Leah Remini Goes After Scientology...

[dudalb]

SHe just filed a missing person report on the long unseen wife of CO$ head honcho Misicivige .Don't know how much good it will do,and is probably more symbolic then anything else, but every little bit helps....and it is another embarassment for the church.

 

[Bell]

I'm pretty sure she'll find out what is going on there...

 

[This Guy]

I work with a recently separated Scientologist, who apparently is getting baptized into the Mormon church in two days (go figure ). He claims her whereabouts are known. He named the city, but I forget the name. I think it may be one of their ranches, perhaps in CA. Starts with an M I won't see him again until Sunday night, so this is the best I can do at the moment.

I'm not up on why her location is such an issue, but having read a few books by ex-members of the church, it seems to me that long separations for husbands and wives is not unusual for them. Though you would think the top couple wouldn't have to put up with that.

Interested in how this turns out.

 

[dlorde]

I read an article a while ago that said she'd been moved to one of their closed organizational compounds, where she does office work and doesn't leave the compound (isn't permitted?). The implication was that this wasn't one of their punishment compounds, but a place to keep key people out of circulation and out of the public eye, i.e. the conditions are OK, but you can't leave. Here's a similar article.

 

[This Guy]

I read an article a while ago that said she'd been moved to one of their closed organizational compounds, where she does office work and doesn't leave the compound (isn't permitted?). The implication was that this wasn't one of their punishment compounds, but a place to keep key people out of circulation and out of the public eye, i.e. the conditions are OK, but you can't leave. Here's a similar article.

Thanks for that link. Was an interesting read.

What a strange bunch they are

 

[dudalb]

I read an article a while ago that said she'd been moved to one of their closed organizational compounds, where she does office work and doesn't leave the compound (isn't permitted?). The implication was that this wasn't one of their punishment compounds, but a place to keep key people out of circulation and out of the public eye, i.e. the conditions are OK, but you can't leave. Here's a similar article.

Outraged that any private group can run what amounts to a prison . Have to wonder what public officials the CO$ has bribed or blackmailed to allow this to happen.

 

[hgc]

Outraged that any private group can run what amounts to a prison . Have to wonder what public officials the CO$ has bribed or blackmailed to allow this to happen.

Scientology has a specific term for this: Safepointing. This means that they become friendly with and influence local officials, such as police and elected office holders, so that when someone starts screaming about their illegal activities (of which you can be sure), they have someone to speak up for them, run interference, bury investigations, etc.

If there's anything that Scientology can't abide, it's having to follow your pitiful laws and rules. They are the final word on what's right, and it came straight from the flappy lips of their lunatic founder.

 

[dlorde]

Scientology has a specific term for this: Safepointing. This means that they become friendly with and influence local officials, such as police and elected office holders, so that when someone starts screaming about their illegal activities (of which you can be sure), they have someone to speak up for them, run interference, bury investigations, etc.

Being from UK, I'm not sure how these things work, but I'm surprised that higher authorities (e.g. federal) haven't got involved. We recently had a case where a group of 'gypsies' lured a bunch of homeless or jobless people with offers of work, then effectively made slaves of them. They were prosecuted and jailed.

 

[Orphia Nay]

SHe just filed a missing person report on the long unseen wife of CO$ head honcho Misicivige .Don't know how much good it will do,and is probably more symbolic then anything else, but every little bit helps....and it is another embarassment for the church.

Good for her!

I hope the investigators don't give up if they speak to Miscavige himself who will undoubtedly say his wife is fine.

 

[malicus]

Already found, face to face with investigators apparently.

 

[Cleon]

Already found, face to face with investigators apparently.

Yeah, I figured that was going to happen. The nice thing about keeping someone prisoner is that you can trot them out when you need to.

Kinda like when the Red Cross met with concentration camp inmates.

 

[s4zando]

Now that they've been embarrassed by having to stoop to satisfy law enforcement, we will see how they go about crushing everything and everyone she cares about. I wish her luck, and salute her chutzpah.

 

[dudalb]

The smear campaign has already begun;on several film sites there are oddly similiar posts by brand new members saying Remini is just doing this as a publicity stunt for her upcoming TV show.
Yeah, Leah has gone to the top of the CO$ "Supressive Persons" list,

The CO$ running what amounts to a system of concentration camps in the US seemingly immune to the Law is a total outrage. I really hope that with it;s power and influence finally on the decline that law enforcement,finallly, begins to look in this.

I cannot recommend Lawrence Wright's bestselling "Going Clear" enough.

 

[dudalb]

Being from UK, I'm not sure how these things work, but I'm surprised that higher authorities (e.g. federal) haven't got involved. We recently had a case where a group of 'gypsies' lured a bunch of homeless or jobless people with offers of work, then effectively made slaves of them. They were prosecuted and jailed.

Once again, read Lawrence Wright's "Going Clear". He details how the CO$ used money and influence to protect it's de facto prison system. Disgusting.

Although I think it's belief system is silly beyond belief, the real reason I am so violently opposed to the CO$ is the way it treats it's members.

 

[kid meatball]

I think my translator is broken. CO$ = Cult of Scientology?

 

[dudalb]

Yup. Commonly used term by those of us who consider the Church to be one big scam.

 

[LaurelHS]

Although I think it's belief system is silly beyond belief, the real reason I am so violently opposed to the CO$ is the way it treats it's members.

This. The Xenu story is laughter-inducing, but stories about Lisa McPherson and the RPF are not so funny.

 

[Cleon]

Although I think it's belief system is silly beyond belief, the real reason I am so violently opposed to the CO$ is the way it treats it's members.

Yup. The problem with Scientology is not Xenu, or the 70-something-trillion-year history of humans, or Hubbards' whackadoodle ideas on human evolution and biology.

It's the fact that they are an abusive, fraudulent, quasi-fascist cult.

 

[Orphia Nay]

No, Shelley is NOT Missing. Not Missing. Not. Really.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJSxyl66G7w

 

[Apology]

Now that they've been embarrassed by having to stoop to satisfy law enforcement, we will see how they go about crushing everything and everyone she cares about. I wish her luck, and salute her chutzpah.

Thanks to Project Chanology, that's a lot harder for them to do these days. A lot of people will take any new rumors and/or accusations against Remini with a grain of salt, since a lot more people now know that it's what Scientology does when people leave. The attempted campaign against Jason Beghe went less than swimmingly, for example. I think he actually got more name recognition and work from the publicity.

Scientology's attack sites are so poorly organized and full of over-the-top rhetoric that they're really quite laughably pathetic and the only people who would possibly take them seriously are other scientologists. An example of their hilariously bad propaganda against Paul Haggis:

Mr. Haggis has chosen to align himself with a small posse of lunatics with arrest records, who have acknowledged in depositions to being secretly on the payroll of tabloids and who have admitted on national television to outright lying. As for Paul Haggis’ real story, see {url to attack site deleted}

There are definitely a great number of footbullets reported in this Village Voice article.