All the parts of Leah Remini’s lawsuit Scientology wants the court to strike

Yesterday we told you that Scientology had finally launched its attack on Leah Remini’s lawsuit, and has asked the court to strike a large portion of her complaint.

Well, you know, we always like to do service journalism, so instead of describing what parts they want to cut, we thought we’d just show you every single thing Scientology is asking to the court to kill.

Dig in, and tell us which parts you think really scare them the most.

From the factual allegations, and background on Leah’s involvement in Scientology…

70. While Ms. Remini was a Scientologist, giving millions of dollars to Scientology, serving as a public face for Scientology, recruiting people individually to join Scientology, helping to move Scientologists on their bridge, and donating to outside groups at the behest of Scientology, she frequently was held up as an example of a model Scientologist and praised repeatedly for her contributions. She was awarded commendations by David Miscavige, Tom Cruise, and by the very people who later attacked her in Scientology-produced videos, despite repeatedly having been asked to appear in Scientology videos herself. As soon as she left and spoke out against Scientology, she was labeled by the organization she supported financially as an untrustworthy apostate, as has been the case for staff members, Sea Org members and other Scientologists who have left Scientology or who have spoken out, and for non-Scientologists who have made a joke about Scientology, reported crimes against, or advocated for victims of Scientology.

From the allegations about Fair Game harassment…

90. Defendants enlisted dozens of current and former Scientologists to record videotaped messages (in Scientology production studios) to make disparaging and false claims against Ms. Remini—including false and defamatory statements that she was abusive to her mother and daughter, and that she is a racist. These videos continue to be posted at

https://www.leahreminithefacts.org/videos/ and https://www.leahreminiaftermath.com/videos/.

91. To discredit Ms. Remini’s truthful public comments regarding Defendants, Defendants also used and manipulated Ms. Remini’s estranged and now deceased father, George Remini and his third wife, Dana, to make false statements about Ms. Remini, including that she is a liar, that she only wanted her name in the news, that she would not help to pay for his cancer treatments, that she turned her back on her half-sister when she was in the hospital, that she ransacked her dying grandmother’s apartment, and that she has no morals. These false statements were posted to websites created and controlled by Defendants and continue to be promoted or reposted by Scientology…

94. While Ms. Remini was in New York in 2015 to promote her book, she became aware that she was being followed by private investigators hired by Defendants. These private investigators followed Ms. Remini to and from her hotel and to and from all interviews and media appearances. Defendants’ hired surveillance, consistent with Scientology directives, was so intimidating that it made Ms. Remini fear for her physical safety. As a result, Ms. Remini, for the first time in her life despite being a public figure, was forced to hire private bodyguards to ensure her safety during her book tour.

95. In addition to physically following and harassing Ms. Remini during her book tour, Defendants sent disparaging and threatening letters to third parties who were promoting Ms. Remini’s book, including but not limited to ABC News Senior Vice President, Tom Cibrowski and John Bentley. The intent of the letters was to silence Ms. Remini, damage her reputation, and in turn, her ability to earn income from her book…

97. From 2016 through 2019, Ms. Remini created, produced and hosted the award winning A&E documentary series Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath (“Aftermath”). This documentary series told the stories of former members who were bankrupt, physically abused, molested, and raped by Scientologists and how the organization covered up those crimes. They told the stories of those whose families have been destroyed by Scientology’s disconnection policies, and of those who suffered retaliation for reporting crimes to non-Scientology authorities. The documentary series won two Emmy awards, a Producers Guild Award, Independent Documentary Award (Truth to Power Award), two Gracie awards (Alliance for Women in Media Foundation), and the Barbara Blaine Trailblazer Award from Child USA, again intensifying Defendants’ efforts to silence and discredit her. Scientologists have also attacked Paul Bucceri, the President & Chairman of A&E Networks Group, by creating websites on him and A&E. Due to this harassment A&E was reluctant to put themselves and their employees, their advertisers at risk out of fear of further retaliation from Scientology and their agents. Contributors appearing on the series were thereafter harassed and stalked by Scientology, including through disparaging websites that were posted almost instantly.

98. Scientology was provided an opportunity to comment in every episode. Yet, Defendants have done everything in their power to sabotage Ms. Remini’s The Aftermath series. Between November 2016 and February 2019, Defendants designed an operation to organize and force practicing Scientologists to write at least 500 letters seeking the cancellation of Ms. Remini’s show. The letters were sent to the network heads at A&E, the CEO of Disney, and innumerable advertisers and sponsors of the series, including Disney, Yahoo, Nissan, Coca-Cola, Nestle, and Expedia, to name just a few.

99. Between April and May 2018, Defendants, through the President’s office of Scientology’s Celebrity Centre in Hollywood, organized a meeting of Scientology celebrities and other Scientologists active in the entertainment industry. In that meeting, attendees were drilled on how to attack Ms. Remini’s credibility, based on lies, using talking points that Scientology wrote. A copy of that document shows that attendees were told to state to others that Ms. Remini’s contributors (survivors and whistleblowers) were criminals. This blanket smear was followed by the false suggestion that the National Enquirer was more credible than Ms. Remini’s documentary series. Additionally, attendees were told to say that Ms. Remini paid survivors and whistleblowers to appear in her documentary series, which is also false.

100. In addition to these hundreds of letters, Scientologists, at the urging of Defendants, and in accordance with their Suppressive Person, OSA Network directives, HCOBs, HCOPLs and Fair Game policies, OSA created a front group called the Interfaith Alliance to create the appearance that religious leaders found the series one of religious bigotry. This group, none of whom were actual clergy and all of whom were Scientologists, stood outside of the A&E corporate offices and picketed, demanding cancellation of Ms. Remini’s documentary series, falsely claiming that she incited bigotry and hate crimes, including, but not limited to, murder.

101. Defendants and Defendants’ operatives also engaged in efforts to harass and threaten anyone involved in The Aftermath, most notably, ex-Scientologists who were whistleblowers and survivors of Scientology’s abuse who agreed to be interviewed for the documentary series. Defendants then organized the harassment of non-Scientologists, like producers, crew members, support staff, editors and their family members who were not involved in the documentary series. They endured ongoing harassment by Scientologists; some of them continue to be harassed to this day via email, texts and phone calls to their homes as well as their family member’s homes. Agents of Scientology who falsely claim to be journalists also call these individuals to solicit false information about Ms. Remini for Scientology’s attack websites against her. After The Aftermath ended, Scientology publicly took credit for having secured its cancellation.

102. In 2017, Defendants continued their campaign to harass and discredit Ms. Remini. For instance, when Ms. Remini appeared on the Conan O’Brien show on January 25, 2017 to promote Aftermath, Defendants’ operatives sent Conan O’Brien a personal letter criticizing Ms. Remini and claiming that Remini was only speaking out against Scientology for the fame, money and attention. Mr. O’Brien commented that he has never before received a letter of this character in his 24 years of hosting late-night talk shows.

