This week Scientology is attempting to deal a blow to the Bixler v. Scientology lawsuit, which is the one filed by Danny Masterson’s victims in 2019. They have fought back against Scientology’s attack by posting more details of the harassment they’ve been going through since they came forward to the LAPD in 2016. They’re suing Scientology, its leader David Miscavige, and Danny Masterson for being behind years of harassment of these women.
We already showed you the stunning allegations of Jane Doe 1 and then Jane Doe 2.
Today, we have the declaration of Jane Doe 3, who is going by her actual name in the civil lawsuit.
Again, we ask you to imagine if this information were to be presented to a jury as we wait to see what Judge Upinder Kalra decides to do tomorrow with Scientology’s motion to strike.
I, Chrissie Bixler, declare as follows:
1. I am over the age of eighteen (18). I have personal knowledge of the facts stated below and, if called upon to do so, could and would competently testify thereto.
2. I am a Plaintiff in the case of Bixler, et al. v. Church of Scientology International, Inc., et al.
3. I submit this Declaration in Support of Plaintiffs’ Opposition to Defendants’ Special Motion to Strike Certain Allegations and Corresponding Causes of Action from the First Amended Complaint of Plaintiffs Chrissie Bixler and Cedric Bixler-Zavala (“Motion”).
4. Plaintiff Cedric Bixler-Zavala and I were lawfully married on July 24, 2009, and remain married to the present day.
5. I met Defendant Masterson in or around 1996, and we began dating shortly thereafter. In or around 1997, I became involved in Scientology because of his insistence.
6. Throughout my relationship with Defendant Masterson, Masterson regularly forced me to have sex with him and became violent when I resisted. In or around late 2001 to early 2002, Masterson committed multiple acts of sexual violence and assault against me. On more than one occasion, I awoke in bed to find Masterson sexually assaulting me. In one specific instance, Masterson drugged my wine at dinner and anally raped and sexually assaulted me. The following morning, Masterson admitted to me that he repeatedly had anal sex with me while I was unconscious.
7. The next day, I reported Defendant Masterson’s actions to Corporate Defendants, through their head ethics officer, Miranda Pearson Scoggins (“Ms. Scoggins”). Ms. Scoggins listened to my account and told me that I was not to refer to the incident as “rape.” Ms. Scoggins assisted me in writing a report about what happened, but instead of a standard incident report, I was instructed to write a “Things That Shouldn’t Be” Report. In sum and substance, Ms. Scoggins told me that I was not raped by Masterson because “you can’t be raped by someone you are in a consensual relationship with.” Ms. Scoggins went on to interrogate me about what I did to cause the assault and ordered me to complete an ethics course.
8. The Corporate Defendants did not report the abuse to any governmental authorities, nor did they take any other action to protect women from future harm by Defendant Masterson. In the following years, I did not disclose to the authorities the sexual abuse and assault I suffered at the hands of Defendant Masterson.
9. In or around October 2016, I wrote letters to Brie Shaffer (Defendant Masterson’s personal assistant), Ellery Travers, Jenny Butler, and Susan Watson (President of Defendant CCI), formally terminating my relationship with Scientology and informing them that I was aware of the roles they played in my abuse and the subsequent efforts to silence me. I sent Defendant Masterson copies of these letters.
10. After sending the letters, Defendant Masterson’s publicist, Jenni Weinman, an agent of Masterson’s, contacted me. Initially, I refused to speak with Weinman, but eventually I agreed to talk after Weinman told me “things are about to get serious [for me and my family].” Weinman forwarded a letter from Defendant Masterson to me along with Weinman’s threat that things were about to get “serious.” The letter contained threatening, abusive, and harassing language and contained false and malicious claims about me that Masterson was prepared to release. The letter threatened the release of this false information unless my husband, Plaintiff Bixler-Zavala, and I took “a good look at what [we thought we] could gain” from speaking publicly and reporting to law enforcement Masterson’s sexual assaults.
11. In or around December 2016, I made a report to the LAPD about Defendant Masterson’s sexual assault and the LAPD opened a criminal investigation into Masterson.
12. Thereafter, as previously threatened, Defendants launched a campaign of harassment, surveillance, and abuse against me and my family which continues today.
Instances of Physical Surveillance and Harassment
13. As soon as it became public knowledge that the LAPD was investigating Defendant Masterson, Weinman issued a press release publicly naming me as the accuser, calling me a liar, and falsely claiming that I had threatened Masterson’s wife.
