This is my Scientology OT8 sister. She has made the local news for becoming the victim of a misunderstanding: Her business has a similar name to an online camera vendor, and angry customers unable to find a phone number for the camera company are calling her Niagara Falls resort on her toll-free phone line. The phone number was apparently being given out by Amazon, which didn’t realize it was directing angry camera customers to the wrong “Campark.”
My sister doesn’t look very happy at all in spite of having done the entire Scientology Bridge. She will never admit to having “pulled this situation in.” In Scientology when something bad like this happens to a wog (a non-Scientologist), they obviously “pulled it in,” but if a Scientologist who is in the upper echelons has this happen then it’s definitely a “suppressive person” in the area causing the problem. But never themselves. You can feel the righteous indignation.
If she were really to apply Scientology to this she would sit down and write up all of her overts and withholds on Amazon. I can assure you this will never happen.
And so much for Scientology “Cause over Life.” After a year of trying to handle this we see that it hasn’t resolved at all.
Willie and I were chuckling that since her troubles on this started shortly after we arrived she would very possibly attribute me as being the “SP in the area,” even though we have no contact with her.
If the CHCH News station had dug a little deeper they’d find that the owners of Campark, Niagara Falls are Scientologists. They’ve donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to Scientology over the years.
In fact all around Campark (the campground, not the camera company) they have Hubbard quotes printed on the sides of their trash cans.
Scientology is an abusive cult that has destroyed and broken up thousands of families, been investigated for human trafficking, stalked and harassed its ex-members through their policy of Fair Game, and have numerous lawsuits against them for their abuses. Complaining about a bit of extra phone bill pales when compared to nearly a million dollars given to a dangerous cult.
I know this might sound like I’m a bit mean towards my sister, but I do have to admit I still carry a little grudge. She is the one who knowingly broke up my family and got our kids to disconnect when she reported our errant Facebook connections with a few Scientology exes to OSA at Flag. (Yes, that’s all it was about originally.).
I do hope she gets out of Scientology at some point but she is the most hard core of all of us, and I find it very unlikely she will wake up.
— Phil Jones
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“Let’s start back a little further, where you will find quite a few PCs. And that is the Marcab, or the Big Dipper area of this particular galaxy, which received the immigration from another galaxy into this galaxy, and which set up a society which kept going for a very, very long time — a society which is something on the order of about 208,000 years back on the track. Now, that period rather ended and ceased and desisted for that particular society somewhere about 10,000 years ago. So you see, that is a long, rough society. Well now, oddly enough, people went out of that society as thetans and came back into it again. So you get that society, the Marcab society, punctuated with lives spent in completely unidentified, Lord-knows-where planets. And you get such odd things, you know, as fish people. You know? Well, where did they come from? Who are they?” — L. Ron Hubbard, November 27, 1959
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“MISUNDERSTOOD NIXON: Imagine my surprise and hilarity to find that President Nixon is pursuing current economic policies because of a misunderstood word…The word ‘inflation’ is being used in a mis-defined definition by the Administration. All this Wage-Price freeze that Nixon has been putting on is because he thinks the word ‘inflation’ is caused by and means ‘prices increasing.’ He and his beer hall buddies publicly state that ‘the rate of increase in prices is synonymous with the rate of inflation.’ Therefore, all one has to do is freeze wages and one will cure inflation…Looking over this literature I see that when I studied economics at Princeton University I came to some conclusions which were so obvious to me that I thought they were a part of the textbooks…Anyway, the economic trouble we are handling and our hard work to survive and remain viable is being made necessary because of a misunderstood word.” — The Commodore, November 27, 1971
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“I have experienced the overwhelm that OT3 handles, and it is not pleasant and it invalidates the state of Clear. So I have a firsthand knowledge of what Ron says when he says Clears are at risk. I’m not saying this to frighten Clears or Preclears reading this, mine was, hopefully, an unusual sort of case that got handled on OT3 and then the Nots auditing knocked it out of the park and resultant freedom and relief from those levels are hard to describe. I have met and seen on TV those classified as insane, and it’s obvious that many are in a total dramatization of the OT3 phenomena. For psychiatrists to then drug or shock them, lays in the engram on top of that pitiful state, so I tend to be understanding when Ron gets a tad critical of the psychiatric profession as even well done objectives will do much to help them. I just wanted to comment to those out there wandering whether to keep going or not. Do!”
