The champions of protecting intellectual property rights (as long as they are their own) are at it again. This is the organization that promotes itself as the LARGEST private humanitarian relief force on earth. That they are at the forefront of guaranteeing human rights. Their dear leader has repeatedly equated himself with the Catholic Pope (as recently as his letters to HBO). Yet, they don't put HIS picture on the Way To Happiness booklets. Of course, harsh reality is that if they did put his photoshopped visage on their booklet, everyone who didn't burst out laughing would … [Read more...]
Shit Scientology Says
This is the third in the scientology HBO footbullet series. See the two previous posts. My comments about are in blue. They follow reviewing the Freedom magazine pages about Alex Gibney and HBO. Below is the introductory statement: More than two years after Alex Gibney, Lawrence Wright and HBO started working in secret on a film glorifying bitter, vengeful apostates expelled from the Church of Scientology for malfeasance, they continue to stonewall any offers to meet with Church officials. Furthermore, they won’t tell the Church any of their allegations, let alone allow for a fair and … [Read more...]
Scientology/The Media Redux
Thanks to Tony Ortega for being right on the ball and putting up the image of the full page footbullet early this morning. Tony also took the time to retype the text of the ad and I am taking a few minutes to comment on some of their drivel. First, there is this quote from Monique Edwige Yingling in the NY Times article of last evening: "Monique E. Yingling, a lawyer for the church, said shunning was practiced by a number of religions, has been upheld as legally permissible by courts and, in the case of Scientology, is reserved for those who have started “attacking the r … [Read more...]
Scientology Promoting HBO Documentary
Scientology is apparently hell bent on turning Alex Gibney's upcoming documentary into a major hit. More power to them. The New York Times reports the church is taking out full page ads to denounce a film they have not seen. This is every PR man's dream. The HBO PR Team should send them a thank you basket. With The Interview so fresh in everyone's mind, the chances of scientology convincing anyone this is a "UVA/Rolling Stone redux" are slim to none. The take away is more likely to be persuading/intriguing people to see the film because scientology hates it with such … [Read more...]
Fred Haseney
Declaration of Independence By Fred Haseney January 10, 2015 On January 27, 1986, I attended the event at the Hollywood Palladium, in Los Angeles, California, in which David Miscavige announced the death of L. Ron Hubbard (“LRH”). By the end of the evening's proceedings, I knew that I would never, ever attend another event sponsored by the Church of Scientology. I can't say exactly why, but I knew that as I exited the Palladium's doors that that would be the last Scientology event for me.This "Declaration of Independence" is being prepared in such a way so that the Ethics Officer (“EO”) … [Read more...]
“Ideal Orgs” — Baffle Them With BS
Tony Ortega already included a bunch of this series of posters in his Sunday Funnies last week -- but he left some out (there are 13 of them in total). Two I felt were important as they highlight points made by David Miscavige where he sold the brilliance of his "ideal org" strategy. Just think about this for a second. This is taken from the original Miscavige sales pitch on "why ideal orgs?" But it makes absolutely NO sense. He had used the analogy of an auditing session to sell the original GAT and how you could not deliver a standard session unless you had all the elements … [Read more...]
Thursday Funnies
Masters of MES Not doing so well on the Time part. These are two of the four invitations received on the SAME DAY by a single person. Two for the 7:00pm version of the event and two for the 7:30 version -- both at the Ft Harrison because apparently they can no longer fill Ruth Eckerd. Gavin Potter. Again. David Miscavige's clone is back to teach you once again how to make money to give to the church. I bet he attracted a massive crowd in Inglewood. Talk about a fish out of water.... The dianetics volcano and 47X expansion graph This is … [Read more...]
Why Isn’t Anyone Doing What We Tell Them?
This was just mailed to me. It is a little dated, but one thing you can be certain of -- things have not gotten better since this was issued. It might be difficult to read as this is a scan of what appears to be a photocopy of a fax of a "goldenrod." But I am laying out the important things here anyway, which are the figures on the first page which explain why this interrogatory is being issued. For those not familiar with an "interrogatory" it is something issued by the Ethics Department intended to help them get to the bottom of a bad situation by interrogating people about what they … [Read more...]
Blathering Shermanspeak From The Most Important Man In The Room
This is the closing address from David Miscavige at the last IAS event, now transcribed and preserved for eternity as all pronouncements from Dear Leader must be. He is becoming a parody of himself -- and the speed of his descent into a character right out of a "Funny or Die" skit or the next Will Farrell movie appears to be accelerating. Even the photos he is selecting for photoshopping are getting stranger. He has almost perfected the Ron Burgundy sneer of superiority. Either those gold buttons are getting bigger or he is shrinking.... A few memorable shermanspeak diamonds in … [Read more...]
The Mission Network More Lies Exposed
Here is something a Special Correspondent just forwarded to me: This week's international Mission Birthday Game Standings. It follows perfectly from my Sunday Redux post The Missions of Scientology -- Where Are They? (and yesterday's with Jeff Hawkin's classic infographic). When that Missions posting was written in March 2013 there were 325 missions internationally. This new leak provides an interesting and very up to date comparison with which to analyze the massive, straight up and vertical international expansion under the brilliant and dedicated leadership of Mr. David M … [Read more...]