103. Defendants also began to intentionally and fraudulently accuse Ms. Remini and her Aftermath series of inciting hate crimes. In 2016, Defendants, well aware of the falsehoods being leveled at Ms. Remini, accused Ms. Remini in tweets and on their websites of causing a man named Brandon Reisdorf, whose parents were former Scientologists, to throw a rock through a window at the Los Angeles office of Scientology. Mr. Reisdorf, who was forced to disconnect from his brother and parents, was in the midst of a mental health crisis. Scientology policies ban any sort of psychiatric or psychological treatment.

104. Both Mr. Reisdorf and his family have publicly stated that Ms. Remini had nothing to do with this episode—yet Defendants continue to stand by their fraudulent accusations and continue to disseminate this false information on social media and on its websites to this day.

105. And on January 11, 2019, Defendants falsely and maliciously accused Ms. Remini and The Aftermath of inciting the brutal murder of a 24-year-old Taiwanese Scientologist, Chih-Jen Yeh, in its Australian headquarters. Mr. Yeh was working as a security guard and was escorting woman to begin her program to join the Sea Org, when the woman’s 16-year-old son stabbed and murdered Mr. Yeh. Without any basis, Defendants wrote letters to the President of A&E alleging that “the murderer…[was] incited by A&E and the Leah Remini/Mike Rinder series.” Ms. Remini has publicly condemned the boy’s actions, yet Scientology and Scientology operatives with over

200 Twitter accounts continually tweet and re-tweet intentionally false and libelous information regarding the incident. A sampling of these tweets is below.

106. During the years in which Aftermath aired on A&E, Defendants continued to stalk and harass Ms. Remini. In 2017, Defendants hired International Investigative Group, Ltd. (“IIG”), a company comprised of private investigators, to surveil and follow Ms. Remini while she was in New York filming the 2018 movie, Second Act, and her TV series that aired from 2016 to 2018, Kevin Can Wait.30 Two of these private investigators were Saul Roth, a former Lieutenant in the Nassau County Police Department in New York,31 and Yanti Greene. Messages obtained between Mr. Greene and Mr. Roth in unrelated litigation reveal that “word is they [Scientology] want to kill her.”32…

[Footnotes :30 See April 21, 2021 Affidavit of Saul Roth in Smith v. International Investigative Group Ltd., et al, NY Sup. Ct. No. 607393/2019 at 3.

31 See April 21, 2021 Affidavit of Saul Roth at ¶¶ 3, 13.

32 Ex. 25 to Memorandum of Law in Support of Motion for Partial Summary Judgment in the case of Smith v. Int’l Investigative Group Ltd., Case No. 607393/2019 (Nassau Cty., NY, May 27, 2021) at Bates Nos. 001329-334.]

109. To incentivize successful outcomes, OSA operatives are rewarded with bonus points for “valuable final products,” including “intelligence furnished that effectively guides the progress of Scientology”; “public matters and individuals which impede human liberty investigated and exposed”; and “enemies of scientology depopularized to the point of total obliteration.” There also are points for pickets, negative media, litigation filed, evictions, and government actions, among others.

110. Upon information and belief, Defendants also hired Talon Executive Services, Inc. (“Talon”), a company based in Costa Mesa, California, to stalk, harass and surveil Ms. Remini. In 2022, employees of Talon showed up at Ms. Remini’s neighbor’s home under the guise that Ms. Remini arranged for Talon to install “free security and surveillance” technology there. In reality, and based upon information and belief, Scientology had hired Talon to plant equipment that would allow Scientology to spy on Ms. Remini. Ms. Remini only became aware of this ruse after her neighbor called to thank her…

113. OSA operatives pretending to be freelance journalists have implemented Noisy Investigations against Ms. Remini to harass her. Scientology has harassed Ms. Remini; Ms. Remini’s sister, Shannon Farrara, at her workplace in Los Angeles; Ms. Remini’s step-mother at her residence in North Carolina; her deceased father, George Remini; various of Ms. Remini’s former employees and their family members; her step-sons in San Jose (and a friend of one step-son who tweeted that he was a big fan of Aftermath); her sister, Nicole Remini; and her niece and nephew in Minnesota. In each case, Defendants’ agents claim to be reporters who are doing a “story” about Ms. Remini and indicate that they have information that Ms. Remini was abusive to her family and friends, and then attempt to get Ms. Remini’s friends and family to comment on the fake accusations or provide disparaging information.

114. Defendants’ OSA pseudo-journalists have written false statements and articles on Defendants’ website, Freedom Magazine, at freedommag.org.

115. Freedommag.org includes various articles and videos aimed to defame and spread fraudulent misinformation about Ms. Remini. Some of these videos are entitled, “Leah Remini: A One-Woman Hate Machine”; “Leah Remini Told Dying Sister ‘Get Charity Care,’ Family Says”; and a video comparing Ms. Remini and the A&E network to Ku Klux Klan members who incite hate crimes.

116. This decade-long, coordinated harassment of Ms. Remini, as well as her friends, family, and business acquaintances, has caused severe emotional distress to Ms. Remini, has made her fear for her physical safety and that of her family, and has caused the loss of business opportunities, as laid out below.

Social Media Attacks Against Ms. Remini

117. In addition to physical stalking and harassment, from 2013 to the present day, Defendants have implemented a mass coordinated social media effort against Ms. Remini to spread false and malicious information about her through hundreds of Scientology-run websites and social media accounts.

118. Hundreds of websites and social media accounts were created by Defendants, and/or those working at the direction of Defendants, to harass, embarrass, shame, and defame Ms. Remini. Each website was more explicit and offensive than the last, containing attacks on Ms. Remini’s character, her work, her family, her daughter, and every facet of her life. These hundreds of websites are part of a larger group of websites against enemies of Scientology, which include over 5,000 separate domains, and include the same coordinated messaging dictated by OSA.

119. For instance, in 2015 the Defendants created a website and front group entitled, “Scientologists Taking Action Against Discrimination” (“STAND”) at: www.standleague.org. The Stand League Website is one of many websites that Defendants have used for years to attack, lie about, and harass people who are deemed enemies of Scientology. This website has posted 76 blog posts and 14 articles harassing and churning lies against Ms. Remini, claiming over and over that she is an “unhinged religious bigot who profits by spreading hate.” Some of these articles are entitled:

● “Are Leah Remini and A&E responsible for the Wave of Violence Against the Jehovah’s Witnesses’ Kingdom Halls?”

● “Leah Remini is a Disgrace to Women of Valor Everywhere.”

● “As the World Remembers the Holocaust, Bigot Leah Remini Inspires Praise of Hitler.”34

[Footnote: 34 This accusation is particularly egregious, as Ms. Remini’s mother is Jewish.]

120. Defendants also created https://www.leahreminithefacts.org/, an entire website designed to attack, intimidate, and harass Ms. Remini. The main page of the website is a narrative created at the direction of Defendants with various tabs leveling outrageous accusations against Ms. Remini, including but not limited to: 1) filing a false police report and then attempting to extort Scientology, and 2) abusing family members, including her half-sister, Stephani, and father, George Remini, both of whom have since passed away. The site also includes articles entitled:

● Leah Remini to Dying Sister: “Get Charity Care,” with headline reading, “Remini’s former stepmother lets loose on how Leah ‘made a complete mockery and disaster’ of sibling Stephani Remini’s death.”

