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Xenu being expelled from Teegeeack

Gord_in_Toronto

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Looks as if the Internet is winning and Xenu's dark farces will soon be leaving Teegeeack to infect some other innocent planet (whether there are enough operational engine-less DC-8 still in service after 75 million years is another matter).

Lots of bad press for the Co$ recently including this. The book Bare-faced Messiah finally to be published in the US of A (how the Mighty Have Fallen etc etc).

To Scientologists, founder L. Ron Hubbard is a larger-than-life figure — a war hero, philosopher and humanitarian.

But the real man was a dissembling, emotional wreck who made up most of his legendary exploits out of whole cloth, writes British journalist Russell Miller.

Bare-Faced Messiah: The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard

Miller’s account of Hubbard’s life was so devastating that Scientology tried to have his book banned. “Bare-Faced Messiah: The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard,” finished the year after Hubbard’s 1986 death, was successfully printed everywhere but in the US, where, after two years of litigation, Miller’s American publisher threw in the towel.

The biography was heavily cited by later Scientology books, including Lawrence Wright’s bestselling “Going Clear.” But few Americans have had a chance to read it.

Until now. Twenty-seven years after its original release, “Bare-Faced Messiah” is getting new life with a new publisher, Silvertail Books.

Miller has rewritten some of the introductory material, but otherwise the book is unchanged — and it still holds up. “Bare-Faced Messiah” is a gripping read that tears the fabric of the Hubbard myth into tatters.
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Read all about it: http://nypost.com/2014/03/29/the-book-scientology-spent-27-years-trying-to-ban/ :hit:
 
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Not enough criticism can be published about a cult like the Co$. Glad to see the mainstream press is keeping up.
 
Thanks for the link, Gord_in_Toronto.

"Hubbard also had a wild experience in World War II, if not the distinguished one he wanted people to believe. According to Scientology legend, Hubbard had served in “all five theaters” of the war, had been the first American casualty in the Pacific, had survived being machine-gunned and blinded and had broken various limbs, and had commanded American “corvettes” in both the Atlantic and Pacific.

Actually, after obtaining Hubbard’s complete wartime record, Miller showed that the naval lieutenant oversaw the rehabbing of a trawler in Boston Harbor, but then was relieved of command before it sailed.


In the Pacific, he was given a submarine-chaser to command but then spent two days depth-charging non-existent Japanese subs off the coast of Oregon. Later, he fired on Mexican territory for target practice, setting off an international incident. As for his “injuries,” the record showed that Hubbard suffered from arthritis, conjunctivitis and a stomach ulcer."
 
The NYP piece talks about how the Loony Rotten Huckster had "charisma". having followed The Underground Bunker blog by Tony Ortega for some time now, there are a lot of audio and video recordings of Hubbard, and it is so difficult to understand his appeal. He talked so much nonsense, and had such an idiosyncratic style of delivery.

Of course, his diehard followers, and those like David Miscavige who parasitically prey on them just claim that the records have been altered, and that Hubbard was indeed the superhuman figure he created.

Clearly Scifiology is under more pressure and attack than ever before, but it remains a very wealthy organisation, and it will take a fair bit longer to whittle it away to total insignificance, sadly.

It would of course be great if the IRS rescinded the tax free status, but then it has the problem of the other faith groups as well, like the mega churches that rake in large amounts from equally credulous followers.
 
I also lurk the bunker, and I've followed the twisty $citology story for almost twenty years now. Even though there are a number of interesting lawsuits (in actual court!) in the USA and other countries (like France), the CO$ is still around. Xenu can leave Teegeeack tomorrow, but the $ea Org and its little leader will remain to suck the last drops of blood from the veins of the trapped, the vulnerable, the stupid and the unwary.
 
Why all the masked references? Is there some legal danger in calling them out explicitly?
 
