This is a recent Facebook post from one of the deluded scientologists who believe they are “changing the world.”
She actually believes the magazines disappeared from the shelves permanently? And even if they did, that she makes any difference to the impact of this story?
Here is what she was so upset about, last week’s Us Weekly (they are dated for the day they “expire” so readers don’t think they are getting “old” fake news) cover story….
Typical of tabloid mags, the story actually doesn’t have anything to do with the headlines.
It reports on the recent ruling saying Val Haney must go through scientology “religious arbitration” and so is in fact reporting on a ruling that says there will NOT be a trial.
And it has nothing to do with any “famous members in a panic” — this is just so they can show their pictures…
But what the article IS indicative of is the idea that announcing scientology is sinking is a concept that sells to buyers of tabloid magazines like these.
I doubt tom Cruise, Elisabeth Moss, Danny Masterson, Kirstie Alley and Dave Miscavige enjoy their names appearing in this publication in this way.
Especially not Dave when every time his name is mentioned these days there is a mention of “Where is Shelly Miscavige?” (in this case a prominent insert into the 4 pages of the story).
But more than that, they hate that the article extensively quotes Tony Ortega and prominently mentions Leah Remini, Scientology and the Aftermath and even me and this blog….
June Middleton struck a powerful blow under the banner “something can be done about it.” How ironic is that?
This chick probably has a Scientology nanny filter plugged into her browser and has no clue about the negative publicity on the internet in respect to Scientology. She’s bubblelesque, all clued out.
The store manager probably put the mags back out after she left the store. Might be a standard appeasement response whenever anyone complains.
WOW!! What a lunatic! Like many others said…FIRST AMENDMENT rights allow this magazine to print anything they want about their cult!!
June: I just did my effective blow to the enemy step at the supermarket.
MAA: Half-ack. Write it up and submit within 24 hours. In the meantime, you are being routed to the IAS Reg to upgrade your status; you’ve been fucking around with a Lifetime membership for far too long.
June: Thank you sir.
More likely she will have to endure and pay for many sessions of very pricey Sec Checks as she dared to read the anti-cult headlines and then ruminate on the lack P.R., exposing herself to PTSness by speaking to the manager who apparently has no problem with the magazine in his store.
🙂 Gadfly. And probably very close to the truth.
June raising a stink about an article she doesn’t like in her “neighborhood grocery store”. Screaming like a fishwife because some silly magazine has something not flattering to her religion on its cover. LOL! And the store manager panders to her. Where does she live? Backwater USA?
Ever hear of the First Amendment, June? Does spending your money at some store give you the right to dictate free speech?
I can just imagine any grocery store manager’s reaction to her if she pulled a stunt like this in my area – pulling all the offending magazines off the shelf and dumping them in the manager’s arms and insisting that they not be displayed or sold.
Manager accepting the magazines:
“Thank you. I understand. I’ll take care of these for you. I’ll be happy to do that. Thank you so much. I completely understand. We all understand, don’t we guys? You take care now. Good to see you again. Thank you again. Have a good day.”
She’d leave and in an hour they’d be right back on the shelves.
Another day, another triggered nutjob. Yawn.
PS: Back on the shelves and selling like hotcakes because of all the attention and curiosity she aroused.
100%
All this Scientology stuff was bound to blow up, from the launch of Xenu.net to Anonymous and all that followed, people will never tire of watching, reading, listening to any media about CoS. It is accessible enough that anybody gets it, foreign enough that it has the novelty everybody seeks in entertainment… dangerous, sometimes scary, often enraging, always interesting… and it is all real, and happening here. Anybody with a lick of curiosity can’t get enough.
Mike Rinder & Leah Remini showed that not only can you do a one-off documentary, but you can pump out an endless stream of media about CoS and not only do people never tire, but it just leaves them wanting more. All demographics eat it up… as someone who spectated the Anonymous drama on 4chan /b/ some years back, I was eager to see the abuses of Scientology become more well known.
When Scientology and the Aftermath started airing, I brought it up to everyone I talked to for a while… mention it to my best friend from high school – he’s seen it and loves it. My Mom, whose tastes in entertainment rarely intersect y own? She’s caught every episode, and she and her co-workers discuss them the next day. My Dad? Well, he doesn’t watch any TV… but he’s heard people talking about it, and says he’ll check it out when he retires.
I’ve even seen streamers on Twitch who normally play video games or talk about politics stream discussions of Scientology, and pull in a crowd double their normal size. Reckless kids are on YouTube, seemingly trying to get fair-gamed, because they see it as a sure-fire way to get views. And the crazy thing is, they aren’t even succeeding (at getting fair-gamed) because the criticism is so ubiquitous, that the church couldn’t possibly keep up.