● When Vengeance Leads to Words, Words Lead to Hate and Violence, with headline reading, “Leah Remini has incited the very bigotry and hate that she herself was fearful of and abhorred as a Scientologist.”

121. This website includes a separate tab with 55 videos recorded at the direction of Defendants eliciting negative commentary from individuals, some of whom Ms. Remini did not even know or have any real interaction with.

122. The online attacks do not end there. Defendants created https://www.leahreminiaftermath.com/, with excerpts entitled, among others, “How Leah Remini Viciously Breaks up a Family,” “How Leah Remini Callously Treats her Own Family,” and “Leah’s Anti-Religious Sugar Daddy’s History of Drug Dealing and Cons.”

123. This website includes 131 videos recorded at the direction of Defendants eliciting false and defamatory commentary from individuals regarding Ms. Remini and 61 blog posts leveling false and defamatory claims, including, “Another Criminal Remini Source Returns to Jail,” “A&E and Leach Remini Spread Hate,” “Remini: Aftermath Propaganda Inciting Religious Hate,” “Leah’s Anti-Religious Sugar Daddy’s History of Drug Dealing and Cons,” “Leah’s New Liar 4 Hire is a Proud Confederate Flag Lover,” “Leah Remini’s Paid Liar,” “Leah Remini’s Aftermath: Exposed As Lies Once Again,” “Leah Remini’s Family Expose Leah’s Lies,” “Leah Remini’s FRAUD,” “Total Fraud,” “Leah Remini’s Real Aftermath: Hate Speech, Threats, and Violence,” and “Leah Remini: The Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde of Hollywood,” among many others.

124. This website also includes a link to a series of letters written by current members of Scientology in a concerted effort to prevent the production of Aftermath.

125. In addition to websites created by Defendants and its employees, there are hundreds of Scientology-run Twitter accounts that are actively tweeting daily misinformation about Ms. Remini in furtherance of the Suppressive Person and OSA operations and attacks that Defendants are deploying against her. Based upon information and belief, these individuals create Twitter accounts for the purpose of harassing Ms. Remini and other whistleblowers and advocates who have been deemed Suppressive Persons or attackers of Scientology, buy followers on social media, follow each other’s accounts, and coordinate their attacks on Ms. Remini.

126. For instance, since 2017, @standmonitor, created and run by Defendants, has posted thousands of malicious and harassing tweets about Ms. Remini. In March 2023 alone, they have posted over 247 tweets aimed at Ms. Remini, includes dozens of photoshopped images of Ms. Remini in “I love rapists” apparel with similar fraudulent messages purporting to show Ms. Remini’s support of rapists under the hashtag, #ReminiLovesRapists. Just a few of these photos is included herein, but hundreds of similar images appear under Defendants’ Twitter accounts:

127. Scientology-operated Twitter accounts make unsubstantiated claims that Ms. Remini is abusive to her daughter, who is now 18 years old. For instance, on March 22, 2023 @standmonitor tweeted that “@Leah Remini trains her daughter to beat little girls.” And @vettedfacts claims that Ms. Remini’s daughter left “her toxic home life” because Ms. Remini “called her daughter a c**t, all the time.” Scientologist Phil Maasen tweeted “Leah Rimjob is a hateful c*** & it shows even on her stupid, boring game show, citing Leahreminithefacts.org, a website run by Scientology.

128. Defendants, or individuals directed by Defendants, have tweeted untrue and highly damaging claims that Ms. Remini has involuntarily committed her college daughter to a psychiatric facility. These tweets also included questions like “Where is Sofia,” leaving Ms. Remini to fear that Scientology operatives and agents were trying to track down her daughter’s location. These claims have caused Ms. Remini to fear for the safety of her daughter.

129. Defendants, or individuals directed by Defendants, also have control over hundreds of Twitter handles which are regularly used to attack Ms. Remini.35

[Footnote: 35 To name just 31 active Twitter accounts, controlled and/or directed by Defendants or persons working for Defendants, that have spread lies and hate against Ms. Remini in the month of March alone, see :e.g. @BFTSTANDleague; @CESTANDleague; @DMStandLeague; @evamahoney101; @FreedomEthics; @gsstandleague; @standmonitor; @sliverson; @JMStandLeague; @JGStandLeague; @jimrossmeskimen; @JohnAllender5; @JPdarkn; @DorisPansy534; @SoulPrisoner; @KiwiBoy2020; @lauriejbart; @LCStandLeague; @MediaEthicsChk; @MKTSTANDleague; @LW_STANDleague; @QReligious; @qcus007; @STANDleague; @ScientologyDad; @EndBigotryNow2; @ItsBklynSteve; @parismorf; and @XanthiaHare.]

Indeed, while there are virtually hundreds of Twitter accounts controlled and run by Defendants which actively tweet false and defamatory information against Ms. Remini on a daily, weekly or monthly basis, 31 accounts have tweeted 1,398 tweets about and against Ms. Remini in March 2023 alone. A few examples of the many defamatory tweets from other Twitter handles are below:

130. As a result of Defendants’ ongoing course of physical and social media harassment against Ms. Remini, Ms. Remini has incurred substantial economic expenses to protect her and her family’s physical and emotional health and safety.

From a section about Leah’s iHeartMedia contract…

136. On March 4, 2022, as part of its Fair Game campaign and in order to derail her podcast, Defendants directed and controlled the publication of an article at https://www.freedommag.org/blog/iheart-produces-outrageous-bigotry-and-they-wont-talk-about-it-0be7bf, claiming that iHeartRadio “allows Remini, in obscenity-laced and abusive language, to insult, defame and demean Scientologists.”

137. The article details the measures taken at the direction of Defendants to interfere with and terminate Ms. Remini’s contract with iHeartMedia. For instance, Defendants openly admit that they called and emailed iHeartMedia’s executive vice president and chief communications officer, producer, and the podcast audio editor in an attempt to prevent Ms. Remini’s podcast from airing.

138. Indeed, Defendants even took credit for advertisers pulling their advertising from Ms. Remini’s podcast on iHeartRadio.

139. Throughout the duration of the contract, Defendants engaged in continuous efforts to end Ms. Remini’s contract with iHeartMedia. Defendants directed individuals to follow and harass podcast producers until those producers grew so fearful that iHeartMedia made the decision to terminate the relationship with Ms. Remini to protect its employees and agents, even though the show was successful in its ratings.

From a section about Leah’s AudioBoom contract…

142. On August 3, 2022, at the direction of Defendants, STAND sent a letter to CEO Last informing him that “AudioBoom will soon be syndicating the hate podcast of two rabid anti-Scientologists.” The letter goes on to explain that “[w]hen the podcast was last running, we reached out to companies to inform them this was the defamation and bigotry they were paying for through their advertising; we heard back from chief communications and marketing officers from Verizon to eBay confirming their ads were no longer running on this hate podcast. The podcast shortly thereafter lost all commercial advertising. AudioBoom advertisers deserve the decency of being informed you intend to identify their brands with defamation and hate. We will be so informing them.” The letter is signed by 39 Scientologists and was also sent to the CFO, COO, Director of Operations & Communications, VP of US Content & Partnerships, and Content Manager for AudioBoom.