14. Since that time, and almost on a weekly basis, my husband and I have discovered our locked car doors and trunks to have been opened. Generally, on these occasions, nothing is stolen from our vehicles, although on one occasion our car insurance paperwork and registration was stolen.
15. Throughout 2017, on a persistent and regular basis, we observed Defendants’ agents loitering outside our home and looking into our windows. We also observed vans parking outside our home and filming our home and family.
16. In or around 2017, our neighbor informed us that individuals claiming to be affiliated with law enforcement told the neighbor that we were pedophiles that were abusing our children. After this, the neighbor became hostile and threatening towards my husband and I.
17. In or around October 2017, I was driving on the street where my home was located when I was chased by two of Defendants’ agents in a vehicle who were filming me. I was so frightened that I drove to the local police department. I reported this incident to law enforcement and was advised not to return home for the night.
18. When I returned to my home, I noticed that a pile of important mail was missing from the table I had left it on.
19. The following day, our family dog died inexplicably. After an autopsy, we learned that our dog died of unexplained traumatic injuries to her trachea and esophagus.
20. In or around November 2017, Defendants’ agents followed me into a nail salon and harassed and photographed me.
21. In another incident in or around November 2017, an individual filmed my husband and I from outside our home.
22. In a third incident in or around November 2017, a man in a luxury car with no license plate followed me and filmed me.
23. While living in Texas, the house behind our house was purchased. Individuals began to enter the house in what appeared to be shifts, with one group of people entering during the day and another group entering in the evening. We never saw anyone bring any normal furniture into the house (except for a dining room table) but did see people bringing electronic equipment into the house. Shortly after the house was purchased, I noticed that my phone’s geolocation was indicating that the phone was located at this house.
24. In or around January 2018, my husband and I and our family moved back to Los Angeles, California. Three days after moving into our new residence, we awoke to find all our car doors open.
25. About eight months after we moved back to Los Angeles, two individuals moved into the house behind our house. Shortly thereafter, although I had my phone with me at my home, I noticed that my phone’s geolocation tracker was indicating that the phone was located at the house into which the two individuals had moved. Fearing for our safety, we decided to move again. Despite not having told these two individuals that we intended to move, and prior to us putting our home on the market, these two individuals came to our home, made conversation with me, and asked me where I was moving.
26. In or around August 2018, I saw a man in a white truck parked outside of my home for several hours. During this time, I was experiencing technical issues with my cell phone. I approached the man and observed a computer, cell phone, and other devices set up inside his truck. The man and I got into a verbal altercation, and the man ultimately spat on me. I called the police and the man was later identified as Steve Miller, another of Defendants’ agents.
27. Steve Miller and his vehicle were later identified by Plaintiff Jane Doe #1 and others as the same person who had surveilled them in front of their homes. Miller was also identified by individuals who had seen Miller passing out Scientology pamphlets on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles, California.
28. In or around August 2018, a neighbor told me that two individuals claiming to be LAPD Detectives requested footage from their home surveillance cameras showing our house. I asked the LAPD Detective who was investigating Defendant Masterson about the incident and was told that no Los Angeles Police Detective has requested any such footage.
29. In or around September and October 2018, Defendants’ agents broke the lock to our front door.
30. In or around March 2019, a vehicle followed me for over an hour. Eventually, I was able to determine that the driver of the vehicle was filming me.
31. In or around April 2019, Plaintiff Jane Doe #1 and I attended Denim Day, a sexual violence prevention event. When we arrived, we were immediately confronted by Defendants’ agents, including Scientologist Taryn Rinder-Teutsch, who harassed and filmed us.
32. In or around May 2019, my car tires were slashed.
33. In or around June 2019, I was run off the road by a vehicle that was following me.
34. In or around June of 2019, my husband and I and our family moved to a new home as a result of this constant surveillance and harassment. We specifically selected this residence as it is private and surrounded by government-owned property. No other homes were visible from inside our home at the time we moved in. After moving in, however, I observed two men on an adjacent property cutting down a large tree branch. Once this tree branch was removed, the inside of our home was visible to another property that was previously blocked by the branch.
35. In or around June 2019, a man followed me in a pharmacy. The man approached me and whispered to me “We see you.” I fled the pharmacy.