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1996: John Travolta appeared on the Oprah Winfrey show and discussed Scientology with an uncritical Oprah and audience.
“OPRAH: I know back there my producers are going OOHH my God Scientology…
TRAVOLTA: You can be a Catholic Scientologist …and a Protestant Scientologist and a Baptist Scientologist. We have every denomination.
TRAVOLTA: It’s mainly to help you survive better on the planet. We’re in trouble on this planet, you know, in a lot of ways…
OPRAH: So is it… It’s not a religion?
TRAVOLTA: Well it is technically, because by law, and by the dictionary, you have to go… that term. Because it deals with the spiritually end… through spiritually and physically at times… Like Dianetics is the body… It deals with injuries, and emotional upsets, and things like that… That’s very specific and it deals with the body, and the mind. And the Scientology deals with church… of the trade, to survive better, on the planet.”
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“In ‘Road To Xenu’ Margery Wakefield recounts sitting around in the Sea Org cafeteria watching Star Trek and they were laughing because the wogs didn’t realize that the stuff on the screen was the writer’s suppressed whole track memories. Hubbard said somewhere that science fiction, if not all fiction, was whole track memories unbeknownst to its authors.”
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Full Court Press: What we’re watching at the Underground Bunker
Criminal prosecutions:
— Danny Masterson charged for raping three women: Masterson’s demurrer denied Oct 19, arraignment delayed to Jan 6.
— Jay and Jeff Spina, Medicare fraud: Jay’s sentencing delayed for ‘Fatico’ hearing on Jan 19.
— Hanan and Rizza Islam and other family members, Medi-Cal fraud: Next pretrial conference set for Jan 12 in Los Angeles
Civil litigation:
— Luis and Rocio Garcia v. Scientology: Oral arguments were heard on July 30 at the Eleventh Circuit
— Valerie Haney v. Scientology: Forced to ‘religious arbitration.’ Petition for writ of mandate denied Oct 22 by Cal 2nd Appellate District. Petition for review by state supreme court filed Oct 30.
— Chrissie Bixler et al. v. Scientology and Danny Masterson: Dec 18, re-hearing on motions to compel arbitration; Jan 29, Masterson’s request to stay discovery pending the criminal case
— Matt and Kathy Feschbach tax debt: Eleventh Circuit ruled on Sept 9 that Feshbachs can’t discharge IRS debt in bankruptcy. Nov 18: Feshbachs indicated they will enter into consent judgment to pay the debt.
— Brian Statler Sr v. City of Inglewood: Second amended complaint filed, trial set for Nov 9, 2021.
Concluded litigation:
— Author Steve Cannane defamation trial: Trial concluded, Cannane victorious, awarded court costs.
— Dennis Nobbe, Medicare fraud, PPP loan fraud: Charged July 29. Bond revoked Sep 14. Nobbe dead, Sep 14.
— Jane Doe v. Scientology (in Miami): Jane Doe dismissed the lawsuit on May 15 after the Clearwater Police dropped their criminal investigation of her allegations.
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SCIENTOLOGY BLACK OPS: Tom Cruise and dirty tricks
The Australian Seven News network cancelled a 10-part investigation of Scientology and its history of dirty tricks. Read the transcripts of the episodes and judge for yourself why Tom Cruise and Tommy Davis might not have wanted viewers to see this hard-hitting series by journalist Bryan Seymour.
After the success of their double-Emmy-winning, three-season A&E series ‘Scientology and the Aftermath,’ Leah Remini and Mike Rinder continue the conversation on their podcast, ‘Scientology: Fair Game.’ We’ve created a landing page where you can hear all of the episodes so far.
LEAH REMINI: SCIENTOLOGY AND THE AFTERMATH
An episode-by-episode guide to Leah Remini’s three-season, double-Emmy winning series that changed everything for Scientology watching. Originally aired from 2016 to 2019 on the A&E network, and coming November 1 to Netflix.