Then, coming at it from another angle, The Aftermath Foundation is out there, wanting nothing more than to help any members who leave integrate with society, find jobs and a place to stay, people who know everything these folks might need, and are prepared to do all they can to provide it. It never occurred to me until more recently when I really thought about it, just how significant that is.
Speaking of aftermath foundation I can no longer find it on my amazon smile.
Am I just being dumb.
Amazon used to take me to the link directly.
I just went to my amazon smile and searched “the aftermath foundation” and it came up
Yeah that’s what I did!
I’ll try again.
Thanks
June is about as smart as a box of hair. The manager will put those magazines right back on the shelf; no doubt about it.
There’s no way in hell any store will remove major-selling magazines because some crazy $cientologist claims to be “offended”.
Mike, I don’t know if its your server or what, but loading this page is taking an ETERNITY at the moment. Other sites have been working normally, so I suspect it’s something to do with this page.
‘the tax exemption is still in place and Miscavige is still winning the forced arbitration scam.’
You’re all too right about that- I’m really losing faith in our judicial system; this has to stop. Surely there has to be a loophole in the ‘religion’ angle – and Someone has to play it – Soon. It takes just One precedent to topple a legal ‘house of cards’.
OMG. how many times do we have to go over the observation that scientology blithely would deprive everyone else of their first Amendment right to self-expression, even when —PARTICULARLY when — that opinion differs from your own.
AND it shows that the scn “creed” isn’t worth ANYTHING in their day-to-day lives, nor their politics or policies.
Ha ha! So much for “the opinions of others” if/when said opinions are not what the cult likes, which is nearly always. All of a sudden the “opinions of others” become “hate speech”, and not allowed! By way of vast understatement, objectivity is not the Church of Scientology’s forte.
This is kinda like having your check engine light go on, and then taking your car to a dealership and demanding that they make the light go off. ” but ma’am this is indicative that something is wrong with your engine” “I don’t want to hear your counter intention, you make that light go off”.
Talk about getting a flat tire and kicking the cat.
Let’s get something straight, shall we?
The Church of Scientology Cult is a FIERCE champion for Human Rights.
But then, its quite true that the human rights of Scientologists are more important than anyone else’s human rights, and that’s as it should be because…because…well, why, actually?
Answer: They have more human rights because they are more human!
So glad I could clear this up for you.
Feel free to write a Success Story.
Get it?
Maybe they were “still gone” because people bought them all? Or maybe since it’s Us WEEKLY, a new weeks issue was about to come out…🤔
US Weekly’s circulation is about 2 million – a “reach” Scientology would die to match in anything. It probably takes them a decade to put propaganda pieces, including the front group pamphlets, in the hands of that many people outside the bubble – and then most go straight to trash anyway.
There have been a couple of cases like this, and it sounds like retail managers acquiesce in order to placate militant customers. I’m disappointed they don’t stand up for free speech and refuse to take magazines off the rack – though thinking it through, perhaps there are actually many more cases like that where stores just tell the cultists to write a letter or something, that scientologists just never report because they’re not a “win” to crow about.
It’s also a reminder that the tabloids, much as they’re an awful source of news, do have the effect of raising public awareness and confronting scientologists – even if the bubble-dwellers try to ignore them, it still must cause some ongoing cognitive dissonance by showing that things are not actually going well for the organization in the real world in spite of all the internal propaganda.
You got there before me. Yes, 2 million in actual circulation seems like a lot. I wonder if the criminal organisation known as the “church” of $cientology circulates 2 million per year of ANYTHING, outside their fevered imagations?
It is sad that the manager would accomodate unwarranted, unwanted and unreasonable requests which might actually be illegal too. Instead of firmly holding his ground. No censorship in this store. If someone is not happy with a certain newspaper or magazine they are free to contact the publisher. And the customer is free to shop somewhere else. In fact did I have a store I would suggest this customer leave to never return.
Also I think Scientology has a MU about “religious discrimination”. Discrimination is if something/somebody is treated because of race/religion etc. Writing about a religion – in case of COS more a “religion” and reporting is free speech as long as it is neither insulting nor untrue.
Xeenu I understand your upset but don’t go all stupid on us. A store manager can take down stuff for sale. Stay on target and go after the stupid scamologists don’t make up false crap about the people who have to deal with them. That’s being as bad as the scamologists making up accusations.
That’s alright, I know scamatologists that believe that they can influence the weather. Seriously.
Just had lunch today with an old, old scamatology friend. It makes me sad to see him soooo convinced that he is doing the right thing. The same way that I was, not too many years back. I didn’t have an entry point to even begin to show him the truth. There will come a day very soon, however.