36. In or around July 2019, a woman contacted me claiming to be interested in artwork that I was selling. When the woman came to my residence to view the artwork, the woman did not appear interested in the artwork, and instead asked me a series of questions about my residence, the boundaries of my property, and the location of my bedroom in the residence. When I escorted the woman to the front gate to leave, the woman told me “I wouldn’t stay here alone if I were you.”
37. In or around July 2019, a different tree on our property was poisoned, which contributed to us again moving to avoid further harassment.
38. In or around July 2019, my husband and I observed a man loitering around our property and looking into windows for over two hours. Upon seeing the man outside, my husband stated “he’s OSA for sure.” Seemingly able to hear him, the man looked up immediately and smiled at us. The man left, only to return several hours later. When we saw him the second time, he smiled and waved.
39. In or around July 2019, a glass coffee table that we had placed outside was smashed while we were not at home.
40. In or around July 2019, I was home alone in bed when I heard a number of thumps originating from the walls of my home. Investigating in the morning, I found that a number of large stones had been thrown against the outer wall of my master bedroom.
41. In or around August 2019, a man followed me in my car while filming me.
42. Our trash has been regularly stolen since I went to the authorities in 2017. In or around December 2019, I saw two individuals stealing our trash and confronted them. They told me, “You don’t even know what you’re dealing with” and called me a “lying whore.”
43. On another occasion, I became aware of a vehicle following me and matching my speed to maintain pursuit. When I called the Assistant District Attorney prosecuting the criminal case against Defendant Masterson, he directed me to go to the nearest police station. When I approached a police kiosk, the vehicle broke off its pursuit of me.
44. In or around December of 2019 or January of 2020, I encountered two unknown men looking over the fence into our backyard. When I initiated a conversation with the two men, they continually commented that I “had nice dogs.”
45. In or around January 2020, we suffered yet another tragedy as a result of reporting the sexual assaults at the hands of Masterson and speaking out against the Defendants. We discovered an amount of ground meat had been thrown over our fence into our back yard. The meat had been packed around a rectangular tablet of rat poison. We soon learned that one of our dogs had consumed some of the raw meat and rat poison. The dog died as a result of ingesting the poison. In the days following the death of our dog, we also discovered ground meat in the area of our fence to our driveway. Packed within the ground meat was broken glass. This area is regularly used as an entrance and exit to our home.
46. In or around February 2020 Defendants and their agents trespassed onto our property in order to photograph the residence and anyone present on the property.
47. In or around April 2020, my husband and I found a small white envelope buried in the flower bed of our new home. The envelope contained a Valentine’s Day card that Defendant Masterson had written to me in 2002.
48. In or around June 2020, a man appearing to be a private investigator stood near our home for an extended period of time. During that time, my husband attempted to call me, but the call would not go through.
49. In or around July 2020, I saw a man slowly drive around our home and then park near our driveway. When I approached the car, the man immediately drove away. Shortly thereafter the same man, who had parked elsewhere, began walking up our driveway until I told the man to leave.
50. In or around August 2020, my husband and I found rotting fish just outside our house.
51. In or around December 2020, a car followed me for twenty minutes on my way to a car dealership. When I attempted to trade in my car as part of the process of purchasing a new car, I was informed that the car I was trading in had been fraudulently registered and was no longer registered to me.
52. In or around February 2021, a man followed me into the parking lot of a hardware store. Once I parked, the man walked up to my car and stared at me.
53. Also in or around February 2021, our external cameras at our home were disabled remotely or by other means, and the next morning I found a bag of candy on my front porch.
54. In or around December 2021, a vehicle followed my husband for over ten minutes, including down side-streets.
55. Over the course of approximately two weeks in or around January 2022, a man repeatedly knocked aggressively on our door. The man said that he was from the Census Bureau and asked me personal questions about me and my family. When I refused to answer his questions, the man acted in an aggressive manner and threatened to have me arrested for refusing to answer the questions. When I asked for identification showing that the man worked for the Census Bureau, the man refused to provide any identification.
56. In or around March 2022, my children reported a man dressed in all black standing by our car and staring at them. Neighbors confirmed seeing a man dressed in all black.
57. In or around April 2022, a man and woman followed me and my husband to an open house. The pair did not appear interested in the house and instead followed us around the home. After the open house, the couple followed me and my husband down a dead-end road.