143. On August 10, 2022, at the direction of Defendants, STAND sent a letter to Julie Hansen, the US CEO of one of AudioBoom’s advertisers, Babbel, addressing the podcast and stating, “[w]e trust that, like Verizon, eBay, State Farm and countless other companies, this kind of dehumanizing, hateful content violates your ad-buying guidelines and could not be further from your brand values. AudioBoom syndicates hate. Please pull your advertising from this platform.”

144. On August 18, 2022, the Chief Content Officer of AudioBoom, Brendan Regan, sent the following to agents of Ms. Remini: “StandLeague.org has been contacting AudioBoom’s advertisers saying that we’re promoting hate as a company by working with Fair Game. They’ve sent 6 emails to the CEO of PrettyLitter alone, a client not even associated with Fair Game. Are you aware of this and has Fair Game been impacted by this before? From the trailer that was just released it alludes that this may have been the case at iHeart.”

145. On August 22, 2022, at the direction of Defendants, STAND sent a letter to the CEO of Candy Capital, Nick Candy, a significant investor in AudioBoom, informing him that, “[w]hen this hate podcast was streaming on its previous platform, Verizon, State Farm, eBay and others pulled their ads upon learning they were sponsoring hate. All commercial advertising then ceased on the podcast. There have been no new episodes since March 2022,” and asking that, “[a]s the company’s largest investor, we write requesting you do something about its syndication of hate.”

146. On August 30, 2022, Ms. Remini’s agents received a communication from an Audioboom executive which marked the formal termination of Ms. Remini’s contract with AudioBoom. This communication specifically noted that the termination of Ms. Remini’s AudioBoom contract was due to “STAND’s harassment and intimidation of Audioboom’s employees” as well the false and defamatory accusations made by STAND to AudioBoom and its advertisers, and the negative business implications that would reasonably ensue…

From a section about Leah’s work on People Puzzler…

148. Defendants, in their usual course of action of attacking and harassing Ms. Remini, began posting open letters to the Game Show Network about how it should stop airing a show which allows an “unhinged bigot” to host, as well as claiming that the Game Show Network is employing a “rape apologist as their host” and that “Remini obviously agrees…’it’s not a big deal’ to sexually abuse women.” One open letter claimed that Ms. Remini had fomented “violent and deadly attacks” and asked “What’s next? A game show “hosted” by a KKK leader? Neo-Nazi Jeopardy?

D149. Defendants also assailed the advertisers of the Game Show Network urging these advertisers, including but not limited to Kellogg’s and Proctor & Gamble to pull their support from the network by falsely asserting that Ms. Remini has inspired “hundreds of threats and acts of violence…including declarations of intent to…murder Church [of Scientology] members.”

150. Defendants also use Twitter to post images of Ms. Remini juxtaposed against the logos of well-known brands as part of an effort to leave the impression that major brands are pulling out as advertisers of “People Puzzler” due to Ms. Remini, including advertisers that have not withdrawn their support. For example, Stand posted the following:

151. This activity is consistent with other instances in which Scientology has created the false impression that other advertisers have pulled their business from projects related to Ms. Remini.

152. Defendants also sent OSA operatives claiming to be journalists to the set of People Puzzler, asking producers about “claims” that Ms. Remini is allegedly abusive in the workplace.

From a section about publicity firm ID/PR…

161. On February 24, 2023, Scientology’s OSA Operations began an attack on Ms. Remini’s publicity firm. Through official Scientology accounts and Scientology-controlled accounts, operatives began disseminating a set of conspiracy theories that were utterly false and defamatory and involved Kelly Novak, the founder of ID/PR, being the leader of an anti-Scientology cabal. Scientology also posted pictures of Ms. Novak with Harvey Weinstein, suggesting that she supported sexual abuse.

162. Other conspiracy theories included the false allegation that Ms. Remini was the head of ID/PR and covertly directed an anti-Scientology campaign from her position.

163. Scientology then started tagging the Twitter accounts of other celebrities known to be clients of ID/PR to ask them if they were aware of this non-existent anti-Scientology conspiracy being run by ID/PR…

167. Scientology tweeted that Ms. Novak had dropped her as a client. Official Scientology and Scientology-controlled accounts cheered on this news and praised Ms. Novak for dumping Ms Remini.

168. Scientology further pushed the idea that influential entertainment industry figures abandoned Ms. Remini due to her “toxicity” and “bigotry.”…

170. Scientology then turned on Ms. Novak again and started attacking her and Ms. Remini, falsely suggesting that Ms. Remini had threatened Ms. Novak into retracting her previous direct message.

171. Since this defamatory campaign began, official Scientology accounts have tweeted these defamatory allegations well over 100 times.

172. Since the day Ms. Remini left Scientology, Defendants have stalked Ms. Remini, harassed Ms. Remini, disseminated hateful, false, and defamatory information about Ms. Remini, and done everything in their power to interfere with any and every business relationship in an effort to prevent her disclosing what goes on inside Scientology.

From a section on activity after the lawsuit was first filed…

177. An official statement issued by Scientology after the lawsuit asserted that Ms. Remini’s statements had “generated threats of and actual violence against the Church and its members as evidenced by multiple criminal convictions of individuals poisoned by Remini’s propaganda” and suggested that she consider emigrating to Russia.

178. In the same vein, this tweet was posted on a Scientology account on August 2nd, the day after the Complaint was filed:

From Count 1 of the causes of action, Civil Harassment…

227. Defendants’ course of conduct includes, but is not limited to, following, surveilling, and stalking Plaintiff, sending Scientology operatives to break into Ms. Remini’s gated community, stealing her personal residential mail, vandalizing her mailbox, planting and/or attempting to plant spyware in close proximity to her home, sending harassing correspondence to Plaintiff and to others, including business associates and sponsors regarding Plaintiff, and creating a social media smear campaign against Plaintiff that includes false and malicious accusations made against Ms. Remini, and at times, her family. As Defendants’ pattern of conduct was defamatory and conducted with the intent to harass, it was criminal in nature not protected by the veil of religious practice. [Portions to remove from this paragraph in bold.]

231. Some examples of Defendants’ harassment, as described above, include:

a. Being physically harassed and surveilled by private investigators, private citizens, and OSA members of Scientology at the behest of Defendants;

b. Defendants directing and coordinating an extensive and decade-long social media campaign against Ms. Remini via hundreds of Scientology-run and directed Twitter accounts and websites by means of false pretenses misrepresentations and lies; and

c. Using social media and other means to send hundreds of letters to Ms. Remini’s business associates and advertisers threatening these individuals and entities to cease their affiliation with Ms. Remini based on lies and misinformation.

