I have made plenty of jokes about Kaye Champagne over the years as the Chairman of the Flag OT Committee. Sadly, she passed away yesterday. This is a rather unusual post -- not the snark I usually dish out for those who are the biggest cheerleaders of the clubbed seals. But the loss of any life -- a wife, a mother, a friend — is never something to be celebrated or poked fun at. I am truly sad for her family and friends. But perhaps more than any similar passing of late, it offers insight into the mindset of scientologists and one of the strongest layers of glue that keeps people st … [Read more...]
Scientology Violates Priest-Penitent Confidences — When It Suits Them
This comes from another of the entirely inappropriately titled scientology internet fronts, the "Truth Newsroom". This thing, with no names or identities associated, not even the word scientology - is clearly an OSA operation. They send out a constant stream of material taken from former Sea Org members' files. They put one out from one of my confessions that I felt bad about lying as if this was some sort of proof that I was lying today -- it made no sense as I said this when I was still the International Spokesperson for scientology and I continued to be that. But the … [Read more...]
Scientology Medical Quackery
Scientology is often criticized by those who claim it practices medicine without a license. They protest this heavily, claiming they do NOT treat or cure illnesses. Of course, in the scientology world, mental illness is NOT an illness. It is just a bunch of false labels used to persuade people to buy drugs (kind of like scientology is a bunch of false information used to get people to buy scientology)... In scientology, being prescribed a "psych drug" makes you an "illegal pc" ineligible for auditing (though plenty of illegal pc's have been persuaded to hand over money, only to later be … [Read more...]
“Recovering” People: Scientology’s Desperation
Things are becoming more desperate inside the scientology bubble. There are signs everywhere. There are so many people "off the Bridge" that they have to hold seminars to help train people to get them back... in the “good old days” there were more new people coming in than blew off so those who decided the tech didn’t work were pretty much ignored. Focus was on getting those who bought into the “Bridge” to keep moving up. Nowdays they make a big show of reaching new people with soft sell SuperBowl ads and scientologyTV but these are really just to show the whales something is being done w … [Read more...]
That’s Not Funny!
Remember the scientologist crowing about how "LRH tech is permeating society" because they saw something on TV that resembled a Hubbard process, the real truth is that scientology has become the butt of numerous jokes (which of course are NOT “LRH out in the mainstream and are definitely NOT funny).... Even the Kominski Method itself has a direct reference to scientology causing the disconnection of a child. Stephen Colbert takes regular shots at scientology. John Oliver has a running series of scientology jokes. Even his backdrop includes a joke and Dianetics makes regular a … [Read more...]
Scientology’s Holocaust Hypocrisy
The OSA fake outrage website has hit a new low. While they hand out their "human rights" awards to one of the most reviled anti-semites in the US, they have the nerve to pretend they are "Standing With Jews Everywhere"... Hey OSA, this is your idea of "standing with Jews"? Palling around with Tony Mohammed, Louis Farrakhan's sidekick and apologist, with the Nazi hate propaganda on his promotional posters? In fact, you gave this guy your highest award... a Freedom Medal like you gave Tom Cruise. And you feature him on your ScientologyTV propaganda channel with his own … [Read more...]
The Cult on Fog Island
Former RTC executive Mariette Lindstein has been forging an astonishingly successful career as a writer since leaving the Sea Org. She and her husband, Dan Koon, are long time friends. I originally brought Mariette to the International Base to become WDC Scientology (over all Class 5 orgs). She has forgiven me for this. Dan and I shared a lot of time compiling the What Is Scientology? book and various other things and back when life was not completely insane at Gold we would sneak a game of golf during CSP time on Sunday mornings on the otherwise virtually unused Golden Era golf … [Read more...]
Why Grand Juries
I tweeted the other day that law enforcement needs to empanel Grand Juries to get the facts about scientology. More effective would be a raid to seize their files, but that is a much harder process especially when dealing with an organization that hides behind the cloak of religion. What is a Grand Jury and why would it be effective? A grand jury is a jury – a group of citizens – empowered by law to conduct legal proceedings and investigate potential criminal conduct, and determine whether criminal charges should be brought. A grand jury may subpoena physical evidence or a person to testi … [Read more...]
The Antisocial Personality Disorder
My good friend Amy Scobee tweeted about this article and I thought it worth sharing here. It is from Healthline. This is an excerpt. What is so interesting is how many of these antisocial traits are actually TAUGHT by scientology to be positive things (or at least justified where it's the "greatest good for the greatest number of dynamics" which always equates to what is good for scientology)... Recognizing Antisocial Behavior in Adults and Children What is a sociopath? “Sociopath” is an informal term that’s often used to refer to someone who has antisocial perso … [Read more...]
Scientology’s Australian Tragedy
Some Thoughts from Leah and Mike Thank you all for your messages of love and support in response to the latest attacks from scientology. As we have previously stated, our thoughts and prayers are with Chih-Hen Yeh's family -- the victim murdered at the Australian scientology center. Sadly, this is just the latest example of scientology using a tragedy to attack those speaking out against its abusive practices. The irony is that we speak out against the culture of violence within the highest echelons of scientology, perpetrated and encouraged by David Miscavige. We are exposing … [Read more...]