Comments on: More PI Activity Subsidized by US Taxpayers

By: Aquamarine

Aquamarine — Mon, 15 May 2023 19:12:37 +0000

In reply to Goldie. :)

By: Goldie

Goldie — Fri, 12 May 2023 18:59:05 +0000

You can help! See Mike’s blogpost – how to find your political representatives with suggestions about what topics to bring up to them that may get their attention. We thought about creating a template for people to use but based on some good community input, decided that templates probably aren’t too effective. Please see: https://www.mikerindersblog.org/how-to-contact-elected-representatives/

By: Goldie

Goldie — Fri, 12 May 2023 18:56:54 +0000

In reply to Aquamarine. LOL!!!

By: PeaceMaker

PeaceMaker — Wed, 10 May 2023 17:06:00 +0000

I think that a piece of the solution is requiring financial reporting and disclosure for religious non-profits – as is the case for other types of organizations, public companies and corporations. That would surely make it much harder if not near impossible, for irresponsible, exploitive and abusive organizations to get away with what they are now doing behind closed doors; I think they would even start to be held accountable by members, if it were known exactly what the money being begged for, was actually being used for.

I understand there must have been an impetus not to put a burden on organizations trying to carry out charitable works. But the truth is that accounting and accountability are necessary to help prevent fraud, waste and abuse – and embezzlement is a real problem at small charities without proper financial controls and oversight. Reasonable exceptions might be made for the smallest of operations so as not to put an undue burden on them.

By: Ammo Alamo

Ammo Alamo — Wed, 10 May 2023 12:54:33 +0000

Someone counted I think 47 people in this photo of Scientology Independents. Now, a dozen and more years later, I wonder how any of them still consider themselves any part of Hubbard’s Scientology, how many have done any Auditing in the past year or two to discover the root cause, in this life or a prior life, of whatever is currently bothering them. Or how many still practice Touch Assists for alleviation of injuries and illnesses, and so on. In other words, how many still give credence to the ‘dreck’ I mean ‘tech’ promoted by Hubbard and his underlings?

Pass the Cal-Mag, honey, I need a pick-me-up! And don’t forget to word-clear that water bill before you pay it!

Full Disclosure: Though never in Scientology, I too followed a less-than-productive path for too many years. We are all human in our failings, it’s just a case of more or less. I applaud everyone who gets out of any situation that impedes living their life to its fullest, and hold out hope for anyone still in their own prison of belief, whatever it may be.

By: Phillip

Phillip — Wed, 10 May 2023 03:10:54 +0000

Looks like a whole lot of suspicious activity going on.
People getting in and out of foreign (and domestic) vehicles.
Beings who look like people going in and out of the house.
Unknown people greeting and talking to each other.
Multiple trips out to the garbage cans.
And all of this going on out in view of the public.
I can practically hear the Peter Gunn theme song playing.

By: Aquamarine

Aquamarine — Wed, 10 May 2023 00:41:28 +0000

Holy Cow, Mike. OSA found out that you and Christie shop at a grocery store near your house. Jeez, this is serious. This surveillance of the two of you together on a wild grocery spree in your very own neighborhood must have yielded quite a bit of damaging information for their files back then. But look, with any luck the cult is still not 100% sure if you and the kids prefer plain corn flakes for breakfast or the frosted kind.

By: Believe or Else

Believe or Else — Wed, 10 May 2023 00:33:59 +0000

It’s unfortunate that the US government and its agencies do not seem interested in looking at the abuse being done with tax free money.
Keep up the good work Mike! You and many other bloggers are shining a light on this covert group and thus, waking up politicians.
If you were slanderous or wrong, they would have sued you by now!

By: Jere Lull

Jere Lull — Tue, 09 May 2023 17:47:17 +0000

Hubbard ordered minions to do what he wished he had the balls to do, and they had to do it exactly as he wished he had told them to do it, whether or not he actually said/wrote the words intelligibly. And it mattered not that they were breaking the law

By: otherles

otherles — Tue, 09 May 2023 14:23:04 +0000

In my opinion, a large part of the opposition to Scientology would simply disappear if the practice (not name) of Fair Game would stop. Cancelling the name Fair Game and not the practice of Fair Game may have been another case of Hubbard being wrong. (Do I have to tell the window washing story again?)