And the truth is that active scamatologists number 20,000, planet wide. Wiccans number over one million world wide, Druids are 30,000 in the US.
Scamatology may have more members than the snake handling religions of the Southern US. Maybe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_handling_in_religion
Preventing 15 magazine buyers from exercising free choice on what they want to read because you don’t like it is censorship, June. I guess thinking and uttering freely only applies to you?
I bought the last one at a counter.Normally I never buy … but was Great!
Since mike has written about the continuing relationship between the Church of Scientology and the Nation of Islam, the following may be of interest.
Scientology Youth for Human Rights Award Winner Rizza Islam is recruiting children for the Nation of Islam.
My tweet: https://twitter.com/ISNOINews/status/1229496191320084480
ESMB Redux post: https://exscn2.net/threads/scientology-youth-for-human-rights-award-winner-nation-of-islam-brother-rizza-islams-anti-semitic-racist-homophobic-anti-american-etc-statements.54/post-20029
Link to Brother Rizza Islam’s Instagram post and excerpt: https://www.instagram.com/p/B8pcKVUFZtR/
* * * * * BEGIN EXCERPT * * * * *
Just when the devil thought he got OURS, think AGAIN! He knows the Nation Of Islam makes MEN! God came to make us into HIMSELF (little gods)! The White man made us NIGGAS (Dead men)! With all of the wickedness going on in THIS WORLD we are showing Satan that he will NOT GET OUR children! Bring them to us to join the FOI (males) or the MGT (females). Satan can keep his effeminate agenda. We choose to stand with GODS agenda which is to make strong MEN & WOMEN! Allah/God makes MEN! Elijah makes MEN! Farrakhan makes MEN! Muhammad makes MEN! Muhammad got the devil on the RUN!!
* * * * * END EXCERPT * * * * *
Also relevant to the continuing relationship between the Church of Scientology and the Nation of Islam, Nation of Islam Saviours’ Day 2020 features an Auditor Coordinators Meeting (CLOSED SESSION) on 2/20/20.
Further, while not yet on the official Saviours’ Day schedule, there will be a conflict resolution and communication workshop on 2/21/20 featuring “Q& A processing challenges.” “[C]alling All Auditors to come learn and help with co audits.”
See my ESMB Redux post at:
https://exscn2.net/threads/members-of-the-nation-of-islam-are-practicing-the-religion-of-scientology.55/post-20037
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When one gets into scn he learns two things that are real basics of the indoctrination.
1. You have a bank/reactive mind something unconscious that stops your freedom and that makes you to do oversts/sins (but then you are the one who gets eternal ethics handlings). Then when you become a clear but still feeling a bit reactive is because you are clear only on the first dynamic.
2. Sps have high perceptions for those going free. They can smell it hundred meters away. And they start shaking and howling like mad. Basically anyone coming up with a legitimate doubt on the cult is sure an sp.
Any people’s doubt will be handled always with these 2 points.
Scientologist assume that they “Own” the earth….it’s theirs. The belief system falls apart as soon as their system is rejected. We then become trespassers, and need to be sued. My biblical quote: 4:14-cv-3183………..
Xenu ,according to scientology scripture, Xenu killed due to overpopulation, then became the creator of intelligent design, and gave life back again. So xenu is both the destroyer and creator in this universe. The aggregate components are Hawaii, atomic energy, life and death.Hawaii provided the motivation to weaponize atomic energy, so this points to a WWII satire about Pearl Harbor. The volcano is a satire for the “mushroom cloud” in Japan. Xenu is pure Satire.
Take Em Down:, scn’s belief system falls apart when *INSPECTED*. That happens just before it’s rejected, of course.
I want to lay a foundation for a class action lawsuit on OT3 only. There has already been a decision by a federal judge that SATIRE disqualifies a belief from becoming a religion, and XENU is SATIRE…
This store manager has no idea what he did to placate the crazy lady. Next week, she’ll come back and demand that he prominently display a rack full of Freedung magazine featuring a witless retort to the entheta her action cut the comm lines to. He’ll never end-cycle on that one with her.
Give ’em an inch…
According to Wikipedia:
“Us Weekly covers topics ranging from celebrity relationships to the latest trends in fashion, beauty, and entertainment. As of 2017, its paid circulation averaged to more than 1.95 million copies weekly and total readership of more than 50 million consumers”
So…she removed 15 copies from the shelf. That means that that week, only 1,949,985 copies of the magazine were seen. Yep. Shattering. She removed .0000076923% of the magazines from the shelf for an undetermined period of time. Bwa ha ha ha.
What a non-win.
The win is probably more that she got the nerve to say something. That’s hard for Scientologists. She translates that into doing something broadly.
