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Scientology sued by worker who claims she was forced to marry abuser​


After Church of Scientology officials learned in 1991 that a 16-year-old religious worker claimed to have been sexually assaulted, they failed to report the allegations to police and instead arranged for the girl to marry her abuser, according to a lawsuit unsealed last week in Los Angeles County Superior Court.

The complaint against Scientology leader David Miscavige, recruiter Gavin Potter and three church entities alleges that the organization created a culture where sexual abuse was enabled by policies written by founder L. Ron Hubbard.

The lawsuit maintains that Scientologists are prohibited from reporting crimes to police committed by fellow members. It also alleges that minors are especially susceptible to sexual abuse in Scientology, which views them as “adults in the bodies of children.”

The lawsuit was filed on behalf of a woman identified as Jane Doe, who said Scientology officials facilitated Potter’s sexual abuse after he convinced her as a teenager to remain in Scientology’s full-time workforce called the Sea Org. She is now in her late 40s.

https://news.yahoo.com/scientology-sued-worker-claims-she-195600036.html

maximus otter
 
Earthly oddity said:
Wild Wild Country and Finding Sheela on netflix are films on the group....and individuals within.

When I watched Wild Wild Country I remember they bused the homeless in to subvert the vote to their benefit. Once they had rigged the votes so they could build a bigger compound or whatever......they had enough of the homeless and bused/dumped them outside the commune......How kind/charitable.....
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Don't forget Bowfinger. That is about Scientology as well. A very funny movie, but it is making a point.
 
So a bunch of abusive pedophiles? The world is going up shit creek without a paddle, and we decent folk have a front row seat.
 
Claims that the fingerprints given to identify the reportedly missing Shelly Miscavige in 2013 didn't match, and that the video tape of the police meeting with her was later scrambled. Other that this meeting with police, Shelly, the wife of Scientology leader David Miscavige, has not been since since 2007.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...s-wife-Shelly-Miscavige-no-investigation.html
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The meet-up at the highway-side coffee shop was brief, according to Ali's report.

The detectives took the woman's ID and fingerprints, which were sent to a lab for processing.

Days later, technicians ruled that the prints were not a match, because the sample given by the woman was not thorough enough.

Ali cites a police source who questioned whether the woman might have been trained to give an incomplete fingerprint.

Instead of seeking a second set of prints, the case was closed and the cops put out a press release calling Remini's report, that Shelly was missing, 'unfounded'.

Days later, the same detectives contacted the coffee shop asking for surveillance footage of the rendezvous.

When the tape was turned over, the footage was mysteriously scrambled. Ali writes that he viewed the tape himself
 
Leah Remini sues Hubbardites.

The Church of Scientology has described claims made against it by actor Leah Remini as “allegations of pure lunacy”.

Remini, known for US sitcoms including The King Of Queens and Kevin Can Wait, has filed a lawsuit against the organisation and its leader David Miscavige.

In a statement, the actor said she had endured 17 years of “psychological torture, defamation, surveillance, harassment, and intimidation” which had “significantly” impacted her life and career.

Her statement read: “I believe I am not the first person targeted by Scientology and its operations, but I intend to be the last.”

https://www.irishexaminer.com/world/arid-41197963.html
 

Scientologists Ask Federal Government to Restrict Right to Repair​


The organization that represents the literary works of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard has filed a petition with the (US) Federal Government, asking it to make it illegal to circumvent software locks for the repair of a highly specific set of electronic devices, according to a letter reviewed by 404 Media. The letter doesn’t refer to any single device, but experts say the petition covers Scientology’s “E-Meter,” a “religious artifact” and electronic that is core to Scientology.

Author Services Inc., a group “representing the literary, theatrical, and musical works of L. Ron Hubbard,” told the U.S. Copyright Office that it opposes the renewal of an exemption to Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act that makes it legal for consumers to hack their personal electronics for the purposes of repair.

This exemption to copyright law is needed because many electronics manufacturers put arbitrary software locks, Digital Rights Management systems, or other technological prevention measures that stop consumers from diagnosing or repairing devices unless they are authorized to do so.

The petition doesn’t name any specific device. But the Church of Scientology uses a “religious artifact” it calls an “electropsychometer” or “E-Meter” to “measure the spiritual state or change of state of a person” and is used in the course of “auditing,” which in the religion is the process in which a pathway to higher spiritual awareness is created. The Church of Scientology says only specific Scientologists should use the E-Meter, which can cost thousands of dollars...

https://www.404media.co/scientologists-ask-government-to-make-hacking-e-meters-illegal/

maximus otter
 

Inside the Secret Hell of Going to War With Scientology​


“It’s insane, it’s just insane,” Valerie Haney kept saying as she emerged from her first day undergoing the Church of Scientology’s ultra-secretive “religious arbitration” process.

All eyes were on Haney, who was set up in front of a portable backdrop in a hotel room at the Commerce Casino, just a mile away from Scientology’s massive printing plant warehouse southeast of Los Angeles—where she had just spent the past several hours reliving the most traumatic events of her life.

“How did you feel going in there?” D’Andrea asked after a privately hired court stenographer had put Haney under oath.

“Scared,” she replied. “I was shaking.”

Seven years after escaping from Scientology in the trunk of a car and taking her fight against the church all the way to the Supreme Court, Haney had been forced to go crawling back to the place she never wanted to step foot in again.

