and can do. Give a Scientologist just a few minutes of your time and you'll quickly realize what a sham psychiatry and the psychiatric drugging business is. It's OK to be skeptical about Scientology, but don't assume that what you've been told about it is actually true. Just ask yourself would all these celebrities be involved in it if didn't help them and others tremendously?WWW.WHATISSCIENTOLOGY.ORG"

This posting is fun reading and full of holes. The one thing I've never been able to understand is the whole stance by Scientologists, including such stars as Isaac Hayes, who like saying dumb things like "Xenu is made up by the media or people who don't want you to learn about Scientology". How hard is it to understand that Xenu is taught in OT3 and if you're not yet OT3 you have not learned this information yet?

Scientologists......... WAKE UP!!!

Resources:
Who is Xenu?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenu
http://www.scientomogy.com/xenu.php

Free Xenu!
http://www.freexenu.com

Xenu information and OT3 Level in Scientology
http://www.xenu.net/archive/leaflet/
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/OTIII/

Xenu FAQ
http://www.planetkc.com/sloth/sci/xenu.html

What is Scientology?

In the late 1940s, Scientology creator and Science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard declared:

"Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man really wants to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion"

Reader's Digest reprint, May 1980, p.1

Hubbard later created the Church of Scientology...

In a Nutshell

The Church of Scientology is a vicious and dangerous cult that masquerades as a religion. Its purpose is to make money. It practices a variety of mind-control techniques on people lured into its midst to gain control over their money and their lives. Its aim is to take from them every penny that they have and can ever borrow and to also enslave them to further its wicked ends.

It was started in the 1950s by a science fiction writer named L. Ron Hubbard in fulfillment to his declared aim to start a religion to make money. It is an offshoot to a method of psychotherapy he concocted from various sources which he named "Dianetics". Dianetics is a form of regression therapy. It was then further expanded to appear more like a religion in order to enjoy tax benefits. He called it "Scientology".

Scientology is a confused concoction of crackpot, dangerously applied psychotherapy, oversimplified, idiotic and inapplicable rules and ideas and science-fiction drivel that is presented to its members (at the "advanced" levels) as profound spiritual truth.

The Harm it Does to a Person

The results of applying their crackpot psychotherapy (called "auditing") is to weaken the mind. The mind goes from a rational state to an irrational one as the delusional contents of the subconscious mind are brought to the surface and are assumed to be valid. It also makes a person more susceptible to suggestion since it submerges the critical thinking faculties of the mind into a partial subconscious state. It results in a permanent light hypnotic trance and so from thenceforth that person can be more easily controlled. The person will, to a much greater extent, believe and do whatever they are told. And of course this is used to the full in persuading them to hand over further money and dedicating themselves further to the cult.

The results of applying their oversimplified and inapplicable rules in life is to lose the ability to think rationally and logically. A person loses the ability to think for themselves and so they lose the ability to challenge incorrect ideas. This makes them easier to control. It also isolates and alienates the person from society so that they withdraw from normal society and into their "Scientology" society. This further increases their susceptibility to the influence of their group. They end up being afraid of society, believing all society to be controlled by a group of drug companies, psychiatrists and financiers all of whom report to more remote masters. In other words they are in a state of mass paranoia. They therefore avoid reading newspapers and the like since they fear it will disturb their safe Scientology world. It is a downward spiral into madness.

The science fiction content of Scientology is revealed to them after they have reached the state they call "Clear", meaning freed from the aberrations of the mind. However, perhaps "brainwashed" would be a more applicable word to describe the mental state of someone who has survived the near entire delusional contents of their subconscious mind brought to the surface and presented to them as "truth". On the "advanced" levels (called OT levels) above the state of "Clear" they encounter the story of Xenu. Xenu was supposed to have gathered up all the overpopulation in this sector of the galaxy, brought them to Earth and then exterminated them using hydrogen bombs. The souls of these murdered people are then supposed to infest the body of everyone. They are called "body thetans". On the advanced levels of Scientology a person "audits out" these body thetans telepathically by getting them to re-experience their being exterminated by hydrogen bombs. So people on these levels assume all their bad thoughts and faulty memories are due to these body thetans infesting every part of their body and influencing them mentally. Many Scientologists go raving mad at this point if they have not done so already.

Learn about Scientology and teach others

For all of those interested in learning about the evils of Scientology, make sure you know all the facts before you spread the word to others. Take a minute to view the South Park Scientology episode and watch the Bridge movie. Check out who Xenu is and especially how to free Xenu. Before you tell others what is Scientology, make sure you learn about Jeremy Perkins and even Suri Cruise. Read about Scientology's attack on Myspace, Scientology's attack on it's critics, Scientology's attack on YTMND, and the real Religious Freedom Watch website. Finally, make sure you learn about L Ron Hubbard and Scientology's new leader, David Miscavige. Then for fun, watch some of the videos located at Paul Vids and place your free ad at five dollar listing.

