That’s an especially fantastic choice, given that the Dixie Chicks wrote the song about the way they were rejected by the country music community for expressing their own views and not allowing themselves to be ground under the boot of the cult-like attitudes in that community – well that and the death threats. It was a rough time, around then – with Michael Moore getting booed off the Oscar stage and Martin Sheen losing his Visa gig, all because these people dared to say that a war was wrong, which we now all mostly agree it was.

I actually was quite heavily into country music in the 90s, and it was ultimately what happened to the Dixie Chicks, Toby Keith’s loud-mouthed response and his so-not-helpful “boot up their ass” answer to 9/11, and the offensive anti-atheist attitude of songs like John Michael Montgomery’s “The Little Girl,” that made me realize it just wasn’t a community for someone like me. There is a cult-like attitude inside the country music world, that says the music is all about the heartland and “true Americans” who believe in the bible, bigotry and xenophobia. And while I see signs it’s getting better, there is still a long way to go, before I could ever actively follow that genre again – for starters, it won’t happen until Chely Wright is invited back onto the Grand Ole Opry stage, someplace she used to perform regularly, until she stopped living in shame and came out as a lesbian.

Yes, very fitting choice. Though I think Leah might say Roar is already a theme song for her departure from Scientology, given she basically did an interpretive dance to it, about that departure. Still wishing she’d do an extended performance of that dance, with the longer version of the song. 🙂

yeah, and if only minnie mouse would play ball with me,
the world would be such a better place.

actual gargoyles would have their standards, too

That is very funny!

Amen to that sister or Old Surfer Dude!

There ought to be a law.
Like incarceration or kidnapping, denying information is abuse, and the intention behind it is to win control of the individual, and to maliciously remove his power of cognizance. Wait! There ARE laws against all those things. Everyday harassment is illegal, even.
I should be saying that the existing laws should be enforced.
Where is ‘homeland security’ when you need them?
I DEMAND EVERY SCIENTOLOGIST BE GIVEN UNALIENABLE RIGHTS AND ACCESS TO THE INTERNET WITHOUT INTERROGATION OR THREAT OF INTERROGATION.
Doesn’t sound unreasonable to me, for starters, being a guy born in Texas.

Very nice, indeed. What i like is that Adele is not only so recognizable but also perceived as a genuine person, also as a person who won her fame be virtue of her real talent,
yes,
the right kind of people all around. Way to go Leah. Wow.

This song belongs to all ex Sea Org members. It is our anthem!

Love the responses to Narc.

I may not buy People on a regular basis (a few times a year when someone I want to read more about is inside the pages – such as when Leah was on the cover when Troublemaker came out!!!). I do see it at my doctor’s and dentists office together with the New York Times and various other newsprint.

With People being the #1 Magazine in this Country alone, the majority, who are eventually the ones that will be working on getting rid of the tax haven with the IRS the cult has enjoyed, will rise up and join forces with those of you who have escaped and the beloved leader of this cult will just be the head of another American BUSINESS Corporation, as he already is.

So IF you are a troll, Narc, then please go back and tell your beloved leader the truth about what we are all talking about. Oh I forgot you don’t have the option of using your own brain like the rest of the human race that don’t live around a cult. I guess you’ll just lie to them all about the truth of how the majority of the world sees Scientology, a joke.

But then you would have to be hooked up to some Campbell’s Soup cans so that you can acknowledge your lie and then pay $50,000 to the cult for YOUR bad behavior.

Sorry I can’t help laughing at myself and the vision I get when I hear or see anything about the “E” meter or whatever it’s called. Let’s call a spade a spade here. It’s soup cans!!! LOL

Again, if you are a troll, welcome to the real world, where people are allowed to think for themselves. In fact, it’s best you don’t identify yourself as a troll as it’s too embarrassing to believe that there are still people entwined with the cult that don’t see the silliness of the beliefs and all that it stands for. It’s sad…

However, when you finally do escape, at least you know there are places you can go where other escapees are hanging out.

Agreed, Indie8. He is an attractive man, physically. And he could have any broad he wants (no worries on raising the ghost of the REAL Chairman of the Board, btw. I still haven’t come to terms with Ole Blue Eyes being gone). But what the Captain sees in Mme. Stuchenbrock is anyone’s guess. We’re talking gargoyle here. If it were the Middle Ages a statue of her from the neck up would be fastened onto every Scientology building to ward off the SPs.