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Why all the masked references? Is there some legal danger in calling them out explicitly?
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I'm not sure which references you're referring to in particular, but if you mean the published articles rather than the stuff on this forum, then it could very well be that the writers (or more probably their editors) wish to avoid litigation. The scientologists have made a practice of suing anyone and everyone who criticizes (or even honestly and fairly describes) their actions. The extent of their legal actions are pretty amazing really. They rarely sue in a way that is going to win, but the mere process of suing is enough to stop most people and the threat of it likely stops many more from ever beginning.
 
Gord_in_Toronto said:
The book Bare-faced Messiah finally to be published in the US of A (how the Mighty Have Fallen etc etc).
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I read the entire book online some years ago. It's been withdrawn pending the print publication.

http://www.xenu.net/archive/books/bfm/bfmconte.htm

Hubbard's final years living incognito in various safe houses after he was smuggled back into the United States were particularly bizarre as I recall.
 
Hubbard's life is only one part of the story. The development of Sea Org and the Celebrity Center even after his death are scary enough in and of themselves.
 
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Sorry, I was unclear. I meant the posters in this thread, using Co$ and $cientology.
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That's not attempting to mask anything--quite the contrary. There's a reason they're dollar signs.
 
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I also read Bareface on Xenu.net.There are other great books available, free, there.

(I see it's down now as it's been republished. That's a little sad, but I suppose there are reasons.)

The dollar signs are apt. CO$ is shorthand for Church Of $cientology. Yes, being cautious is wise. One does not lightly dance with Mack trucks on a highway at midnight either.
 
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Sorry, I was unclear. I meant the posters in this thread, using Co$ and $cientology.
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As far as I know it's a statement that the Church of Scientology is a scam that is run to enrich the people at the top at the cost of the people at the bottom. The dollar sign is included as a sign of disdain rather than trying to hide anything.
 
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All the Church of Scumology news that's fit to print . . . and then some:

http://scientologybollocks.blogspot.co.uk/

As the site says, "You can't make this stuff up." ;)
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Jesus. I've read some damning testimonials against the CoS, but this one takes the proverbial cake. If this is in any way an accurate description of what goes on in the Sea Org, that institution needs to be investigated by Child Protective Services and shut down for civil rights abuses. Chilling. :mad:
 
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All the Church of Scumology news that's fit to print . . . and then some:

http://scientologybollocks.blogspot.co.uk/

As the site says, "You can't make this stuff up." ;)
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There is some interesting things about the financial aspects of the Co$:

http://scientologybollocks.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/a-whole-bunch-of-sea-org-staff-have.html

One potential scenario for the end of Scientology:

Among other things, their business model is vulnerable to the cheap labor loss from their Sea Org defections. Their rigid management makes it difficult for them to make cost cutting measures.

I therefore believe that there is a “cottage industry” waiting in the wings made up of a network of law firms coordinating their efforts who will sue the cult for either fraud in IAS donations or for repayments, once the arbitration scheme is exposed as a sham. As I have said before, since Miscavage micro-manages all legal affairs, a wave of individual lawsuits on this front will overwhelm him and leave him unable to function in other capacities. This will likely lead to rapid settlements including punitive damages.

I have talked to many ex-members, virtually all of whom have walked away from deposits, some in the six figure range, who are not interested in the expense and potential risks involved in suing the cult individually, but every single person I have talked to would happily sign up for a class action suit.

Unlike most class actions, damages incurred by each class member suing Scientology for refund of advance payments are trivial to determine: people have statements showing the amount on deposit, and the church should have tons of relevant records that would easily be discoverable. In other words, it is reasonable to believe that a class-action suit, if successful, would recover 100% of damages, rather than pennies on the dollar. An appropriately aggressive class-action attorney would insist that legal fees be added on top of the damages recovered for class members rather than deducted from them.
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If it comes to pass the IRS revokes their tax exempt status, the Co$ could take a major hit on their real-estate portfolio. While the IRS couldn't easily attach any cash in off shore accounts, they could prevent transfers to Co$ operating accounts in the US.
 
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From Montag's link:

[...]the church should have tons of relevant records that would easily be discoverable.
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I would have thought that in the event of these records being used in a class action lawsuit against them, that they'd mysteriously vanish with extreme rapidity.
 
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