You may have seen the news or watched Aaron’s recent video about scientology becoming a hot topic in the mayoral race in Los Angeles (if you have not watched Aaron’s video, I suggest you do — it’s only 10 minutes — you can click on it irectly above).
Subsequently, Danny Masterson’s lawyers filed some desperate motions to try to delay his criminal rape trial, claiming the jury pool was prejudiced because “There is a really negative view of Scientology… the general public’s view of Scientology is more negative than any other religion.” His lawyer argued everyone agrees scientology is an “evil criminal organization.”
No exactly the image scientology likes to project of its overwhelming popularity and acceptance and that the only people who say bad things about them are a “handful of bitter, defrocked apostates on the fringes of the internet.”
Now, the STAND League and their minions are fighting back with an orchestrated letter-writing effort that is so typical of their tactics. And they are trying to hide the fact that it is orchestrated by telling people not to copy the template they are sending them telling them what to write in the letter, but to “put it in their own words.” If there were enough outraged scientologists in the “largest concentration of scientologists on earth” who were outraged by Rick Caruso, they would complain without being asked. (They try to pretend that Karen Bass is “just being a politician” by distancing herself (Bass did her own ad, saying she does not support the church and insisted, “Everybody knows Karen Bass condemns Scientology.”)
Rather than confront the reality that their toxic organization desperately needs to be reformed to end their abusive practices, they cry bigotry. Victimhood seems to have become a new cloak that scientology is proud to wear. Though being a “victim” in scientology is frowned upon.
One might ask the STAND League (and scientology in general) what they did to pull this in?
This all reads like very dark comedy. Without the comedy.
The candidate will be very impressed by how every single Scientologist writing him is only concerned that he is threatening ALL religions.
Scientology has for example target psychiatry with unjustified slander. Once again they are accusing others of what they themselves are guilty of.
“The letter will be reviewed before you send it.” And if it does not meet with the tiny tyrant’s approval, you will be suitably punished, swiftly and without appeal.
Says a lot that they don’t trust their members to write a letter with guidelines and a sample provided.
If they actually knew how to use modern software, they could generate letters and email them to members to send in. Just pull some data from the membership database, include some randomized text blocks and you have unlimited letters. Unfortunately this wasn’t available in 1965 when their technology stopped evolving.
I was thinking exactly the same thing!
👌 Excellent, you nailed it.
That’s why we told them ,moved to mid-west and start something valuable for human kind like ….,, poultry and diary farming
That’s not me it’s written on the wall.
How pathetic!
And this is exactly how cults operate.
It’s not genuine. It’s fake and orchestrated from the top down. In a cult, the top dictates how everyone else must think and act.
People see this. They know it.
Scientology is over.
I gave Susanna at OSO WUS a call. She hung up on me 🙂
Dear Pope:
I hope you sent her a Cramming Order on the ” Manners” PL.
I barely got out a simple “Where is Shelly” before she cut comm lines! I’m the only person in the world who just can’t stay on their junk mail list!
A truly quixotic campaign, if there ever was one:
They go on about democratic values and yet, they practically forbid their members from sending a letter without allowing the cult censors to see and possibly correct it first. What does that say about “democracy” and freedom of speech in their own ranks? What does that say about the trust they put into people whom they trained in areas such as communications and confront (or even lying, for that matter) and still need to micro-manage so fastidiously?
They claim “the largest concentration of scientologists in the world” for LA. Yet, they admit how tiny their real numbers are in several ways:
1. They lament that Caruso is attacking them to the point of alienating them as an entire voting bloc. This amounts to an admission that they are simply expendable as their true numbers as a constituency make losing their vote irrelevant even to a candidate reportedly struggling to keep up in the polls.
2. They claim that Bass is acting “just like a politician.” If scientology were a significant voting bloc (and not such an unsavory one), any politician would grandstand by attacking their opponent for their bigotry. They would loudly proclaim something to the effect of “vote for me and I will protect all you wonderful people from brutes like my opponent.” Instead, after trying to lie her way out of her support for the cult, she now agrees with Caruso that supporting the cult was a big mistake. It seems, she doesn’t care to build a coalition with this voting bloc either.