From Count 2 of the causes of action, Stalking…

236. This continuous course of conduct in which Defendants engaged against Plaintiff includes being physically harassed and surveilled by private investigators (through their lawyers), private citizens, and OSA members of Scientology at the behest of Defendants as described herein. Defendants have also engaged in stalking of Plaintiff by posting threatening information to various websites and via social media on a continuing basis…

COUNT IV

TORTIOUS INTERFERENCE WITH CONTRACTAL RELATIONSHIP

246. Plaintiff incorporates and realleges all allegations contained in the foregoing paragraphs as though fully set forth herein.

247. Plaintiff had a binding and valid contract with iHeartMedia.

248. Plaintiff had a binding and valid contract with AudioBoom.

249. Defendants knew about the contractual relationship between Ms. Remini and iHeartMedia and Audioboom.

250. Defendants intentionally interfered with Ms. Remini’s contractual relationship with iHeartMedia, without any justification, through actions including but not limited to: writing false and disparaging accusations about Ms. Remini and her podcast on various social media websites and twitter accounts owned, operated and/or controlled by Defendants and Defendants’ operatives; sending disparaging letters about Ms. Remini to iHeartMedia’s executive vice president and COO, producer, podcast audio editor, and advertisers; and harassing iHeartMedia’s podcast producers until they decided to end its contractual relationship with Ms. Remini on March 7, 2022.

251. Defendants intentionally interfered with Ms. Remini’s contractual relationship with AudioBoom, without any justification, by engaging in conduct that included, but is not limited to sending disparaging letters about Ms. Remini and her podcast to the CEO of AudioBoom as well as AudioBoom’s advertisers and investors, encouraging AudioBoom to end their relationship with Ms. Remini until AudioBoom did end its contractual relationship with Ms. Remini on August 30, 2022. Engaging in the aforesaid conduct, Defendants intended to disrupt the contractual relationships with Ms. Remini and AudioBoom and iHeartMedia or knew that the disruption of these relationships was substantially certain to occur.

252. As a direct and proximate result of Defendants’ tortious interference with Ms. Remini’s contractual relations, Ms. Remini’s contractual relationships with AudioBoom and iHeartMedia were indeed disrupted.

253. As a direct and proximate result of Defendants’ tortious interference with Ms Remini’s contractual relations, Ms. Remini suffered economic harm, including without limitation the loss of revenues and fees Ms. Remini would have derived had iHeartMedia and Audioboom maintained a contractual relationship with Ms. Remini.

254. Accordingly, Ms. Remini has suffered damage as a result of Defendants’ tortious interference with Ms. Remini’s contractual relationship with iHeartMedia and AudioBoom.

255. As such, an award of compensatory and punitive damages to Plaintiff from Defendants is justified.

WHEREFORE, Plaintiff, LEAH REMINI, requests that the Court enter a judgment against Defendants for tortious interference with a contractual relationship and award such other and further relief as it deems appropriate.

COUNT V

INTENTIONAL INTERFERENCEWITH PROSPECTIVE ECONOMIC ADVANTAGE

256. Plaintiff incorporates and realleges all allegations contained in the foregoing paragraphs as though fully set forth herein.

257. Ms. Remini and AudioBoom were in an economic relationship that, had this relationship continued, likely would have resulted in an economic benefit to Ms. Remini.

258. Ms. Remini and iHeartMedia were in an economic relationship that, had this relationship continued, likely would have resulted in an economic benefit to Ms. Remini.

259. Ms. Remini and Game Show Network were in an economic relationship that, if this relationship continues, likely will result in an economic benefit to Ms. Remini.

260. Ms. Remini and Vice News were in an economic relationship that probably would have resulted in an economic benefit to Ms. Remini.

261. Ms. Remini’s business relationships with AudioBoom, iHeartMedia, Vice News, and the Game Show Network contained the probability of future economic benefits to Remini in the form of revenues.

262. Defendants knew of the economic relationship between Ms. Remini and AudioBoom, iHeartMedia, the Game Show Network, and Vice News and intentionally took outward measures to destroy these relationships.

263. Defendants intentionally interfered with Ms. Remini’s economic relationship wit AudioBoom by engaging in conduct that included sending disparaging letters about Ms. Remini and her podcast to the CEO of AudioBoom as well as AudioBoom’s advertisers and investors, encouraging AudioBoom to end their relationship with Ms. Remini.

264. Defendants intentionally interfered with Ms. Remini’s economic relationship with iHeartMedia by engaging in conduct that included: writing false and disparaging accusations about Ms. Remini and her podcast on various social media websites and twitter accounts owned, operated and/or controlled by Defendants and Defendants’ operatives; sending disparaging letters about Ms. Remini to iHeartMedia’s executive vice president and COO, producer, podcast audio editor, and advertisers; and harassing iHeartMedia’s podcast producers until they decided to end their business relationship with Ms. Remini.

265. Defendants intentionally interfered with Ms. Remini’s economic relationship with the Game Show Network by engaging in conduct that included: sending disparaging and false open letters to the Game Show Network claiming that Ms. Remini is an “unhinged bigot,” a “rape apologist” and someone who believes “it’s not a big deal to sexually abuse women;” sending disparaging letters to the Game Show Network’s advertisers, encouraging them to pull their support from the Game Show Network for airing Ms. Remini’s show; and sending Defendants’ operatives to the Game Show Network with false claims that they were investigating allegations of Ms. Remini’s alleged abusive behavior in the workplace. Upon information and belief, Defendants intentionally interfered with Ms. Remini’s economic relationship with Vice News by harassing employees and directors at Vice News and encouraging them not to work with Ms. Remini.

266. By engaging in the aforesaid conduct, and based on the policies and practices under the Fair Game banner, Defendants intended to disrupt the economic relationships with Ms. Remini and AudioBoom, iHeartMedia, the Game Show Network, and Vice News, and ID/PR or knew that the disruption of these relationships was substantially certain to occur.

267. As a direct and proximate result of Defendants’ malicious and intentional actions, Ms. Remini’s economic relationships with AudioBoom, iHeartMedia, the Game Show Network and Vice News was indeed disrupted.

268. As a direct and proximate result of Defendants’ malicious and intentional actions, Ms. Remini suffered economic harm, including without limitation the loss of revenues and fees Ms. Remini would have derived from these economic relationships.

269. In addition to AudioBoom, iHeartMedia, Vice News and the Game Show Network, Defendants have intentionally interfered with and thwarted an untold number of additional business opportunities by virtue of their attack campaign against Ms. Remini, which includes the incessant harassment of any and all individuals and business entities who align themselves with or seek to do business with Ms. Remini.

270. Accordingly, Ms. Remini has suffered damage as a result of Defendants’ intentional interference with Ms. Remini’s prospective economic relations.

271. As such, an award of compensatory and punitive damages to Plaintiff from Defendants is justified.

WHEREFORE, Plaintiff, LEAH REMINI, requests that the Court enter a judgment against Defendants for intentional interference with prospective economic advantage and award such other and further relief as it deems appropriate.

