We hear it all the time — why can’t law enforcement do something about the abuses in Scientology? There are a number of ways to answer that question, but one of the simplest is that Scientologists themselves know they cannot report the abuses they see to police.
It’s against the rules that founder L. Ron Hubbard laid down decades ago. He listed reporting Scientology as one of the “suppressive acts” that could get you excommunicated from the organization — and alienated from your own family: “Reporting or threatening to report Scientology or Scientologists to civil authorities in an effort to suppress Scientology or Scientologists from practicing or receiving standard Scientology.”
With that hanging over their heads, Scientologists will do anything other than report crimes they see to authorities. They’re terrified of doing the right thing, in other words.
Karen de la Carriere let us know that she’s put together a short video about this very subject, and we thought you’d want to see it. She chooses some interesting examples to illustrate this point. Please let us know your thoughts on this in the comments.
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Scientology TV — on your next sec check?
On Saturday, we were fortunate enough to be in the neighborhood and so we gladly accepted Dani Lemberger’s invitation to attend his birthday party in Haifa.
Dani’s story, about leading a Scientology mission to break away from the church en masse in 2012, is one of our favorites. And we always enjoy visiting with him.
He brought up something we thought you’d want to hear. The subject of Scientology TV came up, and Dani says he figures for Scientologists, it’s no joke — they’re probably being interrogated about it on their sec checks!
Are you watching Scientology TV?
If not — why not?
Which shows are you watching?
What cognitions did you have while watching C.O.B. give his opening speech?
Etc.
Oh, we can definitely see church members being sweated over the propaganda airing 24 hours a day on Scientology’s DirecTV venture. We look forward to hearing that from a future defector. Ha.
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Make your plans now!
HOWDYCON UPDATE
Hey, we’re only a few weeks away from this year’s HowdyCon in Chicago, June 21-23. As in past years, we’re looking forward to meeting readers of the Bunker, culminating in Saturday night’s main event.
The biggest difference this year is that our Saturday night event is separate from that evening’s dinner. Chee Chalker is setting up an inexpensive pizza dinner that you don’t need to pay for ahead of time, after which we’ll walk over to the theater where our event, hosted by Chicago Fire star Christian Stolte, will take place. Because it’s a separate event, we’re asking that you pay $10 each to get into the Saturday night event, which will help us recoup what the Bunker paid for the venue. (We have never made a penny on our HowdyCon meetups, we only try to break even.)
Please email your proprietor (tonyo94 AT gmail) in order to reserve your spot for Saturday night’s main event. Seating is limited, and we’re going to have some really interesting people on stage and they may make a few announcements that you don’t want to miss.
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Posted by Tony Ortega on June 4, 2018 at 07:00
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