58. In or around April 2022, our WiFi password was changed without our knowledge or consent. We called our internet provider to alert them to the situation. A man claiming to have been sent by the carrier arrived at approximately 9:00 p.m. that evening. When asked for his business card, the man said that it was against the carrier’s policy to carry business cards. The man began working on wires outside of our home until we asked him to leave. When my husband called our internet provider the next morning, the provider stated the company did not send employees out past 6:00 pm. My husband requested someone be sent to work on their WiFi and the service provider offered to send someone later that afternoon, which was several hours in the future. Approximately 30 minutes after the call ended the same man who had shown up the prior evening returned. Despite my requests that the man not work on the internet wiring, the man continued to do so and refused my requests for him to leave until my husband arrived and insisted that the man leave.
59. One night in or around May 2022 our external security cameras were deactivated. When we went outside, we saw our new car was gushing fluid. A mechanic later determined that the transmission was damaged despite the car having been driven for fewer than 5,000 miles.
60. Later in or around September 2022, one of my friends informed me that two individuals who identified themselves as LAPD detectives had called them asking for information about me. I later spoke with LAPD Detective Vargas, who was investigating Defendant Masterson, and Detective Vargas said neither he nor any other law enforcement officer that he knew had called my friend.
61. In or around November of 2022, Plaintiffs Riales, Jane Doe #2, and I were followed and filmed by private investigators while waiting for the verdict in the Defendant Masterson’s criminal trial.
62. In or around December of 2022, my husband took our children to a park. A man sat on a swing next to one of our children and then initiated a phone call where he described the children’s physical appearance and what they were wearing. A few days later my husband took our children to a different park and the same man arrived within minutes of their arrival.
63. In or around October 2023, after I left a doctor’s appointment, a man exited a car with no license plates, approached me and my children, and screamed at and threatened me and my children. When I reached my car, I found the doors unlocked, despite having locked the doors prior to going to the doctor’s appointment.
64. In or around October 2023, someone tampered with our drinking water at our home by breaking one of the five-gallon containers in which we kept our drinking water and unscrewing the cap on another container.
65. Since Defendants’ campaign of terror and harassment began, there have been three separate occasions where a “VACANT” sign was placed inside our mailbox and we would cease receiving mail. During one of these instances, I was expecting my driver’s license to be delivered, but it never arrived. I had to file a report with the DMV to get a replacement.
66. To this day, we continue to be threatened, harassed, stalked, and surveilled by Defendants and their agents.
Instances of Electronic and Online Harassment
67. Defendants have used numerous technological forms of harassment against my husband and I. Both of us have received repeated and harassing spam phone calls. I have received calls on my phone that appear to originate from my own phone number. We receive text alerts that are delayed by days, weeks, months, and even years. I have received emails originating from my own email account containing dangerous links I did not send. We were the victims of repeated email hacks that included the destruction of important emails in our accounts. Text messages and photos, often relating to the harassment suffered by my husband and I, were deleted from my phone, and my phone was “ported” such that calls, text messages, and other information were routed to a device that does not belong to me, and of which I am not in possession.
68. My phone periodically turns on without me turning it on, scrolls without me scrolling, and takes screen shots without me taking screen shots. I will sometimes hear a clicking sound on phone calls, which on one occasion stopped when I asked my interlocutor, “Do you hear that?” This clicking sound is consistent with a method of wiretapping known to be used by Scientology. I also sometimes hear unknown voices bleeding into my phone calls. My phone will sometimes be hot to the touch despite me not having used the phone recently. On several occasions, I have attempted to add an additional number to an ongoing conversation, but have been alerted by my phone that I could not do so because there was already a third line on the call (despite, to my knowledge, there not being a third line on the call).
69. We invested in a home security system and installed cameras. During the installation, the technician verbally supplied us with the password for the system. Within five minutes, the security system was hacked, and the password was changed. The installation technician, who was still present and observed the unsolicited change in password, had no explanation for how this could occur.
70. Over the course of four months, Defendants and their agents hacked and disabled our home security system multiple times.
71. Beginning in or around December 2017, Defendants or their agents repeatedly attempted to hack into my email and social media accounts. In multiple instances, Defendants were successful. On one occasion, all emails in my email account between me and Detective Myape (formerly Reyes) of the LAPD, who was investigating Masterson, were deleted. On another occasion, photos documenting the harassment I was suffering were remotely deleted from my phone.
