The Top 25 People Enabling Scientology, No. 3: The judges

[Judge Steven Kleifield]

We’d like you to imagine a scenario. Imagine that you go to an amusement park, and before you can ride a roller coaster, the park asks you to sign a waiver. In the fine print of that waiver, it says that if some dispute arises between you and the amusement park company, you will forego civil court and instead take your grievance to arbitration.

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SNL produced the best parody of Scientology ever — and then hired a Scientologist

[Chloe Fineman]

[UPDATE: Please see our follow-up to this story with a recent defector who knew Chloe Fineman in Scientology.]

Our readers are very familiar with Saturday Night Live’s absolutely brilliant 2015 parody of Scientology, the music video “Neurotology.”

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Izzy Chait, renowned art dealer and major Scientology figure, dead at 74

[Chait in 2011 during the LAX ambush]

Isadore M. “Izzy” Chait, the well known dealer in Asian art and Scientologist OT 8 who fiercely defended the organization, died this morning of kidney failure at a Los Angeles hospital. He was 74.

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Why is Scientology sending so much money to places like Australia and the British Isles?

[Illustration from Ben Schneider’s investigation in The Age]

We’ve told you over the years that in some countries Scientology can’t be as secretive with its finances as it is here in the US. Places like Ireland, England, and Australia require Scientology to open the books.

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The Top 25 People Enabling Scientology, No. 4: The LAPD

[Scientology loves giving the LAPD really big checks]

You’ve seen a lot of media coverage of Danny Masterson’s legal troubles lately, but here’s what the other news organizations never bring up: Danny would not be looking at the potential of 45 years to life in prison for raping three women if those women had not stood up to the Los Angeles Police Department for almost botching their investigation.

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Another Scientology success story: Real Water liver failure lawsuits proliferate

Things keep getting worse for Real Water president and former Nevada legislator Brent Jones as the lawsuits pile up accusing Real Water of poisoning customers, particularly children, and causing them to have liver failure.

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Jokes aside, there is quite a bit of crossover between QAnon and Scientology

Before last night’s two new episodes of HBO’s series on the QAnon phenomenon, Q: Into the Storm, some of the QAnon-debunking journalists who are featured in the series told their readers to prepare for the new episodes by checking out the trailer for a 12-minute film about illustrator David Dees that premiered recently at the Miami Film Festival.

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Scientology social media: The gang’s all here, let’s clear the planet!

We want to once again thank our source who lets us in on what Scientologists are telling each other on their social media feeds.

We’ll start with the photo you see above. The Scientologist who posted it explained how fun it was to bring mom and dad down to ASHO, the American Saint Hill Organization building, which is part of the Big Blue headquarters compound in Los Angeles, known as PAC Base for Pacific Area Command.

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Why the upcoming ‘prelim’ is a nightmare for Danny Masterson — and for Scientology

[Masterson at his Sept 18 court appearance]

Now that we’ve had a couple of days to think about the hearing we listened in on Wednesday, and we’ve had a chance to talk it over with our legal experts, we wanted to discuss the situation that Danny Masterson now faces, and, just as importantly, what the live testimony at a preliminary hearing will mean for the Church of Scientology.

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ABC gives platform to Scientologist named one of 12 biggest sources of vaccine disinfo

We’ve been telling you for years that Rizza Islam is a menace. And now it’s official.

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