Parts borrowed from: http://www.xenu.net/roland-intro.html

Scientology: The entire Bridge is being re-released

From Scientology 'Church' insider - "blownforgood"

THE ENTIRE BRIDGE IS BEING REVISED! THE ENTIRE THING. WHEN DAVE MISCAVIGE IS DONE, THE ENTIRE BRIDGE WILL HAVE BEEN COMPLETELY RE-DONE. EVERYTHING FROM BOOK ONE TO THE HIGHEST OT LEVELS. IT ALL WILL BE REDONE COMPLETELY. This is not an understatement.

Why? You ask. Because they are incorrect. Here are some good reasons why Dave thinks they should be redone.

GRADES – The grades are being stripped back to what they were when they were referred to as “quickie grades”. I kid you not. See someone somewhere revised the Grades in the late 80’s/early 90’s. See, you used to do a list of say 30 questions on the each grade. You would get asked these questions and somewhere along the line you would reach the EP and then you would be DONE. Next grade.

Well, if you did not reach the EP on the first 30 questions on the list, there were additional questions that could be assessed until you did reach the EP. Some people might go another 2 questions, some another 20. There were an additional 300 questions drawn up that could be assessed.

Whoever revised the Grades (probably on David Miscavige's orders) ADDED ALL 300 QUESTIONS to EACH level in order to attest. So, you would reach the EP at maybe 20 questions and then have to assess another 280 questions in order to complete. Along with shear boredom and frustration comes going to Review, no longer having F/N’s, and just weeks and weeks of useless questions that mean nothing and cause little or no reaction except for driving the person off of the Grades.

When Dave Miscavige re-releases the new streamlined Grades, I am sure he will work out a terrific spin on this on how countless hours were spent comparing LRH (L Ron Hubbard) originals to the new materials, countless numbers of pilots were done to ensure that the results were no less than perfect in every instance etc. The TRUTH IS that all DM was doing is taking off whatever arbitraries HE HIMSELF ordered added on when it was last revised.

This insane pattern will repeat itself for the rest of the entire Bridge and many new courses and releases that were completely wrong from the beginning.

Let’s list a few:

KEY TO LIFE or KTL – This course was doomed from day one. After being a Pilot Course for 20 years, it was NEVER correct. A few of the people compiling the course, had (believe it or not) had a misunderstood on the instruction LRH had laid out for putting the course together. He had mentioned having some sort of glossary or reference that a student could look up words in.

This “reference” became the ENTIRE COURSE for the most part. THIS WAS NEVER MEANT TO BE. Both SUE KOON and RAY MITHOFF were declared Suppressive Persons in 2000 for this exact screw up. The course is supposed to take 2 weeks not 2 years and it is supposed to be a few processes and a few clay table items and you are done. Instead it is the largest, longest course in all of Scientology and takes at least a year if you do it part time.

LIFE ORIENTATION COURSE or LOC – Same deal as KTL. The people compiling the course just could not figure out what LRH had intended. Anyone who has done this course will tell you that it seems weird. Whatever job or post you have, you “Hat in Life” will end up being, that is what you come up with as you hat in life. Since that whole part of the course is screwed up, the clay demo of your personal org board is just a waste of time and a primer for knowing how to clean clay out of all parts of your hands for many weeks.

L RUNDOWNS – I love to see Dave gets himself out of this one. The L rundowns are one of the, if not, THE most money making processes the church has. They are quick and they are expensive. They were also written by David Mayo. The materials that Auditors are trained to do these are still on BTB’s and are NOT WRITTEN BY LRH. Dave Mayo audited LRH on these and then wrote up what he did and left out what he thought did not work.

LRH NEVER READ WHAT DAVID MAYO WROTE. He never read anything that David wrote, he never side checked them, LRH told David Mayo to issue them and audit others on them and get them through the levels. To this day, these processes are one of the few that have gone on completely unchanged because there is an original writing that is completely intact and it is exactly as it has always been, unaltered and NOT LRH.

OT VII – This one is exactly the same as above – David Mayo wrote it. He audited LRH on this level and wrote it up. Trouble is that he did not really write up that much. This is where Dave Miscavige has come in and made the level much more than it was. He had people cull out all of the auditor skills and make drills for each of them and added this to the Level so that all auditors would at least have an area to concentrate on when doing the level. The level itself has not changed from what David Mayo wrote, it just has had an insane amount of Dave Miscavige drills added to it so that he can at least feel he tried to alter as much as possible and still not figure out a way to make it be from LRH in the end.