72. In or around June of 2018, Defendants hacked into my Instagram account and attempted to change the password.
73. In or around August of 2018, Defendants’ agents Heather Seidler and Virginia Macgregor published posts to their Facebook accounts inciting fellow Scientologists to assist in harassing me. In one post, Macgregor stated that I was “reminiscing about all the anal sex [I] obviously miss.”
74. In or around August 2018, I received a message via Twitter in which the sender told me to keep one eye on the road; and the next day a vehicle attempted to run me off the road.
75. In or around September and October 2018, Defendants’ agent Kathy Gold started publicly threatening me and the other Plaintiffs, and their relatives. Gold accused me and the other Plaintiffs of being religious bigots and liars and threatened to commit serious and violent crimes against us, including murder. Gold threatened to report me to Child Services to have our then five-year-old twins taken away from us and further threatened that the children would be drugged and raped. A true and correct copy of one of Gold’s threats against me and the other Plaintiffs is attached hereto as Exhibit A.
76. In or around June 2023, shortly after Defendant Masterson was convicted, a known agent of Scientology tweeted about me and the other Plaintiffs:
Because those 3 women implied drug use by Masterson, every Scientologist in LA now knows they were lying. Scientologists just don’t use drugs. Every Scientologist who recognizes these women will spit on them, for the rest of their lives. I sure wouldn’t want to be them.
A true and correct copy of this tweet is attached hereto as Exhibit B.
77. Later that day, the same known agent of Scientology tweeted:
Since these women live in LA and there are thousands of Scientologists in every walk of life in LA, the three women who lied in the Danny Masterson case will get spit on a lot. I don’t think they will take it out on the jury or judge since these were just fooled and manipulated by a false “expert witness”. But the 4 women will live in hell, now and for the rest of their lives.
A true and correct copy of this tweet is attached hereto as Exhibit C.
78. I have been targeted for harassment via social media, including by anonymous and/or unidentified individuals that utilized information that could be gathered only from the Corporate Defendants’ auditing files.
79. Since I reported Defendant Masterson’s sexual assaults to government authorities in or around December 2016, we have repeatedly been the subject of credit card fraud. We also have been subjected to fraudulent credit schemes that have resulted in creditors and collectors harassing us for payment on items and services that we did not order or receive.
80. I have been the victim of fake ads posted by Defendants and/or their agents on Craig’s List that purport to be me soliciting anal sex from strangers. I have subsequently received contact from men responding to the fake ads. Defendants and/or their agents have also created accounts purporting to be me on various dating and sex-solicitation websites.
81. In or around 2018, in an attempt to escape harassment, we moved and I changed my cell-phone number. But when friends and family would attempt to contact me at my new number, the calls were answered by a strange man. That same man would call my family on dates important to me (i.e. my birthday).
82. In or around May of 2019, I received messages from a person I did not know who asked me to meet him at 6331 Hollywood Boulevard, which is the headquarters of Defendant CSI, the purported residence of Miscavige, and a location from which both Defendant RTC and OSA operate.
83. In or around June 2019, an individual who was an agent of Defendants and a friend of Defendant Masterson’s contacted my husband and threatened to leak nude photos of me underage.
84. Defendants and their agents fraudulently registered my vehicle so that it appeared stolen.
85. In or around February 2020, my husband received threatening messages through social media that included our children. And I received messages threatening to falsify allegations to Child Protective Services in order to have my children taken away from me.
86. In or around August 2020, all the Los Angeles Unified School District accounts for our children were hacked so that all messages from the school and their teachers were locked. The passwords for the children’s virtual classroom accounts were also changed.
87. From around late 2020 through 2021, I received multiple alerts on my phone informing me that my SIM card had been stolen, that the SIM card in my phone had been removed, that a new SIM card had been installed, and that the real owner was looking for the phone.
88. In or around May 2021, via group chat, Mike Rinder congratulated me, Jane Doe #1, and Jane Doe #2 on our bravery and strength getting through the preliminary hearing. An unknown number then messaged the group chat threatening us in Spanish and insulting us.
89. Between around February and August 2021, our external cameras were disabled on four separate occasions.
90. In or around August 2021, my husband and I became aware that our external cameras were disabled at approximately 2:00 am. My husband and I went outside and discovered that a person had defecated outside our children’s bedroom window.