COUNT VI

DEFAMATION & DEFAMATION PER SE

272. Plaintiffs incorporate and reallege all allegations contained in the foregoing paragraphs as though fully set forth herein.

273. Since 2013, and continuing to this day, Defendants knowingly and willingly published, or caused to be published, false and defamatory statements about Ms. Remini. These false and defamatory statements include, but are not limited to:

a. Statements accusing Ms. Remini of inciting hate crimes:

i. A January 31, 2023 article on standleague.org, a website owned, operated and/or controlled by Defendants, which claims that Ms. Remini’s “hate speech has resulted in violent and deadly attacks on innocents[.]”

ii. An August 4, 2022 article on standleague.org which fraudulently claims that: “In 2019, a man incited by Leah Remini’s hate speech murdered a 24-year-old Scientologist, Aaron Yeh, outside the Australasian headquarters of the Church.”

iii. An April 13, 2023 tweet from Hate Monitor, a twitter account owned, operated, and/or controlled by Defendants that falsely claims that Leah Remini “is responsible for hundreds of threats and multiple acts of violent hate crime against Scientologists.”

i. A tweet dated April 18, 2023 from Hate Monitor, a twitter account owned, operated, and/or controlled by Defendants that falsely stated “On January 3, 2019, a man incited by Leah Remini’s hate speech murdered a 24-year-old Scientologist. @LeahRemini has blood on her hands.” The tweet then refers readers to Scientology-run standleague.org.

iv. An undated article on leahreminithefacts.org, a website owned, operated and/or controlled by Defendants which falsely alleges: “Remini’s series generated unprecedented waves of hate and threats against Scientologists, the Church and its leadership in the hashtag name of #LeahRemini and/or her TV show and its incendiary bigotry, including threats of bombings, arson, assassinations and mass murder.”

b. Statements on social media that Ms. Remini supports rapists:

i. In March of 2023 alone, twitter accounts owned, operated and/or controlled by Defendants have posted over 247 false and fraudulent photoshopped images of Ms. Remini wearing apparel that says, “I love rapists.”

ii. A January 29, 2023 statement on standleague.org, a website controlled and operated by Defendants and Defendants’ operatives, that fraudulently claims that Ms. Remini is a “rape apologist” and “obviously agrees with the actions of these men [accused of rape] or feels that ‘it’s not a big deal’ to sexually abuse women[.]””

iii. An April 10, 2023 tweet from Hate Monitor, a twitter account owned, operated, and/or controlled by Defendants that falsely claims that “@LeahRemini is a bigot who inspires violent hate crimes and defends rapists.”

c. Statements on social media and Defendant-run websites claiming that Ms. Remini is a religious bigot who has inspired praise of Hitler:

i. A February 2, 2022 article on standleague.org entitled “As the World Remembers the Holocaust, Bigot Leah Remini Inspires Praise of Hitler.”

ii. A January 29, 2023 statement on standleague.org that maliciously and fraudulently claims that Ms. Remini is “a vicious, lying, narcissistic, deranged, demented and dangerous bigot.”

d. That Ms. Remini had her 18-year-old daughter involuntarily committed to a psychiatric facility, including:

i. A March 9, 2023 statement made on a Twitter account operated by a Scientology operative, at the behest of Defendants, that states: “I wonder where Sofia, @leahremini daughter is? Last time she was in NY and came back to LA and Leah sent her to a psych and then back to NY.”

274. These false and defamatory statements were published on various social media, and in a seemingly unending stream continue to be released and/or republished on other social media, for public consumption as well as to third parties with whom Ms. Remini has or had business relationships. Indeed, Defendants’ defamatory statements are continuously distributed via so many social media outlets, many of them with intentionally concealed identities, it would be impossible for her to track each one.

275. Defendants published these false and defamatory statements to third parties with actual knowledge that the statements were false or with reckless disregard for whether these statements were false, as part of Scientology’s campaign to destroy Ms. Remini’s personal and professional life.

276. Defendants knew that publishing the statements about Ms. Remini on the internet would have a damaging impact on Plaintiff’s credibility and reputation.

277. These defamatory statements were not name calling or rhetorical hyperbole but constitute specific acts and factual allegations that are actionable.

278. These defamatory statements falsely associated and continue to falsely associate Ms. Remini with things viewed as abhorrent in the community.

279. Defendants’ decade-long crusade of abuses and attacks against Ms. Remini, which continues to present day and is expected to continue into the future without judicial action, including the defamatory statements made by Defendants or Defendants’ operatives, has subjected Ms. Remini to public contempt, ridicule, and disgrace.

280. The defamatory statements made by Defendants or Defendants’ operatives have also injured Ms. Remini in her profession as an actress and businesswoman and have caused in the past and, upon information and belief, continue to cause her to lose business relationships and business opportunities.

281. The publication of such defamatory statements at the behest of Defendants has in fact caused damages to Ms. Remini resulting in loss of revenue and lost business opportunities and is expected to cause her to lose such revenue and opportunities in the future.

WHEREFORE, Plaintiff, LEAH REMINI, requests that the Court enter a judgment against Defendants for defamation and award such other and further relief as it deems appropriate.

COUNT VII

DEFAMATION BY IMPLICATION

282. Plaintiffs incorporate and reallege all allegations contained in the foregoing paragraphs as though fully set forth herein.

283. Since 2013, and continuing to this day, Defendants knowingly and willingly published, or caused to be published, various statements about Ms. Remini that are not true or substantially true and which could reasonably be construed as defamatory. These false statements include but are not limited to:

a. Statements accusing Ms. Remini of inciting hate crimes:

i. A January 31, 2023 article on standleague.org, a website owned, operated and/or controlled by Defendants, which claims that Ms. Remini’s “hate speech has resulted in violent and deadly attacks on innocents[.]”

ii. An August 4, 2022 article on standleague.org which fraudulently claims that: “In 2019, a man incited by Leah Remini’s hate speech murdered a 24-year-old Scientologist, Aaron Yeh, outside the Australasian headquarters of the Church.”

iii. An April 13, 2023 tweet from Hate Monitor, a twitter account owned, operated, and/or controlled by Defendants that falsely claims that Leah Remini “is responsible for hundreds of threats and multiple acts of violent hate crime against Scientologists.”

iv. A tweet dated April 18, 2023 from Hate Monitor, a twitter account owned, operated, and/or controlled by Defendants that falsely stated “On January 3, 2019, a man incited by Leah Remini’s hate speech murdered a 24-year old Scientologist. @LeahRemini has blood on her hands.” The tweet then refers readers to Scientology-run standleague.org.

v. An undated article on leahreminithefacts.org, a website owned, operated and/or controlled by Defendants which falsely alleges: “Remini’s series generated unprecedented waves of hate and threats against Scientologists, the Church and its leadership in the hashtag name of #LeahRemini and/or her TV show and its incendiary bigotry, including threats of bombings, arson, assassinations and mass murder.”