SCIENTOLOGY’S CELEBRITIES, from A to Z
Find your favorite Hubbardite celeb at this index page — or suggest someone to add to the list!
Other links: Scientology’s Ideal Orgs, from one end of the planet to the other. Scientology’s sneaky front groups, spreading the good news about L. Ron Hubbard while pretending to benefit society. Scientology Lit: Books reviewed or excerpted in a weekly series. How many have you read?
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THE WHOLE TRACK
[ONE year ago] The rapey Danny Masterson movie clip someone doesn’t want you to see
[TWO years ago] Leah Remini starts third season with bombshell Scientology escape story
[THREE years ago] Don’t give short shrift to one of Scientology’s most defining qualities – its arrogance
[FOUR years ago] What you’ll find on the menu at the clinic run by a physician who’s also a Scientologist
[FIVE years ago] Scientology wants to force a drug rehab center on Maryland: Here’s the local county’s response
[SIX years ago] An iconic Scientology building in Hollywood is in pre-foreclosure, and what that portends
[SEVEN years ago] Vivian Kubrick Surfaces in the Oddest Possible Way: At an Alex Jones Rally
[EIGHT years ago] Stephen Kent’s New Article on Scientology’s War With Psychiatry
[NINE years ago] Scientology Sunday Service: Mind Control and Your Open Thread
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Bernie Headley (1952-2019) did not see his daughter Stephanie in his final 5,667 days.
Valerie Haney has not seen her mother Lynne in 2,133 days.
Katrina Reyes has not seen her mother Yelena in 2,637 days
Sylvia Wagner DeWall has not seen her brother Randy in 2,157 days.
Brian Sheen has not seen his grandson Leo in 1,177 days.
Geoff Levin has not seen his son Collin and daughter Savannah in 1,068 days.
Christie Collbran has not seen her mother Liz King in 4,375 days.
Clarissa Adams has not seen her parents Walter and Irmin Huber in 2,243 days.
Carol Nyburg has not seen her daughter Nancy in 3,017 days.
Jamie Sorrentini Lugli has not seen her father Irving in 3,821 days.
Quailynn McDaniel has not seen her brother Sean in 3,137 days.
Dylan Gill has not seen his father Russell in 11,703 days.
Melissa Paris has not seen her father Jean-Francois in 7,622 days.
Valeska Paris has not seen her brother Raphael in 3,790 days.
Mirriam Francis has not seen her brother Ben in 3,371 days.
Claudio and Renata Lugli have not seen their son Flavio in 3,632 days.
Sara Goldberg has not seen her daughter Ashley in 2,670 days.
Lori Hodgson has not seen her son Jeremy and daughter Jessica in 2,383 days.
Marie Bilheimer has not seen her mother June in 1,908 days.
Julian Wain has not seen his brother Joseph or mother Susan in 263 days.
Charley Updegrove has not seen his son Toby in 1,438 days.
Joe Reaiche has not seen his daughter Alanna Masterson in 5,989 days
Derek Bloch has not seen his father Darren in 3,138 days.
Cindy Plahuta has not seen her daughter Kara in 3,458 days.
Roger Weller has not seen his daughter Alyssa in 8,313 days.
Claire Headley has not seen her mother Gen in 3,432 days.
Ramana Dienes-Browning has not seen her mother Jancis in 1,788 days.
Mike Rinder has not seen his son Benjamin and daughter Taryn in 6,091 days.
Brian Sheen has not seen his daughter Spring in 2,197 days.
Skip Young has not seen his daughters Megan and Alexis in 2,599 days.
Mary Kahn has not seen her son Sammy in 2,471 days.
Lois Reisdorf has not seen her son Craig in 2,054 days.
Phil and Willie Jones have not seen their son Mike and daughter Emily in 2,549 days.
Mary Jane Barry has not seen her daughter Samantha in 2,803 days.
Kate Bornstein has not seen her daughter Jessica in 13,912 days.
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Posted by Tony Ortega on November 27, 2020 at 07:00
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