91. In or around August of 2021, my husband, who is a member of the band “The Mars Volta” received a threatening message that said, “Cedric from The Mars Volta bout to get murt by the Church of Scientology.”
92. In or around August of 2021, a white sprinter van which had been parked near our house followed me to my therapy appointment.
93. In or around late August 2021, an investigator with the Los Angeles District Attorney’s office confirmed that my and my husband’s phones had been compromised.
94. Around the time of the trial, I received a number of intimidating and threatening messages. One message in particular requested I dance to the song “Another One Bites the Dust,” which my children and I frequently played in the days prior to receiving the message.
95. I was removed from my health insurance multiple times (through no doing or fault of my own), and on one occasion had to pay out of pocket for a trip to the emergency room.
96. My husband and I had multiple issues with our bank accounts. One of our accounts was hacked on multiple occasions and our passwords were changed without our knowledge or consent. In or around February 2022, an unauthorized party caused the account to become overdrawn. These compromises often occurred alongside other technological issues that I experienced. On one occasion, my bank informed me that a new credit card would be mailed to me due to our account having been compromised, despite me having never received an alert that my account had been compromised.
Instances of Harassment Directed Toward Friends and Family
97. The harassment is not limited to me and my husband. My extended family has also been harassed and threatened by Defendants and/or their agents. On one such occasion a man called my sister and told her that she was “going to need to fix that windshield.” Shortly thereafter, a man tailgated my sister and then, while passing my sister’s car, threw a rock and shattered my sister’s windshield.
98. I have been informed that close friends and family, and other victims of Defendant Masterson’s sexual abuse, have received harassing calls from Defendants and/or their agents. Often, the caller will convey personal information about my friends and family members, such as when an unknown man called my mother and wished her a happy birthday by her first name. Scientology members would also connect or attempt to connect with my friends and family over social media.
Emotional Distress Resulting from Defendants’ Conduct
99. As a result of the foregoing, we continue to be in fear for our lives and the safety of our family and pets.
100. As a result of Defendants’ harassing conduct, I suffer from extreme anxiety, including violent night terrors. As a result, my husband Plaintiff Bixler-Zavala, has been forced to care for me and our children since Defendants’ campaign of harassment began. As a result of my night terrors, my husband and I have been forced to occupy separate bedrooms since Defendants’ campaign of harassment began. As a result of Defendants’ conduct, our marriage has suffered loss of consortium due to a loss of love, companionship, comfort, care, assistance, society, sexual relations, and moral support.
101. On multiple occasions, I told the individuals that were harassing me to cease their actions and have gone to law enforcement about the harassment. I also believe my responses, reactions, and actions, including the filing of this Complaint in or around August 2019, made it clear to the Defendants that I wanted them to stop harassing me. In any event, I believe that my safety and the safety of my family would be in jeopardy if I made additional attempts to directly confront Defendants’ agents regarding their harassing conduct.
I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of California that the foregoing is true and correct.
Executed on this 8 day of January, 2024, at Los Angeles, California.
Chrissie Bixler
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Technology Cocktail
“Degraded beings find any instruction painful as they have been painfully indoctrinated with violent measures in the past. They therefore alter-is any order or don’t comply. Thus in auditing pcs or in org, where you find alter-is (covert non-compliance) and non-compliance, given sensible and correct tech or instructions, you are dealing with a degraded low level being and should act accordingly.” — L. Ron Hubbard, 1967
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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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“I have a bit of a news bulletin, has nothing to do with the mental health empire that Mr. Kennedy is trying to create in the United States at 1.6 billion dollars, that isn’t news. The Federal government, of course, always has wanted the right to incarcerate any citizen for-without trial, and of course, immediately they get their Legislation passed, why, they’ll be able to do that. In other words, they’ll be able to incarcerate any citizen without commission-permission from his family, without a medical consultation and without a trial, and will be able to move him at any time without the consultation with the family or a hearing or a trial, and do anything to him they wish, such as electric shocks and prefrontal lobotomies. And of course that makes a very interesting political empire, and Mr. Kennedy is trying to create just that empire right this minute. So I think that’s very interesting.” — L. Ron Hubbard, February 12, 1963
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“D/G US Bob Thomas informs us Org personnel are safe and secure in the California Earthquake. We telexed back expressing our concern and appreciation.” — The Commodore, February 12, 1971
“In the free field, are young Auditors being made? The scenario that I can see (and I hope I will be very wrong) is people in their 50s, 60s, or 70s training in some Freezone Orgs in the world, but I can not see young ones. I’m worried — is there going to be a new generation of Auditors at all? I´m not personally in the KSW protector position frankly, and I have always said that for me some things LRH discovered are just nonsense. But I have also said always that 80 or 85 percent of basic Scientology Technology is pure gold, so IMHO it needs to be passed to the next generation. I’m Grad V Auditor with four internships fully done and I have 39 years in; I’m single and looking for a girlfriend that has Auditor training (this last is a joke, bear with me). Do you know some specific things being done in this particular area, young Auditors in training anywhere in the world? Any of you know Auditors in their 20s or 30s?”