b. Statements on social media that Ms. Remini supports rapists:

i. In March of 2023 alone, twitter accounts owned, operated and/or controlled by Defendants have posted over 247 false and fraudulent photoshopped images of Ms. Remini wearing apparel that says, “I love rapists.”

ii. A January 29, 2023 statement on standleague.org, a website controlled and operated by Defendants and Defendants’ operatives, that fraudulently claims that Ms. Remini is a “rape apologist” and “obviously agrees with the actions of these men [accused of rape] or feels that ‘it’s not a big deal’ to sexually abuse women[.]””

iii. An April 10, 2023 tweet from Hate Monitor, a twitter account owned, operated, and/or controlled by Defendants that falsely claims that “@LeahRemini is a bigot who inspires violent hate crimes and defends rapists.”

c. Statements on social media and Defendant-run websites claiming that Ms. Remini is a religious bigot who has inspired praise of Hitler:

i. A February 2, 2022 article on standleague.org entitled “As the World Remembers the Holocaust, Bigot Leah Remini Inspires Praise of Hitler.”

ii. A January 29, 2023 statement on standleague.org that maliciously and fraudulently claims that Ms. Remini is “a vicious, lying, narcissistic, deranged, demented and dangerous bigot.”

d. That Ms. Remini had her 18-year-old daughter involuntarily committed to a psychiatric facility, including:

i. A March 9, 2023 statement made on a Twitter account operated by a Scientology operative, at the behest of Defendants, that states: “I wonder where Sofia, @leahremini daughter is? Last time she was in NY and came back to LA and Leah sent her to a psych and then back to NY.”

284. The above statements were published on social media for public consumption and have created the implications that Ms. Remini is responsible for inciting murder and other hate crimes, that she “loves” rapists and supports sexual abuse, that she is abusive to her daughter, and that she is a Holocaust supporter and religious bigot.

285. These challenged statements reasonably create implications that are not true or substantially true.

286. The implications drawn from the challenged statements convey the assertions of objective facts and not opinions.

287. Plaintiffs’ interpretation of Defendants’ statements is reasonable and has created an overall impression of Ms. Remini in the manners described.

288. These challenged statements could reasonably be deemed as defamatory and such statements have injured Ms. Remini’s personal and professional reputation as detailed herein.

289. These defamatory statements and implications falsely associated and continue to falsely associate Ms. Remini with things viewed as abhorrent in the community.

290. Defendants’ decade-long crusade of abuses and attacks against Ms. Remini, including the defamatory statements made by Defendants or Defendants’ operatives, has subjected Ms. Remini to public contempt, ridicule, and disgrace.

291. The defamatory statements and implications made by Defendants or Defendants’ operatives have also injured Ms. Remini in her profession as an actress and businesswoman and have caused her to lose business relationships and business opportunities and is expected to caus her to lose such relationships and opportunities in the future.

WHEREFORE, Plaintiff, LEAH REMINI, requests that the Court enter a judgment against Defendants for defamation by implication and award such other and further relief as it deems appropriate.

COUNT VIII

FALSE LIGHT

292. Plaintiffs incorporate and reallege all allegations contained in the foregoing paragraphs as though fully set forth herein.

293. Since 2013, and continuing to this day, Defendants knowingly and willingly published, or caused to be published statements about Ms. Remini, as set forth herein, on social media for public consumption.

294. Such statements and negative publicity have placed Ms. Remini before the public in a false light that is and would be highly offensive to a reasonable person.

295. Defendants published these false statements to third parties with actual knowledge that the statements were false or with reckless disregard for whether these statements were false, as part of Scientology’s campaign to destroy Ms. Remini’s personal and professional life.

296. Defendants knew that publishing the statements about Ms. Remini on the internet would have a damaging impact on Plaintiff’s credibility and reputation.

297. These false statements that placed Ms. Remini in a false light before the public were not name calling or rhetorical hyperbole but constitute specific acts and factual allegations that are actionable.

298. These false statements falsely associated Ms. Remini with things viewed as abhorrent in the community.

299. Defendants’ decade long crusade of abuses and attacks against Ms. Remini, including the false statements made by Defendants or Defendants’ operatives, has subjected Ms. Remini to public contempt, ridicule, and disgrace.

300. The false statements made by Defendants or Defendants’ operatives have also injured Ms. Remini in her profession as an actress and businesswoman and have caused her to lose business relationships and business opportunities.

301. The publication of such false statements at the behest of Defendants has in fact caused damages to Ms. Remini resulting in loss of revenue and lost business opportunities.

WHEREFORE, Plaintiff, LEAH REMINI, requests that the Court enter a judgment against Defendants for defamation and award such other and further relief as it deems appropriate.

COUNT IX

DECLARATORY JUDGMENT- CALIFORNIA CODE CIVIL PROCEDURE § 1060

302. Plaintiffs incorporate and reallege all allegations contained in the foregoing paragraphs as though fully set forth herein.

303. Defendants maintain and implement a policy of abuse and attack against former members who speak out against Scientology.

304. Upon departure from Scientology, an individual should not be stalked, harassed, targeted, or made to fear for their life or livelihood.

305. Religious freedoms do not permit criminal or tortious behavior. Nor may so-called religious doctrine or directives shelter the commission of crimes or torts against former members who exercise their rights to disassociate from or criticize an organization to which they once belonged.

306. The abuse leveled at Ms. Remini is part of a broader policy and practice of intimidation. Ms. Remini is just one of thousands of former-Scientologists who Defendants have terrorized as part of their systemic practice of Fair Game.

307. The implementation of the Suppressive Persons policy as it pertains to Ms. Remini or any other former member or perceived critic of Scientology is unlawful.

308. Therefore, Plaintiff Remini seeks a judicial declaration that the practice of Suppressive Persons operations are unlawful and should be ceased immediately.

309. Plaintiff Remini is in doubt as to her rights and privileges with respect to the crimes and torts being committed against her by Defendants and is entitled to have such doubt removed.

310. There is a bona fide, actual, present, and practical need for a declaration of the rights of Ms. Remini with respect to the practice of attacks against Suppressive Persons, as described above.

And finally, from the Prayer for Relief…

3. For injunctive relief requiring Scientology to cease and desist its harassment, defamation, and other unlawful conduct and striking all Suppressive Person and Fair Game policies, directives and OSA Network Orders;

 
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Technology Cocktail

“Don’t try to make an Operating Thetan before you make a clear. The results will be far, far below that of just first goal clear. A lot of time and agony went into discovering these things. I hope you will benefit by them.” — L. Ron Hubbard, 1963

 
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THE PROSECUTION OF DANNY MASTERSON

We first broke the news of the LAPD’s investigation of Scientology celebrity Danny Masterson on rape allegations in 2017, and we’ve been covering the story every step of the way since then. At this page we’ve collected our most important links as Danny faces a potential sentence of 45 years to life in prison. NOW WITH TRIAL INDEX.

 
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THE PODCAST: How many have you heard?

