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Tony Muhammad Searching for a “Good” White Man – “I might have found a half of one”

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Tony Muhammad, poster child for the International Association of Scientologists (IAS) -- continues to preach hard and loud about the horrors of the White Man.  Apparently he is unaware that the IAS is heavily white.  He also hammers away at Jews and the media. Of course, there are a lot of ethnic "Jews" in scientology, some who even loudly proclaim that they ARE Jewish AND a scientologist. But he won't get any argument about the media - Hubbard hated the media and thus scientologists hate the media. But you have to wonder, where is Fast Eddie and his STAAD League? Why are they not taking a s … [Read more...]

What is a “Wog” in Scientology

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  Hubbard used the word "wog" to describe the world outside of scientology. Non-scientologists are all wogs. Thinking or acting in a way that is not in keeping with what scientologists believe is right is "woggy." Things seen to be irrational in the eyes of scientologists are deemed to be "wog-think." It is a derogatory, condescending and ugly term. Some scientologists have sought to defend its use, claiming "It's not racist". The term (a contraction of golliwog -- an old "blackface" child's doll) was something derogatory and racist. Here is the information from … [Read more...]

Podcast With Ron Miscavige

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This morning at 11am EST, Ron and I are doing Part 3 of the interview that began a few weeks ago. We plan to talk a bit about tax exemption and disconnection, but who knows, when Ron and I get together, anything can happen... You can tune in here:   If you missed the earlier episodes, you can watch them here: Part 1   Part 2 … [Read more...]

Thursday Tragedy

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It seems inappropriate to run the Thursday Funnies this morning in light of the events at the Inglewood Ideal org last evening. Tony Ortega, as he always does, is keeping up with the story and you can follow the news at his blog. He does a great job of sorting the bs from the real facts. Someone being killed, wherever it occurs, is horrendous and tragic. The circumstances of this death remain unclear, and somewhat mysterious. Either the person who was shot by police is someone who had contact with scientology and was upset about something they had done or were doing, or the person had … [Read more...]

Chelsea Handler Coming to Scientology HQ

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Chelsea Handler is coming to Clearwater as part of her comedy/book tour. I do not believe it is accidental that Clearwater is included among the list of cities she is visiting -- NY, LA, Houston, Miami, DC, Boston, Chicago, SFO, Seattle etc. All MAJOR markets and a couple of college towns (Madison WI, Durham NC) and then little old Clearwater... What could possibly be the reason? And at the Ruth Eckerd Hall, where earlier this month David Miscavige and Dan Sherman conducted the clapping seals for the annual L. Ron Hubbard Birthday Event as they have done every year since the … [Read more...]

Mike Rinder – A Scientology “Nobody”

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I happened across this old card the other day. I didn't know I had it. It was in my wallet the day I walked out of L. Ron Hubbard's old office in Fitzroy St., London. It was my final day in scientology. I had been sent to London to deal with the BBC Panorama program being done by John Sweeney. As the card states, I was on the Board of Directors of Church of Scientology International and acting at the time as the International Spokesperson for scientology. Of course, scientology has sought to rewrite history. On their websites about me, they claim that I held no position of … [Read more...]

L. Ron Hubbard Redefines Ethics

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Another thought-provoking essay from Brian Lambert. INTRODUCTION TO SCIENTOLOGY ETHICS: L. RON HUBBARD’S ROAD TO SUICIDE “We are not moralists” “I am not interested in wog morality” L. Ron Hubbard (Remember these quotes when reading the dictionary definitions of ethics below) It’s possible, through this essay, that dictionaries may be considered, by the Scientologist, a suppressive source of anti-religious bigotry. These definitions prove that Hubbard altered the meaning of the word ethics. Hubbard changed the “meaning and melodies” of the word ethics, and by so doing he distorted th … [Read more...]

Thursday Funnies

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  An evening that will change your life... Barbara Rubio? Seriously? I dont know these other women but "hearing what it's like to be up both sides of the Bridge" must be some sort of code for "don't end up like me"   The Warriors... All 3 of them. Under the guidance of a full time Sea Org mission. Wow.   Still using Brutus I suspect this is about as far from what Brutus wants as possible.... I guess these really ARE the only 3 people they can round up.   I can grant you personal immortality... Ermmm, I thought that was a given? Begs the … [Read more...]

The ex-SO Hall of Shame

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There are those who have left the Sea Org who were once privy to events in the world of David Miscavige. Many of them were in The Hole at one time or another. Rather than speaking out about the abuses they witnessed or experience, they have chosen to remain silent. A number of them have taken advantage of their previous status to make money with or through scientologists. Some of them took healthy payouts. Probably more than the $50,000 that was handed to Debbie Cook -- though scientology then sued her for her supposed breach of that agreement and had their asses handed to them in a … [Read more...]