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1996: Chris Owen, who previously posted the Anderson Report, which led to the cult being banned in parts of Australia in 1965, this week posted materials documenting Hubbard’s response to the report. “[I]n issue 31 of ‘The Auditor’, LRH made the following statement: Principals of the Victorian government such as the ‘Prime Minister’, Anderson the ‘Q.C.’ and hostile members of the ‘Victoria Parliament’ are continued [sic] as suppressive persons and they and their families and connections may not be processed or trained and are fair game.” Also posted, this wire from Hubbard to Premier Bolte in Melbourne. “REGARDING THE SCIENTOLOGY MATTER OUR SOLICITORS HAVE NOT TOLD YOU OR CABINET THAT ACTIONS ARE AT THIS MOMENT IN PROGRESS AGAINST ANDERSON FOR FAULTY JURISPRUDENCE COLLUSION CONDONING PERJURY AND OTHER MATTERS. YOU ARE NOT COVERED BY ANY PRIVILEGE OF ANY KIND OUTSIDE VICTORIA. IF THE STATE OF VICTORIA DOES NOT REPRIMAND ANDERSON IT BECOMES PARTY TO SCANDALOUS PROCEEDINGS AND WILL BE SUED 10,000,000 STERLING WHICH IT IS CERTAIN WE WILL COLLECT. ONLY A FAIR TRIAL IS COVERED IN THE DEFAMATORY ACT. IF YOU REPRIMAND AND DISOWN ANDERSON YOU WILL SAVE VICTORIA 10,000,000. HE WILL BE DISCREDITED FULLY IN PROCEEDINGS NOW BEGINNING AND LEGISLATION BASED ON THE QUICKSAND OF A SCANDALOUS PROCEEDING IS SUBJECT TO DAMAGES THE MOMENT IT CAUSES DAMAGE OUTSIDE ITS AREA WHICH IT HAS ALREADY DONE.” Also this wire to Australian legislators. “IN THE SCIENTOLOGY MATTER YOU HAVE NOT BEEN INFORMED BY YOUR GOVERNMENT THAT THE STATE OF VICTORIA IS BEING SUED OVERSEAS 10,000,000 STERLING FOR LIBEL AND SLANDER RELEASED BY IT IN OTHER COUNTRIES. THEY WELL KNOW THAT PARLIAMENTARY PRIVILEGE DOES NOT COVER THE CRIMINAL ACTIONS CONDONED BY THE GOVERNMENT IN THE CONDUCT OF THE INQUIRY SUCH AS COLLUSION INTIMIDATION AND PERJURY A DIRECT PARALLEL TO THE PROFUMO CASE. WHILE LEAVING YOU IN THE DARK AS TO YOUR PERSONAL POLITICAL LIABILITY WHEN ALL THIS COMES OUT THEY ARE YET ASKING YOU FOR YOUR PERSONAL COOPERATION IN GETTING A BILL PASSED. EVEN IF YOUR GOVERNMENT WILL NOT TELL YOU THIS YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO KNOW THAT THE PASSAGE OF A BILL WILL INCREASE DAMAGES AND MAKE YOU PARTY TO THESE CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS. THE WHOLE MATTER IS NOW OUT OF THEIR HANDS AND OUT OF CONTROL AND ALL PAPERS AND PROOFS SUPPORTING THE SCIENTOLOGISTS ARE NO LONGER IN YOUR JURISDICTION BUT ARE BEING PRESENTED AGAINST YOUR GOVERNMENT IN THE COURTS OF SEVERAL COUNTRIES INCLUDING ENGLAND WITH EVERY INDICATION OF SUCCESSFUL LITIGATION. YOU TOO HAVE BEEN BETRAYED IN THIS MATTER.”
