Following the recent blog post about the April 1978 article in the Washington Post from April 1978, I came across this one from May 78 by the same reporter. Once again, scientology's own documents indict them (in this case, literally). Though they deny everything, the people who were indicated (including Mary Sue Hubbard) all pled guilty and spent time in Federal prison. Of course, scientology cannot change it's modus operandi. As I said in my earlier post, the only reason we don't have documents today like this today is there has been no raid to gather the evidence of their current … [Read more...]
Some Background on Scientology’s Efforts to Destroy Enemies
Over the last few weeks, Chris Owen (author of many insightful writings about Hubbard and scientology, including his excellent book, Ron The War Hero) has done a series of posts with Tony Ortega on Substack describing the history of the harassment campaigns carried out by scientology. As is always the case with Chris, he is a meticulous researcher and summarizes the information in a concise and accurate way. This is important information that should be as widely available as possible, so I am combining his 3 pieces into one longer article and reprinting it below. It's fascinating … [Read more...]
More Scientology Hypocrisy
Yet again, the OSA trolls expose themselves and the Hubbard way. One of the recently more active in bots stable, "Lory Guy" came out swinging with an "applicable LRH quote." Scientology frequently claims their freedom of speech is being denied because people are "telling lies about them." In fact, they are spinning some of the tallest tales imaginable, repeating accusations that are completely disproven, in an effort to follow Hubbard's policy of muzzling/destroying their denominated enemies (anyone who says things they don' t like). Just one egregious example: they routinely state Leah … [Read more...]
Wisdom from Ron on the Evil of TV
While scientology continues to promote ScientologyTV network (and don't you dare refer to it as a streaming channel --even though that is exactly what it is -- or scientology will accuse you of being a bigot because you don't buy into their "network" nomenclature) it seems they have forgotten, or are ignoring the wisdom of their Founder. L. Ron Hubbard banned TV for Sea Org members, referring to it as: "only a pattern of lights and shadows which is a restimulative mechanism to shuffle your bank around, and give you again some segment of that which you have already experienced." Below is an … [Read more...]
David Miscavige was NOT Anointed by Hubbard
It is always amusing to read scientology's hagiographic musings about their fearless leader, Captain Miscavige. He has a website dedicated to him and the same content is repeated in the special section devoted to the COB on the Scientology website. Nobody fact checks the claims made about him, Scientology operates on the principle of putting out so much garbage and lies that nobody can keep up with all the falsehoods so they eventually become true. Here are a few glaring examples, taking the statements right from their website: Barely a year after entering the Sea Organization—the religious … [Read more...]
According to L. Ron Hubbard, David Miscavige is a Suppressive Squirrel
"For some years now we have had a word "squireling." It means altering Scientology, offbeat practices. It is a bad thing. Squirreling is today destructive of a workable system. " L. Ron Hubbard HCOPL 14 Feb 65 SAFEGUARDING TECHNOLOGY A reader recently prompted me to look up LRH EDs about the release of OT VIII. I came across LRH ED 301 Ron's Journal 30 from December 1978. While it does not say what he had recalled (there may be something else that does that I have not yet located), I was struck by some things that have often been commented on as sidenotes, but if … [Read more...]
Scientology’s Lying Response to Masterson Conviction
Of course, following the Masterson conviction, scientology put out a statement about how they have been subjected to "prejudice" and "bigotry." Here it is, in all it's holier-than-thou sliminess, and their usual outright lies. The prosecution's introduction of religion into this trial was an unprecedented violation of the First Amendment and affects the due process rights of every American. The Church was not a party to this case and religion did not belong in this proceeding as Supreme Court precedent has maintained for centuries. The District Attorney unconscionably centered his … [Read more...]
Chat GPT on Psychiatry and Scientology/L. Ron Hubbard
My friend Phil Jones sent this to me. He received a copy of an email from "Psychbuster Extraordinaire" Ken Kramer. Ken thought it would be amusing to have ChatGPT do a takedown of psychiatry. Dear ChatGPT, "Can you write two pages or 800 words about psychiatry in the style of Mark Twain, scathing, humorous, cynical, ironic?" "Certainly! Here’s a scathing, humorous, cynical, and ironic piece about psychiatry in the style of Mark Twain:" Psychiatry: A Madhouse of Foolishness By ChatGPT May 21, 2023 I have had the misfortune of encountering a peculiar breed of … [Read more...]
The Way to Happiness is Book Commissions
The money grubbing never ends. They've got tens of thousands of WTH booklets sitting in a garage. But they don't have money to mail them out. They quote the words of Hubbard -- but clearly scientology does not believe these words. If they DID believe them, they would spend a tiny percentage of their billions of dollars on mailing/distributing copies of the booklet to everyone in LA. Everyone in California. Everyone in the US... don’t they want a calm, happy world? All they have to is get the WTH booklets out everywhere… But instead, they use this "moral code" as a FUNDRAISING … [Read more...]
L. Ron Hubbard Lecture: He Explains OT III in Detail
In my recent YouTube video about Scientology and Christianity, I read an excerpt from one of Hubbard's lectures from the Class VIII course. You can hear the relevant section of this lecture, accompanied by a slide show (you can select various sources for the slide show -- South Park, Going Clear, Panorama and some others). There can be no doubt what Hubbard is saying when you listen to the entire 10 minute excerpt. I wanted to put this up on my blog so it i … [Read more...]