The list goes on and on and basically it covers ALL books, Courses, lectures, etc. As each item is modified or changed, all other materials that relate to it, cover similar ground or technology ALSO have to changed. This is why it will cover most all materials that get re-released, they all sort of refer to each other at some point.

We used to have a saying at the Int Base, “At least we have ONE STABLE DATUM that we can always count on – CHANGE!”

Until next time…
BFG

From: http://ocmb.xenu.net/ocmb/viewtopic.php?t=24065

Watch the Bridge movie about what is Scientology availble here.

History of Scientology Censorship and Attacks on the Internet

History of Internet Censorship by the "Church" of Scientology

1994 - Cancelbunny: Scientology censors alt.religion.scientology

Alt.religion.scientology (a.r.s.) has been one of the most active newsgroups on the Internet, a place where pro- and anti-Scientology netizens hotly debate each other. Beginning in 1994, Scientology operatives began tampering with a.r.s. by surreptitiously canceling postings critical of itself. The source of unauthorized cancellations came to be known as the Cancelbunny, although the Cancelbunny project really involved a number of cancelers. The Cancelbunny (or Cancelbunnies) deleted hundreds of messages using their email accounts at a variety of service providers, including Netcom, Deltanet, University College in Dublin, Ireland, Directnet, Kaiwan, and NetVoyage. All providers responded swiftly to determine the identities of the unauthorized cancelers and terminate their accounts. A group of netizens even joined forces to track down the Cancelbunny; they called themselves the Rabbit Hunters.

While the efforts of the Rabbit Hunters and Internet service providers slowed the Cancelbunny and forced it to jump around quite a bit, the bunny was still going actively in April 1995, 17 months after beginning its cancellations, and still appears from time to time now three years later.

1995 - Operation Delete a.r.s.: Scientology attempts to off the newsgroup

In January 1995 Scientology attorney Helena Kobrin unilaterally instructed Usenet servers to delete the whole a.r.s. newsgroup. Kobrin sent emails to the servers with the “remove” instruction usually used to delete newsgroups. Fortunately, her instruction was not followed, and three years later a.r.s is still very active.

1995 - Operation Raid: Scientology raids Internet users’ homes

Scientology’s 1995 raids of Internet users’ homes comprise one of the most atrocious chapters in the history of Scientology’s censorship war on the Internet. A great deal of information surrounds the raids. Briefly:

*February: Scientology raided the home of former Scientologist Dennis Erlich, seizing numerous items including computers and disks. Erlich ” along with Tom Klemesrud, the operator of his bulletin board system (BBS) and Netcom, his Internet service provider ” was subsequently sued by Scientology for “copyright infringements.”

*Early August: Scientology raided the home of former Scientologist Arnie Lerma for posting to the Internet a widely-available federal court document known as the Fishman Papers. The papers included excerpts of Scientology’s “secret scripture.” Scientology then sued Lerma, his service provider Digital Gateway Systems, and even the Washington Post for including 46 words from the Fishman Papers in an article on the incident.
Link: http://www.lermanet.com/cos/raid.html

*Late August: Again claiming copyright infringement, Scientology raided the home of Lawrence Wollersheim and Bob Penny, the then-directors of FACTNet, a nonprofit BBS (now a web site). With federal marshals standing by, Scientology seized computers, disks, files, and more. Naturally, Scientology then sued FACTNet.

*September: “Scientology agents, accompanied by a locksmith, local police, and two U.S. `computer experts’, entered the premises of XS4ALL (xs4all.nl), an Internet service provider in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Scientology demanded that XS4ALL remove a copy of the Fishman Papers from a customer’s web page. (XS4ALL refused to do so.) Dutch Internet users protested Scientology’s action by putting over 100 copies of the Fishman Papers on web sites all over the country. Scientology responded to this cyber-civil-disobedience campaign by suing four Dutch Internet service providers (including XS4ALL) as well as well-known Dutch writer Karin Spaink, who helped initiate the campaign. They withdrew this lawsuit on December 12, but filed a much larger suit, against 23 separate parties, on January 31. A court hearing was held on February 26, and a verdict was rendered on March 12, giving a total victory to the defendants.” [Written by Scientology critic Ron Newman].

1995 - Operation Anonymous Remailer: Scientology sues and squashes

Starting in January 1995 Scientology launched an attack against anonymous remailers and posters. In January a letter was sent to anonymous remailers demanding they not allow anonymous postings to a.r.s. or alt.clearing.technology. At this point, such prominent entities such as Electronic Freedom Foundation, the Los Angeles Times, and the Washington Post reported Scientology’s Internet abuses.