3. They want everyone writing a letter to report back to them, even review/censor letters before they go out. As a strategy, this is pretty stupid as it may discourage people from writing letters as they don’t want all the attendant hassle or fear that they may wind up in Ethics for writing the wrong thing. More importantly, this makes it pretty obvious that they are expecting only a small number of letters from what little remains of scientology even in LA. If this were a big movement, reading/censoring “all these letters” would simply be impossible, even with a ready supply of slave labor.
4. They tell non-Angelenos how to game the system so that they can weigh in on this as well. The massive number of LA scilons needs reinforcements that badly?
5. They organize a “rally.” And even counting attendance by their “allies” they fit it into a chapel. Just the thing to do when expecting a mass turnout (too bad that phone booths are impossible to find in this day and age; they’re such cozy mass gathering spots). Shouldn’t they be out there in the streets of LA, rallying and demonstrating the massive support that the cause of religious freedom for scientology commands? Instead, they seem to fear the fiasco that a “rally” by a handful of greying boomers would turn out to be.
If they felt the need to demonstrate how they’re swirling the drain, even in LA, the can proudly claim this win for their stats.
If it were outside, the press could easily estimate the crowd. Inside they can try to angle the photos to make the throng seem larger. Poor PR crew. Lots of all-nighters ahead!
Hot Tip for OSA:
I know you guys are very busy these days with PR Area Control and various other matters, but, if you could get this message to COB RTC Cap’n David Miscavige I think it would help the Church of Scientology’s efforts considerably. I am suggesting that Cap’n Miscavige take some time out of his incredibly busy schedule and arrange a dinner meeting with both Ms. Bass and Mr. Caruso and their respective spouses. This would be the perfect opportunity for Cap’n Miscavige to apply the Tech and use his superior communication skills to bring everyone together and raise the ARC level to incredible heights. While Cap’n Miscavige is getting down to business and handling these politicians, Mrs. Miscavige could entertain the spouses with small talk and tales of wins and spiritual gains available in the Scientology Religion. These folks could then see that Scientologists are just regular people trying to help the world be a better place. Really, it wouldn’t take up much of these Big Being’s time, because everyone has to have dinner anyway. Just think of the Safe Pointing that will be accomplished. Thank you for your consideration.
much love,
Ms. B. Haven
PS If all goes well, and these good people need a FSM to get them moving on the Bridge to Total Freedom, I am available…
Excellent!
Dear Ms. B Haven,
We’re sorry but we cannot currently expedite your excellent suggestion. Mr. Miscavige is under the bed with a case of scotch and we haven’t been able to get him out.
I am sorry to disappoint you, Ms B Haven; but Shelly is dead.
I hope that I am wrong, but I can say that she is at least as dead as I am. I was pronounced dead by the S.O. 20 years ago. I last saw Shelly in 2001. By then I was not far from death.
Every time that I am still alive enough to post on this blog proves that the don’t know dick.
I hope that I am wrong; but I knew 10 years before I left and told a number of staff that the only way out of the
Sea Organization is ” In a Box”.
Dear Bill,
Don’t be silly!!! Shelly is most certainly not dead. I have it on good authority that she is busy, busy, busy working behind the scenes at an undisclosed location grooming a very precocious little redheaded feller to get him back in the Commodore’s seat and bring back new Tech developments from Target II. He’s a little overdue from his 21 year leave. I hear he is very good at spinning tall tales, rolling his own fags, busting broncs, taking stunning photos using digital technology, and dancing around in adorable sailor suits and playing hide and seek. She really has her hands full and can’t be bothered with public appearances in or out of a box.
Dear Ms B. Haven:
I hope that you are right and that Shelly is OK ( I have met her parents Flo Barnett and her husband ( John?).
Of course, no one will ever claim that Flo is Ok.
She died around 1985. They said that she shot herself in the chest 3 times with a rifle and then once in the head. What are the odds of that?
I consider myself fairly strong willed and I have often wanted to kill myself ( the only real escape from the S.O., but after shooting yourself in the chest 3 times I would probably just wait to die rather than blowing my own head off (I heard that was a 22; so whould have not blown my head off). ( I often do things the hard way).
With my billion year contract, there is no real reason to rush; that is why I was in 23 years;.
DEATH was imminent for me at least, I could name a few cockroaches getting out alive but I could also name some who worked directly with LRH who died from neglect.
