Hello Jere. The news item I am looking for is no longer on the front page of Tony Ortega’s site. Doggone it! I will search for it. I am not used to his site because it is not a message board. Tony describes it as, “a news site, like an online newspaper site, with a daily news story, and a comments section where people can post their thoughts. ”

But I promise you that I remember very clearly, Tony expressed the opinion that if the decision on May 18 goes against the cult, it may cause very serious distress and harm to the cult.

I’m so sorry that I cannot remember the exact reasons why that is so. But I hope there may be someone here with more experience on Tony’s site who can help find that news item.
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OK. I found one news item that looks like it might be the one. Here is the link:
https://tonyortega.org/2021/05/08/with-lawsuit-in-limbo-danny-masterson-accusers-still-trying-to-serve-david-miscavige/
Let me now quote you an excerpt that makes it sound like this could be very, very bad for the cult if the Preliminary Hearing scheduled for May 18, 2021 goes against the cult. Be sure to read the last part of this.
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“According to the court papers, Judge Kleifield will be asked to make a ruling on this latest service attempt on May 12, but we don’t see that date listed on the docket. Will it happen? Will Miscavige finally be added to a lawsuit that has already been derailed and is waiting for a longshot ruling by the state supreme court? Can the civil side of this equation be any more fouled up?”
“Well, at least on the criminal side of the equation the prelim is about to hit like a ton of bricks. We certainly are looking forward to that.”
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Tony said: the prelim is about to hit like a ton of bricks. We certainly are looking forward to that.”

Doesn’t that sound good to you? It sounds real good to me. I’m keeping my fingers crossed!

Jere, what I think would hurt the CofS would be revelations of their coverup and complicity if Masterson’s case were to go to trial. They have taken it a couple of notches further than the Catholic Church with the organized subversions on the legal process such as flooding police with dubious affidavits, not to mention the suspiciously missing original case files, some part of which has apparently spawned a separate criminal investigation – and then the attacks against victims and witnesses.

What would come out at trial, would likely be quite a scandal and probably attract widespread publicity. Masterson pleading guilty would probably be least harmful to scientology.

Since I’ve had a chance to read the tome, I’ve read Hubbard texts which were more clearly written. Sorry Ms Klippenstein, but don’t expect to ever be a best-selling author without a very good team of editors.

Definitely not a guy I’d buy a used car from.

BINGO, LmR!

I don’t believe that Danny being convicted will hurt scn’s operation much, if at all. I don’t see any indication that his being a scientologist is of interest to any but scns and scn-watchers such as us. scientology is already known to be a detriment to those seeking celebrity status. What offers has Tom gotten recently? [Seems he’s doing Mission Impossible for the 7th time.] Has John done ANYthing since the Battlefield Earth debacle? [A commercial ad, I guess. Well it spends just as well.]Is Krusty doing any acting these days? [IMDB lists one show for her in 2020 that I had not heard about. Looks like one to definitely miss.]

Ciao Skyler, thanks!

Well, they could always change the meaning of the word, “mother”. But, please don’t get me started.

Hey Jere,

I thought it was interesting when you said that Perth has advanced not at all. But fortunately for this duplicitous, lying, scumbag cult, they have discovered a very easy way to fix that problem.

All they have to do is change the definition of “advanced”. So they invent a new cult word meaning for “advanced” which now means “going nowhere” or “having gone nowhere”. Then, they can shout out all their crazy “Big Brother” type slogans to talk about the amazing, fantastic, wonderful “advancements” they made this year and all the bubble-heads will smile and nod and cheer and pose for pictures with their arms crossed and coo like pigeons saying, “Oooh” and “Aaah” and agree their cult is just the most fabulous cult of all the cults!

Ain’t it great?