Quote from Karin Pouw letter to Tampa Bay Times June 2012 : The last three years tell you all you need to know: The Church has doubled in size since your sources left and, since your opening articles in 2009, Church expansion has only accelerated, contrary to the predictions of both the Times and your sources. It's but one example. Virtually every media who has written anything about scientology in the last decade or more have received similar communications from the church or its lawyers. But the facts are very different. There is NOTHING that supports their lies. To make it VERY … [Read more...]
A Funny Thing Happened….
Congratulations vigilant readers of this blog. Today I received the following letter by email. I responded as follows. Dear Mr. Fransway, Thank you for your letter and I appreciate your vigilance in protecting the trademarks of your client, the University of Michigan. I am sure you are aware that the item I reprinted on my blog for satire purposes was published by the church of scientology and I was merely commenting on it. And in fact, it was readers of my blog that alerted the University to the infringement. I would disagree that anyone … [Read more...]
Lying and Fundamentalist Scientology — Sunday Redux
This was originally posted on 29 December 2013. It has only gotten worse.... Is the "Church of Scientology" a fundamentalist organization? In my view, it is. And if you read the criteria for fundamentalism above, there is not much doubt that the hard core members of the church fit right in to these 5 points. I was prompted to write this by an interesting post on Marty's blog a little while ago entitled Trained To Lie. I posted a comment in response which I repeat here: Marty — the corollary to this is the fact that these people will do anything to “protect the church” and bel … [Read more...]
Big Expansion News — Another Org Closes
Monumental, earth-shaking good news was announced at SH Graduation last Friday night. AOSHUK and SH Fdn have been combined into one org! Yaaay. See the feeble attempt to spin this below. Dear Xxxxx, You are invited to a historical Graduation! You may have heard about some changes at Saint Hill... Come and hear a major announcemnet signifying an important move towards Saint Hill going ideal! Plus, showing of the Continental Liason Office in Europe - first released! Starts 8:30pm. Big buffet and live entertainment afterwards. PLEASE REPLY TO CONFIRM! ML, Saint Hill Events … [Read more...]
Scientology Takes Clearwater For Suckers
There has been considerable media attention to the church opposition to the Clearwater Aquarium development on the site right behind the Fort Harrison. Fox News weighed in. Then the Tampa Bay Times and then the TBT wrote an editorial. The church cites a Florida State University (FSU) study showing the economic impact they have in the local community and somehow "reason" that the Aquarium would be a bad idea. They also cite to an Urban Land Institute (ULI) study commissioned by the city to puff up their importance (as they said the city and the church should "work together") though it is a l … [Read more...]
Sunday Redux — The Big Ideal Org Lie
I am now making a regular Sunday feature of reposting previous articles that I felt were important. This one is from March 26, 2013. I have added some editorial comments to this in italicized red text that seem appropriate. New Churches of Scientology — Where Are They? The Big Lie: David Miscavige repeats it over and over at events and in Corporate Scientology publications “We are expanding like never before – we have opened X new churches in the last X alone.” Here is a representative sample (in italics) from the Tampa Bay Times – just one of the MANY letters … [Read more...]
Thursday Funnies
"We are actually running governments!" It is astonishing the level of self-delusion that these people engage in. It would be VERY interesting to find out which government(s) they are referring to and check in with them -- "Are you aware that you are being "run" by scientology?" More IAS -- Give us your money NOW It just never ends. But what an amazing feat -- with 2000 public on lines and 12,000 local scientologists, they have managed to pull together 69 donations "that I can document." As always to celebrate such milestones we, the Flag … [Read more...]
Has Scientology Finally Changed Its Tune On Gays?
An eagle eyed Special Correspondent spotted something in Tony Ortega’s Sunday Funnies on 19 Oct. From there he dug a little more and some interesting things emerged. It is well known that Scientology is notoriously homophobic. L. Ron Hubbard was extremely anti-gay in his early writings, most notably in his 1951 book Science Of Survival. Unfortunately, it is fundamental and unalterable dogma in scientology that the words of L. Ron Hubbard must be followed to the letter and without deviation. So, things change VERY slowly, if at all. The church's stance against gay rights was brought int … [Read more...]
Scientology Top Management Video Earlier Beginning
Given the enormous interest in the video posted on Marty Rathbun's blog, I am reprinting an article that he published on October 13, 2010 on Moving On Up A Little Higher . It features Jenny Linson and Dave Bloomberg (along with a number of others), carrying out an earlier, but very similar version of their LAX attack on Mark Rathbun. (My added comments are italicized in red) Miscavige Meltdown – the Proof One of the most widely read posts on this blog was published on 24 April 2010, Miscavige Meltdown. It was Mike Rinder’s account of an ambush staged by seven Miscavige flunkies on Mike i … [Read more...]
The 30th Anniversary IAS Event
We have already reported about the downgrade of the IAS Event - see The IAS Event Is Already A Bomb from 8 October. It is one thing to downgrade the 30th Anniversary of the IAS celebration to the parking lot on LRH Way, but its a total train wreck when the Flag event is suffering a similar, even more ignoble downsizing. They are not going to be holding this event at the Ruth Eckerd Hall but instead at the Fort Harrison.... The Auditorium there holds 1500 people. They claim to have more STAFF than this and "2000 people from out of town on service at any given time" PLUS 12,000 sc … [Read more...]