I was supposed to be another one. I had no problem with dying, but my wife for some reason wanted me to stay alive despite 6 doctors and one Captain Freewinds telling her that my death was imminent and ordering her to ” End Cycle” on me.
Fortunately,she refused to do so or I would really be dead.
Or in the trunk of a car.
Dear Ms. B. Haven:
“Mrs. Miscavige,” in your hot tip for OSA, is Tom Cruise, right? At least that is what I thought as I read through your awesome tip.
No Fred, Tom is just a BFF of Mr. Miscavige. Of course I’m sure that these aspiring LA Mayoral candidates would love to meet with a genuine A List Hollywood celebrity who just happens to be a Scientologist, but that shouldn’t happen at this point in time.
My idea was simply to have Mr. & Mrs. Miscavige meet with these folks in a casual, neutral setting over a nice dinner and a few glasses of wine to get to know each other a little better. I think even these incredibly dedicated and hard working Scientologists could use a small diversion like this and take a short break from planetary Clearing. I hear that Mrs. Miscavige is quite the charmer even though those talents haven’t been on display for over a decade.
I hear you, Ms B. Haven. I doubt that Mr. Miscavige is capable of sitting down to a meal with anyone. Not unless Miscavige can demean and belittle his dinner guests.
Through Mike’s book, Teegeack and I are getting a clearer picture of just how dark and corrupt the COB’s soul is.
COB is worse than your average Joker and Degrader. Calling COB a DB or a Degraded Being would be an insult to DBs everywhere.
Back in the day when there were more than a handful of Scientologists, there would have been organized protests outside the campaign headquarters of the candidates.
It also strikes me how Scn “tech” may not be applied to the organization, i.e. why does it “pull in” these attacks – no results? overts? witholds? out-ethics? all of the above?
nomnom:
Perhaps the entirety of scientology should be sec-checked.
Mike:
I have been following the articles and other film stories on scientology since 1990. I had an employee, single mother struggling financially, ask for advances on pay repeatedly. When I did my due diligence on the need, I found she had “found” Dianetics and needed the money to pay for “courses”. This women could not feed her children!. I then went on a search of this organization to understand. I was appalled. And I was raised very conservative Catholic. The American government made a huge error giving them a 501(3C) and it needs to get revoked. If the abuses that goes on in scientology were in a foreign country – we would go to war. Glad to see you and others “going to war” for people. PS Loved your book!
Wow, an early Christmas present!
Generally watching the death throes of anything is a sad and ugly thing, but watching Scientology cop it at the highest level of state politics in CA – I’m reaching for the popcorn, not tissues.
It has to happen, and has been coming for sometime. Steel yourself as a sociopath with an unlimited bank account starts really frothing at the mouth…
For those of us with family still on the inside, the light at the end of tunnel just got a bit bigger but they are going to need lots of compassion, love and back up as the house of cards starts coming down.
My suggested letter:
Dear Congresswoman Bass/Mr. Caruso ,
WHAT ARE YOUR CRIMES?
Sincerely,
Joe Pendleton
Scientologist
What the hell are YOUR crimes?
Is YOUR crime reading this anti scientology blog? Asking for a friend
It is not a Crime to Read this blog; it is a High Crime.
“It is not a Crime to Read this blog; it is a High Crime.”
Well, if that is the case then I should be just fine because I’m very High and I feel fine. A little while ago, I felt a fin and I was worried that I had become a fiche. But thankfully, that was not the case. I got myself audited and my auditor told me that I was perfectly finless.
I am not High, I am just drunk.
Whatever they want or more correctly have the balls to do to me is fine as they already killed me 20 years ago.
As far as my own crimes go … well, there was that paper clip I stole from the HASI … but none since I stopped working for the Gambinos in their version of OSA …
Laughter!
“…a city with the largest concentration of $cientologists in the world.”
And that concentration is less than 1% of the total population of LA, so no one’s going to care about your letter writing. Besides, I thought the the largest concentration of $cientologists was supposed to be Clearwater, FL according to COB’s latest pronouncments.
The actual number of IAS members in LA can’t be more than a few thousand, which is more in the range of 1/1000th of a percent. Clearwater may have the largest percentage, but LA could still have the largest overall number, just as a minute fraction of a vast population.
I suppose I would still be listed as a member of the IAS.