Along with Star and Globe, People, and the Enquirer, if its isn’t already, Us Magazine will very soon be right back up on that store’s shelves. With a different cover story, of course, which won’t offend any Clam customers. Let poor June have her “win”. After all, she “handled the hell out of ” her area, didn’t she? Tone 40 and all that? Hope she gets a Commendation in her Ethics Folder.
Seriously, how sad is this?
And the merchant would have redisplayed the offending magazines shortly afterwards! 😜😁
That’s what I thought!
So she let the store owner and the whole neighborhood know she was a crazy Scientologist. Laughing!
I remember that Facebook post from a few months back. I had to check the date to make sure this wasn’t an old post that is just resurfacing now. I think someone is too lazy to think up new lies so they are just recycling old ones.
Wow, I agree with Joe -her post probably brought these matters to the attention of members who otherwise wouldn’t have been aware of it!
And she left the store with a clear conscious, eh? You keep using that word… I don’t think it means what you think it means… 😉
The Vox Populi have voted $cientology a place of shame in body politic. It was always that way, but now no one is afraid to speak out. So speak out fellow travelers, the tax exemption is still in place and Miscavige is still winning the forced arbitration scam.
Off Topic Clam Parody Alert:
Saturday and Sunday were spent de-stressing by watching a number of popular 1960 films, one of which was “Camelot” with Richard Harris and Vanessa Redgrave.
My apologies to Lerner & Loewe for what I’m about to do to their pretty song:
If ever I’d not reg you
How could it be in Summer?
Regging you in Summer
Enriches me so!
There’s June Maiden Voyage!
Then, 4 more Events!
In your bank book balance
Do I make big dents!
If ever I’d not reg you
How could it be in Autumn?
To IAS in Autumn
More thousands you flow!
You max out your credit
When Fall nips the air!
I’ve seen how you donate
And I must be there.
And could I not reg you in Winter when it snows?
You, trapped on New Years Eve, and paying thru the nose?
If ever I’d not reg you
How could it be in Springtime?
Knowing how at tax time
I bankrupt you so!
Oh, No!
Not in Springtime, Summer, Winter, or Fall!
No, Never won’t I reg you, at all!
Atta girl June! Now the employees will forever see you as the nut case cult member who grabbed up all the magazines and demanded they stop selling anything negative relating to the cult. That will be sure to generate some interest – into just what a nutty cult you belong to. And, they probably all read it in the break room, told their friends about it – yea, way to go June!
Yup, Peggy L, scientology has no clue of the laws of unintended consequences. Fur a couple of minutes an “offensive” headline was out of direct view. For ever more, that store’s employees will have a story of how unhinged scientology can be. Meanwhile, anyone who MIGHT have seen the mag will observe it somewhere else, possibly grabbing a copy because it was so eye-catching.
EXACTLY, Peggy – that’s exactly what she did!
Bored shoppers, bored manager…curiosity…talk…”What was her problem?”…interesting anecdote shared manager and shoppers share with family, friends…more attention…more curiosity…google searches…more discussion…more information, more curiosity…more google searches…in brief, bad PR furthered on all 4 flows!
Yo, June! Mo betta ya keptcha mouth shut!
Jere and Aquamarine, just from personal experience working with the public I know how you sometimes say ok just to get rid of someone, turn and roll your eyes then when they leave there’s the “did you hear that?!”. What a nut.
Just hearing the word Scientology now even though you never paid much attention if at all brings to mind crazy cult lady, crazy cult.
I’d lay money the manager waited 20 minutes or so to be sure the nut case was gone, then put the magazines right back in the checkout rack. Stores make money on the rack space, even if the tabloid doesn’t sell. But they make more if it does.
That’s what I would’ve done!
The great thing is it shows how emboldened and unafraid mags like US now are to show stories of $cientology in dwindling defeat. Now all we need are store managers who won’t cowtow to the clueless & gullible $cientology-is-a-cult-and-not-a-religion cult members. Their day is dying.
June,
Thank you for making that store manager and anyone around you aware and curious of the insanity that is scientology. All you did was guarantee he now reads this AND you’ve likely become water cooler fodder for the week, guaranteeing that anyone who hears the story will also want to read it as well!
OSA you guys likely already read and see these articles, so are YOU curious, Where’s Shelly? Heber? Some of the other “disappeared” senior execs?
I feel sorry for the store manager having to put up with June Middleton. June you obviously know nothing about Scientology.
Removal of the mags were …
One leap forward for June on Facebook …
One teeny tiny miniscule almost non existent can’t see it with the Hubell telescope step for Scientology … *
*Actually a negative step backwards since June is going Glutz PR by telling her Scientology friends about negative PR they may not even have been aware of … THANK YOU JUNE!