A bit of history to introduce another of the methods Hubbard used to try to gain acceptance and win friends and influence people. In 1974 when the Apollo was experiencing continuous problems maintaining "safe ports" (in fact, in the previous year Hubbard had fled the Apollo when things got too hot in Morocco and moved to Queens NY using a fake name until he deemed it "safe" to return to the ship -- now plying Atlantic Portuguese and Spanish ports) he hit on a "bright idea" to gain "acceptance" for the Apollo. He pulled together musicians (and then dancers) and formed two musical groups … [Read more...]
Clearwater Con Job
Winter Wonderland is coming to Clearwater once again. What is different about this year? It's not the fact that scientologists pretend to celebrate Christmas when they believe christians are "wogs" who need to be saved -- that has always been the case. I have included excerpts from a couple of choice Hubbard writings on the importance of "Safe Pointing" areas and how scientologists are expected to view and address other religions. No, this year their promotion has NO MENTION of scientology. Apparently Winter Wonderland is done by the "Clearwater Community Volunteers" and the word … [Read more...]
Mat Pesch Responds to Scientology’s Smears
Frankly, anyone who has watched Mat speak on The Aftermath has no doubt that he is a straight-shooter and an all-around stand up guy. Nobody believes the tripe scientology says about him, not even the people that wrote it. But they think they might be able to convince some of their KoolAid drinkers it's true, maybe. I feel Mat (and anyone else who has appeared on the show) should have a forum here to respond to scientology if they wish, though I am pretty sure it's not necessary. But on the other hand, sometimes it is cathartic to just get it out of your system, put it on paper, and have it … [Read more...]
The Final Aftermath Smears?
With two specials in 3 days, scientology has been working overtime on concocting smears about the show contributors. Of course, they NEVER respond to anything the people say, never dispute the abuses or the lies exposed by any of the contributors or on the show in general. They just sling mud. They have nothing they CAN dispute, so their only avenue is to try to "discredit the source"... Let's take their smears in sequence. Tony Ortega Of course Tony has long been a target of the scientology smear brigade. But they have nothing new so they roll out their moldy old … [Read more...]
Harvey Weinstein & Scientology – Separated at Birth?
This New Yorker article is an extremely detailed and well-documented peek behind the curtain of a dirtbag with a lot of money hiring big-name, reputable lawyers and private investigators to conduct a concerted campaign to intimidate and silence victims of and witnesses to his abuse. Scientology has been doing this for years. Decades actually. They wrote the book, literally, on this sort of intimidation tactics. Everyone else is a pretender to the throne of corrupt power abusing the less powerful with impunity. The big difference between Harvey Weinstein and scientology is the money s … [Read more...]
Scientology Smears Ramina – Yawn
True to form, scientology had their brilliant "response" to tonight's episode up before it aired. Snatching the "high ground" their big takedown of Ramina is "we threw her out in 2016" and she is a "Total Fraud" because she "manufactured an exit from the Church." Hahaha It is almost doing Ramina a disservice to even pretend she needs a defense -- it's as if I might be giving some credence to scientology's insane "response". Once again, clearly they had not watched the show, so they prove to the world they truly are intelligence challenged robots. There is not a single person anywhere … [Read more...]
More on The Aftermath and Scientology Smears
While we await the season finale episode tonight, which I hope you will find to be one of the best, I wanted to further address the smears leveled at Chantal and Sherry. (BTW there are 3 more specials coming too...) As has been my practice, I generally put some sort of response to the smears scientology publishes on the contributors to The Aftermath. Following last week's episode featuring Chantal Dodson and Sherry Ollins, I did just that, after scientology posted their bs before the episode even aired. I responded with the information I knew at the time (i.e. that everything scientology … [Read more...]
IAS Hype
Time for some IAS hype about the annual Celebration. It's slightly dated, but a bit of fun nevertheless. They spin themselves into such a frenzy all I can think about is the old cartoon of the Tasmanian Devil. This is what the town criers who try to excite the sheeple remind me of... Everything is SO over the top. It is like an insane tornado of superlatives and absurd descriptions of their minimal accomplishments it is like a parody. Here is the poster: How many times have they said "The time is now"? 50? 100? The "torch is lit" -- "we are on the launching pad", "the … [Read more...]
Scientology’s Massive International Expansion… cough, cough
First things first, the blog... Nathan Rich provided a layman’s explanation of what happened to the blog over the weekend – I asked him to make it so even I could understand it: Here's how it works and what the evidence is. If you have a computer you can make it do stuff, like host a website -- but then you have people who need access to those websites. But you don't want them to have access to your system, because you're the owner, not them. There's different ways to handle this. The normal way smaller hosting services do it is by using “jails” -- they set up many sort of "sub-en … [Read more...]
Desperate Times Call For…
My oh my -- trying to smear lipstick on the IAS pig. Clearly, the number of new members is plummeting. So, as with all things scientology, the answer is money. In this case, cut the cost of the membership to try to get more. But if the cost of admission of $500 is too high -- these people are NOT going to be able to be scientologists. You cannot buy anything of significance in scientology for $500. So, they just want NUMBERS and they clearly believe that if they charge less they are going to get more membership sign ups and annual renewals. But they are ignoring the most obvious … [Read more...]