Later, in the Spring of 1996, in an attempt to attack anonymous postings by “Scamizdat,” Scientology filed suit against a.r.s. poster Grady Ward and then Keith Henson. In connection with the suit, the Finnish anonymous remailer anon.penet.fi was ordered to reveal the identities of two of its users. The remailer’s administrator, Julf Helsingius, refused to disclose the names. Instead, on August 22, 1996, he closed anon.penet.fi, an action that shocked the Internet and was widely reported in the media.

1996 - Operation Spam Attack: Scientology clogs a.r.s.

Scientology’s abuse of a.r.s continued via a new method from May to December 1996. During this time, Scientology bombarded a.r.s. with thousands of spam messages taken verbatim from the Scientology web site. This action paralyzed the purpose and effective use of the newsgroup.

1998 - Operation Netizen: Scientology threatens netizens at large

Scientology had sent numerous emails to Netizens threatening litigation for posting even short excerpts of Scientology’s copyrighted material, despite the fact that copyright law allows such excerpting. Netizens and their families have received threats by email and fax, visits by Scientologists and private investigators, and slanderous phone calls.

* Web hosts of Tilman Hausherr and Ray Randolph were threatened with litigation. Scientology considers Hausherr’s parody of “$cientology” and Randolph’s domain name www.scientology-kills.net infringements of the Scientology trademark. To most observers, it seems that both uses are legal, since Hausherr’s parody and Randolph’s domain name constitute satire and commentary on Scientology rather than attempts to be mistaken for Scientology. The latter would be trademark infringement; but it would be difficult for anyone to mistake “$cientology” or “scientology-kills” for Scientology. Randolph has received the support of the ACLU and EFF, both of which will handle his litigation if Scientology follows through on its threat.

* Scientology sends Internet web site templates to 116,000 Scientologists, so that the Scientologists can set up pages that appear to be their personal home pages. City of Night says, “Church officials hope that by creating many, many web sites that link to Scientology’s home page, Scientology can clog search engines and prevent information critical of the Church from reaching those interested in learning all about Scientology.” [City of Night, March 19 - 25].

A number of these new templates are viewable on the links below:

D. Peterson http://members.aol.com/jasondrp/ Teri Milch http://home.mci2000.com/~tmilch@mci2000.com/index.htm Michael Lewis http://www.relaypoint.net/~lewisgroup/index.htm Grahame Scott-Douglas http://www.relaypoint.net/~grahamesd/ Kathy Weigand http://www.relaypoint.net/~kweigand/index.htm Denise Palm http://home1.gte.net/cedarlan/new/index.htm Kevin Brown http://members.aol.com/actinup2/ Tom Humphrey http://members.aol.com/humphreytr/index.htm

2002 - Multiple Internet attacks

The Church of Scientology briefly managed to yank references to anti-Scientology websites from the Google search engine, one of the main sites being xenu.net.

Citing the controversial Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Scientology lawyers claimed that Google may no longer include anti-Scientology sites that allegedly infringe upon the Church of Scientology's intellectual property.

Link: http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/2002/03/51233

2005 - 2007: The Scientology Internet attacks continue

Glen Stollery gets sued by Scientology over his parody website, www.scientomogy.info

Link: http://www.scientomogy.com/scientomogy1.php

* Multiple attacks on Myspace.com to delete user accounts that speak negatively of Scientology

Link: http://www.scientomogy.com/myspace1.php

* Multiple critics of Scientology, such as myself, get attacked

Links: http://www.scientomogy.com/scientology_pi.php
http://www.scientomogy.com/aliens.php

Please feel free to add more "Scientology attacks" in the comments section and I will update this page asap.

What you can do to stop Scientology?

One does not have to disagree with Scientology to agree that its actions on the Internet are reprehensible. Help us take action against this new censorship attack:

1. Forward this email following net etiquette to all interested Internet users, Internet service providers, and search mechanisms.

2. Forward this email to Scientology’s celebrities urging them to stop promoting an organization that takes such reprehensible censoring action against the Internet. Here are some Scientology celebrity email addresses: John Travolta: info@johntravolta.org Nancy Cartright (voice of Bart Simpson): nancy@kidsister.com Chick Corea: chickcorea@n2k.com Jenna Elfman: 8730 Sunset Blvd, #220W, Los Angeles, CA 90069 or to “Dharma & Greg”, 20th Century Fox, 10201 W. Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, Ca 90034

Other Scientology celebrities include Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Kirstie Alley, Lisa Marie Presley, Priscilla Presley, and Kelly Preston. Write to them if you can locate their addresses!

2.Email Scientology at info@scientology.net and let them know you will not stand for their censoring free speech on the Internet.

Parts borrowed from Factnet