At the age of 5, she was put into Scientology’s junior version of the elite Sea Org that existed then for children, the Cadet Org. According to her declaration, it featured military-style discipline, and her childhood was a never-ending schedule of jobs like cleaning out maggot-infested dumpsters, painting property, washing dishes, and housekeeping. By the time she was 10, she’d already made two escape attempts and was brought back both times.

At 15, she signed a billion-year contract of her own and joined the Sea Org, thinking she had no other choice. Part of her indoctrination, she alleges, was having it drilled into her that she couldn’t go to the police or other outside authorities about anything in Scientology, and that anyone who did try to run away, which was called a “blow,” would be brought back by special teams that were trained to spring into action in a “blow drill.”

Haney’s escape prompted Scientology to go into its “blow drill,” resulting in an intense campaign to pressure her family members to convince Haney to return to Scientology and “route out” properly. In the Sea Org, you can’t simply leave; the routing out process involves interrogations that can go on for months and only ends when Scientology decides.

“It’s insane. It’s so unjust and so manipulative,” she said. “It’s a fraudulent organization that’s hiding behind religion. People talk about kangaroo courts? This is like Disneyland-on-crack court.”

https://dnyuz.com/2023/12/10/inside-the-secret-hell-of-going-to-war-with-scientology/

maximus otter
 

“Criminal Enterprise” Scientology Should Face RICO Charges​


The Church of Scientology should be labelled a “criminal enterprise” due to its “pattern of racketeering activity,” say the plaintiffs in the civil harassment case against the David Miscavige-led organization and Danny Masterson. With three more rape claims against the incarcerated That 70s Show actor in a proposed second amended complaint, the accusers want the LA courts to allow mafia-inspired RICO charges to be included in the case now.

Heading toward a September 22, 2025, trial date, after various unsuccessful attempts by Scientology to get the 2019 filed harassment dispute by ex-members of the Church pulled out of the courts, the December 27 filed leave to amend (read it here) says the addition of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act is legitimate because “many of Scientology’s criminal enterprise’s money-making schemes are criminal in nature.” Looking at a hearing on the leave to amend motion set for February 27, the proposed 22-claim SAC adds the Church “routinely and systematically engages in fraud, human trafficking, identify theft, and money laundering to fill its coffers and enrich its leadership.”

“Defendant David Miscavige is the undisputed and unquestioned leader of this criminal enterprise and derives significant financial benefit from Scientology’s criminal and unlawful activity,” the potential SAC bluntly says.

https://deadline.com/2024/01/scient...-lawsuit-rico-charges-leah-remini-1235693928/

maximus otter
 

Inside the Scientology-linked UK rehab centre​


In a secluded compound in the Sussex countryside, surrounded by fields of sheep, sits an addiction centre marketed as the “friendliest rehab” in the UK. Each year, a stream of people arrive at its gates, pass through neatly tended gardens and enter a grand white mansion, hoping to get “drug-free for good”.

The charity that runs the facility, Narconon UK, says it is a world leader in tackling drug and alcohol misuse, claiming results superior to its rivals through a sauna detox, high vitamin doses and psychological exercises.

Its credentials appear to stack up: Narconon is listed on the NHS website, included in council directories, and displays a “good” rating from the Care Quality Commission (CQC) in its marketing.

But behind the glossy image there is another side to the story. A nine-month investigation has uncovered allegations of safeguarding failings and psychological abuse at Narconon’s premises in Heathfield, East Sussex. It also suggests that – despite reassuring clients it is independent – the rehabilitation programme is more closely entwined with the controversial Church of Scientology than it lets on.

Former patients and staff described how people seeking help were put through intensive mental exercises – “drills” – similar to methods used in Scientology’s “auditing” process.

In some cases, they took part in these repetitive drills for so long, while in vulnerable states due to their mental health or prior drug use, that they would go into “hypnotic” states, become paranoid or break down or suffer other extreme reactions. After taking part in the drills, which could last up to five hours a day for several weeks, others were allegedly left “traumatised”, feeling suicidal, with their minds “shattered”.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...ebsite-substance-abuse-narconon-investigation

maximus otter
 
And their response?
"We are not a religious organisation."
So that's okay then.
 
In the UK, it's an interesting con.
They can get tax breaks if they declare themselves a charity, rather than a religion. They can get them if they're declared a religion but that'd mean conflict with the NHS.
 
Sounds a perfect place for sadistic, greedy, power hungry barstools to hide in. I doubt that people like Travolta and Cruise get treated the same as the ones who pay less, they wont see any of what truly goes on.
 
Stormkhan said:
Heh.
They don't want 'believers' opening up their expensive gadgets, just to find they're not actually doing anything.
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Hey! That's not fair. E-meters have long been recognized as measuring galvanic skin response, just like the toy "lie detector" I got for about $16 when I was a kid.

Oh wait... Apparently the church has a disclaimer that says "By itself, this meter does nothing. It is solely for the guide of Ministers of the Church in Confessionals and pastoral counselling. The Electrometer is not medically or scientifically capable of improving the health or bodily function of anyone and is for religious use by students and Ministers of the Church of Scientology only."
(https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Secrets/E-Meter/Mark-VII/)
 
I live in Florida on the west coast. I had my junior prom in the Jack Tar Harrison hotel which the scientology church later purchased. I remember the horror of watching them take over Clearwater, my home at the time. They flooded the town like locusts dressed in black pants and white shirts.
 
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