I haven’t been involved in Scientology for almost 20 years and the IAS has not received one cent from me since my departure.
I wonder how many people on their list are long gone (like me), compared to those still active.
They must have far fewer people than they believe.
I never gave a cent to the IAS My first Lifetime Membership was paid by public when the IAS was formed in 1984. The second came a few years later when all S..O. member’s became members.
So they somehow knew that I would need 2 lifetime memberships.
Actually, this is my third lifetime but that is a long story.
Cavaiier, there has been either information or indications that there are about 30,000 IAS members, at least those who are in considered in good standing and to at least be in active contact with the organization. Actual active membership seems to be about half of that.
I would thus assume that there are fewer than 5,000 active members in the LA area. That fits with what has been observed at major events at The Shrine, for example.
The largest concentration of Scientologists is where DM wants it to be.
That ‘non-scientologist’ sounds just like any well programmed $cientologist. I smell a shill, a freakin, winy shill.
Yo Dave,
Here is my letter good buddy……
Dear Mr Caruso,
I got involved in Scamatology around 1975. Over the years it has proved to be every bit as toxic and debilitating as has been stated publicly. My daughter still works for the cherch on Ivar Street. I have not seen her or heard from her in years as she chose to disconnect after I raised questions.
Thank you for not supporting this cult. If you can do anything to help remove the veil of it passing itself off as a church, please do so. Thanks for standing up to Dave and his creepy cult! Scientology is a scourge on your city.
Hear! Hear!
And here’s mine:
Dear Mr Caruso,
Scientology is every bit as vile as you said and more than you know.
Without getting into all the particulars, scientology applied its technology to my son, “whispered in his ear” about how I’m on the dark side, made him do their horrible Doubt Formula and write up his sins in order to reach the predetermined outcome of disconnecting from his mother. It/they destroyed what was a beautiful and loving son/mother relationship.
Yes, Mr Caruso, you are correct about The Church of Scientology.
I second that!
Yo Dave,
Bout time to git some of yer technology dusted off and ready to fight the onslaught of truly ugly Pee Are thats comin yer way good buddy!
What ever happened to the folks you sent out oh so many years ago? Mike Sutter, Marion Pouw ….. Hansuli Stahli I think it was who I know worked very hard and diligently to get my mind to bend in directions that just didn’t seem natural. And then there were the people from the ship that came to visit, I think it was Russ McKevitt and a couple of his buddies, all very dedicated and committed to the idea that the only way to true freedom, happiness and a world without war, crime and pestilence where honest beings are free to prosper and the other horse shit that is part of the lie about yer cult being the only way to deliver that sort of a life.
How are those folks doing good buddy. Warm fuzzy little comrades hangin out with their families these days enjoyin the good life, throwin in an occasional donkey punch or too just to keep things from getting boring? I gotta hand it too ya Dave, you really know how to keep an organization running along smoothly.
Next coupla weeks otta be a walk in the park!
👏🏻 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Hansuii too? I worked with his wife Heidi in 1979 as she was a N/OTs auditor in AO3 FSO. She was a very nice lady.
Many years later he was on the Diana off of the coast of Curacao when the Captain Thomas Schoenherr (who was busted for smoking dope in Freeport, Bahamas before they came to Curacao) left the deadlights (hatches open when hoisting the sails) As soon as the sails went up the boat leaned over and the deadlights were under water and a few tons of water came in.
Mr Stahli had to help bucket brigade water out to get it back to Freeport harbor where I took over.
I had to totally rebuild the Main Engine (which I had just rebuilt in Freeport) the generator and other electrical equipment.
The Diana has 2 12 Volt batteries in series for a 24 Volt system. All of the wiring, alternator etc in sea water with 24 Volts going through it just dissolved. It was all just sizzling when I came aboard.
” It was all just sizzling when I came aboard.”
Thats kinda like it is now I suspect!
Yo Dave,
Can ya smell the scent of burnin Pee Are on the griddle this mornin? Not to worry good buddy, It’s about to git a lot worse.
Better chuck the ole scotch and go fer some of those pills ………… orange sunshine comes to mind if ya really want to bug out!
Just when David thought it couldn’t get worse…
What next? SPs-r-us funding a gofund to buy a Super Bowl ad?
How many times do I have to say this?
“Think for yourself.”