Go to Facebooks- Narconon-Exposed and you will find more than you ever wanted to know about them.

Thanks for the insight. This was a theory that I read and spitting out here second/third hand, and I’m not one to recall details on strange conspiracy theories (where the devil is usually in the details).

I do believe there are other, unseen reasons for the large expenditures other than marketing. Miscavige’s patterns of absconding expense payments (and this is also by LRH’s design) is well known and makes me question why they are adding to their list of expenses, exponentially.

I was so sure there was one up here in MN, but they are referring our folks to a place in Louisiana. Huh?

My little sister has been 12 years sober thanks to a legitimate recovery program. She had actually allowed ex-husband number two to adopt and raise her son rather than sober up after my parents died. That is why I take Narconon so personally. I know legitimate, supervised rehabs work and it hurts me to see already vulnerable people pushed even further down by scams like Narconon. The really sad part about all of this is when I was in Scamatology, I was trying to get her in Narconon. I am so glad I lost that battle.

Dear Mary:

A drop of 90% in one year of Narconon “Education” revenue is significant, from 2008-2009. When Preston, et al., were petitioning for a Narconon facility, my understanding was that this was for an expansion of a small facility, like the two 6-bedders we see now in California. So Hawaii did the right thing and refused to license one…. the phone calls and e-mails from the activists worked.

If you look here at page 9 of their 2998 tax form 990, they reported the amount as contributions received. Keep in mind that Kelly Preston runs benefits for this facility and gets friends to donate. 1 million is nothing compared to what she has and it could well be a donation from her for all we know. But it’s not money from running a program.

http://dynamodata.fdncenter.org/990_pdf_archive/260/260029313/260029313_200812_990.pdf

It’s easier for me to reply to you on all this if you post over at TippingPoint, Better to discuss further the number of facilities there in that thread, so we can get your comments and concerns addressed and findable on the internet by readers.

Narconon

Hadn’t seen that, thanks. I commented and now we’ll see if it gets printed. I may have been snarky. Who me?

I did…. posted it in in previous Tony article to this one if you want see the comments [select newest topics and scroll down]