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“If only we could take a ride in Mr. Peabody’s Wayback Machine to pre-1970 and that magical time before the 100 percent scientifically correct TECH turned into incomprehensible DRECK. The gods are cruel.”
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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 January 29, 2024.
— David Gentile, GPB Capital, fraud.
Civil litigation:
— Leah Remini v. Scientology, alleging ‘Fair Game’ harassment and defamation: Complaint filed August 2, motion to strike/anti-SLAPP motions by Scientology to be heard January 9, 2024.
— 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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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] Here’s the 2023 Scientology Super Bowl ad, this year’s ‘mystery sandwich’
[TWO years ago] Chill EB? Joy Villa? Kuba Ka? All hail the next Scientology celebrity superstar: Wicked Witch!
[THREE years ago] Danny Masterson accusers signal they’ll go to higher court to fight ‘religious arbitration’
[FOUR years ago] The skateboard hero & the anti-Semite: Insider report from Scientology’s bizarre celeb event
[FIVE years ago] ‘Scientology and the Aftermath’ shelved two episodes, delayed one in season three
[SIX years ago] How Scientology gamed Google to increase the effectiveness of its Super Bowl ad
[SEVEN years ago] Welcome to your Scientology nightmare, people of Clearwater, Florida
[EIGHT years ago] SCIENTOLOGY’S SPACE MAN: The newest defector from church management opens up
[NINE years ago] Fact-checking Danny Masterson’s remarkable Paper interview about Scientology
[TEN years ago] This is Scientology today: Oregon 10-year-old celebrated for donating $100,000
[ELEVEN years ago] Scientology Does Star Wars: That’s No Moon, It’s a Fundraiser!
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Bernie Headley (1952-2019) did not see his daughter Stephanie in his final 5,667 days.
Tammy Synovec has not seen her daughter Julia in 2,808 days.
Valerie Haney has not seen her mother Lynne in 3,303 days.
Katrina Reyes has not seen her mother Yelena in 3,818 days
Sylvia Wagner DeWall has not seen her brother Randy in 3,368 days.
Brian Sheen has not seen his grandson Leo in 2,358 days.
Geoff Levin has not seen his son Collin and daughter Savannah in 2,239 days.
Christie Collbran has not seen her mother Liz King in 5,543 days.
Clarissa Adams has not seen her parents Walter and Irmin Huber in 3,414 days.
Jamie Sorrentini Lugli has not seen her father Irving in 4,966 days.
Quailynn McDaniel has not seen her brother Sean in 4,307 days.
Dylan Gill has not seen his father Russell in 12,874 days.
Melissa Paris has not seen her father Jean-Francois in 8,793 days.
Valeska Paris has not seen her brother Raphael in 4,961 days.
Mirriam Francis has not seen her brother Ben in 4,542 days.
Claudio and Renata Lugli have not seen their son Flavio in 4,803 days.
Sara Goldberg has not seen her daughter Ashley in 3,839 days.
Lori Hodgson has not seen her son Jeremy and daughter Jessica in 3,555 days.
Marie Bilheimer has not seen her mother June in 3,119 days.
Julian Wain has not seen his brother Joseph or mother Susan in 1,434 days.
Charley Updegrove has not seen his son Toby in 2,609 days.
Joe Reaiche has not seen his daughter Alanna Masterson in 7,160 days
Derek Bloch has not seen his father Darren in 4,291 days.
Cindy Plahuta has not seen her daughter Kara in 4,629 days.
Roger Weller has not seen his daughter Alyssa in 9,484 days.
Claire Headley has not seen her mother Gen in 4,603 days.
Ramana Dienes-Browning has not seen her mother Jancis in 2,959 days.
Mike Rinder has not seen his son Benjamin and daughter Taryn in 7,262 days.
Brian Sheen has not seen his daughter Spring in 3,368 days.
Skip Young has not seen his daughters Megan and Alexis in 3,766 days.
Mary Kahn has not seen her son Sammy in 3,642 days.
Lois Reisdorf has not seen her son Craig in 3,207 days.
Phil and Willie Jones have not seen their son Mike and daughter Emily in 3,720 days.
Mary Jane Barry has not seen her daughter Samantha in 3,974 days.
Kate Bornstein has not seen her daughter Jessica in 15,083 days.
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Posted by Tony Ortega on February 12, 2024 at 07:00
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