[1] Marc Headley [2] Claire Headley [3] Jeffrey Augustine [4] Bruce Hines [5] Sunny Pereira [6] Pete Griffiths [7] Geoff Levin [8] Patty Moher [9] Marc Headley [10] Jefferson Hawkins [11] Michelle ‘Emma’ Ryan [12] Paulette Cooper [13] Jesse Prince [14] Mark Bunker [15] Jon Atack [16] Mirriam Francis [17] Bruce Hines on MSH

— SPECIAL: The best TV show on Scientology you never got to see

[1] Phil Jones [2] Derek Bloch [3] Carol Nyburg [4] Katrina Reyes [5] Jamie DeWolf

— The first Danny Masterson trial and beyond

[18] Trial special with Chris Shelton [19] Trial week one [20] Marc Headley on the spy in the hallway [21] Trial week two [22] Trial week three [23] Trial week four [24] Leah Remini on LAPD Corruption [25] Mike Rinder 2022 Thanksgiving Special [26] Jane Doe 4 (Tricia Vessey), Part One [27] Jane Doe 4 (Tricia Vessey), Part Two [28] Claire Headley on the trial [29] Tory Christman [30] Bruce Hines on spying [31] Karen de la Carriere [32] Ron Miscavige on Shelly Miscavige [33] Karen de la Carriere on the L’s [34] Mark Bunker on Miscavige hiding [35] Mark Plummer [36] Mark Ebner [37] Karen Pressley [38] Steve Cannane [39] Fredrick Brennan [40] Clarissa Adams [41] Louise Shekter [42] John Sweeney [43] Tory Christman [44] Kate Bornstein [45] Christian Stolte [46] Mark Bunker [47] Jon Atack [48] Luke Y. Thompson [49] Mark Ebner [50] Bruce Hines [51] Spanky Taylor and Karen Pressley [51] Geoff and Robbie Levin [52] Sands Hall [53] Jonny Jacobsen [54] Sandy Holeman

 
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Source Code

“The fellow who has voices talking to him inside of his head is much better off than the fellow who has voices talking to him from way outside his head. Odd that psychiatry classifies people quite in reverse. People who have voices talking to them from the outside are sane and those who have voices talking to them from inside of their head are very often classified as insane. As a matter of fact, I read a paragraph in one of their innumerable, contradictory books which had to do with just that. It said that one could always tell whether or not a person was psychotic, because the spoken voices – the speaking voices and so forth – were invariably inside the person’s head if the person were psychotic. Couldn’t they face the idea that these voices very often come from outside?” — L. Ron Hubbard, October 29, 1953

 
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Avast, Ye Mateys

“In the early days of the ship the entire crew consisted of only 79 to 90 people. When the ROYAL SCOTMAN became an AO, students crowded aboard and the ship was forced into cope in order to handle them. Spaniards made up the bulk of the stewards and cooks. A non SO chief steward, who later blew, kept the Department in, for him, a suitable state of chaos. After the AO was moved to Alicante, the Stewards Department did well when Mary Sue was Captain and afterwards began to have its ups and downs.” — The Commodore, October 29, 1971

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Overheard in the FreeZone

“While he was able to establish a secure base in Morocco in 1972 with the help of the local government, the former colonial power of France had issued an international arrest warrant via Interpol for L. Ron Hubbard for alleged fraud. When LRH flew to the US within hours due to this on December 3, 1972, in order to defend himself in this matter – which the former basis for operation at sea made impossible – he was taken into custody by US agents at the New York airport and taken into a secret US prison as an enemy of the state, without the chance of a fair hearing and trial. He has been missing ever since.”

 
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Past is Prologue

2001: The St. Petersburg Times reported on November 3rd that the Lisa McPherson Trust is leaving their offices in Clearwater. “The Lisa McPherson Trust, founded by New England millionaire Robert Minton and named after a Scientologist who died in the church’s care, probably will close its headquarters, but it is not clear when, Minton said. ‘For everyone’s peace of mind and to be able to continue to do what we’re trying to do, it’s better we’re not there,’ he said Friday from his New Hampshire home. ‘It’s disappointing, for sure. I don’t feel beaten. I
should, but I don’t. I think we will be able to still continue what we’re doing and be able to do it somewhere more peaceably.’ Church spokesman Ben Shaw said the church is happy to see the critics go. ‘Clearwater is better off without them,’ Shaw said. ‘They came here to stir up trouble and all they managed to do is stir up trouble for themselves.'”

 
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Random Howdy

“You kids need to look around before you start posting comments willy-nilly.”

 
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Full Court Press: What we’re watching at the Underground Bunker

Criminal prosecutions:
— Danny Masterson charged for raping three women: Found guilty on two counts on May 31, remanded to custody. Sentenced to 30 years to life on Sep 7.
— ‘Lafayette Ronald Hubbard’ (a/k/a Justin Craig), aggravated assault, plus drug charges: Grand jury indictments include charges from an assault while in custody. Next pretrial hearing October 30.
— David Gentile, GPB Capital, fraud.

Civil litigation:
— Leah Remini v. Scientology, alleging ‘Fair Game’ harassment and defamation: Complaint filed August 2, Scientology submitting anti-SLAPP response Oct 26.
— Baxter, Baxter, and Paris v. Scientology, alleging labor trafficking: Forced to arbitration. Plaintiffs allowed interlocutory appeal to Eleventh Circuit.
— Valerie Haney v. Scientology: Forced to ‘religious arbitration.’
— Chrissie Bixler et al. v. Scientology and Danny Masterson: Discovery phase.
— Jane Doe 1 v. Scientology, David Miscavige, and Gavin Potter: Case unsealed and second amended complaint filed. Scientology moves for religious arbitration.
— Chiropractors Steve Peyroux and Brent Detelich, stem cell fraud: Ordered to mediation.

 
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SCIENTOLOGY: FAIR GAME

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 now on 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 BLACK OPS: Tom Cruise and dirty tricks. 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] PODCAST: Looking back at the second week of testimony in the Danny Masterson trial
[TWO years ago] After a year and a half, Scientology’s cruise ship finally sails — to Curaçao drydock
https://tonyortega.org/2020/10/29/truths-about-nxivm-leader-keith-raniere-that-his-loyalists-still-refuse-to-face/ Truths about Nxivm leader Keith Raniere that his loyalists still refuse to face
[FOUR years ago] Scientology threw its annual IAS party on L. Ron Hubbard Way, and once again we had a mole
[FIVE years ago] Ahoy, matey: We have Scientology’s new Sea Org application!
[SIX years ago] In Canada, Scientology does not get the welcome it might have been expecting
[SEVEN years ago] Amassing the real history of Scientology has been a long and dramatic relay race
[EIGHT years ago] Hey, tabloids: Tom Cruise once again attends Scientology gala as its poster boy
[NINE years ago] Scientology’s ‘Mecca’ awaits: More tantalizing glimpses of Hubbardian Heaven on Earth
[TEN years ago] Claire Headley Gets Us Ready to Go Solo: More Prep for Scientology OT!
[ELEVEN years ago] List of People Who Have Left Scientology and Spoken Out Reaches 2,000 Names

 
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Posted by Tony Ortega on October 29, 2023 at 07:00

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